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

Hiruko-shin finally screamed.

puff.

Her response was a splatter of blood.

"what happened……"

When Si Shou came to his senses, he felt an excruciating pain in his chest. Looking down, he saw an incredibly sharp scalpel piercing straight into his heart in an incomprehensible way.

Amamiya Natsuki did not stop. Instead, she gripped the handle of the scalpel and twisted it forcefully, completely shredding the heart of the four hands, giving Hiruko no chance to save them.

Having done all this, Natsuki Amamiya decisively retreated, quickly took out the Memoria Mask, and put it on her face.

"Did the president just use time stop?"

With the death of the four hands, Hiruko immediately released Kaguya, and Fujiwara Chika hurriedly carried the young lady to Amamiya Natsuki's side.

Yukino and Hayasaka Ai also came to join them.

Kaguya Shinomiya breathed a sigh of relief, and said in a serious tone:

"President, let's go quickly."

Amamiya Natsuki shook her head and said:

"It's too late, the third playthrough is about to begin."

"Huh?" Yukino Yukinoshita was taken aback, and asked in confusion, "What do you mean?"

"Ah ah ah ah ah!!"

As the four hands completely lost their life force, Hiruko-gami in mid-air suddenly went berserk.

Amamiya Natsuki felt a sudden loss of sound, and all was silent. Then, everything around her turned into countless wisps of light, rushing backward at an incomprehensible speed.

After an unknown amount of time, a familiar girl's voice suddenly rang in Amamiya Natsuki's ears:

"Hey, Natsuki, when did you put on this mask?"

Amamiya Natsuki snapped out of her daze, turned around and looked around, and found that she was no longer on the cruise ship, but had already arrived on the island, standing under a few banana trees, with Kaguya, Chika and the others by her side, all of them were there.

"call……"

Amamiya Natsuki took a deep breath.

Third playthrough.

Officially restarted.

"Natsuki, why aren't you saying anything?" Kitagawa Kaimu stretched out her right hand and waved it in front of Amamiya Natsuki, her tone somewhat worried. "Are you alright?"

Amamiya Natsuki shook her head and said:

"I am fine."

Zhu Zhu crossed her arms over her chest and exclaimed in surprise:

"When did that idiot Natsuki put on that mask?"

“How strange.” Shayou said in a puzzled tone, “I was clearly watching Natsuki-sama the whole time, but I didn’t see how Natsuki-sama wore the mask at all.”

The senior student pursed her pink lips and said:

"I didn't notice either... Did my junior use time stop? But why would he need to wear a mask when using time stop?"

"This mask must be very painful to wear. I tried it on before and it was so uncomfortable," Fujiwara Chika urged. "President, please take the mask off quickly."

“We can’t pick them now.” Amamiya Natsuki shook her head, looked around, and said in a low voice, “The timing is wrong.”

He was wearing the Memory Mask right now, and he remembered everything from last week's game clearly. If he took it off now, his memories would likely be reset instantly, which was absolutely unacceptable. No matter how painful it was, he had to keep the mask firmly on his face.

Besides, time on the island was indeed reset, but the time was incorrect.

Amamiya Natsuki remembers very clearly that the instance started the moment she stepped onto the island at the dock.

But at this moment, everyone had clearly left the dock and arrived at the coconut trees next to the nearby beach.

Was it Hiruko-no-Kami's doing on purpose?

"Probably not."

Natsuki Amamiya quickly dismissed this possibility.

If Hiruko did this intentionally, she should have set the timeline to the moment before Yotsu was killed, instead of jumping from night to day.

"President?" Kaguya Shinomiya frowned slightly, noticing that Natsuki Amamiya seemed a little off, and asked worriedly, "What happened?"

Amamiya Natsuki whispered:

"Were you just discussing the content of the dungeon quest?"

"Huh?" Kitagawa Haimu blinked, looking puzzled. "Didn't Natsuki say we were coming over to discuss this? Why are you asking this kind of question?"

Amamiya Natsuki said:

"I'll explain later... Did you mention your respective dungeon quests?"

Yukino Yukinoshita gently shook her head and said:

"not yet."

