mygo, but Cthulhu

Mashiro's trance-like voice slowly sounded, and Jie Yu realized something and quickly turned to look at her, but Mashiro was staring at her expressionlessly at this time. There was no longer the confusion and pain on her face, only a void that did not belong to a human.

"Are you going to hurt them?"

"boom,"

As soon as she finished speaking, an invisible force at close range blew Jie Yu away. She gritted her teeth and tried to stabilize her body with magic, but as soon as she landed, she saw a large number of strange spells attacking her. The surrounding environment was distorted and blurred due to the large-scale magic riot. In the chaos, Kurata Mashiro still stood there, and her eyes through the magic light were still locked on Jie Yu.

"...I didn't expect you to awaken now. It seems you really care about them."

Jie Yu frowned, and at the same time raised his hand to continue to increase the power of the spell. The barrier could hardly withstand the bombardment for long, but at this moment, a blue mark suddenly lit up on Zhenbai's neck. The extreme pain made her, whose consciousness was now cold, stagger, and the new round of spells that was being condensed collapsed instantly.

"But do you think I would create a powerful experimental product without taking out insurance? You really underestimate me."

Jie Yu sneered, raised his hand and continued to increase the stimulation of the mark, while Mashiro's body began to tremble, and countless broken bloody memories flashed before her eyes, gradually drowning out the empty aggression.

When Mashiro was completely frozen in place, Jie Yu breathed a sigh of relief. She walked forward and prepared to continue taking her away, but the next moment she frowned and quickly turned around to unfold the barrier. The talisman hit it and shattered into ashes. Although it did not hurt her, the meaning it represented made her face gloomy.

"Are the Swollen Women's Association also planning to get involved in my affairs? Aren't you afraid of revenge from someone like me who has nothing?"

"Don't get me wrong, I just don't like you. It has nothing to do with my great-grandfather."

Ichigaya Yusaki slowly walked out from the shadows under the eaves, staring at her coldly, his tone filled with anger.

"You are not worthy of being Mashiro's mother. Get out of here right now, or I will kill you."

"...Okay, I'll make a note of this."

Jie Yu gritted her teeth, looked back at the group of snakes that were surrounding her again, glared at Yousaki fiercely, and teleported away unwillingly.

"Oh, what a bastard."

Seeing her leave, Arisaki put away the talisman in her hand. She quickly walked over to Mashiro, looked at her face with her head lowered and her expression unclear, and tentatively touched her arm lightly.

"Mashiro, are you okay?"

"Boom,"

Then, Mashiro lost her balance and slowly fell to the ground. Arisaki quickly caught her, only to find that she had fainted and was subconsciously forcing herself to stay standing.

Yusaki looked at her frowning expression with some complex feelings, and after a moment he couldn't help but sigh.

"Alas, I didn't expect you couldn't maintain that ignorant happiness anymore... Never mind, at least you and your friends are fine now."

Chapter 152: Repaying kindness with hatred

"What exactly is going on?"

Ruwei and Nanami were stunned for a moment. They reflexively checked the distance between them and the chairman. After confirming that she should not be able to hear the conversation here, they breathed a sigh of relief and turned to look at "Mashiro" on the ground with suppressed expressions.

"Just as I said... I am the eighty-seventh Kurata Mashiro. I am a copy of your friend, and there are many more like me."

"Mashiro" managed to squeeze out a sound with a miserable laugh, which made them subconsciously feel pain, and at the same time frowned because of the unexpected news.

"There's actually such a thing... Who did this?"

"...She is our mother. For some reason, she finds us very valuable in her eyes, but many of her experiments are too risky to be used on her... So she created us to be useful tools."

"Mashiro" coughed up blood while trying to squeeze out a sound, her eyes gradually dimming. In the last moments of her life, she tried to hold their hands, and after feeling the real warmth, she couldn't help but smile.

"I was only supposed to follow orders, but something might have gone wrong during the copying process. I also saw fragments of the original's memories of you... To be honest, I'm a little envious of her."

"truth……"

Qi Shen's subconscious mind cried out, but at this moment she found that the replica on the ground was no longer breathing. She couldn't help but sigh, and at this moment the chairman had already walked towards them.

"Oh no... Get out of the way! Qi Shen!"

When Yashio Rui realized that the chairman was approaching, her expression suddenly changed and she shouted with gritted teeth. Before Nanami could react, Rui threw her to the ground, and at the same time, she threw a incendiary bomb at the clone's body, raised the gun to the flames and pulled the trigger.

"what happens?!"

The chairman subconsciously released a spell, and her attack completely shattered the burning corpse. Qi Shen looked at Ru Wei with confusion in his heart, but after meeting her calm eyes, he immediately understood why she did this.

The chairman is a member of the committee. Given her anger towards these attackers, if she saw the appearance of the clone, she might think differently of Mashiro. And these surviving students would definitely vent their anger on her... Ruwei destroyed the body to prevent this.

"Yashio, are you guys okay?"

After confirming that the attacker was dead, the chairman hurried over to help them up. Ruwei's expression was full of sighs, and she shook her head slightly.

