late at night.

Gintama High School.

"Born from darkness, from darkness to darkness, filth and impurity are all cleansed away."

A pitch-black tent descended from overhead, enveloping the teaching building of Gintama High School.

Sakata Ginpachi took off his white suit, put on a white coat, and walked around in slippers, looking very nonchalant.

He said firmly: "It's not an illusion. There really is a ghost in this crappy school of ours. But, no one except me believes it, so I had no choice but to call you here at this time."

Al, Gojo Satoru and Geto followed him in the dark corridor. Gojo Satoru yawned continuously, and Al and Geto did not look nervous at all.

They did not feel the presence of the cursed spirit, and based on Sakata Ginpachi's extreme fear of ghosts, they reasonably suspected that the so-called ghost was just the person scaring himself.

"Hey, don't look so unbelieving." Sakata Ginpachi said, holding a cigarette-shaped lollipop in his mouth, "Although I'm not a sorcerer, I'm a psychic after all, right? You guys should take it seriously."

The blond-haired, blue-eyed boy said expressionlessly, "It's not that there are other problems, but this boss, it's really hard for us to do anything for you with the small amount of money you offer."

"What? You don't want Atong's autograph? Do you know how much one of Atong's autographs can be sold for?"

Al turned to look at him and said, "Boss, do you know how much a special sorcerer usually gets for a mission?"

"How many?"

Al stretched out his hand and gestured a number. Sakata Ginpachi was silent for a few seconds, "Are you still hiring sorcerers?"

Al nodded.

"Yes, but those with diabetes are not allowed."

Behind them, Geto Suguru couldn't help but chuckle.

Sakata Ginpachi scratched his hair and explained, "I don't really have diabetes. Although I'm almost there, I haven't been officially diagnosed yet."

"Huh?" Al asked in confusion, "But that's not what your students said."

"It's an excuse, an excuse. I can say I have diabetes so I can turn down a lot of unnecessary social activities. Tsk, I don't want to go drink with them after get off work, and we have to pay for it on a AA basis."

——Your focus is only on the AA system.

Xia Yujie thought calmly.

Al suddenly realized, "So that's how it is. This is the wisdom of adults."

"Yes, that's right. This is the wisdom of the office workers who have no choice but to do so. Well, Gin now finally understands why Haibara ran away to become a sorcerer..."

Holding a lollipop in his mouth, he complained, "If I hadn't been afraid of ghosts since I was a child, I would have become a psychic. But, I wanted to ask from the beginning."

Sakata Ginpachi pointed at Al and said, "Who are you?"

The blond-haired, blue-eyed boy said innocently, "I'm Al."

"Hey, isn't that right? Isn't the guy named Al the one with purple hair and a little crazy?"

Al looked at him in confusion, and Xia Yujie quickly patted Sakata Ginpachi's shoulder and whispered to him, "Shh, don't tell him that. Anyway, this guy is the same guy as last time. If you don't believe me, look at your eyes."

Sakata Ginpachi: “…”

No, this is only the fourth time I have met you. How can I tell whether it is the same person from the shape of the eyes?

Hiss, come to think of it, when they first met on the rooftop of the hospital, there was indeed a blond boy there!

Sakata Ginpachi asked suspiciously, "Let's just assume it's the same person, but how did he do it? Makeup? Cosplay?"

Al: “…”

In a sense, Sakata Ginpachi is truly a genius.

The battle-hardened COSER, who was very experienced in acting crazy and stupid, pretended that he heard nothing.

As expected, his Master Geto Suguru consciously began to patch up his settings: "Pfft, he's sick."

Al: “…”

Sakata Ginpachi: “…”

Sakata Ginpachi was silent, and seeing this, Kagome Kai gave him a reassuring look that said "we all understand".

Sakata Ginpachi: “…”

No, I don't understand at all! Hey, you're also good at talking to yourself?!

Just as they passed by a classroom, a series of strange noises suddenly came from the classroom. The fast-paced melody was very magical, making people unable to help but sway their bodies along. However, such noises should not appear in a teaching building in the middle of the night no matter how you think about it.

Everyone paused, and Sakata Ginpachi suddenly said nervously: "What? Ghost? Is it coming now? No no no, wait, Gin is not ready yet!"

Xia Yujie carefully felt it and shook his head: "I didn't feel any fluctuations in the cursed power."

Sakata Ginpachi said: "No, what if it's that one? That one, that one, the ghost without cursed power who died with his eyes wide open!"

Xia Yujie complained: "If it's just a dead soul, it can't hurt the living."

Al made a gesture to keep quiet, walked over lightly, and gently pushed open the door of the classroom.

In the classroom, a young man with long hair was carrying a tape recorder and rapping passionately: "If you want to do it, do it now, zura! If you want to do it, do it now, zura! Expelling foreigners is JOY, JOY is expelling foreigners——"

Al said expressionlessly, "Mr. Ginpachi, someone is practicing rap in the classroom at midnight."

