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"These challenges are getting more and more perverted."
Juju frowned slightly, her face full of disgust.
"Even if it's perverted, we have to complete the challenge." Kitagawa Marin put her hands on her hips, "If we fail the challenge, we won't be able to face the final Abnormality."
Everyone knew clearly.
Others could fail the challenge; only Amamiya Natsuki could not lose.
Once he lost, he wouldn't be able to face the final Abnormality, and even if others cleared the game to the end, they wouldn't be confident enough to kill the Abnormality and rescue those unlucky people.
So now there was only one problem left…
"Who among us will cooperate with Natsuki-kun to complete the challenge?" Fujiwara Chika asked.
"…"
The air immediately fell silent.
The girls all remained quiet.
The content of the challenge was to take upskirt photos. To help, they would have to cooperate by letting a boy take upskirt photos, which was too shameful no matter how you looked at it. Even the gyaru girl Marin felt too embarrassed to volunteer at this moment.
At this moment, a clear, cold voice suddenly spoke.
"I'll do it."
Amamiya Natsuki heard this and turned to look at Nekonoshita.
"I can cooperate and help." Yukinoshita Yukino's expression was calm, her gaze firm, and there was no hesitation in her voice.
For Haruno, she had to step forward.
If she chose to remain silent, why should others sacrifice themselves?
Yukinoshita Yukino had already made up her mind.
"Alright then…" Fujiwara Chika hesitated for a moment, not letting Yukino step back and having others sacrifice instead. She cleared her throat twice and said, "There are still two people left. What do you all say? Is anyone willing to sacrifice themselves?"
"…"
The girls all fell silent.
Only Sayu blinked, her lips slightly upturned, completely unafraid.
She didn't mind sacrificing herself at all; the problem was that as a pet, she couldn't act too intimately. She could only act spoiled when no one was around; for now, she could only remain silent.
The other girls, however, were too embarrassed to step forward.
They could act like hooligans on the train just now, but now that the roles were reversed, shame took over instead.
"Don't ask if anyone is willing to sacrifice. In a situation like this, we can just use the old method, right?" Kitagawa Marin put her right hand on her hip, her voice clear and crisp, "I see a deck of poker cards over there. Let's draw cards. Now that Yukino-chan has volunteered, there are two more people needed. The two people who draw the two smallest cards will be responsible for helping Natsuki complete the challenge. Who objects and who agrees?"
Fujiwara Chika quickly said: "I agree."
The senpai hesitated slightly: "I also agree."
Juju: "…You do as you please; anyway, my luck isn't that bad."
"Kaguya-chan, what do you say?" Kitagawa Marin turned her head excitedly, looking at the Miss.
Shinomiya Kaguya moved her pink lips, and finally nodded gently: "Let's draw lots."
At a time like this, only one thing was most important.
Fairness!
Fairness!
And fairness!
If she drew the lot herself, she would have to go through with the filming, even with tears in her eyes.
"Senpai." Hayasaka Ai threw the poker cards over, "You shuffle them."
Amamiya Natsuki caught the cards: "Leave it to me."
Among everyone, only Komi's face was flushed, and she trembled, recalling the social death scene in the side story where she won the dice game and was publicly confessed to by Amamiya Natsuki.
Hide, hide, hide, hide, hide, hide…
Komi frantically looked towards the restroom, wanting to slip away and hide.
Unfortunately, just as she mustered her courage, Marin grabbed her: "Shoko-chan, come here, come here."
"Ugh…"
The shy girl couldn't help but let out a pathetic cry, and the courage she had just mustered instantly vanished.
"Wait." Amamiya Natsuki suddenly called a halt, "Shoko can't."
"Eh?"
Komi's black hair trembled, and she quickly turned her head, her eyes sparkling as she looked at Amamiya Natsuki, as if a saintess about to be dragged into a goblin's nest had seen the knight who came to save her.
Kitagawa Marin asked in confusion:
"Everyone has to participate in the drawing of lots, why is Shoko the only one who can't?"
"That's right." Fujiwara Chika followed, "So many people are drawing lots, and it's not like only Shoko will be chosen. If Shoko isn't allowed to draw, there's no fairness."
