Miss Kaguya Wants My Surrender

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"H-how could this be..."

Fujiwara Chika walked in front of the doll girl, covering her mouth with both hands, and mist quickly welled up in her eyes.

Amamiya Natsuki silently took two steps forward and pulled down the collar of the doll girl's dress.

Near her collarbone, a small mole was clearly visible.

The locations where the game descended were not uniform; some were in the Corridor, some in shops, and it was clear that Kitagawa appeared in a shop and was incredibly unlucky to encounter a mannequin.

"Pull, pull—"

His sleeve was suddenly tugged lightly.

Amamiya Natsuki silently lowered his head to look.

The silver-haired loli opened her mouth to speak, but he couldn't hear her clearly at all. Then, under Amamiya Natsuki's gaze, she extended a finger, pointed to herself, and then pointed to Kitagawa, who had already turned into a mannequin.

Amamiya Natsuki reached out and scooped the silver-haired loli into his arms, leaning his ear close: "Speak."

The silver-haired loli didn't struggle. One hand rested on Amamiya Natsuki's shoulder, the other brushed back the dark hair by her ear, and her mouth moved close to Amamiya Natsuki's ear, her voice soft and weak:

"I have a skill that allows me to see others' Life Flames."

"Her Life Flame has not extinguished."

The reason she didn't dodge when Amamiya Natsuki hugged her earlier was precisely because she saw the Life Flames of several people, knowing they were players and not monsters disguised as humans.

"..."

Upon hearing this, Amamiya Natsuki looked at the doll girl, and a prompt finally appeared before his eyes.

[After careful observation, you discover that your companion's Life Flame has not yet extinguished, but under the effect of the curse, the Life Flame is already in critical danger]

[You decide to extract the loli's HP in your arms to bring back your companion]

[Restoration failed, the speed of the curse's erosion exceeds the speed of life infusion]

[Watching your companion's disappearing back, you suddenly remember that you still have an orange. Stay right here, do not move.]

"An orange?"

Amamiya Natsuki's heart stirred, and he quickly recalled.

That's right, he still had an orange.

An orange obtained from Octopus Paul while playing hide-and-seek on the Ghost Ship, its special attribute being 'Scurvy Treatment,' which could remove all negative statuses.

The current doll transformation was undoubtedly a negative status.

Amamiya Natsuki quickly put down the silver-haired loli, took an orange from his game backpack. Unlike the oranges that had undergone multiple generations of breeding improvements, medieval oranges were very small, dull yellow in color, and looked unremarkable; if thrown on the ground, no one would probably pick them up.

Peeling the orange, Amamiya Natsuki directly broke off two segments of orange flesh and put them into the doll girl's mouth.

"It seems I have to make her eat it; just putting it in her mouth doesn't work."

Waiting for a few seconds, looking at the motionless doll girl, Amamiya Natsuki quickly came to a conclusion.

The doll girl couldn't swallow things, and at this time, she clearly needed help from others.

Then...

Amamiya Natsuki silently extended a finger.

Finger-feeding, just so you know.

"..."

The others tacitly remained silent, no one spoke.

This time, the Scurvy Treatment finally took effect.

"Her finger moved." Fujiwara Chika's eyes lit up, and she couldn't help but say, "I just saw Marin-chan's finger move."

Soon, not just her fingers, but the girl's slender eyelashes also began to tremble.

A hazy orange glow gently surged over the doll girl, and her doll-like body returned to normal at a visible speed.

A few seconds later, the doll girl successfully revived.

"Cough, cough, cough..."

Kitagawa Marin covered her mouth and coughed, looking at Amamiya Natsuki with teary eyes, "...Your finger touched my throat, it was so uncomfortable!"

It only touched your throat, it's better than you turning into a doll, right!

Amamiya Natsuki let out a soft sigh of relief: "It's alright now."

"Marin-chan!"

Fujiwara Chika happily stepped forward, embracing Kitagawa Marin excitedly.

