One-way traffic

He couldn't help but speak up like that.

The reason is very simple.

He instinctively slapped himself with his own hand.

Accelerator snapped out of his daze and slapped himself across the face with his right hand, involuntarily taking a step back.

Drip. The coffee in the jar dripped onto the ground.

"…ha."

He couldn't help but laugh.

"What stupid thing I was thinking just now."

To spend one's entire life in this mundane world?

That's simply impossible.

"How could someone like me not understand what I've done in the past...?"

In an instant, my thoughts returned to my memories.

Blood, and corpses.

During that period when more than 10,000 lives were slaughtered.

The demon, who only cared about becoming invincible and recklessly used destructive power, returned to his memories.

impossible.

How could someone like me possibly deserve to live in such a stable world?

We cannot forget, and we absolutely cannot forget, the more than ten thousand sins we committed in the past.

What's the point of repaying only one yuan out of a debt of one hundred million yuan?

He couldn't help but laugh.

A weary, somewhat helpless smile.

"I was so stupid, really."

"So stupid that I laugh at myself, you bastard."

He dismissed the idea and continued looking down at the city.

The moonlight shone down slowly.

The distance between the two people and the light source was only one centimeter.

even so.

His body was still shrouded in the shadows of darkness.

Chapter 167 Unknown Developments

"Huh? Okay, tell me what we're going to play next?"

Hatsune Miku couldn't help but show a surprised expression.

What Kaito just said really surprised her.

"So, Miku-nee, you must have played it before, right?"

"That's right, this is a very popular game these days."

Len Kagamine and Rin Kagamine looked at Hatsune Miku with slight smiles, but this only made her seem more at a loss.

truth or Dare.

A game that has swept across many regions, with simple gameplay and straightforward content.

The selection is done through methods similar to dropping a handkerchief, drawing lots, or rock-paper-scissors. The person chosen or the loser will then obey the winner or the person who drew the lots, and must answer any questions asked by the winner or complete any task assigned by the winner, which is known as a dare.

Hatsune Miku vaguely remembered playing this kind of game with others a long time ago, but... she wasn't very good at this style of game.

To be precise, she didn't like people knowing what was on her mind.

"It's okay! The rules are very simple, and no one will ask you any overly difficult questions!"

"Wait, wait a minute!"

No matter what Hatsune Miku said, the Kagamine siblings still pulled her to the table.

The group sat down together, and Kaito smiled as he looked at a machine in the center of the table.

It looks like a gashapon machine, but smaller, with several small transparent boxes inside, which probably contain some slips of paper.

Kaito placed his hand on the gashapon machine.

"The rules are simple: one person uses this machine to randomly draw a capsule containing our names, and the person whose name is drawn is responsible for answering questions from the person who draws the name, or for completing a task requested by them."

"If you draw the name of the person who operates the gashapon machine, it doesn't count, because he is the one who asks questions. So you won't ask him questions for the time being. And the person who shakes the machine will change every time. The next person to shake the gashapon machine will be the previous person who answered the question."

"At the beginning, since I was the one who organized this game, I was the one in charge of operating the gashapon machine in the first round."

"Hey~! Doesn't that mean Kaito-nii has gotten away with it?"

"How cunning!"

"Well, someone has to be the first to shake the gashapon machine and ask questions, right?"

Kaito smiled and placed his hand directly on the machine.

"Then, shall we begin?"

Wait, wait a minute—!

Although Hatsune Miku wanted to stop him, Kaito just smiled and pulled the lever on the machine.

Ah... it has already begun.

The girl with twin ponytails sat there like a statue, a look of astonishment on her face.

Oh no, what should I do?! If I'm selected, will they ask me some weird questions?!

All we can do is pray...

Please, please don't pick me!

"So, the first person is..."

Kaito opened the gashapon capsule and looked at the note inside.

"Ah...is it Gumi?"

"Eh?"

"Gumi?"

Len Kagamine and Rin Kagamine first looked at Gumi, who was sitting next to Hatsune Miku, with somewhat surprised expressions.

"I was lucky enough to be chosen right away. You've worked hard."

"Oh, that's alright, I was prepared for that anyway."

Gumi smiled and waved his hand, then looked at Kaito.

"I choose truth, so what's the question...?"

"It's not a very complicated problem."

Kaito continued looking at the other person and asked.

"Gumi, is there anything you particularly want to do next?"

"Something I really want to do..."

Everyone couldn't help but turn their gazes over.

Even though everyone was watching, Gumi didn't show any particular shyness. She gently touched her chin with her hand.

"Hmm... if possible, I'd really like to go to the beach with everyone."

"The beach? I think I just went there not long ago."

As Meiko combed her hair, she said, "That must have happened only a few summers ago."

"No, I'm not thinking about something that simple."

She shook her head, smiled, and continued.

"Well, although it's a bit unbelievable, I recently had a rather unusual dream."

"Dream…?"

"Yes, in the dream, we were all together, and there were some... people I didn't really know."

She tried her best to recall the contents of her dream.

"In the dream, everyone got along well, and then they all went to a beach abroad. At night, they held a test of courage and encountered some real paranormal events..."

"Although it's a dream, it feels surprisingly real."

This content couldn't help but make everyone show a somewhat surprised expression.

Although it was the content of a dream, ... when Gumi described it like this...

They always had a very strange sense of déjà vu.

"Fine, at least that's what you really thought, right?"

"Of course, so...it's my turn next, right?"

Kaito nodded and sat down in a seat to the side, while Gumi got up and went straight to the machine.

"Well... I'm about to begin!"

Click.

The machine whirred and whirred, and then a gashapon capsule fell to the bottom.

Gumi took it apart and revealed the name inside to everyone.

"what…!"

"It's the company!"

It says Kagamine Len's name on it.

However, before Gumi could say anything, Kagamine Len raised his hand.

"Alright! Then I choose Truth or Dare first!"

"That's really decisive..."

Gumi smiled, revealing a somewhat malicious expression.

"Then... go to that wall over there, stand upside down for fifteen seconds, how about that?"

"Uh…"

Kagamine Len paused slightly, and after thinking for a moment, he quickly went to the wall.

"Wow! It actually works!"

"Wow, that's amazing!"

"Not at all—!"

Although Len Kagamine managed to do a handstand, he was clearly out of breath.

He managed to hold on for fifteen seconds before collapsing to the ground.

"I almost suffocated..."

"Thank you for your hard work. Now it's your turn to draw lots."

Gumi walked back from the front, and Kagamine Len took her place.

Not good.

I have a bad feeling about this!

Hatsune Miku on the side couldn't help but become even more nervous. This...this couldn't be—

"Ah! It's Miku-nee!"