"After they entered here, where did they leave?" Kudo Shinichi thought as he looked at the darkened screen.
It can't be from the gate.
It can only be from within.
After entering this room on the top floor, I never came out again...
"Is there any secret room or secret passage in this room?" Kudo Shinichi guessed.
"You'll know if you look for it." The impatient Hattori Heiji had already started searching.
The rest of the people also spread out to search.
Kudo Shinichi tried to open the past records in another area, but was given a warning.
[Warning, the main system has insufficient energy and is about to stop running, warning warning warning——]
The font color of the prompt is bright red.
Then the stand completely darkened, the blue shimmer disappeared, and the three-dimensional image composed of virtual lines also disappeared.
There is only one model of the building left, standing alone on the stand.
"Isn't this useless?" Hattori Heiji, who was knocking on the wall and listening to the sound, stood up and asked, his face full of confusion "Is this thing so useless?"
"I have persisted for so long, so I can understand even if the battery runs out." Kudo Shinichi thought for a while, shook his head and said.
After all, I have persisted for so many years.
"The sound here is different." The blond man stood in front of a wall, raised his hand to signal, and knocked on the wall again.
"Treading on the Stars"
This time everyone heard the sound.
This is the sound that means there is nothing behind it.
"How do we get in?" Hattori Heiji touched the tightly sewn and flawless wall, and really couldn't understand where the door was.
They also didn't really want to try the quality of the wall.
After all, I had interviewed outside the building before.
It took so many grenades and rocket launchers to blast the door open.
The inside is probably about the same.
But they no longer have grenades and rocket launchers.
There aren't even ventilation ducts in this room.
No matter where you look, it is different from other rooms, has no connection, and exists independently.
"Click."
Everyone turned around suddenly and saw that the door they walked in was also closed.
"Are we... locked up?" Hattori Heiji said hesitantly.
The screen that had gone dark in the room flickered and lit up again.
What appears on the screen...
He is a boy with black fluffy slightly curly hair and kite-colored eyes.
"Tsushima——" Hakuba Tan looked at the person on the screen and shouted.
Toru Amuro and Muzo Midorikawa looked at the boy on the screen silently, waiting for each other's performance.
What else does Kaa want to play?
But in the eyes of others, the two of them were so happy that they were speechless because they saw the person they were looking for unexpectedly.
Shuji Tsushima can be seen everywhere, but he doesn't look very good.
He was covered in blood and looked like he had been beaten.
"Are you really not going to join us? You know, I still appreciate your talent." A man wearing a red coat, with white hair and red eyes stood in front of him and asked.
"...disgusting." The young man lying on the ground chuckled and said weakly but disgustedly.
"Bang--" A hand grabbed his hair, picked up his head and hit him hard on the ground.
"What did you say?" the man asked with a smile.
"This guy..." Hattori Heiji gritted his teeth.
Kudo Shinichi was silent, his hands clenched into fists and trembling slightly.
Anger, unbearable anger.
Toru Amuro and Midorikawa frowned under their sunglasses.
Shouldn't have left Kaa.
The guy started again.
No matter what the reason is, they always feel...
The other person only does these things to hurt himself.
"...Kill me." The black-haired boy's eyes were stained with blood, and his voice was low and cold.
"You are a rare genius, how could we be willing to kill you?" The man once again pulled the boy's head by his hair and touched his cheek with one hand.
"You don't know, right? Your current appearance can be seen by your companions. They must be very angry now, what do you think? Is there anything you want to say to them?" the man said playfully.
The boy's ruddy left eye shrank suddenly, as if he had seen something horrifying, and then darkened completely.
"...Actually, I still care about face." The young man, who was covered in bruises and blood, smiled.
"You're like this..." He put his hand on the back of the man's hand.
"It makes me a little embarrassed." He did a backflip, grabbed the man's collar and slammed him to the ground.
"So-" At some point, he got the gun in the man's hand.
"If you don't kill me, I will kill you." He tilted his head slightly, smiled, and pulled the trigger.
"Death in the game world is real death, and it's the same for people like you, right? After all, you are pursuing excitement." He looked at Tian Linggai's shot body on the ground and said lightly.
At the same time, Kudo Shinichi, Hattori Heiji, and Hakuba Tan all seemed to have seen something horrifying, their eyes full of complexity.
Then they fell into silence together.
Shuji Tsushima killed someone.
Even though it's a game, it's real death.
But why...
But in their hearts they just feel relieved?
I even thought it was a good thing Shuji Tsushima killed that man.
Otherwise, they might be tempted to kill that person in revenge for him.
But……
Why would they think of killing for revenge?
"Let me see where they saw me..." The figure of the boy on the screen was looking for something.
Getting closer and closer to the screen.
"Found it..." He faced the camera directly, staring expressionlessly for a long time, and then showed a somewhat relaxed smile.
"I was just trying to get information from him, so I didn't have a counterattack team. It wasn't because I couldn't defeat him. Do you understand?" He explained.
The people who were still a little inexplicably heavy showed a little smile.
"But Kudo-senpai, Hattori-senpai, and Tan...haven't the three of you shown your true skills? It's been so long, and it still hasn't been solved?" The boy on the screen continued to ramble.
"As a prisoner, I couldn't help but kill the kidnappers to save myself." He spread his hands seemingly helplessly.
"Wait until I come to you and lead you to solve this game." He said this and walked towards the door behind him.
After he left, the scene was not interrupted.
The body lying on the ground gradually started to move.
He stood up abruptly, and the blood hole on his forehead healed quickly.
He leaned closer to the screen and showed a weird smile.
"Once the game starts, it never ends."
"Bang." A gunshot sounded behind him.
The newly healed brain was punctured again, and blood spattered on the screen.
"I know that people like you will open back doors for yourself even when playing games. Others will really die, but you won't. It's really too much..." The young man who was supposed to leave came back and stood at the door with a tone of voice.