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

A few questions flashed through Hayasaka's mind.

But she herself will not hesitate at all about what she is going to do next.

tread--

Hayasaka took a step forward, facing the transparent, eerie object.

At this moment, her mind was completely focused, concentrating on the long sword in her hand and the thing that was slowly walking towards her.

A sharp, cold light fell in an instant.

The intense sense of resistance and the terrifying chill emanating from the blade almost caused Hayasaka to drop the blade from his hand.

But the next moment, an equally strong willpower emanated from Miko. The opponent struggled to regain consciousness at the crucial moment, and the combined power of the two girls was channeled into the blade, rendering the barrier ineffective in stopping the blade's slash, and allowing it to penetrate forcefully.

Click!

The object, which resembled Eriko Asamoto, was cut in half at the waist by Hayasaka Miko and the other person, and its upper body rolled directly to the ground.

The blade, stained crimson with the domain's blood, was now cracked with various sizes. Only now could Hayasaka confirm that her strike had likely cut a Crimson Moon-level core obsession, or an obsession directly derived from that core obsession. Otherwise, it would have been impossible to render that obsession object nearly unusable with a single strike.

The intense chills were temporarily contained.

But the thing that had been cut in two, its severed upper body began to show signs of floating up, and its lower body, which was still standing on the ground, did not remain still like a certain 2.5, but continued to take steps forward toward Hayasaka.

Without any replenishment of blood, the Crimson Domain was nearing its limit.

Hayasaka did not hesitate. After landing the blow, he turned around without hesitation and accelerated to dive and escape.

Chapter 106: Fujiwara Chika's School Bully Plan and the Unknown Spying Eye

Hmm, there's still no response from Jianzi's side, and Ahai's side is still quiet...

What happened when they arrived?

Inside the main teaching building of Yelu Mountain Middle School, Fujiwara Chika sat properly in the classroom, seemingly listening attentively to the lesson. However, her mind was actually focused on the mental link that was still quite new and wonderful to her, where she was listening to Maki's report on the results of the battle between Xiongmi and the fanatics.

{Shijo Maki: The four of us have all reunited, and the enemy has temporarily retreated.}

{Chika Fujiwara: I'm still testing, and everything is fine so far.}

After expressing her thoughts in words through mental communication, Chika's gaze returned to the classroom, to this classroom that was boring in every sense of the word.

Currently, the second team located in the forest seems to be in a stable situation, so there's no need to worry for now. That Miss Xiong Mi is truly remarkable; with only two helpers, she's managed to hold her own against a group of powerful, even slightly dominant, crazy players.

As for the third squad within the school, which she was in charge of, Chika had managed to probe a little after several careful maneuvers. To be honest, she personally disliked doing things that were purely self-destructive; each action made her feel quite nauseous. But for now, in order to clear this instance and to move more effectively within this area, she had no choice but to grit her teeth and endure it.

Jingle Bell--

As the bell rang, the teacher coughed lightly, announced "get out of class dismissed," and left.

Soon, the noise of students began to fill the school building. Groups of two or three boys and girls emerged from the classrooms, chatting about all sorts of things, occasionally bursting into laughter, or chasing and playing around. It was as if this place of strange tales was really just an ordinary Japanese high school, presenting a perfectly normal scene.

Fujiwara Chika slowly rose from her seat and looked around.

The strange students around her also stood up, all staring intently at Fujiwara Chika herself.

【…】

The classroom was completely silent; not a sound could be heard.

Being stared at by such a group of pale faces, and locked onto by so many lifeless pupils, is something even a Red Moon-level player would find hard to bear.

But amidst the deathly silence, Fujiwara Chika herself remained calm, showing absolutely no sign of panic or fluster. She even displayed a rather arrogant expression, grinning like a third-rate villain often seen in movies and TV dramas, a smile that made the students watching her tremble slightly.

"What are you all standing there for? Leave after class, or do you want to stay here and cause me trouble?"

As Chika finished speaking, the students all breathed a sigh of relief and began to move cautiously one by one, trying to escape the classroom as quickly as possible. Their actions were anything but what one would expect from students leaving school. Chika even had a feeling that these dead people had mistaken her for some kind of terrifying, ghost story, which was why they were being so obedient.

However, such a reaction is not surprising.

After all, in a sense, Fujiwara Chika was indeed extremely terrifying to these students at this time.

You should know that the cries of those students whose legs were broken on the spot and who were thrown outside the building are still heard from time to time.

