Transformed into the leader of an esoteric sect in Japan

Could this seemingly ordinary high school girl be an unfathomable immortal, a named being, or even an incarnation of a god? Based on the rank of the orange skills and equipment that Kurosawa Shizuki had seen in the system before, this was the only direction she could draw in.

Her gaze toward Chinatsu Ando became incredibly wary, as if she were looking at a humanoid nuclear bomb. If the game's settings were true, let alone a named individual, even an immortal could easily raze a city if they unleashed their full power.

"Kurosawa, you've gone too far! We were discussing this so excitedly yesterday," Ando pouted, a little annoyed. "Do you really consider yourself a member of the Sneaky Club?"

The Sneaky Club? Kurosawa Shizuki pondered for a moment. She seemed to have seen the prefix "Sneaky Club" in front of the names of several classmates in the original owner's phone contacts. It seemed that the original owner had participated in this club called the Sneaky Club at school, and Ando Chinatsu was the president of the Sneaky Club.

Incidentally, Kurosawa Shizuki has already remembered that Suzuki Machiko, whom Kurosawa Ai mentioned, is also a member of the Sneaky Club. In addition, there is another member of the Sneaky Club whose name sounds like a girl's, named Akagi Kana.

So the reason the original owner went to school was indeed the Ghost Club? More precisely, Kurosawa Shizuki's intuition told her that the original owner probably came for Ando Chinatsu, who had that orange name.

Although she appears to be just an ordinary pretty high school girl, she is certain that there is something about Chinatsu Ando that can give Shizuki Kurosawa a near-fatal sense of threat!

P.S., Chinatsu Ando is a central character in Volume Two, and the groundwork for her development will begin to be laid from now on. Sigh, at this moment, I still have absolutely no confidence in whether I can tell this story well. But even if I mess it up, I'll grit my teeth and keep writing.

PS2, two books I really liked, I checked today and suddenly realized I'd abandoned them. I don't feel anything when I abandon them myself, but I only realize how painful it is when others do. Yin Lili and The Containment Girl, these two books were doing so well, how could they just abandon them like that?

Section 41, Chapter Forty-One: The Invitation, Spirit-Summoning Physique, and the Cursed Paradise

"President Ando, ​​I'm so sorry. I really didn't pay much attention to the affairs of the Ghost Club in the past," Kurosawa Shizuki stood up and bowed to Ando Chinatsu to apologize. "I will definitely participate in club affairs seriously from now on."

"Hmph, the apology was sincere enough, I'll accept it for now. After all, the Ghost Club has just been established, and I'm quite lenient with its core members." Ando Chinatsu snorted coldly; she was surprisingly easy to talk to.

"But speaking of which, Captain Ando, ​​what kind of club is our Sneaky Club..." Kurosawa Shizuki asked cautiously.

"I'm starting to regret making you the vice president. Is your memory like a fish's?" Chinatsu Ando said with a dark expression. "The Ghost Club, or Ghost Literature Club for short, our goal is to create the most horrifying urban legends and spread terror throughout Japan!"

"Why should we spread terror throughout Japan? We're a literature club, can't we write something more positive and uplifting?" Kurosawa Shizuki's life is already thrilling enough. She still wants to write something more benevolent. However, when she thinks about the system that rewards nightmare points for spreading negative emotions, she inexplicably feels that perhaps Ando would be a better match for the system.

"Because it's interesting! The sinister truth, the gloomy ghost stories, weaving together absurd and twisted tales related to death, despair, and destruction, murderers, alien creatures, wandering spirits, spirit fields, supernatural forces, heretics, demons... constantly filling in various realistic details and making people believe it to be true, Kurosawa, don't you think this is an incredibly happy and enjoyable thing!" Ando's smile seemed a bit perverted, it turns out that this guy is also a fanatical lover of urban legends.

“Oh, so we’re a ghost story writing club,” Kurosawa Shizuki nodded. As a light novel author, it didn’t feel particularly out of place for the original owner to join such a club. “So, what exactly is this secret operation you mentioned…”

"Idiot!" A sharp rap landed on Kurosawa Shizuki's forehead. "Of course we're going to do on-site research at haunted places in Heikyo! You were the one who gave me this invitation with such seriousness!"

