Kaguya-sama: Love Is War wants me to turn myself in.

That being the case...

"Let go of my friend first."

Amamiya Natsuki pried open the vengeful spirit girl's pale, cold fingers, pulled Shinomiya Kaguya and Fujiwara Chika behind him, and then stretched out his right hand: "Hush money, give me the money."

"..."

The vengeful spirit girl clenched her fists, her body radiating black energy like a volcano about to erupt. After trembling for a while, she finally swallowed her anger and handed over hush money.

"She looks like she's about to cry," Fujiwara Chika whispered. "Did we go a little too far?"

“That’s really going too far.” Amamiya Natsuki said in a low voice, rolling up her sleeves. “They only gave me one dollar as hush money. They’re looking down on us. We can’t let this go.”

"No!" Fujiwara Chika quickly grabbed Amamiya's arm and pulled him away. "Let's go!"

"..."

The cafeteria was not full.

Besides a few unlucky players, there were also more than a dozen students from the vengeful spirit school. Amamiya Natsuki quickly discovered that these vengeful spirit students were genuinely poor.

Some people only have one coin, and even the rich only have three or four. It's enough to make anyone who hears it feel sad and want to cry.

"That's it."

The three of them quickly met up at the food pick-up window.

"Time is running out," said Natsuki Amamiya. "Finish the meal as soon as possible."

Kaguya Shinomiya remained calm and composed, her tone steady: "Ten minutes remain."

"Hey, what would you like to eat, Amamiya-san?"

Fujiwara Chika asked curiously.

"To be honest, I don't want to eat any of them." Amamiya Natsuki picked up a bone coin, tossed it into the air, and caught it with a snap. "Normal face up... then I'll have borscht."

“Wait a minute, these coins look exactly the same on both sides,” Fujiwara Chika couldn’t help but say. “There’s no difference between heads and tails, is there?”

"Watson, you actually discovered the blind spot."

"I'm not Watson, please call me Sherlock Holmes."

"..."

Natsuki Amamiya calmly handed over a coin: "Head Chef, please give me a serving of borscht."

"Please wait."

The pig-headed butcher took the coin and quickly handed over a borscht with unidentified ingredients, black mist floating on its surface that occasionally condensed into black skulls.

“Head Chef,” Fujiwara Chika raised her right hand and said in a clear voice, “I would also like a borscht. When I was in elementary school, I had a cold one winter and I kept coughing. My mother made me some Chinese medicine, which looks similar to the borscht in front of me.”

Hey, it's true that traditional Chinese medicine tastes awful, but it shouldn't produce weird skull images floating in the air!

Pay in one hand and deliver in one hand.

The pig-headed butcher only recognized coins and didn't care at all about the three people's human identities. He quickly handed out a bowl of borscht.

"Kaguya-chan, what would you like to eat?" Fujiwara Chika asked.

"I……"

Kaguya Shinomiya moved her pink lips, a rare hint of hesitation appearing on her face. To be honest, both dishes looked terrible; even the guard dogs kept by the Shinomiya family wouldn't eat them.

Unfortunately, there was no other choice.

"I'd like a bowl of borscht." Kaguya Shinomiya took a light breath, maintaining her cool and composed expression.

At least you can learn from Fujiwara and drink it down in one gulp with your eyes closed.

Food pickup complete.

The three of them walked to a corner and sat down.

"I'm gonna start now."

Fujiwara Chika clasped her hands together and whispered, a bitter expression on her face: "I ate tamagoyaki and omelet rice and drank two glasses of milk before I left home this morning. Then I secretly ate a bag of Baumkuchen. If I eat something now, will I gain weight?"

You're actually worried about gaining weight? Your thought process is definitely different from ordinary people!

"Don't worry." Kaguya Shinomiya looked over coldly, "It's not even as much as the snacks you sneak into during class. Even if it turns into fat, it will only grow on your chest."

Fujiwara Chika clutched her chest, her voice troubled: "Then I wish it were on my arms or thighs. My chest feels too heavy; it's even inconvenient to squat down and tie my shoelaces now."

Click.

Kaguya Shinomiya nearly crushed the chopsticks in her hand.

Ignoring their whispers, Natsuki Amamiya looked down at the borscht in front of her, stared at it for a few seconds, and then a line of text slowly appeared.

[Borscht with unknown ingredients is safe to consume as it has no toxic side effects and can replenish energy. However, excessive inhalation of the smoke may cause hallucinations; please keep your mind clear when drinking it.]

"It is indeed edible."

Amamiya Natsuki felt relieved.

