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

As the instance itself collapses at an accelerating pace, [Fujihana Middle School] is slowly heading towards destruction.

The shadow is magnified.

Gao Hai looked up and saw the teaching building of Teng Hua Middle School falling towards him.

"Fuck——"

boom! ! !

Amidst the shattering sound, Gao Hai, having activated his blessing, suddenly accelerated, dodging the falling building before it could crash down.

Alice wants friends... Alice just wants friends...

The voice belonging to that strange creature in my mind is gradually fading.

Gao Hai was slightly taken aback. He realized that the aura of this thing was weakening and its power was not as strong as before. Even if he no longer focused on suppressing it with his willpower, Alice could no longer break through Gao Hai's body, control him, or escape from him.

So that's it... I see. This thing is of the "cognition is existence" type.

After a brief moment of thought, Gao Hai finally understood the true nature of Alice's existence and its characteristics.

Neither human nor monster, Alice possesses characteristics of both, like a complex information entity. It can have human intelligence and sensibility, as well as the terrifying power and rule-based characteristics of a monster, but in return, this thing needs the "cognition" of others to survive.

The students who died and the victims could provide information about [Alice] and ensure its existence. But now that the instance itself has been destroyed, more and more monsters have left the instance and found peace. As the number of beings who can recognize Alice gradually decreases, this thing has begun to weaken and lose its original power.

It's certain that once the core obsession subsides and this instance completely collapses, Gao Hai will absorb those researchers, and those who couldn't find peace and supported Alice or created Alice, into the watch. Having completely lost her source of consciousness, Alice will essentially vanish, equivalent to death.

However, some players still remember it, and netizens from all over the world know of a modified and censored Alice. But judging from these changes, it seems that the living's understanding of it is limited, or rather, it lacks the extreme levels of fanaticism or the hatred and fear of victims to sustain Alice's distorted existence. Therefore, even if people remember its existence in the future, it cannot change the fact that it is about to disappear.

Alice... what did she do wrong... Alice has been doing what everyone told her to do... she's been trying so hard to make friends...

The muttering continued.

Gao Hai sighed again, finally feeling impatient.

"Stop pretending, okay? Do you think I don't know? You've always known what you're doing, you know exactly what you're really like, so what's the point of continuing to put on an act? This is the end you deserve."

As Gao Hai said this, he strode forward and quickly found Jianzi lying unconscious in a pile of rubble.

It seems this girl sensed something when the world shattered, otherwise she wouldn't be in this state. Come to think of it, this time she fell from a considerable height, equivalent to falling from a dozen stories, yet Gao Hai was completely unharmed even without activating his blessing. And now, the girl he finally found, Jianzi, is also uninjured. It seems some kind of power is protecting them?

Alice...is it wrong to want friends?

Alice, finally realizing that Gao Hai was talking to her, said in confusion at that moment.

"Is your idea of ​​making friends just to torture others and make them wish they were dead? Don't you know the answer to the question of whether those you 'befriend' actually consider you a friend? Just go die already, I'm fed up with this kind of thing."

After checking on Miko and confirming that she was alright, Takami answered Alice while preparing to pick her up and take her away.

But at that very moment, a powerful hallucination suddenly overwhelmed everything.

Gao Hai found that the surroundings had returned to the appearance of the Teng Hua Middle School teaching building, and he found himself back in the classroom of Class 015, Grade 8. The students around him were still sleeping in their seats, and the candle flames were still burning.

It was as if everything had returned to how it was at the beginning, as if nothing had ever happened.

But Gao Hai just scoffed at this, and then all the illusions collapsed instantly.

"You can no longer shield my senses."

He spoke in a low voice, and Alice's increasingly hysterical voice followed.

No...no, no...Teacher, teacher, please become Alice's friend! I know Alice so well, I'm sure I can be her friend! I can! I can!

tick-

A drop of water fell on Gao Hai's forehead.

The light disappeared at that moment.

He returned to the narrow crevice of the Red Nut Gray Hole, back to the nightmare in which he had been stuck in the rock crevice for more than a month without being able to escape.

But this scene vanished in the next instant.

"Okay, that was really scary. If you had used that as your first move, I might have actually been fooled."

Gao Hai sighed, and then he saw one terrifying-looking porcelain doll after another surrounding him from all directions, and saw boiling water falling from above.

Of course, this scenario still couldn't be sustained.

The Alice sealed inside him seemed to have somehow merged with the Alice parasitizing his mind, thus being able to create various nightmare scenarios based on Gao Hai's experiences. It must be said that this thing was quite adept at making a death throes, but Gao Hai already knew that it had reached its limit and would no longer be fooled by it.

tread--

Footsteps approached from behind.