Ando pulled a pale invitation from the inner pocket of her backpack. It had an exquisitely crafted border, and the cover featured a grinning, red-nosed clown face. She deliberately held the invitation through a handkerchief before handing it to Kurosawa Shizuki.

To the members of the Sneaky Literature Department:

I extend my warmest invitation to the elusive arts club of Yanshan High School.

The worms have broken free of their shackles; at sunset, like blood, the gates are about to burst open.

The error must be corrected.

Please visit Lushan Amusement Park after 4 PM on April 19th.

The Joker has a poignant story he wants to tell.

"Your dear, Paradise Clown"

Kurosawa Shizuki felt the strangely low temperature of the invitation in her hand, as if she were touching a block of ice. An unyielding chill was seeping into her body, and she was certain that this invitation was influenced by some unseen force. There's definitely something wrong with this.

"This invitation is so straightforward. The Ghost Club has only been established for a short time and it's already encountered something so interesting. We definitely have to go!" Ando Chinatsu said in a matter-of-fact tone. "Now that we have Suzuki, Akagi, and you, Kurosawa, the Ghost Club has such a powerful lineup. Even if we encounter any haunted place, we can definitely take it all down! There's nothing to be afraid of anymore!"

"Lushan Amusement Park? What is this place?" April 19th, probably Friday the day after tomorrow, she clearly has a lot of things to do, so why did another instance pop up here?

And this invitation was given to Ando by the original owner?! Was this also part of the original owner's plan? Kurosawa Shizuki always had the feeling that she was being arranged by the original owner. It seemed that from the moment she transmigrated, every step she took was within the original owner's plan and guidance. This feeling was indeed very unpleasant.

“Look at the text message, I’ve already sent you the information I found,” Ando Chinatsu picked up her phone, her fingers flying across the keyboard like a lightning-fast acupressure therapist. “I feel like I’ve been tricked. Could it be that you made up this invitation just to tease me?”

"Heh, that shouldn't be the case. This invitation is genuine." Kurosawa Shizuki felt the deep, heavy, and chilling winter aura emanating from the invitation, as if she were seeing a desolate graveyard buried under flying snow. Could this invitation really have come from the hands of a living person? She shivered and returned the invitation to Ando Chinatsu.

As soon as she finished speaking, Kurosawa Shizuki's phone started vibrating; she had indeed received a new text message.

"As expected of Kurosawa, you actually managed to hold this strange invitation with your bare hands. If I had held it like that, my hands would probably have frozen by now." Ando turned around and carefully put the invitation wrapped in a handkerchief into his backpack.

However, Kurosawa Shizuki did not look at the text message. Instead, her gaze lingered on the snow-white neck exposed beneath Ando Chinatsu's long hair.

This is really strange, absolutely strange! When did it appear? Why didn't she notice it during class?

There are three faces behind Chinatsu Ando!

The first image quietly appeared at the back of her head, nestled among her soft, black hair. It was an old woman with a wrinkled face, but with cat-like whiskers and golden vertical pupils. She was curiously observing Kurosawa Shizuki, who seemed to have seen her.

The second image is of a snake with the head of a little boy and the body of a snake wrapped tightly around her neck. Despite being wrapped so tightly, Ando Chinatsu seems completely unaware of it.

The third face was that of a hunched-over black dwarf with the weathered face of a middle-aged man, his expression full of sorrow. He was sitting on Ando Chinatsu's left shoulder in a thinker's posture, resting his chin on his hand, seemingly lost in thought.

The three anomalous creatures seemed quite sensitive to Kurosawa Shizuki's gaze. Realizing they were being observed by Kurosawa Shizuki, they all looked at her with deep, unsettling eyes.

These three demons didn't pose much of a threat to Kurosawa Shizuki. Her intuition told her that compared to Ando Chinatsu herself, these three demons were nothing more than three parasites living on an elephant. However, their immediate impression was disgusting, like blood-sucking leeches.

A faint whisper rang out between the three-headed demons.

"Did you see that?"

"Finally, I've been seen!"

"She must have seen us."

Kurosawa Shizuki blinked her deep blue eyes, feeling a strange sense of unease. Although the three strange spirits didn't seem particularly dangerous to her, the fact that Ando Chinatsu, who had just been chatting energetically with her, suddenly turned around and showed Kurosawa Shizuki these things made her feel uneasy from head to toe.

