The aftershocks of Yui's graduation have not yet subsided.

Countless viewers used all their talents to Photoshop wedding photos for them and wrote sweet fanfiction about their reunion in the real world.

This creates a unique atmosphere where secondary creations are used to compensate for lingering regrets.

The angel's heartbeat, far from subsiding after the climax, was instead propelled to a new height.

When the latest episode of the anime began airing, all the viewers, with a complex mix of relief and relief, tuned in to their screens right on time.

[Here it comes, it's old rascal Su's weekly graduation time.]

I feel fearless now. What knife could be more ruthless than marrying you?

[Don't make any predictions before! I'm so scared! Will the leader be the one this episode?]

[Not necessarily. I'd guess it's that random guy playing guitar; he looks like he has a story.]

The animation opens with a peaceful afterlife.

After Yui disappeared, the members of the SSS group seemed to have matured a bit. They no longer acted recklessly as before, but quietly gathered together, enjoying the rare peace.

This heartwarming yet slightly melancholic daily life brought some relief to the audience.

[It seems even that old scoundrel Su knows he needs to slow down; he's probably worried about supply shortages from the blade factories even with these continuous knife releases.]

However, just when everyone thought that, the unexpected happened without warning.

An SSS member who was chatting with his companions suddenly froze.

A dark shadow emerged from the ground beneath his feet and instantly enveloped him!

"Be careful!"

His companions around him cried out in alarm and raised their guns to fire.

But the bullet pierced through the dark shadow, having no effect whatsoever.

The shadowy figure writhed, seemingly possessing life, and within seconds completely devoured the group member.

Then, the shadowy figure retreated back to the ground, as if nothing had ever happened.

Unlike Iwasawa and Yui, the members who were devoured did not turn into specks of light and disappear.

He was still standing there.

However, his once vibrant eyes were now empty, like a soulless puppet.

He ignored his companions' calls, turned around, and walked numbly toward the teaching building, merging into the NPC students coming and going.

This scene sent a chill down the spines of all the viewers.

[Holy crap! What is that?!]

Where is he? Why didn't he graduate? Did he become an NPC?

This is freaking formatted! This is real death!

[You old scoundrel Su! You're not human! This was supposed to be a healing anime, how did it suddenly turn into a horror movie?!]

At the headquarters of the Afterlife Front, alarms blared.

Yuri Nakamura kicked open the door, her face terribly grim.

"What happened?!"

When she learned about the situation from the surviving members, an unprecedented sense of crisis arose in everyone's hearts.

Graduation is a departure with satisfaction, a farewell to a life filled with regrets.

These NPCs, who are swallowed by shadows and become like walking corpses, are completely annihilated!

Is this another attack from God?

Someone asked, trembling.

Yuri Nakamura did not answer.

She strode to the tactical map, her sharp eyes scanning the entire campus's defenses.

"Pass on my orders!"

Her voice was resolute, devoid of any emotion.

"Designate this shadowy entity as a top-level elimination target! All members, without prior authorization, are to annihilate it upon discovery! At all costs!"

The order was issued decisively and ruthlessly, instantly stabilizing the panicked morale of the troops.

The members immediately took the order and set off, and the entire SSS group sped up again.

Only Otonashi Yuzuru glanced at Yuri one more time as everyone turned to leave.

He keenly noticed that when Yuri gave the order to pay any price, the fingertips of her hand, which was resting on the map, were trembling slightly and uncontrollably.

Her eyes held nothing but the anger of a leader.

Deeper still, there seemed to be a trace of fear, originating from the depths of her soul, that she herself desperately wanted to suppress.

......

Healing Animation Company.

Shen Qingyue stared at the eerie shadows on the screen and the group members who had turned into NPCs, her face turning deathly pale.

"Su Bai! What is this?"

Her voice was trembling.

"This is too cruel! There are monsters like this in the afterlife."

Su Bai leaned back in his chair, calmly watching the backstage chatter frantically jumping, but with a completely different nature than before.

The audience was clearly terrified.

"Who told you there's only one way to heal?"

Su Bai's voice carried a hint of amusement.

"Viewers think they've figured out the pattern of graduation, and even start predicting the next character to be healed. This self-righteous sense of control will make them numb."

He turned his gaze back to the screen, a smile playing on his lips that sent a chill down Shen Qingyue's spine.

"It's time to break them out of their comfort zone."

"I want them to understand what happens in this world, both the fate of the characters and the rules of the story."

"It's all up to me."

At the end of the animation, the camera pans to the school in the afterlife.

Night falls.

Countless black shadows seeped out from the ground, wandering around the deserted campus like ghosts.

The members of the SSS group were forced into retreat by these unkillable monsters and were eventually surrounded by a large number of shadows in the teaching building area.

In the final scene, Yuri Nakamura stands at the highest point of the defensive line, holding two pistols.

Her back, facing the endless darkness, appeared resolute and tragic, yet also carried an unspeakable loneliness and vulnerability.

The suspense, like the darkness of an abyss, instantly swallowed the hearts of all the viewers.

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