"Marin-chan, open the door, we're here!"
Chika's voice rang out from outside the door.
"Eh?"
Marin, who was originally preparing escape tools, heard the shout and walked to the activity room door with a skeptical look, whispering:
"Chika-chan?"
"It's us." Chika said confidently, "We're here to save you."
Sayu's voice then rang out from outside the door:
"Marin-chan, open the door, those guys have all been driven away by Chika-chan."
Marin confirmed it was them, then opened the door. Seeing the girls outside, she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and quickly said:
"Hurry, hurry, let's go, let's go quickly, lest those madwomen come back."
Fighting with those tissue evil spirits was meaningless. Players would bleed, feel pain, and get injured, but those tissue evil spirits didn't care about anything.
"With me here, there's no need to panic." Chika put her hands on her hips, lifted her pretty face, and walked into the activity room with light steps. "I'll beat one if one comes, and I'll beat two if two come."
The girls walked into the activity room.
It could be seen that the curtains had been torn by Marin and she was about to tie them together, clearly Marin had chosen to escape by descending from the window.
There was no other way, this was the third floor, nearly ten meters from the ground. With an ordinary person's physical fitness, jumping down from such a height would most likely result in injury, so appropriate auxiliary means were necessary.
Of course, they were completely unnecessary now.
"Eh…"
Blinking her eyes, Marin looked at Sayu in confusion, whispering:
"What's wrong with Chika-chan?"
Sayu's eyes sparkled:
"Chika-chan was super amazing just now, she used the Water Bullet Technique to drive those guys away."
"Eh?" Marin was startled, and asked in confusion, "Aren't everyone's abilities sealed?"
After speaking, Marin quickly reacted, and said excitedly:
"Could it be the President?!"
"It has nothing to do with the President." Chika proudly lifted her chin, revealing a section of her fair, shameful neck. "It's my natural talent, I found a loophole to break through the instance's restrictions…"
Whoosh!
While Chika was talking, Hayasaka quietly walked behind Chika, grabbed the hem of Chika's school uniform skirt, and suddenly lifted it up.
Black over-the-knee socks, slender legs, as well as fair skin and cute little bears, were all exposed to the air.
"Meow!"
Suddenly ambushed, Chika couldn't help but exclaim, and quickly covered her skirt with both hands, puffing out her cheeks and shouting:
"Hanamori-chan, don't suddenly lift my skirt, what if someone sees it?"
"Well~" Hayasaka stood up, tilted her head, and said, "This is a girls' school, so it doesn't matter if someone sees it, right?"
"Of course it matters." Chika argued, "Even in a girls' school, you can't just lift someone's skirt casually. What if I wasn't wearing panties?"
Hayasaka extended a finger, gently twirling a strand of hair by her ear, and said:
"If you weren't wearing panties, Chika-chan should consider if that's your own problem."
"Um…" Marin's beautiful eyes widened, and she couldn't help but say, "I just saw something on Chika-chan's thigh that looked very familiar…"
"Mhm." Sayu nodded in agreement, her voice full of anticipation, "I saw it too."
Kaguya finally whispered:
"Chika-chan… why do you have a leg attachment on your leg?"
"Cough cough… that is…"
Seeing that her 'cheat' had been exposed, Chika coughed twice and quickly said:
"Alright, I'll come clean, no more pretending. I just used a Great Summoning Technique to summon the President, and…"
Secretary Chika spoke while taking off the leg attachment, a smug expression on her pretty face, and she snorted softly:
"And the President's abilities haven't been sealed."
As the leg attachment shimmered, Natsuki's figure then appeared out of thin air in the activity room.
"Ah, ah, it's really Natsuki!"
"Wahhh~ Master!"
Seeing Natsuki appear before them, Marin and Sayu immediately became excited. Disregarding the others present, they happily hugged Natsuki from left and right.
Kaguya took half a step forward with her feet, but quickly restrained herself. Her gaze, however, involuntarily drifted downwards, her pretty face slightly flushed, and she quickly turned her pretty face away, saying:
"President, put your clothes on quickly!"
"…"
The two parties successfully reunited in the tissue evil spirit school, naturally overjoyed. After Natsuki put on his clothes, everyone began to talk about the recent situation in the instance.
"It's all my credit." Chika put her hands on her hips, lifted her chin, and said proudly, "Earlier in art class, the blood-letter mission required me to draw with blood. Where would I get so much blood? So I tried summoning the President, and he 'whooshed' and appeared."
