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

The Ice Bucket Challenge was successfully completed.

This is something that ordinary people can easily do without violating ethics or morality; it's quite simple.

"It looks quite interesting." Kitagawa Kaimu rested her chin on her hand. "I'll try sending a message too."

“Me too,” Fujiwara Chika said expectantly. “Of course, I can’t be left out of the fun stuff.”

Only the girl with glasses stood by, dumbfounded.

Everyone else avoids challenges like the plague, but you guys actually went for it?

You're all idiots!

It seems that these people will only regret it when faced with truly terrifying challenges.

Amamiya Natsuki also took out her phone and sent a message to the mysterious and eerie person.

"The challenge is so interesting, I can't wait! When will you arrange it for me?"

Hey.

The phone vibrated slightly.

A message popped up quickly.

"as you wish."

Immediately following, a new challenge appeared.

Upon closer inspection, Amamiya Natsuki discovered that the challenge was to do one hundred push-ups in ten minutes, with the reward being an increase in his fortune, and the punishment for failure being choking on food.

According to the girl with glasses, the rewards for the challenges vary, but they are mostly petty and insignificant compared to the punishment for failing the challenge.

With Amamiya Natsuki's current physical condition, she could easily do a hundred push-ups with one hand.

Everyone gradually completed the first round of challenges.

Fujiwara Chika said casually, "I feel very relaxed."

“No, it’s actually a trap.” Kaguya Shinomiya crossed her arms and said in a deep voice, “According to the president, only those who clear the game in one life can face the opponent in the end. If you don’t know this information, others will just think it’s a prank when they receive the challenge and ignore it. As a result, they lose the right to leave the game from the very beginning.”

After thinking about it for a while, everyone quickly realized what was going on.

"Kaguya-chan is right." Kitagawa Kaimu said angrily, hands on her hips, "To set a trap from the very beginning, that's just too weird!"

“Um, I suddenly thought of something.” Sayu raised her right hand. “This anomaly might not have just appeared recently, but we only encountered it because of Yukino-chan’s sister… In other words, perhaps many people’s existence has already been erased, but we just don’t know it?”

The atmosphere immediately became somber upon considering this possibility.

Erasing a person's existence out of thin air, so that their parents, relatives, friends, and even everyone else will forget them, is in some ways even more terrifying than the faceless woman they encountered before.

“The possibility is not high,” Natsuki Amamiya said. “If the supernatural event breaks out on a large scale, the chances of players encountering it will increase significantly. But the fact is, so far, only we have encountered the supernatural invasion. Obviously, the invasion has only just started, so there shouldn’t be many people who have mysteriously disappeared.”

Zhu Zhu blinked: "...Will there be more and more similar bizarre intrusions in the future?"

"..."

The air fell silent once again.

Judging from the current situation, the number of bizarre phenomena invading the real world will likely increase. Players still have some ability to protect themselves, but as for ordinary people... they can only pray for good luck.

Hey.

The phone vibrated again.

Natsuki Amamiya took out her phone and raised an eyebrow slightly: "The second challenge is here."

"Hey, what kind of challenge is it?" Fujiwara Chika curiously leaned closer, her eyes widening quickly. "What is it? You have to go to a convenience store and crush instant noodles within twenty minutes, and you have to crush at least five packets."

"The challenges get increasingly outrageous as they go on," the bespectacled girl, Kousaka, said quietly. "They might even challenge morality and the law... It's too late for you to regret it now."

"It was just squeezing instant noodles, I have absolutely no regrets."

Amamiya Natsuki put away her phone and prepared to leave.

"I've heard that a lot of people under a lot of stress secretly squeeze instant noodles in the supermarket to relieve stress." Shayou quickly followed, as a pet should stay close to its owner. "But it's okay, after you finish squeezing the instant noodles, I'll just buy them all."

Stealing instant noodles is just a morally questionable act; even if discovered, it's not considered a crime, so Natsuki Amamiya really doesn't feel any guilt.

“I’ll stay,” Yukino Yukinoshita said.

The reason for staying is simple: it's actually for the glasses-wearing girl, Kousaka.

In any case, the other party is Yang Nai's good friend. If they receive a challenge mission, they might be able to help each other. This is something we just discussed.

Amamiya Natsuki waved his hand and went out with Sayu and Haimeng.

It's just making instant noodles; it really doesn't require many people.

Arrived at the supermarket.

Natsuki Amamiya found the shelf where cup noodles were displayed and crunched several packets of instant noodles into pieces.

"Hey~"

Shayou picked up several bags of instant noodles, looked up at her pretty face, and asked, "Natsuki-sama, how did the challenge go?"