Chinatsu Ando, ​​how come you can still be so lively and talk to me with this thing residing in your body?

Why are all the other students in the class behaving so normally? Am I the only one with such heightened intuition that I can see these things?

So, is the reason Ando has an orange name simply because she has a spirit-summoning constitution? What is the connection between being a "diary author" and having a spirit-summoning constitution?

While his mind was filled with a myriad of thoughts, the three-headed monster had already reacted to Kurosawa Shizuki's gaze.

“If she’s seen, we can eat her up.” The cat-faced old woman grinned.

"Hiss hiss hiss, I want to eat, it's delicious..." The snake-bodied child spat out its blood-red forked tongue.

"It hurts so much, it hurts so much, why is living so painful, why won't any of you die with me?" The black dwarf's face was completely distorted by the unbearable pain.

The three creatures suddenly acted abnormally, simultaneously leaving Ando Chinatsu's body and lunging at Kurosawa Shizuki!

However, the shadow behind Kurosawa Shizuki reacted even faster than she did.

Three viscous black tentacles shot out from the shadows behind them with lightning speed, precisely binding the three attacking demons, wrapping them tightly in circles, and then dragging the three demons into the shadows without any suspense, where they vanished without a trace.

[Your dark spirit has devoured the cat-faced old woman Yukiko, increasing your fourth-stage growth rate by 0.15%.]

[Your dark spirit has devoured the human-faced snake Xing Tai, increasing its fourth-stage growth rate by 0.12%.]

[Your dark spirit has devoured the lesser demon Kreus, increasing its fourth-stage growth rate by 0.241%.]

Although their presence was intimidating, it turned out that these three were actually there to deliver food. Only then did Kurosawa Shizuki feel a little relieved.

Even though her dark spirit body had just devoured three ghosts, the students around her still didn't react at all, each going about their own business. It seemed that her dark spirit body, like these strange beings, was invisible to ordinary people? If this conjecture was true, then perhaps she could use her dark spirit body even more recklessly in the future.

Taking a few deep breaths to compose her chaotic emotions, Kurosawa Shizuki picked up her phone and looked at the text messages she had just received. They were mostly screenshots of discussions among netizens on a certain Heikyo paranormal forum, indicating that this was a well-known ghost story in Heikyo.

"Urban Ghost Stories: Cursed Paradise".

"The Heijing Deer Mountain Amusement Park, which was permanently abandoned less than three months after its opening, is said to have been the site of an extremely horrific murder in its Cursed Haunted House."

"Five tourists who entered the haunted house never came out again. Staff members who went to search for them found their gruesome bodies in the abandoned hospital area of ​​the haunted house."

"The victims all looked as if they had been devoured by some unknown creature, disemboweled and gruesome. They were all bound to operating tables, their hands and feet restrained. The murderer used blood to draw incredibly strange runes on the ground and the victims' bodies, creating a strong sense of religious ritual at the scene..."

"Since that tragedy, Lushan Amusement Park's performance has plummeted, and various accidents have frequently occurred—an employee of the haunted house chose to hang himself inside; a roller coaster derailed at its highest point, killing all passengers; someone witnessed a clown carrying a red balloon, grinning as he wandered through the amusement park at night; a little girl fell from the highest point of the Ferris wheel and was reduced to a bloody pulp..."

"Until one night in 2017, a fire of unknown origin completely destroyed the amusement park, and the curator who loved the park also perished in the fire. Lushan Amusement Park has been completely abandoned ever since."

"It is said that even today, the vengeful spirit of the clown who calls himself the clown still lingers there and is hard to dispel. It is also said that at a special moment, the amusement park will resume operation, and only visitors who receive an invitation from the clown will have the opportunity to visit the Cursed Paradise."

[Congratulations! You have triggered the side quest, "Cursed Paradise." Head to Heijing Deer Mountain Amusement Park and investigate the terrifying truth hidden within. Rewards: 3500 Nightmare Points, Secret Cult Spiritual Ground - Cursed Paradise, Secret Technique - Bone White Dove Prayer V.]

