In this anime crossover, who stole my module?

System notification sounds came one after another in Natsume Ryo's mind!

【Ding! 】

[Module fluctuation detected... Module type confirmed...]

[Module: Senior in Red!]

[Status: Partially activated!]

[Holder: Kageyuko!]

[Status: Split personality into two ghosts—Yuuko-senpai and Kage Yuuko.]

[Initiating data connection... Connecting...]

Just as Natsume Ryo was receiving the system information.

At the edge of the activity room, the invisible ripples suddenly contracted, coalescing into a blurry outline.

Like ink dripping into clear water, it outlines a blurry shape.

A pitch-black figure slowly emerged from nothingness, becoming increasingly solid at a visible speed.

And when the fluctuations finally subside completely.

A girl whose appearance and figure were almost identical to Geng Xizi appeared clearly in the activity room.

She also had long, straight, black hair that was smooth and shiny, reaching her waist; she also wore the same faded, old-fashioned school uniform from Soubu High School; and she also had a tall, well-proportioned figure and exquisitely beautiful features.

"That, that is..."

"another me?"

Upon seeing this, Geng Xizi involuntarily shrank back, pressing herself tightly against the wall, her beautiful eyes wide open, staring intently at the forming figure.

I saw.

"Geng Xizi" is completely different from the original.

Her face was as pale as winter snow, her expression lifeless, and her slender eyes, which should have been lively and charming, were now as deep as a bottomless icy pool.

Whenever the original entity has a memory of negative emotions, it will dig out that memory and push it to the target.

"Ying Xizi" exuded an intense and unyielding resentment, and her body was surrounded by a visible black mist.

It was as if all the resentment accumulated over the past sixty years had been brought to life. Those eyes, which should have been lively and charming, were devoid of any light, as if they were constantly churning with an intense and suppressed emotion.

"..."

As soon as Ying Xizi appeared, her eyes did not look at Natsume Ryo, but immediately locked onto Geng Xizi in the corner.

No, don't.

The moment she met Ying Xizi's gaze, Geng Xizi's lips trembled slightly as she murmured. Her hands unconsciously gripped the fabric of her clothes tightly. It felt as if an invisible hand had seized her heart, and a sharp pain surged up along with some dusty, blurred fragments of memory, making it difficult for her to even stand.

When those indescribable negative emotions surge forth like a tidal wave.

Looking at Geng Xizi's appearance, Ying Xizi finally revealed a mocking expression on her pale face.

"What? Just seeing me reminds you of things you don't want to face?"

"Those memories you desperately tried to forget, those memories you desperately pushed back at me...?"

"No...it's not..."

Geng Xizi shook her head vigorously, trying to deny it, but her trembling voice betrayed her inner fear.

"no?"

"Then why are you trembling? Why won't you look at me?"

Ying Xizi floated forward a step, and the black mist around her seemed to become even thicker.

"Haven't you always lived such an easy and carefree life?"

"They dump all the pain on me, and then comfortably enjoy the illusion of being alive."

"Don't you want to get back this memory? The memory of being betrayed by someone you trusted, being abandoned as a sacrifice by the villagers in a dark, cold basement... the memory of slowly dying."

Are you that scared?

"Do you really...hate that part of yourself from the past?"

"Don't...don't..."

Geng Xizi was speechless when asked the question, and the fear in her eyes intensified. She could only shake her head in vain and mutter to herself repeatedly.

……

at the same time.

When these two divided souls confront each other in the activity room—

Ryo Natsume has already made a move.

Because they didn't notice the extremely tense atmosphere between the two of them.

Natsume Ryo completely ignored the intense resentment emanating from Kageyuko and directly grasped her hand.

Just after Natsume Ryo's fingers grasped Kage Yuuko's hand—

next second.

An indescribable pulling sensation suddenly came over me.

"Om-"

[Data link complete!]

[The mystery has begun: the truth behind a story from sixty years ago!]

The system prompt sounds.

A deeper sense of detachment that acts on existence itself.

In Natsume Ryo's eyes, the scene in the activity room around him crumbled like a shattered mirror, and he could clearly feel his body passing through an invisible membrane, as if he were being squeezed from the real world into another dimension.

