Chapter 93 You are not him.

"Can you do it?"

What a cunning oddity.

It was precisely because they saw through the strange intentions that Tsukino and Chiya were in such a bad mood.

He caught the short stick that was swung at him with one hand, and was about to say something when he suddenly seemed to realize something and let go of it. After hesitating for less than a second, he turned his head to the right.

The next second after Tsukino and Chiya turned their heads, a small knife that somehow flew out narrowly grazed their faces—it didn't cut their cheeks, but it did cut off a few strands of their hair.

He didn't mourn for a moment the small tuft of hair he had shaved off.

Next to arrive on the battlefield were the spirit that appeared out of nowhere, grabbing Tsukino and Chiya's trouser legs to restrict their movements, the window that suddenly exploded beside them and the flying glass shards, and the large rat that appeared in the corridor with agile movements and jumped in an attempt to dart over their face.

Tsukino and Qianye: "..."

Having avoided these unintentional yet unexpected events one after another, Tsukino and Chiya fell silent.

This absurd yet undeniably real attack method was both absurd and strangely familiar to him. So, it really was you...?

What just happened was probably relatively minor.

After returning home last night, Tsukino and Chiya investigated the other party's past deeds overnight. They thought to themselves expressionlessly that although they had successfully dodged those accidents just now, if a meteorite suddenly fell from the sky and hit them accurately, they, as ordinary people without any special abilities, would really be helpless.

As expected of you, Komaeda Nagito.

But since this is Komaeda, why don't we consider knocking it unconscious first?

Although Tsukino and Chiya weren't sure if Komaeda Nagito's strange "luck" would be less effective after he was knocked unconscious, they figured it wouldn't be a problem to give it a try.

However, if we were to place Komaeda Nagito's neck on the strange creature in front of us, it would be...

While successfully dodging a bat that suddenly attacked from behind, Tsukino and Chiya carefully examined the strange creature before them.

Or to be more precise, it was the strange-looking Komaeda Nagito that he had encountered on the first floor of the old school building that appeared in his field of vision.

Komaeda Nagito is not short; in fact, he could be described as tall.

However, the odd one on the first floor, although it looked particularly strange due to the disproportion between its head and body, was actually a very strong and tall muscular man, much taller and stronger than Komaeda Nagito himself.

Just as Tsukino and Chiya roughly deduced the location of Komaeda Nagito's neck, a sudden change occurred with the "strange" creature before them.

The strange creature in front of him accidentally stepped on the rat that had jumped out and tried to dart across his face earlier, but had now "gloriously sacrificed" itself. He lost control and slipped, his heavy body falling heavily onto the corridor floor with a loud thud in the quiet environment.

"Weird" seemed to have taken a pretty hard fall. Instead of getting up and standing up again, he sat down where he had fallen, uttering a bewildered sound: "Eh? This is... Tsukino Kazuki? And Ohma-kun. Ah... I see, so that's how it is."

Tsukino and Chiya: "So you actually woke up like that after being knocked unconscious?" That's really lucky; you recovered to a normal state before being knocked out.

Komaeda Nagito, is this also part of your lucky streak?

At that moment, another "strange" entity, whose true identity was Komaeda Nagito but who appeared as a bizarre being in Chiya's view, also spoke.

This statement seems somewhat ambiguous.

In fact, Tsukino and Chiya had already heard the voices from the two "strange" beings in front of them.

It was nothing more than things like "kill," "kill you," and "kill everyone, then live on." Long before Tsukino and Chiya realized that the strange things in their field of vision weren't real strange things, he couldn't be bothered to listen carefully to what those "strange things" were saying.

It's definitely not what they actually said.

Now, Tsukino and Chiya can hear their true words.

Then, the chainsaw monster that Tsukino and Chiya had seen on the second floor spoke in the voice of Ouma Kokichi: "Hehehe, what a wonderful performance! Soda should see that he wasn't the only one who suffered Komaeda's lucky attack~!"

No, it's still too strange.

Tsukino and Chiya silently grumbled to themselves.

The scene where the "weird" made sounds like Oma Kokichi and Komaeda Nagito was really bizarre.

That's right, from the moment we started, it was all just an illusion caused by the strange phenomenon.

Under the influence of the strange power, Tsukino and Chiya saw Ohma Kokichi and Komaeda Nagito, who were also brought to the old school building corridor, as monsters.

In that situation, the moment after receiving a terrifying message from "Hyuga Hajime" without any signal, he was left alone in the corridor of the old school building. In the corridor, besides himself, there were only two strange beings muttering "kill," and the influence of their clearly abnormal killing intent...

Isn't this how a self-destructive conflict is formed?

