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

Past information is constantly being pieced together.

Those things hidden in history, difficult to find, began to be discovered and unearthed by Gao Hai and his group at an increasingly rapid pace after the "surface" occupied by Alice was shattered.

In a sense, it could be said that Alice's existence is the biggest challenge in the Fujika Middle School instance. Once this exceptional character is gone, the instance itself becomes virtually effortless.

However, after truly seeing that core obsession, and the reason why the man named Hirano Sosuke could not rest in peace, Takami had to admit that he was really having a headache.

This obsession has absolutely nothing to do with Alice.

Of course, it can also be said that Alice is still an important part of this obsession.

Hirano Sousuke himself was a "bad student" at Fujika Junior High School, one of the very few lucky ones who were admitted to less than ten places each year during the final period when Fujika Junior High School had become almost completely bizarre.

Upon entering this awful place, Hirano Sousuke realized the true nature of his school and was told that the safety of his entire family depended on his performance. At the time, Hirano Sousuke was only a junior high school student, and he tried his best to achieve high grades and become a top student. However, due to several unintentional violations of school rules, he was gradually relegated to the ranks of bad students.

If it weren't for that teacher protecting him, he wouldn't have been able to survive that dark place, Fujika Middle School. And it was precisely because he survived from that place that he actually knew of Alice's existence. He knew about that invisible monster born among outstanding students, unseen by ordinary people, knew the terrifying allure it possessed, and had lost himself time and again upon seeing it.

That teacher protected him many times, saving him from the cruel and insane researchers and Alice's cruelty. Even at the very end, when Alice completely lost control and destroyed the entire school, the teacher, who was about to be disposed of, managed to escape and took him with him out of that hell through a secret door at Fujika Middle School.

No… he knew that he had never actually left.

Anyone who spends more than two hours in a certain area of ​​that school will develop a special connection with it, and no matter where they go, they will eventually return to that place. Even though Fujika Junior High School is now a ruin, and even though no one will ever take him back to the school again, Hirano Sosuke will dream of returning to that school every night after falling asleep, dreaming that he is still a powerless student, dreaming that his parents and family are tortured and killed, and dreaming of the moment when the entire school becomes hell.

Even after many years.

Even after he grew up, the nightmare continued to haunt him.

But Hirano Sosuke ultimately did not choose to live a reclusive and self-imposed exile like his teacher; he simply returned to the school once a year to pay his respects. He hoped to do something for others; he wanted to do something for those who suffered and were powerless to help themselves.

So he chose to become a police officer.

Try your best to help everyone who asks for your help.

Seeking no reward, always smiling brightly, and continuing to move forward.

By this time, the marks left by the past hardships on Hirano Sosuke had almost completely disappeared.

He seemed to have escaped all the nightmares of the past.

It seems that only the version of him that has grown up remains in this world.

Until the existence of [Idol Alice] was revealed to those seeking help.

It was at this moment that Hirano Sosuke realized that a girl had appeared who had swept the entire country, driving countless people crazy in the streets and alleys. From ordinary citizens to the prime minister of a country, everyone seemed to have had their souls stolen by that girl.

Even though she made no attempt to conceal her cruelty and left behind countless pieces of evidence, no one heeded the pleas for help from the victims.

Hirano Sosuke knew perfectly well why. After all, back in Fujika Junior High, without the teachers' help, he would have long since succumbed to repeated mental breakdowns and died. He knew all too well the power that terrifying monster possessed.

He is no longer fooled by that thing.

Having truly experienced and adapted to the effects of that thing for a whole year, and after years of further mental growth, Hirano Sosuke is no longer misled by Alice's illusions and its bewitching charm.

If the goal is to eliminate that monster, he is the best, and the only, choice.

But does he really have the courage to do that?

The shadows of the past returned to him once again, and the nightmares of the past returned with the reappearance of that figure.

In the end, he took the step.

They conducted thorough reconnaissance of the concert venue beforehand, memorized the several passages in the stadium backstage area, secretly made copies of the keys to the security doors and fire doors, secretly obtained bullets and stored them in various corners of the concert backstage area, and repaired and modified a scrapped second-hand motorcycle and hid it near the backstage area.

After preparing, he pretended to be a fan who had obtained front-row tickets to the concert, inviting those fans whose seats were near his fabricated seats to a group event. He then subdued and imprisoned these people, took their tickets, and sneaked into the venue. Next, at the moment Alice took the stage and was closest to him, he stood up, fired several shots in a very short time to ensure her death, and then fled to the backstage area. Using his familiarity with the area, he engaged in a tug-of-war with the fans, killing a considerable number of them, before successfully escaping the scene on his bicycle.

He suspected Alice had a backup plan, so he stayed home that night, resting on the rooftop opposite the ruins of Fujika Middle School.