Sakata Ginpachi: “…”

Sakata Ginpachi kicked the boy who was rapping passionately in the classroom, knocking him and his recorder to the ground.

"ah--!"

The long-haired boy was forced to die together with the video camera.

"Ah, great, the demon in this classroom has been defeated. Let's go to the next location."

Sakata Ginpachi straightened his collar and walked out calmly, "Then let's continue. Where were we talking about just now?"

Gojo Satoru, who had been showing no interest, tilted his head and said, "I think the guy in there is also a student from your school."

"It's okay, it's okay, don't worry about him. It's better for that idiot who practices rap in an empty classroom in the middle of the night to cross the Sanzu River early."

"I see." Al understood and said, "That idiot must be your student."

Sakata Ginpachi did not deny it.

When they passed another classroom, they heard a series of creepy whispers, as if they were cursing something. Sakata Ginpachi froze in an instant: "Curse?!"

Xia Yujie said with a strange expression: "There was no cursed power fluctuation this time either."

Sakata Ginpachi shook his head violently: "No no no no no, this time the feeling is really evil, really, really evil! Feel it carefully again!"

Xia Yujie: “…”

Al looked at Geto Suguru, who nodded slightly. Then the blond-haired, blue-eyed boy once again walked over with light steps and quietly opened a gap.

In the dark classroom, a very evil magic circle was painted with red paint. A black-haired boy was tied up in the middle of the magic circle. Another chestnut-haired boy was using an iron hammer to nail something into the black-haired boy's ID photo.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

"Die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, Hijikata..."

Al turned to look at Sakata Ginpachi, "I bet you a hundred dollars that this is also your student."

Sakata Ginpachi peeked out timidly.

Sure enough, those two idiots were indeed his students.

"Hey! What are you two idiots doing again? Please, teacher, please go home quickly! Don't stay in school so late at night! Do you think school is your home?!"

"It's Mr. Ginpachi." The chestnut-haired boy said innocently, "It's like this. Today's history class mentioned the historical figure Hijikata Toshizo, so I'm particularly curious about the relationship between Hijikata Toshizo and Hijikata Jushiro. I'm using a magic circle to summon the ghost of Hijikata Toshizo."

Al and the other two: "..."

Although it was unclear what the situation was, the evil aura that permeated this young man was enough to become a curse.

Hijikata Jushiro is trapped in the magic circle: “Mmmmmmm…”

Sakata Ginpachi was puzzled and asked, "Then why did you kidnap him?"

The young man with chestnut hair smiled grimly: "This is a sacrifice. I plan to use Hijikata Toshizo's blood to summon Hijikata Toshizo. Ah~ Mr. Toshizo will definitely be very happy. It's better for a character who rides on the popularity of a historical figure to die sooner."

Sakata Ginpachi: "Hey! You also made fun of Okita Souji's character! You should apologize to me too! Apologize to Okita Souji right now! Since I taught you, you have never written the names of the Shinsengumi members correctly!!"

Xia Yujie was silent for a while, then asked tentatively, "Are you sure it's the Shinsengumi, not the Shinsengumi?"

Sakata Ginpachi held his head in pain and said, "Look, look, Gin, I'm completely wrong - forget it, do whatever you want."

He slammed the classroom door shut, ignoring the mumbling cries for help coming from inside.

Xia Yujie sighed: "This basically confirms that there are no cursed spirits in this school, right?"

Gojo Satoru said unhappily, "Yeah, we didn't see any cursed spirits, but the idiots were waiting in line for us. Damn, if it wasn't for Owee, I wouldn't have bothered to come here."

Sakata Ginpachi: “…”

Al tilted his head and said, "Why do you think there is a cursed spirit in the school? Does your school also have legends like Hanako in the toilet and running mannequins?"

"That's not the case." Sakata Ginpachi thought for a moment, "In fact, the rooftop of our school has always been locked. It was not until the winter vacation when the teaching building was renovated that the rooftop lock was reopened. Since then, I have been fascinated by the swimming pool on the rooftop."

"swimming pool?"

"Yes. It's very stressful to teach third graders. Yin and I often go swimming in the swimming pool. Until one day, I suddenly felt like going to the rooftop in the daytime with my swimming trunks. As a result, I found that there was no water in the swimming pool on the rooftop. It was full of accumulated debris and paint. It was basically a garbage dump."

“…”

Wow.

Al blinked and said, "Wait, weren't you teaching third grade last year? Why are you still teaching third grade this semester?"

"Hahaha, because our class set fire to the teaching building and blew up the auditorium on the day of the final exam, the whole class was held back, including the teacher." Sakata Ginpachi muttered to himself, "Fortunately, no one was killed, otherwise the whole class would have gone to jail together..."

