The loud ruckus outside of the perimeter rapidly faded away as Daniel and Hinagiku began to embark on their own quest in the search of a possible way to acquire freedom.

  Rising to spontaneous levels of humidity, the rocky walls made out of old debris, felt slippery. Illumination-wise, there were intervals of light every now and then but it was unclear as to where this light source would be. Furthermore, there were uneven numerous slops of muddy water mixed in the ground which resembled to be out of touch with modern architecture.

  "This is... A bit different from the path we took when we were on the male dorm's side... Are you sure that this will lead to the same gate?" Hinagiku directed her pocket lantern to Daniel's white shirt, from the back, mainly to the top "It must have a connection, so I am willing to bet so." Daniel assured but kept on walking into the dark path that stretched beyond their knowledge "I see. But one more thing: There is no way you missed what Kawahara just said. He won't form any contracts unless we are found five minutes before the next round. So with that said, how many minutes would we have?" Hinagiku asked the critical question at hand "How many minutes? What for?" Daniel continued to only look forward "...." Hinagiku felt silent shortly "I am saying..." Hinagiku went to Daniel's left side, despite the tight width of the area "Realistically speaking, if you want Kawahara to make contracts with all of them, we will have to return five minutes prior. No, a bit less than that. So, we have like... 20 minutes left?" Hinagiku looked to the right, eyeing Daniel's shrouded expression "And why would I want that?" Daniel's voice was mildly expressive "...Are you serious?" Hinagiku wasn't certain "I am. If Kawahara doesn't conduct the contracts then more people are willing to die thanks to the probability of the unknown. If you think about it, this is his best moment to exploit this weakness that he has planted the moment he acquired the ability to know the answer to every upcoming claim." Hinagiku found Daniel's words not safe "Turn back if you want. I won't stop you." Daniel then corrected himself "No... Not like I could. Make a deal with Kawahara when nobody else is watching. What do you think?" Daniel this time turned to look at her "...I'll pass. You probably have something devious planned." Hinagiku theorized "Then stop with the questions. We leave when we find the gate. Which means, we have no time to walk." Daniel stopped his tracks "This better be worth it..." Hinagiku felt her heart racing "Use the lantern to guide us a pathway and run as fast you humanly can." Daniel unleashed an unbalanced stride with his left calf, that provided speed that could not be accompanied by his right calf "What the hell...!!?" Hinagiku quickly snapped out of it even though she found the entire sequence subhuman.

  "They are not in the main block! I've checked everywhere and even the teacher says that he hasn't seen them!" Tateyana rushed to the cafeteria and told the information "It's true, I was there to witness it. Nothing..." Kuzan had an annoyed expression as he caught some air meanwhile "What waste of time and effort. I'm telling you I saw her go inside Akimiyashika's room..." Yukishiro told as she sat on the border of a table to the left with her bosom on the edge of it "They have to be hiding in the other rooms..." Tatsu said "Great, but not all rooms are accessible! We each have our own keys which only serve to open our RESPECTIVE rooms!" Arkalee argued from nearby the central table; despite feeling abnormal physical agony as well as visible emotional agitation as she kept looking out of the window in the direction of the male dorm "But even if that were true, Tatsu..." Lus grabbed their attention as she weakly clang to her crutch "How would they be in another room? Are you saying that Hinagiku opened her room and they are there? What for?" Lus suspected "Maybe they're making out?" Ikkiri tilted her head upwards "THEY WOULDN'T!!!" Yulia exulted herself and angrily shut Ikkiri down.

  But Ikkiri just silently giggled.

  "Poor thing." Her eyes mocked Yulia as they scorned her "I WILL SMASH YOUR FACE TO THE KETTLE WHILE IT BURNS!!!" She felt enraged by response to this "Oh, can you not?! Not right now! Come on, this is important!! We really need to know where they are or we're fucked next round!!" Lus intervened once again "I agree. And I am serious. They are in a room. Whatever the fuck they are doing is irrelevant, all we need is to bring them to Kawahara. Our numbers surpass the two of them so that won't be a problem." Tatsu sequenced his words "So let's just open every room. One by one, we go together inside and check." Tatsu suggested "Sure..." Tateyana was ready to agree but Ikkiri noticed a flaw in the current reasoning "Wait. How did anyone get inside Aki's room if she's dead? There is no way that they had the key. Hina was playing the round when Aki's head blew up and the guards just took her body away. It doesn't make any sense. How is the door even open?" Ikkiri had everyone thinking "I know how..." Kuzan didn't think it was time to hide anything.

  And so, he pointed at Yulia instantly.

  "She has a key that can open Akimiyashika's room but I am EXTREMELY positive that it can open just about anything." Kuzan had a dead serious expression "You're joking." Tatsu found his comment absurd "I am not. In all my life, I never witnessed a key with that type of structure. I am willing to bet it can open every single room, including Gale and Shizuku's, who are dead..." Kuzan reminded them "This is absurd..." Tatsu sighed in disappointment "Is that so? Then Kuzan, use it to open my room, please." Lus kindly asked "Wait, wh---I am not giving you my key! It's my room's k---" Kuzan interrupted her "I OPENED AKIMIYASHIKA'S ROOM BECAUSE BRO ASKED ME TO DO IT WITH HER KEY!! HE KNEW FOR A FACT!!!" Kuzan told the truth "All to say that my point now stands stronger. Why would Daniel feel the need to go inside her room? Most likely for something that he or... Hinagiku... Found." Yukishiro theorized "Yulia, can you please let us use that... key of yours....?" Lus asked, but with a sour taste in her mouth as her blood boiled as she looked at Yulia with a glare "No." She denied it "...Why... not?" Lus asked once more "I don't want to. You're all making serious accusations of Daniel, which I don't like." Yulia felt greatly offended "He's a great person, who wouldn't do any of those things to me!!" Yulia continued "Do what, exactly?" Tateyana was curious to know "That's---" Yulia was interrupted by Ikkiri "Oh my god, just use your key yourself then! You want to know where he is, right?! Then help us out! The sooner the better for you, right?!" All of them looked at Yulia "...I would be glad if you could use your key to open my room to see if Kuzan has a point or not... Because this way, we could check if they are hiding in a room or if they are somewhere we don't know of..." Lus' last words sprinkled animosity among them.

  Particularly Yukishiro.

  "What do you mean?" Her eyes were fully open; completely focused on Lus "...Daniel would not go away at such moment. Especially when the guards had their attention with Hyunda. He definitely needed someone to achieve his plan, whatever it is. And I'm willing to bet that Hinagiku is helping him out." Lus spoke her mind "......No... Not that bitch...!!" Yulia's fists twisted "WITH MY MAN!?!?!" Yulia began to walk to the closest room on the first floor immediately "Oh, finally!!" Kuzan was getting worried "Wait, whose room is that?" Tateyana asked, as they all respectively started to follow the paranoid Yulia who went in that room's direction "Uh... Not sure, actually..." Ikkiri confessed "It doesn't matter! Just ope---" As Lus ordered that, Yulia did it regardless, without anyone's consent "...Holy shit..." Tatsu accidentally let it out "Are they inside!?" Kuzan asked but at the same time was quick to just walk in to what seemed to be an average room for a female student "......." Kanawari stood on the border of the room, watching them "No, nada. Not here." Kuzan reassured, even though everyone could witness it for themselves after a quick search through the room "Whose room is this?" Ikkiri asked "...." Kanawari slowly raised her right hand "...." Lus crossed eyes with Kanawari "Is this your room's key...?" Lus asked, to which Kanawari simply showed her room's key from the right side of her skirt's pocket and inserted into her room's door "....." In and out, she locked and unlocked the room "Yeaaahhh there's no way this is a duplicate, holy shit!!" Ikkiri was already convinced "No, no... That's too stupid. This has to be a fluke..." Tatsu was still skeptical "What room?" Yulia asked Tatsu, with a demon face "... Shizuku's. Supposedly her room is off limits because her body was retrieved alongside her key. If her room opens, I won't further question." Tatsu declared "Great. But where?" Yulia asked impatiently "The third floor, the last one..." Yukishiro weakly replied "Ok." Yulia began to advance "Wait. If you're gonna go all the way to the third floor then just open every room along the way so we can investigate." Ikkiri suggested "I agree. It would save us a lot of time... Especially when we already lost four minutes..." Lus was conscious of how there were a little over twenty minutes before the next round "...." Yulia didn't reply and simply obeyed.

  Over the course of a minute, all of the rooms subsequently that followed throughout the upcoming two floors were opened and they ultimately came to a realization.

  "This... This can't be right!! Where are THEY?!" Tateyana began to freak out "I'm willing to bet that bitch found some sort of hidden passage..." Arkalee whispered lowly "Say, Yulia. You agree that Daniel used your key to open Akimiyashika's room and Kuzan also did it. Now tell me, did he tell you why he wanted to go inside her room?" Ikkiri questioned "...He didn't... I also didn't know that Kuzan opened the room..." Yulia hatefully glared at Kuzan "He didn't tell me why. He just... We made a deal, so I didn't question it." Kuzan admitted it "Alright. I'm with Yukishiro here. Aki's room is the way to go." Ikkiri began to descend to the first floor "Someone decided to wake up. Now, will you dumb fucks hurry up and do the same?" Yukishiro asked the others "We've checked her room though... It's no different..." Tateyana reaffirmed "There must be something there... Daniel would not act without a purpose..." Lus began to also descend at her own pace.

  Back to the starting point they were; all nine of them. And much to their displease, the main perpetrator of their current agony was fast asleep as if resting in his death bed.

  "NOTHING!! FUCK!!!" Tateyana was growing furious "Arkalee, did Daniel or Hinagiku ever become so slightly close to entering the male dorm, FOR WHATEVER REASON?!" Lus asked her, in a rash tone "NO!! THEY WERE EYESIGHTING HYUNDA AS HE WAS ROBBED AWAY FROM ME!!" Arkalee dramatically expressed herself "PFFT!!" Ikkiri felt the need to giggle aggressively "WHAT THE FUCK ARE Y---" Lus didn't allow this to become even more of a waste of time "AND WHERE DID THEY GO AFTERWARDS?!?!" Lus persisted "TO THE MAIN BLOCK, TOGETHER!!" Yulia opened her mouth in awe "Oh boy..." Kuzan had a rough idea of what happened "...And when did you see them again?" Lus continued to question Arkalee, to which no one actually interrupted her as they were surprised by her observations "...I didn't see Daniel but I saw Hinagiku rushing through the main hall, almost at light speed. Why?" Arkalee calmed down "...Just to confirm something..." Lus sighed ".........." A silence hit the atmosphere.