"I'm sorry, Chairman, we haven't been able to obtain any useful information... He initially pretended to want to negotiate with us, but just now I suddenly realized that he was trying to use magic to kill us both, so I had to kill him first."

"Don't be too hard on yourself, Yashio,"

The chairman sighed when he heard her words and patted her shoulder comfortingly.

"You're right to prioritize your own lives. Intelligence is not as important as the lives of the students of Tsuki no Mori... and it's not like I'm completely clueless."

"You... still have any clues?"

"Well, looking at these filthy monsters, I actually have a suspect. Please pay more attention to Kurata-san during this period. It would be best if she lives in your house. I suspect her mother is the mastermind of this attack."

"...I see, I understand."

Yashio Rui tried hard not to look stiff on her face, lowered her head and responded softly. At the same time, she saw the chairman picking up a familiar white hair from the ground, and her pupils shrank slightly.

"Hmm? This should be left by the attacker, right? We can start from this aspect."

The chairman nodded and handed the hair to Yashio Rui.

"Yashio, keep it for me first and give it to me later. I know a ritual spell that can be used to track down the person closest to the owner of the item. This attacker is no ordinary minion, and he might have had contact with Kurata Yuuka before. If we succeed, we can capture him."

"I understand... I will definitely keep it safe."

"Well, I've always trusted your rigor... So, Hiromachi-san, now you should explain your situation, right?"

The chairman nodded to Ruwei, then her expression became a little serious. She turned to look at Nanami, who was showing snake-like features, with a slight sense of caution.

"Are you a snake man? What's your purpose in hiding in the Moon Forest? You seem to have noticed this attack before. How did you know? Tell me quickly."

"Um, well... I realized they weren't purely human because I heard something strange about their footsteps."

Qi Shen was taken aback by her defensive attitude for a moment, then she couldn't help but smile wryly and whispered an explanation. At the same time, she could also feel the other surviving students' gazes quickly changing from gratitude to fear and defensiveness. They whispered about her in what they thought was a private conversation, their tones not being friendly.

"Eh? The chairman is so wary of Hiromachi-san, and she has those disgusting scales on her face...isn't she a monster too?"

"It's possible. Even though she was helping us just now, who knows what she was thinking? Look at those dead people. We can't trust these things so easily."

"Chairman, I don't think you really need to..."

Yashio Ruwei frowned when she heard what they said, and the chairman shook his head vigorously to interrupt her.

"No, Ruwei, you don't understand. After something like this, we can't be too careful... Tell me, Hiromachi Nanami, what is your purpose in hiding in the Moon Forest?!"

"...I just want to enjoy campus life like a normal person, Madam Chairman."

Hiromachi Nanami was silent for a moment before explaining softly, while the chairman stared at her expressionlessly.

"Really? Honestly, I find it hard to believe that an outlier like you would come to school for such a simple reason... But considering that you just helped us, I won't do anything to you. But you can't be a student of Tsuki no Mori anymore. You don't have to come tomorrow, and I'll take care of your expulsion."

"Chairman, this is really too much!"

Before Nanami could speak, Ruwei couldn't help but speak in a harsh voice. For the first time, her face, which had been calm from the beginning to the end, showed obvious anger. She raised her head and looked at the chairman resolutely.

"I can't accept this. Qi Shen just helped us, and you're planning to repay her with evil?! Is this the elegance and virtue you always advocate?!"

"That's not true, but facing this kind of terrible danger, we can never let our guard down, Ruwei."

But the chairman still had no intention of showing weakness. She shook her head firmly, then raised her hand to gesture to the bloody ground around her.

"You're the student council president of Tsuki no Mori. You have to consider more of your classmates. Look, during that horrific attack, a full 30% of our classmates died miserably, and you're still planning to let a snake person stay here? Just because she's your friend? Don't let your emotions get the better of you, Ruwei."

"No matter what you say, I absolutely cannot accept it..."

Ruwei gritted her teeth and wanted to refute, but at this moment Qi Shen suddenly grabbed her arm. She subconsciously turned her head and met her warning gaze. Although there were no words, the long-term familiarity allowed her to read the meaning in her eyes.

Stop arguing with the chairman. You need to stay here to prevent her from tracing back to Mashiro based on that hair, right? I can accept this treatment, but if Mashiro is also suspected and alerted in this way, then she will be hurt even more.

"..."

Ruyi was stunned for a moment, hesitating for a long time and didn't know what to say, while Hiromachi Nanami nodded calmly to the chairman.

"I accept your arrangement."

"I'm glad to hear you say that,"

The chairman responded softly without changing his expression, and Yashio Rui also saw that the other students were visibly relieved, and it was obvious that they all wanted to see Nanami as far away from them as possible.

...Is this the Moon Forest that I have been working so hard to protect?

At this moment, Ruwei only felt a chill in her heart. She lowered her head and clenched her teeth, trying hard to suppress her anger filled with disappointment.

After the chairman left with the students, Ruwei turned to look at Nanami, but before she could speak, Nanami shook her head.

"I know what you want to say, but you don't have to speak up for me, Ruwei. I'm an outlier after all. The chairman cares about Tsuki no Mori very much, so it's normal for her to be so wary."

