A supporting character in a romance anime? I became a god using a rat talisman.

But as it turns out, you really can't just make promises you can't keep.

Not long after the bus restarted, a sense of unease quietly crept into Kazama Chiba's heart.

It wasn't some pink-haired person filming him the whole time.

But the view outside the window... seems a little familiar?

Qianyu frowned and stared intently at the cedar forest outside.

At first, it was just a subtle sense of déjà vu.

That old pine tree with its crooked neck, that boulder shaped like a tortoise, that rusty road sign.

He didn't pay much attention when he first saw them, frowned when they appeared a second time, and then... a third, fourth, and fifth time—

The same scenery flashes past the window in exactly the same order, as if it were set to an infinitely looping PowerPoint background.

"Hey, hey, hey, what's going on?"

Sakuta's voice came from the side, his tone clearly puzzled.

"Did we just pass that rock?"

"More than once."

Hachiman's deadpan eyes swept across the view outside the window.

"Probably four or five times."

So we're going in circles?

"It seems so."

The atmosphere in the carriage, which had gradually relaxed after escaping, became eerie again.

The students crowded to the window, watching the landmarks that kept repeating themselves, their expressions gradually shifting from confusion to fear.

"Hey driver, what's going on? Why are you just going in circles? Where are you going?!"

Hiratsuka Shizuka, who was sitting in the front row, finally couldn't hold back anymore.

"I...I don't know either!"

The driver answered, puzzled, as he turned the steering wheel.

The navigation system showed the correct route; I've been following it.

"Then explain why we've passed the same tree four times in the past half hour?"

The driver was stunned.

He glanced down at the navigation, then looked up at the road ahead, and then glanced down at the navigation again.

The navigation system indicated that they should have already left the mountainous area.

But what lay ahead was clearly an endless mountain road.

The driver muttered

"This...this doesn't make sense..."

The atmosphere in the carriage froze instantly.

The students, who had just escaped the nightmare of the dormitory building, turned pale again.

We've all run away, why are you still chasing after us?

Hiratsuka Shizuka's expression was also not very good.

Everything she experienced today is shaking her worldview to an extreme degree.

She began to wonder if she had really been possessed by an evil spirit.

Meanwhile, in a seat at the back of the carriage, Kazama Chiba's expression had turned completely dark.

Now that the Mystery Card has been captured, what's with this infinite loop?

A terrifying hypothesis took shape in his mind.

Could there be a second Clow Card here?

If that's the case, then he's really stepped right into a gambling den this time.

Faced with this bizarre, winding mountain road, Kazama Chiba pressed her forehead against the cold car window, trying to sift through her jumbled memories for any useful information.

Clow Cards, Cycle, Infinite Corridor.

These keywords spun in his mind like a broken centrifuge.

Unfortunately, Kazama Chiba wasn't paying enough attention when she watched "Cardcaptor Sakura" back then.

I watched it skipping around, watching it at double speed, and even while eating instant noodles, so now all I have left in my mind are fragmented impressions.

Sakura wearing various gorgeous battle suits, and Syaoran's cool face.

And then there's Tomoyo holding up the camera and grinning like an idiot...wait, why does this scene look so familiar?

It must be my imagination...

Anyway, after watching the anime, Kazama Chiba returned all the original settings to the original author.

I have absolutely no idea which Clow Card this is.

Qianyu mentally slapped herself hard.

Damn it, I shouldn't have fast-forwarded through the battle scenes back then just to see the new clothes Tomoyo made for Sakura.

Now, without the advantage of spoilers, and in a world where even Google has been erased by concepts, it's completely in the dark.

You only realize how little you know when you need to use it; you don't know how much you know when you're done playing cards.

Chapter 116 Trapped at the Resort

Just as he was agonizing over what to do and was about to pull his hair out, the view outside the window changed.

The sky, which had been overcast, suddenly seemed to have been ripped open.

White, dense spots began to multiply wildly in the field of vision.

In less than half a minute, the spots changed from the size of salt grains to large snowflakes like goose feathers, covering the windshield like torn cotton wool.

The wipers screeched under the strain, but their pitiful movements were utterly useless against this brutal white curtain.

The temperature plummeted, and a thin layer of frost even formed on the car windows.

"Are you kidding me...?"

Sakuta Azusagawa, sitting in the front row, stared wide-eyed at the world outside the window that had been instantly turned silvery-white.

"Shenshui City has a maritime climate, right? It's only early November, isn't it? What's with this blizzard that looks like it's going to freeze people into ice sculptures? Are we going to travel to the set of 'The Day After Tomorrow'?"

This completely violates the basic geographical principles of Shenshui City.

As a city on the Pacific coast affected by the Kuroshio Current, it is not yet the snow season, let alone experiencing such extreme cold weather.

Seeing this, Chiyu was completely confused. If it was just snow, then it was most likely the snow tablet causing the problem.

But the question is, how do you explain that endlessly looping mountain road?

Snowboards don't have the ability to warp space. At most, they can create blizzards and lower temperatures, but they absolutely cannot make a bus repeatedly circle on the same road.

Are two cards working together at the same time?

It's not impossible, but the probability of three Clow Cards appearing in one place at the same time is too small, right?

Due to the snow, the temperature inside the carriage began to drop precipitously.

The air conditioner vents, which were originally quite warm, now blow out a chilly breeze.

"No! We can't keep it running!"

Hiratsuka Shizuka decisively ordered the convoy to turn around and return to the resort.

In these remote mountain areas, far from any village or shop, staying inside a building at least guarantees basic shelter from the wind and rain.

If you continue to drive around on this cursed mountain road, you'll either run out of fuel and freeze to death in the car, or you might accidentally tumble off a cliff and make headlines.

So the convoy struggled to turn around in the wind and snow, and like a few clumsy beetles, slowly crawled back to the place they had just fled.

By the time they returned to the resort, their condition had continued to deteriorate.

Cycle, snowfall, signal jamming.

The situation inside the dormitory building wasn't much better.

The resort was designed for autumn, and its heating system was pitifully rudimentary, or rather, there was no decent heating system at all.

The radiators were ice cold, and they felt just like the snow outside.

Several girls were already shivering, and they put on all the clothes they could, looking like walking rolls of blankets.

Chiba, Sakuta, and Hikigaya returned to their original room, where three single beds were arranged in a triangular shape with a small open space in the middle.

The snow outside the window continued to fall, and wisps of cold wind seeped in through the cracks in the window frame, scattering the last bit of warmth inside.

"This is it, we're doomed."

Hachiman Hikigaya, wrapped in two blankets, huddled in the corner of the bed, a rare glint of genuine fear appearing in his dead fish eyes.

"We're really doomed. No cell phone signal, the car can't get out, and it's snowing like crazy outside. Are we going to die here?"

"Don't say such discouraging things."

Sakuta sat on another bed, arms crossed, trying to generate some heat through friction.

"It would be too humiliating to die in a place like this. I haven't even gotten a girlfriend yet; I can't die such a pathetic death."

Is finding a girlfriend your only life goal?

"So what are your life goals? To grow old alone?"

"...At least I chose to grow old alone; it wasn't decided by some random blizzard."

The two bantered casually, while Qianyu lay on her bed, staring blankly at the ceiling.

His mind was racing, analyzing the current situation and possible ways to break the deadlock.