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Mary approached Dan Lidou without hesitation and said to him seriously, "Mr. Dan Lidou, for your own safety, please come with us!"

"What? You said you were going to protect me?"

Danrito's first reaction was to laugh, but then he suddenly realized that, in the eyes of the Kivotos, his appearance was indeed fragile. With no aura and no weapons, they must have seen him as a fragile human who would collapse at the mere sight of a bullet. That's why they wanted to protect him.

Especially Mary in front of him, she looks like a good child who will not ignore other people's pain and wants to help others. It is not difficult to understand why she behaves like this when facing Danrito.

"...Well, since you want to protect me so much, I will show mercy and allow you to join me."

After some thought, Danrito finally decided not to refuse the children's request to accompany him. One reason was that the children's words didn't harbor any ill will; rather, they were asking to accompany him out of concern for him.

As a Kamen Rider, how could he refuse the request from children who did not have any evil intentions?

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It was a request from children who didn't harbor any evil intentions. How could a Kamen Rider refuse? Even though Danrito was usually a heartless person, he wouldn't object to Mari's request at this time.

And the second reason is that after some small incidents with the people in the dessert department, God's Limit X, which was bound by the rules of this world, could barely release a phantom.

However, even if the seal is only lifted a little, for the God's Limit X, which was completely unable to be released before, this tiny change is enough to prove something.

Therefore, Danrito was also thinking, does this involve the need for him to frequently interact with the students to create bonds that will allow him to completely release the Divine Limit X from its sealed state?

If this is true, then interacting with these students may not be a bad thing.

Mary said seriously, "Mr. Danrito, please come as close as possible. Although Hifumi and I haven't noticed anything unusual so far, many students have disappeared from this ruin. It's a very dangerous place."

After joining Danrito, Hifumi seemed to feel the importance of her team and that there was suddenly one more person who needed protection. She began to look at Danrito from time to time and really devoted some of her attention to ensuring Danrito's safety.

Even Hifumi, whose mind was preoccupied with Peloro, knew the consequences of being without his aura. Danrito's "weak" appearance without his aura certainly made them both particularly concerned about him.

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This situation continued until they passed the fifth store. When Hifumi was still determined to enter the store full of cobwebs to look for clues about the existence of the limited edition Peroro, Danrito finally couldn't help but call out to Hifumi.

"I say...Hifumi."

Looking at Hifumi who had searched more than a dozen stores but still found nothing and had even made her clean clothes dirty, Danrito couldn't help but hold his forehead.

"If you continue like this, not only will your efficiency be terribly low, but it will also seriously delay my schedule. Have you considered this?"

"Eh? But, but what if one of these shops has a Pelolo-sama doll?"

Hifumi blushed shyly, realizing she'd searched through over a dozen shops with nothing to show for it. This had even slowed down Danrito's progress into the amusement park. While it wasn't something they should be considering, Hifumi felt a bit ashamed.

After all, she was supposed to go alone to find the Peloro doll, but Mari had to follow Hifumi because she was worried about her going into the dangerous ruins alone. Hifumi knew this, but she was unwilling to give up the opportunity to find the limited edition Peloro doll.

"No, I didn't say that it was wrong for you to look for that doll. That was your original purpose."

Danrito folded his arms and criticized Hifumi, "But your efficiency is incredibly slow. It's so insanely slow that I can't bear to watch it."

Hifumi rubbed her head awkwardly: "B-then what should I do?"

"When you were looking for information about that doll, did you pay attention to any other information?"

Danrito raised a finger. "For example, how was this limited edition doll sold when it was first released? Was it sold in limited peripheral stores, given away as gifts at certain events, or bundled with other products?"

Danrito shook his head. "Different methods determine where this Peloro doll will appear. If it's only sold in limited stores around the area, then those dozen or so you just looked at are either completely unrelated fast food restaurants, mini-game stalls, or sausage shops. There's no way you'll find it here."