If Tsukino and Chiya hadn't realized the true identity of the "strange" figure before them in time, things might have turned out differently...

That's what really made him angry.

It's truly a disgusting and bizarre thing.

However, it would be a gross underestimation of oneself to think that this level of deception would fool him.

Even ordinary people aren't so easily fooled. Could it possibly be done?

Although, according to Tsukino and Chiya's habits, he wouldn't kill when dealing with monsters... but monsters and humans have completely different tolerance levels.

Compared to the supernatural, the human body is far too fragile. Some injuries that are harmless to the supernatural may be fatal to humans.

Fortunately, this did not happen.

Such situations, where people are treated as non-human and attacked under the influence of negative emotions... Although Tsukino and Chiya had never encountered them, Mr. Hachishiki of Kujo-kan had personally experienced them.

Once upon a time at Konoeen Academy in H City, Yashiki Kazuo mistook a student for a hideous monster and accidentally beat her to death... Of course, there was more to the story than meets the eye; the girl whom Yashiki Kazuo believed he had killed by mistake actually did not die for various reasons.

However, this past event is not the focus now; the focus is—

Such things had happened before, and because of this, Tsukino and Chiya, having heard about Yashiki Kazuo's experience, were already prepared for this kind of situation. That's why he was able to react so quickly when a similar development actually occurred.

Wang Ma Xiaoji had also heard about this, and he probably noticed some clues, or perhaps for other reasons, he did not prioritize attacking after arriving in the corridor, despite the influence of his killing intent.

Yes, that's right... Judging from what just happened, after the three of them were sent to this place, everyone looked at the other two as if they were seeing ugly and bizarre monsters.

As for Komaeda Nagito... I had never heard of Yashiki Kazuo's past experiences.

However, Tsukino and Chiya speculated that what they saw at the time was probably not an attack—someone with that unique "lucky" talent would not use such a simple and unadorned method of chopping people with a short stick.

Moreover, given Komaeda Nagito's personality, he would probably just stand there and wait for his enemies to fall into danger due to various strange accidents and coincidences.

So just now... Tsukino and Chiya speculated that they probably just saw a short stick coming at them, but the truth is still uncertain.

However, compared to this...

After they both figured out what had happened, while Tsukino and Chiya were lost in thought, Ohma Kokichi, who wasn't usually a man of many words, started chatting with Komaeda Nagito, and there was no hint of lingering fear in their conversation.

Nagito Komaeda: "I never imagined that supernatural beings could possess such power as to make people around them see them as supernatural beings... But everyone here is truly a person of extraordinary talent! Before I could even figure it out, they had already realized it. The way everyone looked after overcoming such despair... it was truly dazzling! Hope was shining brightly!"

Ouma Kokichi: "Eh~! I didn't expect it to really be Tsukino and Komaeda! Damn it, I shouldn't have hesitated back then, I should have taken this opportunity to beat them up a bit more. Anyway, I could have used 'Oh, I didn't mean to, I really just thought you were weirdos' as an excuse~ I missed out on something fun~"

Well, rather than chatting, these two are clearly just talking to themselves.

But... as expected, I must have been affected by the illusion that was already in my field of vision, which is why these two people in front of me still look strange. However, judging from what they are saying, everything in front of them should have returned to normal.

But right in front of them... looking at the two strange figures in their field of vision, who were speaking in the mannerisms and voices commonly used by Ouma Shokichi and Komaeda Nagito, Tsukino and Chiya inexplicably found the scene somewhat comical and amusing.

Tsukino and Qianye: "...poof."

Wang Ma Xiaoji: "Huh? That's suspicious. Did Kozukino just look at my face and let out a weird laugh while she was expressionless?"

Tsukino and Chiya: "Um, no, you misheard."

Wangma Xiaoji: "Oh...is that so?"

Wang Ma Xiaoji narrowed his eyes slightly, his face full of suspicion. But before he could say anything, some other noises broke out on this floor.

The three of them looked in unison toward the door from which the noise had come.

They were brought in on the first floor of the old school building, with the main gate tightly closed not far away.

Now, the door has been opened.

"It seems you're all alright, that's great."

Before they could see who it was, the first thing Tsukino and Chiya heard was the familiar voice of their classmate.

The brown-haired boy, wearing the preparatory course uniform that is common in schools, stood at the newly opened gate with a gentle smile on his face, looking no different from usual.

But Tsukino and Chiya felt that something was different.

He stared at Hyuga Hajime standing in the entryway for a few seconds, then asked with certainty, "You're not Hyuga, so who are you?"

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Author's Note: Qianye: Who are you? Please support Hundred Days of War (just kidding) [doge emoji]