Chapter 41: The Grotesque Stage
It was a clear day.
Miss Mary's words were like a proclamation of the beginning of some grand play, as if an unknown director had risen in the sky, changing the background of the stage and pulling down the curtain of night.
The campus of Inaba High School was softly enveloped by the night, and in the process, screams and riots were heard from all over the school, and the atmosphere of panic spread and expanded like ripples caused by a boulder being thrown on the surface of the lake.
"It's a different space similar to the invasion of the monsters of the negative realm, but it uses a different system than the enchantment of the countermeasure bureau."
Hoshikawa Aoi showed a look of anxiety and anger that he had never seen before: "Ordinary people are also locked up in this space. ”
"Let's go back to the classroom first, and let everyone in the building get out first."
Li Wu looked at Miss Mary, "Do you know anything else?" ”
The other party shook his head: "I just know when the plan will be launched." Please take me, Arisa apologized to me, I want to help her. ”
Li Wu looked at the text on the other party's head that turned into [Miss Mary (Guardian Spirit)], and said to Arisa, who was a little overwhelmed, "Take her and untie the rune paper." ”
"Okay, okay, that, what's going on? Why is it suddenly dark......"
Arisa looked out the window and saw the darkness getting thicker and thicker.
But then, there was a little light in the darkness.
It was a cyan lantern, burning with a strange firelight, swaying slightly in mid-air.
In the faint light, there seemed to be something gasping in the night, casting a frenzied shadow on the ground.
slender as the shadow of a serpent; Hideous and majestic, with the shadow of a great ape; A shadow that looks like a human, but the head and body seem to be separated......
They approached the direction of the school building like a procession in progress.
"That's, what?"
Mai Shiratori shuddered and asked the same question as a vampire.
But the objects are not consistent.
The classmates were arguing and skeptical about the sudden darkening of the sky, some thought it was just a special celestial phenomenon, and some were frightened.
Her best friend in the class thinks it's the magic of the venue.
But it didn't take long for everyone to start feeling sleepy one by one, and they fell asleep like that.
Shiratori Mai was about to succumb to sleep, but for some reason, her friend, Rinko Hori, was not affected and woke her up.
Now, they are huddled under the podium.
After the students fell asleep, a monster with wrinkled skin swaggered into the classroom, giggling and watching the people in their dreams.
"What the hell is that?"
She said in a low voice.
"It's a pillow return."
Hikari said firmly.
"Huh?"
I didn't expect an answer, but my companion gave the answer: "Youkai who like to play pranks will take off the pillow of the person who is asleep, and it is said that it will make people fall into a deep sleep and suck the soul, which is really bad." ”
After saying that, she actually got out from under the podium.
"Wait a minute, Rin-san, you have to ......"
The words "what are you doing" were swallowed back by her.
Because when she poked her head out, she saw Rinko Hori walking behind the youkai she called Pillow Return.
The other party was stroking the head of a boy who had slept on the table, as if he was unaware that there was another person behind him.
Hori Rinko picked up a chair and smashed it on the pillow's head.
It let out a scream, exploded into a cloud of white mist as if frightened, and vanished.
"Rin-san, you're too good, aren't you?"
Shiratori Makai followed and crawled out from under the podium and sighed.
The corners of the praised light mouth rose slightly, which seemed to those who were familiar with her to be quite proud.
"It's just the simplest challenge we've ever been on the battlefield."
"Pillow Hui is the most defenseless when it comes to playing pranks on sleeping people, and in many stories, human beings are pretending to be asleep, and when it comes, it will suddenly wake up, and Pillow Hui will be scared away." ”
"I see...... Be careful! ”
When Shiratori Mao approached, his face suddenly changed, and he threw himself forward.
An invisible sharp edge swept over them, leaving a cut mark on the blackboard.
The attack's unleasher squeaked like a mouse.
It was an animal that looked a little like a normal weasel, but its two paws shimmered with a metallic glow—no, on closer inspection, they were two shiny single sickles.
"It should be a scythe, should that one just now be a wind blade attack or a sword qi attack?"
Hikari raised his head and identified the youkai.
"Is this the time you care about this?!"
Shiratori Mao was a little crying and laughing, and even forgot to be afraid.
The Weasel humanized with a sinister demeanor and raised two deadly murder weapons.
Ahh
I hope there really will be another world after death.
Shiratori closed his eyes.
But the attack was delayed.
"Xiao Wu, is that the ability of the True Red Flame Blood that you said when you were a child?"
"Not really! Although I guessed it, you really reacted to it! ”
Huh? Are they still alive?
She opened her eyes again, and saw one of the members of the Otherworldly Survival Preparation Club she had known standing in the classroom, a weasel with × eyes crushed under her feet.
Li Wu said to his childhood sweetheart and the nominal head of the club: "Let's leave the teaching building first, there are already monsters everywhere here." ”
After Erisha witnesses the strange procession outside the window.
The interior of the school building was also quickly invaded by various monsters, illusory ghosts, flying human heads, inlaid with human faces, and wheels rolling in the corridors...... The realm that belonged to the daily life of the students of Inaba High School became a place where demons danced in an instant.
The person who was attacked by the youkai did not leave a scar, but passed out directly.
Hoshikawa Aoi believes that this night-shrouded space mimics part of the mechanism of the Countermeasure Bureau's enchantment, and if they can finally solve this incident, the unconscious person can still be saved.
After meeting with the light in Class D classroom, a group of five people set off towards Class B classroom on the same floor.
The situation in Class B was unexpectedly better than expected.
By the time they arrived, most of the students had already been evacuated, and only some were unconscious.
Tsubasa Mizushima lay down at the door of the classroom, his right hand at his side and his left index finger pointing forward.
He still seemed to be a little conscious, noticed Li Wu's arrival, and said weakly, "Yes...... A strange bird captured Uehara, and the guy at Terao actually used a shuriken, and Hoshino-san's became a slime......"
By the end, he was already incoherent, but listening to the description, it seemed that those guys with unusual words had rescued a group of classmates.
"Are there so many weirdos in our class?"
This is the feeling of a magical girl who is one of the weirdos.
"Certainly, rescue Uehara and escape from this place." Mizushima held Li Wu's hand, "As long as you keep moving forward, the road will continue to extend, don't stop, Li Wu!" ”
Then he fainted.