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

Everything that appeared in its sights, things that were beyond its expectations, came from other copies.

And the source of all this is... the artist?!

The internist finally understood where the problem he had overlooked came from and where the key to the plan's failure lay.

Indeed, Isidorkos was a painter, and the kind of person who would risk his life to pursue extreme artistic achievements. He awakened his powers without interference and used his paintings to construct a portal to the instance, ultimately succeeding in entering the instance world it controlled, only to be killed by its scheme and unable to escape.

Naturally, before the painter was killed by the [Doctor], he had seen more than one instance and peeked into many dangerous environments with his own abilities. Most of these instances were not even under the control of the [Hospital] and were extremely dangerous. They were basically Dark Night level instances, and it is even possible that he had seen many Red Moon level instances with his power. All of these things were left on the paintings he created.

After finding these paintings, with the power of Yotsuya Miko's Divine Eye, it would have been entirely possible for her to break free from this instance and escape. However, that would be meaningless. When she spread her power from this instance to connect with other instances, the barrier's power would also spread, sealing off any instances touched by her opponent's power. [The Internal Medicine Doctor] had been cautiously guarding against this possibility, but she never expected her opponent to do the opposite. She didn't try to go to other instances, nor did she try to escape in this way. Instead, she used her power to pull those instances over, forcibly connecting more and more instances to the ruins she controlled, causing them to gradually accumulate and exceed her control.

The key to communication was the collection of paintings—piled up in Kotz's sealed studio—that represented the artist's memories during his lifetime.

The physician had never considered that these paintings might cause any problems, because they were all keys to dangerous copies. No one would intentionally use such things to escape, especially since he had already found a way to eliminate those possibilities. Having gone to such lengths, what else could it do? What problems could possibly remain?

"From the moment that painter made his choice, he knew that his future would likely involve being killed by you, and that he would likely face an untimely end."

"But that's why he made this choice. This isn't information I sensed, but rather a remnant record of the painter that my predecessor personally came into contact with during the process of projecting his power. That's how the truth came to light."

"In your eyes, the other party is nothing more than a madman who can be easily manipulated, but it is precisely this arrogance that led to your ultimate defeat."

At that moment, Miko Yotsuya's voice rang out like the pronouncement of a judge.

[This is impossible... This is utterly impossible... Your power is simply unreasonable! It's clearly you, the Eye of God who has sided with a false god, who's cheating!!!]

The monster's howls grew increasingly shrill. It could not accept this fact, could not accept that a backup plan left by an ordinary person could be used, and could become the key point of failure in its own plan.

I had clearly considered all the points.

I had already perfected the plan to its limit.

The problem lies with that Eye of God; it's this unexpected power that's the real issue.

Furthermore… and… wait a minute, even if it's a large-scale linking of instances, forcibly pulling other instances over and linking them to my domain, that only weakens the barrier's strength. There's no reason to let a false god in, is there? This is still unreasonable, still unrealistic!?

hum-

The golden light has burst forth once again.

The twisted monster was torn apart in large chunks of flesh, blood and curses raining down from its body, before being evaporated and leaving behind only ashes.

Then, it looked into the distance again, searching once more, trying to see if there was anything it had previously overlooked.

So this time it saw a black space in the far distance.

And so this time, it saw Gao Hai sitting in that dark space, on that blood-stained throne, being pierced by countless machines and being continuously tortured, yet still coldly watching it, watching it.

The Throne of Mind... how did it end up here?

That surrounding black space, is it... another instance space? Ah... an instance space? An instance?

Thus, the internist understood everything.

Koz, who thought he had completely controlled the project, left behind a series of paintings at the underground art exhibition. These paintings could be linked to various high-difficulty instances, such as Dark Night and Red Moon, outside the control of the [Hospital]. These paintings were used by Yotsuya Miko, who used her unreasonable God's Eye to forcibly link them to other instances. Then, she used the diffusion properties of the barrier to pull these instances over, physically linking them to the [Internal Medicine Doctor] instance.

Then, noticing Yotsuya Miko's actions, Takami proactively released a certain obsession within the underground space where the Throne of Thought was located, causing it to go out of control. This temporarily pulled the area around him into a certain instance, allowing him to conceal his presence as much as possible. Yotsuya Miko then channeled her power into Takami's area, seizing the instance the obsession had linked to after going out of control, mixing it with other linked instance spaces, and pulling it all together to connect to this ruin.

The barriers, worn down by the massive expansion, prevented the discovery of the hidden Gao Hai among the piles of copies.

