Whose personality mask's power comes from the heroic spirit?

“Wow—ahhhh——!” After regaining self-consciousness, Ayumi Shinozaki hugged her head and wailed.

"Shinozaki!" Kishinuma Yoshiki looked at Taichi anxiously, "What happened to her?"

"My body was just occupied by so many vengeful spirits, and the mental damage I suffered was too severe." Taiyi explained, "I may even have felt the pain of those vengeful spirits when they were dying... It's normal to have such a reaction."

"Then is there any way to solve the problem that Shinozaki is facing now?" Teacher Yui, who was holding Ayumi Shinozaki in her arms and holding her tightly to prevent her from doing anything that would hurt herself, looked up at Taichi and asked.

"Unfortunately, I don't have any amulets or anything like that." Taiyi spread his hands helplessly and replied, "I can only help her wake up when she is possessed by the evil spirit. This kind of mental damage can only be healed by herself."

"How could this happen..." A sad look appeared on Teacher Yui's face, and she looked with pity at Ayumi Shinosaki who was gradually stabilizing in her arms.

"I, I, I'm fine! I can hold on!" Shinosaki Ayumi gritted her teeth and broke free from teacher Yui's arms, "Now it's more important to find Mochida-san and the others!"

"...Tsk." The yellow-haired boy turned his face away and couldn't help but smacking his lips.

The girls also looked at Ayumi Shinosaki with complicated expressions.

"Ahhh! Let me go! Save me! ---" The same person's screams, wails, and cries for help suddenly came from the basement of the annex.

The crowd, who were still immersed in embarrassment, were startled by the shrill scream.

"Someone is calling for help!" Naomi immediately turned her head to look at the backbone Taichi.

"Light a candle and wait here!" Taiyi warned everyone, "Don't act alone before I come back! And don't walk around casually!"

After saying this, Taiyi didn't wait for anyone else to respond, and dragged the still unconscious Kiritani Mikasa towards the direction where the cry for help came from.

"Candles?" Naomi looked at everyone in confusion, "Does anyone bring candles?"

"I have some here." Ayumi Shinozaki took out three candles from the pocket of her skirt. "Although there are not many, but anyway...light one first."

Except for Kishinuma Yoshiki who was hesitant to speak, no one else present questioned Taichi's request.

After the candles were lit, the warm candlelight brought a touch of comfort to the gloomy mood of everyone present.

"I suddenly feel safer." Saiko looked at the lit candle in surprise, then turned to look at Shinosaki Ayumi, "Does your candle have this effect?"

"No, it's just an ordinary candle." Shinosaki Ayumi shook her head and replied, "The reason why you feel safe is purely because of the psychological comfort brought by Mr. Naruto."

"And we get some light and warmth in this dim place," Teacher Yui added.

"By the way, why did Mr. Naruto take the unconscious cultist with him when he went to rescue people?" Kishinuma Yoshiki suddenly asked.

"Maybe he's worried that the cultist will suddenly wake up when he leaves, which could be bad for us." Teacher Yui thought for a moment before speaking.

……

Rushing into the corridor on the first basement floor, Taiyi followed the cry for help and came to the corridor, where he saw a girl being dragged into a room by an undead holding a bloody weapon.

The girl's legs looked like they were broken by the undead's huge hammer.

"Bastards! Come and die!" Taiyi leaped up and gave a flying kick towards the undead.

"Oh! Help me!" Seeing Taiyi's heroic appearance, the girl stretched out her hand to Taiyi for help with her already hoarse voice.

The flying kick passed over the girl and hit the undead's head directly.

As the body constructed by the resentment of the undead disappeared, the giant hammer also slammed heavily to the ground.

"I'll heal you right away. Just shut your mouth and bear the pain! Don't bite your tongue off!" Taichi placed his hand on the girl's broken leg and reminded her while using Irisviel's healing magic to heal the girl.

"Mmm--!" The girl's body curled up, but she still listened to Taiyi's request obediently and closed her mouth tightly!

"Okay, it's fine." After about ten seconds of treatment, the broken legs returned to their original white and healthy appearance.

"Ha, ha, ha!" The girl panted and relaxed her tense body.

"Try to see if you can stand up now." Taiyi asked, stretching out his hand to the girl.

“Thank you, thank you, thank you so much!” The girl wiped her tears, held Taiyi’s hand, and slowly stood up. “Although, although I still feel a little pain, but, but I can still stand up again... Woo, woo, woo, thank you, thank you…”

The girl looked like she was only fourteen or fifteen years old.

