In the anime, people are in everyday Tokyo, but they are playing the reincarnation game

At this moment, the three girls, Yuuki Asuna, Iwanaga Kotoko, and Kato Megumi, who were in the illusion, suddenly began to have cracks in their vision, like glass about to break, and suddenly exploded after a few seconds.

"boom."

After the image shattered, their senses of touch, smell, hearing, and vision were restored.

“Huh…it’s coming out…”

Yuuki Asuna first breathed a sigh of relief, and feeling the warmth in her palm, she subconsciously turned her head, but the scene that came into her eyes made her laugh out loud.

"Pfft... What's that posture of yours... It's too funny..."

Asagiri's posture at this time was indeed a bit funny, holding Kato Megumi with her left hand and Yuuki Asuna with her right hand.

If it were just that, it wouldn't be a big deal, and it would even look like he was hugging women on both sides, but the key point was that he had the petite Iwanaga Kotoko on his back.

The style of the painting suddenly became strange, from a handsome Tokyo man with a harem to a tired old father with three daughters.

"Shame on you three."

Asagiri released the hands of Kato Megumi and Yuuki Asuna, letting Iwanaga Kotoko jump off his back, then shook his head and spoke bluntly.

"You actually fell for the illusion. Fortunately, I'm a gentleman. Otherwise, I'd take advantage of the opportunity to do something inappropriate to you. What would I do then?"

When Yuuki Asuna and Kato Megumi heard this, they didn't know how to complain, but Iwanaga Kotoko looked excited.

"Forced Play? That would be awesome~"

Asagiri couldn't help but exclaimed when he heard this.

"Wow, you're a complete pervert."

"My honesty is my strength."

Iwanaga Kotoko first said this with a boastful attitude, and then she smiled. Seeing her expression, Kato Megumi couldn't help but be curious.

"Just thinking about doing that kind of thing with Leader makes you so happy? You're smiling like a nympho."

"Go away, you're the nympho."

Iwanaga Kotoko first replied unhappily, then raised her cane and said with great momentum.

"I laugh at the evil ghost's lack of wisdom, the Black Watch's lack of strategy, and an illusion? This is the biggest flaw!"

Then, Iwanaga Kotoko looked at Kato Megumi and Yuuki Asuna with an unfathomable look.

"The illusion you two experienced was also a bustling scene with nurses, patients, and doctors constantly coming and going, right?"

"Yes, what the three of us saw... was it the same illusion..."

"Then why? Why do we see the same illusion? If it's really to delay us or make us lose our composure, they could have created an even more terrifying illusion. So, I say, this is the flaw."

There was a glint of confidence in Kotoko Iwanaga's violet eyes. She was originally petite and always played with abstract ideas, but at this moment she showed another side of herself as the "God of Wisdom".

"There are generally two reasons why monsters trap humans in illusions. The first is to break the spirit of the person trapped in the illusion so that they can hunt them. I originally thought this was the case, but on second thought, the evil spirits here are already powerful enough and can be reborn continuously. Why would they resort to this method? In that case, the only possibility is the second one."

Iwanaga Kotoko's violet eyes flickered as she glanced at the doors in the hall and spoke slowly.

"They wanted to trap us in an illusion to ensure we would go to a trapped place, or we would never go there. But if it was the former, why didn't they do it from the beginning, instead of having the twins ambush us here? So I think the greater possibility is that we eliminated the twins guarding here, causing fear in the mastermind behind the scenes, so they wanted to use the illusion to ensure we wouldn't go there."

"As for where it is and which route it is, we can tell by comparing the real scene with the illusion we just saw and finding the differences."

“This is the flaw.”

Chapter 80:077 Old Huo Suffers Cruel Torture

"Is it the difference between fantasy and reality..."

After hearing what Iwanaga Kotoko said, Kato Megumi recalled the scene she had seen before and thought seriously.

"Among the noisy mental hospitals... which place would we least want to go to..."

"No, maybe the mastermind behind this is even smarter."

Iwanaga Kotoko muttered to herself first, looking around the hall in front of her, and then suddenly smiled.

"I see. I understand. The other party knows that a mere illusion is unlikely to completely stop us. It also knows that I won't be afraid or panic, and I can remain calm even if I fall into an illusion. So the flaws it deliberately exposed are actually traps."

Having said that, Iwanaga Kotoko walked to the wall of the hall and pointed to a certain place on the wall.

