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

"Please replace your words of comfort with a tangible reward," Natsuki Amamiya said seriously. "White stockings are fine, cat ears are fine too, the combination of the two would be best."

"Pah! Vulgar!"

"..."

Natsuki Amamiya took a deep breath and tried to move her neck.

next moment.

As he broke the rules, a strange force suddenly surged into his body, and he felt everything go black before his eyes, unable to see anything anymore.

Natsuki Amamiya subconsciously reached out her right hand and grabbed at the support next to her.

"Natsuki, what's wrong?"

Kitagawa Kaimu's worried voice rang in my ears.

"It's nothing," Natsuki Amamiya said calmly. "I just suddenly lost my sight."

Hayasaka Ai pursed her pink lips: "Visual deprivation?"

“Mm.” Natsuki Amamiya responded softly, “It’s completely dark, I can’t see anything… but thankfully I can hear your voices.”

Of the five human senses, vision receives the most information. If one were to suddenly lose their sight, no one could remain calm unless they had set their own rules.

"Oh no, the cake is about to fall!" Mrs. Kaguya's voice suddenly rang out. "Natsuki, catch it quickly, we absolutely can't waste food."

Natsuki Amamiya said expressionlessly:

"I'm sorry, I'm blind now."

You actually let a blind person receive things? Is there no justice in this world?

“It’s alright, we can direct you.” Mrs. Kaguya’s voice was cheerful. “It’s a good opportunity to test whether you can move freely when you’re being punished… Take two steps forward.”

After thinking about it carefully, Amamiya Natsuki realized that it made some sense. She released her right hand from the wall and tried to take two steps forward.

"It's a bit like a watermelon-smashing game played on the beach in summer," Kitagawa Kaimu's voice rang out. "It sounds quite interesting."

“Very good.” Natsuki Amamiya looked in the direction of the voice. “Raise your right hand now, and you will immediately experience the same pleasure as me.”

“No way.” Kitagawa Kaimu refused crisply. “I haven’t finished my cake yet… Besides, breaking the rules doesn’t necessarily mean depriving someone of their sight.”

"Something's not right, something's really not right," Hayasaka Ai's voice rang out. "How did a punishment that was supposed to be terrifying suddenly turn into a watermelon-hitting game?"

You're not the ones being punished, so of course you think it's just a game!

"Natsuki, hurry up!" Mrs. Kaguya's voice rang out again, "I can't hold on any longer."

Following the sound, Amamiya Natsuki reached out and groped her way over.

"Well……!"

A muffled whimper suddenly reached my ears.

Amamiya Natsuki paused, "That voice is..."

“It’s my voice,” Mrs. Kaguya urged. “Natsuki, don’t stop.”

Kitagawa Kaimu: "Wait, the direction is off, steer a little to the right."

Hayasaka Ai: "Senpai, it's on the left."

Mrs. Kaguya: "Natsuki, listen to me."

"Woo..."

The sound of everyone talking at once filled her ears, and Amamiya Natsuki felt an overwhelming headache coming on. Finally, she casually stretched out her hand:

"Shut up, I'll choose for myself."

"Well--!"

The distressed voice suddenly grew louder.

"..."

Amamiya Natsuki paused, suddenly realizing she had made a very serious mistake.

After a brief silence, the girls' soft voices reached my ears.

Kitagawa Kaimu: "Natsuki, you're finished."

Hayasaka Ai: "Senpai, you're finished."

Kaguya-sama: "Natsuki, this time I choose to stand on the side of justice."

Finally, the ghostly loli's voice timidly rang out: "Master, Sister Miko is about to cry."

"..."

Natsuki Amamiya silently let go of his hand.

I remembered.

When the "Statues" game started, Miko was eating cake with something stuffed in her mouth, which is why she couldn't speak.

Is it too late for me to apologize now?

"It's too late!"

"..."

After a while.

The game of "Statues" is over.

