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

Asuna Yuuki drew out her rapier and looked at the man holding his wrist and screaming in pain. She did not feel any pity or anything like that. She just looked at Asagiri with a smile on her face and sighed slightly.

"You did it on purpose, right?"

"Of course."

Asagiri admitted it directly without hiding anything.

"Even if I didn't get the reward for clearing the level, I wouldn't be hacked to death by a guy like that with a kitchen knife. I just wanted you to do it. After all, similar things will definitely happen again in the future. I want you to get used to it sooner rather than later, so that you don't drag down our team because of your saintly complex about not wanting to hurt anyone."

Yuuki Asuna snorted lightly, raised her left hand to tidy up her long chestnut hair, and said in a calm tone.

"Humph, others are planning to attack me. How can I just sit there and wait for death because I'm afraid of hurting them? I'm not that stupid."

"hehe."

Asagiri's next words directly exposed Yuuki Asuna's pretense of toughness.

"If that's the case, why didn't you just pierce his throat with your sword? Don't say you were worried I'd get hit by the kitchen knife. With the speed you just displayed, you could easily have pierced his wrist first and then his throat. You speak so firmly, but you really can't kill him, right?"

After pausing for a few seconds, Yuuki Asuna managed to defend herself.

"I...Isn't this a normal thing? This is murder, who can just do it? You're just talking about me, but you can't do it either, right?"

Asagiri looked as if he had heard a bad joke.

"What are you talking about? I can do it without hesitation. Now that you've familiarized yourself with your abilities, it's my turn to familiarize myself with mine."

After saying this, a black pistol suddenly appeared in Asagiri's hand. The next second, he made a move that made Yuuki Asuna's pupils shrink in shock.

Asagiri raised his pistol, but instead of pointing it at the man who was covering his wrist, he placed it directly against his own temple, with his index finger on the trigger.

"What are you going to do..."

Before Yuuki Asuna could finish her words, a golden light suddenly burst out from Asagiri's originally black eyes, and she pulled the trigger of the pistol without hesitation.

"persona..."

"Human Shura."

The gun did not fire the bullet as Yuuki Asuna expected. After Asagiri pulled the trigger, a humanoid creature over two meters tall suddenly appeared behind him. It was completely black, had no facial features, and had strange red glowing patterns on its body.

"Is this... what they call a personality mask..."

When Yuuki Asuna saw the personality mask of this Shura appear, she thought that Asagiri's previous action did not seem to be an attempt to commit suicide. The pistol that could not fire bullets and the action of shooting herself should be the prelude to summoning the personality mask.

only......

Asuna Yuuki noticed that the bloody-faced nurse who had been standing at the other end of the corridor and had not moved at all actually retreated several meters the moment Ren Shura appeared, and even his tall body was shaking.

To ordinary people, this caregiver is like a monster... Is he afraid because of the appearance of Human Shura?

010 I will help you pass the level

"Come."

Next, Asagiri did something that was beyond Yuuki Asuna's expectations.

He took two steps forward, bent down, picked up the blood-stained kitchen knife on the ground, and then threw it in front of the man, speaking softly in an emotionless tone.

"pick it up."

The man covered his pierced and bleeding wrist, gritting his teeth to endure the pain. When he heard Asagiri's words, he first glanced at the kitchen knife on the ground, then raised his head and looked at the tall black humanoid creature behind the other person. Fear flashed in his eyes, and he knelt on the ground with a thud, his forehead pressed against the hard floor, begging for mercy.

"No... No, I was impulsive just now... Please, please forgive me..."

"Beg for mercy? At this moment? Are you trying to make me laugh?"

After saying this, Asagiri suddenly changed the subject, walked up to the man and extended his hand.

"But if you hand over your phone, I might consider sparing your life."

The man kneeling on the ground, trembling all over, took out his cell phone from his trouser pocket tremblingly after hearing this, and handed it to Asagiri with both hands.

