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

"I became an internist under the guidance of the hospital, and I am aware of the various arrangements the hospital has made over the years."

"With my help, you will be able to defeat the [Hospital] much faster. The casualties among these ordinary people and players will be greatly reduced, and you will be able to further consolidate your own power, break free from the influence of the [Hospital], and become a true god."

"This information is all in my mind. Killing me and taking my memories directly will not get me this information. There is a blocking force in my mind. Forcibly taking it will only cause my self-awareness to be completely dissolved, and the information will also be completely destroyed."

"So spare my life, and I can become your best helper."

"Please, if you spare me, I will do everything in my power to help you. With me around, you will never encounter any more difficulties. We can even become the best partners or something, hahaha, what do you think? Fake... God?"

In the end, Kambara Mio even revealed a confident smile and shrugged at Takami, as if to show his harmlessness and high value.

Having already stood before the man and listened to his nonsensical words, Gao Hai's reaction was quite simple.

"Pfft-"

Gao Hai was amused.

Although Gao Hai had anticipated what these trash would look like when they failed, he still couldn't help but laugh when he actually saw this guy put on such a nonsensical performance.

Is your performance over?

Looking down at the other person, Gao Hai asked.

"I...perform? No, wait a minute, won't you even consider this? I possess the true path to godhood!"

Seeing Gao Hai's expression, which was no different from looking at trash, Kambara Mio naturally understood that his words had not moved the other party at all. Immediately, the man's expression became anxious, and fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.

It seems there were no more last words.

Too lazy to waste any more time on this thing, Gao Hai ignited golden flames in his hand, intending to completely crush its power and then store its remaining soul into his black watch.

"You bastard, don't you know when to stop?!"

As Takahashi was about to attack him again, in this life-or-death crisis, green light surged around Kambara Mio once more, and a putrid, decaying power swept wildly towards Takahashi, instantly engulfing him as if he were submerged in a green ocean.

hum-

Then, he waved his hand, and golden light split the green ocean in two.

[At this point, are you still secretly conserving your strength for a desperate counterattack? With such a vast difference in strength, trying to outsmart an enemy like this—don't you really think you might actually be able to outmaneuver someone stronger than you?]

Gao Hai took a step forward.

The surging green ocean was instantly evaporated by more than half.

He took another step forward, and the golden flames burned away the green ocean. The plague power unleashed by Kambara Mio was thus completely annihilated, while he himself fell in a sorry state at the edge of the ruins. Large cracks began to appear on his body, constantly gushing blood, which soon soaked the area where the man was.

"Ahhh...ah..."

The intense pain caused Kambara Mio to scream, and Takami reappeared in front of him, raising his hand to deliver the final blow.

"You...you now...kill me...and the souls of all the innocent people in this instance will be destroyed by my curse, not one will be spared!"

But the man's will to survive was incredibly strong. Even though his body was almost completely broken, he still struggled to get up again, barely dodging Gao Hai's attack, and unleashing all the remaining plague power he had, spreading it throughout the entire instance once more.

This time, he did not attempt to attack Gao Hai. He was well aware of the insurmountable gap in strength between himself and Gao Hai, so the only potentially effective way at the moment was to threaten Gao Hai with the souls of those innocent people.

After all, clues from previous investigations revealed that while this man named Gao Hai consistently used extremely cruel and ruthless methods against his enemies, he was actually quite kind to those around him and to innocent victims. This was evident in the previous operation to kill Yotsuya Miko; he was willing to expend a great deal of power to bring the Sunflower Squad, a team clearly recorded as wiped out, back from the timeline. Such behavior is incomprehensible for a god, but to expend so much power to save a few mediocre mortals who would never ascend to godhood is simply a losing proposition. Clearly, this exposes Gao Hai's weakness of being overly sentimental, overly kind, and overly naive.

"My plague power may be useless against you, but the souls lingering in this instance cannot withstand such power due to their unwavering will!"