“It’s not finished yet.” Natsuki Amamiya shook her head. “I guess I’ll have to leave the supermarket before it’s done.”

"Natsuki, you can go out first." Kitagawa Kaimu waved her hand and said, "It's so hot, Sayu-chan and I are going to buy some ice cream."

"Ah."

Amamiya Natsuki nodded slightly, turned and walked out of the supermarket. Soon after, she received a notification on her phone that she had successfully completed the instant noodle squeezing challenge.

A short while later, Shayou came out carrying a bag of instant noodles, and Haimeng carried ice cream and fruit. The two girls walked out together.

"When I was paying, the cashier noticed that the instant noodles were crushed," Shayou said, recounting what had just happened. "She kept bowing and apologizing, saying she would replace them with new ones. I felt a little bad about it."

Amamiya Natsuki raised her hand and pressed it to her chest: "My conscience seems to be aching slightly."

"You won't feel any remorse," Kitagawa Kaimu said, handing her an ice cream. "It's so hot, have an ice cream before you go back."

Natsuki Amamiya took the ice cream and sat down on a bench by the roadside.

“Sayu-chan took the blame for you.” Kitagawa Kaimu sat down and took a bite of ice cream. “She said that she accidentally broke the instant noodles earlier, so she had to buy them all back and even bowed to the clerk to apologize.”

Amamiya Natsuki turned to look at Sayu.

"Hey~"

Shayou quietly closed one eye and proudly raised her pretty face.

As pets, they are naturally prepared to take the blame for their owners, and they even enjoy it.

"Hurry up and eat your ice cream," Natsuki Amamiya said. "Let's go back after we finish."

"it is good."

Shayou tore open the ice cream packaging, raised her right hand, tucked a strand of hair behind her ear with her slender fingers, and then stuck out her pink tongue to eat the ice cream.

Amamiya Natsuki's eye twitched slightly: "You're eating well."

Do you even know what the Crimson King is? If anyone dares to describe it even once, the world will surely restart.

"Oh……"

Shayou sat down obediently and started eating her ice cream.

Before we knew it, it was noon.

During this period, everyone gradually completed the second round of challenges. The difficulty was not high, but they began to violate their daily morals.

After lunch, everyone messaged Weiwei again, announcing the start of the third round of challenges.

This time, Komi was the first to drop out.

The challenge was for her to act as a delinquent girl and rob a random elementary school student of their pocket money. The only requirement was that the student be an elementary school student, which Zhu Zhu did not meet.

While it's possible to hire elementary school students to act out a scene, getting a socially awkward girl with communication difficulties to ask for "two coins" is simply too difficult.

“Let’s give up the challenge,” Natsuki Amamiya said. “Let’s see how the punishment for failing the challenge will be implemented.”

"Uh-huh."

Komi breathed a sigh of relief and nodded quickly, like a chick pecking at rice.

Asking her to extort money from elementary school students is impossible, absolutely impossible. It would be more likely for her to be the one being extorted.

"Shoko's punishment just now was to fall and get injured," Zhu Zhu guessed. "Could it be like flipping a coin, resulting in something unlucky?"

Fujiwara Chika raised her hand and said, "If Shoko-chan had stayed in bed all the time, wouldn't she have avoided getting hurt?"

“Definitely not.” Zi Yan Yan pursed her pink lips. “Even if we could eat in bed, we still need to use the bathroom, right?”

"That's true."

"..."

The girls were whispering amongst themselves when they heard a muffled 'thump'.

Amamiya Natsuki turned her head and saw that the quail girl who had just been standing beside her was now lying on the ground in a "wild goose landing on the sand" posture...

"Well--"

Komi quickly sat up, frantically reaching her hands behind her back, her pretty face flushed as she covered her skirt.

Hey, stop covering it up!

You never take off your pantyhose all day long, so you're unlikely to expose yourself!

"Shoko-chan?" Kitagawa Kaimu helped Shoko up. "You didn't even move, how did you suddenly collapse?"

"..."

Komi didn't say anything, but instead looked longingly at Amamiya Natsuki.

Natsuki Amamiya understood and picked up the notebook beside her, handing it over.

The quail-like girl took the notebook and quickly began to write.

"I felt a strange force suddenly push me from behind, which is why I fell..."

Amamiya Natsuki raised an eyebrow slightly: "To actually attack directly is much weaker than being plagued by bad luck."

Hayasaka Ai analyzed:

"So, the previous chandelier falling, choking on food, etc., were not due to that weird thing controlling luck, but rather it directly intervened... It seems rather unremarkable."