mygo, but Cthulhu

"Okay, I'm about to start the ceremony, so you all should leave for a while."

The chairman shook his head slightly at them, and Touko was helplessly about to pull them away, but at the same time, Nanami in the room suddenly pursed her lips and spoke softly to the chairman in a complicated voice.

"Chairman, can I stay and help? I'm about to leave this academy... I hope to do one last thing for this place, is that okay?"

"...Since you think so, come and help me one last time."

The chairman was silent for a moment before nodding. Mashiro looked at their expressions, frowned slightly, and wanted to say something, but the chairman thought she was still trying to plead for Qi Shen, so he frowned and spoke first.

"Kurata-san, I've already said something similar to Kiritani-san, and I don't have time to repeat it to you... I can only tell you that the safety of Tsuki no Mori comes before any students or teachers, and as the chairman, I must protect this place."

"No matter who threatens the safety of Moon Forest, I will expel her, and even kill her if necessary. You should be satisfied with this outcome. This world does not allow for mercy... I have already shown the maximum leniency."

"No, Chairman, I want to..."

"That's enough. If you have anything to say, you can wait until I'm done."

When the chairman said this, Mashiro saw that Ruwei and Nanami's bodies trembled. She realized something and spoke quickly, but the chairman just shook his head and turned to close the door.

Helpless, Mashiro could only wait silently in front of the door. She was still concerned about Ruwei and Nanami's abnormal behavior, and the bad premonition in her heart made her unwilling to leave. After Tsukushi and Touko's persuasion failed, they could only wait with her.

But to their surprise, the door was opened again soon after. Mashiro hurried forward anxiously, but was greeted by a strong smell of blood, which made her cough.

When she saw the situation in the room clearly, her pupils suddenly contracted, and her voice trembled with disbelief.

"Ruwei, Nanami...what did you do?"

Chapter 170 Direction in Chaos

Inside the room was a bloody scene that Mashiro Kurata had never imagined... Nanafuku stood in the shadow cast by the curtains, the blade in his hand dripping with blood, Ruwei stood silently by the side with an obscure expression, and the chairman fell to the ground in a pool of blood.

"Nanafuka, Ruwei, what happened? Why is the chairman... like this?"

Mashiro spoke blankly, her heart filled with incomprehension. Even though the situation was clear at a glance, she couldn't help but harbor a hope... No, they couldn't have done that. The chairman must have been attacked by someone...

"Mashiro...we didn't choose

select,"

After a moment, Nanami suddenly spoke softly. Her suppressed voice instantly shattered Mashiro's delusion, causing her to grit her teeth in disbelief.

"what do you mean?"

"The chairman is determined to track down this hair, and we haven't had time to tell you yet that this hair is actually a clone of you. Her tracking spell will only lock onto you, and you might be driven out... or even killed outright."

"Is this why you killed her?!"

Hearing their words, Mashiro couldn't help but feel a sense of absurdity. She raised her voice in anger, while Nanami sighed.

"Well, that's why we took action. Frankly speaking, we didn't want to do this. The chairman is indeed a responsible person... but we can't let her find out about this."

"Mashiro, you want to stay here, don't you? You once told us that you've worked so hard to enter the Moon Forest. After all we've been through, you've come to regard this place as important... But the chairman won't understand you. She only sees you as a threat, and we can't accept that."

"Although we know this is selfish, as long as we kill her, you can continue to stay here and continue to be a student of Tsuki no Mori. This is what you value most, isn't it?"

"What I value most...is not this!"

Mashiro trembled, then clenched his teeth in anger and pain, and his roar filled with sorrow startled Nanami and Ruwei.

"truth……"

"Nanafuka, Ruwei, this isn't the way you are! The way you are would never do such a thing! You wouldn't kill someone just for this reason! I'm no more noble than anyone else, so is my safety more important than someone else's life?!"

"Do you know what you're doing?! You say this is so I can stay here, but have you ever asked me? I don't want to kill the chairman just to continue being a student of Tsuki no Mori... This is simply unacceptable!"

"Mashiro, I'm sorry, but we thought..."

"What did you think?! Did you think I would be happy if you did this?! Did you think I would be willing to let you do this for me?!"

Mashiro asked with tears in her eyes, and Nanami and Ruwei could only lower their heads. After a long while, Ruwei finally squeezed out a tired voice.

"I'm sorry, Mashiro, but I just don't want you to suffer the same injustice that Nanami endured. She even helped here, but she's still wary of the students. If word gets out that you look like the attacker... I can't imagine how they'll look at you."

"Although I'm the student council president, it wasn't until I discovered this that I realized the so-called elegance and composure of the Moon Forest students were all hypocritical social masks. When faced with blood and death, they're no calmer than their peers, and may even be more unbearable than others... We just don't want you to get hurt."

"..."

Mashiro stared at her blankly, wanting to say something, but she was no longer able to make any sound. She slowly lowered her head and sobbed weakly.

