The two people's eyes crossed for the first time across the banquet hall which was more than ten meters long.

At this moment, the originally noisy banquet suddenly became quiet, and everyone's eyes were focused on Albert and Shinomiya Kaguya.

"Since you are here, please take a seat."

Smiling, Shinomiya Kaguya pointed to the end of the long table on her right, where there was an obvious empty seat.

But it is worth noting that the seat is only big enough to accommodate one person, and Kaguya Shinomiya's meaning is very clear.

"Miss Lucy, this way please."

Seeing her master speaking, Hayasaka Ai also came to Lucy and wanted to lead her to another position prepared in advance.

Lucie glanced at Albert.

Albert nodded in response.

With Albert's approval, Lucy obediently followed Hayasaka Ai's steps.

Albert also came to the position designated for him by Kaguya Shinomiya.

When he arrived at this position, he found that the person sitting next to him on his left (the second seat from the inside to the outside at the back table) was a young girl with pink hair. She was the only one in the banquet hall whose expression was different from others. She had a forced smile on her face, and a hint of fear hidden deep in her eyes.

After looking at Fujiwara Chika, Albert turned his head to look at Shinomiya Kaguya and found that she was also looking down at him with a meaningful smile on her face.

Albert also laughed, for a wonderful idea occurred to him.

Like a child, Albert raised his hand at the banquet and pointed to the side of Kaguya Shinomiya's seat in front of everyone.

"I see there's still a vacant seat next to Miss Shinomiya, how about letting me sit there? If there's anything, we can discuss it in detail."

"And my female companion sat in my original seat, so that we could look after each other."

Chapter 53: A Frightening Blood Banquet

As soon as these words were spoken, the entire banquet hall fell into deathly silence, and everyone looked at Albert with incredible eyes.

Even Lucy was confused. It would be fine if Albert just wanted to do it himself, but why did he involve her now?

As for the host of the party and the person involved in the incident - Shinomiya Kaguya, her smile froze slightly. Hayasaka Ai, who was leading Lucy at the side, quickly dropped the work at hand and ran over to smooth things over.

"Mr. Albert may have misunderstood. The seats for the guests were reserved in advance..."

"No, Ai-chan, since Albert wants to sit with me, I will satisfy him."

To everyone's surprise, Kaguya Shinomiya did not show any anger at all (at least not on her face). Instead, she cordially invited Albert to sit next to her.

Seeing Kaguya Shinomiya elegantly lift her kimono and move to the side to make an empty seat for him, Albert did not feel embarrassed at all. He walked directly to the main seat and sat cross-legged next to Kaguya Shinomiya.

"Miss?……"

Hayasaka Ai widened her eyes, looking at the strange scene in front of her in disbelief.

One on the left and one on the right, two people of similar height and age sat on the main seat.

One of them was wearing a snow-white kimono, and his every move gave people a chill as cold as ice and snow; the other one was wearing a platinum suit, and his every word and action gave people a warmth as warm as a spring breeze.

"Dear guests, since the lady agrees, please continue to enjoy the dinner. The grand finale will begin soon, and it will definitely bring unexpected surprises to everyone."

Hayasaka Ai still demonstrated her professional qualities and after a brief pause, she immediately rescued Shinomiya Kaguya.

At the same time, she looked at Lucy, who was already at a loss, "Miss Lucy, please."

Just like that, a farcical request was fulfilled, and Albert sat next to Kaguya Shinomiya as he wished, and Lucy also sat next to Albert with a confused look on her face.

"Albert, you did a great job. You gave me such a surprise when we first met."

Shinomiya Kaguya took a sip of the wine in her glass and spoke in a voice that only the two people who were close to each other could hear.

"Ms. Shigong, you are overpraising me. I just did what I wanted to do."

Albert also responded in a low voice.

“It’s hard to do what you want to do in this world.”

"But you have proved to me time and time again that you are indeed qualified."

"Albert, you are so attractive, both in appearance and ability."