"As long as I unleash my power, I can make all of them perish. And because I possess the power of a true god, even if you can reverse the information on the timeline and forcibly remove the people you want to save, you still cannot eradicate the plague from them. They will surely die without a burial place!"

"Spare me, let me live, or I'll curse these innocent people. You don't want to see these suffering ordinary people, and the souls of that player squad who sacrificed themselves here, destroyed by the curse, do you?"

Kambara Mio's voice trembled weakly, but his hands moved without hesitation.

In the blink of an eye, the curse power, strong enough to dissolve souls, spread throughout the entire instance, covering all the dead still lingering in the instance whose souls had not yet dissipated, as well as the obsessions that had not yet been freed, and began to inflict extremely cruel punishments on them.

Immediately afterward, Kambara Mio disappeared from his spot and rushed towards the edge of the barrier.

He estimated that even with Gao Hai's current power, it would be extremely difficult to lift all the curses and save those he had harmed in a short time. He believed that his move should buy him enough time to forcefully break through the barrier and get outside.

As Shinbara Mio was thinking this, he then saw Takami standing in front of him, looking at him with disdain.

"Why did you—"

Before he could utter a word, a large hand reached out and grabbed Kambara Mio's forehead, slamming his head against the wall and rubbing his body against it. Golden flames then surged from between his fingers, burning the man's entire body.

"Uhhhhhhhh!!!"

A pain even more terrifying than the previous body disintegration struck in an instant.

More cracks began to appear on Kambara Mio's body.

He could clearly sense that the body's basic circulation had been broken by Gao Hai's power, and it had begun to leak life force on a large scale.

"No...don't kill me...Damn it, don't you have any conscience? Are you really going to watch those innocent souls be killed by my curse? Your kindness was just a facade, a mere pretense?!"

Terrified, Kambara Mio gritted his teeth and roared, only to see Takahashi's expression become even more contemptuous.

Where are the innocent people you speak of?

Gao Hai asked expressionlessly.

"You still say that... uh... this... how is this possible..."

Kambara Mio wanted to try again to find Takami's weakness through moral attacks, but he had to stop himself as soon as he opened his mouth.

However, this time he shut up not because something interrupted him, but because he noticed something he hadn't noticed before.

For example, those things floating behind Gao Hai, always watching him.

Those who were no longer in the ruins, those who had long since been freed from their obsessions, still hadn't left. Instead, they lurked in Gao Hai's shadow, silently watching Kambara Mio's ugly performance, silently enjoying this farcical spectacle. They were right there, watching him struggle in the ruins, being brutally beaten by Gao Hai, watching his desperate struggle for survival.

[So you finally saw it? Ever since your plan failed, and ever since I rescued Ichiriki and the other two, they began a massive effort to unleash the obsessions of innocent people before they left. I just concealed these actions, preventing you from seeing them immediately.]

Gao Hai's voice was full of mockery.

[I've always felt that you bunch of trash who have tarnished the word "doctor" are nothing but a bunch of self-righteous idiots with nothing but petty cleverness. Ha, using hostages to threaten me—do you think I'm incapable of using my brain or preventing problems beforehand?]

As he spoke, Shinbara Mio's body burned even more fiercely.

He screamed again, struggling and struggling with all his might, but he couldn't break free from Gao Hai's grip on his fingers.

By the way, do you know why these liberated souls are still here, still behind me?

In a somewhat light and airy voice, Gao Hai's already distorted face suddenly broke into a smile with a touch of exaggerated facial expressions.

Meanwhile, Kambara Mio's body was already contorted in agony, his hands and feet beginning to carbonize and slowly disintegrate, turning into black dust that fell to the ground.

Because they want to see you tortured by me, to see you go to hell and be judged.

Those who were tormented by you to the point of not being able to rest in peace after death, now that they have finally been freed, hope to witness your moment of despair.