  Their eyes were eventually placed on the sleeping figure, who was uncaring for anything.

  "Kawahara, please help us out." Lus stood on Kawahara's left side "We can't make any progress despite being practically sure that they are here. Or rather, they were. They didn't vanish into thin air, they went somewhere. I know you know. Please." Lus begged with a meek voice "....." Kawahara started to snooze "....." Lus didn't like being ignored "...I am willing to accept a condition to my status in the game so long as it doesn't prejudice me to the point of dying..." Lus closed her eyes briefly "...." Kawahara erupted his upper body "Oh for fuck's---" Yukishiro detested how Kawahara was pretending the whole time "Well, well, well... My ears were blessed with such interesting words that I could not HELP but disrupt my beautiful slumber!!" Kawahara stretched out his arms lazily "Dude. COME ON!!" Tateyana was impatient "Let me handle this." Lus turned to Tateyana briefly yet turned to Kawahara fast "Name your term; but you have to let us go after them. In other words, it won't apply unless you give us a clear pathway to where they are..." Lus listed her term "Sure. I believe I have a good idea of how they did it." Kawahara flashed a smirk "!!!!!" They were all drawn in suspense "So, for your condition..." Kawahara already had the idea planted in his mind for a while.

  Their sprinting session came to an end when they saw a lingering bridge at the end of their path. The bridge had twenty meters in length and five of width. It consisted of fallen debris and the bottom of it presented endless darkness. On the other hand, what appeared in front of them was another area, with a larger dimension and a far more intricate scenery.

  "....What kind of architecture is this... We're in Japan..." Hinagiku turned the light off as the area up ahead was sufficiently illuminated due to the ceiling allowing solar light to infiltrate "Roman architecture. These pillars..." They lacked any damage and we're instead, perfectly shaped as of they had been modeled the day before "How do you know that, Daniel?" Hinagiku and Daniel had finished crossing the bridge and were now in a newly renewed area, where rays of sunlight would occasionally bless the naked eye.

  Composed of thirty meters in width and fifty meters in height, this area was supported by a combination of forty Roman pillars that would launch themselves from the ceiling that has ancient paintings, all the way to the base floor. Scattered throughout the room are statues of historical figures from various eras. These statues encompassed over three meters of height at least, without exception. Albeit seemingly made of clay, they had this silvery appearance to them. However, more importantly, there was a clear gateway on the north side from their perspective which would supposedly mirror the one underneath the male dorm's. On the other hand, all the way to the left side, there was an enigmatic dual door that had what seemed to be a massive horizontal sleeping eye in it, with visible eyelashes.

  "You can just tell by looking at it. These statues contain depictions of Roman emperors..." Daniel directed himself to the first one on the right "Julius Caesar..." And next, to the one mirroring it to the left "Augustus Caesar..." Daniel didn't walk this time but looked at the statue that was subsequently next to his right instead "Tiberius Claudius Nero..." Ultimately he looked to his right, in the direction of the statue that mirrored the last emperor mentioned "...And Caligula." He then proceeded to slowly walk as there was still quite the distance until the gateway "Whoever built this place probably had an affection for Roman history or something. Come on, you learn this stuff in middle school. Or didn't they teach you?" Daniel taunted Hinagiku with a low laugh "....." But Hinagiku, as she walked behind Daniel, was not entirely convinced.

  And as Daniel had crossed halfway through the area that resembled an open Roman temple, he stopped and took a glance at the door to the left, which had his undivided attention.

  Hinagiku also noticed it, but didn't approach it.

  ".............." Daniel kept staring at it without any signs of stopping it "That's an... eye...?" Hinagiku tried not to give away that her heart was palpitating from fear alone "........." Daniel simply kept staring at it, but this time, he decided to just advance one step forward "...." And nothing happened.

  The eye remained asleep.

  "..." Daniel decided to now advance another step forward, but with his left leg this time around "...?!" Hinagiku also noticed it "The eye just barely opened?!" Hinagiku was bewildered as she kept looking at Daniel and the eye back and forth "It did... Or rather..." Daniel decided to advance yet again with his left leg "!!" The eye had opened itself by 90%, showing some of its contents; a barely open retina "...." Daniel then retreated his left leg "It's less open now. What? Why does it only work when your left leg advances?" Hinagiku questioned him "So you noticed." Daniel remarked "Of course I did..." Hinagiku had an annoyed expression "What? Did you think just because I sucked your dick that I would lose brain cells? I'm not dumb. I also can tell that there's something off about your leg. Can you tell me what?" Hinagiku closed the distance and looked at Daniel who looked down on his left leg "...." Daniel shortly after some thought was given, looked at Hinagiku "I lost my left leg in the island..." He confessed "...." Hinagiku was surprised but kept listening "I can't tell you how or why it was done, but this isn't just a replacement. It's something far more genetically potent and... It has a 'connection'. A genuine one." Hinagiku didn't understand Daniel's last words and wanted to inquisition more.

  However, Daniel then decided to equally walk forward with both his left and right leg.

  "Wait! This could be dangerous, no?!" Hinagiku didn't think it was a good idea to continue to walk in the eye's direction as it further opened itself "The gateway is just up ahead, Daniel! We are not here for this, remember?!" Hinagiku instilled reason but Daniel kept on walking forward "Seriously?!" Hinagiku didn't find Daniel's behavior logical in the slightest "We finally have the clue that we are looking for and he's more interested in this fucking random ass eye?!" Hinagiku looked at the eye which was now 70% open "...." She decided to accompany Daniel from behind "...The eye opens more and more as Daniel keeps walking forward but it's 100% due to his left leg. He said that his left calf was lost but if it was really replaced it would explain why he was so fast earlier. But he was never in a state of equilibrium while running because his right side could not keep up with his left side..." Hinagiku remarked.

  The distance was now four meters and with the eye opened by 55%, there was room for partial infiltration.

  "?!????!!!?" Daniel felt assaulted by a strong familiar pain that he had felt during the island "NO, NOT AGAI------AAAGGGGGHHHHAAGGG!!!!" Rendered weak and authentically pressured by the sheer force emitted right to his cortex, Daniel fell on his right knee "!?" Hinagiku was caught off guard as she didn't feel any pain "Daniel?! What's wrong?!" She knelt down and placed her left hand on Daniel's back, which was trembling "His body temperature...?!" While she had her hand on his back, she noticed that the temperature of Daniel's body was slightly elevated compared to that of the average human being "GET ME... AWAY FROM THI---" Daniel's vision could barely be called useful as his eyes kept twitching from pain, but even so, he held his strong gaze towards the horizontal eye, which now had its retina open fully "....No..." Hinagiku withdrew her vision from Daniel and now saw the eye blinking once, but twice.

  The retina was entirely white at first, exhibiting no other color. Aside from blinking, the first action it would make would be to identify the current individuals that stand before it.

  "?!?!" Hinagiku, upon noticing that the eye's retina was fully locked onto her, felt terrified beyond comprehension "What the hell is this shit??" She got up slightly and distanced herself, which provoked the retina to follow her every consecutive movement, regardless of how small and insignificant it could be "It's turning red?! Why?!" Hinagiku didn't keep this thought to herself and instead shared it with Daniel out loud "IT'S REJE...ARRGHHHHM.. IT'S REJECTING YOU!!!" Daniel told her, in the midst of his agony "Rejecting me?! Why?! The eye only recognizes your left leg for some reason, why would it---" Her words ceased to be as she saw the eye become fully red and immersed with red veins as it gained a deeper, scarlet red as its primary color "GRAB ME AND GET ME AWAY, THE EYE WILL-----GGGGHHH----" Daniel further fell on the ancient ground, completely physically defeated "!!" Hinagiku realized "It's his left calf that has something that triggered the eye to open so if he gets away..." Hinagiku had planned to grab Daniel's shirt sleeves and drive him away from the area "What?" She unconsciously placed her eyesight on the previously raging eye and saw its new appearance as it had its sight completely on Daniel now.

  No longer deep red, its primary color returned to pure white. An encompassing serene scenery could be witnessed as the eye kept perpetually blinking at the sight of Daniel, showing signs of emotion.

  "What in the hell is happening? Did it change its behavior as soon as it started to analyze Daniel as an individual? But why? It's not even looking at his left leg in particular which should be the driving point but instead it's looking at him as a whole. Almost as if holding his existence to the highest pedestal..." Hinagiku amidst this, dragged Daniel back to the starting point "...Ahhhaahh..." Daniel was now more stable but still felt in pain and a bit fatigued "...." Hinagiku looked back to the eye, which was now fully closed "Mind telling me what just happened? That was not normal." Hinagiku wanted some sort of an explanation for what had happened "...I don't know." Daniel resumed his physical stance and got up, despite feeling feverish "All that I know is---" As Daniel looked ready to give her some valuable information, his ears listened to faraway footsteps, and they were not in small numbers "...Fuck." Daniel had a stressed expression "What now?!" Hinagiku realized Daniel figured something out "The Indian. And a couple of others. Ten... No, eleven? Probably the new players... They are coming from beyond the door where the eye is..." Daniel told the truth "...Do we go back...?" Hinagiku saw that as an option "No, we hide. They won't use our pathway, the Indian never came from the female dorm, so they will go through that gateway somehow..." Daniel told her the plan "Quick, they will be here any second. I'll hide in the furthest statue to the left, you hide in the statue that's closest to the gateway so you can see if there's something you can observe. Go." Daniel gave the order and they split up right away.

  Without a moment's delay, the dual door was opened through a systematic opening done by Erigaisi, who had under his company, eleven other individuals, who, aside from their respective appearances, wore chokers befitting of those who played the infamous game otherwise known as 'Classroom Of Doom'.

  "Let's go over this one more time." Erigaisi this time walked slower and showed no rush getting to the gateway, as the other individuals accompanied him faithfully "In order to make things as entertaining as possible, you, the new players, will be given 10,000 points as a start and upon reaching the fifth round, there will be two players who will be selected for the wheel's target in order to be able to choose an option. This is usually done in the execution round, but given the length of the upcoming judgment round, it cannot be helped. The audience will dread the mere length alone." This information was enough to shock her as she hid behind the statue of the Roman emperor that's the closest to the north-west side of the area, with a clear view of the gateway "WHAT?! Why do they get 10,000 points as a start?! Yulia got zero points at the start so why are they different in this regard?! Is this all for the purpose of 'entertainment'?! Fucking Indian!!" Hinagiku was furious "I'll remind you of the rewards for killing a player, that applies to you only: You will never have to go back to Sakhalin." The individuals had a stone cold expression yet one that emitted utter devotion "No matter what happens in the future, no matter what crime you commit, regardless of the severity of it, you will face a fair trial and if chance decides, you will face jail just like any other being. However, you will be exempt from Sakhalin." The silence was broken by a desperate rough female voice "YOU'RE SERIOUS?! YOU WILL?! CAN YOU PROMISE ME THAT?! IF I JUST KILL ONE PLAYER I WILL NEVER HAVE TO GO BACK?!" Hinagiku couldn't quite see the person's figure but she could gather a bit of information from the tone of her voice alone "...She's horrified. What is this?" She continued to observe "You are free to treat this as a game to win. As you already know from previous experience, this game has much merit to the table..." Erigaisi tried to entice them with a charismatic smile "I don't care. I'll kill. I'm never going back there!" Another female voice emerged, expressing a repulsive anger in her voice "Я не хочу иметь ничего общего с этим адом..." A mature male voice began to cry out.

