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

"Come, start your honest confession."

Asagiri smiled slightly and spoke softly.

"Tell me everything you've done since you separated from us, in every detail. Otherwise, I'll play the suona and send you both off in joy."

Facing Asagiri's threat, the man in the suit first exchanged glances with the heavily made-up woman, then spoke tremblingly, completely lacking the arrogance he had when he first entered the dungeon.

"After we separated from you, we first searched this floor... then we searched the twenty-first floor, and then... then we saw that there seemed to be no evil spirits on the twenty-first floor, so we kicked open the door of a room, and then, and then..."

"Then what?"

Seeing that the man in the suit seemed to be hesitant to speak, the woman with heavy makeup raised her hand cautiously like an elementary school student and spoke with trembling voice.

"Then... he asked me to bite him... that is..."

Upon hearing this, Yuuki Asuna's pretty face flushed, while Iwanaga Kotoko looked as if she had heard some explosive gossip. She looked very interested and wanted to hear the details.

Asagiri spoke slowly after a few seconds of silence.

"You two..."

"Is he mentally retarded?"

033 Two Living Kings of Hell

The man in the suit and the woman with heavy makeup both blushed, and seemed to want to explain something, but under the aim of the Equality Device, they did not have the courage to continue to be stubborn and could only remain silent.

"I really didn't expect to meet two such stupid players."

Iwanaga Kotoko still maintained her sweet smile, shook her head with a slightly helpless look, and spoke in a soft tone.

"I understand you two were looking for excitement, but since this is the outcome, you can only blame yourselves for not being clearheaded and lacking in strength. However, this shouldn't be the reason you were possessed by this hotel's strangeness. Go on, what else did you do?"

The heavily made-up woman replied hesitantly.

"Well... after that... we just searched that room and walked around that floor... but we didn't do anything else..."

"Do not."

Asagiri shook his head, looked directly at the faces of the man in the suit and the woman in heavy makeup, and spoke slowly.

"You two drank the hotel water after doing that, right?"

"Eh? How do you know?"

The heavily made-up woman was stunned for a moment. Seeing that Asagiri's index finger was already on the trigger of the gun, she did not dare to hide anything and hurriedly told the truth.

"Yes... I remember now. At that time... we saw bottled mineral water in the room, so we took two bottles and drank them..."

Hearing this, Yuuki Asuna's expression became very complicated.

"You...you...ah...how can there be such a stupid guy..."

The man in the suit tried to defend himself, "No, we didn't drink tap water. It was bottled mineral water. I checked and it's unscrewed. There shouldn't be any problem."

"I say you're a moron, and you really are a complete moron. Did playing the rookie dungeon give you confidence?"

Asagiri was not polite at all and was extremely aggressive.

"Evil spirit, do you understand? Do you know what an evil spirit is? You think an evil spirit replaces the water in a bottle and needs to unscrew the bottle cap? Very logical, with a simple and pure beauty that's like a missing brain stem."

The man in the suit and the woman in heavy makeup turned pale and spoke tremblingly.

"So...what will happen after drinking that water?"

Yuuki Asuna pursed her lips and looked at the two trembling players with a complicated expression.

"We don't know for sure yet, but if I were to speculate... the body would explode like a balloon."

"explode!?"

The man in the suit's face changed, his legs went limp and he sat down on the ground. Then he made a gesture of getting up from the ground and pleaded with Asagiri who was standing there.

"Help...help me, please! Since you know there's something wrong with the water in this hotel, you can definitely find a way to save us, right? Please, by the way, I'm rich! After we leave the dungeon, I can give you any amount you want!"

"Don't make me laugh."

Asagiri said calmly, "You asked for death yourself. Why should I save you? I'm your father. What obligation do I have to save you?"

Upon hearing this, Kotoko Iwanaga took two steps closer. Just when Asuna Yuuki thought that the other party couldn't bear to see this scene and wanted to persuade Asagiri to save the two players, she heard Kotoko Iwanaga say in a relaxed tone with a smile.

