Why is my journey to the world of anime a strange tale of rules?

Why do you call me teacher?

Gao Hai looked at Alice and asked.

[Because a teacher is a teacher, even though everyone else doesn't see it that way anymore, Alice will still call her teacher.]

The girl chuckled softly, her expression showing no sign of hostility whatsoever.

"You Alices are all so sarcastic and maliciously cutesy. Can't you talk normally?"

Gao Hai's voice became very impolite.

[Hehe, Teacher is so strange. Alice is just speaking in Alice's way. Besides, Alice really wants to be friends with Teacher and Miko. Would you like to be Alice's good friend?]

Alice, who had moved to the ceiling, simply watched Gao Hai and continued to talk with a grin.

"I'm sorry, I can never be your friend. In my opinion, you may have started out as a pitiful person, but now the only place you can go is hell. There is no place more suitable for you."

Gao Hai's tone grew increasingly cold. He could sense that Alice's strange power was harming Miko. At this moment, he was sharing most of the mental damage that Miko was suffering, and he was beginning to feel a distinct discomfort in his head.

[Was she just a pitiful person at first? I see. So the teacher can also "see," although not much. Could the teacher and Alice be considered the same kind? Hmm, it doesn't seem so. After all, the teacher doesn't see that much. It seems that Komiko is the one who is the same kind as me.]

Unexpectedly, these words startled Alice. Her expression towards Takahashi changed slightly, but in the end she just shook her head in disappointment and turned her gaze back to Yotsuya Miko, who was nestled in Takahashi's arms.

Wait, what does this mean?

Gao Hai's pupils contracted slightly in a moment of thought.

Alice clearly showed interest in Yotsuya Miko in both her first and second playthroughs, and eventually successfully possessed Miko's body.

And this Alice, whether she's telling the truth or lying, demonstrates her intense focus on Miko by referring to her as "one of her kind." Considering that in both loops, the only living person Alice possessed was Miko Yotsuya, and none of the other female students were possessed, and that Kyoko Ogawa was only briefly controlled after her death, perhaps…

"You need to see the Son, and see the Son alive."

"Because she has something in common with you. When you were alive, you had an overly powerful sense of perception, just like Miko, and this commonality allowed you to possess her."

"So that's why you value Jianzi so much, because only through her can you escape this school, go to the outside world, become your idol, and experience the colorful life of a person, is that right?"

Gao Hai's voice was very calm.

At this moment, he finally managed to piece together some fragments of the chaotic fog surrounding the past of Fujiwara Middle School.

Born from Fujihana Middle School, the invisible Alice was unable to leave the school until its destruction. At that stage, it was no different from an unseen and intangible ghost. Only when a suitable vessel entered Fujihana Middle School was it able to break free and become the [Idol Alice].

But Alice, the idol, ultimately died, and her body was dismembered, leaving behind only a human skin umbrella and a human bone staff. Whether this dismemberment had any significance is another matter, but after that, Alice, who could have moved freely in the world, was presumably trapped once again in Fujika Middle School, becoming one of the obsessions of this area.

No matter how special it is, the strange restriction that prevents Alice from leaving the instance for a long time ultimately works on her. Even if she forcibly leaves the instance using the object of her obsession, she can only stay there for a few minutes at most before being forcibly pulled back.

Therefore, Alice longs for a container.

A suitable container that is similar to it.

And Yotsuya Miko, this girl with incredibly powerful perception, is the perfect vessel.

This also suggests that Alice, who was chosen for the Fujika Middle School experiment, was probably a girl with strong perception, just like Miko.

[Teacher is so smart! I'm getting more and more curious about how you managed to take the core from the teaching building. Hmm, can I play with you, teacher?]

Alice grinned, but her gaze was chilling, devoid of any genuine smile.

At that very moment, Gao Hai sensed a strong, eerie aura approaching him, drawing ever closer.

What it is?

Wait, this feeling... is it the place where he dismantled that door, the place from which something came out?

Before I knew it, a long hand had already reached into the shower room.

The badge that Gao Hai had pinned to his flesh quickly changed, covering his body with a rescue team uniform.

He tried to dodge at that moment, but the thing was too fast. In the blink of an eye, it had grabbed Gao Hai's shoulder, and then he was dragged out of the water and pulled into the corridor. He was dragged along like that, along with Yotsuya Miko in his arms and a door dragging on the ground, and was pulled into the hole he had torn in the wall.

Shh, have you heard of this?

[In this dormitory building, there is a floor that doesn't exist.]

Many people say that's the -1 floor, but those who have actually seen it say that it's completely different from the actual -1 floor of the dormitory building.

Then, those who saw that floor, slowly, one by one, disappeared.

Do you want to know where they all went?

Alice's malicious, giggling voice had gradually faded into the distance.

Gao Hai stood up from the ground, holding Jianzi who still had her eyes closed. He turned around and saw that the crack in the wall behind him had disappeared.

On the snow-white wall ahead, the words "[-1 Floor]" gradually changed into the blood-stained words "[0 Floor]".

squeak-

Then, the door to a room next to Gao Hai slowly opened at that moment.

Chapter 50: The Twisted Land That Is Unknowable, Unspeakable, Untouchable, and Non-existent

Even before seeing that thing, a strong sense of unease had already prompted Gao Hai to act swiftly.

You cannot stay on this floor.

You can't actually meet the things on this floor.

Do not come into contact with anything that exists on this floor.

This place, which seems normal and no different from ordinary dormitory floors, is completely different from the situation we encountered before; it is essentially something else entirely.