"In the illusion just now, there was a diagram of this floor's structure posted here, but in reality, it's not there. It must have been destroyed by a mental patient or something. I remember clearly that there are four areas, A, B, C, and D. The four of us are in Area A, and the safe passage to the next floor is in Area D. From where we are, the place we absolutely won't pass through to get to the safe passage is Area C. There are three possibilities."

"The first possibility is that the route to the safe passage is correct. The mastermind behind this illusion hopes that we won't notice its intentions. They deliberately let us discover the correct route in the illusion so that we can leave quickly and avoid interfering with what it is doing."

"Secondly, the so-called safe passage isn't actually safe. After all, the current Giant Mountain Mental Hospital has become a strange area. The so-called safe passage leading to the upper level in the structural diagram is actually fraught with danger."

"The third possibility is that it guessed all my thoughts and anticipated my analysis, so it used a counter-logical approach. It seems that Area C, which it doesn't want us to pass through, is the most dangerous and terrifying place."

After finishing this long speech, Iwanaga Kotoko raised her head and looked at Kato Megumi, Yuuki Asuna, and Asagiri in front of her, and said with a smile.

"So, what's everyone's opinion?"

"Um..."

Kato Megumi looked like she was thinking seriously, and after a few seconds, she shook her head honestly.

"I feel dizzy and don't understand."

"You didn't understand, you just weren't listening carefully, right?"

Kotoko Iwanaga curled her lips and looked at Asuna Yuuki.

"Violet, what do you think?"

"It feels... meaningless, right?"

Yuuki Asuna pursed her lips and reminded carefully.

"Wasn't the special tip Leader received about the location of that caregiver, Old Huo? He's in Area C on this floor. If that's the case, then we must go to Area C to find him. Regardless of which possibility it is, our choice won't change, right?"

"That's a bad word."

Hearing Asagiri's use of such flowery words to deny her idea, Yuuki Asuna couldn't help but frown, wondering if she had missed some important details. But the next second, she knew she was overthinking it.

"If Necro doesn't analyze it, how can she demonstrate her power as the God of Wisdom? Furthermore, after we saw through each other's thoughts, we chose to go to Area C, while the other chose to rush into Area C without knowing anything, like a headless chicken. Although it seems like the same action, the former is obviously more impressive."

"That's right~"

Iwanaga Kotoko nodded and said with a smile.

"The one who understands me is the Leader~"

"As expected of you two, your strange brain circuits are actually connected here."

Yuuki Asuna sighed helplessly, then looked at Iwanaga Kotoko and asked seriously.

"Do you remember the details of the schematic in the illusion? Can you be sure that the route to Area C written on it is real? After all, the illusion was created by the evil spirit. If it made some modifications to it..."

"Don't you see it yet, Violet?"

Before Iwanaga Kotoko could explain, Asagiri spoke with a smile.

"Although the illusion you three just fell into is not pure illusion. The other party simply pulled you into the illusion, but it itself does not have the ability to create or modify illusions. Think carefully, what is the true source of all this strange phenomenon? Is it Chris Walker, the groom, the twins, etc.? No, it is the Giant Mountain Mental Hospital itself."

Following Asagiri's words, Iwanaga Kotoko explained to Yuuki Asuna and Kato Megumi.

"My mental strength is very strong, and I am resistant to all kinds of strange phenomena. I can even sense strange auras. But before I fell into the illusion and while I was in it, although I knew that the scenes before my eyes were all false, I didn't sense anything wrong. If the evil spirits on this level possess such powerful and strange powers, would they need to play these tricks on us? Impossible. The only reasonable explanation is that it controls the strange laws of the 'Giant Mountain Mental Hospital'. It didn't create the illusion, but simply made us fall into it through some means. The specific scenes and power source of the illusion are the 'Giant Mountain Mental Hospital' itself."

"this..."

Hearing what Iwanaga Kotoko said, Yuuki Asuna felt a chill and spoke cautiously.

"The Giant Mountain Mental Hospital itself is strange. Could it be that this area... is conscious?"

"Oh, that's unlikely."

Asagiri shook his head and smiled.

"Let's not talk about the second-stage dungeons for now. Is it possible that there are dungeons that are so difficult that the entire area is consciously targeting players? Think about it from another perspective. Climbing those high mountains is dangerous, as is rock climbing. Crossing turbulent rivers and sailing on the sea—don't our world have many such dangerous areas? But even if it's dangerous, even if many people have died, does this mean that mountains, rivers, and oceans have independent consciousness? That's not the case."

"Ouch?"

Hearing Asagiri's words, Iwanaga Kotoko seemed a little surprised and said in surprise.