"That's true. Based on what you just said, if drinking the hotel water could cause your body to explode at any time, then these two people are like time bombs. If their bodies explode and blood or something splashes into our eyes or mouths, we might also be infected with the weirdness. So my suggestion is to kill them right here."

Yuuki Asuna was shocked. She didn't expect that this cute, loli-type beautiful girl would say such words.

It would be fine if he didn't save them, but he had to kill those two players directly to prevent future troubles?

Rationally, Yuuki Asuna knew that there was nothing wrong with what Iwanaga Kotoko said, but these were two lives, after all. To be able to say such cold and heartless words in such a relaxed, even smiling tone...

Kotoko Iwanaga, who dared to sign up for the dungeon alone, is indeed not a simple person.

"Well, what you said is true. After all, he is still alive. My morals don't allow me to kill him directly."

Hearing Asagiri's words, the suited man and the heavily made-up woman, who had originally looked pale, almost burst into tears, thinking that there are still good people in this world...

"Besides, it would be a waste to kill him directly."

Before the two of them could feel moved, Asagiri suddenly changed the subject, smiled warmly, and softened his tone.

"You two want to survive, right?"

"Yes, so please..."

"It's no use begging me."

Asagiri interrupted the suit man's pleading and spoke with a chuckle.

"According to the intelligence we have at this stage, there exists an evil spirit in this hotel that is more powerful than the others and can even wipe out the others at will. It is very likely the source of the strangeness in this hotel. You have been contaminated by drinking the water here. The only way to survive now is to eliminate the source of the strangeness in this hotel."

"As the saying goes, make the best use of everything. If you don't solve the source, you will definitely die. In that case, you two will become cannon fodder to explore the way."

"Of course, if you don't want to, that's fine. You have two choices. Either you follow my plan and become cannon fodder for us to explore unknown areas. That way, you might even survive."

"Or, I will kill you right here to prevent future troubles."

"The choice is in your hands."

After hearing what Asagiri said, the man in the suit and the woman in heavy makeup were dumbfounded.

Wow, there are other experts?

This person is even more of a living devil.

After hearing the plan proposed by Asagiri, Kotoko Iwanaga was stunned for a moment, but then she showed an expression of approval and nodded in agreement.

"Yeah, that's right. Since you're going to die, you might as well make use of your remaining value and become cannon fodder for us to explore this hotel. As expected, your plan is more reliable."

"Thank you so much. After all, my moral sense is too strong. I still can't bear to do something like killing someone directly."

Looking at Asagiri and Iwanaga Kotoko talking, Yuuki Asuna slightly opened her lips, not knowing what to say.

How does it feel...

Although this is the first time these two people meet, how come they have such a tacit understanding?

034 Iwanaga Kotoko wants to cooperate

"Let us be cannon fodder? But...but..."

The man in the suit and the woman with heavy makeup looked at each other, and recalled the public prompt given by the system before entering the copy. Their faces became extremely ugly.

[Never try to fight evil spirits. If you encounter an evil spirit, run away immediately. This may give you a chance to survive.]

The tips given by the eye icon APP in this copy will change according to the specific strength of the players. For example, the tip given to Asuna Yuuki is to try to avoid fighting with evil spirits, because before she obtains special weapons against evil spirits, she cannot truly eliminate the evil spirits with the Western sword made of ordinary materials.

The advice given to Asagiri is to fight quickly and avoid being surrounded by evil spirits. On the other hand, this is also what APP believes. In a one-on-one situation, his current strength is enough to completely crush the ordinary evil spirits in this hotel.

"Please..."

"Shut up, you keep begging, are you a giant baby?"

Faced with the heavily made-up woman's tearful cries for help, Asagiri just frowned slightly and spoke bluntly.

"You're not thinking that if you hide in a safe place and let us solve the source of this hotel's strangeness, you can survive, right? I've already told you that there are only two paths before you: either fight to the death and become cannon fodder for the exploration, or you die now."

..........

In the end, the man in the suit and the woman in heavy makeup made a choice and agreed to become cannon fodder to explore the way.

