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

“No need.” Amamiya Natsuki shook her head; she couldn’t trust strangers who were just passing players. “We can just go in.”

Of course, no one's help is needed, but the use of props is not refused.

The exploratory players were all wiped out, and the eeriness of the hotel's ghost story has attracted the attention of the Administration Bureau. Now that Amamiya Natsuki and her group are willing to take the initiative to eliminate the ghost story, the rewards are naturally plentiful, and they are also very generous with the support of items and equipment.

Currently, the number of players confirmed by the Ghost Stories Management Bureau is increasing, but Natsuki Amamiya's team is still the strongest, arguably the strongest demon hunter team on Earth...

After a brief chat, Natsuki Amamiya returned to the girls and began applying her skills.

Preparation beforehand is essential.

After everything is ready.

Natsuki Amamiya led the way, stepping through an iron gate carved into the metal fence and entering the sealed-off area. Kaguya and the others followed behind, entering the hotel together.

Chapter 700 Welcome to the Nightmare Hotel

The morning sun was quite bright.

Apart from being unusually quiet, the locked-down hotel showed no signs of any problem.

Natsuki Amamiya squinted and could even see countless tiny dust particles floating in the air due to the Tyndall effect. The hotel environment was also clearly visible.

However, as Amamiya Natsuki stepped into the hotel, the scene before her suddenly changed, from a bright and sunny morning to a dimly lit night.

"Hey, what's going on?"

"I don't know, it just suddenly turned from daytime to nighttime."

"Has this hotel really become another dimension?"

Hearing the voices of the girls behind him, Natsuki Amamiya felt relieved and turned around to look. Kaguya, Chika, Umi, Hayasaka... none of them were missing.

Unlike dungeons, this time the ghost stories didn't scatter the players, which is good news.

“I can’t make calls.” Kaguya Shinomiya raised her right hand, revealing a silver watch on her slender, snow-white wrist, and said softly, “I can’t receive any signals either. It really is an alternate dimension isolated from reality.”

This thing is a high-tech piece of equipment developed by the Administration Bureau. It is said to be able to withstand the water pressure at a depth of 100 meters underwater, and it is a satellite communication device, so it can make and receive calls even on Mount Everest... The copy may not be able to be included, but the ghost stories seem not to care.

Unfortunately, this is an alternate dimension, so we can't contact satellites, and most of the functions are useless.

Amamiya Natsuki raised her right hand, looked at the watch on her wrist, and said in a deep voice:

"Let's put the communication function aside for now and check our respective times."

“Received.” Kitagawa Kaimu was the first to respond, raising his right hand and looking at his watch. “It’s 8:50 a.m. now.”

Shayou: "Me too, it's 8:50."

Senior Yanzi: "8:50."

Zhu Zhu: "It's 8:50... 8:51."

Yukino Shino pursed her pink lips and whispered:

"It seems that time is passing normally in the hotel."

As time passed, the time on the watch moved forward by one minute.

Amamiya Natsuki quickly replied:

"The time on everyone's watches is consistent, so we can assume that the time in the hotel is not chaotic and the watches are not malfunctioning. Therefore, apart from the satellite communication function not working, other functions should not be affected."

“That’s right.” Kaguya Shinomiya nodded slightly. “For example… location tracking functionality.”

As a high-tech watch developed with significant investment by the Administration, it naturally has many functions, all of which are quite practical.

Satellite communication and time display functions go without saying, and there are also short-term illumination and positioning functions. Of course, in addition to satellite positioning, positioning can also be achieved between watches.

Natsuki Amamiya didn't understand the underlying technology either; when asked, she simply explained it was quantum mechanics.

The players who came in yesterday, including Yukino, were all wearing the same wristwatch, in other words...

"Let me see where the other players are."

Chika Fujiwara quickly pressed a button on her watch to activate the location tracking function.

Soon, a bunch of red dots appeared on the watch, each representing a player wearing the watch.

“Hmm…it should be on the top floor of the hotel?” Fujiwara Chika blinked. “Two of the red dots are separated from the others, while the rest are all crowded together and can’t be counted.”

Kaguya Shinomiya said softly:

"It seems that the players who came in earlier chose to split up for some reason."

