Kaguya-sama: Love Is War wants me to turn myself in.

"It's actually a living shadow creature?"

Shikimori gripped the bamboo sword tightly, trying to find a sense of security.

Unfortunately, it's just a shadow. Ordinary physical attacks can't do any damage; to be precise, you can't even touch the shadow... A hellish start.

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"The cat in shadow form will appear wherever there is a light source and will attack the player on its own initiative."

"It seems to possess a certain level of intelligence."

"Unreachable".

"Immune to physical damage."

"The ventilation duct entrance is too narrow for people to pass through."

"The corridor was brightly lit; it was already a death trap..."

After summarizing the intelligence gathered so far, the atmosphere suddenly turned gloomy.

A classic case of a doomed start.

The group couldn't even get out of the abandoned warehouse in front of them, let alone escape the factory.

"This game is way too difficult!" The spiky-haired boy grabbed his hair and said in despair, "Forget about beating the game, we can't even get out of the warehouse in front of us."

"..."

Shikimori gripped the bamboo sword in his hand tightly and remained silent.

If it were a vengeful spirit or a monster, even in dire straits, she would have the courage to wield her sword; however, that was merely a shadow.

Swinging a knife at a shadow is pointless.

The girl with braided pigtails hugged the book tightly, her eyebrows furrowed as she pondered a solution.

Unfortunately, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't come up with a way to break the deadlock.

simply put.

Before them lay a perfectly open secret room, except the player was the one trapped inside.

It wasn't until she saw what Natsuki Amamiya and Kaguya Shinomiya were doing that the girl with the braided hair felt a slight stirring in her heart.

"What are you doing?"

Pansy asked curiously.

Amamiya Natsuki picked up a discarded cardboard box from the corner and casually remarked:

"Manually build Howl's Moving Castle."

"What is that thing?" the girl with braided pigtails couldn't help but complain.

They can't even leave the starting room, yet they still have the mindset to play with cardboard boxes. Their mentality is too good!

“Shadow Cats only appear in environments with light,” Natsuki Amamiya said slowly. “So, can’t we just create a dark space?”

"Eh?"

The girl with the braided hair was taken aback and didn't react immediately. After thinking for two seconds, her eyes suddenly lit up: "You can actually do that!"

"The meaning of 'three colors' is..."

Shiki blinked, his expression thoughtful.

“We can hide ourselves inside a cardboard box,” the girl with braided hair said excitedly, “and then, with the box on our heads, we can leave this place.”

Shiki's eyes lit up: "Sounds good."

"Those cardboard boxes are too small, they can't possibly hide anything in them, right?" the spiky-haired boy said hesitantly. "They'd be enough to hide a cat, though."

“Piece the cardboard boxes together and sew them into a big cardboard box,” the girl with braided hair said quickly. “I got a box of needles and thread from opening blind boxes before, and now it will come in handy.”

"As expected of the class monitor," Natsuki Amamiya said admiringly. "He always steps up in crucial moments."

"...So stop calling me class monitor!"

After finding a way to survive, everyone quickly sprang into action, gathered together in a corner, and neatly sorted and organized the cardboard boxes that had been carelessly discarded together.

“They’re all ordinary cardboard boxes, they look like food packaging boxes…” Natsuki Amamiya casually remarked, “This abandoned factory seems to be a food processing plant.”

"Should we cut up all the cardboard boxes and piece them together to make a super-large cardboard box?"

Shi Shou asked.

"No." Kaguya Shinomiya shook her head in refusal. "No one knows what might happen on the way out. If everyone is hiding in the same cardboard box, we'll all be wiped out."

"..."

Although it was true, the fact that Kaguya Shinomiya stated it so bluntly still made the atmosphere heavy.

"Sorry, if we only have one per person, we might not have enough discarded cardboard boxes here," the girl with braided hair pushed up her glasses and pointed out the problem.

Amamiya Natsuki said:

"Hood is super absent-minded, so I have to go with her to prevent her from getting lost."

