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

Hayasaka Ai picked up the conversation:

"So it's also possible that Kaguya-chan is carrying twins?"

Kaguya Shinomiya instinctively covered her lower abdomen: "Could it be that I'm pregnant with twins?"

"Let's leave this topic here and not talk about it anymore."

Yukino Yukinoshita put on a stern face.

next second.

The phone vibrated slightly.

Looking down at the cat, she saw a message from Yang Nai:

"What?! Yukino is pregnant with twins?! I'm going to be a aunt so soon! I'm so happy~"

Yukino Yukinoshita raised her phone, turned to look at Natsuki Amamiya, and gritted her teeth as she said:

"...The message you sent to my sister?"

Amamiya Natsuki's expression turned serious: "I didn't, don't slander me."

"I'm sorry, Yukino, I was wrong." Fujiwara Chika clasped her hands together and apologized sincerely. "I accidentally let it slip when I was chatting with Haruno-nee. I'm so sorry."

"..."

Kaguya Shinomiya gently reminded him:

"The Dean's Office...we've arrived."

With the important matter at hand, the group quickly became serious.

"Bang bang."

Amamiya Natsuki took half a step forward and raised her hand to knock on the door.

Hayasaka had previously suggested that they could sneak in through the second-floor window to launch a surprise attack, but after careful discussion, the group decided to enter through the main entrance. The more openly they approached the other party, the less likely they would arouse suspicion, otherwise their whereabouts would be exposed. After all, according to speculation, the director of the Diamond Hospital was very likely a shadow clone who could escape by hiding in the shadow.

"Come in."

A deep voice came from the office.

Amamiya Natsuki pushed open the door and entered the room. Looking at the middle-aged man wearing glasses behind the desk, she calmly said:

"Dean, I apologize for disturbing you."

Good luck.

The man in the office is none other than the director of the Rhombus Hospital, Rhombus Bronze.

Diamond-shaped Bronze assumed the person knocking was a nurse. Seeing Amamiya Natsuki and the others enter, a puzzled expression crossed his face. He adjusted his glasses and asked:

"Did you come to the wrong room? The IV room is next door..."

As Hayasaka walked in last, Amamiya Natsuki closed the door behind her and said:

"I shouldn't have gone to the wrong place... Dean Rhombus, right?"

The middle-aged man nodded: "It's me."

Amamiya Natsuki stepped closer: "That's good. We came here to ask the Dean a few questions."

The middle-aged man put down his pen and said in a low voice:

"What's wrong with you?"

“Of course it is…” Fujiwara Chika pointed, “Zhang San, the outlaw, it’s you!”

The most correct approach when faced with such criminal activity is naturally to bring them under control immediately.

Natsuki Amamiya thought the other party would dodge and resist, but to her surprise, the Dean reacted just like an ordinary person, with surprise and confusion in his eyes. Just as he was about to lean back, the Dean grabbed his shoulder and put him in a state of arrest.

Upon discovering that his body had suddenly lost its ability to move, the rhomboid bronze figure was visibly flustered and astonished, and couldn't help but say:

"Who are you?"

“We are…” Natsuki Amamiya thought for a moment and said, “It’s about time, let’s end the transformation and let the Dean see for himself.”

"it is good."

The girls nodded and ended their transformation.

Looking at the several people in the office, whose appearances and physiques had all undergone drastic changes, the middle-aged dean stared wide-eyed in disbelief, both shocked and puzzled, and said:

"Are you shadows? Why? Why are you attacking me?"

Clearly, the rhombus-shaped bronze figure mistook the transformation ability for the shadow's mimicry ability, thus revealing a truth...

Kaguya Shinomiya frowned and suddenly said:

"He is not a shadow."

"Huh?" Fujiwara Chika turned her head to look at her. "Why not?"

“Shadows can sense each other and confirm each other’s identities,” Kaguya Shinomiya said softly, her arms crossed over her chest. “But he suspects we are shadows.”

Fujiwara Chika quickly understood and exclaimed in realization:

"If he were a shadow, he wouldn't have misunderstood our abilities at all."

Amamiya Natsuki turned to look at Yukino and said softly:

"Yukino, open the curtains."