Once he successfully infiltrated this world and truly unleashed his power, the barrier became meaningless. After all, its power was only to prevent Takami's power from entering from the outside; it couldn't cleanse the power within the barrier. If this thing were truly that powerful, Yamada Ryo wouldn't have been able to revive multiple times using the power left behind by Takami.

In other words, what's appearing here now isn't just Gao Hai's power, but actually Gao Hai himself?

Is there any logic to this?

It's impossible that the Eye of God knew about the paintings Koz left behind before entering the instance, let alone communicated with it beforehand. In other words, did the Eye of God and the False God not even need any communication? Could the False God have immediately understood the Eye of God's intentions and cooperated to arrive at this place simply by observing the Eye of God's actions from the outside?

Shouldn't.

This shouldn't be happening, this absolutely shouldn't be happening.

How could such an unreasonable thing happen? This damned false god is nothing but a lustful piece of trash. He can only form intimate relationships with so many girls through various forms of forced brainwashing. I've seen this kind of thing countless times when I was still human; there can't be any exceptions! That false god must have altered the personalities of these chosen ones; he must have already erased their souls and used them as puppets and slaves. Otherwise, such cooperation is impossible, and such a method of breaking the spell is impossible!

But it's okay, it's alright even so.

Since this damned false god has personally come here, I can just kill him here and end all this.

Even if I can't match his absolute strength, my abilities are best suited for killing those weaker than me. As long as I kill his chosen anchors before he kills me, I still have a chance to eliminate him!

【You despicable false god, now that you've come, stay forever!】

The monstrous creature roared, its filthy flesh spreading wildly in an instant, forcefully withstanding the golden light descending from the sky.

【Your name is Kambara Mio, right?】

Then, it suddenly heard Gao Hai saying this.

boom!

One bullet.

A bullet, imbued with the power of blessing, was ejected from Gao Hai's hand.

The suppression bomb, blessed by Hirano Sosuke, combined with the information the girls had gathered about the monster and its true name when it was human, unleashed unparalleled power in an instant, penetrating the monster's body and sealing off all its movements.

This...this is impossible...it's not possible...

The completely unexpected situation caused the monster's expression to change drastically. The power of a mere Red Moon-level blessing had actually had a near-sealing effect on it. Even though it had realized something was wrong, its power had already been forcibly sealed, temporarily rendering it unable to move.

The next moment, a golden light flashed by, and Goto Ichiri and Kita Ikuyo disappeared from the battlefield, returning to Takami's side and recovering from their injuries.

Next, Hongxia, Xingge, and the Fujiwara family were enveloped in golden light and transported through the passage maintained by Yotsuya Miko to other dungeon areas. They were then teleported outside the barrier and sent to the vicinity of a safe zone. While strengthening the protection of the Crimson Domain fragments, they contacted the guards of the safe zone and sent them into the safe zone.

Then, Gao Hai looked into the depths of the ruins, towards the location of a sealed-off space.

Click——click——

The seemingly impenetrable enclosed space, which was practically indestructible to the players, crumbled under Gao Hai's watchful gaze.

Fujiwara Chika stumbled down from the darkness, her body covered in wounds of all sizes, from which blood was constantly seeping out.

"Phew... Ah Hai, you're here..."

Despite this, the girl quickly regained her composure and gave Gao Hai a sweet smile.

After another breath, Chika vanished from her spot, reappeared beside Gao Hai, and fully recovered. Those Chika had saved were released by Gao Hai to the vicinity of the safe zone. As for the [Psychotherapist] who rushed out of the shattered, enclosed space, Gao Hai didn't even glance at him before snapping his fingers, unleashing a second suppression blast that instantly froze the monster, whose nature had been largely deciphered, in mid-air.

Thank you all for your hard work. Now, let me bring this all to a close.

After finishing these tasks, Gao Hai said softly, and Jianzi, who had been maintaining the instance cluster through those paintings, opened the already prepared passage, allowing Kita, Ichiri, and Chika to leave first.

"no problem?"

Having just recovered, Iri cautiously looked at Gao Hai, who was sitting on the throne, hesitated for a moment, and asked with some concern.

【Okay, don't worry, I'm fine. It's just that what's about to happen is a bit violent, and there's a chance of accidental injury, so everyone should stay.】

Despite looking extremely weak, Gao Hai's voice was still full of vigor. After he said this, the girls didn't say anything more and quickly went to other instances through the passage maintained by Jianzi, and then returned to the real world, back to Tokyo City, which was still shrouded in torrential rain and darkness.

