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

The male vengeful spirit remained silent.

"What's your name?"

"..."

There was still no response. The vengeful spirit just stood there with its head down, timidly pretending to be an ostrich, not saying a word, as if it couldn't hear what Amamiya Natsuki was saying at all.

Natsuki Amamiya even reached out and waved her hand in front of the other party's eyes. The vengeful spirit only subconsciously shrank back and leaned back to avoid it, remaining silent.

"You wouldn't happen to have the surname Komi, would you?"

Amamiya Natsuki couldn't help but think of a certain saw-mouthed gourd and couldn't help but make a sarcastic remark.

Not saying a word makes things difficult for me.

After trying several methods, seeing that the other party remained silent, Natsuki Amamiya sighed helplessly and could only turn and leave.

Then, after walking only a few steps, I suddenly felt something was wrong—a burning pain surged up in my right palm.

"Ok?"

Amamiya Natsuki stopped, raised her eyebrows slightly, and held her right hand in front of her.

My right hand was unharmed and completely intact, yet the burning pain was spreading and intensifying little by little, as if it had appeared out of nowhere, which was quite bizarre.

Amamiya Natsuki turned her head and looked at the wooden vengeful spirit with its head hanging down behind her, her eyes slightly narrowed.

Before long, a notification quietly appeared in front of me.

After careful observation, you realize that you and the pitiful boy pretending to be ostriches are experiencing the same pain, and you decide to give him something else to do...

"The table is clean, right?"

Amamiya Natsuki raised an eyebrow, stepped forward, took a pen from her game backpack, and wrote a few insults on the boy's desk.

The boy, who had been like a wooden puppet, finally made a move. His body seemed to be trembling slightly. He stiffly raised his hand again and, as if mechanically, used his blood-soaked palm to wipe the table.

The pain in Amamiya Natsuki's right hand quickly subsided. She frowned slightly, pondered for a few seconds, and then turned and left the classroom.

This time, nothing happened.

Back in the corridor, Natsuki Amamiya glanced at her right hand, already having an idea in mind.

no doubt.

This alternate dimension contains vengeful spirits, not just one or two, but quite a few in number. However, they seem to have no consciousness, existing only on an instinctual level.

That being the case...

Amamiya Natsuki took a deep breath, put her hands to her mouth, and shouted towards the school building:

"Hua Shou, come out quickly, it's time to go home for dinner."

"..."

at the same time.

In a dimly lit office.

Hayasaka Ai hid in the closet, her glasses nowhere to be found. She bit her lower lip tightly, her pretty face was pale, her forehead was covered in cold sweat, and her body was trembling slightly.

It's been several hours already?

do not know.

The evenings are always blood red, and the hands of time seem to never move forward.

Hayasaka Ai's luck was incredibly bad. Upon entering the instance, she was directly transported to a school. Before she could even figure out what was going on, she encountered the ghost story Hanako and was chased by her. During her escape, for some reason, the world before her suddenly changed from night to evening, and then despair overwhelmed her...

Chapter 287 Hayasaka Ai: I'm the Unlucky One

The campus before me... there's nowhere to escape.

Hayasaka Ai has tried to escape many times.

however.

The school gates cannot be opened.

Climbing over the wall wouldn't work either; there was only thick fog outside the wall, and the moment you landed, you would be back on campus.

once.

twice.

three times……

No matter what method is used, the final result will be the same.

Hayasaka Ai finally realized that the whole world was a cage, and she, trapped inside, had nowhere to escape.

What's even more despairing is that it seems like you're the only player left, along with those vengeful spirits you can't communicate with.

Faced with this situation, even a professionally trained spy maid couldn't help but feel a sense of despair.

Until a familiar shout broke the deathly silence of the campus.

"Hanamori, it's time to go home for dinner!"

"Eh?"

Hayasaka Ai suddenly raised her head, her eyes brightening.

"That voice...?!"

