You say this is a love game?

It will only prevent me from playing the game!

Of course, if a stupid friend invited him with a similar request...

"Gegegege: Where are you?"

"Blue-haired water monster: Just heading to the bus stop, see you at the school gate later."

Mizutani Makoto picked up his schoolbag and took the bus all the way to the gate of Yomi High School. As soon as he got off the bus, he saw a yellow-haired man waving at him in the crowd.

"Hey, Makoto!"

This guy's name is Shinji Kubo.

He has short golden hair and is handsome. His facial features have European and American characteristics. He has a sunny and cheerful youthful demeanor. His charm score is estimated to be around 60 or 70 points.

This school has strict regulations and it is impossible for students to dye their hair. This guy's golden hair mainly comes from his British mother.

Yes, this guy is a mixed-race young master.

The contestants of Yami High School are either rich and noble, or geniuses, and Kubo Shinji belongs to the former. His family runs a multinational company and he is a real rich young man.

Of course, Mizutani Makoto's friendship with him has nothing to do with money.

Makoto Mizutani has no intention of currying favor with the powerful, and his daily life at Yomi High School is quite ordinary. The reason why he became friends with Shinji Kubo is purely because of their geographical advantages.

Shinji Kubo was sitting at his desk.

This person has a very outgoing personality. Since he particularly likes Mizutani Makoto, he took the initiative to socialize with him, and after a few interactions, the two became good friends.

During the first year of high school, the class has just been reorganized, and students from all over the place are scattered in an unfamiliar environment. It is a great time to form a new social circle. The friends you make at this time will basically last throughout the next three years of high school.

Mizutani Makoto: "Are you done with your work?"

Kubo Shinji: "Don't mention it, I don't have anything to do. It's my dad who needs to talk to me."

"But I don't know what they were busy with. They called me to their hometown in the countryside for no apparent reason, and then sent me back for no apparent reason. After that, they were still acting mysteriously..."

Kubo Shinji shook his head vigorously, and Mizutani Makoto had no intention of prying into other people's family affairs. Just as he was about to change the subject, he suddenly saw a cordon ahead.

...cordon?

Mizutani Makoto was stunned for a moment. The building where various clubs held their activities was surrounded by cordons. He also saw a police car parked there, with its sirens flashing red and blue lights, full of warnings.

Several police officers were standing under the shade of the trees, occasionally looking towards the building and talking in low voices.

Judging from the atmosphere, the situation is quite bad.

Mizutani Makoto asked curiously, "What happened over there?"

"Didn't you watch the school forum last night?"

Kubo Shinji poked his head out, looking surprised. "How come you're so out of touch? You should check the campus forum. Even those of me who took leave know what happened. How come you don't know..."

He muttered a few words, then said seriously: "Someone is missing."

"Missing?"

"Sakamoto Kohei, I remember he was the only child in the Sakamoto family, so this incident caused a big stir."

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Chapter 013 Coaxing People into Embryos

Sakamoto Kohei.

Mizutani Makoto had never heard of this name.

Being outside in the wind was definitely not a solution, so Mizutani Makoto quickened his pace and entered the classroom. He was not in a hurry for morning reading, but directly picked up his mobile phone, logged into the campus forum, and prepared to eat a lot of melons.

There's no need to check, the most popular post is about the disappearance of Kohei Sakamoto.

The discussion below is heated.

[The thirteenth staircase? Really?]

[Being pulled into darkness in front of another person? ]

【Through the Dark Portal! 】

[Pfft, please stop being funny all of a sudden, okay? ]

[But isn't this the tone of a campus ghost story? Is our school also into this kind of thing?]

[Yoshi, is there anyone who wants to go try it together tonight? ]

[God damn it, the club building is sealed off, there's no way anyone can get in no matter how hard they try.]

[Come on, please! It's getting scary all of a sudden!]

"With the quality of our school, how could they even produce news about missing people? Are the school's administrators just sitting around doing nothing?"

[Hurry up and find out the truth. We are still in school. Please don't make it so creepy, okay?]

Like similar posts, the comment section is naturally a mixed bag, with heroes from all walks of life, from junior high school to freshman year, joining in the carnival.

This place is anonymous!

I just said a few words, and you think you can add credits to me through the Internet?

Mizutani Makoto browsed the forum for a long time and finally figured things out.

The key person is the high school sophomore named "Takahashi Hideo".

Kubo Shinji moved his chair and turned around from the front table.

"Yes, that help post was posted by Takahashi Shugo after he escaped."

Kubo Shinji said with great interest, "He said that he and Sakamoto Kohei tried the 'Thirteenth Staircase' ghost story in the evening. As a result, Sakamoto Kohei was captured by the ghost story, and he himself was also grabbed by the legs by the ghost story. He had a hard time escaping."

"Sounds like it's made up."

"Of course not. If Sakamoto Kohei hadn't really disappeared, and he hadn't been the last person to contact him, how could his post have gotten so popular?"

Takahashi Hidego himself did not explain how he escaped.

After he escaped, he did not go home, but hid in a corner of the park by himself and posted a message for help in the middle of the night, saying that he had encountered a ghost story and that his junior schoolmate Kohei Sakamoto had disappeared. He was afraid that he would also be "disappeared".

Let’s talk about the missing person, that is Kohei Sakamoto.

This man, a fan of ghost stories, came from a wealthy family with busy parents. His love of ghost stories often led him to spend the night away from home. In this case, his father waited until late at night after a social event and realized he couldn't reach his son, so he hurriedly called the police.

Mizutani Makoto suddenly realized.

If the person had disappeared yesterday evening, the school should have been locked down last night. He wondered how he could have sneaked into the school.