Before entering the lower level of the hotel to start exploring, Yuuki Asuna suggested resting for an hour. She was in good condition, but when Asagiri captured the red-clothed female ghost, he summoned his personality mask, and his physical and mental strength were depleted. Although the loss was not much, it would be better to recover to a completely peak state before continuing the exploration for the sake of caution.

During the rest period, the man in the suit and the woman in heavy makeup were locked in the innermost bedroom of the suite.

These two people drank the water in the hotel and their bodies could explode at any time like the female ghost in red. In order to prevent this, such measures were taken.

Considering that Kotoko Iwanaga took the initiative to share such a valuable thing as the staff manual, Asuna Yuuki did not hide it. After seeking Asagiri's opinion, she told Kotoko Iwanaga everything that she and Asagiri had experienced.

Of course, she would definitely not tell anyone about Asagiri's unique talent, the personality mask, and simply glossed over the process of how she captured the female ghost in red.

After hearing the two people's experiences, Kotoko Iwanaga began to analyze.

"Hmm... Now that you mention it, you also came into contact with the hotel water when you filled the bathtub, right? But I don't sense any signs of being attacked by anything strange. So, I guess it's okay if you just came into contact with the water, but you absolutely cannot let it enter your body."

Yuuki Asuna nodded and said thoughtfully.

"So... as long as I don't touch the water in the hotel, I can spend twelve hours in peace... Isn't that a little too easy?"

"It's not simple at all."

Asagiri sat on the sofa and spoke in a calm tone.

"Don't you feel it? The temperature in this hotel has been rising since we showed up."

"Well, now that you mention it...it seems to be true."

Yuuki Asuna murmured thoughtfully.

"And it was fine on the seventh floor, but after returning to the twenty-second floor, it seemed to get even hotter... Does the temperature increase as the floors go higher? Could it be that the temperature in the hotel will continue to rise over time, forcing players to move to the lower floors?"

Asagiri replied nonchalantly.

"Well, the normal process should be like this: the player searches the floors and finds a room that can be opened. There will be clues about water inside. The temperature rises, and the player is forced to move downwards. They encounter evil spirits and escape. During the escape, they run out of water due to the high temperature and intense exercise. Finally, they have to find a way to survive."

"After all, we've already received information about the water problem, and the earthbound spirit on the seventh floor has been eliminated..."

Asuna Yuuki has realized that although they entered the same dungeon, the man in a suit who drank the water and the woman in heavy makeup are not players of the same level as her and Asagiri. No, to put it simply, she and Asagiri cannot be considered players of the same level.

Ordinary players: Play hide-and-seek with evil spirits, and endure the loss of physical strength and mental torture caused by lack of water. Once caught by evil spirits, you will die. In despair, you seek a glimmer of hope for survival.

High-end players: Although they cannot destroy the evil spirits, they can forcibly break through the obstacles of the evil spirits. As long as they have not completely lost their combat effectiveness, they are unlikely to be blocked by a single evil spirit and can come and go freely.

Player B: Are you done crying? If you are, I will start to torture you.

"By the way, you were able to tell that those two people were infected with the strangeness of this hotel... It seems that you have a very strong ability."

Hearing Yuuki Asuna's meaningful words, Iwanaga Kotoko just smiled slightly and spoke in a relaxed tone.

"To be honest, my talents are most suited to dungeons like this. Honestly, if I just wanted to clear this dungeon, it wouldn't be difficult at all. But I want to confirm one thing."

Having said that, Iwanaga Kotoko looked at Asagiri who was sitting there and asked with a smile.

"What's your goal in entering this dungeon? It seems like you're not satisfied with simply clearing it. Could you please tell me your goal? If our goals align, we could form a partnership. What do you think?"

Asagiri smiled and replied, "I think so, Iwanaga Kotoko."

"So...eh?"

When she was halfway through her speech, Iwanaga Kotoko suddenly froze.

"Eh? You actually know me? Could it be that... we've met before?"

"never seen it."

"Too."

Although the box was opened, Kotoko Iwanaga did not show any panic or nervousness on her face. She just smiled sweetly, put the white beret on her legs, looked at Asagiri's face, and spoke in a soft voice.