I'm in a crossover anime world, and I've been transported to Hogwarts twice.

This feeling is so unfamiliar!

Genichi Hanyu, the ruthless monarch who had just shocked the world with his thunderous methods and made countless giants tremble with fear, was now like a clumsy actor who had been pushed into the spotlight but forgot his lines. For the first time outside the realm of absolute power, he felt a sense of bewilderment bordering on terror.

He opened his mouth, only to find that his pride in his wisdom and eloquence completely failed him in the face of this simple word.

Inside the observation deck, all was still deathly silent.

Only Shinobu Kocho's calm yet powerful gaze, like warm sunlight, pierced through all the cold barriers Genichi Hanyu had erected, shining directly upon his heart, a heart that had never truly opened to emotion.

167 Kaguya Shinomiya: It's over, the company is dead.

The air on the terrace seemed to solidify, so heavy it was suffocating.

Kaguya Shinomiya's inner battle was raging, and the immense struggle almost tore her frail body apart!

She was like a butterfly trapped in the center of a spider web. Every time she tried to flap her wings called courage, she was tightly bound by sticky threads called pride and fear, unable to move.

She bit her bleeding lips hard, her face shifting violently between the flush of shame and the deathly paleness of fear, and only suppressed whimpers like those of a wounded young animal could be heard from her throat.

Every second of silence felt like a dull knife, cutting back and forth across Hayasaka Ai's heart!

She looked at her young mistress, who was on the verge of collapse but still clung to her last bit of pitiful self-respect and refused to let go. She saw the desperate light in her eyes, which was churning violently but could never break through the barrier.

That burning frustration and the fear that the young lady might fall into the abyss again in the future finally erupted like a volcano that had been suppressed to the extreme!

She broke through all the maids' etiquette, calm pretense, and concerns about boundaries!

enough!

Hayasaka Ai's eyes instantly became incredibly sharp, like a drawn blade!

She took a sudden step forward, the crisp sound of her footsteps echoing like thunder on the deathly silent terrace!

She no longer looked at Kaguya Shinomiya, but instead shone her icy blue eyes, burning with resolute flames, like two cold searchlights, directly at the demon who controlled everything and waited for the answer as if watching a play—Genichi Hanyu!

Her voice, no longer the head maid's calm and collected tone, carried a desperate, almost screaming intensity, resounding clearly through the night sky: "She likes you!" 877

Hayasaka Ai pointed to the swaying Kaguya Shinomiya beside her, each word as heavy and cold as hailstones hitting the ground!

"Kaguya Shinomiya likes you, she's almost gone crazy with love for you!"

These words were like detonating a massive mental annihilation bomb in Kaguya Shinomiya's already collapsing mental world!

"Xiao Ai!!!"

Kaguya Shinomiya let out a short, extremely sharp, and piercing scream!

The voice was filled with unbelievable shame and indignation, as well as the extreme shame of having one's soul exposed in public!

She abruptly turned to look at Hayasaka Ai, her ruby-like eyes widening to their limit, her pupils contracting violently, reflecting Hayasaka Ai's resolute yet unfamiliar face!

She felt her brain buzz, and all her thinking ability and perception were completely shattered in that instant!

Hayasaka Ai, the Ai she trusted most, her last bastion, actually, actually tore away her last fig leaf with her own hands!

She so nakedly, brutally, and without reservation threw her most unbearable, most secret, and most unwillingly admitted thoughts in front of Genichi Hanyu!

This made her feel a thousand times more ashamed and desperate than if Genichi Hanyu had personally interrogated her!

However, at this moment, Hayasaka Ai seemed to have transformed into a ruthless machine that existed solely to achieve her goals.

She completely ignored Kaguya Shinomiya's heart-wrenching scream and the palpable pain and pleading that instantly welled up in her eyes.

Her gaze remained fixed on Genichi Hanyu, her voice like a machine gun, carrying an almost accusatory intensity, peeling away all of Kaguya Shinomiya's clumsy yet incredibly real emotions, which she had tried to hide, layer by layer, exposing them to the cold moonlight.

"Genichi Hanyu, look carefully!"