"So, what do we do now?"

"God knows." Kubo Shinji slumped over his desk, his expression particularly speechless. "I'm not Intelligence Jiraiya. I just happened to be browsing the forum before school... What to do is a matter for the police. It's impossible for them to arrest us for a real ghost story, right? We are the young men of the new generation. We have to be scientific!"

No, this world is not scientific at all.

Mizutani Makoto sighed inwardly. He was once a staunch materialist, until Miss JK's suffocating execution last night shattered his faith.

After receiving this bit of spiritual power, he is no longer a mortal.

Just as Mizutani Makoto was about to take over the conversation, a new window suddenly flashed in front of his eyes.

[Series of Tasks: The Eighth Color of Youth!]

Description: The dusk in the teaching building always has a wrinkle more than anywhere else, hiding dried confessions, unsent love letters, and concentric circles drawn with circles on a certain desk. Explore those corners buried deep within the stories, where the ambiguity and innocence of young boys and girls are hidden. That is the eighth shade of blue of youth.

[Quest Requirements: Exterminate the seven mysterious stories hiding in the private Hiiragigaoka Academy campus (0/7)]

silence.

He was just thinking that there seemed to be something fishy about the disappearance of Kohei Sakamoto, and the next second the system pushed this task.

The unique color of your youth refers to those campus ghost stories that are more sinister and cruel than each other?

Mizutani Makoto rubbed his brows and, as usual, ignored the task description and only looked at the task requirements.

Hiding in the private Hiiragigaoka Academy, that means the true identity of these strange stories is actually in the other world, in the map he explored last night?

What about Kohei Sakamoto?

Was I really dragged into the other world by the "Thirteenth Step"?

Damn, it looks like that guy really sent it...

Mizutani Makoto was in mixed emotions.

The mission was completed, but he couldn't tell anyone that Sakamoto Kohei had really been dragged into the other world, and that he had died three times in the other world last night...

As for the scenario where the hero saves Brother Fu, and Brother Fu says that he is quite wealthy, so the hero gives him a huge sum of gold as a reward for saving his life, there is nothing we can do about it.

This enemy is obviously an elite monster. With his small body, he can't even pass the level of Miss JK. How can he possibly compete with such a well-known ghost story?

Powerless.

Let me continue to fight as the Sword God of Shilipo for another ten days or half a month.

After accepting another mission, Mizutani Makoto looked at the mission list and suddenly felt as if there were a mountain of side missions piling up.

Fortunately, he is a die-hard fan who plays Skyrim and even bought a few hundred GB of integrated package to play it again after completing the main storyline. The moment he saw the task list, he felt his DNA stirring and had an urge to complete all the tasks.

"Why are you daydreaming?" Kubo Shinji waved his hand in front of him.

Mizutani Makoto coughed lightly. "I suddenly thought of campus ghost stories. There seem to be seven well-known ones, right? The ones about Miss Hanako?"

"That's indeed...why are you thinking about this?"

"Just letting my thoughts wander. Oh, what did you want to say?"

Kubo Shinji rolled his eyes at him and said, "You're not listening to me carefully."

"I'm talking about the police—I'm worried about the ability of those tax thieves to do their job."

Mizutani Makoto looked up: "What do you mean?"

"They've been investigating since midnight, and it seems they haven't found anything. According to reports from the front lines, these police officers are actually discussing the possibility of 'disappearance'... Listen, does that sound human? If the hallway surveillance can't find anything, they're saying the person is missing. Without surveillance, they won't investigate the case!"

"Besides, there's more than one thing they should be anxious about."

Mizutani Makoto held his chin up and listened attentively.

"It's not like you haven't heard about it. Didn't a girl from another school die mysteriously a while ago?"

"Oh, you mean the sadistic murderer."

Makoto Mizutani remembered this incident. Some time ago, when he was delivering newspapers, he also delivered the news headlines about this guy.

"Yes, that scene was quite brutal." Kubo Shinji couldn't help shaking his head.

"That girl had her limbs chopped off first, then her face was scratched, and finally she was cut in half..."

"Such a terrible incident, the victim's family is almost going crazy, and it's been over a month, right? The investigation has still yielded no leads. The police must be extremely anxious and exhausted, and now they have to deal with the missing rich man's case... Wuhu, I can already imagine their miserable state after the holiday."

At this point in the conversation, Mizutani Makoto had become somewhat nonchalant.

After all, these things are still far away from him.

He packed up his schoolbag and picked out the exercise book.

Knowledge is priceless, but exercise books are. A single copy of this thing may cost one or two thousand yen, but if you count the many versions such as basic exercise books, comprehensive review books, and simulation question books of famous schools, and then expand this price tag to all subjects, the whole set will be extremely expensive.

His net worth is limited, so he is willing to buy this thing. It is purely a personal investment for himself.

I have bought the question book, but if I don’t finish all the questions, I always feel like I am doing something extremely unethical.

"Oh, damn curly dog." Kubo Shinji sighed, staring at him with a pair of dead fish eyes.

He gritted his teeth and said, "Are you really a high school student? There's chaos out there, and there are so many hot topics to talk about, but all you choose is to take out your exercise book and do some exercises? Damn it, I'll give you money, okay? Don't bully me in front of me."

"I'm sorry, but I don't offer this kind of service."

"Damn it, let's talk about murderers! Let's talk about ghost stories! I know a thing or two about everything, I can totally—"

Mizutani Makoto lowered his head to read the questions, and suddenly, Kubo Shinji's voice stopped abruptly.

When he looked up, Kubo Shinji looked at him in amazement as if he was choked.

No, this gaze doesn't look like she's looking at him!