Although Gao Hai couldn't pinpoint the exact difference between this eerie space and a normal dormitory building, the bone-chilling cold made him realize without hesitation that if he continued to stay on this floor, he would inevitably face a tragic death.

Because that's what everyone thinks.

Click!

With a crisp click of the lock, Gao Hai inserted the blood-stained key into the lock of the door he had dragged in.

Behind the open door, a dormitory room was revealed.

Gao Hai used the blood key to connect the door to a dormitory room on the second floor, thus activating the connection.

At this moment, the dormitory was completely empty, with no one in sight, and it seemed perfectly safe and without any problems.

But Gao Hai was unable to enter the dormitory.

Because under the lights, in the clean and tidy dormitory, there was a very inconspicuous broom standing against the wall.

No, that's not a broom, it's a woman holding a broom.

The woman's eyes were constantly scanning their surroundings—the floor, the beds, the trash cans, the tables, the chairs, everything was within her sight, within her observation range. Nothing could escape her gaze; everything would be found fault with, and then become the punishment the students had to endure.

He and Jianzi are covered in water droplets. If they enter the dormitory, they will inevitably spill water on the ground, which will trigger the rules of that damn thing.

But if we don't get in and escape this place quickly, what's behind that door will come out.

Gao Hai's gaze suddenly fell on the light shining from the ceiling inside the door.

He reached out and grabbed the ground, prying a piece of broken stone off the floor.

The next moment, Gao Hai flung it out violently, hitting the bright incandescent bulb and shattering it on the spot.

The dormitory room inside the door turned pitch black in an instant.

Gao Hai then grabbed Jianzi and rushed into the room, covering her with the clothes he had been carrying under his arm while taking a bath. He then pulled out the key, closed the door, and turned around to clash the head of the giraffe that had rushed in through the window.

[Violation of...school rules...]

Faintly, I seemed to hear a low, hoarse roar coming from the thing wearing the giraffe head mask.

Twisted phantoms frantically assaulted Gao Hai's mind at this moment. The tragic images of the students who had been killed by this teacher kept replaying in his mind, as if a force was trying to assimilate Gao Hai and those students, making him one of them as well.

But then, under Gao Hai's indifferent gaze, the sharp cleaver pierced through the creature's head, cutting all the way forward with a sudden burst of strength, slicing the thing's entire head in two, then pulling it out and chopping it off with another powerful strike.

The intense force rebounded onto Gao Hai's hand, tearing his tiger's mouth apart. Just before it was about to be severed, the thing roared and swung its head violently, slamming into Gao Hai and slamming him against a wall. The impact caused the wall to cave in, and the cracks continued to spread outwards.

"call……"

Taking a deep breath, Gao Hai looked around to make sure that the "broom teacher" had disappeared after the lights were turned off, and then he breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Every time I fight Alice, I feel like I'm walking on the edge of life and death. Isn't there a more general way to stop this bastard?

Gao Hai recalled the time he successfully trapped Alice in the teaching building on his second playthrough. That time, he used Alice's game rules to give the rescue team members an "item" that could make them Alice's friend, thus countering her. However, this tactic couldn't be replicated in the dormitory building because the game rules there were entirely individualistic. Even if Gao Hai had the rescue team members bring the toothbrush—the answer to the puzzle—to Alice, she could ignore it, interpreting the rule as requiring Gao Hai to hold it for the puzzle to be successful.

And... when he cut off that "Giraffe Inspector," he felt something very ominous seemed to have attached itself to him. He was afraid that he had now become a so-called "bad student" in terms of his identity.

Not far away, Miko had already hurriedly put on Takami's clothes. The clothes, which were clearly a size too big for Miko's size, looked very unsuitable on her, but the girl could only make do with them for the time being.

Originally, when she had to take a shower, Miko Yotsuya had brought her clothes and shoes into the bath, and she didn't throw them away even though they got wet. But when she was grabbed by the thing behind the broken wall, she was still just an ordinary person and couldn't hold on to everything as tightly as Takami, so her clothes fell into the corridor.

Not wearing underwear or panties... this feeling really makes it hard to relax.

Yotsuya Miko didn't dare to look up and meet Takami's gaze; her entire face was now completely red. Every inch of her skin seemed to be trembling slightly, savoring the intimate touch of being held in Takami's arms earlier.

Ugh, what's wrong with me...?

"Are you okay?"

Gao Hai asked calmly.

"Um, I'm fine. Um, what should we do now?"

Somewhat flustered, Miko responded to Gao Hai's question, trying to calm herself down and clear her mind of any inappropriate thoughts. Then, she cautiously asked.

The lights are still on outside. Because of the dormitory's rule that "no one can be in the dormitory during the day," leaving this dormitory, which Gao Hai has forcibly "turned off," would be extremely dangerous. Even if they don't leave, the two of them are still facing a very urgent crisis.

Tread - Tread -

Footsteps were approaching the dormitory.

An increasingly chilling aura gradually permeated the room.

On the four beds in the room, the blankets had unknowingly bulged up from their shrunken state, and it was vaguely as if something was wriggling under the blankets.

The shadows beneath the dormitory door swayed incessantly, and it was impossible to tell how many people were standing outside, their bodies shifting in and out of the doorway.

From outside the window, which had been pierced by the Giraffe Inspector, rustling sounds could be heard, as if something was spying on them from the outside.

surrounded.

The two people inside the dormitory were now completely surrounded.

"Mr. Gao..."