Those unlucky players had already received their food, and some had even eaten most of it. They looked lively and showed no signs of dying. Now that everyone was completely relieved, Amamiya Natsuki picked up her bowl and took a sip of borscht.

It was bland and tasteless, like plain water.

Despite the mist, I couldn't feel any temperature.

"It would be better if it were spicier and hotter..."

Amamiya Natsuki thought to herself subconsciously.

"Ok?"

As she took her second sip, Natsuki Amamiya raised an eyebrow.

This bowl of borscht suddenly became spicy and calorie-rich.

what happened?

Amamiya Natsuki quickly realized that this must be the so-called 'hallucination' she had just seen.

Essentially, it's still just an ordinary bowl of borscht, but it can create illusions based on people's thoughts. No wonder everyone in the cafeteria, whether they are vengeful students or unlucky players, finds eating borscht as bitter as eating bitter herbs. If they think the borscht tastes bad, then it will taste worse and worse.

"It's so bitter, it's unbearably bitter!"

The voice of Chika Fujiwara rang in my ears.

Amamiya Natsuki looked up and saw the pink-haired girl sticking out her pink tongue and fanning herself with her right hand.

"You drank it all in one go?" Amamiya Natsuki was shocked.

“My mother used to say that Chinese medicine should be drunk in one go.” Fujiwara Chika raised her chin upon hearing this. “If you drink it in small sips, it will only taste worse and worse, so I pinched my nose and drank it all in one go.”

To think that I actually found the correct solution! A fool who's grown up like this must have a luck level higher than the average person.

Amamiya Natsuki suddenly noticed that Shinomiya Kaguya was acting very strangely.

The cold, long-haired girl with black hair bit her lower lip with her pearly teeth, remaining silent. Her right hand was stiffly raised in mid-air, and her wine-red eyes were misty, with glistening dewdrops clearly visible swirling inside, as if they were about to roll down at any moment.

[How terrifying, how terrifying, how terrifying...]

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Chapter 13 Drink it all, don't spill a drop.

"Shinomiya-kun, what are you doing?"

Amamiya Natsuki couldn't help but ask.

"..."

Kaguya Shinomiya did not answer, but looked at him with teary eyes.

You're the legendary Kaguya-hime, who bleeds but doesn't shed tears, so what's with this teary-eyed, almost weeping expression?

It's just like a primary school student who accidentally ate an extremely bitter green pepper, wanted to spit it out, but under the stern gaze of an adult, could only swallow it down with a wronged expression, and forced back their tears!

"Hey, Kaguya-chan, are you alright?"

Fujiwara Chika, who was sticking out her tongue, looked over with concern: "Why are you crying? Borscht is super bitter, that's true, but it shouldn't be so bitter that you're crying, right?"

Kaguya Shinomiya's pretty face was pale, her eyes brimming with tears, and she uttered a few trembling words as if on the verge of sobbing:

"Eyes, eyes..."

"What's wrong with your eyes?" Fujiwara Chika opened her eyes wide and leaned closer. Her clear pink eyes were exceptionally beautiful, and the little rabbit on her chest swayed as she bent over, making one subconsciously think of Newton's pentagon. "Did a little bug accidentally fly in? Don't be afraid, I'll blow it out for you."

Amamiya Natsuki's heart stirred, and her gaze fell on the borscht in Shinomiya Kaguya's hand, suddenly thinking of a possibility.

Eye……

Borscht can turn fear into hallucinations...

No way?

You're not just having wild thoughts and hallucinating, seeing strange eyes in your borscht, are you?

Stop overthinking right now!

The more you think, the more dangerous it becomes. A big-breasted, brainless idiot like Fujiwara can easily get through this!

"Meal time is about to end." The butcher's deep, resonant voice came from the kitchen. "Please leave the cafeteria as soon as possible."

Upon hearing this, the vengeful students and unlucky players in the cafeteria felt as if they had been granted a pardon and hurriedly got up, fleeing the cafeteria as if they were escaping.

Kaguya Shinomiya quickly put down her borscht and tried to get up.

"Kaguya-chan, you can't run away." Fujiwara Chika reached out her right hand and pressed down on Shinomiya Kaguya's shoulder, her expression serious. "We can't waste food. The head chef will be angry. What if they chase after us?"

"Hallucination, it's all a hallucination. There's nothing in the soup. You're just scaring yourself."

Natsuki Amamiya quickly explained the hidden rules.

"I see." Fujiwara Chika suddenly realized, "No wonder everyone looked so scared and couldn't swallow."

"Even if you say so..."

Kaguya Shinomiya bit her lower lip, her gaze fixed on the borscht, and the dew in her eyes almost rolled down her cheeks.