"...That seems to be the case! Hehehe~ Thanks for the advice!"

Hifumi smiled sheepishly, as if wondering why she hadn't thought of this solution sooner. Only after Danrito's reminder did Hifumi pull out her phone and recheck the information she had collected.

"Hmm... I think it's being given away as a gift for an event..." Hifumi looked at the information she'd gathered on her phone anxiously. "It seems to be an event that's only happening during the first few months of the park opening. It's something like signing in and out, and then trying every ride in the park. Only then can you collect all the points and eventually get a Peroro doll."

"Hmm... a very typical marketing tactic."

After a moment's thought, Danrito understood Utopia Park's intention. "By giving out limited-time dolls only in the park, and accumulating points, can they encourage visitors to stay longer in the park, thereby boosting its popularity and consumption?"

At this point, Danrito finally came to his senses and wanted to confirm something with Hifumi: "Say, what does that Peloroo thing look like? Is it really so alluring that everyone would come to this place to play their rides just for a limited edition co-branded doll?"

"Of course there's no doubt about that! As for the Peloro doll..."

Hifumi untied the Peloro backpack she always carried from her back. She showed the large face on the backpack to Danrito, "Look! This is the backpack designed with Peloro-sama in mind!"

As if she felt that this was not enough to fully introduce the image of Peloro, the girl rummaged through her backpack and found a small Peloro plush toy.

"Look! A mini version of Pelolo-sama. This perfect image is the key to Pelolo-sama's popularity!"

"—Just this stupid bird?"

Danrito looked at the huge white fat chicken with eyes full of wisdom, and couldn't help but let a drop of cold sweat fall from his forehead.

“How can this thing be so popular in Kivotos?”

Hifumi was surprised that Danrito didn't like Peloro: "Hmph! How rude! This is the lovely Peloro-sama! He's sure to be popular in Kivotos!"

"Alright, alright, I won't comment on your aesthetics." Danrito pushed the doll aside. He really didn't like this silly bird. That wise expression with its tongue sticking out was just too charming. But on second thought, perhaps it was this wise expression that made this Peloro so popular in Kivotos?

"But, if that's the case, then we can be sure. The gifts given away for this kind of event are specially customized. There shouldn't be a production line specifically producing this kind of thing."

Danrito, with his business acumen, began to ponder. "As for inventory, while there might be some, perhaps it was all disposed of as property during the bankruptcy liquidation. However, the surrounding buildings haven't been demolished. Perhaps the group left in a hurry, and there might still be some Peloro dolls left in the amusement park's warehouse."

"Or if you're lucky, you might even find this doll sealed in a glass case in an executive's office."

After hearing Danrito's inference, Hifumi blinked and asked in confusion, "Um... I can understand going to the warehouse, but why did you say it would appear in the executive's office?"

"It's because it's collectible, I guess." Danrito shrugged. "Like a rare trophy."

"I see, you're truly an adult, your ideas are different from ours!"

Danrito continued walking along the amusement park street. Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of a flash of blue light in the depths of a nearby alley. But it quickly vanished, like some high-speed moving object.

"Ok?"

Danrito stopped and asked, "What is that?"

"Why does she look like... a nun wearing a high-cut swimsuit and a gas mask?" Danrito's kinesthetic vision was quite impressive. He looked at Mari beside him in confusion. "So... are all you nuns this open?"

"Eh? What are you talking about?" Mary was stunned for a moment: "What do you mean by open?"

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"It's the high-cut tops, the leather jacket, the over-the-knee heels..." Danrito described the scenes he saw with his dynamic vision. Even though the shadow only flashed by for a moment, he could still clearly remember its features. "Could it be that the nuns of Kivotos have their own national conditions here?"

"W-what! How could a nun dress so indecently?"

Mary uttered a shamed and angry voice: "Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

"Is that so... then that's something different from being a student?"