“Then I’ll speak.” Natsuki Amamiya’s voice was deep. “Kaguya and Yukino’s side mission is to investigate the mystery of the abandoned hospital.”

Kaguya Shinomiya's gaze sharpened slightly, and she said softly:

"Yes."

Yukino Yukinoshita nodded slightly and said:

"It is indeed my dungeon quest."

Natsuki Amamiya continued:

"Yang Nai's mission is to survive for 24 hours."

"Huh?" Yukinoshita Haruno raised her hand to cover her mouth, surprised. "Natsuki-kun is amazing. I haven't even said it yet."

Amamiya Natsuki said in a low voice:

"Chika and Haimeng's mission is to protect a person named Matsuko... who is actually a third-grade elementary school girl who is currently playing on the beach."

Fujiwara Chika's eyes widened in disbelief as she said:

"How does the president know all of this?"

Zhu Zhu put her hands on her hips and complained:

"Could it be the legendary prophet?"

The other girls also looked over, their faces showing confusion, wondering how Amamiya Natsuki could predict the future.

“It’s not about being a prophet.” Natsuki Amamiya shook her head. “It’s because we’re already on the third playthrough.”

"Eh?"

The girls looked bewildered.

Kitagawa Kaimu said uncertainly:

"Natsuki, what does 'third loop' mean...?"

“That’s right.” Natsuki Amamiya pressed her mask against her face, her voice low. “The instance time has been restarted.”

Upon hearing this, the girls' first reaction was disbelief.

"How can it be."

"Is the president joking?"

Amamiya Natsuki said:

"Kaguya, Yukino, Chika, Hayasaka... you can take a look at your backpacks and recall how many witch potions you have stored."

Several girls pursed their pink lips and quickly checked their backpacks.

"Eh? Eh? Eh?" Fujiwara Chika quickly said, "I'm missing two bottles of my witch's potion."

Kaguya Shinomiya said softly:

"I'm also missing two bottles of medicine."

“It’s not necessarily a medicine.” Amamiya Natsuki looked at the young lady and lowered her voice, “Actually, you’re also missing a spare pair of panties.”

"W-what?"

Kaguya Shinomiya's gaze sharpened, and she quickly checked her inventory. Sure enough, she found that a pair of panties was missing from her backpack. Unless they were game-designated equipment or items, ordinary real-world items could not be stored in the game's inventory, thus preventing players from becoming Gatling gun-wielding bodhisattvas. Therefore, there weren't many underwear items that could be stored in the game's inventory; they were all items obtained from blind boxes.

"They're really gone..."

The young lady's pretty face quickly flushed red as she frantically searched her memories, but she had no recollection of using panties.

Why do panties mysteriously disappear?

Why did I not know, but the president did?

Could it be that I accidentally fainted and the president changed my panties during that time?

“Actually, it’s not just the witch’s potion and underwear,” Natsuki Amamiya said in a low voice. “If you look closely, you’ll see that the water and food in the backpack are also a bit less.”

"That's right." The senior students and others, who were also checking their backpacks, nodded in agreement. "Junior, what exactly happened?"

Amamiya Natsuki sounded exhausted; the aftereffects of wearing the engraved mask were overwhelming her. She whispered:

"Shoko, take out your notebook. I'm going to write down everything I'm about to say in it."

"Uh-huh."

Upon hearing this, Komi blinked. Although she didn't understand, she didn't hesitate at all, quickly nodded, took out her notebook, and gripped her pen, ready to fight.

The other girls also listened attentively.

Amamiya Natsuki's voice was tired as she whispered:

"The island's secret is the shadow clone... The characteristics and abilities of the shadow are..."

"The first part of Kaguya and Yukino's side quest is to find the secret behind the abandoned hospital. The secret is... After solving the secret, the second part of the side quest will be unlocked, which is to kill the Four-Armed... The identity and appearance of the Four-Armed are..."

"Beneath the island lies a vast cavernous space, the entrance of which is... Inside dwells a supernatural being, whom the islanders call Hiruko-gami, whose specific appearance is..."