Al: “…”

Gojo Satoru & Kayuki Kagome: "..."

Are ordinary schools nowadays so exciting?

Wait, is it because of you that the school renovated the teaching building during the winter vacation?

As they were talking, they finally reached the entrance to the rooftop.

“It’s right here.”

Sakata Ginpachi carefully pushed open the door, and a swimming pool occupying half of the rooftop appeared in front of them. The moonlight illuminated this mysterious swimming pool. The swimming pool was clean and clear, and did not look like a "garbage dump" at all. Kagura and Shimura Shinpachi were swimming happily in the swimming pool.

"Ah~ ...

"Shinbaji, I'm going to spit in the swimming pool!"

Al was stunned, "Ah."

Xia Yujie was stunned, "Ah."

Gojo Satoru was also stunned, "Ah, it really is a cursed spirit."

Just as Sakata Ginpachi was about to scold his two brats, Al flipped his wrist and rushed into the swimming pool wielding a lightsaber.

Bang!

Amidst the splashing water, a cursed spirit made of water rose from the ground and angrily threw Kagura and Shimura Shinpachi out of the water.

“Aaaaaaaaa——”

"Kagura! Shinpachichi!"

Sakata Ginpachi flew up and caught his unlucky children. The next second, the cursed spirit suddenly spit out a fountain!

“Aaaah! It spit, Kagura, it’s all your fault! It must have heard you trying to spit on it!”

"Damn it! If I had known, I would have gone to the bathroom right in the pool—"

Before he could finish his words, a powerful stream of water shot towards them!

“Aaaaaaaaah stop talking!”

"So, you guys went to Gintama High School together last night and tamed a new cursed spirit?"

In the classroom of Tokyo Jujutsu High School, Gojo Satoru had fallen asleep on the table, and Al was yawning in his seat, but he was still stubbornly checking his phone.

Summer Oil Jie sneezed.

"That's right. By the way, Naoko, do you want to go to Gintama High School to play on the weekend?"

Ieiri Naoko was stunned, "Why?"

"Didn't the previous Owee stop selling because of the fighting game? I heard that it was resumed a while ago. Ginpachi-san and his team finally ordered Owee, so they invited us to play games together. In fact, we went to help yesterday because of Owee..."

Ieiri Naoko said uninterestedly, "I do have some free time on the weekend, but I don't really want to spend it with you idiots."

Xia Yujie choked and said, "How ruthless, Nitro."

Al looked up from his phone and took the initiative to invite us, which was rare. "Let's go together, Nazo. They are said to have six people, and we only have six if you and Nanami Haibara are included. Come on, Go-chan is really looking forward to it."

Ieiri Naoko gave a suspicious look: "How many sweets did Gojo bribe you with?"

Arqian said: "Not much, not much, just a limited amount of Xijiufu."

Ieiri Naoko: “…”

There is nothing to be humble about!

"And as for the games, I'm actually looking forward to it."

The short-haired girl asked in confusion, "What did Nanami and Haibara say?"

Al replied: "Habara agreed, Nanami didn't agree, but it doesn't matter, we will still take him with us on the weekends."

Ieiri Naoko: “…”

Don’t persecute honest people!

Xia Yujie laughed, "Now Owee can place orders online, so we bought two specially for them, just in time for them to play games together on the weekend."

Ieiri Nishiko held a cigarette in his mouth - of course he didn't light it.

"I don't understand your love for games... But if you insist, I can go. Anyway, what is Owee? I bought it on Christmas Eve and I haven't even opened the package yet."

Al was shocked and said, "You didn't play at all? What a waste of niter."

Geto said, "If it's Nozomi, it's normal that she has never played the game before. It just so happens that most of the people at Gintama High School are new to the game, so it's a good opportunity for everyone to start from scratch together on the weekend."

Al's eyes lit up, "Jack, let's try the random mode this time!"

"sure."

Ieiri Naoko was puzzled and asked, "What is the random mode?"

Al explained to him, "It's a difficulty that can only be experienced in team mode. We didn't play it before because we couldn't get enough people. I read in the guide that the random mode would be extremely random."

"...Hearing you say that, I feel uneasy."

Al said confidently: "Don't worry, Nitro-chan, we are your teammates."

Ieiri Nishiko smiled.

"Well, it's because you are my teammates that I feel more uneasy."

In the blink of an eye, it was the weekend. Six students from Tokyo Jujutsu High School took the bus to Gintama High School, and they gathered at the Kendo Club of Gintama High School.

"Yo, here it comes!"

In the dojo, Sakata Ginpachi waved to them and introduced them to the students: "Let's get to know each other. These are our opponents today. The blond foreigner is Al, and then there are Gojo Satoru, Geto Suguru, Ieiri Naoko, Haibara Yu, and..."