"Ah."

Yukino Yukinoshita responded softly, walked to the window, and reached out to pull back the curtains.

Bright sunlight suddenly streamed down, casting the shadows of several people on the ground.

Amamiya Natsuki raised her right leg and stomped on the middle-aged man's shadow with a 'thud'. The shadow didn't react at all and calmly said:

"I never expected the dean to be human."

Hayasaka Ai clicked her tongue softly: "We actually made a mistake. We always thought the Dean was the Shadow."

The rhombus-shaped bronze figure also realized what was happening and said nervously:

Who are you? Or rather... are you not human?

The world's great wonders.

Since shadow creatures exist, it's normal for other supernatural beings to exist as well. In Rhombus Bronze's view, the people in front of him were definitely not human.

Amamiya Natsuki didn't waste any words explaining, and went straight to the point:

"The Dean must know a lot of information about the Shadow, right? Please tell me in detail."

The rhombus-shaped bronze figure closed its eyes and said silently:

"I don't know what you're talking about, please get out of here."

"It seems the Dean is unwilling to cooperate," Hayasaka Ai said, arms crossed and head tilted. "Should we use torture to extract a confession?"

Upon hearing this, the middle-aged man's eyelids visibly twitched.

Shadow wasn't afraid of the pain of torture, but he couldn't. After all, he was just an ordinary human being, and his willpower wouldn't be that strong. If these people really tortured him, like sticking toothpicks into his fingernails...

“That’s too cruel.” Amamiya Natsuki shook her head and said, “Since the Dean is a human being, we should respect his human rights and not use physical violence against him.”

Hayasaka Ai blinked: "What the president said makes sense."

"call……"

The rhombus-shaped bronze figure secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but the next second, its heart suddenly tightened.

Amamiya Natsuki spoke calmly and unhurriedly:

"There are quite a few photos on the dean's desk."

"And they're all photos with his family," Fujiwara Chika said softly, hands on her hips, joining the interrogation team. "It seems the director really loves his family, doesn't he?"

Hayasaka Ai reached into the dean's pocket, took her phone, and then smiled:

"The hospital director's daughter is adorable, and his wife is very beautiful. Should we make a call and invite them to the hospital?"

"..."

In the art of war, winning hearts and minds is the best strategy, while attacking cities is the worst; psychological warfare is superior to physical warfare.

Torture someone's body is too low-level. The correct way to extract a confession through torture is, of course, to target the person the other party cherishes most.

The muscles on his diamond-shaped bronze face twitched incessantly, and finally he couldn't help but open his eyes, pleading:

"They don't know anything, just ask me anything!"

"Oh, what a pity." Fujiwara Chika said regretfully, feeling that she hadn't had enough fun. "The Dean recruited him so quickly, there was no fun at all."

Shinomiya Kaguya: "..."

So, are we the evil villains?

Amamiya Natsuki glanced at the young lady, then said:

"The first question... What is the origin of Hiruko-gami?"

Kaguya Shinomiya nodded slightly, took out the Truth Mirror, and held it up in front of the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged dean remained silent for a few seconds, then said in a low voice:

"Three hundred years ago, a great famine broke out on the island, and many people starved to death. At that time, a giant whale suddenly drifted ashore and ran aground on the beach. That was the first appearance of Hiruko-gami..."

Yukino Yukinoshita took out her notebook and began recording information.

It's still unclear whether I can complete the game this time around. If not, this information will be the most valuable resource for the next playthrough.

Amamiya Natsuki nodded and said:

“Very good, the director was not lying. Next question… What is the relationship between Hiruko-gami and the Hishigashi Hospital?”

The middle-aged dean continued in a low voice:

"After the giant whale was stranded on the beach, it was first discovered by a fisherman's daughter, Hata. The woman curiously touched the whale, and then Hiruko God copied and devoured her... As you know, when a shadow copies someone, it also copies their emotions and memories. The fisherman's daughter liked the ancestor of the Hishigata family, and Hiruko God inherited this emotion and became particularly dependent on the ancestor of the Hishigata family."

It turned out to be the case.

Several people suddenly realized.