"I'm fine, I was so scared just now, I thought I'd never see you all again." Kitagawa Marin hugged Fujiwara tightly, sniffing with teary eyes.

Amamiya Natsuki said faintly: "You got snot on my clothes."

"Nonsense, I wasn't sniffling!"

"..."

After some banter, Kitagawa Marin quickly calmed down. After all, having cleared the game several times, her nerves had already toughened: "As soon as I descended, I was in this clothing store, and I was planning to go to the restroom to find equipment, but I was caught by a moving mannequin, and my body slowly turned into a doll, it was super scary... By the way, where's Kaguya-san? Has she joined us yet?"

Amamiya Natsuki said:

"Kaguya-san is on the first floor, we'll go there now."

"..."

With surveillance videos, most of the monsters active in the shopping mall had nowhere to hide.

Hayasaka Ai took the tablet again and led the way. After some winding turns, they quickly arrived at the first-floor lobby.

"Eh, where's Kaguya-chan?"

Fujiwara Chika was startled, looking around in surprise, "Logically, Kaguya-chan should have arrived by now."

Amamiya Natsuki raised an eyebrow slightly, took out his phone, and saw that Shinomiya Kaguya's last message was from ten minutes ago.

Ten minutes was enough time for Shinomiya Kaguya to get from the basement to the lobby, unless she encountered trouble along the way.

Hayasaka Ai also thought of this, turned to look at Amamiya Natsuki, and quickly said: "Send a message to see if there's a response. I'll check the surveillance."

Amamiya Natsuki nodded and sent a message.

"Hasaka, location."

"..."

The message was sent successfully, but there was no response.

"Strange, why isn't Kaguya-chan replying?" Fujiwara Chika was also sending messages, but similarly received no response.

At the same time.

Hayasaka Ai had already pulled up the surveillance video of the shopping mall's basement and was replaying it to search: "I see her... The surveillance shows that Kaguya-san entered the fire escape six minutes ago."

A single fire escape certainly wouldn't take five minutes to traverse.

Clearly, she had encountered unknown trouble in the passage.

Amamiya Natsuki said in a deep voice:

"So, she's still in the passage, right?"

"That's right." Hayasaka Ai silently clenched her small fists. "The surveillance only shows Kaguya-san entering, not her exiting."

Amamiya Natsuki turned to look at the dark fire escape, and stepped towards it: "You all wait for me outside."

"What is Natsuki-kun talking about?" Fujiwara Chika quickly followed, "If I'm not by your side, how can I Seize and Eliminate Evil?"

"Exactly, acting alone is too dangerous." Kitagawa Marin put her right hand on her hip and followed. "In those horror movies, people who act alone are always idiots."

Hayasaka Ai put away her tablet and silently followed.

The Glasses Girl and the silver-haired loli naturally also chose not to stay behind.

It was true that there was unknown danger in the fire escape, but staying in the lobby was also dangerous. At this time, of course, it was best to cling tightly to the strong leg!

"Then let's go."

Amamiya Natsuki led the way, stepping into the fire escape, followed closely by the several girls.

Compared to the lobby, the fire escape was even darker, with only the emergency signs emitting faint light, barely illuminating the stairway.

He had expected finding the Dumbfounded Miss to be quite difficult, but after a short while, Amamiya Natsuki saw a girl walking up from below.

A black dress, a large bow tied with a red ribbon at the back of her head—who else could it be but Kaguya.

"Natsuki-kun?"

The Dumbfounded Miss paused, her voice clearly filled with surprise.

"First, the secret code." Amamiya Natsuki extended his right hand, "Odd change, even no change?"

Shinomiya Kaguya: "...Sign depends on quadrant."

"Correct answer."

It seemed it really was the Dumbfounded Miss. The search mission was surprisingly simple.

"Kaguya-chan." Fujiwara Chika was delighted, "We're here!"

The entire villain squad gathering was naturally a cause for joy, but soon, everyone realized why Shinomiya Kaguya hadn't gone to the first-floor lobby.

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