Although Danrito still wanted to infer more things, he really couldn't get more evidence based on the impression he saw for a moment. In this case, Danrito no longer delved into the strange nun over there and turned his attention back.

In the deserted Utopia Amusement Park, one can still see the prosperous scene it had when it first opened. In the square where Danrito and the other two were standing, there were as many as four or five large-scale amusement facilities, including flying carousels, carousels, rotating teacups, and other facilities. However, those facilities had long been rusted by wind and sun, and most of the smooth paint on them had peeled off.

"What a shame..." Hifumi passed by the spinning teacup area and looked at the dilapidated rides with regret. "I wonder what a grand occasion this amusement park must have been like when it first opened..."

"The investment is massive. Clearly, this isn't a quick buck business, but that shouldn't be the case..."

Danrito's analysis of this theme park was based on the business model he was familiar with, but according to the information collected by Hifumi, the reason for the closure of this amusement park was "poor management". If you think about it this way, perhaps there is some hidden secret.

‘Giggle~’

A strange sound came from a distance, like the sound of clockwork and springs. This sound immediately attracted the attention of Dan Lidou and the other two.

"Mary, Mr. Danrito, did you hear... any strange noises?" Hifumi looked around nervously. "Could it be the sound of aging equipment?"

"Hmm... I don't think so." Danrito could tell it was a regular sound, like the sound of some springs and gears constantly working, and he could also hear some kind of laughter from time to time. In this deserted amusement park, it was a very appropriate and frightening scene.

"Wow... should we just turn around and leave?" Mary worriedly protected Danrito behind her. Her already tense mood became even more tense. "Hifumi-san, should we come back during the day to look for the Peloro doll? It's really scary..."

Hifumi was still struggling. She had spent most of the night searching, and now she had to go back empty-handed. She really didn't want to return empty-handed. But the strange sound coming from afar didn't seem fake. As she pondered this, someone else made a decision faster than Hifumi.

"Mr. Danrito, where are you going?"

Danrito, who was protected by Mari, took the initiative to take a step ahead and strode towards the direction of the sound. He came here to explore the ruins, and now he finally found something interesting. How could he leave now?

"Is there any need to ask? Of course we should go ahead and find out what's going on." Danrito didn't feel any fear at all. The thing that could make him feel scared had never appeared in Kivotos!

"Then, I'll go too!"

Seeing Danreto walking towards the depths of the amusement park without any fear, Hifumi mustered up the courage to move forward. Holding her pink rifle, she rushed towards Danreto, "Wait for me, Mr. Danreto!"

"Eh? Hifumi-san? Don't leave me!"

Since Danrito and Hifumi had decided to go inside, Mary couldn't leave alone. She mustered up her courage, lifted her skirt, and followed in Hifumi and Danrito's footsteps: "I, I'm coming too!"

The deeper they went into the park, the stranger the atmosphere became. This feeling made Hifumi and Mari, as students, instinctively feel a sense of discomfort, as if something was standing in opposition to them. This opposition wasn't a foul smell or a disgusting image, but a difference that was clearly distinguished from a 'concept'.

Click.

Danrito stepped on a flying amusement park flyer. In the circular square in front of him, an oversized scare box was placed in the center of the square. The source of the spring and screw sounds he had heard before was the slowly turning handle on the side of the oversized scare box. When he got close enough, he could even hear a strange music box music.

"Gluck cluck~"

A strange laugh sounded, and the huge scare box suddenly exploded. A huge black ball burst out of the box with a "bang!"

"Ah! Monster!"

"Whoa whoa whoa!"

Hifumi and Mari were so frightened that they crouched down with their heads in their hands, but Danrito, who wasn't frightened at all, looked at the two crouching down and covering their eyes with a strange expression and asked doubtfully, "No, this isn't scary, is it?"

Indeed, the monster that jumped out of the box was not like the sharp-tongued robots in the pizza shop next door, nor was it a melted swamp demon king. Instead, it looked like an enlarged cat-eared coal ball. Rather than being scary, it was actually quite cute upon closer inspection.