Fujiwara Chika's first action against the monster students was to divide them, preventing them from establishing a unified base to attack the player. This step, based on her experience from the second playthrough, was essentially a repetition of existing actions and offered little to discuss. However, for the subsequent second action, she had no experience to draw upon and had to rely solely on her own judgment and reasoning.

Her deduction was to have Goto Ichiri create several clones, who, together with Nanakawa Ren, would beat up a strange student from Chika's class when he entered the restroom, causing him to suffer fractures in all four limbs, and then dump him near the first-floor entrance. Throughout the entire process, the player's side would not use any supernatural powers, but would only rely on pure physical abilities to achieve this action. After succeeding, they would run to Chika's class and declare that the student who had been beaten had looked at Chika too much, which was impolite, and therefore deserved to be taught a lesson. They would also warn everyone not to help the injured students, and that anyone who did would be beaten up.

To be honest, when carrying out this operation, the three players were prepared for the monsters to go berserk under intense stimulation, and even for the possibility of casualties due to lack of escape time. However, whether it was beating students, leaving injured students lying around, or even threatening the entire class in front of the teacher, nothing triggered a monster uprising. Such intense actions, which would have likely resulted in death in other instances, encountered no obstacles here.

These things, which had essentially been dead for countless years and could easily turn on players like a mortal enemy, showed not the slightest resistance. Instead, they all trembled with fear under the reprimands of Goto Ichiri's clone, remaining silent and daring not to utter a single word of rebuttal, behaving as obediently as little white rabbits.

With the second step successfully verified, the three players didn't hesitate. After each subsequent get out of class, they actively went to various classrooms to cause trouble. One moment, Chika would deliberately bump into a student's shoulder, then immediately call over several of Goto's clones to beat the student up. Another moment, Chika would intentionally block a student's path, and when the student tried to avoid her, she would immediately have her clones come over and brutally beat them. In total, more than ten monster students were beaten bloody and had broken limbs, lying on the grass outside the school building, groaning in pain.

There was still no resistance.

Even though Fujiwara Chika's actions had clearly gone beyond typical school bullying, and were almost escalating from gang violence to a psychotic outburst in the street, they encountered no obstacles or resistance whatsoever.

All the students who witnessed this strange event remained silent, pretending not to see it, and displaying an indifferent attitude of "it's none of my business."

None of the students who were beaten and attacked dared to fight back. Instead, they would cry out that they were wrong and beg for forgiveness. Some even kowtowed and licked feet. However, Chika did not succeed in getting the monster students to do the latter. Chika would rather wear black stockings and have Takahashi lick her feet than have these dead people lick her feet, or vice versa.

The teachers stood by and watched, not reacting even if they were beaten in front of them. As long as it didn't interfere with their lessons, the teachers wouldn't do anything, just as if they couldn't see the students begging for mercy.

After the second period... after the third period... the operation continued, and the three became increasingly bold and unscrupulous.

Gradually, the students began to show obvious fear of Chika and her two companions. Even when most players had left and the three were alone in the classroom, no student dared to bully them, and no student tried to take advantage of their temporary numerical advantage to bully the players. Even at the end of the fourth period, during lunch break, these strange creatures only dared to leave their seats after Chika herself spoke up.

While Fujiwara Chika felt quite fortunate about this development, she wasn't particularly surprised. After all, although everything depicted in this ghost story world was an extremely distorted and extreme version, there were still corresponding real-world scenarios, and the girl herself was quite clear about what those scenarios looked like.

{Shijo Maki: We've all entered the [Life Club] area of ​​the abandoned dormitory building. We'll rest here for a while. Those fanatics are showing signs of surrounding us, but the previous confrontation has made them more cautious, and they haven't dared to attack yet. However, despite our precautions, we really have no way of confirming whether those fanatics have split off to other places. Kai-kun, if you can hear me, you'd better speed things up on your end. Be very careful; there's a high chance those fanatics will find your way.}

A few minutes later, the telepathic communication came from Maki again, so Chika didn't rush to leave the classroom, but waited for a while.

{Fujiwara Chika: Three people trying to stop seven is definitely too much of a stretch, isn't it? Hmm, I've started trying to use the atmosphere rules of these strange students to try and guide their behavior. So far, it seems to be working well. As long as the violence is kept under control to prevent actual deaths, these things are quite cooperative. Next, I'll try to use this rule more deeply. Little Maki, you should also be careful!}

{Shijo Maki: Don't call me Little Maki anymore, you! Do you think being "bigger" makes you superior? Ugh, never mind, this communication link isn't for this kind of thing. Yotsuya and Kai-kun still haven't responded. What's going on with them...?}

Unable to calm down, Maki muttered to herself over the communication, her anxiety evident. Chika didn't have a good way to comfort her; the consecutive loss of contact between Takami and Miko's teams was indeed worrying. Like Maki, lacking sufficient resources, Chika couldn't think of any way to turn the tide. Therefore, she could only do her best to utilize her knowledge and abilities to ensure that her assigned side remained safe.