Marin asked curiously:
"Aren't we unable to use our abilities? Why were you still able to summon Natsuki?"
Hayasaka said from the side:
"Chika-chan's summoning should have just been a flick of her finger. To be precise, it should be the President actively activating his ability and teleporting himself over."
Natsuki gave Hayasaka an appreciative look, and said solemnly:
"Hayasaka-san is indeed intelligent."
"Tsk."
Hayasaka's eyes rolled.
As for the reason, she was the first girl to witness Natsuki's teleportation ability, but it was used for stealing food, and he didn't do anything proper at all.
Natsuki ignored Hayasaka's small glance and began to talk about his experiences outside:
"Besides you all, I've already found Senpai, Juju, Shoko, and Yukino Haruno…"
"So much has happened." Marin put her hands on her hips, her eyes sparkling. If she hadn't been mindful of Kaguya and Hayasaka, she would have surely jumped up by now, clinging to Natsuki like a koala. "Unlike us, we just spawned in the girls' school and couldn't do anything. We couldn't even get out."
"The most hateful thing is that they sealed our abilities and backpacks!"
Marin clenched her fists, her cheeks puffed out, indicating her displeasure:
"My abilities had just been strengthened, and I was ready to wreak havoc, but I couldn't use them, I just couldn't use them!"
Natsuki patted Marin's head to comfort her, then asked about the situation at the girls' school.
When he was summoned by Chika in the classroom earlier, the situation was urgent, and there wasn't time to go into detail about many things.
Kaguya pursed her lips and softly began to provide information:
"This school is a girls' school, named St. Rose Girls' Academy…"
Upon hearing this name, Natsuki's eye twitched slightly, and he couldn't help but retort:
"Is there a Shame Club in the school?"
"Eh?" Kaguya was startled, and tilted her head slightly, saying, "The name sounds a bit familiar… but as far as I know, there doesn't seem to be such a club."
This time it was Natsuki's turn to be surprised:
"Why does it sound familiar?"
This was an 18+ galgame, there was no way Shinomiya should have been exposed to it, right?
Hayasaka whispered from the side:
"I also have some impression… it seems I encountered it somewhere."
"Hmm?"
Natsuki frowned slightly.
Kaguya had an impression, and Hayasaka also had an impression. Could it be that in this girls' school, there really was a wet and shameful club?
"How about Chika?" Natsuki turned and asked, "Have you heard of it?"
"Probably not… right?" Chika said uncertainly, "These past two days, we've been cautiously and nervously gathering information in the school, and we haven't heard of any strangely named clubs."
"I remember now." Hayasaka pressed her forehead and said, "It was a dream from a while ago… In the dream, I was tricked by Chika into the activity room. At that time, the President seemed to be in the activity room and said that our world was a metaverse VR game, and the name of the game seemed to be something like Wet Kaguya Shame Academy… If I remember correctly, that should be the name."
Natsuki: "…"
What's going on?
Why would Hayasaka dream about these things?
After returning from the other world, Natsuki was very sure that he had not talked about those things that happened in the other world's school Strange Tale, after all, it was too terrible—
Pretending to be the only player in a metaverse game, deceiving Hayasaka, saying that everyone else in the school were all NPCs, and using Kaguya's chastity as a threat to force Hayasaka to abet evil… No matter how he thought about it, these were things that only evil villains and characters from adult manga would do.
Kaguya crossed her right arm over her chest, slightly furrowing her delicate brows, and said:
"I think I also dreamed of a similar scene…"
Hayasaka tilted her head and looked over, saying:
"The President's expression is a bit strange, could he know something?"
"This is a long story, we'll talk about it later when we have time…" Natsuki shook his head and said seriously, "First, let's deal with this girls' academy."
"…"
Kaguya, Chika, Marin, and the others all spawned in the girls' academy. Although their appearances and voices had changed, making them unrecognizable face-to-face, a similar situation had occurred once before in a previous instance, so everyone was well-prepared. Following the secret code agreed upon before entering the instance, they successfully confirmed each other's identities. As for whether there were other players in the school, that remained unknown.
After successfully forming a team, the next step was to explore the secrets of the school.
Doing nothing and hiding for three days might allow them to clear the instance, but they would only receive the most basic rewards. Kaguya and Hayasaka were naturally not content with this; their goal was to explore the hidden secrets behind the school and actively clear the instance.