"This... this is my phone... there's no password..."

"Well, that's quite sensible."

Asagiri smiled, then spoke softly.

"I've thought about it seriously, but you still have to die."

"Anyone who kills should also be prepared to be killed. This is the simplest truth in the world, even a child understands it."

As Chaowu finished speaking, Ren Shura had already stretched out an arm, and his huge palm completely grasped the man's neck and lifted him up.

The man's face turned red and purple. Out of the instinct for survival, he kept slapping Ren Shura's arm with both hands. But he couldn't make the other party release his hands, and he couldn't even make Ren Shura's arm tremble.

After a few seconds, the man began to roll his eyes, and the strength of his hands gradually weakened, and finally fell down weakly.

"boom."

With a muffled sound, Yuuki Asuna saw Ren Shura casually throwing the unconscious man to the ground, and couldn't help but hesitate.

"he..."

"Not dead yet, just fainted."

Yuuki Asuna visibly breathed a sigh of relief, as if relieved.

"That's right, there's no need to kill him. Just leave him here. After the time limit is up, he'll definitely die..."

"Eh? What are you talking about?"

Asagiri looked puzzled as if she didn't quite understand. She walked over, bent down, and grabbed the unconscious man's ankle with one hand. Then she looked at Yuuki Asuna and smiled.

"Haven't you read online novels? This kind of plot where you give the enemy a breath, thinking they're doomed, only to have them escape death and then come back to cause trouble for the protagonist is incredibly toxic. While I'm not the protagonist of any online novel, I wouldn't leave such a hidden danger. Besides..."

Having said that, Asagiri grabbed the unconscious man's ankle with one hand and dragged his body towards the stairwell.

"There's clearly still room for him to be used. Wouldn't it be a waste to just let him die like this?"

"waste...?"

Yuuki Asuna didn't quite understand what Asagiri wanted to do, but she hurried to follow.

“Boom, boom, boom, boom…”

Because they were dragging on the ground, every time Asagiri went down a step, the head of the man he was dragging would collide with the step, making a dull sound that was painful just to the ear.

When they walked into the courtyard, Yuuki Asuna couldn't help but asked in confusion.

"Utsunomiya-san, what exactly do you want to do?"

"doing what?"

Utsunomiya Asagiri's smile seemed friendly and kind, and even her tone was so gentle.

"Of course I helped him through the customs. I'm a kind man."

"Huh? Are you serious? You're so..."

Asuna Yuuki originally wanted to say, not to mention that this guy killed another player in the same ward, the fact that he wanted to chop Asagiri with a kitchen knife is absolutely unforgivable, right?

And yet Asagiri still wants to help him clear the level? Is he repaying kindness with enmity? Is he being too chaste?

But on second thought, Yuuki Asuna felt that Asagiri couldn't be that kind of person. The other party had just said that this man must die.

At this time, Asagiri had already dragged the man out of the courtyard gate.

"Hmm... This should be considered a clearance."

As he said this, Asagiri opened the man's phone. Sure enough, on the main interface, there was a strange APP with the same eye icon as the ones on his and Yuuki Asuna's phones.

The moment he touched the APP icon, a line of dark red font suddenly appeared on the phone screen.

[“Player” identity verification failed]

"Sure enough, there's a confidentiality mechanism. Even if someone gets the phone, they can't open the app, right? What if I lose the phone? Or..."

When he said this, Asagiri once again summoned his personality mask, Human Shura.

The moment Human Shura appeared, he covered the man's head with his huge palm, then clenched his five fingers. With a sound like a watermelon bursting, blood flowed out from between the black gaps between Human Shura's fingers.

Seeing this scene, Yuuki Asuna instinctively felt a little nauseous and immediately looked away.

After killing the man, Asagiri touched the APP icon in the other's phone again. This time it opened successfully. The other party's numerical panel and the clearance prompts he received before he died were displayed in front of him without reservation.