As someone who remained at Nightfall Mountain Middle School and was appointed by Ah Hai as the temporary captain of the third team, my only concern was how to delve deeper into the secrets of this school and find what other players had failed to discover in the previous two cycles.

Chika believed that even though Ahai wasn't speaking in the mental link right now, the fact that his spirit hadn't disappeared meant he was still alive and conscious. So, if she simply shared all the findings of her investigation in the mental link, even if Ahai couldn't reply now, he would definitely remember what she said. Then, if the next exploration failed and she sacrificed herself, in the next playthrough, Ahai would surely be able to summarize these problems, avoid the mistakes of the previous playthrough, and find a more perfect path to victory.

So, the next step is the third one.

Dividing and intimidating students are the first two steps that can ensure self-protection to some extent. However, if you want to conduct research in a school with a large number of students, the third step—utilizing and manipulating students—is absolutely necessary.

As she was thinking this, Chika slowly took a step, preparing to leave the now empty classroom and reunite with her teammates, and then suddenly stopped in her tracks.

Something is watching her.

In this classroom where everyone had left and there shouldn't have been any students left, but only she remained, something else was watching her.

That thing stood in the dark corner of the classroom, in the darkness where no light could reach.

Even though the other party didn't make any move and just stood quietly, Chika still felt a strong, indescribable palpitation, as if she couldn't breathe, after feeling that intense gaze upon her.

That thing wasn't human; the one watching him was a strange creature that had already revealed its true form.

Why now?

Could it be because I was left alone in the classroom that I encountered the strange creature?

Indeed, I have heard similar stories before, the strange tales of something actually existing in an empty classroom.

Goto Ichiri and Nanakawa Ren should be here soon. As long as I haven't encountered some kind of supernatural being that instantly kills me, there's still hope. So, what should I do next? Should I pretend everything is normal and walk out of the classroom, or try to find out what that thing is?

While she was thinking, Chika kept her movements natural, as if she hadn't felt anything, and slowly walked towards the classroom door.

However, her hand was already tightly gripping a small women's handbag hanging from her waist. It was the same type as the one Hayasaka herself possessed—a mass-produced obsession item, like the scalpel Takami seized from the female mask gang. Incidentally, the cosmetics in this handbag were forcibly taken from the dormitory of a certain monster's student. At the time, Goto Ichiri used his clone to directly steal the cosmetics, and the monster student who was robbed burst into tears on the spot.

tread--

Upon arriving in the corridor, one finds that most students have already left the teaching building, with only a few scattered students remaining.

Goto Ichiri cautiously walked over, carrying her guitar. Just moments before, she had been chatting and laughing with several strange students before seeing Fujiwara Chika, but now that she saw a living person, she became timid and at a loss.

Then, Nanakawa Ren from the [Red Society] walked over from the other side of the corridor, yawning as she went. It was clear that the morning's high school classes had provided this player with a fairly good hypnotic effect.

"Let's go to the cafeteria; we can proceed to step three now."

Fujiwara Chika spoke softly to her two companions, then took another step, and then suddenly stopped.

The strange and eerie creatures of Nightfall Mountain Middle School possess the characteristic that they must first be recognized before they can harm the player. If sufficient knowledge of them cannot be established beforehand, these creatures will never be able to reveal themselves to the player.

But what I felt in the classroom just now, it doesn't seem to be like that?

What is that thing?

Chapter 107: The Profound Fragments of Nothingness and the Appearance of [Takamagahara]

It seems like I had a dream.

I dreamt that I was standing in complete darkness, so dark that I couldn't see my own hand in front of my face, and no matter which way I looked, I couldn't see a way out.

No, am I really standing here?

Or am I floating in the air, floating in a void where there is nothing?

My consciousness gradually became blurred.

It seems a little hard to tell whether I'm dreaming or in reality.

Nothing at all……

There's nothing here...

The only thing that could be felt was an endless void.

There was no color, no sound, no matter; only absolute nothingness covered everything, and nothing could be perceived beyond that.

no……

Nothing at all……

There wasn't even emotion, feeling, self, or consciousness...