Once the affection level is maxed out, the rivalry begins!

In an instant, the nun's body spontaneously combusted without fire and turned to ashes.

The sky outside the school was suddenly shrouded in a strange and disgusting dark red, like exposed internal organs.

The magnified human pupils, suspended among the sparse clouds, flicker incessantly like a bugged texture in a low-quality game, creating a chilling and unsettling effect.

Clearly, if the idea of ​​"a classmate transforming into a magical girl and ruthlessly exploding a nun's head" only brings shock, then the current scene is genuine mental pollution; just looking at it directly will cause a slight loss of sanity.

The windows, on the other hand, seemed to be fixed to the space, remaining completely still.

A timid female student rushed towards the door, instinctively wanting to escape the oppressive classroom.

"Don't go out!"

When Lin Tingwan tried to stop her, she had already opened the back door.

Then my eyes met those of a marble bust.

It was originally a statue of a great academic figure, donated by a famous alumnus and placed in front of the second-year teaching building. It would often receive a lot of snacks as offerings during exams.

Perhaps it no longer wants to live the humiliating life of having Want Want Milk and Rice Crackers on its head, so it appeared here with resentment towards the test takers.

The girl who met his gaze opened her mouth wide and let out a silent scream. Her legs gradually turned a cement-like iron gray, her bones closed up, her waist widened, her upper body narrowed like a compressed sponge, and her skin developed a rough, granular texture like stone.

In the blink of an eye, she transformed into something exactly like the bust.

"Don't look into their eyes."

Before the panic could escalate further, Bai Ze closed the door, blocking the way for the people trying to escape.

"Don't panic, everyone. Isn't there a magical girl representing love and justice here?"

He pointed to Lin Tingwan, who was standing alone in the same spot.

When humans act in groups, a leader effect is created.

Unlike Lin Tingwan, who displayed inhuman violence in killing the nuns, he was seen as one of their own by the people in the class.

Therefore, when Bai Ze appears calm, this emotion can be contagious to others.

Compared to the bizarre monster, the classmates who suddenly displayed extraordinary abilities were obviously more trustworthy—so in just a moment, most of them turned to Lin Tingwan for help.

"Yeah, we're like extras in a tokusatsu movie. We'll be fine as long as the hero defeats the monster, right?"

"What?! This is a tokusatsu show! Isn't this a magical girl anime?" "Does this mean I've been living in a yuri anime world all along...?" "Considering the existence of Hakutaku, it's probably an old-school heterosexual romance anime like Sailor Moon." "Quack, magical girl! We love you!"

After all, they were all young people, and the atmosphere became much more lively after they realized that they had a powerful backer. But are there too many geniuses in our class?

"That's right."

At this point, Lin Tingwan naturally took over the reins. "Please stay in the classroom and don't go out without permission—death here isn't real death. The victims will be gradually assimilated into the ghost stories. As long as the culprit is defeated in time, even if they've been turned into statues, they can be saved—I will take care of it."

【Physical Ghost Stories】 will exhibit different abnormal effects depending on the location. In a school, it will probably manifest as strange phenomena on campus.

In these kinds of stories, classrooms where people gather are generally safer than people wandering around outside.

She winked at Bai Ze and pulled him away from the adrenaline-pumping crowd.

"I'm going to solve this problem."

The girl in the evening gown spoke with unwavering resolve.

If Bai Ze didn't know the truth, he would definitely believe that she was a magical girl representing love and justice.

"You must be angry that I kept this from you, right?"

She apologized again, "But I did it for your safety—"

"So you're going to erase my memory afterward?"

He tactfully replied, "It's okay. Although my goal is to become a light novel protagonist who can make a cameo appearance as the final boss, there's nothing I can do about it now."

"Bai Ze..."

Lin Tingwan was deeply moved and reached out to touch his cheek.

"Even without superpowers, you calmly reassured everyone; you are the true hero!"

"You're not some bootleg Superman character."

Bai Ze pressed down on her shoulder, "Alright, you go now, I'll keep an eye on things here!"

"Hmm? Oh..."

She floated up and rushed out the front door.

The onlookers, as if witnessing a deeply moving farewell scene, all applauded.

"Wow, this kind of dedication to supporting your girlfriend's work from behind the scenes is just like a producer watching their idol take the stage!"

"Bai Ze, you can actually become a magical girl too, right? I know that's how it's portrayed in these kinds of stories nowadays."

"Really? Hurry up and transform it! I've never begged you in my life..."

Snapped.

Bai Ze turned around with veins bulging on his forehead and clapped his hands.

"You guys, don't get carried away just because you were able to save them!"

Anyway, the Bureau of Spirit Disasters will perform a memory erasure procedure, so let's all come and have some fun in the maze!

The Labyrinth of the Minotaur has arrived!

Rules drastically different from those in the ghost story-like space erode reality, transforming the small classroom into another world.

After the invisible ripples swept by, the people who were in the way were thrown into the maze that now belonged to him.

After Bai Ze ordered the minotaurs in the maze to ignore their existence, he awakened the Blade of Judgment.

The classroom was filled with silvery-white light. The ordinary Bai Ze disappeared, and the White Knight of the Eternal Serpent appeared next!

He spread his five fingers, which transformed into a blade of judgment in the form of silk threads, crawling across the classroom threshold like a cold snake and extending outwards into the corridor.

The place was already filled with replicas of busts, which roamed around like living creatures, waiting for victims to walk into their trap.

Lin Tingwan's solution was to use flying magic to avoid the situation in order to save time, while Bai Ze chose a different approach.

—If eye contact will cause you to be attacked, then you can destroy it somewhere out of sight.

The threads formed by the Blade of Judgment have spread throughout the corridor, like a giant spider web, precisely feeding back the tremors from each bust back to the Bai Ze connected to it.

The total number is seventeen.

All personnel captured.

Bai Ze, like a fisherman going out to sea, clenched his five fingers!

A dense mass of silver light rose from the ground, like a curtain of rain.

Blades with the effect of "Fantasy Collapse" sliced ​​through the ghost-like half-body statue, splitting it in two along with its base, severing its head, or even completely shredding it, with stone chips scattered all over the corridor.

The torrential rain of silk threads gathered back into his palm, and Bai Ze stepped out the door.

The only remaining ghost-themed statues on this floor are those of the previous victims.

"Next... let's go find the second-in-command of our Eternal Serpent."

He looked out through the broken glass at the first-grade school building.