Kaguya Shinomiya gently licked the wine stains on her lips, and a faint blush appeared on her young and beautiful face.

The next second, her tone suddenly turned cold, and her words seemed to be the cold wind from December, making people feel a stinging pain straight to the bone.

"So I forgive you this offense for once. It will be the first time and the last time."

Threat, naked threat.

Albert, however, did not care at all. Instead, he pretended to pick up the fresh fish on the plate with chopsticks and put it into his mouth to taste it carefully.

"Thank you for your praise, Miss Shinomiya. I think we will witness more firsts together in the future."

"Ha, ha ha ha ha ha ha!"

As if she had heard some funny joke, Kaguya Shinomiya burst into laughter, and her unbridled voice attracted the attention of everyone present.

When she saw that everyone's attention was on her, Kaguya Shinomiya looked at Albert meaningfully and then stood up from her seat.

"Everyone, I think everyone can't wait any longer, let the show begin now!"

As she spoke, Kaguya Shinomiya stretched out her jade hand from within her snow-white kimono and snapped her fingers in front of everyone.

As the crisp sound of finger snaps exploded in the banquet hall, starting from the image of flowers in the mirror and moon in the water in the center, a touch of scarlet instantly spread and permeated like ink invading clear water.

The phantom of the Milky Way that was originally projected on the ground has now turned into the Styx of Hell flowing with scarlet blood.

The clouds and mist on the walls of the banquet hall also completely dissipated, and what appeared before everyone was the blood flowers on the other side swaying in the wind.

A blood moon appeared on the ceiling of the banquet hall, corresponding to the center of the mirror-like scene on the ground.

The floor, walls, and even the ceiling, the entire banquet hall turned into a scene of hell with a mixture of black and scarlet.

"Ms. Shinomiya, what are you doing..."

"Ms. Shinomiya, is this scenery a little bit..."

"Ms. Shigong, the door to the banquet hall..."

Someone noticed that the door of the banquet hall was tightly closed at some point.

An atmosphere of uneasiness spread among everyone.

Lucy also discovered that the banquet hall was filled with a powerful interference, making it almost impossible to send any signals out.

At this moment, a middle-aged man suddenly said to Shinomiya Kaguya: "Um, Miss Shinomiya, I have something going on at home. Can I..."

"Sh-"

However, Kaguya Shinomiya interrupted the man's speech with a gesture to silence him.

"Mr. Abe Shinroku, please go back to your seat. It's my turn to speak now."

Shinomiya Kaguya's voice became a little more serious, like a leader who was about to speak at a meeting.

The man could only sit back in his seat awkwardly, but judging from his expression, he was very uneasy.

When everyone officially quieted down, Shinomiya Kaguya stood on the main seat with her hands behind her back and a serious expression.

"Everyone, even though today is my birthday party, I still want to talk to you while we can all get together."

"I have a very unfortunate thing to tell you. I recently uncovered a conspiracy to murder me."

"And among you, there appeared a traitor."

As soon as the voice fell, there was a commotion in the crowd, and Kaguya Shinomiya sat down again. She tilted her head to look at Albert and said mischievously: "After this good show is over, I will take you to see the fireworks show."

"my pleasure."

A joking promise.

In this brief moment when no one was paying attention, Kaguya Shinomiya showed Albert her girlish side, the way a real girl in her prime should be.

Without giving everyone time to discuss, the moment Kaguya Shinomiya sat down, two robot geishas supported an old man and walked from the corner to the left side of the main seat.

"Mr. Kishi Nobuyoshi!"

All the guests present were amazed. The visitor was none other than Nobuyoshi Kishi, the head of the Kishi family, one of Japan’s top political families.

"You are not seriously ill..."

You know, this old man, whose political connections are as complicated as a spider web, rarely declined Kaguya Shinomiya's invitation on the grounds of being seriously ill, and now he actually appears here.