Hayasaka Ai's voice trembled slightly with excitement, yet every word she uttered was filled with anguish.

"If she didn't love you to the point of losing her mind, how could the eldest daughter of the prestigious Shinomiya family go crazy and use all the family's resources to search for a missing collaborator without regard for the cost or consequences?"

"She stayed up for days and nights without sleep, just to wait for news that might not even exist. Was that anxiety and worry real?!"

She took another step closer, her tone aggressive: "Back in Chaldea! She denied it like a fool, bristling like a cat whose tail has been stepped on. You think that meant she disliked you?!"

Hayasaka Ai's voice suddenly rose, filled with a kind of angry disappointment: "Wrong! That's precisely because she cares about you too much, so much that she doesn't dare to admit it, so much that she's afraid you'll see through her fragile feelings, so much that she can only use the most foolish tsundere to cover up her inner panic and inferiority!"

Her words struck like a heavy hammer against Kaguya Shinomiya's already fragile defenses!

"She's just a complete, hopeless, and stubborn tsundere. She doesn't even have the courage to face her own heart. She's afraid of being rejected, afraid of being ridiculed, afraid of losing even the last bit of her pitiful self-esteem!"

Hayasaka Ai's voice was filled with heartache and indignation. She looked at Hanyu Genichi as if accusing fate of injustice: "I can't watch her go on like this anymore. I can't watch her push away what she really wants time and time again because of that damned, twisted pride, trapping herself in a cold shell, drawing a circle around herself, and torturing herself!"

She pointed sharply at the slumped Kaguya Shinomiya, her voice filled with final resolve: "So I'm telling you, this is her answer! Whether you accept it or not, whether you find it laughable or not, this is Kaguya Shinomiya, a complete idiot and coward who likes you but doesn't even dare to admit it!"

Hayasaka Ai's words, like the most violent emotional storm, swept across the entire terrace. Every word was like a barbed whip, lashing fiercely at Kaguya Shinomiya's unsuspecting soul!

I'm so crazy about it.

They mobilized all resources and worked tirelessly for days and nights.

She's stubbornly proud and aloof, afraid to admit it, trying to hide her panic and inferiority complex.

You idiot, you coward.

These words, like the most vicious curse and the most precise scalpel, completely, cruelly, and bloodily peeled away the perfect shell she had meticulously constructed for twenty years, the shell called Princess Kaguya of Ice, along with the armor she relied on for survival, the armor called tsundere!

She laid bare her true and fragile heart, which beat humbly in the darkness, yearning for love yet fearing it, to the very person she least wanted to see!

Exposed to this cold moonlight!

They were exposed to Genichi Hanyu's eyes, which seemed to see through everything!

It’s over.

It's all over.

My last shred of dignity, my last vestige of pretense, were all shattered by Xiao Ai herself.

In his eyes, I must have looked like a complete clown.

A pathetic creature who doesn't even dare to admit he likes someone.

This thought, like the last straw that broke the camel's back, carried destructive power and instantly shattered Kaguya Shinomiya's already crumbling mental defenses!

She could almost see clearly the unsurprised, mocking, and pitying smirk on Genichi Hanyu's face, and hear him say to her in his deep, magnetic voice, as if delivering a verdict: "Ha, so the eldest daughter of the Shinomiya family, the so-called Princess Kaguya of the Ice, is nothing but a coward who doesn't even dare to admit her own feelings."

Do not! ! !

The extreme shame, the immense despair, the fear of being completely seen through, and the heartache of Hayasaka Ai's betrayal—all these emotions surged like a flood, instantly shattering the last shred of clarity in her mind!

Kaguya Shinomiya's wide-open ruby ​​eyes, filled with horror, shame, pain, and despair, suddenly lost their pupils!

All the brilliance seemed to be instantly stripped away, leaving only a deathly silence and desolation!

Her mouth was open, but she could no longer make a sound. Her body went limp as if all the bones had been removed.

"Miss Kaguya!!!"

Hayasaka Aina's resolute and angry voice came to an abrupt halt!

Instead, a heart-wrenching scream filled with immense panic and disbelief erupted!