"You, you...what are you talking about..."

She could endure her mother's sudden betrayal of malice, but she could not endure the crimes her friends committed for her... This made her painful and unbearable, but although she felt angry, she could not blame them, because her friends did this for her.

...It's really absurd.

This thought suddenly flashed through Mashiro's mind, and at this moment she felt unprecedentedly unfamiliar with Nanami and Ruwei in the room. She closed her eyes in a trance, and couldn't help but pray in her heart that this was just her illusion.

"Ahhh!"

…However, the sudden scream from behind her completely shattered her fantasy. Mashiro opened her eyes tremblingly and turned around to see a student looking at the situation in the room with a face full of horror, and the panic in his voice was uncontrollable.

"President, Qi Shen classmate... what did you... do? Why did the chairman... fall to the ground?"

"us……"

Ruwei pursed her lips, not knowing what to say for a moment, while Qi Shen hesitated for a moment and did not raise her hand to cast the spell. She sighed, feeling exhausted by what Mashiro had just said, and simply gave up the action.

"You... killed the chairman, didn't you?"

In the silence, the student gradually understood the situation. She spoke slowly in disbelief, and Ruwei could only sigh.

"You calm down first..."

"How can you be calm? You...you're all crazy!"

The student gritted her teeth and interrupted her, a look of even greater panic appearing on her face. She turned and ran away tremblingly, while also raising her voice and shouting,

"Help! Is anyone here?! The chairman is dead! Come quickly..."

The next moment, her shout was suddenly interrupted by the force behind her. The student felt herself being pushed to the ground. She looked up tremblingly and saw Mashiro staring at her with gritted teeth. Her expression was distorted by pain and her voice was trembling.

"Classmate... please don't tell anyone else, okay?"

"Let me go! Let me go!"

Obviously, no one would agree to Mashiro's words in this situation. The student tried to push her away in fear, but Mashiro just held her tightly. His already confused mind was on the verge of collapse because of her shrill cry for help.

Just now, Nanami and Ruwei were just standing there helplessly, while Touko and Tsukushi were still dazed and confused. Before Mashiro could react, she found that she had pushed her classmate to the ground...her heart was filled with panic that almost tore her body apart.

What would happen if Ruwei and the others' crimes were discovered? It was a no-brainer. The chairman was on that committee. Would that organization forgive them? Could she put Ruwei and the others' chance of survival in someone else's hands?

No, it's impossible, absolutely impossible. This matter must be covered up and the people in front of me must not be allowed to spread it...

"Please, really, they didn't mean it, they did it all for me, at least don't tell anyone else..."

Mashiro's mind was in a state of confusion, and her vision became blurry and dizzy. She tried her best to endure the fear and kept begging, but the expression on her face was distorted by pain, which made the student who was being held down by her even more terrified.

"No! Let me go! Let me go! Wuuuuuu... I want to go home..."

...There was no response that Mashiro had imagined, only crying and shouting. The student cried and shouted while punching Mashiro's head with all his might, shattering all her hopes bit by bit, causing her fear to spiral out of control and destroy all her sanity.

"No, please, stop shouting, others will notice..."

At this moment, Mashiro's senses were suddenly magnified countless times by an inexplicable force. Under the stimulation of pain, she saw from another perspective that other students in the distance faintly heard the screams from here. They hesitated whether to come over, and their whispered conversations made Mashiro swallowed by panic.

"Ahhh! Help! Help! Help..."

The student continued to scream in panic, and the next moment, Mashiro's hands tightly grasped her neck, forcibly interrupting her voice. She opened her eyes wide and tried to break free in panic, but Mashiro's hands were like iron clamps, and no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't pry them open.

"I'm sorry, I don't want to do this, but you really can't shout anymore.

I really can’t…”

Mashiro no longer knew what she was doing. She kept begging in a trembling voice, and in fear, she tried her best to increase the strength of her hands to maintain silence. It was not until she saw from another perspective that the other students no longer had any doubts because the sounds had disappeared, and left the academy as planned that Mashiro breathed a sigh of relief.

"I'm sorry, it must be painful for you. I really don't want to do this..."

As consciousness returned to her body, Mashiro quickly let go of her hand, but when she lowered her head, her apologetic voice stopped abruptly.

The student under her was staring at her intently. Her face was twisted to the extreme and frozen, full of pain and fear. Her nails were deeply embedded in the back of Mashiro's hand. Her neck was twisted and deformed by the force that exceeded that of a high school girl, and her eyeballs were bleeding from being widened to the extreme.

"..."

Mashiro withdrew her hand in a daze, and only then did she realize that her friends were all around her, pinned to the ground by magic... After she realized this, the magic suddenly disappeared, and Tsukushi and the others slowly got up with some difficulty. They silently glanced at the female student's body... Their expressions became extremely complicated.

"Everyone...what's going on?"

Mashiro couldn't understand the situation and spoke softly in confusion. They looked at each other and hesitated for a moment. Tsukushi answered cautiously.

