He tried to save the fallen girls, but they came after him instead.

"Sis, I brought them with me." Another tall man coerced the group of shut-ins over.

"Look, your club members are here." The hot girl turned around and walked towards them, handing them the money. "You have two choices: either stay in the video game club or take the money and leave."

The shut-ins are still hesitating.

The tall man they brought pressed his knuckles, which made a cracking sound.

It's clearly a threat.

The otaku looked at each other, all freshmen who didn't know each other and none of them wanted to get beaten up.

They had no choice but to take the money and leave in a hurry.

"Look, all your members have run away. Maybe you should just stay put..."

"No, it just won't!" Yako put her hand on the doorknob, trying to close the door.

"Wait!" The hot girl reached out to block it, but accidentally got her fingers caught in the door.

"Ahhh!" The hot girl cried out in pain, pulling her finger out. The spot where it had been pinched was already red and swollen.

The door was slammed shut by Ayako.

"**, you won't listen to reason, so you'll have to suffer the consequences? You guys, kick the door open right now."

Two tall men received the order, grabbed the doorknob, and rammed it open before Yako could lock the door.

Yako was thrown into the air by the enormous impact and crashed heavily to the ground.

"Ouch, that hurts!"

"You guys guard the door and don't let anyone in," the hot girl instructed the two men.

"clear."

The hot girl led her sisters into the house and kicked Yako hard on the ground.

"Ugh!" Yako groaned softly, clutching her stomach.

"Hey, stop!" Shirakawa shouted, rushing over to help Ako.

But their bodies passed right through Shirakawa's body, like phantoms.

Shirakawa could only watch as Ako was humiliated bystanders.

The leading hottie squatted down, grabbed Ako's beautiful blue hair, and lifted her head up.

He showed his injured finger to Ako.

"I'm giving you one last chance. Are you going to disband or not?" The hot girl patted Yako's face lightly and shouted angrily.

Yako shook her head again.

"Fine!" The hot girl raised her hand and gave Ako a loud slap.

You could see a red handprint on her porcelain doll-like, beautiful face.

"Do it!"

Several hot girls punched and kicked Yako wildly, using her as a human punching bag to vent their anger.

"What are you pretending for? It's disgusting." The leading hottie ripped off the pixelated warrior pendant on her chest and threw it to the ground.

Still feeling unsatisfied, she forcibly pulled the form created by the video game club from Ayako's pocket.

"No, give it back to me!" Yako grabbed the form and struggled with the hot girl for it.

Stab~~~

The form was torn in half.

The hot girl crumpled the other half in her hand into a ball and threw it at Ayako's face.

Just as he was about to curse Ako again, the tall boy outside opened the door and hurriedly reported the news.

"Sis, let's go! Someone's coming!"

"Who is it?"

"I don't know, a woman came over."

"female?"

"It's a blonde, muscular woman. She doesn't seem like someone to mess with. She's coming straight at us. Let's hurry up and leave."

"Tch, you got off easy." The hot girl kicked Yako again, crushed the crumpled paper, spat on the floor, and left with her friends.

Shirakawa bent down to check Ako's injuries; her body was covered in bruises.

Yako curled up on the ground, tears streaming down her face.

She looked so pitiful. If Shirakawa could find someone here, he would have wanted to hold Aya in his arms and comfort her.

Shirakawa also understood why Ako had become so withdrawn and why there were no other members in the video game club.

It's probably all because of those hot girls.

No sooner had they left than the door opened again.

"Big sister, big sister." The colorful little girl walked in, came to Ayako's side, bent down, stroked Ayako's shoulder, and whispered.

Surprisingly, Ayako actually responded to the little girl's touch and words.

"Airi, little Airi, waaaah~ Why, why are they bullying me? I didn't do anything!!" Ako hugged the little girl and cried loudly, explaining the injustice she had suffered.

The two hit it off immediately, as if they were old friends who had known each other for a long time.

Airi patted Ayako's back and hugged her upper body with her small frame.

"It's okay, Ayako-neechan, Airi will always be with you."

“We’ve already entered high school, and we’ve already set up clubs… but… but…” Ako kept sobbing.

“It’s okay, Ayako-neechan,” Airi hugged Ayako in her arms, but turned her head back, like a terrifying puppet, her empty eyes staring straight at Shirakawa.

"Aili loves you, Aili wants to be with you forever and ever."

As Airi spoke these words, she kept looking at Shirakawa, as if she loved Shirakawa in front of her, not Ayako in her arms.

Shirakawa didn't pay much attention to this detail, or rather, he saw it but didn't take it to heart; his mind was preoccupied with how to rescue Ako from there.

Suddenly, Airi gave Shirakawa a strange smile and vanished into thin air.

The girl that Ayako was hugging and snuggling with suddenly disappeared.

"Aili, Aili." Helpless and pitiful, Yako opened and closed her hands, constantly reaching out and grasping at the air, calling Aili's name, wanting to return to Aili's embrace.

Shirakawa didn't know what to say, because no matter what he said or did, it was all just Ako's memory, and Shirakawa couldn't do anything about it.

However, Yako, with tears in her eyes, fixed her gaze on Shirakawa.

"Who are you? What are you doing here?" Ya Zi said haltingly, sobbing.

She can see me now? When?

Never mind! I need to wake Aya up quickly.

"Ayako, Ayako?" Shirakawa excitedly approached Ayako.

"You, how do you know me? Don't come any closer!" Yako leaned back, trying to escape.

"Don't be afraid, Ayako. I'm your deskmate. My name is Shirakawa. Do you remember me?"

Yazi shook her head.

“It doesn’t matter if you don’t remember. I’m telling you, this is your world of memories, not reality. You need to go back to reality,” Shirakawa explained anxiously.

"Memories, memories of the world?"

"Yes, these are all your memories. The Ellie you just saw was fake too. You need to wake up quickly."

"Airi? Airi?" Ako murmured to herself, "No, no! This is all real!"

Yako covered her head, repeating the same thing over and over, her mind spiraling into madness.

"Ayako!" Shirakawa grabbed Ayako's arm, trying to help her up.

"Don't touch me!" Ako flung her hand away. "It's you, you're fake, I'm real! I'm real!" Ako kept repeating.

In an instant, the earth shook violently, large cracks appeared in the activity room, the once bright sunshine turned dark, and everything in sight was slowly collapsing.

Poor Yako, her body also began to dissipate.

Until everything before Shirakawa's eyes turned into a black void.

"Hey, Shirakawa-nii-san! Do your best next time!" Airi's voice rang in Shirakawa's ears.

"Hey, what did you do to Ako? Hey!"

There was no response.

Suddenly, Shirakawa appeared in that alley.

The alleyway when you first enter the game.

How could this be?