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

Dad and Mom... what else could they be but a family of three!

Chapter 706 Hayasaka Ai: Please, have some decency!

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

"Only ten minutes have passed, and the president and senior already have a daughter?"

"Have you been inside for ten years?!"

"..."

Faced with the girls' shocked questions, Zi'an Yan blushed and quickly explained:

"Xiao Kui isn't actually my real daughter; she's my junior classmate and I..."

Before she could finish speaking, the little girl looked up at him with teary eyes, her voice panicked:

"Does my mom not want me anymore?"

Senior Yanzi quickly comforted her adopted daughter, feeling heartbroken: "Mom didn't abandon you, don't cry."

Only a few minutes passed in the corridor, but several days passed in the nightmare.

The senior student was a gentle person who was good at taking care of children. In the nightmare, she successfully won over the vengeful spirit's daughter through various parent-child games, and developed genuine feelings for her as they spent time together.

“Let me tell you,” Natsuki Amamiya said from the side. “Aoi was actually the first guest to disappear from the hotel.”

"Huh?" Zhu Zhu was taken aback, but quickly realized, "You mean those nearly one hundred ordinary guests from before?"

“That’s right.” Natsuki Amamiya nodded. “Aoi is the guest who disappeared before. Chika knows very well that the nightmare is not reality. How could she have such a big daughter in the blink of an eye?”

Upon hearing that it wasn't her real daughter, Kaguya Shinomiya quickly calmed down and couldn't help but puff out her rosy cheeks, saying:

"Since she was a previous guest, why did she call the chairman 'Dad'?"

"Because the content of the nightmares is different..."

Natsuki Amamiya lowered her voice and quietly recounted what had happened in the room.

"Huh? It's a nightmare like the one in 'Ju-on'?"

"Did the senior become Kayako-senpai in the nightmare?"

"Xiao Kui is also in the nightmare, and you two happen to be playing the roles of Dad and Mom?"

After hearing the explanation, the girls finally understood what had happened in the nightmare and why the little girl was calling for her father and mother.

"It's good that she's not my real daughter..."

Fujiwara Chika clutched her chest and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Although I don't really care about Natsuki Amamiya having a harem, I still can't accept the sudden appearance of a daughter.

In contrast, Kaguya Shinomiya's feelings were more complicated.

Obviously I was the first...

Not reconciled!

I'm so unwilling to accept this!

If I could do it all over again, I would disregard everything else and try to enter the room with the president to experience the parent-child games!

Next, everyone tried to ask the little girl for information, such as the identities of her biological parents, what had happened in the hotel, etc. Unfortunately, the adopted daughter was very young and had been in the nightmare for too long, which caused her memory to be confused and she could not say anything coherent.

"Mommy, the hallway is dangerous..." The little girl only remembered one thing, and said timidly, "When the alarm goes off, you can't stay in the hallway..."

"Hmm?" Amamiya Natsuki looked down. "Who told you about this?"

The little girl tilted her head and thought for a moment, then said timidly:

"Dad, I forgot."

"..."

Since she's his own daughter, of course he can only forgive her.

"Can't we stay in the hallway?" Fujiwara Chika asked, puzzled. "We don't think we've encountered any danger before, have we?"

Kaguya Shinomiya said softly:

"Don't forget Haimeng and Shayou, the corridor is not safe."

Hayasaka Ai crossed her arms and pondered:

"The notice board at the hotel front desk says 'Today's rule: Don't look back.' But what if a new rule comes out tomorrow?"

Zhu Zhu nodded in agreement:

"It seems very likely."

Yukino Yukinoshita whispered:

"So, the rules that Aoi-chan mentioned are actually the hotel rules from a few days ago?"

“There’s one thing we need to be wary of.” Natsuki Amamiya raised an eyebrow slightly, quickly noticing the blind spot: “Hotels are different from reality. We don’t know what the standards for ‘today’ and ‘tomorrow’ are in a hotel. The rules on the notice board may have changed.”

“That makes sense,” Fujiwara Chika quickly said. “Let’s go downstairs and take a look.”