"It doesn't look that scary..." Hifumi trembled as she looked at the monster in front of her, "but I still feel terrified from the bottom of my heart!"

"Gluck cluck~"

The strange scare box monster let out a creepy laugh, and shook its body as if dancing, and also as if provoking. Although Danrito was still looking at the monster's movements in anticipation, his hand had already reached into his own game field and buckled the driver around his waist.

"—"

After the monster's actions, the temperature in the circular plaza seemed to drop slightly. Then, a mist spread across the area. The mist grew thicker, until it obscured the entire plaza. Then, a figure that Danrito had only just seen emerged from behind the monster.

Danrito patted Mary's shoulder and pointed to her: "Mary, look, it's the nun with the monogram wearing a high-cut leather jacket and high heels."

"What is...a circle of letters?"

Mary was stunned for a moment, then stood up nervously: "No! Now is not the time to talk about this!"

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The strange nun in front of him had a broken black halo behind her head, a gas mask covering her face, a rifle in her hand, and her body was translucent and hazy - like a ghost.

"That's definitely not an ordinary student!" Mary looked at the strange nun in front of her with a shocked expression. "I've never seen such an aura... It's shattered like that, how can she still move normally..."

"She doesn't look normal, does she? Can a normal person see behind their body?" Tan Lidou nodded and said, "That nun is a bitch!"

"Hon, Dan... Pfft!" Hifumi couldn't hold back her laughter. Danrito's Rudolph joke had successfully eased the tense and fearful atmosphere, allowing the two little girls to calm down a little. "Mr. Danrito, what are you thinking about all the time?"

"Hifumi-san, Danreto-san, although jokes are fun, please be careful."

Mary, standing by, regained her composure somewhat and raised her pistol, aiming it at the monster and the strange nun in front of her. "I think I heard Sakurako-senpai say that these nuns were members of the 'Justina Saints', an organization that once existed at Trinity Academy. I don't know why they became like this..."

"They can't communicate, but they're extremely hostile to ordinary students..." Mary stood in front of Danrito. "So, Mr. Danrito, please stay away from us. Leave this to us! If there's just one..."

Before Mary finished her words, a large number of Justina Saints emerged from the dense fog behind the monster. Their bodies varied slightly in size, but they all looked the same. They held marksman rifles, wore masks, and behind their heads were shattered black halos. Their appearance was nothing short of the legendary "ghosts."

"Hmm...are there so many..."

The rifle in Hifumi's hand softened slightly, and she looked at the Saints of Justina, who were gradually surrounding her, with a bit of a wince. She said awkwardly, "This, this many people might make it difficult... Should we run away, Mary?"

More than twenty Justina Saints emerged from the mist, their bodies swathed in dark blue flames. Against Hifumi and Mari, their numerical advantage was overwhelming. Hifumi attempted to engage these nuns in conversation, "Hello?"

boom!

A gunshot rang out, brushing Hifumi's cheek, causing her to pause in her stomach as she continued her conversation. "It seems like we can't communicate at all?"

At this moment, the monster that jumped out of the scare box laughed "chuckle~" again, as if giving orders to the Saint Justina around him, and as if mocking the three people in front of him for overestimating their own abilities, like a moth attracted by a light.

"Now I understand how the students who came here disappeared." Danrito nodded. "So they were taken care of by these things? Come to think of it, I've seen that shattered halo on Serika's head before, but the halo behind these Eustina saints looks even more shattered than Serika's back then."

He propped up his other arm with his fingers, resting them on his chin, pretending to think: "So the halo behind the 'student's' head looks like that after death..."

"Mr. Danrito! Stop thinking about the unnecessary things and run!" Hifumi finally gave up the idea of ​​looking for the limited edition Peloro doll at the critical moment of life and death. "I can't beat so many people!"

"escape?"