"It's not that I can't understand her thinking, but I absolutely don't agree with it."

Ruwei sighed deeply, and Nanami patted her shoulder gently.

"Just think of it as Mashiro's and bear it for a while. The chairman obviously won't back down. If you continue to stalemate with her, you'll be expelled. Mashiro won't be able to bear it if she knows we can't continue."

"Also, you have to find a way to cover up the matter of the clone. Mashiro doesn't lack courage in critical moments, but she's a fragile child... She can't be wary of her classmates like me. She can't be as calm as I am."

"Ok, I know."

Yashio Rui nodded silently and tiredly, and while they were talking, a faint red light hidden in another dimension slowly emerged from the shattered body of the clone. It swayed slightly, then slowly floated to the other side... and finally merged into the body of Kurata Mashiro who had just been helped up by Arisaki.

Chapter 153 Cruel

Survive, escape, hide

Hiding, killing...

Kurata Mashiro's vision was blurred and her mind was in a mess. In the dark tunnel, she just kept repeating these things subconsciously, and then staggered and ran, with blood dripping from the blade in her hand and the wounds on her body.

She doesn't know why she was born, nor does she know why she is surrounded by "sisters" who look identical and threatening. She can only rely on the only difference between her and them: the "87" on her forehead to confirm the basis of her existence.

"It's the original body's neural signal. She's sending back her memories... No, no, no, I don't want to accept it. I don't want it! I..."

Number 87 hid behind the wall, and in front of him was a sister screaming hysterically. After a moment, her painful voice suddenly stopped, and the shadow cast by the bonfire trembled, accompanied by a sound full of madness and collapse.

"Hahahaha... her real self... lives a truly happy life. Thanks to her, I now know what happiness means. I now know how pathetic we fakes are... But... why did you let me see this? Why did you let me see Tsukushi and the others? If it weren't for all this, I could still endure it..."

"Ahhhhhh! Tsukushi, Tohru, where are you?! I'm so scared... I want to go home. There shouldn't be a number on my forehead, but it won't come off... Tsukushi!"

The other sister wailed, frantically calling out the name of a friend that only her true self possessed, while No. 87 sighed deeply in her heart.

There was no doubt that this sister had gone mad, trying to survive in this environment. She was driven mad by the hopeful memories from her original body... Now all she could do was help her get rid of it.

No. 87 clenched her weapon tightly, but just as she was about to stick her head out to observe, a distorted face identical to hers suddenly appeared before her eyes, grinning wildly upon seeing her.

"Hahaha! Tsukushi, you're here! Why don't you practice with us? The band still needs to work hard, right? We have to keep going!"

She suddenly raised her bloodstained machete and chopped it down fiercely while shouting. No. 87 calmly dodged as quickly as possible and stabbed the sister who had completely lost her mind in the chest.

"Ahem... Tsukushi, Tsukushi... I'm so glad I met you..."

Although blood continued to flow from the wound on her chest, "Kurata Mashiro" still showed a smile full of joy. She stumbled into 87's arms and raised her hand to stroke her face.

"If I hadn't met you then, I'd probably still be that unconfident guy now. It's great to be able to form a band with you. Let's..."

"Tear,"

No. 87 chopped off her head with force and without any expression. She looked at the smiling head that was immersed in fantasy falling to the ground. The familiar smell of blood filled the air. In her exhaustion, she couldn't help but envy her sister.

At least, she died happy this time.

"...Forget it. We're not the real body, so we don't have time to waste."

She was silent for a moment, then shook her head and dragged her sister's body closer to the bonfire. No. 87 cut off the number on her forehead and put it in her pocket. After completing this simple funeral, she began to cut the body that was identical to her own as usual, cutting the meat from it and roasting it.

From the moment they opened their eyes, all they saw were the same sisters. They all knew a name: Kurata Mashiro. However, they also knew that this name did not belong to any of them, but to the carefree original body.

This desolate and dark space has no food, and the water supply is not enough for all of them. In order to survive, fighting each other has become the norm. The "Kurata Mashiro"s keep killing themselves... and even if they die, new Mashiro with their numbers will come to this space and repeat the process.

No. 87 didn't know which one she was, but she had experienced three large-scale rotations. From the initial pain to the complete numbness now, she only felt that something in her body was being drained away bit by bit, making it increasingly difficult for her to feel herself.

…………How long can I live?

After finishing the food and looking at the corpses of Mashiro all around, this thought suddenly flashed through No. 87's mind. She had no answer and could only sit on the ground blankly. A moment later, she suddenly heard the sound of something breaking.

No. 87 subconsciously turned her head and saw obvious cracks on the head of Mashiro, whom she had just killed. After seeing this, her pupils suddenly contracted. She frantically picked up her weapon and turned around to run away, without even having time to take the water resources she had just collected with great effort.

"Damn it! Why did the butterfly tide appear at this time?!"

"Sizzle,"

While No. 87 continued to curse, the cracks seemed to be contagious, spreading rapidly among the corpses of Mashiro on the ground. A moment later, tentacles flashing red light emerged from Mashiro's head on the ground. Her intoxicated smile was torn apart by the limbs, and then a monster crawled out from inside.