"I didn't expect you, Leader, to be so understanding of strange phenomena. You're absolutely right."

"Of course."

Asagiri nodded without hesitation and smiled.

"After all, I'm the boyfriend of the monster princess. How can I not do some relevant homework and research?"

Upon hearing this, Iwanaga Kotoko couldn't help but raise the corners of her lips. She ran over and hugged Asagiri's arm, rubbing her fair cheek against it, her voice soft and cute.

"Hehe, I know you love me~"

"Stop being so cheesy, you two."

Yuuki Asuna said this unhappily, tightened her grip on the rapier in her hand, and spoke slowly.

"Go ahead."

...............

Fifteen minutes later, on the second underground floor, in area C.

"Is that... a scream?"

Hearing the shrill screams coming from afar, Yuuki Asuna, who was walking in front, immediately became alert, while Asagiri, who was following behind her, whispered.

"Phantom."

"learn."

After Kato Megumi cast a skill that reduced their presence on everyone, the four members of the team continued forward. After about 20 to 30 meters, they came into view of a room with a transparent glass observation window. Through the observation window, the four of them saw...

A man wearing a white coat and a blood-stained white mask on his face, who looked like a doctor, and a headless nurse with no head and only a bloody and severed neck, seemed to be conducting some kind of scientific experiment.

The subject of the experiment was a monster who was tied to an upright metal bed with restraints. He was nearly three meters tall, his face covered in blood, and his skin had been torn off. He looked like an extremely terrifying monster.

The moment they saw the experimental subject, Asagiri and Yuuki Asuna immediately recognized him as the bloody-faced nurse. Asagiri, who had carefully observed the bloody-faced nurse's face, recognized him at a glance. This tied-up bloody-faced nurse was none other than Old Ho, Hodel Franklin, whom he and Yuuki Asuna had met once before.

"Pain experiment, begin."

The headless nurse stepped on a platform used as a footstool, and a syringe-like object appeared in her hand. She first knocked on the tail of the syringe, and then pushed out some liquid from it. Her movements looked very professional, but then she slowly inserted the tip of the injection needle, which was flashing with a cold light, into Lao Huo's eyeball.

The latter immediately let out a shrill scream, and his huge body began to twitch due to the severe pain, but the restraints seemed to have some kind of strange power, firmly fixing his body. Because his eyelids were fixed with tape, he couldn't even close his eyes and could only scream continuously. This cruel scene even made Yuuki Asuna and Kato Megumi, who were watching outside the door, feel unbearable.

"Can you still maintain consciousness?"

The doctor in the white coat listened to Hodel Franklin's shrill screams and looked at the other party in pain, but spoke in an emotionless tone.

"This is the price you pay for helping humans escape from here. Since they can't be experimental subjects, you will be their replacement."

Hearing these words, Yuuki Asuna's pupils shrank in shock.

It turns out that Hodel Franklin was tied up and tortured here by the nurses and doctors because he had escaped from the Giant Mountain Mental Hospital with Asagiri, so he was subjected to such cruel punishment?

At this moment, while feeling sorry for what was happening, a strong sense of anger arose in Yuuki Asuna's heart.

Hodel Franklin, who retained kindness and conscience, actually ended up like this just because he helped himself and Asagiri?

At this moment, Asagiri suddenly whispered.

"Up."

Immediately afterwards, Asagiri kicked open the door of the ward.

"boom!"

"Old Huo, I'm here."

Looking at the headless nurse and the evil doctor standing beside him, Asagiri picked up the black gun-shaped summoner without hesitation, pointed it at his temple and pulled the trigger.

"Persona, Human Shura!"

Chapter 81:078 Sacrifice

Iwanaga Kotoko and Kato Megumi didn't even have a chance to attack before Yuuki Asuna and Asagiri had already launched their attack.

The rapier and the flashing light drew an elegant arc in the air, directly cutting the headless nurse's body in half, while the human Shura directly grabbed the head of the evil doctor in the white coat, twisted the other's head off, and then threw it towards Chaowu.

The personality mask and its user have a perfect understanding. Facing the doctor's head thrown by Ren Shura, Asagiri caught it directly, looked at the other party's two still rotating eyeballs, and inserted the rope dart in his hand into the other party's eye socket without hesitation.

"You, do you feel pain?"

Asagiri used the rope dart to stir inside the evil doctor's head, listening to the other party's screams, and asked in a very calm tone.

"Tell me, what's the level of pain you're feeling right now? Hmm?"