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

"Oh~ You can't come up, right? How pitiful! A prisoner who can't even leave his own floor. Tsk, tsk, tsk, it's hilarious."

"You guy..."

The doctor's face was distorted like a monster, and he roared.

"How on earth did you do it!? The black humanoid creature you controlled, the strange appearance of that little girl, and that girl with twintails, what on earth are they!? What exactly is your ability!? Tell me!!!"

"That's enough. Like a yandere."

Facing the doctor's inquiring questions that were full of madness, Asagiri was very calm, even with a lazy look on his face, as if he was not in a horrible mental hospital, but in a resort with warm sunshine, soft beaches, and endless sea.

"Even if you're desperate, I can't tell you, and you'll never get the answer. How pathetic! How on earth do I manipulate the weirdness? It's so curious."

After hearing what Asagiri said, the doctor who was obsessed with scientific research was about to explode. However, after a few seconds, he suddenly regained his rationality and calmness, opened his mouth slowly, and said something unexpected and shocking.

"As long as you tell me the secret of your ability, I will report to my superiors and have you and your companions join Blackwatch."

Seeing Asagiri's face full of disbelief, the doctor gave a strange smile.

"How about an organization as powerful as our Blackwatch..."

Asagiri interrupted the doctor and spoke bluntly.

"You misunderstood. What shocked me was the extent of your mental retardation."

"You want me to join Blackwatch? Don't make me laugh."

Chapter 84: 081 Sakuragawa Rikka's Cooperation

"What on earth are you talking about..."

When the doctor heard Asagiri's rejection, he looked incredulous.

"We are Blackwatch. Do you know what kind of organization we are? Do you understand what kind of existence we are as Blackwatch..."

"whispering sound."

Asagiri shook his head, his voice filled with sarcasm and contempt.

"Isn't it just a military armed organization?"

"Military armed organization? As expected, you know nothing at all."

Hearing Asagiri's words, the doctor looked disdainful and spoke immediately.

"Blackwatch is not a simple organization. Our goal is to use scientific methods such as genetic engineering and mechanical modification, combined with the power of controlling the weird, to achieve the evolution of the entire human race and ultimately take back control of the world from the weird. We are a great organization created to save the world!"

"Oh I got it."

Asagiri nodded as if suddenly realizing something, then chuckled.

"But now, aren't you still a ghost trapped in the Giant Mountain Mental Hospital, unable to leave forever? What a failed experiment."

"Failure? Are you calling me a failure!?"

The doctor's eyes were bloodshot and he roared angrily.

"I didn't fail, I just volunteered to be the person in charge of this area!"

"Oh, how stupid."

Iwanaga Kotoko raised the corners of her lips and smiled.

"Just a few provocations and you've revealed everything. Blackwatch is truly foolish enough to let you be the head of this strange area."

"Huh? You...you are deliberately deceiving me?"

It was not until then that the doctor reacted. He raised his hands and tore at his own skin, leaving wounds so deep that the bones were visible. There was a twisted look in his eyes.

"I...I actually fell into the trap...No, this isn't me, it shouldn't be me..."

"Do you really think that strange power is so easy to control?"

Kotoko Iwanaga raised her cane and pointed at the doctor standing there, a rare serious look on her face.

"Humans are human, and freaks are freaks. Do you think your soul wouldn't be twisted if you hadn't been experimented on? The moment you chose to become freakish, the moment you crossed that boundary, your soul was completely twisted. Even you didn't realize it. You completely lost your rationality and became a monster driven by twisted desires."

Kotoko Iwanaga spoke slowly with undisguised disgust in her eyes.

"You will stay here until your soul completely rots away."

Seeing the four members of the team turn around and leave towards the top of the stairs, the doctor's face became more and more distorted, and he stretched out his hand as if frantically.

"No, don't go! Tell me....Tell me!"

It stretched out its bony hand, but the moment it crossed the dividing line between the stairs and the ground, its hand instantly began to twist and quickly dissipated like ash.

"No...my experiment..."

...........

On the other side, after passing the corner of the stairs, Yuuki Asuna, who was walking in front, saw a closed fire door with a sign saying "-1" next to it.

"Wait a moment."

Just as Yuuki Asuna was about to go upstairs, Iwanaga Kotoko stretched out her cane, gently placed it on her shoulder, and said with a frown.

"Behind the door... there's an extremely powerful, eerie aura, more powerful than the twin brothers, Chris Walker, the groom, the doctor, and all the other evil spirits combined."

"what?"

Hearing what Iwanaga Kotoko said, Yuuki Asuna and Kato Megumi's expressions changed, but Asagiri smiled as if she had expected it.

"No wonder, the underground floor is where the boss battle is, no wonder there's a safe space for us to rest and adjust."

"Safe space?"

"Yes."

Asagiri pointed at the stairs below her feet and said nonchalantly.

"This isn't part of the second or first underground floor. The fire escape staircase between the two floors is a safe space, isn't it?"

"Hearing you put it that way...it seems to be true."

Only then did Yuuki Asuna realize that the evil spirits in the Giant Mountain Psychiatric Hospital seemed to be earthbound spirits, and they could not leave their floors without external interference like Asagiri did, which threw Eddie Gluskin directly down the stairs.