  Upon seeing their distaste with just the mere thought of it, Erigaisi believed it was enough.

  "Oh but----" However, he felt as if there was something to be added "Just one... last thing..." Erigaisi closed the distance with all of the individuals "If any of you, have a clear shot at killing Daniel Lead, and you don't kill him, then I will not only include the exception from Sakhalin as a whole, but I will gift you, personally, with any of the options from the zones you so desire." Erigaisi said words that no one at that moment could possibly ignore ".......Why...?" Hinagiku had a puzzled expression "....." One individual in specific had a very annoyed expression "Ahh, no, no, you'll see." Erigaisi clarified that his doubts were unwanted "........." He brushed it off "...Daniel Lead? He's... real?" One of the other male individuals who contained a child-like adolescent voice, questioned "...I thought it was just a myth..." Another persona added "Oh no. He's very much real. And he's partaking in this game too. He is easily spotted as a guy with black hair in the shape of a trident. He also has no arms; which he deliberately gave up to acquire points." Erigaisi's piece of information revealed things to them "I see... All I have to do is not kill him purposefully, if I am, for example, chosen by the wheel in the execution rounds every five rounds?" A more analytical mind suggested in the midst "That's right. The wheel will have to pick someone to be the sacrificial lamb and if for some reason that lamb is Daniel Lead, you have everything to win, if you do absolutely and literally anything that is to kill him. As a matter of fact..." Erigaisi looked around towards the pillars.

  Hinagiku was prying earlier but she didn't take any chances and fully hid herself behind the statue; not leaving a trace of her body to be seen.

  "Catapult him to greater heights by not harming him or his points and you will also be greatly rewarded." Erigaisi further promised "Seriously...!?" They couldn't hold their emotions in check "Daniel Lead, I will fucking take you to the moon! I'll be your loyal servant, haha!!" One of the girls entered a lunatic state "With that said, let's go. The doctor will explain a few other things as we go." Erigaisi finally advanced to the north-side of the room where the central gateway is kept and thus, Hinagiku figured it was time to acquire minimal valuable information----and so, she positioned herself obliquely to the point where her vision could capture Erigaisi in front of the gateway, accompanied by 11 other players "......This is... so fucking weird... The entire fact that this Indian wants to protect Daniel even going as far as putting him above the other players is ludicrous, but there is something that I haven't been able to get a fucking clue.... Like WHY... Or rather----who the HELL am I LOOKING AT?!" Hinagiku couldn't keep herself from looking at that rather expressive annoyed face that he was wearing, but also his overly familiar hair, containing side-way spikes, albeit slightly shorter than the ones she's versed with "......Did he bleach his hair? No, that doesn't make any sense---but----" Hinagiku shook her head sideways "It doesn't matter... All that matters is knowing how you get across..." Hinagiku then proceeded to look at Erigaisi who faced the main point of attraction.

  This particular gateway consists of a wide horizontal silver metallic gate containing the width of ten meters and the height of three meters. Unlike the previous point of focus, it didn't contain an eye or anything obscure of the sort. Just like on the other side from the male dorm, the depths of it contain a password entry security protocol on the right side where a small mini computer emerges from the surface.

  The distance between Hinagiku and the rest of them is roughly about ten meters. Erigaisi fully placed himself in front of the password entry device to ensure that nobody would be able to see it. Furthermore, the crowd of other players makes seeing the password being remotely written from others angles, unlikely, to say the least.

  "....??" Hinagiku while trying to get to see Erigaisi's motions, noticed how Daniel was moving from statue to statue all the way until he was mirroring Hinagiku from the right side "....If he can actually get something from that side then that would be helpful but if we're caught it's all over....!!" Hinagiku was overly cautious of how the other players were not looking at what Erigaisi was doing but instead the Roman statues, probably out of curiosity "...." Daniel stuck out his head from the right side of the statue, where Erigaisi was inputting the final letters "Let's go." The gateway automatically opened which led the remaining players to follow Erigaisi.

  Daniel and Hinagiku hid themselves behind the statues once again but kept on the look for what was beyond the gateway.

  A bright central hallway could be seen at the end with a massive elevator connecting to unknown floors. There was also a pathway forward but the elevator was blocking it.

  After a while, the gateway was closed as Erigaisi's figure alongside the rest of the players, went in the direction of the elevator.

  Five seconds passed and Daniel judged it would be alright to make minimal movement.

  "Did they leave...?" Hinagiku, preoccupied, asked "The elevator is... descending..." Daniel remarked as he ventured to the center of the temple; Hinagiku shortly after, exited herself from behind the statue "I don't think they noticed us." Daniel looked at Hinagiku, who had a worried expression as well as visible stress underneath "In the first place, I don't think he knows about the path that we came from because it's most likely not in his interest. But it's now explained..." Daniel turned to the door that rejected him earlier, where the enigmatic eye lays "So all the new players come from there, huh? Interesting..." Hinagiku had an idea "If this place was somehow bombed or destroyed, how would the new players even emerge?" She asked Daniel, now closer to him "He would find a way. He's too resourceful. A minor set back like that would only---" Daniel's hearing once again caught critical information "....Shit, we have to go back..." Daniel began to retreat "Who's coming?" Hinagiku asked, but she started to accelerate in order to retreat "The Indian... I was wrong, he definitely knows... He said earlier about leaving things to the doctor, so the new players are in his care as we speak. Damn it." Daniel started to accelerate and Hinagiku did too as they reached out to the entrance of the temple, where the prior bridge would remain "What's the plan?! Do you intend to go back?!" They now crossed the bridge but Daniel saw the gateway being opened and Erigaisi emerging from it "...I knew it." Erigaisi couldn't see anything ahead of him but heard minimal lousy footsteps from afar "Someone was here. They can't be allowed to interfere while knowing this much..." Erigaisi fastened his footsteps as he strode out of the gateway's entrance.

  After the bridge, there in lies a terrain of semi-muddy water and alternative flooring made out of cement. Along their way back, which was still quite long, Daniel saw to his left that there was a pile of rubble and fallen debris to the left, which seemed to be a dead end and where unnecessary material was stocked away.

  He briefly stopped and turned his attention to Hinagiku completely.

  "The password. How many letters were you able to see from the left side?" Daniel's black eyes marked her "...I only was able to see T at the beginning and S somewhere in the middle..." She was aware of how insufficient this information was "I saw his last three letters. It was T, O, and D." Daniel's information left her perplexed "Um, what?! There's no way that the password is in English, right?!" Hinagiku saught confirmation "That's right. It's most likely in German. His last three words could be read as "Tod " which is death in German. We don't have time so I'll give you what I think is the right password: it's Trosttod. If that doesn't work then try something that is close to it. It might be 'Trusttod', a mixture between English and German." Daniel finished his explanation "And you are telling me this, why...?" Hinagiku had a suspicion already "Don't ask questions you already know the answer to, dumbass." He scolded her "..." And she pouted prematurely "Come a bit closer." Daniel ordered her "...." Their space was relatively small in that corridor but Hinagiku closed the distance "This isn't the time..." Hinagiku reminded him "Oh. Not that." He giggled happily "Well, then what?" She was genuinely curious but also didn't deny his advance despite the possibility of the situation becoming dangerous "Close your eyes, Hinagiku." Hinagiku didn't obey and instead became suspicious "Please? This is my way of thanking you for coming with me here and do the favor that you're about to do to me. We won't be able to do it with Yulia around..." Daniel had a sad expression "...True......" Hinagiku looked down, feeling oddly nervous "Uhhmmm...." She was finding difficult to look at him in the eye suddenly "Just... Be quick..." Ultimately she gave up and closed her eyes; while simultaneously tilting her head upwards, inclining the angle of her luscious lips "..." A moment of subtle adjustable hip rotation was all it took.

  By supporting his right leg in the ground forcefully, Daniel retreated his left calf backwards while airborne and then delivered a powerful side kick to Hinagiku's abdomen.

  "GAAAFH!!!" Her eyes opened and widened by the brute nature of the impact as she fell all the way into the fallen debris behind her; ultimately covering her body entirely almost as if she was buried "Don't get up. You're gonna be there and you'll wait until he passes through here, you got that? Reach the lab and bring as many closed flasks of the liquids that are on the table where you saw me before. Also, there are pills there, so bring those as well. Preferably, use the male dorm to exit and not the female dorm. I'm counting on you, Hinagiku!" Daniel said as he expressed himself with gratitude and great expectations for her "THIS.... THIS FUCKING ASSHOLE JUST KICKED ME IN THE DAMN GUT!!! HOW DARE HE---" But Hinagiku was actually more preoccupied about the lingering pain she was feeling in her abdomen "WHAT IS THIIISSSSS?!?!" Underneath the vast broken debris, she reached her two hands to her abdomen beneath her shirt "I'VE NEVER FELT LIKE THIS BEFORE!! THE PAIN I'VE FELT FROM MY FATHER'S KICKS OR MY SENSEI'S WERE NEVER THIS SEVERE!!!" She trembled in fear, as if greeted by the possibility of death "IT'S LIKE I WAS HIT WITH THE VELOCITY OF A BULLET ONLY IN LARGER SIZE!!!" In agony, she continued to feel pain "....?!?!" But at the same time, she could recognize the sound of those footsteps, that clearly belonged to Erigaisi, who domed his debonair black cap toe shoes.

  Although in a hurry, he was not running nor in a particular emergence, and so, Erigaisi walked simply at a fast pace, currently placing himself 30 meters away from Hinagiku. Given the nature of this dislocated place from outside noise or any sort of running engines, it provided a state of peerless silence, which was broken by Erigaisi talking to himself.