She watched helplessly as Kaguya Shinomiya's body, like a puppet with its strings cut, fell straight backward!

All the color drained from that exquisitely beautiful face in an instant, leaving only a chilling ashen gray!

Her long eyelashes, like a butterfly with broken wings, drooped down helplessly.

"doctor!!!"

Hayasaka Ai let out an unprecedentedly shrill scream, her voice distorted by extreme fear, piercing the silent night sky!

She lunged forward like an arrow, and just before Kaguya Shinomiya's body was about to crash heavily onto the cold ground, she narrowly cushioned her fall with her own!

"Quickly, call a doctor! Hurry!!"

Hayasaka Ai tightly hugged the numb, chillingly cold body in her arms, raised her head, her icy blue eyes filled with bloodshot veins, and let out a desperate howl at the empty mansion like a wounded mother wolf!

"If anything happens to Kaguya-sama, none of you will live!!!"

That fierce threat, with a madness that seemed to want to destroy everything, completely lost its usual composure.

Chaos erupted instantly on the terrace. The piercing alarm, seemingly triggered by the scream, blared out in a mournful cacophony.

Footsteps and exclamations came from all directions.

Genichi Hanyu remained standing in the same spot.

The playful and composed air on his face vanished the moment Kaguya Shinomiya fainted.

A flicker of surprise flashed across his deep eyes, quickly replaced by a more profound and complex emotion that was difficult to decipher.

He looked at the lifeless, doll-like face in Hayasaka Ai's arms, and at Hayasaka Ai's fierce and desperate expression, like a mother beast protecting her cubs. His brows furrowed almost imperceptibly.

He didn't move, but simply watched quietly as the chaos that had started because of him spiraled out of control.

The moonlight cast a long shadow over him, carrying a silent, heavy sense of oppression.

168 If doing this makes me a traitor, then so be it.

Consciousness, like a sinking ship, struggled to slowly rise from the dark, cold seabed.

Kaguya Shinomiya's eyelashes felt heavy, as if glued shut, and she struggled to pry them open a tiny gap.

What comes into view is the familiar soft glow of the crystal chandelier, illuminating the intricate and luxurious antique carvings on the ceiling.

The air was filled with a faint, reassuring scent of disinfectant mixed with the expensive incense she often used.

This is her bedroom.

"What's wrong with me?"

A muttered word, thick with nasal tone and a sense of bewilderment, escaped from her dry throat.

My brain felt like it was stuffed with soaked cotton, chaotic and heavy.

However, this chaos lasted for less than a second!

As if a terrible switch had been flipped, countless fragmented yet clear images, like a flood bursting its banks, swept away her fragile peace with destructive power in an instant!

Chaldea Observation Deck!

The jarring scene of Shinobu Kocho rushing into Genichi Hanyu's arms!

Genichi Hanyu's eyes held a mixture of mockery and control!

On the terrace, he pressed on relentlessly, asking, "Do you like me?"

His own suffocating struggle, as if his throat were being choked!

Then it's Hayasaka Ai!

Hayasaka Aina's voice resounded through the night sky like a thunderclap!

"She likes you! Kaguya Shinomiya likes you! She's practically going crazy with love for you!"

"She's a complete and utter tsundere! She doesn't even have the courage to face her own feelings!"

"Idiot! Coward!"

Every single word!

Every single frame!

They were like steel needles coated with deadly poison, piercing deep into her most sensitive nerve endings!

The extreme shame of having her soul stripped bare in public, her dignity utterly crushed, and all her vulnerability and fragility laid bare before Genichi Hanyu, swept over her entire body like a tsunami!

Kaguya Shinomiya's body suddenly stiffened!

It's like being hit by an invisible electric current!

Her ruby ​​eyes, which had just opened and were still filled with a bewildered mist, widened to their maximum size in an instant!

His pupils contracted violently due to extreme horror and disbelief!

The ceiling carvings were reflected inside, and it was as if I saw my own pathetic figure nailed to the pillar of shame, mocked by others!

Do not!

This is impossible!

This is not true!

A massive, overwhelming desire to deny her instantly engulfed her!

She preferred to believe it was a bizarre and absurd nightmare!