Why is my time traveling to the second dimension such a weird rule story?

I'm so sleepy... I want to go back and catch up on my sleep... What on earth is Kaguya-sama planning to do... Oh no, I have to cheer up...

As for Hayasaka Ai, who was following far behind at the end of the journey, she didn't sleep well after being frightened last night, and because of her status as a servant, she had to get up earlier than Kaguya, so her current state It can be said that it is quite low, and it may switch from a low pressure state to a hypotensive state at any time.

The early morning sunlight passes through the bamboo leaves and falls on this forest path and on the people walking along it.

The three of them walked towards the mountain step by step, and on the other side that the three of them could not see, in the remote and deep place on the side of the hill, a figure also came here at this time, carrying it without saying a word. An old guitar walks along the dirt path among the bamboo forests.

Interlude 2-27: Ichiri Goto’s melancholy and idlers

It's so quiet.

Gotou raised his head and looked at the forest path in front of him.

This is already a suburb of Tokyo, and it is a remote area where almost no one usually appears.

After walking a few steps forward, Goto saw an abandoned shrine. The torii gate here had collapsed, and the shrine itself was only a dilapidated ruin. Under the cover of the bamboo forest, it looked extremely bleak, and there were even a few A gloomy atmosphere.

The girl with messy pink hair stopped in front of the shrine and was silent for a long time. In the end, she just lowered her head and sighed slightly in a voice that only she could hear.

Only a few people know that this place was once the origin of a dusk-level copy.

That was Goto Ichiri's first mission as a newcomer. I don't know whether it was lucky or unfortunate. She was participating in a brand-new dungeon that had just appeared and had not yet been experienced and investigated by other players. Moreover, she joined in with one of the friends she finally made.

The entire process of that mission was very dangerous, but fortunately there were reliable veteran players leading the team, and they successfully discovered the core obsession of the dungeon, and finally chose to fulfill the opponent's regrets and liberate the man who was wandering in the shrine. The strangeness also liberated all the obsessions trapped here.

The girl's first blessing came from here.

Together with her friends, she struggled to survive until the end, won the victory, and returned to daily life.

Even every month after that, they have to face various dangers in the dungeon again.

But she always believed that they would be able to persevere and overcome difficulties again and again, until finally, they would find a way to escape from the "Sacrifice Game" and this terrifying world.

Then, he was left alone.

In silence, the girl sat down on the remaining steps of the shrine ruins and took off the old guitar on her back, which even had some less obvious blood stains on it.

Close your eyes, reach out and gently strum the strings.

Smooth music then sounded in the empty forest glade.

Hear the sounds of the past again, see the things that happened once again.

With the sound of the guitar playing, Goto opened his eyes wide and saw everything that had disappeared once again displayed in his senses.

The feeling of indulging in fantasy doesn't seem to be bad.

Because the real world has always been so boring and painful.

The same goes for the band that once brought her warmth and made her feel that she was beginning to change little by little. After she disappeared, they simply forgot about her existence. Will one day, if I die in the dungeon, they will also forget about themselves? After all, I am a player, but they are not.

Ah, that's why I chose to leave that band.

After becoming a player, I should have made such a choice long ago. After all, the life of ordinary people has long been far away from me.

But now, this me who still has accomplished nothing, what on earth am I still looking forward to, what am I still waiting for?

Open your eyes and look at the guitar in your hand.

The girl took a deep breath, wanting to stop playing and trying to play wrong notes.

She knew that if she did this, she would be able to go back to that place where her past completely collapsed. But in the end, she just slowly finished her playing, without any mistakes, and finished the song perfectly.

Okay, next, it’s almost time to go back...

"You play well."

The girl's inner world was interrupted at this moment by the sudden insertion of a man's voice.

Goto raised his head suddenly, and then saw Takami standing next to the collapsed torii, looking at him.

Yes, yes, yes, someone is coming -! ! !

The pink-haired girl, who was extremely afraid of society, began to tremble almost immediately, and her eyes immediately began to glance at the stone slab, wondering if she was looking for a crack to get through.

"It's me, Gao Hai, does Miss Goto still remember me?"

Gao Hai did not come closer to Goto, but stood next to the torii and continued to speak.

It's not that he doesn't want to get close to the other party, but how should I put it? The cold aura exuding from the guitar held by Goto Ichiri at this time is really hard to ignore. Gao Hai, who felt extremely uneasy about this, thought about it and thought it would be better to stand further away.

What the hell is going on with that guitar?

Even if he recalled all the obsessive objects he had seen so far, Gao Hai could not find anything that smelled more terrifying than that guitar.

If we force an analogy, I'm afraid we can only make an analogy through the core obsession itself, that is, those terrifying and weird auras. But even so, the only weird thing that Gao Hai could think of that could be compared to the guitar in Gojito Ichiri's hand was the weird red dress under the big crack.