[Player Name: Noguchi Kazukawa]

【Physical fitness level: average】

[Talent: Not yet unlocked]

[Occupation: Not yet unlocked]

Congratulations to "player" Noguchi Kazukawa, who has cleared the rookie dungeon and obtained official player status.

[Clearance Rating: C]

[Reward: Item "Bottle of Medical Disinfectant Alcohol"]

[Bottled medical disinfectant alcohol: 300 ml bottled medical disinfectant alcohol]

When Asagiri was checking the APP, she did not avoid Yuuki Asuna. Standing aside, she saw the information displayed in the APP and the clearance rewards obtained by the player named Noguchi Kazukawa, and said thoughtfully.

"The C-level clearance reward doesn't unlock a class or talent, just a meager item. It seems like after wasting so much time completing the game, this is the only reward I can get. Its sole purpose is to make players realize that this app truly involves supernatural phenomena, shattering their remaining illusions and naiveté, by allowing them to access and store items at any time."

011 The hidden rules of the copy

As soon as Yuuki Asuna finished speaking, a line of dark red font suddenly popped up on the phone screen.

[Since the original player has died, non-players can register as players by clicking the APP icon three times in a row within 24 hours. After successful registration, they will obtain all the props and equipment of the original player. Players who have become players can also use the same method to randomly draw an equipment or prop owned by the deceased player.]

The shocking information revealed in this simple sentence made Yuuki Asuna frown slightly.

Besides being unexpectedly chosen like I and Asagiri, could this method also allow ordinary people to qualify to register as players? Even if they didn't want others to become players, they could still draw the equipment or items of the deceased player themselves?

This is not good news.

Although the reward that Yuuki Asuna received for completing the game was just that, she had witnessed with her own eyes the power of Utsunomiya Asagiri, called the Personality Mask, which was completely inexplicable by science and was beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

It is conceivable that if people knew that they could gain supernatural powers by entering the dungeon through the APP with the eye icon and completing the level, there would definitely be many people who would want to become players.

The method is to kill the registered players and steal their mobile phones.

What will happen if the player loses his phone even though he is not dead?

Asuna Yuuki couldn't think of the answer to this question. She just looked at Asagiri, who had clicked the eye icon three times in a row and drawn the bottle of medical disinfectant alcohol, the only reward for clearing the level that originally belonged to Kazukawa Noguchi, with a complicated look on her face.

"So you took him through the customs just to get this information?"

"Well, intelligence is important."

After he drew Noguchi Wakawa's equipment, the eye icon APP in the other party's mobile phone gradually disappeared. Asagiri then threw the phone aside, looked at Yuuki Asuna, and replied with a chuckle.

"Now we know how to make someone a player, and what benefits can be gained by killing another player."

"Most importantly, through Noguchi and Kazukawa's clearance evaluation, we can confirm that most ordinary players won't receive any special powers from clearing the rookie dungeon, and they won't even be able to unlock talents or classes. Assuming we're just the first players on the server, and there aren't any veteran players around, our combat power is absolutely overwhelming compared to the average player."

"Of course, we can't rule out the possibility that some already-powerful individuals, such as martial artists proficient in combat techniques, elite members of the Metropolitan Police Department, members of special forces, or members of violent gangs, could become players."

After hearing what Asagiri said, Yuuki Asuna pursed her lips and asked a question she had wanted to ask for a long time.

"Why...why can you adapt so quickly...and facing this unknown situation, you don't seem afraid at all..."

Utsunomiya Asagiri smiled, and then gave an answer that Yuuki Asuna had never expected.

"Because I'm very timid."

"Ah? You? Are you timid?"

Yuuki Asuna frowned slightly, thinking that this answer was too ridiculous. Your behavior, manners, and words, do they have anything to do with the word cowardice?

"Yeah, I'm too timid."

Asagiri nodded and spoke with a smile.