"Let me finish first." Amamiya Natsuki said while shuffling the cards, "Shoko is wearing pantyhose, which doesn't meet the challenge's specific conditions."
"That's true…" Kitagawa Marin looked down and asked curiously, "It's already so hot, why is Shoko still wearing pantyhose?"
Komi covered her skirt with both hands, her face flushed, and she stammered, unable to speak.
Why wear pantyhose?
Firstly, because she liked them.
Secondly, she would never have to worry about accidental exposure.
Just like those female teachers in school, regardless of spring, summer, autumn, or winter, they always wore pantyhose and pencil skirts. It was the same logic for her.
Amamiya Natsuki had already shuffled the cards and placed them one by one on the table, face down, then said:
"So, first, let Shoko go take off her pantyhose."
"…"
Upon hearing this, the shy girl immediately looked up in shock, her eyes filled with incredulous grievance.
Liar!
Take advantage of!
She thought he was a righteous knight saving her, but it turned out he was an evil knight allied with the goblins!
"Don't be scared, everyone, let's draw lots first." Juju comforted her softly, "Shoko usually has good luck, maybe she won't even be chosen."
Amamiya Natsuki stepped back two paces, then said:
"Alright, one card each for you."
Aside from the indifferent Glasses Girl Miss Kousaka, and Nekonoshita who had volunteered to sacrifice herself, everyone else stepped forward and began to draw lots.
"I'll go first."
Kitagawa Marin was the first to step forward, excitedly picking up a poker card.
It didn't matter if she drew the smallest card.
Anyway, she had already seen what she should and shouldn't see; taking a picture of her panties was completely fine.
"Hmm… it's the seven of hearts." Kitagawa Marin flipped over the poker card in her hand, "You all continue."
"I'll go."
Next was Fujiwara Chika.
The pink-haired Secretary adjusted the extremely dark bow in front of her forehead, put her hands together, and then picked up a poker card.
"Eh heh~"
Fujiwara Chika proudly made a peace sign, her eyes curved into crescents, "I'm the nine of spades."
Hayasaka Ai: "Nah, it's the eight of diamonds."
Sayu: "Hmm, I'm the six of hearts."
Juju: "Five of spades, nothing to do with me."
Everyone else then stepped forward to draw lots, and as the poker cards dwindled one by one, Shinomiya Kaguya finally couldn't sit still.
Among the poker cards on the table, the smallest numbers were the two and three, and none had appeared yet, meaning the unlucky ones were among the remaining few cards.
"Other things are fine, but I really don't want to cooperate with this current performance…"
Looking at the last three cards on the table, Shinomiya Kaguya took a deep breath, quickly flipped over one of the poker cards, and then the expression on her face suddenly froze.
"It's the two of hearts." Fujiwara Chika leaned over to look, "Kaguya-chan's luck is super good."
Shinomiya Kaguya bit her lip, and couldn't help but complain:
"…It's the smallest card, how is that good luck?!"
She drew the card herself, so she had to take responsibility, even with tears in her eyes.
The Young Lady pursed her pink lips and began to think about what would happen next.
(The panties I'm wearing today are Winnie the Pooh, and the color is… Will it be too childish? Should I go change them?)
(What pose should I use when cooperating with the performance?)
(In those previous manga, girls' accidental exposure poses usually involve leaning on a railing and then bending over… No! That pose is too shameful!)
At the same time.
Koyasu Tsubame turned to the shy girl and said gently, "There are only two cards left, Shoko, do you want to draw first or should I?"
In the Miroku Hospital instance, the two of them were found first by Amamiya Natsuki, and then worked together in the Restaurant for a long time, their relationship much better than the others.
"..."
Komi had already entered vibration mode, trembling incessantly, unable to utter a single word. Her pretty face was flushed, and steam billowed from the top of her head, clearly anticipating her tragic future.
"I'll draw first then."
Koyasu Tsubame sighed helplessly, her eyes moving as she quietly made up her mind, then casually picked up a playing card.
"Senpai, what number card is it?" Fujiwara Chika asked curiously, looking over.
Clap!