"call……"

At that moment, Hayasaka Ai, who was sitting to one side of the throne, let out a soft moan.

Gao Hai looked down and saw the other person raise their head, revealing a weak and apologetic expression.

Knowing that the girl was making those sounds because she couldn't bear the pain any longer, Gao Hai, who didn't know what to say, could only gently pat the girl's forehead, then turn to look at Miko, indicating that the girl could begin the final step.

hum-

Then the barrier began to tremble.

Yotsuya Miko closed her eyes, her senses expanding almost infinitely outwards.

Gao Hai's power spread along with Miko's senses, penetrating into the seemingly impenetrable barrier, flowing into those gaps that could not be found from the outside but were riddled with holes that Miko could easily detect.

Destroying the barrier through these gaps is impossible for Miko. Even if Takami were to unleash his full power, Miko would struggle to deal with such a massive barrier. However, with Takami himself present, this poses no problem whatsoever, and he could even achieve something more if he wished.

Sizzle—sizzle sizzle—

Some kind of force briefly descended upon this instance, and then quickly disappeared.

Gao Hai glanced in the direction of the sound and, unsurprisingly, discovered that the psychologist had been forcibly taken away from the hospital using some means.

It seems they've realized the situation is hopeless and are starting to think of ways to cut their losses.

This choice is not surprising at all. Although it is a bit of a pity, the doctor and the hospital are closely connected. It is indeed too difficult to completely take away the psychologist here, especially the psychologist himself.

However, just because you can't take one therapist with you doesn't mean you can't take another one with you either.

After all, the other party has chosen to become the core obsession of this instance again, and has re-bound itself to this place. This was its own choice; it took this step because it thought it could control everything, so it can't blame anyone for the current outcome.

No...no no no...how can I not unlock it...why can't I escape...?

The piercing howls rang out once again.

After all, it was a higher-level existence than a monster, and even the suppression bomb could not suppress its movements for a long time. Therefore, not long after, Gao Hai heard the [Internal Medicine Doctor]'s movements again and saw the thing's impotent rage.

[Of course you can't escape from here, because the barrier has been reversed and now it only prevents you from leaving. Furthermore, as Jianzi and I use our combined power, the bond between your identity as the core obsession and this instance ruin will deepen. I think... for at least half an hour, we can definitely keep you trapped in this space, preventing you from leaving.]

Gao Hai replied to the monster in a very lazy tone, as if he were not sitting on a throne of torture instruments, but on a beachside food stall chair on vacation.

"You... half an hour? Ha, you think half an hour is enough to kill me? As a doctor, my vitality is beyond the imagination of ordinary people, you false god!"

The distorted monster's face was now almost unrecognizable from its original form, a result of its rage. Having probably realized it couldn't escape, the monster's mindset had become calm, and it even displayed a clear fighting spirit towards Gao Hai.

You're a worthless doctor!

The next second, Gao Hai gave a sharp comment on the monster with a blank expression.

[Heh, I'm not a doctor? I'm a secondary god who grew up within the concept of a "hospital," and I represent the concept of a "doctor." You're just a mere false god, not even daring to truly ascend to godhood, merely a useless piece of trash stuck halfway through. What right do you have to deny my existence?]

The monster's roar grew even more ferocious, and its aura began to intensify. It seemed that after realizing they couldn't evacuate the doctor, the hospital had begun to empower him, hoping he could hold out against Gao Hai for 30 minutes until the barrier was broken.

In fact, Gao Hai's decision not to act immediately, but to exchange a few words with this broken thing first, was partly due to this reason. After all, this would make the [hospital] more hesitant, make the monster invest more effort in rescuing him, and ultimately, make it easier to finish him off.

However, nothing has really changed; these disgusting things have always been the same.

First of all, you really don't deserve the title of doctor. Rather, it's more like you're wearing the name of a doctor but you're so ugly and do such dirty things. You should really apologize to all the doctors in the world.

As Gao Hai spoke, he gently grasped the armrest of the throne.

【You...you're doing this...】

After hearing Gao Hai's words, the monster wanted to say a few more words, but in the next moment it had an extremely bad feeling, and the words involuntarily stopped.

[You should know that because of you, and that bunch of idiots behind you, the doctors and nurses assisting in the rescue efforts in the city are now forced to deny their medical professional status. Even so, they are easily corrupted by a patient accidentally calling them "doctor." As a result, many brave people who stepped forward to help have already sacrificed their lives in vain.]

Then, more and more blood began to flow down, spreading around the throne along with Gao Hai's increasingly chilling tone.