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

The only thing I'll do is destroy you.

He spoke to the surrounding darkness.

Even now, I don't know how to fight against this you who has no body, only consciousness.

I will also destroy you, utterly annihilate you, the last remnant of Fujihana Middle School.

[You are a monster who cannot understand what true friendship is, cannot comprehend emotions and humanity, and only knows cruelty. The only end you deserve is destruction.]

He wanted to search for Alice's dismembered body, but due to the power of the illusion, he had no way of finding the whereabouts of the four objects.

Alice, who was even less able to understand his anger and resolute emotions, no longer concealed her confusion.

Why do we want to destroy Alice? Alice has always been a good girl!

Alice was simply doing what everyone told her to do, and she was just making friends with them.

[Besides, you can't defeat Alice. You can't even leave this place. If you die here, you'll end up like the other students, and then you'll be even less likely to defeat Alice.]

The sounds entered his ears, sounds he had anticipated and prepared for, along with the hallucinations that tore at his mind more violently and the images and sounds of countless gruesome and dead creatures, constantly assaulting his consciousness.

He saw those dead students once again.

He returned to the time when he was powerless, struggling to survive every day and begging that he would not be chosen.

He spent many years trying to escape those nightmarish years, but he could never escape them.

But now, when he actually faces this nightmare again, he realizes that he doesn't actually need to run away; these things aren't really that scary. As long as he's prepared, there's nothing he'll be afraid of.

So this time, faced with the power Alice unleashed to the fullest extent, he simply smiled, without even the slightest fear.

He then drew his gun, pointed it into the darkness ahead, and answered the other person in a loud voice.

Go ahead and argue, keep spouting nonsense, and use your excuses to disguise yourself.

Even if I die here, I will not be like the others. My corpse, my consciousness, my obsession will only continue to hunt you down and destroy you.

I will never be your friend; I will only be your enemy, the one who judges you and kills you! You have no way to atone for your sins except death! That is the only reason I am here, standing before you!

I can't understand people like that.

Alice couldn't understand why someone would hate her like that; they were completely incapable of communicating or understanding each other.

In her past understanding, everyone could become her "friend," but this person, who could not be swayed by her power, who was fearless of death and pain, and who had even written her determination into her obsession, completely shattered her understanding.

So that night, she temporarily lost her mind due to her own cognitive conflict, which gave Hirano Sosuke the opportunity to escape Fujika Junior High School alive. Even so, his mind was severely damaged, to the point that he could hardly remember the confrontation that night.

After that day, Alice's own supernatural rules became flawed, and with her own misperceptions, people who "could not be friends" emerged.

But it doesn't matter, those kinds of people are a minority, after all, there's only one of them.

Most people, except him, must still like Alice and still want to be friends with her.

So, wouldn't it be enough to just give up on this one and only case that's not worth paying attention to?

boom!

Gunshots rang out once again.

Amidst the shattered ruins, Hirano Sosuke fired once more, piercing Alice's skull.

She murmured something, then fell backward and landed heavily on the ground.

Just like a living person, blood gradually gathered beneath her, but she continued to struggle and writhe, never truly dying.

Alice... just wants friends...

She struggled to support herself once more, trying to reach out to Gao Hai.

boom!

A third gunshot rang out, knocking her to the ground again.

Alice...did nothing wrong...

But she still refused to give up and still wanted to get back on her feet.

boom!

With another gunshot, cracks of varying sizes began to appear on her body, from which thick, black blood flowed. This blood was different from the previous one; it was overflowing with twisted, agonizing cries, reflecting the black blood of the innocent people who had struggled and died.

Alice...

Bang bang bang bang bang bang——

The bullet ultimately shattered her body completely, destroying the beautiful outer shell that covered her.

In the pitch-black blood, twisted flesh howled, rising from the pile of mutilated corpses. The monster, devoid of any beauty and only possessing an ugly and disgusting appearance, opened its blood-red maw towards Gao Hai, ready to devour him completely.

【Aaaaaaaahh ...

The mournful howls no longer carried any trace of beauty.

Pure malice emanated from this vile creature, revealing its true nature of wanting only to kill and torture.

This is what she was originally like, this is how she should truly be.

This is the final product of Fujika Middle School's research.