  "According to the information at hand... Jakob was tasked under the protection and regulation of this sanctioned district and yet he has now ceased to exist thanks to his death in the game..." Erigaisi's voice was heavy "...What the hell is he on about?" Hinagiku could hear him from afar, albeit not completely "This is no time though... This is also not my responsibility, but I am curious to know just where this leads. There were two people here, most likely, but that doesn't matter..." Erigaisi confessed with a smirk on his face "....How does it not matter...?" Hinagiku was having trouble breathing properly but through a small hole to the right, she was able to do it just fine "All that matters is to confirm if my lord's words ring truth. Nay, I doubt his wisdom not... Dare I say it... I need to see it with my own two eyes if we have reached a point of convergence..." Erigaisi was starting to come closer "Again, what is this fucking Indian piece of shit talking about?! Daniel probably knows but I am just clueless here... But it doesn't matter what he-----" A tremendously loud footstep hit the ground nearby her, right in front of the huge pile of rubble.

  Erigaisi menacingly took his time to pause his walking motion and looked at the fallen debris that seemingly buried a lot of concrete mashed with rubble.

  ".....It would seem that my lord wishes for my interference not... When it comes to this matter at hand here, but..." Erigaisi started to advance, but not in the direction that he was previously going "...I need to know... The success rate has never been above 5% and whenever it proved to be successful, the brain was overloaded with so much information that it terminally damaged the clones and eventually, they became brain dead." Erigaisi ruptured his right foot onto the rubble "...!!!!!!!" Hinagiku felt her left leg crushed as an abnormal pressure was inflicted onto her "WHA----WHAT IS THIS?! WHY AM I FEELING SO MUCH PAIN WHEN THERE IS SO MUCH RUBBLE BEFORE MY BODY?!" Hinagiku felt extremely paranoid by this occurrence that she felt could not be explained "But this time, it has been a success... So, if he is to die, then our progress would be for..." Erigaisi advanced a step further; placing himself above Hinagiku's high abdominal area "NAUGHT!!!" Erratically, Erigaisi started to jump and smash the ground with both of his feet in a rushed and disorganized manner "GUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! IT HURTS, IT HURTS!!!!" All over her body, Hinagiku was being showered with extreme pain "IT'S LIKE WHEN DANIEL KICKED ME WITH HIS LEFT LEG A MINUTE AGO!!! IT'S THE SAME!!!" Hinagiku realized in her most desperate hour "IF THIS CLONE DIES, THEN WE WILL HAVE TO RESTART THE PROCESS ALL OVER AGAIN AND YET I AM SUPPOSED TO JUST GO ALONG AND PRETEND LIKE THIS DEATH WON'T HAVE A LINGERING EFFECT ON THE CONVERGENCE PLAN?! WHAT DO YOU MEAN, MY LORD?!?! I CAN'T UNDERSTAND YOUR CHOICE WHEN IT'S VERY CLEAR WHAT WE NEED TO DO!!!" Erigaisi's irrationality peaked as his voice cracked and his stomping intensified.

  By this point, Hinagiku had came to the dreadful realization that her life could be in serious realistic danger, as her body was getting not only pulverized but starting to internally bleed as well.

  "-----I CAN'T TAKE MUCH MORE OF THIS, ANY SECOND AND I'LL----" But the stomping stopped, as Erigaisi looked at the ceiling above; with his expression clouded "But an order is an order. The rankings must be obeyed." Erigaisi now recomposed himself, tucked his tuxedo back to normal, whipped the dust off his clothes and adjusted his slicked jet black hair "His vision is not to be doubted, I've learned my lesson. I will dutifully play my part as your loyal subject." Erigaisi resumed his march "So that our leader may emerge from the pits of hell once more." He confidently whispered "Leader...?!" Hinagiku didn't fail to hear that "........" And shortly after, Erigaisi's footsteps were no longer around and had vanished in the north direction, leaving Hinagiku completely alone.

  A heavy kick with both of her legs was performed, causing the rumble to erupt forward.

  "BAAAAAAAHHHHHHGGGH!!!" Utilizing her legs power, she further kicked the rubble and then with her hands, she drove everything that was burying her, from right to left; ultimately standing up though desperately gasping for air "MOTHERFUC------" Hinagiku had a demon's face but controlled her speech just in case Erigaisi would come back "Oooouuuuhhhh...!!" Her body ached all over the place and she could barely stand "That was not normal... No normal human being should have been able to penetrate that much rubble easily like that! It's just like Daniel's left leg... The Indian fucker's body has to be from the origin!" She came to that conclusion "..." She then carefully looked to where Erigaisi headed and saw no sign of him "...There's not much time... I can't dwell on these incomprehensible events... Daniel should be back by now..." Her priorities were organized on the spot as she turned her back on retreating and decided to minimally run albeit in pain "Still though..." Her throat gulped "...Wasn't he talking about Daniel...? What is going on..." Her curiosity could not be kept.

  "Here. See? It's fake." All of them were dumbfounded by how obvious it was "But it looks so genuine..." In front of the closet, there is a mosaic that is seemingly adjoined to the floor just like the rest of them "That's because it's made from the same material and it's almost seemingly genuine but the trick is that it doesn't have cement beneath it nor earth, to say." Kawahara held the mosaic and tossed it to the side, which revealed a very tiny underground facture that had a red pressing switch on the bottom of it.

  Kawahara then clicked the switch which provoked a reaction not only from the, but from the entire room itself.

  "!?!?" A loud rumbling noise could be heard "The closet, underneath!" Lus pointed with her right crotch to the area that's underneath the closet that opens itself halfway through the closet's bottom length "It's showing a staircase... But I don't get it, assuming they went in there, how did it turn to normal? Someone would have to press the switch, no?" Tatsu wanted Kawahara's thoughts on this "It's slow in its opening and most likely its closure. He goes first and Hinagiku follows him up by pressing the switch and rapidly she enters the staircase and it's as if nothing ever happened." Kawahara explained "Yeah, probably." Kuzan agreed and started to descend the staircase "17 minutes left, by the way." Kawahara reminded them "Remember; both of them. One isn't enough." Kawahara went back to the bed as he felt like he could sleep more.

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  Meanwhile, there was a decision to be made.

  "We don't have to all go... The boys should all go to ensure they don't put up a fight for some reason..." Lus mainly looked at Kuzan, who was already descending the staircase, Tatsu, who was on standby, and Kawahara "I ain't going." Kawahara yawned "...." Lus scorned him with a glare "What the hell?! Is it just me or are there barely any men left alive?!" Tateyana noticed "That's a good thing, actually." Yukishiro remarked "Tatsu, can you please go? And girls---" Lus faced her first protest "I'm not going, who knows what kind of hideous shit is going on in there." Tateyana voiced her opinion "I don't really see how I can be of assistance so..." Ikkiri wasn't interested as well "......" Kanawari just nodded negativity sideways "Yeah I'll go..." Yulia on the other hand was interested "And I will accompany her." Yukishiro offered as she saw Yulia descend the staircase "I don't suppose you would be interested in coming along given your condition?" Lus looked down on her painful knee, trembling "I would be a hindrance..." Lus remarked silently "Very well." Yukishiro decided to go along with Yulia.

  Kuzan, Tatsu, Yulia, and Yukishiro went on their own down to the unknown area where it would be hypothesized that Daniel and Hinagiku had long ventured into.

  "What the hell is this?" Yulia was the first to ask as she saw the underground area full of watery slops and walls made out of rock "Underground, what else? Looks like bro was onto something..." Kuzan kept looking everywhere as he was adamantly curious "How much time do we have?" Yukishiro asked, now closer to Kuzan and Tatsu "Around 15 minutes. We should hurry, we don't know just how far ahead Daniel and Hinagiku went..." Tatsu was callous "This direction... If we continue to follow this direction, it will actually lead us to the male dorm..." Yukishiro noticed "I might cross paths with my dear Omega without even noticing it..." She became happy at the mere possibility.

  Under an entire minute, they walked in a fast pace forward, in the hopes of finding something, through the mud.

  "What are the odds of our chokers having some sort of GPS tracking device in them so they can bomb us whenever they feel like it?" Kuzan asked them this question "...." Tatsu remained silent "I mean... It's very likely... But I don't think that they would kill us off like this when we are entertaining so many..." Yulia reasoned "You're so right." An agreement from a very far distance was made "......" Yukishiro was surprised and became pale suddenly "...Uhhh...!!" Kuzan looked at Yulia, Tatsu, and then Yukishiro "Did any of you...?" Kuzan felt the need to ask "No..." Tatsu nodded his head as they all stopped "...." A short silence was emitted into the atmosphere.

  However, subsequently mildly strong footsteps being marked onto ground could be heard from afar.

  "We are the center of the attention. Kill us off for no reason and it only shows how risky it is to bet on our survival or our deaths." A loud left footstep penetrated their eardrums "Our deaths will not be decided here. It will be in that room, where our heads will be fucking sent to the rooftop and our necks will rain down the ugliest fountains of blood." The distance became relatively close now "...Daniel...!!" Yulia's heartbeat rapidly increased as she saw Daniel's figure becoming more and more visible by the second "... Already...?" Yukishiro was mad and skeptical as she bit off her right hand's nails "Oh, that saves us the trouble. Oof." Kuzan puffed his chest as he felt relieved "Mhm? What does?" Yulia jumped immediately to Daniel's chest and tightly hugged "Missed me? Of course you did, hah." Daniel looked at Yulia from above and gave that snarky remark as Yulia kept rubbing her face on his chest area back and forth sideways "No, I mean---" Yukishiro took over Kuzan's speech "Where is Hinagiku?" Daniel now close to them, halted his walk "...." He thought of the answer fairly quickly "In the male dorm." Their eyebrows twitched at this response.

  Yulia also didn't understand this answer and so, she withdrew herself from Daniel but on the other hand, took his left and right sleeves from his white uniform shirt with her.

  "Explain." Tatsu was the one who demanded "I would but... There's someone after me and if I'm caught then we will all be in trouble..." Daniel spoke with reluctance, earning their stressed attention "Frankly speaking, who knows what he might do if he were to see us here..." He further enticed "...Who?" Yulia asked, scared "The Indian guy. He found me up ahead, well, not found me, but he knows I've invaded this place which is off limits so if he were to catch me... He might just--" Kuzan thought this was enough "Then let's go upstairs. But how is Hinagiku in the male dorm?" Kuzan still couldn't find this to make sense "I'll explain along the way. Get me up." Daniel said with an imperial tone "....I hear nearby footsteps. He's not joking." Tatsu let the others know of this "He's not slow walking, he's actually semi-running." Yulia pushed Daniel's sleeves as soon as be heard that "Ok. I believe you. Let's go." Yulia then pushed Daniel's sleeves and retreated back "..." Kuzan, Tatsu and Yukishiro looked at each other and decided this was the best call to make given their limited amount of time.