Koyasu Tsubame clapped her hands together, cupping the card in her palm, then an annoyed expression appeared on her pretty face as she said, "Oh dear, bad luck, it's the Three of Hearts."
"Phew..."
Upon hearing this, Komi immediately clutched her chest and let out a long sigh, like a prisoner about to be executed who had just received a pardon.
The Three of Hearts had been drawn, so naturally, there was no need to look at the last card.
In other words, she finally wouldn't have to experience the feeling of social death.
"It's Senpai, really?" Kitagawa Marin blinked, a little suspicious, but didn't say much more. "In that case, hurry up and cooperate with Natsuki to complete the challenge!"
"No need."
At this moment, a faint voice rang out.
Amamiya Natsuki, who had quietly disappeared since everyone started drawing lots, reappeared, shaking the phone in his hand, and then said, "The challenge has already been completed."
"Eh, eh, eh?!"
The girls all covered their skirts, looking over in disbelief.
"Lewd!"
"Hentai!"
"Natsuki-kun already took a sneak peek?"
"When did that happen? I didn't notice at all."
"You're that peeping pervert who was recently arrested, aren't you!"
"..."
"I'm not, don't talk nonsense." Amamiya Natsuki said with a righteous face, "It's perfectly normal and reasonable for me to use the Time Stop skill so as not to embarrass you."
Sayu asked curiously, "Marin-chan, what's a peeping pervert?"
Kitagawa Marin held up a finger: "It's a super perverted man who was recently arrested..."
The peeping pervert, from the age of nineteen until forty-nine, for thirty years, never worked, insisted on his peeping career, currently has tens of thousands of victims, and has even formed a peeping group, with members including police, civil servants, teachers, doctors, and various other professions, with an annual net profit of over 100 million Yen... He's simply a pervert among perverts.
While everyone was verbally attacking Amamiya Natsuki, Komi's peripheral vision suddenly caught sight of the last playing card on the table. Her heart stirred slightly, and she couldn't help but quietly flip it over.
A Three of Hearts appeared before her eyes.
"Se-Senpai..."
Komi's eyes widened, and she couldn't help but look tearfully at Koyasu Tsubame.
"Shhh~"
Koyasu Tsubame put a finger to her lips, making a gesture to keep it a secret, then closed one eye and whispered, "Don't tell anyone about this, okay?"
"..."
In any case, the challenge mission was successfully completed.
The challenges continued.
"Me, me, me, I received a new challenge!" Kitagawa Marin held up her phone, but the next second, her brows furrowed, and she couldn't help but exclaim, "...Ugh, how disgusting!"
Amamiya Natsuki was sitting beside the Succubus Girl. Hearing her, he looked at her phone, and after seeing the challenge content, he also frowned.
"It actually makes people go to a Restaurant, use all the toothpicks, and then put them back in the toothpick holder... I can't bear to look."
"That's too disgusting."
"I can't do it. From now on, I'll never use the toothpicks in Restaurants again."
"..."
After hearing the challenge content, everyone expressed that it was too disgusting to look at.
"I can't do it." Kitagawa Marin put down her phone and said pitifully, "I can't accompany everyone to the end."
Marin had originally been full of confidence, determined to challenge all the way to the end, but unfortunately, she encountered such a challenge and could only helplessly give up.
The subsequent challenges were similar.
Either they violated morality or they had already broken the law. Many of the challenge contents were too terrible to complete, so people successively gave up.
In the end, only Amamiya Natsuki, Shinomiya Kaguya, Yukinoshita Yukino, and Hayasaka were still persisting. The other girls had already entered 'lie flat' mode; as long as they didn't send 'continue, don't stop' messages to the anomaly, the challenges wouldn't be so frequent, returning to the state of the Glasses Girl, where there would only be one or two challenges per day.
Buzz buzz.
The phone vibrated again.
Amamiya Natsuki picked up his phone, raising an eyebrow slightly: "A new challenge has appeared."
"Eh, what is it?" Fujiwara Chika curiously leaned on Amamiya Natsuki's shoulder and couldn't help but exclaim, "How did the content change?"
Everyone else looked over curiously: "What challenge is it?"