The senior student pondered for a moment and said:

"It's highly likely they had no other choice."

Shayou said softly:

"I wonder which of the red dots Yukino-chan is. It's a pity I can't call or text her."

There was no signal in the hotel, so naturally, I couldn't make calls or send messages.

Yukinoshita raised her hand to tuck a strand of hair behind her ear and exhaled softly:

Having a goal is enough.

She turned to look at Amamiya Natsuki, her pretty face beaming with a bright smile: "Next, we'll just have to follow closely behind Natsuki-kun. Natsuki-kun, hurry up and scout ahead."

Hey, shouldn't you, the oldest female college student, be the one leading the way and exploring the path?

The group is currently at the entrance to the hotel, but the door that is open in the real world is now tightly closed. Natsuki Amamiya tried to push it, but it felt as if there was an invisible wall in the air that she could not push it open at all.

"The door won't open." Natsuki Amamiya surveyed the surroundings again, but found nothing else besides the eerie silence. "Looks like we'll have to go inside."

"Let's go!" Fujiwara Chika clenched her fist, boosting morale. "Rescue Yukino and everyone else, and destroy the ghost story!"

"..."

They had just entered the hotel and were in high spirits.

However, she never lacked the necessary vigilance. Even though she had only entered the instance once, Hino was well aware of the dangers of ghost stories.

Kaguya Shinomiya said softly:

"I've seen the hotel's interior videos before... this is definitely that hotel."

"But it's too quiet," Kitagawa Kaimu muttered under his breath. "It feels a bit eerie and oppressive. There's no sign of any tourists, staff, or even the players who came in yesterday."

Fujiwara Chika nodded: "That's right, it would be better to let an evil spirit come out and play a game of cat and mouse."

Zhu Zhu: "...Actually, there's no need for that."

"..."

For players, encountering evil spirits and monsters is normal, even commonplace. Such a quiet environment, however, is hard to get used to.

After a while.

The group walked to the hotel reception desk.

Unsurprisingly, the reception area remained empty and deserted, with only a sign in front of it bearing crooked, blood-written characters that resembled a child's scribbles.

Amamiya Natsuki glanced at the notice board and raised her eyebrows slightly.

Welcome to Aomori Hotel

This hotel employs advanced contactless service methods, striving to create the quietest possible stay environment for our guests.

Please note that you must abide by the hotel rules when checking in. The hotel rules change daily.

[Hotel rule of the day: Don't turn around when someone calls your name from behind]

"What the hell?" Fujiwara Chika couldn't help but complain. "They say it's contactless service, but there's not a single person here, of course there's no way to have contact."

Zhu Zhu pondered for a moment and said:

"It feels like the unmanned supermarkets that were all the rage before."

Kitagawa Uimeng put his hands on his waist and said:

"It has been proven that unmanned supermarkets do not improve consumers' happiness levels."

Hayasaka Ai lightly frowned and said:

What does the "don't look back" rule mean?

Amamiya Natsuki was also looking at today's rule and was about to speak when a deep female voice suddenly sounded behind everyone:

"Do you all need to complete the check-in process?"

"Eh?"

Are there any hotel staff?

Amamiya Natsuki felt a slight tightening between her brows, her instincts warning her of danger. Her mind raced, and in a flash, she decisively said:

“Don’t look back!”

"..."

Unfortunately, we were a step too late.

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Two sounds of objects falling were heard.

Fujiwara Chika's voice trembled rapidly as she said anxiously:

"President, Haimeng-chan has disappeared!"

Senior Yanzi bit her lip and said nervously:

“And Sayu is also missing.”

“It didn’t disappear.” Natsuki Amamiya lowered her head, her brows furrowed, and glanced at the ground out of the corner of her eye. “It turned into a doll.”

Haimeng and Shayu had disappeared, and two dolls had appeared on the ground, their appearance and clothes exactly the same as Shayu and Haimeng... Obviously, they had turned their heads and violated the hotel's rules for today, thus turning into dolls.

Kaguya Shinomiya frowned and said in a low voice:

"The rules say you can't turn your head, but turning your body directly shouldn't be a problem."