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

"Utsunomiya-san."

Shinomiya Kaguya stood up from her seat, walked in front of Asagiri, and spoke in a calm tone.

"The spring exams are next week, and you still have the time to sleep in class. It seems like the top spot in the grade will be mine this time."

This was the most reasonable and least suspicious explanation that Kaguya Shinomiya came up with after thinking for a long time.

After all, her usual image in school, although not the kind of person who doesn't communicate with anyone and is aloof and indifferent, is not the type of person who will take the initiative to talk to other classmates, especially male classmates.

Therefore, the upcoming spring exams and the competition for the top spot in the grade became the best reasons for her to take the initiative to talk to Asagiri.

"So sleepy... Oh, it's Kaguya."

Hearing Asagiri addressing her, Shinomiya Kaguya couldn't help but frown and spoke in an emotionless and flat tone.

"Utsunomiya-san, please call me Shinomiya-san."

"Look what you said."

Asagiri shook his head and asked back with a chuckle.

"Then if I ask you to address me as Asagiri-sama, the strongest of Shuchiin, will you do it?"

Upon hearing this, Kaguya Shinomiya frowned even more tightly, and her expression looked a little unhappy.

"How is it possible..."

"Isn't that okay?"

Asagiri waved his hand and spoke nonchalantly.

"So, if you don't let me decide what you call me, how can I possibly agree to you deciding what I call you?"

"You are sophistry..."

Before Kaguya Shinomiya could finish her words, Asagiri suddenly spoke and said something shocking.

"I stayed up all night playing a dungeon last night and didn't get any sleep at all, so I had to come to school to catch up on my sleep."

Hearing the word "copy", Kaguya Shinomiya's pupils shrank a little in shock, but the next second, she immediately raised her right hand, gently placed it on her left cheek, and spoke in a calm tone.

"The copy...are you talking about the online game? I didn't expect you to be so addicted to it. It seems like this battle is my victory."

"Your victory?"

Asagiri stood up, shook her head, and walked out with Iwanaga Kotoko, leaving only one sentence with Shinomiya Kaguya.

"You've already lost."

Looking at the backs of Asagiri and Iwanaga Kotoko as they left, Kaguya Shinomiya's beautiful red eyes flashed, and it was unknown what she was thinking.

...........

Ten minutes later, in Ashikaga Miwa's office... no, now it should be called the activity room exclusively for Asagiri and the members of the strategy team.

Asuna Yuuki had just woken up not long ago. Because of the excessive physical exertion in the dungeon and the lack of rest time, there was an unconcealable look of fatigue on her pretty face. However, she still forced herself to rush to school. She looked at Asagiri who was sitting on the sofa opposite her and drinking ice cola, and whispered with a complicated expression.

"Confirmed?"

“It has been confirmed.”

Asagiri put down the iced cola and spoke in a calm tone.

"Shinomiya Kaguya revealed two fatal flaws, so... it's 100% certain that she is a player."

"The first flaw was when she heard me mention the word 'copy,' she did what she usually does, using psychological suggestion to force herself to calm down. This shows that she was deeply shaken."

"The second flaw is that in order to conceal the real reason for her sudden action, she desperately tried to cover up and change the subject, saying she didn't expect someone with my personality to be addicted to online games."

"But how could she, who doesn't even own a smartphone and barely knows how to use a computer, know about online games? Even if she heard about the existence of online games from other classmates, she shouldn't have known about the term 'copy'. Even if she did, considering the first point I just made, her reaction to the word 'copy' is counterintuitive."

"So, she must be the 'player'."

After Asagiri finished speaking, Iwanaga Kotoko added.

"However, given Kaguya Shinomiya's situation, she doesn't pose much of a threat to us. After all, she lives under constant surveillance, with absolutely no freedom. Even if she could use the excuse of staying overnight at Fujiwara Chika's house to buy herself time to enter the dungeon, she wouldn't be able to arrange her own time and enter the dungeon as frequently as we do."

When Yuuki Asuna heard this, her expression became a little complicated.

"Threat... Kaguya Shinomiya, could she be our enemy?"

"Hard to say."

Asagiri shook his head and said nothing.

"Shinomiya Kaguya's personality is incredibly twisted. She's been educated in the cold, imperial philosophy since childhood. While she always presents herself as a lady from a noble family at school, who knows what she'll be like as a 'player'? If she were to enter a dungeon alone, I imagine she wouldn't hesitate, even if it meant killing, in order to survive and gain the power to break free from the constraints of fate."

Just when Yuuki Asuna was about to reply, Asagiri spoke with a smile.

"Oh yeah, I forgot. I wouldn't hesitate to kill anyone."

Kotoko Iwanaga quickly raised her hand, her petite body bouncing on the soft sofa, eager to try.

"Me too~Me too!"

Yuuki Asuna was speechless, and she sighed slightly and complained.

"I'm afraid that if I stay with you guys for too long, my entire moral sense will collapse..."

"Okay, let's get down to business."

Asagiri suppressed his smile and spoke slowly.

"Sixteen days have passed since the start of the game. We need to decide something now."

"Should we not waste any time and enter the first-level difficulty dungeon next time, or should we wait a little longer and enter the second-level difficulty dungeon directly after the game difficulty increases?"

After hearing the question raised by Asagiri, Yuuki Asuna thought for a moment before answering.

"My suggestion is... wait a few days and then enter the second stage of difficulty."

"That's what I thought too."

"Eh?"

Hearing that Asagiri agreed with her opinion, Yuuki Asuna couldn't help but become curious.