You once persecuted them in the name of "accepting despair." Now, it's their turn to witness your despair firsthand. Are you ready?

For a moment, Gao Hai's voice turned cold and eerie, becoming terrifying like a ghost.

Knowing full well that his life was nearing its end, and realizing that he could not escape his current situation, this man suddenly unleashed tremendous power in the last moment of his life.

"No! No! I don't want to die! I want to live!"

Amidst the piercing screams, Gao Hai discovered that his mutilated body was somehow unable to hold him down.

"I want to live! I want to live! I want to live! I want to live a good life!"

In a frenzied roar, Kambara Mio's lower body broke off, the burned lower half turning to ashes, but the mutilated upper body was still struggling wildly, like a fish pulled ashore by a fisherman, making its last struggle in life.

Unable to accept the fact that death is approaching.

They refuse to accept the reality of dying, and are willing to do anything for it, even accepting the most terrible things with a clear conscience.

It's like when you were diagnosed with cancer and it was confirmed that the cancer cells had spread throughout your body, and modern medicine was helpless.

Accept the despairing reality?

Give up treatment and wait to die?

No, Shinbara Mio has never done such a thing.

In the final moments of his life, he frantically tried every possible method that might work, from exorbitantly priced, experimental medical treatments to mystical practices like shamanistic rituals and drinking talismanic water, and even cult methods like killing living people to extract and drink their blood. This man tried them all.

He truly experienced unparalleled despair at that time.

But from beginning to end, Kambara Mio refused to accept reality. Instead, he went mad in his struggle to survive, desperately pleading with anything that might save him, regardless of the other party's true nature or whether his actions crossed any lines. Perhaps it was this madness that led to his selection by the hospital, and ultimately, to his becoming a so-called "internal medicine doctor."

"I want to live! I want to live! I want to survive!!!"

With most of his body charred and shattered, and most of his soul sucked into the vortex of the black watch, Kambara Mio was still struggling and crying out desperately.

Gao Hai had to admit that he had never seen a soul so tenacious even at this stage. This twisted man had been completely alienated into something else in order to survive, so much so that the closer he got to death, the more insane he became, and the more desperately he struggled.

But that doesn't make any sense.

No matter how strong his will to survive was, he had no chance of escaping now.

Throughout the entire ordeal, Takahashi simply watched Kambara Mio struggle with a blank expression.

Those souls who were persecuted by him and were finally liberated could only watch his ugly behavior in the last moments of his life, and watch the last farce he performed with his own life.

Click——click——

The sound of something shattering came from the barrier not far away.

Although the barrier itself made it difficult for Gao Hai's senses to extend and see the outside world, at this moment, just from the aura emanating from those cracks, he could already smell the blood and the stench of blood, and feel an extremely powerful force.

"Help me! Help me! God, save me! Everyone, please save me!!!"

Kambara Mio, who was being held by Takahashi and whose body had been burned to the point of being nothing but a human head, also shouted excitedly at this moment.

His struggle finally paid off; thankfully, he held on until the rescue arrived.

That damned false god is doomed! Hahaha, I'll personally take back all of this and make you—

hum! ! !

The black watch unleashed a massive vortex.

【Ah】

After Gao Hai let out a cold laugh, Shinbara Mio, realizing that he could no longer escape, only had time for one last scream before his soul, along with the last remaining fragments of his body, were completely swallowed up. Even the dust containing the traces of his power was all raised from the ruins under Gao Hai's mental control and sent into the watch to prevent any possible resurrection.

As for the high-ranking executives of Dansu Company who colluded with this man and harmed many others, as well as other accomplices who consciously participated, they were all absorbed by the black watch without exception, and none of them could escape judgment. In short, these souls had long been anchored to the black watch by Gao Hai. Gao Hai had considered every possible scenario that could allow the enemy to escape, and he would not give his opponents any chance.

click-

The barrier finally shattered completely at this moment.