  "?!" Lus was startled "Already?!" Tateyana, who was around, couldn't hide her surprise as she saw Yulia emerging with Daniel though he is currently tied down to Yulia through his own sleeves "He came to us, actually." Yukishiro clarified as she emerged with Tatsu and Kuzan afterwards "It seems I'm wanted?" Daniel's words made Kawahara get out of the bed "Half-wanted. Where is the shrimp? And don't give me the bullshit that she didn't help you and wasn't with you. You have no hands, no arms, you couldn't have done this on your own." Kawahara quickly faced Daniel's even height "...." Daniel's face radiated with apathy "There's something I need from the male dorm and I know a way to access it via underground. Come on, you know, the Hideout? If such a convenient underground facility exists then what's stopping another one from being right around the corner?" Kawahara maintained his serious expression nevertheless "Tell me what that something is." Kawahara instantly demanded "Xanax." He admitted it "Xanie? What are you, depressed?!" Kawahara released a rising laughter "Yes. It's hard." Daniel had a serious expression this time around "....He's depressed?" Yulia didn't know this "And what else did you tell her to get from there?" Kawahara continued his pursuit "Nothing. I promised her points back that she will give it to me as soon as the next judgment round starts as per the contract's agreement. She said ok and decided to help me out. If it makes it easier, the pills are in my room but I couldn't access it in time." Daniel further explained "And why is that, Daniel?" Kawahara now sat on the bed, relaxed "Because on our way to it, we encountered the Indian who was with the new players." Daniel delivered shocking information to them "Wait, WHAT?!" Tateyana screamed "YOU SAW THE NEW PLAYERS?!?!" Kuzan found it absurd as well "WHAT ABOUT HYUNDA, WAS HE THERE?!?!" Arkalee got way too close to Daniel "No." He denied it quickly "Off..." Yulia pushed Daniel's sleeves back to her as she hissed at Arkalee "....." Arkalee went back, no longer interested "That's not the point. The point is, upon delivering the new players to some place else, he decided to chase in our direction which led me to believe that we had been found out. So Hinagiku and I split up. She's obviously more useful than me because of the facts that she has two arms and two hands and I don't." Daniel finished.

  Kawahara upon absorbing all of this feasible information, formed a thinking stance with his right closed fist adjoined to the right side of his face; his elbow supported on the surface of his thigh.

  "And when will she be here...?" Lus now decided to talk to Daniel "Depends. I would say close to 10 minutes or something." Daniel gave an ambiguous answer to say the least "...Are you sure?" Lus looked into his dark eyes "It seriously depends if she wants to fuck around or not. She has to be here before the round starts so I doubt it. Why though?" Daniel asked, curious "Oh nothing really, it's just that he won't sign contracts with anyone unless we specifically brought the two of you together to him. Isn't that right, Kawahara?" Lus directed her words to Kawahara "...." But Kawahara was still in the middle of thinking "Ugh, how much time do we have left?" Arkalee generally asked "15-13 minutes...?" Yulia attempted to answer "13." Daniel gave the clear answer "But HOW?! HOW WILL SHE EMERGE FROM THE MALE DORM WHEN IT'S CROWDED WITH GUARDS?!" Arkalee became hysterical "Hmmm... But... It's... not." Kawahara countered her "Huh?!" All eyes were on Kawahara, who looked at Daniel one more time.

  Kawahara acknowledged that only precise and extremely fitting answers would suffice given the situation at hand here and so, he got up one more time.

  "Ikkiri, could you come closer, please? I need your take on something here." Kawahara looked to his right, where Ikkiri was hanging around the door "Uh, yeah. Sure." She was feeling a bit bored and then came closer to Kawahara "Good." Instantly, Kawahara reached out with his right hand to her neck, above her choker, and took hold of it by brute force "!?!?" Ikkiri felt alarmed and nervous "Anyone that leaves this room will not receive a single shred of my help in the upcoming round and I will work my way to terminate your life throughout the whole entirety of the game." Kawahara spoke in a glacial tone to all of them as he took Ikkiri as an example "Kawahara---why---" The grip was strong enough to not allow her to conjure proper sentences "Answer the upcoming questions without proper detail and accuracy to my liking and I will crush your vocal cords. It's not a problem when it comes to answering a claim, but to be denied access of your ability to speak, is inconvenient to say the least. Wouldn't you agree, Kanawari?" Kawahara's expression had no emotion as he looked to Kanawari who was near to his right "....." She looked down, as if mocked "Let's begin." Kawahara wasted no time.

  In front of all of them, Ikkiri was lifted up a full meter in the air with his right hand alone; causing Ikkiri to squirm in pain as she was left gasping for oxygen.

  "Did she tell you that there was a passage or a switch like this ever, in her room?" Kawahara calmly asked, but decreased the strength of his grip just slightly "-----No, if you're---talking about Hina, but also Aki----I was never informed that there was such a passage---" Ikkiri looked genuinely in pain "So, given that, how was it that she knew that there was a passage here?" Kawahara asked knowing the answer to his question "----Daniel---You know!!! He knows----For some reason---!!" Ikkiri didn't hesitate to look at Daniel with obscure eyes "Is that so?" Ikkiri believed that Kawahara would direct his attention to Daniel now "So Daniel, is she telling the truth?" Kawahara didn't release the grip and only intensified it, much to Ikkiri's discomfort "She isn't. She definitely knows that there was a passage in Akimiyashika's room." Daniel's words were sour to Ikkiri and Kawahara began to strangle her with his monstrous right hand "But not Ikkiri though. Hinagiku does." Kawahara now released the grip and allowed Ikkiri to ventilate "AHHHH----AAHHHHH!!!" Her whole body fell on the floor as she felt asthmatic "No need to lift me up. I'll give you the truth like I've been doing." Daniel felt as if the motion would be unnecessary "I strongly disagree." Kawahara performed a strong and quick thrust immediately right to the neck.

  But not Daniel's neck; Yulia's.

  "GGGGHHH----" The corner of her mouth dripped saliva as she was lifted up "You know too much shit you shouldn't, Daniel. Answer my questions in a way that's not according to my liking or the perception of the knowledge you think I might have, and it won't just be her vocal cords. After all..." Kawahara grinned maliciously "If your dead girlfriend can just keep coming back to life over and over to annoy the living shit out of you, it shouldn't be a problem, right?" Kawahara mocked Daniel as everyone watched Yulia get strangled far worse than Ikkiri "Get to the questions." Daniel wasn't mad but he wasn't pleased either "...." Kawahara couldn't get a precise gauge at his emotions as if they were clouded "Alright. First question: You said you didn't see that bastard Hyunda anywhere but we both know the Indian motherfucker took him down there. From the male dorm below to the Hideout, specifically. In other words, when you and Hinagiku went down there and saw the Indian, why was he not with Hyunda? Make some sense about that." Kawahara's voice was intense as if to say that only the best replies would suffice.

  And granted, even though the sight of Yulia getting strangled was a horrifying one, there was no one present who wasn't curious about what Daniel had to say.

  "..." Daniel inhaled profoundly as he closed his eyes briefly; only to open them as he placed his undivided attention to Kawahara alone "Something must've happened in the time where Hyunda was accompanied by the Indian and the multitude of body guards. As far as we can tell, Hyunda hasn't came back or else Arkalee would be screaming out of her lungs right now so it's fair to say that he's still down there or..." Daniel didn't want to say those upcoming words "...It's very likely that he went after the one who brought Yulia into this game." Daniel told "Huh?" Arkalee was stunned "Sorry...??" Ikkiri as well "Explain yourself right now." Kawahara maintained Yulia constrained "I don't know his reasoning behind it, but I do know that ever since Yulia has been brought into the game that he has been actively wanting to remove her, even going as far as placing a bounty on her and no one else. It shouldn't be possible and yet it was. I believe that he likes this game to the point where he found this interference to be highly unpleasant. Odds are, he actually knows how to get to the person who deployed her and that through the underground, there is a way." But Kawahara was confused by this "Wait. You're talking as if you know this someone who deployed her very well..." Kawahara noticed "That's right. She's my ex from Brazil." Daniel dropped another bombshell, which caused a premature silence, even from Kawahara "Wh---Whaattt?!" Yulia, despite being strangled, found the will to say that "Let me just add something: I had no idea and have no real evidence that it's her. This is information that was given to me by Hyunda and information that I alone, can't actually explain. I'm sorry if this doesn't satisfy you but anyone remotely familiar with Hyunda knows that he hides too much and shares very little." Daniel finished his reasoning.

  Kawahara thought if it was worth it to believe it or not but he instead continued to question Daniel, as Yulia felt more and more terrified by the second.

  "I-----CAN'T BRE.....ATGGGHHHEEEE...!!!!" Tears emerged from the corners of her eyes as Kawahara's strength remained supreme "Her name?" Kawahara asked "Sandra." Daniel quickly replied "Alright. But you're avoiding the main question here. Suppose that Hyunda went after your supposed Brazilian ex girlfriend, how did he manage to overcome so much adversity such as the Indian, his guards, and the fact that he can't walk?" Kawahara released the grip a little bit and allowed Yulia to breathe a bit better "Don't try to bury the subject like you just did." Kawahara resumed his strangle "GGGGHHH----!!!" Yulia kept ragging in pain "......" Daniel realized there was no turning point after this "Hyunda is actually the Indian's superior." They found this ridiculous "You're so delusional. Do you listen to yourself?" Tatsu remarked "Shut up." Kawahara silenced any possible followed up opinions as Daniel was allowed to continue "However, I don't think the Indian knew this at first and so, Hyunda most likely had to prove it. The Indian very likely killed the guards by himself and that's why if you go outside, you probably won't encounter the same number..." Daniel added "Kuzan, go check if there are guards outside the parameter or inside right away." Kuzan didn't reply and simply burst into rapid speed as he exited the scene "Hyunda most likely found a facility where there are body regeneration machines." Daniel spoke ludicrous words once again, causing the girls to ridicule him with looks "There is a zone that allows you to supposedly grow your lost body pieces back so I'm assuming that's how he was able to regrow his feet and so, he is, under my assumption, away from the action permanently." Daniel answered the question now fully.

  But his answer brought forth her anger.