Kaguya Shinomiya couldn't help but scold him.

Although I don't know who Hood Meow is, it's definitely not a good nickname!

The busy work continues.

Before long, everyone realized they had been overthinking things.

Not all discarded cardboard boxes are usable; some are obviously damaged and torn, making them unusable.

The group pieced together the usable cardboard, eventually managing to get only one large cardboard box.

"Appeared!"

A deep voice suddenly sounded.

"The hope of escape was right in front of them, but there was only one item to leave with, and it was impossible to distribute it. So, a certain Yamazaki-kun, who wished to remain anonymous, silently pulled out a forty-meter-long sword from his pocket..."

The three girls all looked at the boy with the spiky hair.

"Hey, stop standing behind me like a narrator!" The spiky-haired boy quickly took two steps to the side and couldn't help but yell, "You even called out my name!"

"Feel sorry."

Amamiya Natsuki stepped out of the shadows and said casually, "So, what Yamazaki-kun wants to deny is just the name?"

"...You have too much to say, of course you can't deny it all at once!"

The boy with the spiky hair paused for a moment, then quickly denied it.

However, his tone was clearly somewhat guilty when he spoke.

The idea of ​​grabbing a cardboard box and escaping the factory while the others weren't looking did flash through his mind.

People are not killed for their own sake.

If there is a chance to survive, who would sacrifice themselves and give it to someone else?

However, it was just a thought; he never actually did it. Now that Natsuki Amamiya has brought it up again, there's even less chance of it happening.

“No need for infighting, we can all get out.” The girl with the braided hair pushed up her glasses and proposed a solution. “Does everyone remember the story about the little animals crossing the river from our childhood textbooks?”

“We can work in pairs, first using cardboard boxes to cross the corridor, then one person comes back and the two of us go through again.”

"By repeating this process, everyone can successfully leave."

Amamiya Natsuki gave a thumbs up: "As expected of the class monitor."

The girl with the braided pigtails couldn't help but turn pale.

"That's a good idea." Shi Shou nodded slightly in support.

The boy with the spiky hair frowned and said:

"So who goes first and who stays behind? Are we going to decide that by drawing lots?"

If he's left until the end, he's not confident he'll be abandoned by the others.

“It’s simple.” The girl with the braided hair smiled slightly and looked up at Amamiya Natsuki. “Let the Admiral go first, and Hood-nyan stays behind. After all, Hood-nyan and the Admiral are a couple.”

"Love, lovers..."

Seeing that Amamiya Natsuki did not deny it, the silly young lady's hair trembled slightly, and a blush quickly appeared on the tips of her fair ears.

After a brief discussion, the group unanimously passed the resolution.

As lovers, Natsuki Amamiya and Kaguya would naturally not abandon each other and would definitely come back to save each other, so one would act first and the other last.

Considering the physical differences between boys and girls, we could only trouble Natsuki Amamiya to act as the 'boatman' and be responsible for transporting the boat back and forth.

“Okay.” Natsuki Amamiya nodded. “Let’s test the moving castle’s effect first.”

"Let me do it."

Shi Shou stepped forward.

"Hmm, it works very well." Shikimori gave feedback after personally testing it and squatting under the cardboard box. "It's pitch black inside the box, so there's no need to worry about the cat attacking."

After a pause, Shi Shou continued:

"It's too dark; I can't see anything."

"We could make a small folding opening," the girl with glasses suggested, "to make it easier to observe the surroundings."

"To be on the safe side, it's best to sew several layers of cardboard boxes for reinforcement."

"..."

Everyone offered their opinions, and corrections were made.

“It’s done,” said Natsuki Amamiya. “Next is the live-fire exercise.”

Shiki took a deep breath. "I'll do it."

have to say.

This girl with the pink bun hairstyle is indeed very capable. She takes initiative when things happen and doesn't just wait for others to do it. She has the temperament and charm of a leader.