"There isn't a single man in the school." Hayasaka whispered, "Generally speaking, while girls' academies don't have male students, they usually have male teachers."
Marin added:
"Not only that, it seems you can't mention 'men' here. If a man appears, the consequences would likely be very tragic."
Natsuki retorted:
"I've already had a deep experience with that."
A group of girls carrying blood-stained baseball bats and table legs, with red eyes and crazy expressions, chasing down males—such a scene was terrifying to imagine. If caught by those girls, he would most likely be 'dismembered' in a physical sense.
Kaguya softly said:
"The teachers in the school might be a breakthrough. We tried to investigate the list of teachers at the girls' academy and found that the photos of several people had been scratched out with a utility knife, leaving only their names…"
Natsuki said:
"Were they male teachers?"
Kaguya nodded slightly and said, "Judging by the name, it must be a male."
Sayu raised her hand and said, "President, President, we also found a locked, abandoned dormitory in the student dorm building. All those girls were afraid to go near it. It felt very strange, but we were worried about danger, so we haven't gone in to investigate yet."
Natsuki looked at Sayu and said, "Good, very cautious. You must be praised."
"Eh heh~"
Sayu's eyes quickly curved into crescent moons. If Kaguya hadn't been nearby, she would probably have already called him 'Master' by now.
Because their abilities and backpacks were sealed, Kaguya and the others had to complete the Bloody Word mission while cautiously searching for clues and unraveling the truth, thread by thread, to pass through the girls' school.
But now…
"We can just interrogate her directly," Natsuki waved his hand and said, "Who in the school is most likely to know the inside story?"
Chika rested her right hand on her chin and said, "Those teachers should know the truth, right?"
Hayasaka shook her head and said, "Too small-minded."
"Eh?" Marin looked over curiously, "Hanamori-chan, what do you mean?"
Hayasaka crossed her arms over her chest and said airily, "There might be some insignificant teachers in the teaching staff who know nothing, but the school's principal definitely knows all the truth."
"That makes sense."
"The school turning into this state must be inseparable from the principal."
"Find the principal, then interrogate her!"
"…"
Facing Hayasaka's suggestion, the girls all nodded in agreement.
"Wait a moment," Natsuki stopped the girls and asked, "Is the principal a woman?"
Chika nodded and said, "I saw it on the school's bulletin board before. The principal is indeed a woman."
Natsuki said, "Then there's no problem."
As long as you are of the opposite sex, no matter how old you are, you can make the other party open up obediently.
After the discussion.
The girls quickly took action, splitting up to search for the school principal's whereabouts.
Because the leg attachment's cooldown had not yet ended, Natsuki temporarily remained in the activity room. At the same time, Kaguya also stayed behind, and the two of them worked together to formulate the next course of action.
"Once the principal's whereabouts are confirmed, the President will still need to conceal his figure to avoid provoking those crazy girls…"
Kaguya softly spoke about the next action plan:
"It's very uncomfortable to become a leg attachment, so he can also use the Shadow Cloak…"
Natsuki didn't speak. He sat on the chair, propped his chin, and looked at Kaguya with interest.
At this moment, Kaguya's appearance was that of a golden twin-tailed girl, petite in stature, with snow-white skin and clear blue eyes like the sky after rain. When she spoke, there was a faint, adorable little tiger tooth at the corner of her mouth, and her whole body exuded a sweet and lovely aura, like colorful candies, making one want to taste them. She was completely the opposite of the previous Lady Kaguya.
However, the two of them still had one thing in common: they were both equally unremarkable, having a wide, flat plain at a young age.
"…What is the President laughing at?"
Kaguya pursed her lips and tilted her head to look over.
"Eh, did I laugh?"
Natsuki pretended to be surprised, touched his face, and then said, "Alright, I did laugh… As the saying goes, 'one day apart feels like three autumns.' Although I haven't seen Kaguya for only a short day, upon meeting her again at this moment, a smile just naturally appeared."
Kaguya's pretty face flushed slightly. She raised her hand to tuck a strand of hair behind her ear and tried hard to keep her pretty face straight, saying, "I'm sorry, I don't understand what the President is saying."
"Then I'll put it more simply…" Natsuki said seriously, "I missed Kaguya."