Could it be an auditory hallucination?

The spy maid quickly shook her head.

"It's not a hallucination. Even if it were, I should have heard the young lady's voice, not that boy Natsuki's voice."

"...Go out and take a look."

Hayasaka Ai took a deep breath, bit her lower lip, and quickly left her hiding place.

This hopeless world is enough. Whether it's a hallucination or a monster, we have to go out and see!

at the same time.

Natsuki Amamiya called out twice more, then waited silently downstairs.

The world before us is not a game of hide-and-seek, and those vengeful spirits don't seem to have any intelligence, so there's no need for them to deliberately hide their whereabouts.

Even if a vengeful spirit hears the noise and rushes out, you can use Kaguya's skill to transform into a shadow cat and escape.

thump.

The sound of an object falling to the ground caught Natsuki Amamiya's attention.

Following the sound, I saw a shoe cabinet not far to my right. In the corner, a figure seemed to have fallen to the ground, clutching their feet and rolling around on the floor. After a short while, they got up again, took off their shoes, put them in the shoe cabinet, and then took them out again...

Amamiya Natsuki raised an eyebrow slightly, about to go over and investigate, when a dark figure suddenly pounced from the side, grabbed him, and whispered nervously:

"Don't go there!"

The girl's breathing was warm and gentle, and her scent was familiar.

Amamiya Natsuki turned her head to look at the spy maid with disheveled hair and a pale face. "I've finally found you."

The girl who suddenly appeared from the side was none other than Hayasaka Ai.

Leaving his hiding place, he quietly slipped downstairs and happened to see Amamiya Natsuki trying to approach the vengeful spirit, so he quickly rushed over to stop her.

"This isn't the place to talk." Seeing Natsuki Amamiya, Ai Hayasaka suppressed her excitement and whispered, "...Come with me first."

"..."

Led by Hayasaka Ai, Amamiya Natsuki quickly arrived at an office.

boom.

The door closed gently.

Hayasaka Ai finally breathed a sigh of relief, biting her pink lips as she looked at Amamiya Natsuki with excited eyes, and said in a low voice:

"How did you get here? I haven't seen you before. This world is dangerous. Those vengeful spirits can't get close. If they find you, terrible things will happen."

Natsuki Amamiya looked at Ai Hayasaka: "You don't seem to be feeling well."

"You have no idea what I went through..."

The spy maid spoke with an unusually resentful tone.

In this alternate dimension, time seems to stand still, it's always evening, but Hayasaka Ai clearly feels that she has been there for several hours.

Having been all alone for so long, with only strange vengeful spirits besides her, and unable to escape the school like a prison, it would be strange if she were in a good state.

Hayasaka Ai sat close to Amamiya Natsuki, seemingly wanting to draw warmth from him. After so long, she had finally seen her companion. Even a professionally trained spy maid would instinctively want to rely on the boy beside her.

"After entering the instance from the movie theater, I found myself in a school. As I passed the restroom, a vengeful spirit suddenly appeared and chased me. After that, I don't know how I got here... This world is strange; it's always evening, and I can't get out no matter what I do..."

"I know."

"Eh?"

Natsuki Amamiya casually remarked:

"There are seven ghost stories in Musashino Elementary School. The elementary school student chasing you in the toilet is the ghost story Hanako. During your escape, you stepped on another ghost story, the thirteenth step. This is an alternate dimension formed by the thirteenth step."

Hayasaka Ai's eyes widened upon hearing this: "How did you know?"

Amamiya Natsuki said matter-of-factly:

"Of course, it was information obtained from Hanako."

Hayasaka Ai: “…”

That terrifying ghost story that crawls around on the ceiling with a mouth full of shark-like teeth can actually talk to you calmly.

So weird!

"So," the spy maid bit her pink lips, having already figured it out, "you came here specifically to find me?"

"Yes."

Natsuki Amamiya readily admitted it.