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

Amamiya Natsuki said:

"You've already said that twice."

Shadow Zhu Zhu tilted her little face up: "Weren't you like this before?"

Amamiya Natsuki asked, puzzled:

"When did I ever say that?"

Shadow Zhu Zhu snorted softly:

"That day in my room, you lied to me and asked me to help you... Disgusting!"

Halfway through her sentence, Shadow Zhu Zhu pursed her lips.

Even as a shadow clone, there are some things I'm too embarrassed to say aloud.

“What do you mean by lying?” Amamiya Natsuki retorted with a serious expression, “I clearly served Zhu Zhu at the inn in Chiba Prefecture that day.”

"Shut up!"

"..."

A few minutes later.

Shadow Zhu Zhu stopped in front of a hot spring inn, looked up at Amamiya Natsuki, and said in a cold tone:

"Go inside, everyone's already inside."

Hey, who's here?

I have a really bad feeling about this.

At this moment, the ordinary hot spring hotel in front of them has quietly transformed into a dragon's den and a tiger's lair, no, it should be called a female demon's spider cave. If you go in standing up, you can only come out lying down.

Amamiya Natsuki coughed twice and said:

"My stomach suddenly hurts a lot. You go find something for yourself first, I'll come back to help you later."

Snapped.

Shadow Zhu Zhu grabbed Amamiya Natsuki's wrist, tilted her head and looked over, saying:

"There are restrooms in the hotel."

Amamiya Natsuki said:

"I can't help it anymore."

Shadow Zhu Zhu: "I can't resist taking a shower right now."

After saying that, Shadow Zhu Zhu used force to pull Amamiya Natsuki directly into the hotel.

The hotel was quiet, and there were no other tourists inside. Behind the counter sat a middle-aged woman in a bathrobe, playing on her phone, seemingly oblivious to Zhu Zhu's rude behavior.

Walking down the corridor, Shadow Zhu Zhu quickly arrived at the door of a room, raised her hand and knocked, calmly saying:

"Open the door."

Click.

The door opens.

A shapely, pink-haired girl with a headband stood behind the door, her bright eyes darting around until they landed behind Amamiya Natsuki, and she said softly:

"Ah~ it's my junior."

Natsuki Amamiya straightened her collar and smiled:

"Good evening, Senior."

No hints were needed; this senior student in front of me was definitely a clone, because she didn't have a smile on her face at all after we met. If she were the real senior student, she wouldn't have such a cold expression.

[Congratulations, you've discovered a shadow senior you can play with at will.]

They're not human, so who would be so desperate as to play with shadows?

"Good evening, junior." Senior Yanzi's voice was still sweet and pleasant, but unfortunately, there was no smile on her face. She said softly, "Come in first."

Since we've come all this way, it wouldn't make sense to just run away like this.

Amamiya Natsuki quietly took a breath and stepped into the room.

Upon entering, I looked up and saw a glass figure kneeling upright in front of the television, watching it.

Needless to say, it's definitely the shadow glass; the real glass is still in the park right now.

"Good evening, Shoko," Natsuki Amamiya greeted her with a wave of her hand.

After careful observation, you discovered a shadow glass.

The quail-like girl looked over at the sound and spoke clearly:

"……Good evening."

Amamiya Natsuki raised an eyebrow in surprise.

That's incredible! Absolutely incredible!

The shadow clone successfully cured the communication disorder.

at the same time.

Da da da.

The crisp sound of wooden clogs on the floor rang out from the backyard, and before anyone arrived, a remarkably familiar voice came through.

"I heard Natsuki's voice... Where is it? Where is it?"

A girl with waist-length blonde hair appeared at the entrance to the inner courtyard. Her wet blonde hair hung down to her waist, and she was completely naked, without even a towel. She walked in boldly like this.

[After careful observation, you unexpectedly encountered a naked shadow, Hai Meng.]

well.

Shadow Zhu Zhu, Shadow Senior, Shadow Hai Meng, Shadow Shoko, and now Shadow Chika, who has become a traitor, have finally all arrived.

The five girls were probably cloned while they were together, and their memories were retained after being cloned, so they naturally acted together.

“Yes, it’s the real Natsuki.” Upon seeing Amamiya Natsuki, Kagehime smiled. “Not that imposter.”

Natsuki Amamiya raised her right hand and greeted him again:

"Hai Meng, good evening."

Shadow Sea Dream put her hands on her hips and said:

"I'm not okay at all."

Senior Sister Shadow frowned slightly and reminded her:

"Hai Meng-chan, put your clothes on first."

"What does it matter whether we wear them or not?" Shadow Sea Dream said nonchalantly. "Anyway, Xia Shu has seen all of us naked, hasn't he?"

Amamiya Natsuki raised her hand and said:

"There was a reason for that..."

"There's a reason for everything?" Shadow Sea Dream looked over. "Kissing and hugging are also a reason? While dating me, you turned around and said you liked the senior. Is cheating also a reason?"

Senior Sister Shadow: "Junior, you really went too far."

Shadow Zhu Zhu: "Scumbag Xia Shu".

Shadow Glass: "...That's absolutely outrageous."

Amamiya Natsuki coughed lightly and said:

"You clearly agreed to date him back then."

“That’s the problem.” Shadow Haimeng crossed her arms. “You dared to say something as outrageous as wanting to date everyone, and we even agreed… Why is that? Did you hypnotize us?”

Senior Sister Shadow whispered:

"Junior, what exactly are those mysteries in our memories?"

Amamiya Natsuki feigned ignorance and said:

"What fog?"

"Stop pretending, you idiot Natsuki." Shadow Zhu Zhu sneered, "Chika-chan suddenly disappeared this afternoon, and we haven't been able to find her for so long. She must have fallen into your hands, right? You definitely know what we're talking about."

Amamiya Natsuki shook her head: "I don't know."

Shadow Zhu Zhu: "You know."

"Stop wasting your breath on this scumbag." Shadow Haimeng waved her hand and said coldly, "Tie him up and beat him up first, then ask him all the questions while he's beating him."

Amamiya Natsuki said seriously:

"I would rather die than surrender."

"Unyielding, huh?" Shadow Zhu Zhu tilted her head and looked over, plucking a hair that turned into a dagger. Her gaze followed Amamiya Natsuki's abdomen downwards. "Then I'll [beep] you."

What exactly did you say that turned into a censored word?

Natsuki Amamiya had originally planned to use time stop to achieve a quadruple kill, but a prompt suddenly appeared in front of her:

The large-scale memory fog phenomenon has successfully piqued Hiruko's interest. You will not be in danger until you uncover the truth behind the memory fog, so you decide...

"I see."

Amamiya Natsuki suddenly realized why the shadow girls in front of him hadn't attacked him with a knife like the shadow girl Chika had that afternoon; it turned out they were Hiruko's mission.

There are definitely other players in the Summer Reborn instance, their number unknown. Amamiya Natsuki even suspects that these players did something that caused all the tourists on the cruise ship to be copied. The memory fog phenomenon that appeared among the many shadow copies is something that even Hiruko God in the underground cave cannot see through, which greatly aroused Hiruko God's interest. Thus, the shadow copies were given a mission: to find out the truth behind the memory fog by all means possible.

"Wait a minute." Seeing Shadow Haimeng step forward to tie him up, Amamiya Natsuki decisively extended his right hand. "You can ask me anything you want to know, and I will answer you."

Shadow Dream stopped in her tracks, her eyes filled with suspicion:

Are you sure you'll answer?

“Of course I will,” Natsuki Amamiya said seriously, “because I… love Umimu the most.”

"hehe."

A cold laugh rang out.