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

"Did you find anything?"

“I’ve looked at the student roster, various history books, attendance sheets, and so on.” Kaguya Shinomiya held up a finger and gently pressed it against her brow. “Unfortunately, I didn’t find any clues, but something about this office just feels off…”

Amamiya Natsuki's gaze sharpened: "I also felt something was off before, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it."

Both of them had the same feeling; clearly, something was wrong with the office.

The silly young lady's gaze shifted, landing on Yukino's long, white legs. Yukino's stockings had been torn, and she didn't have any spares, so she was naturally bare-legged. She couldn't help but puff out her pink cheeks and say:

"President, I'm curious, where did Yukino's stockings go?"

Yukino's pink lips twitched slightly, and she guiltily looked away.

Amamiya Natsuki said seriously:

"How could I possibly tear Yukino's stockings in front of her?"

Yukinoshita Yukino: "..."

Shameless!

brazen!

Kaguya Shinomiya gave a soft hum, now was not the time to be jealous, and instead asked, "Did Haruno-nee say anything?"

“No.” Yukino Yukinoshita shook her head gently, raised her right hand, and tucked a strand of hair that had fallen to her ear behind her ear. “My sister said that after she failed the challenge, her consciousness became blurred, and she had no idea what happened until we woke her up.”

"Is this so..."

Kaguya Shinomiya was slightly disappointed.

Therefore, spending twenty minutes to wake up Yukinoshita Haruno is not very valuable.

Of course, many things cannot be measured simply by their value.

“Let’s search this office again carefully,” Natsuki Amamiya said in a deep voice, “to find out what’s strange about it.”

"Ah."

Kaguya Shinomiya and Yukino Yukinoshita both nodded in agreement.

The three of them sprang into action and began searching the office.

"That's strange, why did Misaki-chan's clothes fade?"

Yukinoshita is trying to wake up her female friend in front of her.

As Amamiya Natsuki passed by Haruno, she happened to hear Haruno's murmured words.

"Um?!"

A bolt of lightning suddenly pierced the fog in my mind.

Amamiya Natsuki stopped and turned to look at Yukinoshita Haruno, her gaze intense. "Haruno-neechan, what did you just say?"

"Huh?" Yukinoshita Haruno was taken aback. "What's wrong?"

Amamiya Natsuki said seriously, "You just said the clothes faded?"

Yukinoshita nodded and said:

"That's right, Misaki-chan vanished into thin air right in front of me, and her clothes turned gray for some reason..."

Natsuki Amamiya pressed on, asking:

What color were her clothes before?

Yukinoshita blinked: "It's red."

"..."

Amamiya Natsuki's mind suddenly cleared: "I understand."

"What is it?"

Kaguya and Yukino both looked over.

“It’s the color.” Natsuki Amamiya took a deep breath and pointed to the small national flag ornament on her desk. The Japanese flag from the other world was no different from the Japanese flag from the real world. “The flag is missing a color.”

The prompt appears when your gaze lingers on the object for a period of time. The national flag is such an ordinary little ornament that Natsuki Amamiya always just glances at it, so she has never seen the prompt appear.

Upon hearing this, the two girls both looked at the national flag decoration on the desk.

"It's missing red."

"The parts that should have been red are now just gray."

Kaguya Shinomiya pursed her pink lips, turned around and walked to a desk, picked up a stack of exam papers and said:

"I just saw a stack of graded exam papers in the office..."

Natsuki Amamiya looked at the test paper. The score at the top was gray. In fact, the teacher usually used a red marker to grade the test papers.

"And a seal."

Yukino Yukinoshita opened the drawer, took out a small stamp, and pressed it on the exam paper. The stamp was still gray.

As is well known, Japanese people frequently use seals in their daily lives; almost every office worker has one, and there are never any gray seals.

If a single event could be considered a coincidence, then the loss of a certain color of national flag, exam paper, seal, and the subtle fading of clothing proves that it is definitely not a coincidence, but rather something inevitable.

Natsuki Amamiya walked out of her office and looked towards the playground.

Hundreds of faceless people stood on the playground, their faces blank. Their clothes were fine, in various colors, but not red.