In other words, that obsession is at least the core obsession of the dark night level at the top level, maybe even more? After all, this obsession has not gone out of control, and its truly terrifying side has not been revealed.

Gao Hai, who realized this, couldn't help but look at Goto Ichiri with a somewhat cautious expression.

No matter what kind of cute autistic girl the original Pochi is, she is bound to be different from the player Pochi in the comic book world she lives in now. Although this little Pochi is equally cute, she has less strength. It is definitely not to be underestimated. It is hard to imagine what kind of power that weird guitar brought to her.

"I'm so sorry, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry to bother you, I'm sorry to bother you -"

After saying hello to Gao Hai, before he could think of how to continue the communication, the pink-haired girl who picked up the guitar had already escaped in a series of words, without giving Gao Hai a chance to have a good chat at all. Intend.

"Running really fast..."

Gao Hai only had time to stretch out his hand, and before he could shout out his words to save him, the other party had already slipped away dozens of meters away.

This made Gao Hai, who was attracted by the sound of the guitar while waiting for Kaguya and Chika to go to the toilet, couldn't help but curl his lips. Feeling a little bored, he turned around and walked back the way he came, and took a photo of a map of the ruined shrine.

Speaking of which, when Little Boqi left just now, he seemed to have seen a small label on the guitar that was his obsession.

The handwriting on that label... I don't remember very clearly, it seems to be some kind of middle school? With my memory and observation skills, is it possible that I can’t remember clearly? Or is this also the effect of the obsession, which allows the information about the holder and the obsession itself to be ignored to a certain extent?

Gao Hai couldn't figure out the specific effect of Goto Ichiri's obsession for a while, but he couldn't take the initiative to catch up with her and ask her about the specific effect and origin of this important item related to wealth and life, so he could only think of it. I kept my doubts in my heart and ignored the matter for the time being.

"Gao Jun, where did you go just now?"

"Didn't you say you're not allowed to run far away? Hey, Ah Hai, have you found someplace somewhere?"

The voices of Kaguya and Qianhua sounded not far away. The two girls walked forward and soon discovered an abandoned shrine not far away. Among them, Kaguya was somewhat taboo about this kind of place and was unwilling to enter. However, Qianhua completely regarded this place as a good place for a big adventure, and even deliberately I took Gao Hai and ran into the shrine to take some photos.

"Speaking of which, why is there such a big shrine here, but the people around it don't know about it? It seems that this place has been abandoned for about a few years, right? There are obviously many things in this shrine that haven't been damaged at all. "

Chihua, who was full of desire to explore, was still curious about the situation of the shrine until she returned to the hotel.

It's a pity that everyone I met along the way didn't know anything about the shrine. Even the old man who had lived here for decades didn't even know about the shrine in the bamboo forest. Gao Hai and Kaguya, who noticed this, just looked at each other and understood each other's thoughts.

That shrine, like the Shirakawa Apartment and the Red Nut Ash Cave, was probably once a copy, so it was forgotten and turned into an unknown ruin that is not remembered by anyone.

However, according to the consensus among players, the strange place that became a copy will disappear from the real world. However, Gao Hai and others can see the shrine and enter it, which means that the place has returned to reality. The world, and the weirdness that originally existed in it, has been liberated.

Did any player crack the obsession to obtain blessings in that dungeon, thus destroying that dungeon?

He must be a very strong player, right? It is impossible for ordinary players to do this.

"Ahai, let's go investigate together and follow my great detective Fujiwara Chika to discover the truth of the past!"

Before Gao Hai could think of anything more, Fujiwara Chika, who took out a red hat from nowhere, ran forward, grabbed his hand and dragged him towards the library in a nearby neighborhood.

"Hey, wait for me..."

Kaguya, who originally wanted to create a chance to spend more time with Gao Hai, shouted angrily behind her and was forced to run with the two of them.

Miss Kaguya is very unhappy now.

This morning's trip was quite unsuccessful in her opinion.

Because Qianhua was clinging to Gao Hai the whole time, she was basically not given a few opportunities to be alone with Gao Hai. Even if she found a chance to say something, the other party would quickly come forward and join the conversation, and now she was even more so with Gao Hai. The sea started to run.

Ah, that's enough. What's going on with this guy? !

The villain inside kept shouting and stomping around in circles.

On the surface, Kaguya could only maintain a calm expression, and just followed Gao Hai and Qianhua into the library, suddenly changing from a tourist to an investigator.

While the three people on this side were flipping through the books in the library under the excitement of Fujiwara Chika, the real concubine on the other side finally recovered a little and sat up from Gao Hai's bed with a yawn.

"Ugh...it still hurts..."