  "YOU FUCKING LIAR, I'LL KILL YOU!!!" Arkalee rushed in and attempted to kick Daniel's face, but the kick was intercepted by Kawahara's right hand and she was sent across the room all the way to the closest with an ankle throw "AAAGGHH!!!" Arkalee's back cracked as her body hit the closet without warning "HOLY SH---" Tateyena covered her mouth "...Kawahara....!! Aren't you going too far?!" Lus finally questioned him "I will if my pursuit keeps being interfered. And as for your answer..." Kawahara looked at Daniel again "No, let's move on to the next question." Kawahara decided against it "Release her. I'm telling you the truth and only the truth. Damaging her won't actually accomplish anything." Daniel argued "Oh, but I wonder? Maybe it will?" Kawahara resumed his strangling session as Yulia's face was getting redder and redder "Second question: How did you know that this room had a switch that would manually make an underground passage erupt?" Daniel wasted no time in answering this "I tasked Hinagiku with finding something that would resembled a secret passage in the female dorm and she did so. And as to why she has access to this room is because Hinagiku has Akimiyashika's room key." Kawahara's face became full of rage "BULLSHIT!!" Yulia's neck was authentically strangled "KAWAHARA!!!" Lus called out to him "YOU'RE GOING TO KILL HER!!!" Kawahara didn't cease the grip "Jesus..." The situation was quickly escalating out of control "Oh, I fucking will if he doesn't tell me something better than that!!" Kawahara threatened "YULIA HAS AN OMNIKEY IN HER SKIRT'S POCKET!!! IT WILL OPEN ANYTHING NO MATTER WHAT!!!" As Daniel was delivered yet another piece of seemingly delusional information, Kuzan had just arrived and was nearby the door "...I KNEW IT...!!!" A grin appeared on his face "...Oh...?" Kawahara softly decreased the power of his strangle "Suddenly... Your words... Became very much interesting..." Kawahara was now strangling Yulia with bare minimum strength which allowed her to breathe better "...Pleaseeee...!!!" Yulia cried "What do you want?! He already answered all you wanted to know...!!" Yulia further expressed herself "No, not all." Kawahara decided to now release Yulia as her body fell on the floor "AAAHHHH!!!! AAAAAHHHHHHHHNNNH!!!!" Over ventilating, Yulia took long sessions of deep inhaling and exhaling "Yulia, it's alright now... Keep breathing like that..." Daniel offered his comfort "......" Yulia looked at him with sad eyes "Toss the key." But Kawahara was relentless "Or we go for round two." He threatened "H-HERE...!!" Yulia was quick to toss the key to the ground towards Kawahara.

  With a majestic bow, Kawahara held the jet black key with his right hand fingers as he kept analyzing its cryptic structure.

  "Kuzan." Kawahara didn't look at him "None... Not outside nor inside... The male dorm is completely radio silent, unlike before. Something happened, definitely..." Kuzan told him but also the others "I see." Kawahara acknowledged "Daniel, where is Hinagiku at this precise moment?" Kawahara asked the question that everyone wanted to dearly know "...Right now she should be..."

  The password entry had been tried one time and as such, there were only two other attempts, as she stood in front of the forbidden gateway.

  "It's not 'Trusttod'..." Hinagiku started with the password that Daniel thought would be the last resort "So it has to be..." She typed out the primary idea, although her body was still hurting a lot from the considerable damage she took earlier, causing her writing to be slow "..." A mild rumbling sound was made from the gateway as it started to open, causing Hinagiku to go to the edge of the left side, where the gate wouldn't fully extract itself.

  On that edge, where a single slip would signify going into that unknown darkness below, Hinagiku carefully stood as she watched the upcoming area to see if there interference.

  A highly artificial technological hallway with a massive metallic elevator of six meters in width and an unknown height. To its right and left side, are two separate hallways and beyond the elevator, the hallway continues though she cannot see what's beyond it. The illumination is vastly superior compared to the previous area, as it was supported by immensely powerful light above.

  "There's no one... But there is bound to be numerous security cameras..." Hinagiku slowly went to the center of the gateway "However, should I retreat, I'll have to face that Indian and there is no way I'll come out on top... If I had to guess, his entire body is capable of producing the same stupid feats. Fighting him is not an option to even consider in the first place." Hinagiku abandoned the idea and began to move forward "....." Before completely entering the area, she looked to the top of the ceiling, where she had to shield her eyes with her right forearm, just to see if there were any security cameras "...None. That's weird... Usually they are placed on the very top..." Hinagiku didn't want to think much of it and started to move on into the main hallway.

  As she did, the gateway began to close slowly and once it made a full closure, Hinagiku turned around and looked at the gateway from her perspective now.

  "......" She was nervous but not surprised "I see... So that's the 'security camera'..." A fully opened eye with a luscious green retina, followed Hinagiku's every moment as if it was its undying purpose to track every movement the target made "...There's most likely..." Hinagiku adjoined herself to the wall on her right and slowly, she walked sideways in order to investigate what the other hallways looked like.

  A purely cerulean blue was vastly spread through the eye's that centralized itself on the right tightly locked mechanical door; with an angelic open horizontal eye in it's center. Likewise, to the left size, the same scenery occurred but the color of the retina was yellow instead.

  Hinagiku noticed something else partial. As she was keeping her right hand in her abdomen and had trembling legs, she started to notice an anomaly in the air.

  "....What the..." An almost invisible spray was released from the upper ceiling "Poisonous gas?! SH---" But as she felt alerted, her body started to feel vitalized "...You're kidding me..." She took off the right hand of her abdomen and looked above, at the sprinkling spray drops that made her body feel rejuvenated beyond common sense "It doesn't hurt anymore... But why did it do that..." Hinagiku looked back at the green eye "Don't tell me it actually knew of my body's condition and acted upon it... That's... No... Everything has been ridiculous this far, I should stop assuming that whatever I'll encounter from here onwards will make sense." An ecstasy grin appeared on her face "AHAAHHAA~~~~ IT FEELS SO GOOOOOD~~~" She felt happy as her body was entirely vitalized to normal to its fullest capacity thanks to the spray that showered her; although after a few seconds, it ceased to do so "It has acknowledged that it's had enough." Hinagiku plausibly moved forward and started to ponder her options.

  She was face to face with the elevator which had several number buttons that would lead to different floors.

  "We are not below the male dorm nor the female dorm. The new players come from a place that's within the cradle. In other words, that old rustic classroom. This elevator leads them down there and once the new round is about to start, they are tasked with going to the room in order to play. Therefore, this is actually the second floor. There are eight other buttons..." Hinagiku felt tempted just to see what lies beneath, but focused on what's important "It's 12:48 pm right now..." The elevator has a panel with its respective eight buttons on the right middle side of it, where the hours are exposed minimally on the upper right corner "If I am to go into the male dorm, then I have to go to the right side... Because the male dorm is on the right side of the abandoned classroom." She theorized and then began to walk to her right.

  As she did, out of mere curiosity, she looked at the north side of the area, ahead of the elevator, where there is another locked door, with an horizontal eye; possessing a white retina. However, this eye was semi-open.

  "It's... crying..." Hinagiku noted "Usually when an eye isn't fully open it's due to a protocol, most likely, but... This eye looks genuinely sad... It's still following my every movement, but it's... so sad." She found the scenery outerworldy, but was reminded of something "That eye..." She turned her head to the area that's behind the main gateway where she came from "It turned from red to white upon analyzing Daniel..." Her eyebrows became stiff "It's so strange... By normal means, shouldn't the eyes have judged me as an intruder like it did before? It only calmed down at the sight of Daniel. Does this mean that the reason as to why these eyes are not detecting me as an intruder is because Daniel's presence was of so much authority to the point of overwriting the protocol...?" She speculated "I don't know but I actually believe this." Regardless, Hinagiku walked ultimately to the right side of the room, where upon entering five meters away from the locked door, the door automatically began to upon itself, despite there being a password entry device to the right side "I see, thanks to him I am basically the queen of this domain for the following given minutes. That saves me the trouble then." Hinagiku took her freedom for granted and began to speed up through the path where she and Daniel were once face to face but could not pass through.

  Around a minute and a half later, Hinagiku arrived at the laboratory. Swiftly, she turned the light on and could see the laboratory for what it was, without having to feel like she was having a rush.

  "My God, my body feels so light it's ridiculously unbelievable. It didn't just heal my body. It made it function even better. I don't think it modified anything that wasn't already there but it took away any physical weakness that I had plaguing my body. Hell, even my jaw doesn't hurt anymore." She talked to herself as she ventured through the laboratory.

  The height of the laboratory was roughly around four meters and possessed fairly thick walls made out of grey cement. The floor was made out of mosaics that had long since decayed. Not only that, but the illumination of the place is subpar, compared to the area where she previously was. Row after row, they either contained glass bottles of very specific liquid substances or dossiers containing unknown quantities of obscure information. Some, were even locked via lockers.

  The deeper one would go into the laboratory that had unknown dimension in length, several jars of human body parts such as eyes, hands, feet, jaws, reproductive organs from both sexes, intestines, pancreases, and many more of the same category, were to be found. Some animals could be seen in such jars as well, but it was of no concern to her as her primary objective was fairly obvious as the one-metered table containing all that she needed was just up ahead.

  "Umm... What was it that he specifically wanted again...?" Hinagiku quickly relived that moment where she was kicked into the rumble under false pretenses "...As many liquid flasks on the table as possible and all the pills that are in the table..." Hinagiku now looked down on the 4-metered width rectangular-shaped table that had all the necessary components there.

  Three syringes with barely any liquid of dark substances resided on the left side of the table, scattered. A multitude of eight stringed flasks adjoined to a wooden container were visible not far away; the flasks themselves possessing the properties of unknown scientific substances. After that, there were more scattered open flasks dripping with liquid to the right, where a variety of pills from minimum to medium size would remain. They were mainly shaded in grey white but some were yellowish.

  Hinagiku had her objective secured and going into the male dorm would not be a problem for her as she didn't believe there would be interference in the shape of bodyguards on her end. There was, however, a significant obstacle.

  "These don't all fit inside my skirt's pockets... Or rather..." She looked at the sheer quantity of the items "For all I know, the pills are what's truly necessary alongside the flasks. But to carry them in my pockets is... suspicious, to say the least. My pockets don't have zippers, they are open all the time... There's not a bag in sight... I'm afraid... I will just have to take all that I can, without putting anything..." Hinagiku decided to strip her entire skirt down "There's also the bra. I can stuff a few flasks in there... Good idea." She began to strip down the upper buttons on her blouse and placed four flasks in her tightly tied bra "Anymore and it will fall, most likely. No, on second thought... Worst case scenario, if someone searches for anything I might be carrying, they will definitely invade my chest area, even from the outside... It has to be a place where no sane person would actually dare to invade..." Her eyes looked to her dark panties below as she gulped; holding the four flasks and the other remaining four flasks with her left hand "......" She looked at the particular size of the flasks for a second "...They should... fit..." It wasn't something that she had ever experienced before.