The girls regained their three-minute photographic memory, and Amamiya Natsuki's eyesight quietly returned.

"It's also about three minutes..."

Natsuki Amamiya rubbed her temples with her fingers. She had to admit that being deprived of sight was quite terrifying. Anyone who broke the rules without preparation would have panicked long ago.

"stare--"

Seeing Zi bite her lower lip, her pretty face slightly flushed, she glared at him shyly.

"Oh no, I still can't see anything."

Amamiya Natsuki blinked, then turned her face away blankly.

"You're lying, you clearly saw me."

Jian Zi gave a soft hum, looked away, and lowered his head to look at the vocabulary book.

If you make good use of those three minutes of photographic memory time, you can actually remember quite a lot of things; it would be a shame to waste it.

Three minutes passed in the blink of an eye.

Kitagawa Kaimu felt a wave of weariness wash over her, raised her hand to cover her mouth, and yawned: "So sleepy, I want to go to sleep."

"Don't sleep." Jianzi closed her vocabulary book and shared her experience, "The 'Statues' game will wake you up, and you might accidentally break the rules and get punished."

"Senior, there must be a way to close the theater early, right?"

Hayasaka Ai turned her head and asked.

“Indeed.” Amamiya Natsuki nodded. “The theater can automatically close at dawn, or I can close it myself.”

"Huh? It can actually be turned off manually?" Jianzi's eyes widened. "Why didn't you say so last night?"

Natsuki Amamiya silently turned her head and looked at Mrs. Kaguya.

"I'm sorry, Miko." Mrs. Kaguya clasped her hands together and looked at you pitifully. "I rediscovered the taste of delicious food last night, and that's why I don't want to leave."

"Actually, it's nothing..." Jianzi silently chose to forgive. "If Sister Aye wants to stay a little longer, she can just tell me, and I won't refuse."

Amamiya Natsuki said:

"Are you leaving now or staying?"

“Let’s go back.” Kitagawa Kaimu rubbed her eyes, her voice sleepy. “Next time, write down the important points first before coming to study. It’s a waste to just memorize vocabulary.”

Hayasaka Ai nodded in agreement: "Senior, let's go back first, and come in next time when we're fully prepared."

Seeing that Zi also had no objections.

It passed unanimously.

Natsuki Amamiya snapped her fingers, and the world before her eyes instantly transformed into countless pale blue specks of light, which quietly dissipated. When she came to her senses, she was back in the living room.

"Is it a hallucination?"

Kitagawa Kaimu was somewhat confused for a moment.

Amamiya Natsuki said from the side:

"Wipe your mouth clean before you speak."

“Eh, it’s cream…” Kitagawa Kaimu looked at the white cream in her palm. “It really wasn’t an illusion.”

Hayasaka Ai reached behind her and touched her back. There should have been a backpack there, but it was empty; there was nothing there.

"Tch, so it really doesn't work?"

Hayasaka Ai pouted regretfully.

If the backpack could be brought out, the theater could be used as a smuggling space to secretly bring real-world weapons and supplies into the instance. But it seems that's not feasible now.

"I'm going to brush my teeth," Kitagawa Kaimu stretched and stood up, "Then I'll come back to sleep."

Hayasaka Ai got up and said, "I'm going to take a shower."

Seeing that Zi yawned, sat down on the sofa, and picked up his phone, he said, "I'll brush my teeth later."

Amamiya Natsuki looked at Miko, her expression turning serious: "I forgot something very important."

Seeing Zi roll her eyes at him, she continued looking down at her phone: "If you don't want to listen, don't talk to me."

Natsuki Amamiya continued:

"The things I forgot are very important to you, but you don't want to hear them?"

Seeing that Zi didn't even look up, he said:

"I won't listen, go away."

"Alright, I'm leaving." Natsuki Amamiya sighed, turned and walked towards the balcony. "...Touch your head when you have time."