Fireworks bloom around the lake.

Although you can't see the broken stars falling into the lake, the sparks are flowing, and the dark mansion will be illuminated frame by frame.

The sound of fireworks exploding echoed with screams of excitement coming from outside the room.

"The fireworks are so high, I guess when we walk out of the mansion, the fireworks show will be over."

Futami said with regret.

"Watching fireworks in a haunted house is actually quite fun."

Majima pushed the window and found that it was locked, and he could only look through the gray glass like lightning, watching the flashes of fireworks from time to time.

Immortal Chuan heard another burst of footsteps and cries coming from the corridor outside the door, and looked at Asama and asked.

"Do you want to open the door and let the people outside hide?"

"There are no real ghosts in this foreign hall, maybe being chased by ghosts is the source of the fun for them to participate in the test of courage."

Hearing Immortalgawa's words, Asama locked the door instead.

Futami Wama Island saw Asama lock the door, and his heart suddenly popped and jumped faster.

Asama stares at the useless key in his hand, suspecting that this thing might be able to open other locks and obtain key items.

But he called on everyone to clean up the items they had just found, and after searching the room again, they didn't find anything of note.

Immortal Chuan, who was squatting to check the clues, clapped his hands and stood up,

"Are we busy for nothing?"

Majima clenched his fists, pressed his index knuckle against his mouth, and said softly,

"The hint is [the flame gem is in the master's bedroom], but you can't tell which one is the master's bedroom, and there are no portraits, patterns, or other things that can be scrutinized in front of each door."

"Then according to what Jingshui-kun said, go to the room with a large balcony in the middle of the southeast direction?"

"But we didn't have the key to open the southeast facing room. The four keys are all in the southwest room, and the keys that have just been fished out in still water don't seem to be useful? Is it possible that the key is hidden on the first or second floor that we skimmed? ”

"Without further ado, Robert-kun, let's split up, let's go downstairs and look for it~ and then meet in this room in 20 minutes?"

Hearing Immortalgawa's proposal, Futami Kazuma Island instantly cheered up.

It's a great opportunity to be alone!

Asama shook his head in refusal, and took out three other ordinary keys and said,

"Let's search the other rooms on this side as well."

Marking with their hair wrapped around the key, they opened the door to the second room on the southwest side of the third floor of the Western-style Pavilion.

A strange sticky, fishy smell came to my nose.

The owner of the second room is most likely an avid NASA fan. As far as the eye can see, the room is full of NASA surroundings: a model of the Saturn 5 rocket, astronaut costumes, various paintings of NASA mascot Snoopy, portraits of NASA directors as of 2005, the zodiac signs that have joined Ophiuchus, and a star map of the length of time the sun passes through each constellation.

On the floor lay a prop man who had been disemboweled, and along the bloodstains, you could find several aliens lying on the ceiling.

If it's a real person, it really hurts these staff.

The bright eyes of the alien thief made Asama suspect that there was a camera hidden inside, who were the people who were enjoying the live performance of this test of courage?

Arima shouldn't have this kind of bad taste, right?

On the computer desk in the room is a conspicuous lockbox with four coin-sized grooves, and the box next to it contains 12 constellation badges corresponding to the grooves.

It seems that they are asked to find clues in the room, and deduce that they have screened out 4 badges and put them in the groove.

Immortal Chuan turned on the computer, and the screen displayed a sentence-

[O moon, you are a quiet golden in spring, a changeable emerald in summer, a dreamy cyan in autumn, and an enterprising crimson in winter.] ]

The password is the constellation, but the riddle is the moon.

Immortal Chuan smiled,

"I'll do this question~"

Everyone watched her put Taurus, Gemini, Pisces, and Sagittarius into the groove and easily took out the contents of the box.

It's a classic key again, and the handle of the key still has that angry sentence.

Futami looked at the constellation badge on the treasure chest and asked,

"Rishi-chan, so the mystery on this is all about describing constellations? So why is there such a word as "moon"? ”

"Well~ This puzzle should be about the moon constellation corresponding to the zodiac sign and the moon. The attributes of the constellations can be judged from the color, green, red, blue, and yellow correspond to the wind, fire, water and earth, and the personality of each zodiac sign is also corresponding, so it can be inferred that Taurus, Gemini, Pisces and Sagittarius. ”

Futami mused,

"But the seasons don't correspond."

"The season is just a distraction option, just like the morning, noon and evening in the Sphinx riddle~"

Unlike the second view, which produces the mentality of [losing again], Majima is secretly happy.

She found that the four constellations in the mystery happened to have the constellations of her and Asama, and the constellations of the two of them were next to each other in the middle, and Gemini and Pisces were both axisymmetric in symbols, isn't this fate?