The tearful girl gritted her teeth slightly, looked down at her belly, then turned to look at the scrapped secret weapon thrown on the ground, a blush gradually appeared on her face.

It turns out that the secret weapon is used like this...

And why did it hurt so much at the beginning? Will it hurt every time in the future? Although I still felt comfortable halfway through... No, it wasn't actually very painful this morning. The pain was left over from last night. In other words, is this just the first time? Wow, I didn't understand this kind of thing at all before. The etiquette teacher at home just said that this kind of thing should be taught by my future husband. It feels really complicated.

Speaking of which, Umi-kun...did he go out with Aunt Kaguya and Fujiwara?

This guy actually left me and ran out to play, and he was with Fujiwara. Could it be that those two people were doing something bad?

Zhen Fei's little radar began to operate at high speed at this moment.

Without any hesitation, she directly activated the mental communication that could only be used between her and Gao Hai.

{Shijo Maifei: Haijun, what are you doing now? }

{Gao Hai: Oh, Zhenfei, you’re awake. Are you feeling better now? We should be back in a while}

{Shijo Maifei: Who are "we"? }

{Gao Hai: Sigong and Qianhua, the three of us are in the library now, so how is your health now? Can you walk? }

{Shijo Maifei: I, my health is fine. Wait, are the three of you in the library? }

It doesn't seem to be a big problem if the three of them are together. The main reason is that Aunt Kaguya seems to have no romantic relationship with Haijun at the moment, so the real concubine can feel more relieved.

Just, why a library? Obviously these three people had said before that they were going to play at the Bamboo Forest Hill, right?

{Gao Hai: How should I put it? It was Qianhua’s whim. We found the ruins of a replica that was suspected to have been destroyed. This guy had to come to investigate, and he found something, although it was probably meaningless.}

{Shijo Maifei: Did you find out something? }

{Gao Hai: Yes, there used to be a big family that ran a shrine in the old neighborhood here. The shrine was named [Yellow Springs Shrine]. Every few years, this family seemed to hold a ceremony. The content of the ceremony was to give a [purity] The girl] puts on a ghost mask with spikes inside to pierce the opponent's eyes, then uses a rope to pull the girl's limbs and tear them off alive, and then after the girl dies naturally, she will become a suppressor of the underworld. Nail people or something. Speaking of which, this ceremony really feels like a familiar sight...}

{Shijo Maifei: No, what weird things are you looking for? ! }

{Gao Hai: I don’t know this question either}

All in all, judging from the results of trying to investigate Gao Hai's whereabouts, there should be no problem. Fujiwara has not made any small moves yet.

She just couldn’t figure out what to do with investigating this ancient barbaric custom. After hearing this, the real concubine felt she had no appetite for food.

The girl, who was thinking dullly in her heart, got off the bed and lightly stepped on the ground with her smooth little feet.

"Ugh...it hurts..."

In the next few days, I probably won't be able to do that kind of thing anymore.

Hai Jun is too scary. Is this the growth brought about by the blessing of an S-class body? I don’t know what kind of changes will happen to Hai Jun if he continues to receive the blessing of the Dark Night Level.

While thinking wildly, the real concubine picked up the clothes scattered on the ground, put them on and walked out of the room.

On the other hand, they wasted a lot of time in the library. In the end, after confirming that the descendants of the ancient family had died a few years ago, the three of them were already on their way back to the hotel.

"After checking so many things, I couldn't come up with any useful information."

Shinomiya Kaguya felt helpless that her life had been wasted.

"Hey, hey, that's what detectives are like. Sometimes there are big unsolved cases, but there are also times when the work is useless. And even so, at least we have confirmed that there is a problem in that place, right? You can come back and check again when you have time."

Fujiwara Chika, who didn't feel like it was a waste of time at all, just smiled at Kaguya and said.

"I refuse. Even if I know there is a problem, it is meaningless. There are only ruins left there..."

Of course, Kaguya herself doesn’t follow this trick.

As for Gao Hai, who was walking at the end of the team, he just recalled the incident in the morning when Gotou Kazuri sat in the ruins and played the piano, and then realized that since that place was already a forgotten and remote place, then Gotou Kazuri There is actually only one reason for knowing where it is.

Is she the player who cracked the obsession and destroyed the copy?

Interlude 2-28: The mysterious incident in the shower cubicle of the hot spring hotel

After tasting the high-end western restaurant in the hotel at noon, Kaguya proposed to go to the hot spring in the afternoon.

However, Shinki herself said that she was not feeling well, so she did not join in. Chika said that she had something to do temporarily, so she did not join in. In the end, only Kaguya and Takami went to take a hot spring bath.

"In this case, it feels better to take a bath in the small hot spring that comes with the hotel room."