……

"The truth behind the story from sixty years ago..."

"Am I being dragged into confirming that past relationship with Geng Xizi?"

Following the system's prompts, Natsume Ryo quickly understood his current situation.

Followed by.

The scene changes.

Scene after scene flooded into Natsume Ryo's vision.

Sixty years ago, a remote and backward village was struck by a sudden plague.

The shadow of death spread silently.

In what was once a relatively peaceful village, more than a dozen households fell one after another.

The villagers piled up the deceased's belongings and lit a raging fire, trying to burn away the bad luck that had brought misfortune.

But the crackling flames illuminated faces contorted with fear.

At the height of panic, ignorance breeds.

The village chief, the hunched-over, cloudy-eyed old man, surrounded by the villagers, witnessed the evil god's will and announced his decision in a trembling yet fanatical voice—

They would offer young children as sacrifices to the "evil god" in the mountains to appease the god's anger and bring peace to the village.

When the young Yuuko heard the adults' decision, she thought of the little girl, Asahi, who had lost both her parents and was all alone.

There was no hesitation.

Geng Xizi secretly took Xiaoqian into her home and clumsily took care of her, trying to use her meager strength to create a safe haven for this poor child.

They naively believed that as long as Xiaoqian didn't appear in front of the villagers, they could avoid this disaster.

However, the ignorance that has arisen far exceeds what normal people can imagine.

Before long, Xiaoqian was discovered and forcibly designated by the villagers as the "bronze figure" to communicate with the gods.

On a gloomy afternoon, the villagers gathered in front of the shrine at the village entrance, their faces contorted with rage, demanding that the "bronze figure" Osamu designate the "human sacrifice" that needed to be offered up.

Just as Xiaoqian was trembling with fear as her eyes were covered by a black cloth, a figure stumbled into the crowd—it was Geng Xizi!

She heard the wind and rushed over, desperate to stop this mad ritual.

only.

When Geng Xizi anxiously called out the name "Xiao Qian!"

Terrified, Xiaoqian grasped at the familiar voice as if it were a lifeline.

The name that came to mind was Geng Xizi's.

"Sister Yuko..."

"..."

"Lord Bronze Man called out the name!"

Xiaoqian's shout was like lighting the fuse of an explosive.

All the villagers' eyes instantly focused on Geng Xizi.

Death, plague.

Under the extreme fear created.

The villagers, facing the "bronze statue" Xiaoqian, designated the "human pillar" to be sacrificed.

He lost his last shred of reason.

—Since she's delivered herself to our doorstep, let's seize her and sacrifice her!

Capture her and sacrifice her!

……

"Catch her!"

I don't know who shouted first.

Then, he grabbed Yuko tightly and dragged her like livestock to the entrance of the long-abandoned, bottomless basement behind the shrine.

In the end, Geng Xizi was pushed down hard.

"Do not--!"

I "heard" Geng Xizi's cries as she was dragged away, and I "saw" the despair in her eyes as she was roughly thrown into that cold, musty basement.

Click!

A crisp sound of bone cracking echoed through the darkness.

That was the sound of Geng Xizi's leg bone breaking.

"..."

"..."

From then on, in this dark basement, Geng Xizi broke both her legs. The excruciating pain from the broken leg bones rendered her lower body immobile. The only thing she could do in her final days was to drag herself to the basement mirror and see her increasingly skeletal face. In boundless despair, she would stare wide-eyed, feeling her last bit of life slipping away.

finally.

The scene that Natsume Ryo could see was frozen in complete silence.

"..."

Ryo Natsume sensed that Yuuko's soul had split into two completely different beings—one who retained relatively carefree memories and was almost innocent and carefree, "Yuuko-senpai".

And a "Kageyuko" who embodies all the pain, resentment and despair.

When "Senior Yuuko" accidentally touches upon those painful memories, she subconsciously peels them away and pushes them onto "Yakage Yuuko" to bear.

……

[Data link complete!]

[Core information from the ghost story has been received: Geng Xizi's past]