Thinking that he had somehow won another small step, Majima sent his heartfelt appreciation to the immortal river who solved the puzzle.

"Rishi is really amazing~"

"Hehe~ I just know a little bit ~ Constellation knowledge is a necessary common sense for social interaction, and you can chat with many people for a long time after mastering the basics~"

Immortal Kawa slipped his index finger into the hole at the end of the key, spun it, and threw it back at Asama.

"Okay, this room has been successfully attacked, hurry up and go to the next one~"

Asama counted the six keys in his hand, and there were no staff members in the next room, and he suspected that if this continued, the four of them would take away everyone's gaming experience.

The screams of the Western-style building and the explosion of fireworks outside came and went, and Asama opened the door to the third room.

This time, the room tasted much better.

The scent of violet leaves, with a hint of suede.

At the same time, the lights in this room can be turned on.

Under the light, the whole room is purple, with purple sofas, purple beds, purple wardrobes, and purple dressers, all with an ambiguous atmosphere.

He felt that the appearance of a goblin with drum-eyed and long-nosed eyes in the room at this moment, or the song "全ての人のsoul の poem" sounded in the room, it was not a disobedience.

Except for the more than a dozen faintly shiny and obviously strange moon photographs on the walls of the room, the European-style coffin in the middle of the room, and the floor-to-ceiling dressing mirror covered with bloody handprints, there is nothing weird and terrible in the whole room.

"Still water, there seem to be words underneath these bloody handprints."

Immortal Chuan leaned up and wrinkled his little nose,

"It's the smell of paint."

Majima gently wiped the dressing mirror with her thumb, and she pulled a dry pen-like arc in the middle of a bloody handprint.

"The paint hasn't dried yet."

Futami found a towel on the dresser and said,

"Mai-chan, don't get your hands dirty, let's wipe them clean with a towel."

Futami sighed twice at the towel, walked over to the dressing mirror, and began to wipe the glass seriously.

After a while, the 6 bloody handprints were wiped clean, and the mirror was taped with thin tape like this-

[Gaze, Sleep, New World].

The three girls looked at the purple velvet bed at the same time,

"Still Water-kun/Still Water/Robert-kun? Do you want to lie down and try it? ”

Lying in bed with Asama, isn't this a new world?

"You go and try the bed, I'll try the coffin."

Asama quickly lay down in the coffin and closed the coffin door himself.

It was pitch black.

I touched the inner wall of the coffin door above my head, it was smooth, nothing different.

The breakthrough should be the word [gaze].

Asama looked at the moon photo on the wall.

It was certainly not the real moon, and it was completely different from the front and back of the moon in his memory.

Gaze and sleep?

Asama stared at the center of a moon painting, looked hard for 30 seconds, and then closed his eyes.

Sure enough, the words appeared.

Visual afterimage?

Asama then went through all the drawings and came up with a hint like "KEY to the New World, at the bottom of the sea where I was sleeping alone".

Asama regrets why she wasn't the [real princess] of Hans Christian Andersen who could detect a pea under twenty mattresses and twenty duvets.

Beneath the thick purple flannel in the coffin is a vintage key.

Futami looked at Asama, and his little face was full of pride.

She remembered him and her two of them solving mysteries on a cruise ship.

The excitement faded quickly, but Futami did a good job of hiding his next expression.

It was a good time.

The only one who was really attracted to him and was really willing to stay by his side all the time was her second sight of Yuehai.

Nimi scolded himself in his heart for not being angry.

When the future becomes more and more uncertain, nostalgia for the past is only the work of the weak.

Thinking about how to consolidate the relationship between the two, after the dissolution of the love counseling department, after graduation, the two can still be like this, inseparable, is the key to breaking through the [friend agreement]!

The alliance did not go well either.

Just like in the Three Kingdoms mentioned by Immortal Chuan before, Liu Bei and Sun Quan's anti-Cao alliance had different intentions and was extremely fragile.

Win all, or nothing.

Thinking of this, Futami even hoped that Asama would be as attentive as in a certain dream.

Futami immediately shook his head again.

The current still water king is the one who surpasses all the still water kings, and is the best still water king!

What do you think!

The praise of several girls did not make Asama's expressions as rotten and dull as zombies fluctuate.

Once again, he attributed the success of the puzzle to luck.

Immortal Kawa discovers a little secret - every time Asama mentions luck, he can't help but snap his fingers.

Could it be that snapping your fingers really improves luck?

Immortal River also snapped his fingers.

Seeing this, the second also snapped his fingers. If you are careless, you are still smart in the world, and you will not be wrong to cultivate the same habits and hobbies as Jingshuijun!

Majima snapped her fingers too, and although she didn't know why they all snapped all of a sudden, it was strange that she wasn't the only one who didn't.

A cold snort interrupted the lucky ensemble of the four.