Kaguya's pretty face grew even redder, her golden twin tails trembled slightly, and she turned her pretty face away, saying, "You're just saying it, there's no sincerity…"
"It's my fault. I should have used actions to prove my longing earlier."
Natsuki reached out and directly pulled Kaguya into his arms, lowering his head to kiss her.
Only the two of them were in the activity room. The door was locked, so there was no need to worry about being seen.
However…
Slap!
A slender, fair hand directly pressed against Natsuki's face.
"President, don't be reckless." Kaguya's pretty face was flushed, but her gaze was firm as she said, "We don't even know whose body this is. President, don't kiss randomly."
Natsuki said exasperatedly, "Isn't this your body?"
Kaguya couldn't help but glare at him: "No matter how I look at it, it's not my body, is it?"
Natsuki said, "The soul is the most important thing…"
"No!" The Kaguya turned her head away, "In short, no!"
Swapping bodies with Hayasaka was one thing, that was out of necessity, but to have intimate contact with the President using a stranger's body felt like she was cheating on herself. No matter how she thought about it, it was too terrible!
"Alright, then no kissing." Natsuki settled for the next best thing, "A hug for a while should be fine, right?"
The Kaguya hesitated, not refusing, implicitly agreeing.
As long as there's no kissing, a hug for a while should be fine…
A moment later.
Kaguya's pretty face was flushed, her pearly teeth biting her lips, and the word 'regret' in capital letters appeared in her eyes.
"President, take, take your hand out…"
The Kaguya pressed Natsuki's right hand tightly, her voice trembling slightly.
Natsuki said self-righteously, "Kaguya said anything was fine as long as there was no kissing. I didn't break any rules."
Kaguya bit her lips: "You already broke the rules, alright?!"
"I didn't, I didn't."
Natsuki continued to tease Kaguya.
Just as the two were dawdling, a knock suddenly sounded on the door.
Thump, thump, thump.
"It must be everyone coming back."
Kaguya's twin tails trembled, and she quickly got up from Natsuki's embrace, red-faced, tidying her skirt:
"President, open the door."
"…"
Natsuki stood up, still wanting more, and went to open the door.
Without surprise, it was indeed Chika and the others outside the door.
"President." Chika raised her chin, her voice clear, "We've already found out where the principal is. She's actually in the office. When should we set off?"
Natsuki nodded and said, "Let's go now."
"…"
The leg attachment's cooldown had not yet ended, so Natsuki cast a Sheep Transformation Technique on himself, directly turning into a lamb.
"Heave-ho~"
Chika bent down and scooped up the lamb that Natsuki had turned into, holding it in her arms, and walked out with an arrogant stride:
"Let's go, let's go!!"
"…"
No words were exchanged along the way.
There were many girls in the school holding weapons, still searching for Natsuki's whereabouts, but none of this had anything to do with a little lamb.
Chika and the others, holding the lamb, swaggered through the school and went directly to the principal's office.
Thump, thump, thump.
Marin stepped forward and knocked on the door.
"Come in."
A cold and sharp voice came from the principal's office.
Marin pushed open the door, and several girls filed in.
The principal's office was not large. Behind the desk sat a middle-aged woman wearing glasses with a stern expression. She looked like the type who was very difficult to get along with at first glance.
"You'd better have a satisfactory reason for knocking." The woman leaned back, her tone very impatient, a cold white light glinting off her glasses, and her voice was icy as she said, "Otherwise, the consequences will be severe."
Sayu said softly, "It seems the principal is very difficult to deal with."
Marin put her right hand on her hip and said, "Then let's not waste any words with her."
Bang.
Hayasaka silently turned and closed the door to the principal's office.
Finally, Chika tossed the sheep in her arms into the air and said with great momentum, "It's decided, it's you, Pikachu!"
A faint flash of light.
The lamb in mid-air quickly transformed into a young man.
Thud.
Natsuki landed steadily on the ground.
The female principal was startled. Looking at Natsuki, who was completely naked, black mist surged around her, and her voice suddenly became sharp:
"You actually dared to bring a man here…"
Before she could finish speaking, Natsuki had already moved in front of her and directly activated his title ability.
[Title: Love Warrior]
[Title Effect: Friend of Wives]
[Type: Active/Active]
[An old saying goes: "Universal love, non-aggression." The so-called 'Universal Love' means not only loving your own wife but also loving others' wives.]
[Passive effect: You gain additional attraction towards neighbor's wives / others' girlfriends / others' childhood sweethearts.]