"Extreme Challenge." Amamiya Natsuki said calmly, "It wants me to choose a tower crane over fifty meters tall, then blindfold myself, without any protective measures, and walk back and forth on the crane arm once... The time limit is twenty-four hours."
"Walking back and forth on such a high tower crane without any protective measures is too dangerous." Sayu immediately frowned, looking over worriedly, "How about..."
Amamiya Natsuki looked at Sayu, giving her a reassuring look, and said calmly:
"I actually think the appearance of this challenge means that the anomaly is starting to get anxious."
"Eh?" Kitagawa Marin was startled, "What do you mean?"
Shinomiya Kaguya took over the conversation and analyzed:
"The first round of challenges were all very simple, almost equivalent to pranks. Giving up meant failure. The difficulty of the second round of challenges increased, and the subsequent challenges violated morality and law, respectively. And now, the challenge content has begun to endanger lives."
"There's another thing to note." Hayasaka Ai held up a finger, "Miss Kousaka has experienced more challenges than Senpai, but there has never been any challenge content that endangered her life, and the same goes for other ordinary people. This indirectly proves one thing... that anomaly is starting to resort to desperate measures."
"That's right." Amamiya Natsuki nodded, "If I'm not mistaken, completing this last challenge will allow us to face that anomaly directly."
"Even so, walking on a fifty-meter high tower crane is too dangerous." Koyasu Tsubame bit her lip, her brows furrowed, "Tower cranes only exist on construction sites. Although twenty-four hours are given, it's definitely not possible during the day when everyone is at work. In other words, the challenge can only be completed tonight."
"Th-that..."
Komi didn't dare to speak, only nervously held up her phone.
Juju turned to look at her phone and quickly said, "The weather bureau said it will be windy tonight, and there's a high chance of rain."
"..."
Upon hearing this, everyone fell silent.
Walking unprotected on a tower crane dozens of meters high on a windy and rainy night, and even blindfolded, the danger factor was simply explosive. It was clearly dancing with death. Once one slipped and fell from the tower crane, even a player would have no chance of survival.
"Natsuki, how about we give up on this challenge?"
After a brief silence, Kitagawa Marin was the first to speak.
The danger of the Extreme Challenge was too high; she would never let her boyfriend risk his life to play that kind of challenge.
Seeing someone speak, Sayu quickly followed, "It's really too dangerous, Natsuki-sama, don't play this challenge."
As a pet, everything was for her master's consideration; nothing else mattered.
Shinomiya Kaguya crossed her arms over her chest: "President, it's too dangerous without safety protection."
In the face of absolute danger, the young lady decisively chose the most important person.
Juju also said:
"Don't be impulsive, there might be other ways."
Although she usually complained about Amamiya Natsuki's lewdness and shamelessness, when true danger arose, she would naturally stand by Amamiya Natsuki. As for the disappeared Haruno... she could only say sorry.
Even the Secretary didn't speak, allowing Amamiya Natsuki to continue the challenge.
Everyone knew who was more important.
"It's not as dangerous as you say." Amamiya Natsuki intertwined his fingers and said softly, "I can't take defensive measures myself, but that doesn't mean others can't... Don't forget Shimizu-nee is also here."
A resentful voice followed, Mrs. Shimizu's tone aggrieved: "You finally remembered me."
Just because 'koukou gao fan' was a forbidden word, she had been warned several times, and now she didn't even have any screen time. It was too much!
Fujiwara Chika's eyes lit up, and she said, "Shimizu-nee, as a ghost, can not only pass through walls but also float, so she can indeed help."
Sayu raised an objection: "But Shimizu-nee's strength is very small, isn't it?"
"..."
Yukinoshita Yukino parted her pink lips, but ultimately couldn't speak.
From a rational perspective, she should persuade Amamiya Natsuki to give up the challenge, as the danger factor was simply too high.
But from an emotional perspective, once Amamiya Natsuki chose to give up, her hope of saving her sister by herself was extremely low.
Indeed.
Absolutely correct tools do not exist...
"Shimizu-nee doesn't need much strength." Amamiya Natsuki said, "She just needs to prepare tools nearby. Everyone has already received the reality mission, and there's no option to give up... So that's that."
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