The manipulated fans took Alice's body back to the school, and he, armed with a gun, followed them into the school.

Those who had been completely brainwashed and influenced by Alice were beyond saving, so Hirano Sosuke felt nothing about killing these fans. As for Alice, who had turned back into a monster, he originally thought he would perish together with her or be killed by her in some way, but in the end, he still left that school alive, and the monster named "Alice" never returned to the human world again.

For a hero who defeats monsters, the story seems to have reached its conclusion here.

But if everything had truly gone perfectly, Gao Hai wouldn't have witnessed what happened afterward.

Hirano Sousuke was arrested.

More than thirty fans died at his hands, and the body of his idol, Alice, was nowhere to be found. The torture and interrogation he endured did not follow proper procedures, but compared to what happened at Fujihana Junior High School, it was insignificant. Therefore, his colleagues ultimately did not get anything special from him. Hirano Sosuke would never reveal the secret that was meant to remain hidden.

But that's not the point.

When Hirano Sosuke sat in the dock, when he was handcuffed and shackled, when he was on trial, that wasn't his focus.

Alice's power is almost irresistible to ordinary people.

However, unless one is like a fanatical fan who chases Alice everywhere every day, or unless one is deeply influenced by Alice's constant presence like Hiroshi Fujii, the influence is limited to exposure to newspapers and videos. While some mental shifts do occur, they are not enough to truly affect one's personality, especially... after the death of [Idol Alice], this influence will be further reduced.

Therefore, he was well aware that the judges and those adjudicators in the court had actually come to their senses.

Apart from those fanatical fans whose personalities have been irrevocably distorted by the influence, everyone else has come to their senses and regained their rationality.

Even if the affection for Alice is hard to completely fade, some people should have already realized what happened, to some extent.

But he is still guilty, not because of the fans he killed, but because of Alice, whom he murdered.

Those victims, those victims' families, even though Alice, who caused them such profound pain, has disappeared, they still cannot receive the justice they deserve. Alice remains innocent, and even with all the evidence laid bare, everyone remains blind to it.

why?

His questions remained unanswered.

It wasn't until he woke up in a hospital after his execution, seeing Hiroshi Fujii and several men in suits who looked very noble, that he realized that the disappearance of Alice had not brought an end to the nightmare, but a new beginning.

The experiment has resumed.

Fujii Hiroshi received funding from higher authorities to continue his experiments, while the victims remained in darkness. To support Fujii's experiments, Alice's beauty and kindness would continue to be celebrated, and no filth would be exposed. Those who lost their loved ones would suffer even more brutal persecution; several had already been found by his fanatical followers, some of whom did not survive. Those who survived were sent to hospitals, where they went completely insane within days, and then one day disappeared without a trace.

In the end, nothing changed.

This prevented the monster's power from further influencing the neon world, nipping the brewing disaster in the bud, but in return, it led to another expansion of desire.

Did I do something wrong?

Was the choice I made not the right one?

It was my recklessness that caused all of this to start all over again.

More people will be harmed, and this time, the teacher who protected me will not be there to protect these people.

Am I actually the one in the wrong?

Should I not have done that?

I……

I don't……

I do not accept it.

I will never accept it.

Even if it means going to hell.

Come with me on this journey!

I will never surrender to you!

I will never compromise with you!

no way!

no way!!!

The flames are burning.

In the flames, that terrifying incarnation took almost everything away.

But only those who remain silent.

Only those silent figures stood aside.

He did not blame those people for their silence throughout, because on Judgment Day, they suffered just as much as he had.

However, when he saw them, he hesitated again.

The harm they suffered was ultimately of their own making.

He clearly wanted to protect them, but in the end he harmed them.

Was everything I did really the right thing?

Could it be that I really did something wrong?

I……

……

……

Gao Hai closed his eyes and simply sat quietly in his seat.

What were the results of your investigation?

Maki's voice was transmitted into his mind through a mental link.

Well, how should I put it? Although there are still some fragments that haven't been pieced together, at least I now know how to destroy the Fujika Middle School area.

Gao Hai's reply seemed to carry a somewhat elusive emotion.

What should I do?

The girl continued to ask.

Justice must be served for those people, this matter must be definitively defined, and the voices of the victims must be heard, drowning out all other voices.

In other words, we need to completely reverse the current state of this instance, and turn over everything that seems ordinary now.

Then, those who deserve to go to hell will truly go to hell.

As Gao Hai spoke in the mental link, he slowly opened his eyes and looked at the high seat where the judge was sitting.

A cute girl with long golden hair and a bewitching beauty that no human could possibly possess was sitting on it, idly swinging her fair little feet.

Then, the moment Gao Hai saw her, the girl smiled slightly, a smile that carried an undisguised wickedness.

"How are you, teacher? Do you miss Alice?"