[Active effect: After using this title ability, you will inherit the Prime Minister's will for a short time, forcing attraction from others' wives / others' girlfriends, significantly increasing favorability in a short period.]
To secure the female principal in front of him, Natsuki decisively activated the active ability.
Eyes met.
The female principal's eyes quickly became dazed and lost focus, and immediately after, the black mist around her dissipated. Her cold, vicious expression melted away, becoming affectionate, and her eyes held only Natsuki as she called out gently:
"Darling~"
Natsuki: "..."
The girls: "..."
You're already at that age, yet you call him Darling the moment you open your mouth. How are you not embarrassed!
Natsuki stepped back half a step, keeping his distance, and said:
"I ask, you answer."
"Darling can make me do anything." The female principal's eyes were full of affection, her voice gentle. "It's fine even if you tie me up with a rope."
Good grief, he'd run into a female pervert.
The 'Warrior of Love' ability couldn't even be resisted by the Haruno God, let alone a mere principal of a grudge-filled school. So, it quickly entered a super simple interrogation mode; whatever Natsuki asked, the female principal answered.
"That locked dormitory... very bloody things happened inside..."
Wherever there are people, there is taking advantage of, regardless of whether it's a boys' school or a girls' school.
The locked dormitory was a four-person room. One of the girls was named Yamada. She was introverted, quiet, and taciturn. Because she didn't fit in, she was often taken advantage of by the others, but she silently endured it every time.
Meanwhile.
There weren't only female teachers in the girls' school; there were also male teachers.
One day after school in the office, a male teacher violated Yamada. This time, the young girl Yamada didn't remain silent and endure it; she stood up to seek justice for herself.
But the school advocated sweeping things under the rug, even promising her an automatic recommendation if she didn't expose the matter.
The young girl Yamada didn't yield and chose to call the police. However, the girls in her dormitory, in order to secure their own recommendations, unanimously fabricated facts, falsely claiming that Yamada was promiscuous and had loose morals. Even girls from other dormitories stood up to give false testimony.
Public opinion is a powerful force; there was nowhere to argue.
Thus, the young girl Yamada killed the three roommates in the dormitory, and then committed suicide. She dragged the entire school into a nightmare with her own resentment. The blood-written tasks that appeared in the school from time to time were all the work of the vengeful spirit Yamada. The goal was very simple—to pay back the pain she had suffered ten times, a hundred times over to others.
The evil teachers, the classmates who taken advantage of her, the bystanders who watched coldly, the principal who aided the abuser—everyone was a target for revenge, and none could escape.
"That's too much!"
Chika clenched her fists in anger and punched Natsuki's shoulder:
"Yamada-san is too pitiful!"
"I'm pitiful too..." Natsuki rubbed his arm, his voice aggrieved. "Why did you hit me?"
Chika said righteously:
"Because hitting the wall makes my hand hurt."
It wasn't just Chika; Marin and the others also furrowed their brows, indignantly saying:
"To think that people would unanimously commit perjury to frame their roommate just to get a recommendation—that's too dark."
"This is the true face of the world." Natsuki said calmly. "For example, scholarships often don't go to those who truly need them."
In just a few minutes, Natsuki and the others learned the dark truth behind the academy. If they had been peeling back the layers one by one, it would have taken at least several days.
Of course, it wasn't over yet.
Kaguya crossed her arms over her chest and frowned:
"The next step is how to leave the academy."
Natsuki nodded and looked at the old woman behind the desk, asking, expressionless.
Who knew the female principal would shake her head and say in a low voice:
"You can't leave. It's impossible for anyone to leave the academy..."
After asking carefully, they learned that the academy was wrapped in powerful resentment and had been stripped away from reality, forming a separate space. So, even if you could see the gate there, it was impossible to walk out.
One step away was an unbridgeable chasm.
Hayasaka pondered:
"In other words, there are only two ways to leave this academy: either make Yamada let us out, or destroy her."
"Destroy her?" Chika hesitated. "But Yamada-san is also very pitiful."
Natsuki said:
"In this academy, there must be unlucky people who never taken advantage of Yamada and didn't even know anything, yet they are also trapped in the academy. Aren't they pitiful too?"
Marin agreed:
"The President is right."
Natsuki said softly:
"Therefore, drop the savior complex, respect others' fates, and just do what we need to do."