"..."

When everyone returned to the first floor of the hotel, the lobby was still deathly silent and empty, with no one in sight.

"Thankfully, the rules for today haven't changed on the notice board." The senior student breathed a sigh of relief.

Kaguya Shinomiya said softly:

"We don't know when the rules will change, so it's best to come and check on them from time to time."

Hayasaka Ai suggested:

"Should we have someone guard this place?"

"That's not a good idea," Fujiwara Chika objected. "Splitting up in a place like this feels dangerous. In horror movies, people who split up always..."

Before she could finish speaking, Natsuki Amamiya quickly reached out and covered Chika's mouth.

"That's enough, stop talking, stop setting new goals."

"Ah woo~"

Fujiwara Chika puffed out her cheeks and bit at me: "There are nightmares in the room anyway, it's not like I'm jinxing it."

"..."

After a show of hands, everyone decided to act together instead of splitting up. However, they would go downstairs every ten minutes to check if the rules had changed.

"Let's go back upstairs," Natsuki Amamiya said softly. "Prepare to search the third room."

Senior Sister Yanzi looked over with concern: "Junior, do you want to take a rest?"

Although nightmares are illusions, everything experienced in a nightmare remains in the mind, leaving one mentally exhausted even if the body is not tired.

"Don't worry, I just had an energy drink and I'm feeling pretty good," Natsuki Amamiya said gently. "There's not much time to rest now; we have to solve the ghost story as soon as possible."

As they talked, they walked back up to the second floor and arrived at the door of the third room.

"Shall I go in with the chairman?"

Fujiwara Chika raised her right hand and volunteered.

“No.” Amamiya Natsuki shook his head. “Chika will stay outside. Once she receives my signal, she can use the ‘Steal’ trick to lure me out of the room.”

Both times the nightmare was cleared, it took ten minutes. We can assume that no matter how long it took in the nightmare, the time spent in the corridor was always ten minutes, but the mental fatigue could not be eliminated.

So if Yukino isn't found during the next exploration, Natsuki Amamiya will simply 'forcefully quit' the game. As for the tourists who might be trapped in the nightmare... well, they'll just have to fend for themselves.

With limited resources, it's impossible to rescue everyone.

If we proceed step by step, breaking through the nightmares in each room and rescuing all the trapped guests, the time involved will inevitably exceed the bottom line set by Natsuki Amamiya—time restart.

Hiruko's Time Reset Card can only reset for a maximum of 24 hours, and must be used no later than midnight, which is before Yukino enters the hotel.

Therefore, time is of the essence, and those who are not important can only be abandoned.

"Who will come into the room with me?"

Amamiya Natsuki's gaze swept over the girls, finally settling on Hayasaka.

"Let me go in with my senior."

Hayasaka Ai pursed her pink lips and silently stepped forward.

Kaguya needs to be outside to oversee the overall situation and deal with emergencies.

Chika was responsible for using the red string on her fingertips to communicate via signals.

The senior student could have done it, but now her adopted daughter can't live without her, so she has to stay outside to take care of her daughter.

All that's left are Zhu Zhu, Xiao Zi, and Yang Nai.

Haruno was still a fresh-faced newbie, and Shushu and Shoko were not up to the task, so Hayasaka had to step up in the end.

"Thanks for your hard work."

Amamiya Natsuki extended her right hand toward Hayasaka.

Hayasaka, still playing the role of a junior student, held Amamiya Natsuki's hand and said:

"I wonder what I'll encounter in the room. Senior, please wake me up as soon as possible!"

"Don't worry," Natsuki Amamiya assured him, "No matter what happens, you won't get a single hair on my head unless you step over my dead body."

"Pah, pah, pah~" Hayasaka Ai glared at him immediately, "Senpai, don't talk nonsense."

Watching the interaction between the two, Kaguya Shinomiya gently bit her lip and couldn't help but say:

"You can go in now!"

"..."

Amamiya Natsuki led Hayasaka into the room, and as the black mist rose, the familiar dizziness and feeling of falling came over them again.

Icy.

dark.