"At a time like this, shouldn't you be saying something like, 'Oh, there are no dungeons to entertain me, I'm dying of boredom, oh, I really want to go kill evil spirits and zombies,' or something like that?"

"That's right."

Asagiri smiled nonchalantly, and then said something that was beyond the expectations of Yuuki Asuna and Iwanaga Kotoko.

"But, the spring exams are next week."

"what?"

Kotoko Iwanaga and Asuna Yuuki were both confused.

"Exam...exam?"

They really didn't expect that while they were talking about the topic of extraordinary games, Asagiri suddenly said that the spring exam would be next week.

This is equivalent to the Joker and Harley Quinn, who have been busy committing crimes in Gotham City all day, having to drag their tired bodies to the supermarket to buy groceries and then go home to cook.

Reasonable, but abstract.

“There are reasons for this, but it’s not the main one.”

Asagiri spoke seriously.

"The main reason is that I've been through several difficult and dangerous dungeons, and the pressure on me is overwhelming. I need to play the game for a while to ensure my physical and mental health."

When Asuna Yuuki heard what Asagiri said, her face turned red instantly.

Originally, she didn't know what butter was, but after Chaowu mentioned that "Tail Line 3" last time, she went home and searched it online...

At that moment, the door to a new world opened before Asuna Yuuki's eyes.

And what Iwanaga Kotoko said after hearing what Asagiri said was even more outrageous.

"What? You've accumulated a lot of pressure? Helping the leader relieve stress is my unshirkable responsibility as a team member! Please don't have pity on me, I'm totally fine with being a little rough!"

082 Special Combat Skills Training Teacher

Hearing Iwanaga Kotoko suddenly say such outrageous words, Yuuki Asuna said with a slightly displeased expression.

"Please calm down for a while."

Yuuki Asuna is really speechless.

An abstract male captain and a loli who tells dirty jokes and says shocking things from time to time.

Fortunately, among the four members of the team, there is a normal person named Kato Megumi who studies at the private Fengzhiqi Academy. Otherwise, Yuuki Asuna would be worried that she would also be infected with abstract symptoms if she stayed with these two people for too long.

She felt a little overwhelmed just by imagining herself starting to do something.

But you must not get infected!

"Tsk, I'm not sleeping with you, why bother meddling in other people's business?"

Kotoko Iwanaga is still as aggressive as ever. Of course, she doesn't really hate Asuna, she just likes to bicker with her for fun.

"Let me see... If we want to enter the second stage of the dungeon, we need to sign up on the 28th... no, the 29th. That way, we'll enter the dungeon on the 32nd day after the game launches. According to the system rules, the difficulty will definitely increase over the past month."

Having said that, Iwanaga Kotoko first turned her head to look at Asuna Yuuki beside her, and then looked at Asagiri who was sitting opposite her.

"However... when the one-month deadline is over, the real-world test of this game for players will officially begin."

Asuna Yuuki knew what Iwanaga Kotoko meant, pursed her lips and spoke softly.

"Most players don't have the courage to actively sign up for dungeons, so they're forced into them by the app at the end of the month. Those who don't have the courage to face the dungeons...the completion rate can't be very high. If, from a real-world perspective, a large number of disappearances occurred within a day or two, it would definitely attract the attention of official agencies like the Metropolitan Police Department."

Having said that, Yuuki Asuna sighed and muttered to herself.

"This game is incredibly difficult. Not only do you have to clear dungeons, but you also have to hide your identity as a 'player.' Later on... you might even have to face Blackwatch's elite, battle-hardened soldiers... Furthermore, the relationships between players are incredibly delicate and can easily turn into hostility if you're not careful... Only those who can be trusted and entrusted..."

"It's just us, right?"

Hearing Asagiri's smiling voice, Yuuki Asuna's eyes, which had been a little dull, lit up again. She looked at Asagiri who was sitting opposite her on the sofa, and when she met her eyes with a relaxed smile, the uneasiness and confusion in her heart disappeared.

"Well, we will definitely win."

"Hey Hey hey."

Seeing Asuna Yuuki and Asagiri looking at each other with smiles on their faces, Kotoko Iwanaga keenly realized that something was wrong in the atmosphere, and she immediately rolled around on the sofa, shouting like an angry little girl.

"Wow, wow, what kind of people are these... It was clearly me who came first, there's a cow, there's a cow!"

"What are you talking about?"

Yuuki Asuna's pretty face flushed and she said angrily.

"Besides, if we really want to talk about who came first, then I was the first to know Asagiri, right? You are third in the team... Yes, you are the third one!"

Hearing this, Iwanaga Kotoko curled her lips, suddenly sat up straight, and seamlessly switched to changing the subject.

"I'm hungry, let's go eat~"

Asuna Yuuki rolled her eyes and said unhappily.

"Every time you're not right, you use this clumsy way of changing the subject."

After saying this, Yuuki Asuna took out two lunch boxes from the shoulder bag she was carrying, handed one to Asagiri who was sitting opposite her, and smiled gently.

"I made this lunch box before I left. You've used up so much energy, you must be very hungry now. Come eat it quickly, it's still hot."

Asagiri took the lunch box, smiled and nodded.

"Thank you."

"Eh?"

Seeing the lunch box in Yuuki Asuna's hand, and then seeing the lunch box she handed to Asagiri, Iwanaga Kotoko couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and after a long while she hesitated and said.

"Didn't you sleep at my house?"

Yuuki Asuna nodded without hiding anything and asked back.

"Yeah, so what's wrong?"

"Then you are..."