  One by one, they went all in.

  On the entrance of the female dorm, the entirety of the students remained at bay in order to watch the scenery that was the male dorm, from the outside. Lifeless and completely devoid of the veracity of bodyguards that was present in the earlier hours, the male dorm had now been reduced to that of a wasteland.

  "...She's gonna come, right?" Tateyana was skeptical as she looked at Daniel, with narrow eyes "I believe in bro. He wouldn't lie when there's so much on the line. It's just some pills, right, bro?" Kuzan looked at Daniel with a forced smile "All of this just for some Xanax?" Yukishiro looked at Daniel as she internally thought "Five minutes left... Also, how is she breaking through that door?? Are there really no guards inside?! This doesn't... make any sense, unless what Daniel specifically said, is the actual unfiltered truth...!" Kanawari looked at Daniel, who was having a seat on the edge of the entrance step of the female dorm, alongside Yulia by his right side; interlaced with Daniel's sleeves "WHERE....!!! WHERE IS HEEEEEEE?!?!?!?" Arkalee was beyond paranoid and kept pondering where Hyunda could be but there were no signs of him anywhere "Say, Kawahara... Can't you just use that key to bust open the male dorm?" Tatsu suggested "You know, he's got a point there..." Daniel agreed with Tatsu, but he didn't take his eyes off the front entrance door of the male dorm "Stupid fucking idea you just suggested, Tatsu. Why would I do that when she will come right to us?" Kawahara grinned as he looked at Daniel, like everyone else present "Ain't that right, Daniel?" He requested confirmation from him "........" But he formed his signature silence.

  Long awaited moments of silence passed, roughly passing down to one minute. This passage of time, went from forced silence, to boredom, to doubts, and eventually, to an outburst.

  "WHERE IS SHE?!?!" Arkalee freaked out as she started to walk around in circles "HINAGIKU, COME OUT ALREADY!!! YOU WON'T GET AWAY WITH THIS!!!" Tateyana shouted so loud that most had to cover their ears "Seriously...!! Where is she?!" Lus began to feel the tension from the situation "Four minutes until the next round and the woman of the hour is nowhere to be seen. This is gonna be fun~" Kawahara whistled "Mhm?" Daniel's eyes began to open a bit more than usual "What? What?!" Yulia didn't fail to notice this "Daniel, did you notice something?" Ikkiri, who didn't fail to catch that, decided to question him "......" A very small eye glance was performed on the left bottom of one of the windows from the left side of the male dorm's frontal windows "........." Kawahara's face became serious as he didn't miss that "If you don't open the door, she's just gonna break one of the windows." Daniel looked at Kawahara, who was behind him this whole time "I don't care." Kawahara dismissed the necessity "BREAK THE WINDOW AND GET OUT!!" Daniel was quick to order her "......SERIOUSLY..... IN FRONT OF----" Hinagiku found this path of action humiliating "KAWAHARA HAS PROMISED TO MAKE A CONTRACT WITH YOU IF YOU DO!! AND IT'S ABOUT THE ANSWERS IN THE UPCOMING ROUNDS!!" Though Daniel shouted to immense heights, he didn't give off any specific vibrant emotion "........" Hinagiku found herself in a conundrum.

  But regardless, she had to take action.

  And as such, Hinagiku fully got up and instead of breaking the window, she did the thing that no one expected it.

  "HUH?! HOW?!?!" Tateyana was mind-blown "She probably took it from one of the supposed dead guards..." Yukishiro theorized "See? It wasn't necessary for me to open it." Kawahara remarked "....." Daniel was mildly annoyed that Hinagiku revealed that she had a key that could open the male dorm like that "......" Silently, Hinagiku walked forward, in their direction, as they started to draw their attention to Kawahara "OK!! THE TWO OF THEM ARE NO---" As Tateyana was shouting those words, Arkalee furiously approached Hinagiku and faced her height "HYUNDA!!! WHERE IS HYUNDA!!! ANSWER ME!!!" Relentless, Arkalee even spat saliva "No clue." Hinagiku maintained her apathetic expression "Wasn't he supposed to be back already though? You know, he went down there with the Indian." Hinagiku feigned ignorance "Give it up, chibby, we know the truth. He told us all of it." Kawahara looked at Daniel "......." Hinagiku looked in Daniel's direction "...." Daniel closed his eyes for two seconds before opening them again "....Seriously..." She was shocked to know this "...I seriously don't know, but..." Hinagiku began to look at Ikkiri "BUT!?" Arkalee shoved her presence once again onto Hinagiku "He is in the game." Hinagiku confessed "Now get the hell out of my face before I break your fucking knees." Coldly, Hinagiku advanced forward.

  She looked at Kawahara briefly and went straight to the point.

  "My contract?" She spoke with high confidence "Mhm. I vow to give you all the answers." Kawahara started off in a strange fashion "....What's the condition?" Nobody believed in the false pretense "Strip all of your clothing and empty your pockets in front of everyone. Right here, right now. Or better yet, show me everything you've acquired down there and surrender it to me." Kawahara advanced and towered Hinagiku immensely "....." Hinagiku's eyes widened "Wh---Kawahara...!!" Ikkiri was outraged at the request "Sup? Wanna get strangled so hard you'll miss out on the next round and most likely have your head blown to pieces? If so, keep talking!" Kawahara directed his attention to Ikkiri on his left "I DARE YOU TO SAY ANOTHER WORD, BITCH!!" Kawahara's shout made Ikkiri take four steps back out of fear "Kawahara, you don't have to go about thi------" Lus' words lived fairly shortly "And what's the guarantee that you'll give me the answers?" Hinagiku made all of them become silent; not even Kawahara being able to process her sudden strong composure "Because as far as I can tell, even if I obey your demands, you can just give me the middle finger and I can't do shit about it. Where's the guarantee, Kawahara?" Hinagiku took control of the pacing of the uneven situation.

  Kawahara felt as if he was being mocked.

  "You little shit." His expression became spiteful "I do have a way to ensure that." Kawahara commanded the center of attention now "If you do as I say, then I will give you %5 of the points from the start of the round, at the end of every judgment round." Kawahara told her "Words. I don't want promises. Give yourself a real genuine consequence that will feel like one." Hinagiku didn't take the bait "Although... That deal was actually pretty good..." She lamented "Pesky one, ain't cha?" Kawahara became snarky "You are asking me to fully strip in front of this many. What the hell do you take my womanly pride for, retard?" Hinagiku insulted her "Someone so small should not have the right to call herself a wom--" Hinagiku grew tired of this "So?! What will it be?!" Hinagiku put the borders of her fingers on the two edges of her skirt, from both sides "Alright, how about---" He had too, enough of this "Just fucking strip already." Daniel got up from the edge of the step, and so did Yulia due to the sleeves being tied to him "DANIEL?!?!" Yulia exclaimed and gasped as she was utterly baffled "Stop wasting time and show him what you got. We have three minutes and a half." Daniel marked Hinagiku with a stare.

  Hinagiku was speechless as her mouth was slightly open, just like many of the others.

  "....Kawahara, will you keep the promise to effectively form a contract with me if I do as you said?" Hinagiku had her eyes fully open but her voice was nervous "Yeah. I'll keep my word and tell you every answer, simply show me what you've obtained down there by stripping yourself in front of all of us." Kawahara demanded once again "......." Hinagiku looked then at Daniel briefly, and he didn't flinch for a second nor break eye contact with Hinagiku "...This is the only way... Is that what you're telling MEEEE...!?!!?" Hinagiku transiently showed a psychotic face "OH OK!!! WHY NOT!??! I MEAN YOU ALL MUST BE CRAZY OR FUCKED SEVERELY IN THE BRAIN IF YOU ACTUALLY THINK THAT I'M CARRYING SOMETHING OF VALUE HERE!!!" As Hinagiku's laughter increased, her attitude became unhinged as she started by fully sliding down her skirt "NOWAY----" Yulia was baffled by her shameless behavior "This is ridiculous...!!" Lus couldn't believe it as Hinagiku then decided to use her right foot to kick the right shoe off in Kawahara's direction and then the left one "CHECK IF THERE'S A MINI BOMB INSIDE!!! WHO KNOWS, YOU MIGHT GET THE SURPRISE OF YOUR LIFE!!!" And Kawahara did exactly that "Oh right. My stockings too. Tell me, what was I suppose to hide in these again?~" She elevated her right leg upward, fully exposing her panties "......" Kuzan and Tatsu couldn't really express the way that they were feeling right now "YOU WHORE, HAVE YOU NO SHAME!?" Yulia got up in a feat of rage which caused Daniel to elevate too "I most certainly..." Finishing it off, she unzipped every button of her blouse "NOT!!!" Happily, she spined around fully, while tossing the blouse up in the air; ultimately in their direction.

  As the blouse landed on the ground near Kawahara, where he saw nothing of substance that could be partial to the blouse itself, not a single person present failed to see her body on full dispose now that it was only protected by two pieces of clothing.

  "NO...!!!" Yulia immediately covered Daniel's eyes with her fore arms by hugging his upper head area "...Wait, Yulia, I really need to se---" Daniel's appealing was denied in a loud fashion "YOU WILL NOT SEE ANYTHING OF THIS!!! THAT'S AN ORDER FROM ME!!!" Unyielding, Yulia made sure to cover up every corner of Daniel's view "...." Daniel couldn't hide his displease as his lips prematurely pouted "ARGH!! GET ON WITH IT!!! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU STRETCHING FOR YOU SLUT!?!" Arkalee shouted in Hinagiku's direction as Hinagiku performed a bridge, and then a backflip; elevating her right thigh up thanks to her right hand "Black is my favorite color, so you get a pass. HOWEVER, GET A MOVE ON!!!" Kawahara demanded some progress "...Ohh..." Hinagiku stopped exhibiting herself, in particular by highlighting her black piece of underwear and laced bra that covered her semi-sized adolescent chest "Ok but do something about those two. I don't like the way they're looking at me." Hinagiku stood firm as she hatefully glanced Kuzan and Tatsu "Face the wall, you two." Kawahara immediately ordered "Or get strangled to near death. Make your choice." Kawahara didn't look at the two of them "...." They didn't even try to argue about this and faced the windows "I SAID WALL!!! AND CLOSE YOUR EYES!!!" Kawahara corrected himself but was more abrasive by return "Dude, I'm not gonna look..." Tatsu mumbled "So you say but I saw you staring earlier, Tatsu. When I was stretching just a while ago." Hinagiku accused him "That never happened." Tatsu closed his eyes and faced the wall to the right "It's pedophilia to even stare at you for more than a second." Kuzan remarked as he faced the wall with his eyes closed too "Yet you did, for three seconds. How dare you." She became offended.