Takahashi turned around and saw Hirano Sousuke loading a pistol and walking towards him step by step.

Alice's screams became especially piercing at that moment.

Countless images and sounds assaulted Gao Hai's senses at that moment, almost tearing them apart.

But he simply stood up, facing Hirano Sousuke, and stood motionless in place, waiting calmly.

Gun raised.

Pull the trigger.

boom!

The bullet pierced Gao Hai's body.

He remained standing in the same spot, without any wounds on his body.

Alice, with her long, flowing golden hair, stumbled backward, clutching her chest where a bullet had pierced her. She knelt on the ground, her expression blank as she looked up at Takahashi, who had turned to stare at her, and Hirano Sosuke, who had walked to Takahashi's side and was still aiming his gun.

Chapter 90: The Inevitable Moment of Destruction for Evil

Crimson blood gradually seeped out.

Incomprehensible.

Pain was nothing to her; born from endless blood and death, no matter how cruel the injury, it would not move her.

She simply couldn't understand such things, couldn't understand that person.

As that figure stepped over the frenzied fans, knocked down the security personnel, and reached her, all she could imagine was another fan with extreme violent tendencies pursuing her fanatically.

But what that figure did next was pull out a pistol and pull the trigger on itself.

boom!

After the gunshot rang out, Alice, who was stunned for a moment before realizing what had happened, took a step back, and was then pierced by two more bullets, falling onto the stage with her eyes wide open.

The figure had already passed her corpse and was running towards the back of the stage, showing no intention of looking at her again.

Amidst the roars and screams of fans, the sounds of chasing footsteps and gunshots, and the chaotic noise, the person was engaged in a fierce chase with her fans. But for Alice, her consciousness was still stuck on the three bullets that pierced her body, stuck on the moment when the other person pointed a gun at her.

why?

Alice couldn't understand.

Everyone clearly liked her so much.

Everyone was clearly deeply infatuated with her.

No one ever showed her any disgust or rejection.

She had always had a smooth and successful life, never encountering any trouble or harboring any ill will towards her. Even the families and friends of the victims, those who no longer liked her because of the loss of their loved ones, couldn't feel any strong malice towards her. This was her talent, her strength, something she had possessed since birth, something that was equivalent to instinct for her.

But why do such different people exist?

Incomprehensible.

I just can't understand it...

She still remembers that night when, after losing her "vibrant body," her monstrous side began to strengthen, forcing her to return to Fujika Middle School, to the place where she was born.

To ensure she regained complete control of Fujika Middle School, she manipulated her chosen fans into dismembering her body and hiding the parts in four different areas of the school. During this process, she recalled the identity of her assassin, learning that he was actually a survivor of the Fujika Middle School experiment.

Then, the person caught up with him and chased him into the school.

He tracked down four fans and entered four research areas underground at Fujika Middle School.

As for the strange creatures that began to come alive with Alice's return, Hirano Sosuke had basically encountered them all during his student days, so dealing with them was not difficult; at most, he would only be hindered for a period of time.

He dealt with the first fan, the second, the third...

When he faced his last fan, some unusual power began to manifest. At that moment, he realized that Alice's power was influencing his cognition and subtly eroding his spirit step by step.

boom!

But he still pulled the trigger without any hesitation.

Why don't you like Alice?

She finally asked out of curiosity.

Compared to the pain of physical death and the casualties among her fans, this was what puzzled Alice the most.

I will never like you, and I can never be your friend. The only thing I want to do here is to eliminate you here, so that you will never have the chance to hurt anyone else again. There is no other possibility.

Hirano Sosuke simply replied in a cold tone.

Hehe, Alice wants to be your friend! Let's be friends!

At that time, she had not yet realized the other party's special nature. She simply used her power to erode his spirit more fiercely, wanting to completely destroy him and turn him into someone no different from those fans.

But she failed.

Even if a survivor from Fujika Middle School possesses a certain level of resistance, they shouldn't remain rational after such a cautious and ruthless erosion.

But her efforts were indeed unsuccessful. The man remained steadfast, his spirit as strong as steel, so that no matter how hard she tried, she could not defeat him or transform him.

Why can't I be Alice's friend?

She asked again.

boom!

He didn't talk to her at all, but simply fired two more shots to confirm the last fan's complete death.

Everyone wants to be Alice's friend, and Alice wants to be everyone's friend too, so why can't you?

Her voice, accompanied by intense hallucinations, relentlessly assaulted his senses.

But he remained standing there indifferently, without wavering even in the slightest.