"Don't reveal your full name here. Just use the name that others have called you as your nickname." Taiyi did not comfort the girl, but instead offered his own suggestion.

"Huh? But, but I already told you my full name when I was communicating with a ghost before." The girl blinked and looked at Taiyi innocently.

"Even ghosts..." Taiyi really didn't know what to say in this situation.

In this situation, it would be fine if he didn't keep alert to people, but he didn't even keep alert to ghosts... He must be a child with no distracting thoughts in his mind.

"Ogasawara Nana, this is my name." The girl named Ogasawara Nana stared at Taichi, "Big brother's... code name?"

"Naruto," Taichi replied, "As for your full name, I'll tell you when you return to the real world alive."

"Go back alive... Can we really go back alive?" The girl sniffed and looked like she was about to continue crying.

"As long as you don't run around and follow me, you will have this opportunity." Taiyi put his hand on the girl's head and pressed it down.

"Yes! Nana will be obedient!" The girl nodded and replied, "By the way! I have two friends who got separated when we were running for our lives in the corridor! Amado Yasunari! Yamase Chihaya! Has Naruto brother seen them?"

"Not yet, but we can continue to look for it." Taiyi shook his head and replied, then turned his head to look at the room full of "torture instruments" and blood and flesh, "The one hiding in there, won't you come out and act with us?"

Not long after, a girl with brown hair and tears on her face crawled out from under the table.

"My legs are weak, can you give me a hand?"

Chapter 67: Saenoki Nanahoshi wants to apologize

"Mr. Naruto is back!"

The candlelight was too dim. Even though everyone sat around the candle, after a few seconds of self-psychological suggestion, fear still swept over them.

So when Taiyi's figure appeared again, everyone breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts.

"These two are the survivors I found down there." Taiyi said, pointing at the two people following behind him.

"My name is Ogasawara Nana... Because I had already given my full name when communicating with the ghost at the school building, it would be meaningless to use that code name to cover it up now." Ogasawara Nana scratched her cheek and sighed with some regret.

"Sayaka, just call me Sayaka." The brown-haired girl Sayaka introduced herself while hugging Ogasawara Nana's arm.

"Naomi."

"Shi Yizi."

"Shinozaki."

"Kishinuma"

"Yui."

Several people reported their code names one after another.

"Speaking of which, Brother Naruto, who is the one you are holding in your hand..." Ogasawara Nana finally couldn't help but cast her gaze on the Kiritani Miroku in Taichi's hand and asked curiously.

"This is a cultist I'm tracking. I don't know his name." Taiyi replied, shaking his head.

"Cult?" Ogasawara Nana and Sayaka were startled, and looked at the unconscious Kiritani Mitsuru with some horror.

"What bad things has he done?" Ogasawara Nana asked.

"At present, I only know that he has a lot of murder cases on his hands, and he also gathers people to perform black magic rituals. Even the reason why I came to this Tianshen Primary School is because of him. The rest can only wait until I return to the real world and let professionals conduct the interrogation."

"Have you rested enough? If you can still hold on, let's continue exploring this villa and look for survivors who may still be able to hold on." Taiyi urged everyone.

Ayumi Shinozaki directly extinguished the candle and recycled it.

"We've rested enough! Let's get going!"

Because Taichi had returned to the team, everyone felt more confident, so they continued what they had done in the school building, moving forward and exploring while calling out their friends' names.

Seeing this, Sayaka and Ogasawara Nana also followed suit and started calling their friends' names.

However, after hearing the name from Sayaka's mouth, Ayumi Shinozaki immediately stared at her with vigilance.

"Sayaka! Whose name did you just call?" Ayumi Shinosaki grabbed Sayaka's arm and asked anxiously.

"Hey? Nanahoshi-chan? She's my friend." Sayaka shrank her neck nervously. She always felt that this girl's eyes were a little scary.

"Could it be Sae... the famous psychic and novelist in the blogosphere?" Shinosaki Ayumi continued to ask.

"Yes, it's her, is there any problem?" Sayaka didn't think that the girl was asking such questions because she was planning to chase stars under such circumstances.

"The way we came to Tenjin Elementary School was learned from her blog." Ayumi Shinozaki said with a hint of resentment in her tone.

"Could it be her you're talking about?" Taichi took out his cell phone, found the blog that X had searched for earlier, showed it to Ayumi Shinosaki and Sayaka, and asked.

Looking at the familiar blog, the two nodded.

"It's her, that's right."

"...Before I tracked down these cultists, I looked for her first." Taiyi raised his eyebrows and said, "But when I found her residence, I was told that she had been out of contact for several days."