"Mashiro... just now, in order to stop her from attracting others, you ran over and pushed her down, but then you grabbed her neck. We wanted to stop you, but the spell you released pinned us to the ground... Are you okay now?"

"Did I...do such a thing?"

Zhenbai looked at her blankly. After a moment's pause, she lowered her head to look at the corpse beneath her and raised her hand tremblingly to check for breath.

...He's no longer breathing, and even his heart has stopped beating. Looking at his horribly deformed neck, I'm afraid even first aid is no longer necessary.

...Did you make this yourself?

"No... I just wanted to... I just wanted to stop her, that's all. I didn't want to kill her... I didn't want to do this... I..."

Mashiro shuddered, and when she realized what she had done, a heavy sense of guilt instantly climbed up her spine, causing the pain and confusion to surge again.

"Mashiro, calm down. We all know you didn't mean it..."

Tsukushi spoke softly while carefully trying to put his hand on Mashiro's shoulder, but as soon as he touched Mashiro, her body trembled violently and she subconsciously took several steps back. The eyes that Tsukushi was familiar with were filled with panic that made her heart ache.

"No, Tsukushi, don't come near me... I just lost control again... I don't want to hurt you, I can't hurt you..."

Mashiro covered her head, pleading softly while trying to hold back her tears, but she found that her vision was still covered by mist and she couldn't stop the tears from flowing.

...She lost control again, and she killed an innocent student. She only needed to control her, but she killed her instead.

What exactly is she? What did that dream mean? Why did she suddenly become like this? Why did she shatter what should have been a happy life into this state? Why did all this happen?

Countless questions swirled in Mashiro's mind, as if countless distorted butterflies were surrounding her. Mashiro's breathing became more and more rapid in the chaos. She felt as if she was being dragged into the abyss by sin, and everything that was originally there was getting farther and farther away from her.

...If you want to find the answer, you can only go to the place mentioned by No. 1. If you want to atone for your sins and find a way to resurrect the dead, that should be the only place.

At this moment, it was as if a voice whispered in Mashiro's ear, causing her consciousness, which was on the verge of collapse, to quickly regain stability. The butterflies surrounding her also became quiet. They quietly landed on Mashiro's body. After looking at them, she slowly exhaled and looked at her friends calmly.

"Tsukushi, please hide the bodies of the chairman and this classmate first, but don't damage them. Keep their bodies intact... I have to go somewhere next."

"Mashiro...where are you going?"

"It's a very dangerous place. You can't go there."

Mashiro shook his head and smiled at them softly.

"Thank you for everything you've done for me, but let me take care of these troubles now. Don't worry, I'll be back soon, and everything will be back to normal."

"truth……"

They hesitated and wanted to say something, but at this moment a portal suddenly opened behind Mashiro, and butterflies flew up in her sight. They couldn't wait to fly into the portal, and Mashiro followed their guidance and turned to walk towards the door, while whispering goodbye to her friends.

"Don't worry, I'll be fine... You just need to wait a moment, I can definitely take care of this... I definitely can."

Chapter 171 Explanation

"Number 1... Really? Are you also a copy of Kurata-senpai? How much do you know about this dimension?"

Su Shi thought for a moment and then calmly asked, and the corpse's pale face forced a smile and nodded slightly.

"You quickly grasped the key point from my words. That's quite insightful indeed... We still have plenty of time, so I'll explain the situation in this dimension to you."

"As you can see, Ms. Nagasaki, this is our prison. Many Kurata Mashiro have fought and tortured each other here... But do you know why? Our mother and Migo went to such great lengths, are they just taking pleasure in our suffering? Of course not. She has always profited from this prison, so it can continue."

"Benefits... I really don't understand. What benefit does it bring to her to let this place become such a horrible state? Is this some kind of ritual venue?"

"You're half right. The filth here does facilitate Mother's prayers to Abhoth, but the more important factor is the soul crystals carried by the Mi-go."

No. 1 raised his hand to signal those strange creatures, and at this time they also vibrated their wings to try to open the portal, but a space shock interrupted their attempt.

"Ah, many people are being teleported here. These Mi-Go can't leave until the space stabilizes, but this is a good thing for us."

Number 1 smiled and nodded slightly, while Nagasaki Suyo frowned and thought while continuing to ask questions.

"Soul crystals? You mean those gems? But from what I know, souls seem very fragile. How do they transform into solids?"

"Because of the key role played by the original body, I can't go into the specific details for now, but the reason why all of Mashiro's souls can be transformed into crystals is because of the original body."

Number 1 shrugged.

"And these soul crystals are exactly what our mother needed to research perfect resurrection. Her plan to utilize the Dream Realm failed, so she activated this most important part, which had taken over a decade... And they are also the reason why Miss Nagasaki was captured."

"What do you mean?"

"Ms. Nagasaki, you lost your sight a few years ago, right?"