You say this is a love game?

But the moment he raised his hand, he suddenly felt his heart tighten.

"Who?"

Turning around, the ghostly figure had appeared at the office door.

Finally came.

Mizutani Makoto immediately drew out Chidori Maru, and with a flash of lightning, it illuminated the dim principal's office.

Then, I saw the other person's face clearly.

That iconic weird smile that was split from ear to ear, and a huge pair of long scissors in his hand.

"Slit-mouthed woman?"

Mizutani Makoto was shocked.

The Slit-Mouthed Woman is definitely one of the most widely spread urban legends.

Whenever night falls, if you walk alone on the empty streets, you may meet a strange woman wearing a white mask.

She will come up to you and ask: "Am I beautiful?"

If you answer: "Not beautiful", she will take out a pair of sharp long scissors and kill you.

If you answer: "Beautiful", she will take off the mask on her face and ask you: "How about this?"

At this time, you will see a horrible face with the corners of the mouth torn to the ears. She will open her mouth that cannot be closed and use the scissors to turn you into the same as her.

It is a horrific and bizarre story that can only end in death. The best outcome is disfigurement, and the worst outcome is being cut to death by scissors.

However, in recent years, with the rise of certain horror stories, the slit-mouthed woman has had a very different secondary creation...

Mizutani Makoto was a little confused: "Why did you take off your mask as soon as you came?"

Does this mean I don't get a choice?

And what's with the aura of this thing?

"Run!"

In my mind, Chidori's voice exploded like thunder.

"Where did this guy come from... She's not of the same rank, not even a simple ghost story!"

"Her aura is strange, find a way to escape!"

Mizutani Makoto was shocked.

Not the same rank?

He was just thinking about the level of the Slit-Mouthed Woman. Judging from her strange and almost terrifying way of moving, she could definitely not be at the Paper Level.

So this thing is...

"powerful?"

He had just made a judgment in his mind, and the next second, his body fell down uncontrollably.

There was a sharp pain in my chest and a tearing burning sensation in my cheek.

A pair of blood-stained scissors was deeply inserted into his face!

Blood gushed out instantly, staining Mizutani Makoto's vision red.

Mizutani Makoto subconsciously wanted to struggle at this time, but found that he was like being possessed by a ghost. An invisible force pressed down on every inch of his body, making him fall to the ground and unable to move.

The air was filled with a strong smell of blood.

The smell is getting closer...

A pair of pale hands slowly fell on his face, gentle yet creepy.

Mizutani Makoto forced himself to raise his head, and through his blurred vision, he finally saw the true appearance of the attacker.

It was a pale, bloodless face, and it was always smiling, with the smile on the corners of its mouth literally extending to its ears.

The familiar smell of blood came from the neck of the slit-mouthed woman... There was a deep throat cut on her neck, as if it had been cruelly cut with the same pair of scissors. Now it was not even sutured together, but just hung there casually, with the skin and flesh misaligned, and blood kept seeping out from the gap and dripping on his body.

"hehe……"

She seemed to be saying something.

The vocal cords of the Slit-Mouthed Woman had completely disappeared, and no clear words could come out of her mouth. The faint breath she uttered was like noise, hoarse and rapid.

However, she didn't seem to need Mizutani Makoto to understand anything.

She gave a cruel smile.

The slit-mouthed woman stroked his cheek, and then her pale fingers hooked the scissors on Mizutani Makoto's face, tightened them inch by inch, and then pulled them out.

Mizutani Makoto felt a stinging sensation on his cheek, and also felt warm blood gushing out of the disfiguring penetrating wound.

She placed the scissors gently against the corner of his mouth.

She actually cut his mouth open.

The cold blade pressed against the flesh at the edge of the lips, and then with a click, the flesh was cut open like cloth.

Blood spurted out and pain tore through nerves.

Mizutani Makoto couldn't scream, he could only stare with wide eyes at the face in front of him that was filled with resentment and obsession.

"Mizutani!"

Chidorimaru's voice sounded again, but this time it was not a warning, but an angry roar.

The silver-haired girl actually stepped out from the blade, and with the help of the spiritual power provided by Mizutani Makoto, she personally grasped Chidorimaru, used the spiritual power to fill the thunder power that had recovered to half, and bombarded all the thunder contained in Chidorimaru!

Thunder Prison!

Lightning suddenly burst out!

The violent electric current spread outward from Chidorimaru and directly hit the body of the slit-mouthed woman!

The oppressive feeling on Mizutani Makoto suddenly disappeared.

The young man turned over and stood up, not caring about the wound on his cheek. He raised his hand and summoned Chidori into the blade, then suddenly grasped Chidori Maru at his side. In an instant, the power of thunder burst out from his body. The young warrior in light armor glared at the slit-mouthed woman in front of him with pain.