"You four, you really don't feel any nervousness at all."

Ryuzaki's voice came, and he, dressed in rags, walked slowly from the end of the aisle.

He held a cardboard sword of obvious material in his hand, and walked over with his body bent.

"How are you dressed like this, Wayne the Dark Knight, turned into a slave knight Gail"

"Looking for a Fire Gem? Only you, as ashes, can meet the flames. ”

Why do you like to memorize lines?

Asama sighed as he looked behind Ryuzaki at the lively zombie team and the abomination team.

"We'll be fine right away, can you pretend you didn't see us?"

"No, I'm just being asked to come over and give you back the ordinary keys. Many people opened the box and found nothing. ”

Isn't that a problem for the student council???

"Then I'll give you all the ordinary keys."

"And those old keys, you only need to keep one, why do you want to collect these things in one go?"

“.”

The mystery is solved with the same hint for all the keys of the same type.

But since it was a test of courage to add a puzzle game, and seeing a treasure chest in front of him, he couldn't say a word to the undead Chuan, [the area in front, let's explore it later]?

Touching the key on his body, Asama only kept the one that Immortal River solved the puzzle, and all the others were returned to Ryuzaki.

Seeing this, the zombies shouted that they were bored, and they grinded for a long time, and the result ended peacefully, which was really boring.

These two are not ordinary people, and those who pay attention to the student union know the gold content of the word [Longqi].

It's like when most people hear the surname [Zhuge ], they think that this person is smart, and [Longqi] carries a lot more things than [Zhuge ].

[Asama still water] is the existence of a demon king that even Eiwa's doormen know can't be provoked.

In sports festivals mock everyone's level is not good; reprimanded the eldest lady of the Konoe family in front of her classmates; watched the film club and the light sound department were unhappy, and directly moved the works to slap them in the face at the cultural festival; openly burned the love letters of those who loved him, and ridiculed the ugliness of girls' words; As soon as they entered the Western-style pavilion, they beat up the volunteers. The whole person is a face of strength supremacy.

The student council and various volunteer groups respected, loved and feared him.

Obviously I want to make a fuss.,This big teacher who openly took 3 beautiful girls to play the test of courage.,But when they got closer.,Stage fright again.。

At this moment, they just want to watch this big teacher fight with the young master of the Ryuzaki family.

Ryuzaki took the key, suddenly brandished the cardboard sword, and slashed at Asama.

Asama flipped his hand after an invincible frame and easily dodged it.

"Are you a little too dedicated?"

"No, it's just that I suddenly feel a little uncomfortable, and you shouldn't waste your time on this."

Asama didn't know why, but he understood Ryuzaki's words and replied,

"Any producer is also a consumer. If you want to deprive producers of the right to consume, you will only raise a bunch of consumption parasites that override you. Vigilance against consumption is not resistance to consumption, everyone is volunteering, why not invite the fish in Lake Towada to play the courage test? ”

"Okay, I'll talk to you about this again sometime."

"By the way, can you tell me how to use this key?"

"No comment."

Ryuzaki completed the task and left decisively.

He had long confirmed that Asama was not the kind of person who was arrogant and lascivious, although those who watched the surveillance kept teasing Asama's peachy rumors.

But Ryuzaki understands that Asama just brought a familiar member of the department and experienced the test of courage normally. No, it was a very abnormal experience of the test of courage.

It's like a bunch of arrogant geniuses who go to Las Vegas to gamble in order to prove that they are good at math.

He looked down at his gear.

This student union turned out to be really engaged in spreading fire.

Gui Gongping, this guy is not doing his job!

Because the end of this test of courage was hidden, most of the people were forced to withdraw because of the fear of getting lost.

More than 100 not-so-smart cowards were successfully tested.

The volunteers were so happy that they had forgotten about the afternoon's complaints, and were looking forward to a meeting on Halloween next semester.

Asama and the others finally found the secret door and entered the room in the southeast corner of the Western-style building.

This final room is not so much the master's bedroom as the master's study.

Densely packed, the two walls are full of books.

Immortal River excitedly pushed open the door to the terrace, letting the night breeze in.

Above the terrace, the moon showed a bud.

The fireworks under the starry sky have burned out, but the Milky Way in the sky is not inferior to the previous fire trees and silver flowers.

"It's such a good place~ It's a pity that it's late."

All three girls climbed onto the terrace and watched the scenery of Lake Towada, 2 kilometers away.

The departing students walked among the mountain roads with lanterns, like fireflies.

Asama did not pass.

I rummaged through the cabinets and searched around, but I couldn't find any flame gems.

It stands to reason that the student council should prepare at least 100 or so pieces, right?

Where will these gems be hidden?

He looked at the bookshelf, then at the words on the handle, and had the answer in his mind.

(End of chapter)