Nanami Kento nodded and said, "Just call me Nanami."

Sakata Ginpachi smiled and said, "He looks like a serious person!"

Nanami Kento: “…”

This world where a decent person turns into an alien is too magical no matter how you think about it.

Huihara Yu said warmly: "It's been a long time, Mr. Ginpachi!"

Ieiri Naoko raised her eyebrows and said, "I didn't expect you to be the teacher in charge of the kendo club."

Sakata Ginpachizu said nonchalantly, "Well, I practiced it for a few years when I was a kid, and I've almost forgotten it. But it's still no problem to teach a few students."

Gojo Satoru was interested and asked, "Are these all your students?"

"Yeah, that's right. These are Kagura, Shinpachi, Okita Sougo, Hijikata Jushiro, and Katsura Kotaro, all the idiots from the Kendo Club."

"So, all the guys who went crazy that night were your students."

“Ha, hahahahaha…”

Al's eyes sparkled.

"Ginpachi-san, shall we play random mode?"

"Oh, sure. I'd rather try that one, too."

Hijikata Toshiro was stunned. "Hey, wait, if we use the random mode, it might be a disaster."

"The luck of most people is not that bad. It's rare to have so many opponents. Just play the random mode once, Duochuanjun."

"Who is Duochuanjun?"

Okita Sougo added fuel to the fire: "Are you scared, Hijikata-kun? Yes, some people might just turn into mayonnaise by chance. After all, it's Lucky E!"

"Huh? What do you mean? Are you looking down on mayonnaise? Hey, apologize to mayonnaise!"

Katsura Kotaro, the boy who was rapping in the classroom at midnight that day, was shocked and said, "Wait, aren't we here to play the Famicom?!"

Everyone: “…”

Gojo Satoru raised an eyebrow: "I say, are your teammates okay? One of them isn't even here to fight Owee, right?"

Sakata Ginpachi gave Katsura Kotaro a slap as if nothing had happened. "It's okay. This antique from the last century is just used to make up the numbers."

Al turned to Ieiri Nitro and urged, "Nitrosa-chan!"

Jialiu Naoko understood and took out Al's Owee from her backpack, "Here."

Geto Summer also took out his and Gojo Satoru's Owee from his backpack: "Shall we start?"

"Ah, let's get started. The winner will be decided in one day, so let's see which team defeats the thieves on the mountain first!"

“OK.”

"no problem."

"Understood."

Sakata Gintoki and the students brought the display screen, and Geto explained how to use Owee to those who didn't know how to use it, "... Finally, you have to put on these glasses, and you can at least feel like you are in the scene."

Huiyuan Xiong sighed: "It's like a holographic online game."

"Hahaha, the technology isn't that advanced right now, but - well, there will be holographic online games sooner or later."

The six of them formed a team and gave the captain position to the most reliable one, Takeshi Kagome. After thinking about it, Takeshi Kagome named their team "Berserker Squadron".

Next, the six people each gave themselves an ID and officially entered the game. After the 30-second reading ended, the scenery in front of them changed, and the six people stood in an ordinary town.

“…”

They looked at each other. All six of them had put on new gloves from the game, with their respective IDs on their heads. Strangely, only Ieiri Shoko was holding a sword among the six.

Al was shocked.

"Glass, you got a weapon by chance! You're so lucky!"

Ieiri Naoko was stunned, "Is this also random?"

"Yes." Gojo Satoru rummaged through his backpack, took out a macaron, and threw it directly into his mouth: "I randomly found a blood-recovering food. Really, it's useless at the beginning of the game. Who needs blood recovery at the beginning of the game?"

Al was surprised: "I got the Combat Power Detector by chance! This is a super rare item!"

Nanami Kento said, "I came across this town's map by chance."

Huihara Yu said happily: "Here is my shield!"

Gojo Satoru stroked his chin and said seriously, "This way we can rely on Nitsuko-chan and Huibara to scavenge for equipment. Let's try to get everyone a weapon first."

"Wait..." Xia Yujie said with a strange expression: "Wait, wait! I didn't get anything randomly! Is there a bug?!"

"Huh?"

Everyone looked at Geto Xia Yu at the same time, only to see that Geto Xia Yu had empty hands and an empty backpack. They stared at Geto Xia Yu for a long time, stared at each other for a while, and then their eyes all moved to the top of his head. The atmosphere became inexplicably heavy.

After a while, Al said, "Jack, we know what you came up with."

Xia Yujie was immediately overwhelmed by a bad premonition. He showed an expression that looked like he wanted to ask something but didn't want to: "...What?"

Al pointed to the hollow red bar under his ID.

"Your health bar has only 1 left."

Xia Yujie: “…”

Gojo Satoru: “Haha ...