Why is my journey to the world of anime a strange tale of rules?

[Gurgle... Oh... Ooh oh...]

Thick, sticky pulp poured in through the classroom door, and human eyes opened and closed on it, while wriggling intestines churned among the rotting flesh like maggots.

Alice cannot hurt people who are not her friends.

So she blew out the huge candle outside Classes 23 and 24. As a result, the enormous thing that even Gao Hai couldn't say exactly how many dead people's remains were fused together moved at that moment and came towards them.

Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Wriggling Mountain of Corpses and the Moment of Chase

They are long dead.

The school subjected them to brutal torture, leaving them almost entirely dead or injured; not even a complete corpse remained.

But this intense resentment still exists.

The resentment, accumulated over a long period of time, has never dissipated.

[Gurgle... Oh... Waaah...]

The sounds mingled together at that moment.

The person whose trachea had been cut made indistinct breathing sounds mixed with blood and foam.

A muffled groan of pain emanating from the intense agony.

In despair, they awaited their final cries before death.

Oh... Waaah... Mommy...

They are calling out.

They were lingering.

They had already sensed the presence of the living.

Now, they have arrived.

"No, no, no! Open it! Open it! Open it! Ahh ...

Finally realizing she was in dire straits, Kinoshita Yuka desperately pounded on the wall, but she couldn't shatter it with a single blow like Takami could. She couldn't even make a mark on the wall.

Gao Hai did not take any action to rescue the other party.

However, it's not because he himself was unwilling to do so.

Instead, he knew the other party was beyond saving the moment the anomaly occurred.

The thick, sticky meat paste had already reached Kinoshita Yuka's feet.

This thing appears to move slowly, but in reality, the fused chunks of flesh are only its most conspicuous part. Before that, the flesh-colored fluid that had already flowed into the classroom and quickly filled the entire classroom was also part of this bizarre composition. And the moment the young girl's body was stained with this fluid, she was already beyond saving.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah--"

Amidst piercing screams, the girl's body was dragged into the pulp.

One after another, human hands emerged from the dark red liquid, followed by fragmented and mangled bodies.

They grabbed the girl and dragged her completely into it.

Then, she re-emerged from the pulp, her clothes gone, her body now a fragmented mass of flesh, just like the surrounding things.

Alice is smiling.

She stood on tiptoe in the classroom filled with gore and mangled flesh, twirling and leaping lightly into a dance.

The wailing, rotting flesh around Alice coalesced into the shapes of children, then shattered, transforming back into decaying flesh and blood.

Then, one festering hand after another slammed against the wall.

More and more complete or incomplete eyeballs were pasted onto the wall.

That enormous, rotten thing, which filled the corridor outside the classroom and most of the classroom, was now completely pressed against the wall, constantly pounding against it.

Gao Hai had already affixed his ID card to the recognition area of ​​the door. With a crisp "beep" from the electronic system, the heavy door began to open slowly. Sensing the increasingly close presence of the thing behind the wall beside him, Gao Hai, without thinking twice, reached out and grabbed the half-meter-thick metal door through the crack. He dug his feet into the ground and, at that moment, exerted all his strength to pull the door open faster.

We must leave this place before that mountain of flesh enters this room.

Never share a room with that thing.

The strong sense of crisis and urgency brought on by his intuition made Gao Hai increase his strength and forcefully open the door, which was opening quite slowly, by a large margin.

"time to go!"

He yelled at the three girls behind him.

"No... Yuka, I... I..."

Unable to believe that her chosen friend, whom she remembered as a very steady person, would die like this, Rika Ichino took a few steps back and collapsed to the ground.

"This...this thing..."

Chiharu Kobayashi was also greatly shocked, but she still managed to react to Takami's shout and quickly grabbed Rika Itono and rushed towards the door that Takami had opened.

"..."

Seeing that the child did not respond.

She could no longer see where she was.

Countless voices drowned her out.

In this moment of perception, in her vision, in her senses, all that remained was the lingering resentment of those students.

I saw it.

It's so clear.

Someone has died.

Many, many people have died.