  However, by now, all of her problems should have been gone.

  "........." Hinagiku stared deeply into Daniel's eyes which were covered by Yulia's forearms "...What...?!" Yulia didn't like the way Hinagiku was looking in Daniel's direction "...." Kanawari looked at Daniel's eyes from her perspective, as she is in the back "...They are entirely open... Are her arms even covering the whole thing...??" She suspected "What's the matter? Start." Kawahara demanded "Or does my presence affect you that much?" Kawahara added "Oh no... I mean, it's obvious you have some kink for the dead, ahaha..." Hinagiku laughed in his face before reaching out to the borders of her black panties "....." Unlike before, where she was entirely confident, she now had to watch so many people envision her body naked "Hina...!!" Ikkiri wanted to speak, but Kawahara had left a mark on her earlier "She's doing it. She's ACTUALLY DOING IT?!" Lus couldn't believe it as she saw Hinagiku strip down her panties in front of her "...This is nothing compared to what goes on in there but still......" Yulia couldn't help but draw comparisons in her mind "There you go." Hinagiku tossed the black tight panties in Kawahara's direction with a right hand throw.

  And so, the first item came off.

  "Stop staring at it... You see your unclean pussies every day too, animals." Hinagiku looked forward to taking off her bra up next "Speak for yourself..." Yulia lowly said that "...." Kawahara didn't bother to take up her panties as absolutely nothing was to be seen there except for the fabric "...I was positive she was hiding something there..." Kanawari thought as she found it strange "....." Revealing more of her naked body, Hinagiku ultimately took off her medium sized bra "... Aren't they a bit too big for her frame?" Yulia remarked to herself as her eyebrows stiffened "Her entire body is way too fit. What has she been doing her whole life...?" Lus pondered "Anything else to satisfy your insecurities?" Hinagiku asked Kawahara as he took up her black bra and saw nothing inside "...." Kawahara decided to now speed up and walked in order to meet Hinagiku face to face "......" The two of them silently stared at each other, but Kawahara's height proved to be something surreal to her "Take off your hair accessories." Kawahara ordered "...Do you have any idea how long this takes..." Hinagiku complained but ultimately didn't fall to comply.

  The two top right and left corners of her hair contain red chinese hair balls that hide hair buns underneath, which upon being freed, given that it contains more additional hair, released a longer wave of hair from her mildly dark blue hair. They were supported by two metallic pointy chops.

  "I'm surprised they've allowed her to hide those when it's fairly obvious that she was carrying deadly utensils..." Yukishiro said out loud "Well, what's she gonna do? Kill someone? She'll die afterwards via her choker getting bombed." Arkalee countered "Here, they have nothing inside." Hinagiku tossed the golden hair joints that hold her bottom hair in the shape of a cylinder inside "...." Kawahara realized that there was nothing else to be acquired in terms of knowledge here "And no, nothing is beneath my choker, but you saw that already." Hinagiku reminded him "Then what were you doing down there if you came back with nothing? Daniel, didn't you admit that she was tasked with bringing you the Xanax for your 'depression'?" Kawahara didn't turn to Daniel but Daniel answered regardless, in a mournful tone "And she was... Why didn't you..." Daniel's voice was weak "I can't take much more of this..." Yulia felt like caressing him as she felt sad that he was suffering "...It was locked..." Hinagiku reluctantly gave that answer "...???" Kanawari found this strange "...Ah... I forgot to tell you....." Daniel intervened "...Damn it." He was genuinely annoyed "I hid the key beneath the right brick that's loose on the wall. I was in such a hurry to escape from that Indian that I overlooked it..." Daniel heavily sighed "Sorry." Daniel apologized to Hinagiku "......" Hinagiku took off with this "Yeah that's on you not me. Maybe actually remind me earlier? You know, it's kinda relevant to tell me where the key is if you actually LOCKED the place UP!!!" Hinagiku demonstrated frustration above else "I HAD TO RUN FOR SO LONG, DAMN IT!!! AAAGGHHHHH!!!" She decided to go up ahead and grab her underwear that was scattered on the semi-wet floor "And it's all soaked... Great..." She lashed out another complaint before starting to dress up her panties.

  Seeing as there was absolutely nothing to gain here, Kawahara took notion of the time and saw that there were only two minutes left.

  "To those who want their contracts to be made, accompany me. I'm going into the classroom." Kawahara began to move "Wait up, I have to--" All of them, except for Ikkiri, Hinagiku, who now had her bra back on, Yulia, and Daniel, began to follow Kawahara, even Kuzan and Tatsu who no longer felt as if they had to stay like that against the wall "I'll cover for you..." Ikkiri held Hinagiku's skirt and blouse in the meantime "Thanks but there's no need. I'll even have all the answers in then upcoming round. This was worth it." Hinagiku was jubilant; Yulia and Daniel got up at the same time "Let's go, Daniel..." Yulia now only had a single arm covering Daniel's eyes "...Yulia, I really won't look in her direction..." Daniel tried to argue "I know you won't." Yulia continued to guide him until the entrance of the block "....." Hinagiku now had her blouse back on, which was sufficiently long to cover her panties up "Ummm..." Ikkiri, after handling Hinagiku her skirt, spoke up "...You said earlier that Hyunda was still in the game but that you also didn't see where he went..." Ikkiri was confused "...Ahh..." Hinagiku had a troubled expression as she put her skirt on "About that..." She also grabbed her hair accessories alongside her shoes and stockings "Come along, I think it's easier for me if I explain it along the way... Time is really short." Hinagiku noted.

  And she was right. Only a minute and a half remain and it's strictly advised for participants to be at least one minute earlier than appointed in the room.

  "... Wait... I have to check something with Olivia..." Ikkiri had an impending thought, more of a doubt that was created from a certain possibility "Okay... Well, you're gonna see it for yourself anyways..." Hinagiku moved to the main building as she put her stocks on and then her shoes "......" Swiftly, she used her right hand to massage the bottom of her belly, more close to the vaginal area "...Good." She playfully smiled.

  Ikkiri rushed to the female dorm once more, in particular to the direction of the cafeteria. Once there, with little time on the clock, she went to the left side, where Olivia was cleaning the balcony that had left overs.

  "Olivia, did you---" Upon seeing Ikkiri, Olivia turned the faucet off and dried her hands "Ikkiri!! You won't believe what I just witnessed ----" Ikkiri was taken aback for a second "......." She unconsciously turned her eyes to the right, where a lone dining table had a singular plate with a singular metal fork and a knife, unlike any of the other dining tables that had none of that "... That's..." Ikkiri pointed at the plate that didn't have any left overs but contained an orangeish sauce spread all over it "Oh, so, while you were gone away from the cafeteria, I had finished making the tuna pasta that you were making and you won't believe me when I say this----" Olivia placed her two hands on half of her face beneath her nose, in order to create suspense "What... What did you..." Ikkiri was somewhat afraid of knowing "I saw Hyunda coming in the dorm's direction but I kid you not, HE WAS WALKING WITH HIS TWO FEET!!!" Olivia revealed "???????????????????" Ikkiri face contained immense confusion "How is that even----" A reminder that was implanted in the system took action.

  Whenever a player isn't nearby the main building, the choker will initiate a self-destruct sequence that cannot be undone unless that player reaches the main building.

  "!!!!" Ikkiri became nervous by the ongoing alarm sound waves created in the choker, in the form of a siren "This is bad." She immediately thought "I HAVE TO GO!!!" Without listening to the rest, Ikkiri made her way to the main building "...No, but what did she just say...?? Hyunda couldn't have walked here with his two feet alone, Arkalee used that option to cut them off!!!" Ikkiri remained confused but still greatly made the effort of pacing herself ahead "...I wonder if I should've mentioned the hair color change..." Olivia retrieved the plate "Or the fact that he couldn't even speak English... Seriously, what language was that?" The plate reached the counter.

  With only half a minute on the clock, Ikkiri had made her way to the entrance of the room, where in only a few seconds, the round would begin. However, she was hearing Arkalee's screaming voice, even though she was deep in the room already.

  "WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS?!?! HOW IS HE ABLE TO WALK?!?! I CUT OFF HYUNDA'S FEET!!!" Arkalee complained loudly, as Ikkiri looked into the room, her choker no longer making alarm sounds "She's finally here. And here I thought we would finally have our first death by not appearing." Basara remarked, ignoring Arkalee's cry "HELLOOO?!!?! WHY AREN'T YOU ANSWERING ME?!?!" Arkalee found this stupid and absurd "Sybau." In a Russian tone, one of the new players, a female one, spoke in Arkalee's direction "THE FUCK DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME YOU FILTHY RUSSIAN?!?!" Arkalee yelled, despite on her seat "I was wrong to think that you Japs wouldn't be racist. Your ancestors probably died screaming too when they got nuked on their fucking heads!!" A male one this time, mocked Arkalee "Alright settle down! Ikkiri, take your seat." Basara demanded "....." However, Ikkiri was a bit lost.

  In the first place, the central oval table with a large width and a meter in length, only had the capacity for 20 players at best. But this time, it was as if the structure of the table had the natural space for 24 players. But there was something that was different this round.

  On the very top of the tall chairs, there was now a number adjoined to it; holographic at it too. The number is correspondent to the position within the ranking ladder and as such, it's labeled as '1' for Ikkiri, starting from the left side of the room, where Hinagiku is to her left side, being the second one according to the ladder.

  "I must say I didn't expect this one. Looks like they're restricting our movements too..." Hinagiku noted as she referred to the newly added component that surrounds the area of their chairs "...What is this..." Ikkiri, on the verge of sitting down in her chair, saw a square being formed around the area of her chair, in a red line "...I don't think you want to pass beyond that red line..." Hinagiku warned, as Ikkiri nervously sat down "Unless you want your head to go to the roof, of course." Basara elaborated "...We can't even reach out to another person..." Kanawari noticed, as she sat between Tatsu and Arkalee ".........." Ikkiri took this and did the one thing that secondarily drove her into this room.

  On the exact left side, north-west, to the left of Daniel, stood Hajime Hyunda, in the sixth seat. To his left, sits Lus, who also couldn't help but stare at Hyunda. But to say that what they were looking at was the Hyunda that they knew, physically, was perhaps a misinterpreted statement.

  "....No way....." Ikkiri stiffened her eyebrows in disbelief but also obtained inner guarded skepticism as she looked in Hyunda's direction; where his expression far contrasted his usually controlled, stoic, and more often than not, highly apathetic one "Porque raios é que estes atrasados est?o a olhar para mim? Filhos da puta do caralho......"