"Everyone..., I, Nobuyoshi Kishi, as the head of the Kishi family, am sorry to everyone present..., sorry to Miss Shinomiya..., I, I am the initiator of this sinister conspiracy..., I betrayed Shinomiya..."

There was fear in the old man's eyes. He stammered and admitted the crime he had committed. Then, in front of everyone, he tremblingly took out a pistol and stuffed it into his dry, old mouth.

"boom!"

The blood splattered on the wall made the flowers on the other shore look even more charming.

Then, Shinomiya Kaguya smiled and said to the guests: "As you can see, Mr. Kishi stood up and faced his mistakes very frankly, but unfortunately, there are other people involved in these conspiracies..."

Having said this, Kaguya Shinomiya swept her sharp eyes across everyone present, and everyone felt uneasy at her gaze.

"And those traitors now sit among us."

Chapter 54 The Real Festival

“Is Shigehiro Miyamoto a traitor?”

Shinomiya Kaguya did not directly say the name of the traitor, but took out a list of guests and began to call out their names from beginning to end.

Silence, silence for about ten seconds, no one dared to look at Shinomiya Kaguya.

Beads of sweat the size of beans slid down his forehead. Shigehiro Miyamoto, whose name was called, gasped heavily and stared at the still warm corpse lying on the ground. Fear was like a ghost's hand strangling his heart.

"Fortunately, he is not."

"So Hayakawa Rei is a traitor?"

…………

Just like this, Kaguya Shinomiya was like the god of death, counting the targets on her death list one by one. No matter how those who were identified as traitors by her explained or struggled, they would be tied up with shackles by the mechanical geisha and thrown into the center of the banquet hall.

Under the shining of the blood moon, more and more people who were unable to move were being forced to crawl like livestock in the spacious area in the center.

There were people who wanted to curse loudly, but when the first one to speak out had his tongue cut off by the geisha, no one else responded.

In the banquet hall, only Kaguya Shinomiya's voice was heard, while the other guests were all sweating and fidgeting.

As for Shinroku Abe, who had shown abnormal behavior before, he was undoubtedly a "traitor."

No one dared to question Shinomiya Kaguya's decision. Even though each of them could call the wind and rain when they went out, here, a place where they could not get in touch with the outside world, they were like a group of lambs to be slaughtered. What would be the ending? Shinomiya Kaguya said in one sentence.

When the list was roughly halfway through, the blood moon in the center was already filled with "traitors".

There were more than a hundred people at the banquet, and a quarter of the seats had been occupied by now.

While Kaguya Shinomiya continued to read the list, a middle-aged woman suddenly stood up.

She shouted in a trembling voice: "I firmly support Miss Shigong's decision. The traitor deserves his punishment!"

Speaking in this way, Shinomiya Kaguya naturally did not stop her, or perhaps this was exactly the scene she expected.

"I firmly support Miss Shinomiya's decision. The traitor deserves his punishment!"

After the woman sat down safely, perhaps at the instruction of Kaguya Shinomiya, Hayasaka Ai actually took the lead in applauding.

For a time, the whole audience burst into applause.

After that, every once in a while, while Kaguya Shinomiya was reading the list, someone would stand up and swear allegiance.

Albert was watching the scene with great interest. He could sense that among these people who were usually high and mighty, the suffocating fear was engulfing the entire banquet hall like a fog.

Both the person sitting on the throne and the "traitor" felt fear towards Kaguya Shinomiya from the bottom of their hearts.

At the same time, these people have a ridiculous sense of piety towards this object based on their fear.

This is a kind of false loyalty, a self-suggestion produced by people in extreme fear.

With the arrest of the last "traitor", the long list-listing process came to an end. At this time, there were only about sixty people left in the banquet hall. The remaining forty or so people huddled like pigs under the blood moon, waiting to be slaughtered.

Seeing the trembling looks on the faces of those present, Shinomiya Kaguya put away the list.

"To all of you who are still able to sit at the banquet and enjoy it, I am very happy for your loyalty, even though everyone has some shameful little actions..."

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