They were in so much pain, so desperate.

Until the very last moment, no one came to save them.

[These bodies could just be thrown into a meat grinder and burned, right?]

[What a nuisance! Can't those kids just behave themselves a little? They've made such a mess and are causing us a lot of trouble.]

Shredded, crushed...

Someone inspected the meat grinder and it seems there's a crack in one area, and a lot of processed, rotten meat fell down the drain. Is this okay?

[Oh, that's the dedicated processing furnace for classes 23 and 24 in the third year of junior high, right? Never mind, don't worry about it. Or are you planning to check the sewers for leaks?]

Falling, flowing...

[This isn't a good idea. After all, these things... all have some problems to some extent. Is it okay to just leave them unattended?]

What could possibly happen? At worst, we can just apologize. Besides, the rotten flesh will just go down the drain and be gone. There's no need to worry about it.

It's gathering, slowly merging...

Little by little, it transformed into a massive chunk of flesh, eventually becoming the shape of countless people gathered together.

It started to move.

They began to move slowly.

They returned to the teaching building through the pipes and went back to their classrooms.

Then it moved forward step by step, moving through the corridor, swallowing up the people it encountered along the way, moving towards that last place that remained in its memory.

What...what is that?!

No, no, no... Oh... gulp... Oh...

[I ordered you to stop! Damn it, isn't this thing a student in disguise? Why isn't it obeying orders?]

Those students, dressed in luxurious clothes and considering themselves superior, were trapped in the classroom and completely swallowed up by the writhing mass of flesh.

Amid screams and wails, flames suddenly erupted, quickly engulfing the entire classroom and covering both the surviving students and the enormous creature.

After the fire, nothing was left in the dilapidated classroom.

Is it still a failure?

A figure outside the classroom slowly spoke.

The cultivated flesh-and-blood aggregates did indeed possess certain bizarre properties, but they were still susceptible to damage from conventional methods and were completely unqualified. This year's outstanding students also failed to produce a new "Alice"—how many times has this failed?

Standing next to this figure, a tall and thin figure then spoke.

[We already have one successful case in the second year of junior high school, let's take it slow, we have plenty of time.]

[But Nightfall Mountain Middle School has already brought out weapons that can be used in actual combat. Although the effect is very unstable, our progress is indeed lagging behind...]

Gazing at the mess in the classroom, the two figures, one tall and one short, started chatting.

This is unavoidable; choosing this topic means facing slow progress. However, at least we've found the right path. With enough repeated experiments, we'll surely succeed.

[But this experiment... I'm really uneasy about it. Although that fleshy aggregate had some unexpected components, it was clearly composed of "students." You just saw it yourself; the "teacher's" commands had no effect on it. If we continue the experiment, won't something else go out of control?]

This isn't a problem; as long as we properly control the experimental procedures, no problems will occur.

[These things... let's be more cautious. We've already faced enough "accidents" already. More than half of the students who enrolled this year can't identify them, right? We don't even know where those things came from.]

I understand your concerns, but the caution expected of researchers cannot be applied to this matter. We only have three opportunities a year, and the outstanding students from the first, second, and third years of junior high school can only participate in the sacrificial process once a year. If we stop halfway through, our progress will inevitably be greatly reduced. If we are held accountable, none of us can afford the consequences.

"...Alright, all the idiots in the military can do is push for progress. We should go; we've been observing here long enough. If we stay any longer, we'll exceed the safe time limit, and I don't want to become part of this awful place."

"Hmm, let me see. There are still 26 minutes left. Aren't you being a bit too hasty? We've only been here for an hour and a half. There's still plenty of time before the calculated danger period."

Amidst the conversation, the two figures turned and left, entering a hidden door on the side of the wall and walking into the observation area behind the disguised glass wall.

The black ash was still rising, creating plumes of smoke.

Faintly, one could still hear the lingering cries of the deceased.

Then, Alice, who was still in the classroom, turned around and smiled at Miko.

Hey, you can see me?

The sounds of laughter seemed to drown out everything else completely.

But the next moment, Gao Hai's voice amplified in her ears.