I'm raising a fox fairy wife in Tokyo

That really was suicide!

calm down!

Gao Chuan would never harm himself.

and so……

Kaguya Shinomiya quickly realized that this was probably an "experience," except that it was a "suicide experience."

I won't actually die, but I will definitely experience a suicide attempt.

After all, the child's name is "Self-Slaying Child," which means "self-slaying," so it makes sense!

If you think about it that way, it's alright...

It's not good at all! It's terrible!!

Humans have an almost instinctive resistance to death; even the mere thought that one will die can bring immense psychological pressure.

If a gun is pointed at you, most people will go weak in the knees and become incoherent;

Standing on a narrow mountain path and gazing down at the cliff below can make you feel dizzy and disoriented, leaving your mind blank.

Kaguya Shinomiya received cruel "tutoring" from her family from a young age.

It's not that bad.

but.

The thought of cutting off his own head with a knife still made his hands and feet go cold, and he couldn't help but want to desperately turn around and run away.

That's terrifying, absolutely terrifying!!

An instinctive fear spread from within.

The inability to move further accelerated its expansion.

until...

Suddenly, Kaguya Shinomiya heard a chorus of footsteps behind her.

He reluctantly turned his head back.

The girl saw it: in the pitch-black summer night, countless pale-faced men and women with calm expressions were running towards her like a tidal wave, holding sharp knives.

The company held a team-building event featuring a suicide game!

How could I have forgotten about them?!

Hey, hey, hey, didn't Takagawa say that kid would protect the tourists? Hurry up and protect him!! What on earth is going on?

And what about Takagawa?

Kaguya Shinomiya then realized that the boy had not appeared for a long time.

This guy……

Could it be that they knew this would happen, so they simply didn't come in?

Bastard, bastard!!

Ever since their first meeting, Kaguya Shinomiya has seen the boy's calm and gentle smile in her mind, and her fists hardened once more.

then.

The boy's illusory figure before them was directly replaced by the "employees" of the suicide game.

They moved at an uncanny speed.

Running, it finally pounced on itself.

wrong!

It was that idiot Fujiwara who upset you all, why am I included too...?

!!!

No one responded.

The moment they made contact, Kaguya Shinomiya was plunged into darkness.

A long, long period of darkness.

Then...

……

"Kaguya, what are the Shinomiya family's precepts?"

"Don't rely on others, be the one to give orders."

The young girl sat upright on the tatami mat, reciting poetry with a blank expression.

"Don't accept from others, take from them."

"Don't fall in love with anyone else, without exception."

……

"The Shijo family is our enemy. Don't speak to anyone from the Shijo family, Kaguya!"

……

"Kaguya doesn't seem to be the Shinomiya family's biological daughter. Her mother used to be the top courtesan in Ginza... and she was born to a concubine. Now that her mother has been gone for so long, it's normal that she finds life in the Shinomiya family very difficult."

……

"What do you mean 'stop doing it'?! You don't understand anything at all, all you do is say things that make people angry, even if it's someone from the Shinomiya family!!"

……

Negative memories are like a tidal wave.

At this moment.

It surged forth from the depths of my heart.

Those who break promises are scum, and those who reveal my secrets are never friends; I was just trying to persuade them to give up, but those without talent are only hurting themselves if they keep trying; why are the Shijou family so carefree, coming to play with me even though they're my enemies...?

[Clearly...]

[She just wanted to be an ordinary girl, to cry freely, laugh freely, shout freely, and to have an ordinary relationship.]

[It's all because of the Shinomiya family, because my name is Shinomiya Kaguya, even though I might not even be a member of this family at all.]

【so. 】

[As long as it's not Kaguya Shinomiya, it'll be fine, right?]

sudden.

In the darkness, the girl wanted to take a step forward.

But just as this thought popped into her head, Kaguya Shinomiya broke out in a cold sweat.

No.

I will never succumb to such a life.

Otherwise, what's the point of persisting until now?

and……

I already have friends.

Hayasaka, Fujiwara... Shijo could barely count, and...

The image of Takagawa Ryuna's unreliable nature resurfaced in the girl's mind.

Now I have friends.

You will have a lover who loves you tenderly in the future!

There will still be ordinary, happy life in the future!

That's why I won't give up!

……

"what!"

With a soft gasp, the darkness vanished in the blink of an eye.

What Kaguya Shinomiya saw.

It was layer upon layer of countless non-existent male and female spirits surrounding him from all directions, their cold eyes continuing to gather around him.

No way, I'll never join you guys!

Who would want to work for a game company that's all about suicide?!

Just as the girl was desperately refusing and shouting.

in the dark.

Countless pale hands appeared.

Kaguya Shinomiya saw it.

The girl opened her empty mouth and said something silently.

Subsequently.

Those pale, slender hands gently landed on the employees of the "Suicide Game Company".

"Pfft!"

All of them were torn to pieces in an instant.

The exaggerated amount of bleeding made the already gruesome scene even more terrifying.

A sea of ​​corpses and blood.

This was the first time the girl had truly grasped the physical meaning of this term.

Ha people.

This is……

What is the child's ability?

What is the strength of [Thousand Souls Flowery Self-Slaying Child]?

It was like a nightmare.

Kaguya Shinomiya found herself standing once again atop the icy waterfall.

One after another, the dark figures continued to line up, severing their own heads and letting them fall into the lake below the waterfall.

until...

Besides himself, all that remained before him was the petite girl in white.

Please don't forget us.

She said so.

The head and body fell again together.

Before she knew it, Kaguya Shinomiya found herself standing on the edge of a waterfall.

Even in the darkest of nights.

The crimson waterfall, and the pool below piled high with corpses, remained incredibly clear.

Even in a daze.

The heads floating on the water seemed to raise their heads and look at me.

what.

The next moment.

Kaguya Shinomiya saw her body falling.

Subsequently.

It was enveloped by the cold lake water.