The scissors in her hand were still dripping with blood, and Chidori's thunder power had only a slight effect, causing her to lose her control over Mizutani Makoto.

——How to fight?

As soon as this thought came to mind, Mizutani Makoto felt a tearing pain exploding from deep in his chest!

He looked down—

A pale palm suddenly pierced through his back!

His fingertips were black, and his five fingers were tightly grasping a ball of flesh and blood - that was his heart.

It was forcibly pulled out of the chest and exposed to the air, still beating slightly, and blood gushed out onto the carpet like a fountain, staining it crimson.

The entire light armor was torn to pieces, and the palm suddenly crushed his heart.

Mizutani Makoto's head was turned 180 degrees.

The scissors aimed at his right cheek and cut the remaining half of his face.

Ending: [Why So Serious?]

……

……

Mizutani Makoto woke up under the cherry tree.

When he was still recalling the scene of his recent brutal death and pondering how to fight the enemy, a pop-up window suddenly appeared in front of his eyes.

[You've been targeted——]

Mizutani Makoto: "?"

What’s the clue for the appearance of the Slit-mouthed Woman?

Why are you still here?!

Mizutani Makoto suddenly felt a cold gaze. He turned his head and found that the slit-mouthed woman was not coming from the outside world, but was standing on the fourth floor of the teaching building in a ghostly manner, in front of the door of the principal's office he had searched before, leaning against the corridor, staring at him who was waking up in the atrium with her eyes lowered.

"..."

The strange figure glanced at him.

He didn't know if it was an illusion, but he felt that this guy was laughing.

Why wasn’t it reset?

This was the first time that Makoto Mizutani encountered such a situation, but it did not prevent him from realizing that something was very serious.

"I'm being guarded?!"

When he came to his senses again, the cold aura had already appeared behind Mizutani Makoto.

Ending: [Makoto is practicing smiling~! ]

……

……

After his second death, Mizutani Makoto chose to be resurrected at the vermilion torii gate of the school building.

This time, he didn't receive a pop-up.

However, when he stepped out of the school building, a pop-up window from the female ghost saying [You have been targeted——] suddenly popped up in his sight.

"What's going on?"

"Now the school building is the only safe zone?"

Outside, Mizutani Makoto was killed for the third time.

He has now discovered a rule. For unknown reasons, the school building has become an independent safe zone, but as long as he leaves the school building, the Slit-Mouthed Woman's prompt words will pop up in his sight, and then no matter where he escapes, the Slit-Mouthed Woman will chase him to the ends of the earth.

He can hide in the school building halfway, and once he hides in the school building, the Slit-mouthed Woman will no longer chase him.

But he has to leave the school building!

There are no monsters in the school building, so he can’t farm souls!

What the hell!

This is a big problem.

"This is such a crappy game, how come there's a stuck part?"

Inside the apartment, Makoto Mizutani collapsed powerlessly on the tatami.

He was staring blankly at the moldy ceiling, unable to figure out what this crappy game was all about.

"How on earth did I trigger the Slit-mouthed Woman?"

"This hint appeared after I killed the Staircase Ghost..."

"No way?"

"After killing the seven campus ghost stories, an eighth campus ghost story pops up?"

Mizutani Makoto was shocked.

You know what, the slit-mouthed girl is really a widely circulated campus ghost story.

In Japan, the "Seven School Ghost Stories" are regional in nature, and they vary in each region. Some will replace Beethoven's portrait with Mona Lisa's smiling portrait, and some will squeeze the slit-mouthed woman into the seven school ghost stories. There is even a relatively novel one, which is "the deserted corridors late at night will be filled with ghosts"... Wait, isn't this the student union?

In short, the seven campus ghost stories are not set in stone.

Every school has its own rules.

But this does not prevent Makoto Mizutani from hating the slit-mouthed woman.

The three exploration opportunities he just missed were all exploration opportunities on Friday.

Yesterday he drank a lot with Shuten and slept a lot. Now it was Saturday night, and he was taking advantage of the three opportunities on Friday to explore. As for the exploration opportunities on Saturday, they would have to wait until midnight to refresh.

That is to say, if he waits a few more hours, he will have three more chances to explore.

But these exploration opportunities are useless.

If he doesn't solve the problem of the Slit-Mouthed Woman, he will be stuck at the resurrection point. Even if he moves quickly, he can only get a hundred or so souls at most at a time, and then he will be caught up by the Slit-Mouthed Woman... Considering that he now needs tens of thousands of souls to upgrade his spiritual power a little, more than a hundred souls are of no use.