Amamiya Rin stepped onto the stairs and arrived at the second floor.

The second-floor corridor was dark and gloomy, and you couldn't see anything at all.

But I can hear it.

The scraping sound of heavy objects being dragged, and the occasional dull thuds of collisions, came from the deepest part of the corridor.

Amamiya Rin walked over and stopped outside a door.

The sound is coming from here.

Amamiya Rin's left hand rested on the doorknob.

However, it seems to be locked from the inside; the door cannot be opened.

Amamiya Rin turned around and went downstairs, returning to the entrance hall.

Takagi was still lying there, the knife that had struck his chin would have killed him if Amamiya Rin hadn't controlled his strength so well.

After searching through Takagi's pockets, they quickly found a set of keys.

After taking the key, Amamiya Rin did not immediately go upstairs. Instead, she returned to the kitchen and found a spare lighter, as well as cooking wine and cooking oil.

Only then did he return to the second floor.

After placing the cooking wine and cooking oil at the top of the stairs, Amamiya Rin strode to the room at the far end of the corridor and tried each key one by one.

Finally, the door opened.

The sight inside the room made even Amamiya Rin, who was already mentally prepared, involuntarily shrink her pupils.

In the center of the room, two indescribable things were lurking!

Their bodies resembled magnified maggots, exhibiting unsettling spiral segments. Their grayish-white, mottled skin was covered with ulcers, and murky liquid seeped from every fold.

At the very top of the torso was a gigantic head, which could only be identified as female, as the face was almost completely destroyed, covered with pitted scars, and the protruding eyeballs resembled those of a bloated, lifeless fish.

What's most chilling is that between that worm-like torso and gigantic head are individual Tomie heads!

It was a body made up of human heads, with countless faces densely embedded on it, all of them Tomie Kawakami!

The faces varied in size, some were whole, some were distorted, but all possessed Tomie's unique beauty.

However, at this moment they were frozen on the writhing flesh like reliefs, and the expressions on their faces had a numbness, unlike the emotionally rich Tomie of normal times.

From both sides of the torso, pairs of female arms and legs protruded out in a deformed manner!

The two monsters occupied most of the room. They slowly moved their fat bodies, scraping against the ground, making the same sounds that Amamiya Rin had heard downstairs.

(...really ugly.)

Even within [Tomie Network], a rare brief silence fell before thoughts of disgust arose.

(Stop dawdling! Burn that hideous monster now!)

(That thing is no longer just a counterfeit; it's a mutated monster that can't even develop a normal body.)

(What is Takagi-sensei doing?)

(I don't care about experiments or anything, but this is just too terrible!)

……

The Tomie characters complained, grumbled, and urged on. Faced with these two enormous Tomie variants, all the Tomies could no longer stand it.

"That face... doesn't it seem to be Kawakami Tomie, the victim who was used as an experimental subject?"

Amamiya Rin raised her head and looked at the huge head. Although it was impossible to tell what it originally looked like, she could tell from the facial contours that it was not Tomie.

The men were skinned and placed in the kitchen refrigerator, while the women were turned into such monsters?

Just as Amamiya Rin was observing it, the pair of dead fish-like eyes on the huge head moved slightly, and the turbid pupils seemed to focus on Amamiya Rin.

The next moment, the flesh beneath the giant head trembled violently, and all the embedded Tomie faces looked at Amamiya Rin at the same time, their expressionless faces radiating a certain malice.

"I will free you."

As they met the gaze of that enormous head, a look of sorrow appeared in Amamiya Rin's eyes.

However, before the words were finished, the obese body crashed into Amamiya Rin at an extremely fast speed. The movement was like that of a python, with countless arms and legs dancing wildly, or like a huge wave of flesh.

There was no reason for Amamiya Rin to collide head-on. He took a half step back with his left foot and leaned his body to the right rear, narrowly avoiding a head-on collision.

The monster's torso brushed past his tracksuit, sending a stench through him.

In the instant they passed each other, Amamiya Rin's left thumb pushed the tsuba forward slightly, while his right hand gripped the hilt tightly.

"Iaijutsu! Water Moon!"

The sound of the wooden sword being drawn was rapid and sharp, and a fierce glint of light flashed as it cleaved down towards a Tomie head on the side of the monster's torso.

"puff!"

With a precise and ruthless cut, Tomie's face was severed, a streak of blood dividing her features in two.

The monster let out a painful howl mixed with the voices of many women; it seemed that every Tomie's perception was the same.

The waving arm reached for Amamiya Rin, who landed a successful blow. Without lingering, he used the force of drawing his sword to spin and retreat.

At the same time, he swung the scabbard in his left hand forward, using the sheath to deflect a pale arm. The arm collided with the scabbard with a dull thud. Although the monster was enormous, its arm was not very strong, allowing Amamiya Rin to easily deflect it with the scabbard.

Another monster launched an attack, its slender arm striking from the side and grabbing at Amamiya Rin's neck.

Amamiya Rin continued to retreat without stopping, his right hand wielding a wooden sword as he moved back, then slashing the wrist with the blade.

"Snap!"

With a crisp cracking sound, the arm fell limply to its side.

The two monsters were injured one after the other. They twisted their huge bodies in pain, their movements clumsy yet ferocious, and charged at Amamiya Rin from both sides. Their massive size almost blocked all the space where they could dodge.

Amamiya Rin's eyes narrowed, and he immediately entered a deeper battle state. The synchronization of the Crimson Lotus Breathing Technique brought all the other Tomies into the fray. The power transmitted through his nerves greatly increased Amamiya Rin's nerve reaction speed, and his senses became more acute.

He could clearly hear the sound of slime dripping from the monster's body, smell the stench of decay and blood, and see the writhing of every muscle on the monster's body.

Just as the two monsters were about to collide, instead of retreating, Amamiya Rin advanced. He suddenly crouched down and slid forward, squeezing through the narrowest possible gap between the monsters' torsos.

A foul, fishy smell filled Amamiya Rin's nostrils, and countless pale arms reached out from both sides.

He slashed horizontally with his wooden sword in his right hand, splitting the wrist that was grabbing at his face from the right, while his left hand, with its scabbard, parried and deflected the arm that was attacking from the left.

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