"Why red?" Kaguya Shinomiya crossed her arms and speculated, "Is that strange creature afraid of red? Or rather, unwilling to see red?"

“Very likely,” Yukino Yukinoshita added, expressing her own thoughts. “It’s probably not a coincidence that my sister and her friends were all in the office; it might be a way to make them lose their redness.”

Amamiya Natsuki looked at the two girls and said:

"Check everyone's backpacks to see if there are any red items."

The three of them quickly began to examine the area.

"No."

"I do not have either."

"..."

The inspection was completed quickly, and surprisingly, there wasn't a single red item in the three people's backpacks. This is something you only think about when you need it; normally, no one would pay any attention to it.

"Then there's nothing we can do..."

As she spoke, Natsuki Amamiya took off her white shirt and tore it into three pieces.

"President?" Kaguya Shinomiya looked at her in confusion. "What are you doing?"

"If there's no red, then make red."

As she spoke, Natsuki Amamiya took out a dagger and slashed it across her palm. Blood gushed out immediately, staining her white shirt red.

"Give."

Natsuki Amamiya handed out the blood-stained shirts, one shirt for each person.

"President, let's bandage your hand first." Kaguya Shinomiya frowned, more concerned about Natsuki Amamiya's hand injury.

Yukino Yukinoshita moved her pink lips and couldn't help but say:

Why don't you cut your finger?

Amamiya Natsuki: "..."

It's too late to suggest cutting off your finger now!

Natsuki Amamiya simply bandaged the wound with hemostatic gauze, then went to the classroom next door to verify it.

“Ordinary faceless beings don’t react to red,” Natsuki Amamiya said quickly. “Since that weirdo doesn’t want to see red, let’s give it color. It will definitely have a special reaction when it sees it.”

"Let's split up," Kaguya Shinomiya said quickly. "There are so many people in the school, we need to be more efficient."

Amamiya Natsuki looked at the young lady and nodded:

"You and Yukino will travel together, I'll go alone, and we'll use the amulet to keep in touch along the way."

"That's it."

As for Yukino Yukinoshita, since she is an ordinary person, she cannot restrain the supernatural entity she finds, so she does not need to cooperate with the operation and can stay in the office.

Chapter 569 So you think you're the only one who knows how to play hide-and-seek?

"Let's do a verification first."

After quickly bandaging the wound on her hand, Amamiya Natsuki took the blood-stained shirt, turned around, and walked into the nearest classroom, waving the shirt in front of the Faceless Man sitting at the door.

The faceless woman, whose face was completely blank, with even her mouth and nose gone, and who could only be identified as a girl, remained motionless and unresponsive.

Natsuki Amamiya then randomly selected several forgotten individuals for verification, and the results were exactly the same.

“Verification complete.” Natsuki Amamiya returned to the corridor and said softly, “Ordinary forgotten people do not react to red.”

Kaguya Shinomiya crossed her arms: "In other words, anyone who reacts abnormally to red is highly suspicious."

“That’s right.” Natsuki Amamiya nodded. “We’ll split up and contact each other immediately if anything happens.”

Yukino Yukinoshita pursed her pink lips: "Understood."

Previously, they only knew that the strange entity was in the school, but they didn't know what it looked like, whether it was male or female, tall or short, fat or thin, etc. It had no special characteristics. Finding it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack. Now that they had a direction to take, the three of them naturally set off immediately.

Kaguya Shinomiya and Yukino Yukinoshita acted together, with the two girls responsible for checking upstairs.

Natsuki Amamiya was in charge of the floors below.

"Excuse me, everyone."

Natsuki Amamiya stepped into a classroom.

The classroom was packed with students, and a teacher stood on the podium. She wore a pencil skirt, high heels, and flesh-colored pantyhose... Judging from her attire, she was clearly a female teacher, and her waistline was exceptionally curvaceous, truly a woman with a prominent bust and buttocks. Unfortunately, her face had been replaced by a completely blank mask.

"stare--"

All the faceless figures in the classroom turned to look at them, but no sound came out. The entire classroom was silent and deathly still.

It has to be said that such a scene is indeed somewhat eerie and frightening.