As the final result of countless sins.

Once Alice's perfect appearance is removed, her true form is a hideous and repulsive monster.

Gao Hai could see the deformed heads wriggling on its body.

Those teachers, those researchers, those fanatical fans, those politicians and military personnel, all those who fueled the spread of evil within Fujika Middle School, all those who assisted in the development of those evil deeds, all those who benefited from it and lost their way, all converged on this deformed monster, [Alice], at this moment.

They are the ones who created Alice, and in fact, the essence of Alice is the product of the fusion of all their sins.

boom!

The last shot rang out.

The monster's body crumbled apart layer by layer.

When Gao Hai turned his head, he only saw the pistol on the ground and Hirano Sousuke's back, which was already far away and about to disappear into the darkness.

He bent down and picked up the gun.

In a daze, the pistol had vanished, and the rescue team badge that Gao Hai had pinned to his chest underwent a change. He carefully sensed it and discovered that he could now summon a third rescue team member, one dressed in a police uniform, in addition to his original two summoning slots.

Is this... a lingering image of Hirano Sosuke's own obsession with "helping and saving others"?

The traces of that police officer had vanished.

In the ruins, the countless mutilated corpses had vanished at that moment.

The roar was becoming increasingly intense.

Jianzi opened his eyes from his slumber, struggled to sit up, and then saw the monster lying on the ground, its flesh and blood crumbling and about to dissipate, along with the umbilical cords that had broken off one by one.

A piercing scream rang out from above.

The breaking of these umbilical cords and the disappearance of these strange creatures seem to have caused great harm to the things in "Takamagahara".

However, after Hirano Sosuke, the core obsession of Fujika Middle School, passed away peacefully, those things seemed to have completely lost the ability to influence this place, and could only endure the unchangeable facts in despairing howls.

Everything here has finally come to an end.

"Ok?"

It seems there's something left.

Gao Hai strode forward, toward the corpse that had almost completely dissipated.

Among the monster's remains, he saw a door, a door to a room inscribed with "Experiment Preservation Room".

Reaching out, I grabbed the doorknob, only to find the door was locked.

After thinking for a moment, Gao Hai took out the blood key, inserted it into the lock, and opened the door with a "click".

Pushing open the door, you enter a square, pure white room of less than 10 square meters.

There is one person in the room.

A girl with long golden hair, petite and slender, and light blue eyes.

She was beautiful, but she didn't possess that intoxicating, bewitching charm.

She was missing one eye, her face was covered in scars, her right hand was severed from her arm, she had no legs, her left hand was missing a little finger, her whole body reeked of decay, and her hair was covered in scabs, as if a lot of her scalp had been forcibly torn off.

The moment Gao Hai entered, the girl shrank back and retreated to the corner of the wall. Her expression was not one of fear, but rather one of deep bewilderment.

Alice will listen.

He heard the girl speak in a daze.

Alice listens to her teacher, adults, and everyone else.

Don't hit Alice, don't take Alice's things anymore. Alice will learn to make friends, and Alice will do the right thing.

Don't hurt Alice, don't hurt Alice, it hurts so much, Alice doesn't want to feel pain anymore!

This is……

I didn't sense any distortion or madness from Alice, nor did I sense any strange power at work.

What exists here is merely the lingering shadow of an obsession; what he sees and feels is just a phantom left behind by a very weak obsession.

The researchers emerged from behind Gao Hai.

They grabbed the trembling girl and dragged her out of the small room.

Needles pierced her eyeballs, blades sliced ​​through her skin, and those tiny, distorted sounds entered her eardrums. The torment, both physical and mental, continued relentlessly until she died completely, until the little girl stopped breathing.

Then she was discarded, and she was no longer needed.

Because those people had already extracted what they needed from her, obtaining the prototype of that thing they had placed their hopes on, the one that would destroy countless lives in the future, called "Alice."

She was left in this room that would never be opened again, silently rotting away until only her bones remained, never to be opened by anyone again.

"...Another little girl, really, I hope she can choose a better place for her next life."

With a soft sigh, Gao Hai stepped forward and picked up the broken skeleton.

This obsession was so faint that Gao Hai could barely sense her presence.

As he walked out of the room, the white room rotted and crumbled along with the monster's remains.