The Paradise of Reincarnation Begins with Eriri.

Kiyono Makoto handed over a Bluetooth earphone.

"I don't need it." Eriri turned her pretty face away in embarrassment. "I don't want to hear anything right now."

"Ok."

Kiyono Makoto put on his headphones and continued playing on his phone with his head down.

"call……"

Eriri let out a soft breath, leaned her head back, and closed her eyes.

I don't know how much time passed, but the discomfort seemed to have really dissipated. However, drowsiness quietly crept in, and I quickly fell asleep.

"Eri, we're at Fujikyu."

A soft voice called out in my ear.

"Well……"

Eriri groggily opened her eyes and saw Makoto Kiyono's face so close to hers, and immediately felt a jolt:

"What...what are you trying to do?!"

Kiyono Makoto remained expressionless.

"The bus has arrived at the stop. Get up and get ready to get off."

"Huh?"

Eriri looked around in confusion, then, seeing the passengers getting up one by one, she quickly came to her senses:

"...Did I just fall asleep?"

"He was sleeping so soundly, I called him several times but he wouldn't wake up," Kiyono Makoto complained. "His vigilance is absolutely zero. Even if I took you to the park, you wouldn't wake up."

"What? I just didn't sleep well last night and I was too tired."

Eriri gave a soft hum in rebuttal, but her tone was clearly weak.

I didn't get a good rest yesterday, but I shouldn't have slept that soundly, right?

At home, I usually wake up as soon as the alarm clock rings.

and so……

Eriri quickly thought of a possibility.

(Could it be because being next to that idiot Seino made him feel incredibly safe that he slept so soundly?)

(impossible!)

(Absolutely impossible!)

Makoto Kiyono reminds you:

"Before you get off the bus, wipe the drool from the corner of your mouth."

"what?"

Eriri subconsciously raised her hand to wipe the corner of her lips, and sure enough, she felt a wet touch on the back of her hand. Her pretty face immediately turned red.

"Stop nagging! Get off the bus now!"

"..."

A moment later.

The group filed off the bus.

The sky was a clear, deep blue, perfect weather for an outing.

"There are just too many people." Eriri raised her hand to her forehead, looking at the densely packed queue of tourists at the entrance, and couldn't help but complain, "They're like ants."

“I suggest everyone go straight to the haunted house and queue up first to break the seal on the props, and then play the other attractions.” Kasumigaoka Utaha crossed her arms and said in a low voice, “The memory of my death just now suddenly attacked me.”

"How to say?"

Kiyono looked over curiously.

“When I was in fifth grade, my parents took me to Fuji-Q Highland.” Kasumigaoka Utaha said with a hint of resentment, “I remember it very clearly. We rode the pirate ship for ten minutes, but we had to wait in line for two whole hours.”

Everyone: "..."

A two-hour wait in line is indeed terrifying.

“Let’s go.” Kiyono Makoto made the decision decisively, “Let’s go straight to the haunted house.”

After queuing to have their tickets checked and entering the amusement park, they received a guide map from the staff and headed straight for the haunted house.

A moment later.

A gloomy and eerie hospital appeared before them.

Unsurprisingly, the line of tourists in front of the hospital was still very long, and many blond-haired, blue-eyed foreigners could be seen. As a haunted house listed in the Guinness World Records, Ciji General Hospital is famous and extremely popular.

"We'll just have to wait it out," Kiyono Makoto sighed. "We'll just have to wait in line."

"It's so hot." Eriri pursed her lips. "I want something to drink."

"Give."

Kiyono Makoto took a bottle of fruit juice from his backpack.

"Thanks……"

Eriri thanked her softly.

"Junior, I want to drink too."

A senior student's lazy and pleasant voice came from the side.

Kiyono Makoto then took out a bottle of drink from his backpack and handed it to him.

"I can't open the bottle cap." Kasumigaoka Utaha tilted her head slightly. "Junior, can you help me open it?"

"what?"

Eriri looked over with disdain:

"I can open a drink, but you can't? You're obviously doing it on purpose."

"I'm sorry, I usually only use a pen, I'm not a violent woman."

"Kasumigaoka Utaha! Who are you calling a violent woman?!"

Makoto Kiyono turned to look at the bob-haired girl behind him:

"Kato, would you like something to drink?"

"Thank you, Kiyono-kun."

Kato Megumi thanked her softly.

Kiyono Makoto casually unscrewed the bottle cap and handed over the drink:

"As expected, Kato-kun, who doesn't cause trouble for others, is the cutest."

"..."

The team's progress was astounding.

At first, the senior and Eriri still had the energy to bicker, but later they didn't even want to talk anymore.

It took a full hour and a half before it was finally Kiyono Makoto and his group's turn. However, they couldn't go in directly. Staff distributed protective gear, and then there was a short film about the case, a ghost photo session, and other activities.

After another ten minutes or so of fussing, Kiyono Makoto and the girls finally managed to team up and enter the haunted hospital.

"Finally in." Eriri put her hands on her hips and let out a long sigh of relief. "It felt even more tiring than being chased by monsters."

"That's how popular amusement parks are. Unless you buy a special ticket, you have to queue for every ride," Makoto Kiyono summarized. "In gaming terms, we ordinary tourists are actually on rides reserved for VIPs."

Rio Futaba, hands in her pockets, looked at the bob-haired girl beside her:

"Kato-kun, are you wearing your bracelet?"

Kato Megumi rolled up her sleeves, revealing a glimpse of her slender, snow-white wrist, and responded softly:

"Don't worry, everyone. I wore it properly while queuing."

Kiyono Makoto nodded slightly:

"Let's start speedrunning the haunted house."

As a player, running a haunted house in real life must be a piece of cake, no problem at all, right?

At least for Makoto Kiyono, the terrifying hospital in front of him was quite ordinary and not scary at all. After all, it was an artificially created environment, and it was much less impressive than Silent Hill.

But ten minutes later, Kiyono Makoto realized he was completely wrong.

As a headless nurse crawled over carrying a rotting human head, the girls screamed in terror and turned to run away.

"Huh...huh..."

Eriri braced herself on her knees, breathing rapidly, her face pale.

"Damn it...it's really scary..."

Kiyono Makoto's tone was calm and steady, hitting the nail on the head.

"Back in Silent Hill, we were able to fight back, but now we can't lay a hand on our employees. If we accidentally injure someone and they end up in the hospital, it will be a real problem. The fact that we can only run away makes it even more frightening."

"I'm alright." Rio Futaba pushed up her glasses, her tone remaining calm. "The staff's costumes are a bit scary, but they're slow and not threatening. What's really scary are the props and traps."

"Sorry……"

Kato Megumi's apologetic voice came from beside him:

"Your heart rate just exceeded 100."

Upon hearing this, Kiyono Makoto looked at Kato's wrist, where it clearly showed that the girl's heart rate had just exceeded 140, indicating that the challenge had failed.

There's no way around it; Kato is, after all, just an ordinary girl, and it's natural for her to get nervous and scared when she encounters something frightening.

“Keeping your heart rate below 100 is indeed a bit of a stretch; I doubt anyone could do it,” Kiyono Makoto said softly, trying to reassure everyone. “…Let’s try again later and execute Plan B.”

After he finished speaking, Kiyono Makoto suddenly realized that something was wrong: