Seeing that it was getting late, Amamiya Ren was about to go home, thinking about the curfew, when Ryuji asked her, "Why do you wait until the club is over?" This cleared up the misunderstanding.

Morgana, who was unaware of this, denied it on the spot and explained to Amamiya Ren that in that world, any technological product is useless.

Just when Amamiya Ren was wondering who discovered this secret and could accurately describe the castle.

That obvious and unignorable signal appeared.

Smoke was coming out from Kamoshida's office.

At the same time, the cell phone vibrated, and the unknown mysterious man reminded them: It's time to set off!

When Amamiya Ren thought that she and Ryuji would face Kamoshida alone, she didn't expect that there were two more people rushing to Kamoshida's office together with the others who were panicking about looking for the source of the fire after hearing the alarm.

The four of them looked at each other in confusion as they came to Kamoshida's office and saw Kamoshida talking to someone inside the room.

Because of the appearance of the real person, the four people did not want to get close to him for fear of causing unpleasantness by the other party.

But Gao Juanxing, who had sharp ears, heard something and suddenly rushed out.

Seeing this, Amamiya Ren followed closely behind worriedly, followed by Ryuji, who was a comrade-in-arms with Amamiya Ren, and Mishima, who followed because the other three were moving forward.

As for the cat?

Who cares about this?

What caught my eye was the girl lying on the ground, protecting her clothes.

Completely different from the posture of curling up to reduce defense, the four of them are already high school students and more or less understand the current situation.

It is precisely because of understanding that it feels even more unbelievable.

Kamoshida obviously noticed Amamiya Ren and the others, and closed the office door, apparently intending to block the door while trying to deal with the matter perfunctorily.

For this reason, Amamiya Ren specifically used the reason that there was still smoke coming out of the office and you didn't want more and more people to know about this, and successfully got Kamoshida to leave the office.

After wandering around for a while and feeling that the girl could escape from the office, Amamiya Ren brought her friends and Kamoshida to the rooftop of the teaching building to avoid the club members who might be attracted by the fake fire.

Ryuji couldn't wait to question Kamoshida, but Kamoshida didn't care about it. Amamiya Ren could see that if Takamaki An hadn't been there, Kamoshida might have been even more domineering.

But even so, Long Si was very angry about this behavior and almost started fighting.

Amamiya Ren stopped Ryuji's action in time.

Then Kamoshida wanted to use his identity as a teacher to keep the secret of the three boys present, and threatened, "It doesn't matter if you don't keep it a secret. No one will believe you anyway. Everyone will just think that you bad students are spreading rumors."

Kamoshida cut off Takamaki An's rebuttal with "If you hadn't rejected my invitation, she wouldn't be the one taking my place." She could only cover her mouth and cry for her friend's fate.

Although she was also one of those threatened, Amamiya Ren noticed that Takamaki An's other hanging hand was holding her cell phone.

Although the contents of the phone were in reverse order, Amamiya Ren was still able to see several key messages from the many messages sent by the mysterious man.

When you think you're suffering for your friends

Your friends are also suffering more for your forced happiness

To judge whether what I said is true

After the club activities today, stay in school for a while

Amamiya Ren knew that all this was done by that mysterious man on purpose. When she was about to say something, she heard Mishima's guilt-filled cry:

"Are you crazy? No matter what happened in school, there's no way you could commit such a crime!"

"This isn't even a matter of whether or not you should stay in the volleyball club. Are you trying to ruin Suzui-san's life?!"

The response to Mishima's doubts was not given with words, but was personally experienced with fists.

Looking at Mishima who was knocked away, Amamiya Ren suddenly felt that it was a wrong decision to choose the rooftop where there were no outsiders.

Kamoshida probably felt that he had lost control, and subconsciously gave the players his usual corporal punishment in front of others. Therefore, he did not take further action, but used this punch to once again let the four people present keep it a secret.

The flames of resistance from several people present had been suppressed.

Amamiya Ren couldn't help but look at the cat that had finally arrived, and asked silently with the phone in her hand.

"No, unless you intend to kill the opponent, the power of the Phantom Thief is not enough to end the battle so quickly."

Amamiya Ren frowned slightly and was about to say something.

The figure appeared on the rooftop of the rooftop.

Although this is only the second time we meet.

But Amamiya Ren recognized at a glance that the girl in sportswear was the girl who had just been in Kamoshida's office.

But...the other party did not appear at the door behind Kamoshida, but on another rooftop without guardrails.

"do not want!"

Amamiya Ren didn't have time to stop it, or rather, she had no ability to stop it at all.

He could only attract the attention of the four people and the cat from a long distance.

Then he just watched helplessly as the other party paused on the rooftop for a moment and then stepped out.

As the girl's figure sank below the rooftop, the situation that was originally intimidated by Kamoshida suddenly got out of control.

Takamaki An wanted to rush out without any hesitation, but Kamoshida, who was guarding the door, pushed Takamaki An aside with a grim look on his face.

The force he used without holding back caused Gao Juanxing to crash into the abandoned tables and chairs.

Before Amamiya Ren could understand what had happened, Kamoshida's arrogant attitude, which wanted to keep secrets from the passers-by attracted by the smoke, suddenly disappeared.

Instead, she angrily and seriously began to interrogate the three men who were still standing, asking them if they knew about the outsider who suddenly appeared in the school yesterday.

The first person that Kamoshida questioned was obviously not Ryuji who was investigating the matter, nor Amamiya Ren who had just transferred in.

But it was Yuki Mishima who wanted to skip class yesterday.

Realizing that Kamoshida's attitude was wrong, Amamiya Ren immediately picked up the table beside him, then signaled to Ryuji. The two of them rushed forward with their weapons and blocked Kamoshida's approach.

But pushed by Kamoshida's physique, Amamiya Ren and Ryuji, as well as Mishima who also joined the resistance, were forced to the side of Takamaki An.

Under this pressure, Mishima also confessed the reason why he came here.

That was because Mishima, who felt something was wrong based on his understanding of Kamoshida, delayed his return home and looked at the instructor's office with a guilty conscience, so he became the only outsider who came without receiving any notice.

It was at this time that Kamoshida began to shift his target and threatened Amamiya Ren and Ryuji with the excuse of expulsion from school.

The person from outside the school suddenly came to the rooftop, was stunned by the scene in front of him, and then moved his lips quickly, as if saying something.

Immediately afterwards, a net covered Kamoshida, and the two people and the net disappeared from the sight of the four people.

Just as Amamiya Ren accompanied Takamaki An to treat her sprained leg, and then with the help of Futaba, she found out the address of the hospital, sent Takamaki An to the hospital, and then returned to the Brown Coffee Shop safely.

Zhi Xing frowned as he looked at the only door in the witch's room that connected to the outer perimeter of the barrier, muttering to himself:

"That shouldn't be the case. When a familiar captures someone, shouldn't it send them to the witch's room? Was he killed on the spot?"

"Or...did the witch's barrier undergo any changes during the journey?"

Chapter 225 Meet after school

After wiping his mouth, which was clear of any residue, Zhixing pushed the empty bowl aside.

He stood up, looked at the gate leading to the outer perimeter of the barrier, and tried to say to the little bear:

"Little Bear, can you let me out? I just want to be alone in that world over there."

[The toy has had its fill and is ready for bed, and its bird friend has come to visit.]

Faced with something beyond the witch's memory, the witch, as always, pretended not to hear anything and directed the bird dolls that appeared because the dolls were almost complete.

Zhi Xing helplessly posed as a crusader, allowing the familiar to take him into the house of the doll tower and to the top floor of the doll tower.

"Things turned out like this. It seems I was impulsive today."

Relying on the silent environment of the Doll Tower, Zhixing seriously reflected on his behavior and finally came to the conclusion that he shouldn't have done so.

If ordinary people mistakenly enter a witch's barrier, there are usually only two outcomes.

One is to be taken to the witch's room by the witch, or to be discovered by the witch and pulled into the room.

Then he was swallowed directly by the witch.

The second is to die in battle.

It is impossible for a familiar to only lead people into the room. If that were the case, the magical girl could simply pretend to be an ordinary person, and then ignore the complicated maze terrain of the witch's barrier and go into the witch's room.

Failure to adopt this strategy means that the familiars can be lethal and will actually attack people, causing casualties among ordinary people.

Of course, if it is a problem with the magical girl's soul, then it is not something that Zhixing can verify now.

In the fan work, the familiar in American Oriko was killed directly under the control of the witch, and in the movie version, the familiar also started to take action under the will of the witch.

Therefore, whether the familiar will take direct action becomes an uncertain question.

Unless Zhi Xing has to watch the other party being defeated by the familiar.

but...

"At this distance, I have no way of confirming whether the opponent has been eliminated by the familiar. How can I return like this?"

Zhixing thought about the method he had always relied on to escape from the witch's barrier.

——Rely on returning to the real universe to escape from the witch;

No, it has been several days since 0 o'clock, and there has been no response at all, and I haven't seen the 25th hour.

——Relying on the power of returning, the witch barrier returns to the body.

But if that happened, the others inside the barrier would also return with him. Since he was already determined to kill them, how could he possibly let them go? Who knew if the timing of his shouting back would be the exact moment the other party was about to die?

Faced with the unchangeable fate, Zhi Xing's choice was to not allow the witch's barrier to return for at least a week. Only in this way could no living creatures escape, and even if they did not die by hiding, they would starve to death.

After the process of elimination, there is only one option left for the paper line.

——Go to the edge of the barrier and leave the witch's barrier.

This seems to be the only way.

But... how do I get out of the witch's room? How do I leave the witch's room without being watched by the witch and her familiar? And... how do I get down?

Zhihang sat at the edge of the stairs, looking at the closest thing under his feet, but it was roughly 3-5 stories high.

And this is already the lowest. Whether it is when being carried away by the bird or on the maintenance table in the witch's room, it is always out of reach from the ground.

"Oh, no. Even if my body could possibly recover, it's beyond my control, and I can't even predict the timing. I can't fall all the way down nine floors of the doll tower—that's the height of the 27th to 45th floor—in the space between two bowls of soup."

"How can I possibly jump down?"

Even the accessory that exercises the body, falling from a 4-story teaching building is enough to cause a state where one can hardly wake up.

Since the results of this exercise on paper cannot be retained, it is naturally impossible to think that you can fall from a height of about 4 floors and remain unscathed.

So, very subtly, Zhixing fell into a dilemma. He had to either lift the barrier and release Kamoshida who might still be alive.

Or you can wait until you are 100% sure that the other party is dead and then lift the barrier, so that you can go out alone.

As the only person who can find food in this barrier, Zhixing is very confident that he can outlast Kamo Shida.

This is the only option that Shimizu can do, and it is the only option that can kill Kamoshida.

I don’t have the strength to defeat them, I haven’t learned any skills, and I haven’t collected any dangerous items.

There is no other way except to lead it to the witch's barrier.

“I have no choice, ah~”

"The only good news right now is that if I slow down and drink the soup, I won't turn into a familiar on the spot."

"The problem is, if you keep drinking like this, you never know when your body will accumulate enough magic power because the absorption rate won't be 100%, and you'll be demonized."

Zhixing was very unwilling to accept this. After all, such a time limit was too coincidental. It was as if fate had already restricted him to a barrier and then drag him to death by starvation.

Looking at the newly created wound on his arm, the wound that had not healed even after drinking that bowl of colorful black wine.

Zhixing became even more disappointed with his own impulsiveness and had to try other solutions.

April 15th (Friday) 12:18

Private Shujin Academy, on the rooftop of the teaching building during lunch break.

Such a big thing just happened yesterday, but Amamiya Ren and Ryuji still chose to come to the rooftop to discuss it.

"Listen to me! I've asked around, and that bastard hasn't shown up. If this keeps going on, is something going to happen?"

As soon as Ryuji arrived at the rooftop, he couldn't wait to share the information he had collected with the excellent student Amamiya Ren.

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