Chiba, Sakuta, and Hachiman took the key to room 18 and headed for the stairs.
"Room 18...it should be on the second floor, right?"
Sakuta muttered to himself as he looked at the tag on the key.
The three then went up the wooden stairs, turned a corner, and pushed open the fire door, revealing a long corridor.
Neatly arranged room doors line both sides of the corridor, with room numbers starting from 1.
"16, 17, 18... We've arrived."
Sakuta dragged his feet to a door, inserted the key into the lock, and turned the handle.
The door was pushed open.
Instead of the tatami mats and beds they had expected, what appeared before the three of them was a row of white urinals for men and several individual cubicles.
Sakuta remained in the position of pushing the door open, his eyes filled with confusion.
"...Has resort room design become this avant-garde now? Offering guests a chance to unwind after their journey?"
"Even if it's the most avant-garde, it's impossible for three people to share a public toilet!"
Hachiman peeked in, his face full of speechlessness. "Did you open the wrong door?"
He looked up at the door number; it was indeed number 18.
And they weren't the only ones to discover the problem.
A sharp scream came from the other end of the corridor.
"Hey! What's this kitchen?!"
"Wait a minute! Why is my room a dead end?"
Sensing something was wrong, Qianyu quickly turned around, strode to the door marked 17, and pulled it open forcefully.
Behind the door was not a room, but a staircase leading upwards, and at the end of the staircase, the sky was bright, revealing the rooftop of the building.
Strangely, the angle of inclination of this staircase completely defies the laws of gravity; it's as if it's glued to the wall, and if a person steps on it, their body will be at a 90-degree angle to the ground.
At this moment, the entire interior space of the dormitory building transformed into a giant, distorted kaleidoscope.
"No... this doesn't make sense..."
Hikigaya's voice was squeezed out from between his teeth, trembling with a sense of "my materialistic worldview is collapsing."
"What the hell is this magical barrier? Am I still dreaming on this bus? Someone pinch me!"
"You're here."
Sakuta Azusagawa came over from the side and pinched Hachiman's arm hard without saying a word.
"pain!"
"See, it's not a dream."
"Are you serious?!"
Just then, a sharp female scream suddenly came from upstairs.
"ah--!!!"
The three exchanged a glance and quickly rushed up the stairs.
The second floor... or the fourth place marked "second floor," the corridor was in complete chaos.
Several girls were slumped on the ground, pointing in terror at a half-open wooden door.
Michiyo was also in the crowd. She was comforting a girl next to her who was about to cry when she looked up and met Chiyu's gaze.
"What happened?"
Qianyu walked over, her gaze passing over the crowd and landing on the door.
Michiyo offered an uneasy explanation:
"Just now, Yuihama wanted to see inside the room, but it turned out that there was no room behind the door at all."
Hachiman stepped forward and pushed open the door.
Through his shoulder, Chiba saw the scene inside.
That wasn't a dormitory room, but a gray, gloomy sky and a sheer cliff thousands of feet below.
If Yui had rushed in directly, she'd probably still be in freefall right now.
At that moment, the wind rushed in from inside, carrying the chill and whistling sound unique to the high altitude, almost sucking Hachiman in.
"Close the door! Close the door! Close the door—!!"
Several quick-thinking boys rushed up and held the door shut, and it took a lot of effort to close it again.
Panic spread through the population like a plague.
More people started trying to open other doors in the hallway.
Behind one door was a women's restroom that was still dripping water, behind another door was an abandoned kitchen full of grease, and behind yet another door, there was an upside-down ceiling.
"What the hell! Where am I?!"
"We're trapped!"
"Call the police immediately!"
"No signal, my phone has absolutely no signal."
Where is the teacher?
Remembering that the teacher seemed to be in the open space outside the building, everyone started running downstairs frantically.
Although they all had the same goal, some rushed downstairs while others ran upstairs.
No one could tell which way was which.
Qianyu mingled with the crowd and ran towards the lobby on the first floor, while keeping an eye on her surroundings out of the corner of her eye.
"Hiratsuka-sensei!"
Some students rushed to the glass doors in the lobby on the first floor and frantically pounded on the transparent door panels.
Outside the glass door, Hiratsuka Shizumasa looked at it with a puzzled expression, seemingly wondering why none of the students who went in had come out.
Without saying a word, the student pushed the door open forcefully.
Instead of sunshine and land, he was greeted with joy.
Instead, there was a chilling, bone-deep wind and a rooftop that seemed like an abyss beneath one's feet.
The boy who pushed open the door nearly wet his pants in fright, but with one foot already across the threshold, he couldn't back down.
With lightning speed, Qianyu grabbed the student by the back of his collar and pulled him back.
"What...what exactly is going on..."
The student slumped to the ground, trembling all over.
Seeing this, the others dared not make any further rash moves.
"We can't get out...we're trapped..."
The atmosphere in the hall instantly plummeted to freezing point.
"Quickly go find the dorm supervisor who brought us in; he definitely knows what happened!"
Azusagawa Sakuta's voice rang out amidst the chaos, like a lifeline.
This suggestion was like lighting a fuse.
The panicked crowd quickly gathered and surged toward the front desk.
The dormitory supervisor was hiding behind the counter, trembling with fear, when the angry students dragged him out like a chick.
A boy grabbed the dorm supervisor by the collar and roared, "What the hell are you doing?!"
Don't ask me! I don't know either!
The dormitory supervisor's incoherent explanation.
"Yesterday, everything was perfectly fine! I personally checked every single room! Absolutely no problem! I even checked it again before you came today."
But the others clearly wouldn't listen to his explanation.
"no problem?!"
Another girl interrupted him with a shrill voice.
"I just pushed the door open, and there was just a wall inside! You call that okay?!"
"Me too!"
"I almost fell into the toilet and drowned!"
"What on earth is going on?! If this is some kind of prank show, you guys have gone too far! I'm definitely calling the police when I get home!"
Qianyu stood on the periphery of the crowd, silently observing everything.
Everything was normal yesterday.
Today is not normal.
What is the biggest difference between today and yesterday?
It was him.
Now everything is clear; it must be the work of the Clow Cards.
Qianyu's eye twitched again.
He originally thought that after subduing Kaguya, things would at least quiet down for a while, but now it seems that these damned cards have clearly targeted him. As long as he appears nearby, they will automatically start causing trouble.
When Kurore designed this system, did he intend to disgust his successors to death?
Qianyu forced herself to calm down; getting angry now was pointless.
The most important thing now is to determine the type of card and then formulate a corresponding capture strategy.
He activated his spiritual vision again, quickly analyzing the situation before him.
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