Kurosawa Shizuki was stunned. Ando Chinatsu was too amazing! A casual text message had triggered another side quest for her? Judging from the description, this quest would be very troublesome, but the reward was a secret cult teaching, and at level five at that. Kurosawa Shizuki really couldn't refuse. After all, such a secret teaching that reached the level of extraordinary arts could obviously bring a direct boost to her strength.

So this girl was actually an NPC who gave out quests?

According to this text message, only those who have received a specific invitation can visit "Cursed Paradise". The original owner happened to give Ando such an invitation before disappearing.

Then again, how did the original owner manage to continue functioning normally at school without anyone noticing anything amiss, even as her memories faded? Kurosawa Shizuki discovered something strange again: did the original owner truly suffer from amnesia or not? Was her sister lying, or was Ando lying? Or were the "original owner" at school and the "original owner" her sister encountered completely different beings? It seems that before Kurosawa Shizuki's transmigration, many things had already been meticulously planned…

Kurosawa Shizuki's head was throbbing more and more. The more she learned, the more afraid she became of the original owner. No matter where she went, she seemed to see the schemes left behind by the original owner.

P.S. I'm too lazy to divide it into chapters, so this chapter has about 3500 words, I'll just post it all here.

PS2, I've been revising the later chapters repeatedly lately. Why can't I control myself? I said I wanted to write a simple and straightforward novel, but as I write, the plot structure becomes so complicated again!

Chapter 42, Section 42: Miss Ando is indeed a super experienced user.

Heijing Yanshan Private High School.

The second period was the Chinese language class.

The Mandarin teacher was a thin old woman in her fifties or sixties. She lectured on the platform with a monotone voice, making the listeners drowsy.

"'The world is but dew, though it is but dew, though it is so.' Issa's lament in the face of the impermanent death of his loved ones is especially heart-wrenching..."

The teacher was swaying his head as he taught Kobayashi Issa's haiku. Although Kurosawa Shizuki was completely uninterested, she could only force herself to listen, since it was on the exam.

Kurosawa Shizuki was taking notes diligently. Japanese language is a completely different subject from Chinese language in her previous life. Even though Japanese is the only thing she inherited from the original owner of this body after transmigrating to this world, if the exam were to test ancient Japanese literature, Kurosawa Shizuki would still be completely clueless.

Since she had decided to continue playing the role of the original owner, Kurosawa Shizuki had to do her best. Kurosawa Shizuki knew that in order to get excellent grades, she had to maintain the habit of studying hard and never slack off. She still had many gaps in her knowledge of the Japanese courses and had to catch up as soon as possible, otherwise her grades would probably plummet when the next big exam came.

After arriving at school, she inquired with her classmates, and Kurosawa Shizuki confirmed that the original owner of this body had a high status in the class, was good-looking, and had good grades. In the first placement test at the beginning of the first year of high school, she ranked in the top five.

Japan is a place where the strong are respected. The original owner of this body was not only a top student, but also rumored to have defeated all the school's delinquents after the start of the semester, and secretly the leader of a secret cult. Even the aura she unconsciously revealed was probably enough to make most of her classmates back down. No one in the class dared to look down on her, let alone isolate or bully her. She was indeed like Mount Fuji in this class, unattainable and unapproachable. Perhaps only the extremely mysterious woman, Ando Chinatsu, could casually become familiar with her and make all sorts of intimate gestures towards her without any restraint.

Although Kurosawa Shizuki wasn't offended by Ando Chinatsu's unexpectedly friendly manner, after all, she was an orange-tier character and had a reason to be so.

However, Kurosawa Shizuki, who was taking notes, hadn't even finished half of the lecture when her right hand, which was writing notes, suddenly trembled and drew a long line on her notebook.

He frowned slightly. How many times had this happened?

In Kurosawa Shizuki's deep blue eyes, he was certain that something incredibly bizarre had happened around Ando Chinatsu once again.

Outside the side window of the classroom near the corridor, not far away, was the figure of a tall, thin, pale woman wearing a light gray dress, her body appearing and disappearing intermittently, hazy and indistinct.

When Kurosawa Shizuki first saw her, she was standing on the roof of the teachers' office building across the street, just a blurry shadow.

In the blink of an eye, she was standing at the back door of the classroom, and this time her face was clearer.

In the blink of an eye, she arrived at the front door and politely knocked. "May I come in?"