The stairwell, located between the first and second underground floors but not belonging to any floor, is a safe space that evil spirits cannot easily enter.

"I've confirmed it."

Asagiri sat down again in the stairwell, leaning against the wall, and spoke in a relaxed tone.

"The doctor was so anxious, but he still couldn't catch up with us. This means that the evil spirits can't enter here, so we can use this safe space to rest for a while."

Upon hearing this, Yuuki Asuna couldn't help but reveal a helpless smile. She adjusted the hem of her light armor, sat down next to Asagiri, and couldn't help laughing.

"So you were just testing this idea. I thought you were arguing with that doctor because you just thought it was funny to see him get angry."

"That's one of the reasons."

Asagiri shrugged nonchalantly.

"Anyway, let's rest here and adjust our condition. If there are other players who can also reach here, we can consider whether to cooperate."

"Eh? Want to cooperate with other players?"

"So called cooperation, it's probably just like last time."

Asagiri explained in a calm tone.

"I don't know what kind of dangers we'll encounter on the next floor, but we have Phantom's abilities. Necro won't be actively attacked by strange entities. When we're with the other players, we won't be the first targets of the enemy. From this perspective, even if we team up with a few weaker players, we can still gain information about the enemy's abilities by having them kill them."

"Yeah, I agree."

Yuuki Asuna nodded first, then suddenly seemed to think of something, stared at Asagiri's face, and said hesitantly.

"Are you...waiting for Miss Sakuragawa Rikka?"

"Don't be jealous."

Asagiri waved his hand, frowning slightly, his voice filled with unquestionable righteousness.

"I have no interest in her."

Yuuki Asuna was skeptical: "Really?"

Asagiri said without hesitation: "It's fake, she is indeed very pretty."

"You guy..."

Seeing Yuuki Asuna and Asagiri arguing, Kato Megumi spoke in a gentle tone.

"Our Lord Shadow... is really a sex-hungry ghost..."

Yuuki Asuna was a little speechless: "Why is it Shadow-sama? Should I really call him by that code name..."

Kato Megumi smiled gently and said lightly.

"There's nothing wrong with making him happy."

Upon hearing this, Yuuki Asuna rolled her eyes and said unhappily.

"You and Necro spoiled him too much, causing him to stray further and further down the path of abstraction."

Iwanaga Kotoko curled her lips and said disapprovingly.

"I don't find him abstract at all."

"That's because both of your abstract thought processes align."

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

Nearly an hour later.

"Ok?"

Sakuragawa Rika entered the stairwell with a tired look on her face. When she passed the corner of the stairwell, she saw the four familiar figures sitting on the steps above and couldn't help but be stunned.

"Did you guys...just clear the second underground floor too?"

"We've been waiting here for a long time."

Asagiri and the other three team members were not surprised to see that the first player to come before them was Sakuragawa Rikka. After all, although they did not know what Sakuragawa Rikka's specific abilities were, they were certain that her abilities must be very strong. Coupled with her mental calmness and outstanding mind, it was not surprising that she could successfully pass the second underground floor.

"Did you complete the game alone? Did you encounter any other players along the way?"

“I did, but…”

Sakuragawa Rikka did not hesitate, but spoke in a calm tone.

"Four players entered the second underground floor with me, and they are all dead."

"Did you kill him?"

"Do not."

Sakuragawa Rikka shook her head, and her beautiful eyes with lavender eyeshadow met Asagiri's, her bright yellow eyes calm.

"They died at the hands of evil spirits."

"is it?"

Asagiri responded noncommittally at first, then stood up from the stairs, looked down at Sakuragawa Rikka who was standing on the flat ground at the corner, and spoke slowly.

"You now have two choices. The first is to rest here and adjust your condition. However, we will go directly to the underground level and will not waste time waiting for you to recover."

"Second, cooperate with us temporarily and enter the underground level together. After we pass through the underground level, we will go our separate ways. The so-called cooperation is just acting together. We don't need your help, and similarly, we won't help you at a critical moment."

"Now, choose."

After hearing what Asagiri said, Sakuragawa Rikka lowered her eyes, thinking back to what happened to her on the second underground floor, and she couldn't help but feel a little scared.

If it had been a little later, she would have been trapped in the loop again, returning to the point where she first entered the second underground floor. Not only would the loop time limit be reduced to ten minutes, but because the four players were already dead, all the evil spirits on the floor would have targeted her.

Sakuragawa Rikka does possess some kind of immortality, but being trapped in this strange area forever would be a torture for her if she didn't die.

"I choose to cooperate with you."

Sakuragawa Rikka first replied with this sentence, and then spoke softly.

"Since we're collaborating, albeit temporarily, and since I already know the general combat styles and abilities of the four of you, for the sake of fairness and to ensure we can achieve maximum rapport and avoid getting in each other's way during battle, I'll also tell you that my combat style and abilities lean towards melee. In game terms... I'm a main tank."


Chapter 85:082 Guarding BOSS

After hearing what Sakuragawa Rikka said, Yuuki Asuna, Kato Megumi, and Iwanaga Kotoko did not respond at all, but just waited for Asagiri to give them a reply.