"Then, I asked a senior expert in this field. She said that the so-called 'Happy Sachiko' written on her blog was a fake ritual. Although it is impossible to judge its effect based on just a few sentences of the ritual process, it is certain that the person who wrote this method knew that he was deliberately distorting the true meaning of the ritual."

"Although I have asked my friend to hack her blog, it is too late for those who have been lured by the content of this blog before that."

"What you mean is..." Sayaka's face gradually turned pale.

"She is intentionally guiding the 'believers' who trust her to enter Tenshin Elementary School." Taiyi replied, and lifted up the Kiritani Mikado in his hand. "What she does is no different from these cultists who are also studying Tenshin Elementary School."

Sayaka slumped down on the floor.

"Then why did she bring me along to perform this ritual...was it because she thought I wouldn't doubt her motives?"

Recalling the mental shock she suffered when she was transported to Tenjin Elementary School and landed directly in the 'anatomy room', Sayaka hugged her arms and trembled.

The 'Seven Stars' filter in her heart also began to crack.

"In other words, the reason why we are in this situation is because of that guy called Nanahoshi!" Kishinuma Yoshiki pounded the wall with his fist in frustration.

But from the way he glanced at Ayumi Shinosaki from time to time, it could be seen that the reason he said this was to reduce the guilt in Ayumi Shinosaki's heart for initially proposing the "Happy Sachiko" ritual.

"No, it's purely your fault because you won't die if you don't do it." Taiyi rolled his eyes and replied, "After all, Nanahoshi only wrote the method of carrying out the ritual on the blog, and did not use any means to force you to use this ritual."

"The reason you appear here is purely due to your curiosity and your trust in the content of the Seven Stars Blog."

Ayumi Shinozaki hung her head in frustration.

Kishinuma Yoshiki also looked as if he was choked.

"But her evil intentions cannot be ignored." Taiyi added, "So, as a victim of the ritual, you can hate her for this. But don't try to make her admit her mistakes with words."

"After all, she should have known that this behavior was wrong, but she didn't care."

"Be careful not to mock her with your words, or she will mock you back."

"Well - that's right. Just as this gentleman said." A female voice suddenly sounded in the dark corner.

Taiyi immediately turned the flashlight to illuminate the other person's figure.

"Nanaboshi..." Sayaka looked at the other person's face weakly, her pupils shaking violently.

"Well - although I can only say 'it's what they deserve' for the other people involved in Tenjin Elementary School, I feel guilty towards you, Sayaka." The girl named Saenoki Nanahoshi looked at Sayaka who was slumped on the floor and explained with a sigh, "But please believe me, I didn't intend to harm you, Sayaka."

"It's just a pity that right after we entered Tianshen Elementary School, an accident caused us to be in different dimensions, so I couldn't find you in time."

Her own death was already certain, so Nanaho could draw the conclusion without even thinking about what would happen to Sayaka Okami, who knew nothing about Tenjin Elementary School.

So, she really did feel a little guilty towards Sayaka.

Chapter 68: The best tool to vent negative emotions and stop the darkening process is now available

"Your name is Naruto, right?" Nanahoshi moved her gaze from Okami Sayaka to Taichi's face. "Although I don't know who you are, Sachiko seems to be very afraid of your existence."

Taichi looked at Saenoki Nanaboshi and shook his head.

"What on earth did you do to allow the negative energy to merge so perfectly with your body?"

Judging from what she just said, Saenoki Nanahei seems like a normal person.

But Taichi has already seen through the true situation of the current Seven Stars of Saeki through X's shared perspective.

Due to the darkening caused by the spiritual magnetic field and the erosion of negative energy, Saenoki Nanabori can now be said to be an alien creature with human skin.

The reason why she can still speak from her own perspective is purely because her psychic ability is strong enough.

But I'm afraid it won't last much longer.

"Negative energy? Ah, you mean the power in my body that is fighting against the spiritual magnetic field?" Saenoki Nanahoshi was stunned for a moment, then pulled the corner of his mouth helplessly, "It is a kind of power different from spiritual power that Sachiko injected into my brain when she wanted to use me as a chess piece... It is also thanks to this power that I can maintain my self-esteem after "retracing" the memories that Sachiko sent me... instead of completely breaking down mentally."

When Sachiko was looking through the memories of Saenoki Nanahoshi, some fragments also flowed into her body through Sachiko's power.

It was for this reason that Nanahoshi Saenoki witnessed with her own eyes the "disaster" caused by the "ritual" on her blog.