Bai Yuze sighed, looking at the miniature camera in his hand.
Scheming was common in this eerie world, but if one chose to scheme against others, they must surely be prepared to face the consequences, right?
Bai Yuze crushed the miniature camera in his hand. He had an idea... So he walked into the kitchen...
Inside the bathroom,
Kushida Kikyo was frantically searching through her clothes, but no matter how hard she looked, she couldn't find what she wanted.
"Where did it go? Did it fall in the hallway just now? Or... was it discovered?"
Kushida Kikyo took a deep breath, and Bai Yuze's voice came from outside the door.
"What's wrong? Is the bathroom broken?"
"No... nothing."
Kushida Kikyo hastily turned on the shower. Since she was still wearing clothes, it was inevitable that they would get wet.
Kushida Kikyo had no choice but to lock the bathroom door and quickly take off her clothes.
After a quick wash, she heard the sound of a door opening.
"At this hour, why is he going out?"
Since her clothes were already wet, she could only wrap herself in a towel and step out of the bathroom.
At this moment, she noticed that Bai Yuze had turned off the lights in the room, and the creaking sounds of the door indicated that both the door and windows were open.
This filled Kushida Kikyo with doubt. Opening the door to go out was understandable, but why open the windows? One should know that it was quite a distance from the ground here; jumping out of the window would at least result in being half-crippled.
Fortunately, all the rooms in the dormitory had a similar layout. Kushida Kikyo, relying on her memory of the room's layout, found the light switch inside the room.
The room became bright again, and Kushida Kikyo was startled by the person standing beside her with his back to her.
"Honestly, Bai Yuze, why did you inexplicably turn off the lights and stand here for no reason!"
Kushida Kikyo complained and punched the other person, but she quickly froze. The feedback from her hand was wrong! She felt like she had punched a rock.
It was then that she noticed that the so-called "Bai Yuze" in front of her seemed to have shrunk a bit... and even his hairstyle had changed.
"No... no way..."
Kushida Kikyo dared not breathe. She moved slowly, wanting to quietly leave the spot.
But Bai Yuze wouldn't give her that chance. He directly controlled Yamauchi Haruki to give Kushida Kikyo a close-up scare!
From Kushida Kikyo's perspective, Yamauchi Haruki held a knife in his right hand, his face covered in red liquid (ketchup), and roared at her.
Kushida Kikyo didn't make a sound... She fainted, falling to the ground with a thud. The towel, no longer restrained by her arms, came undone, revealing a momentary glimpse of her body.
Bai Yuze walked out of the kitchen. His plan wasn't over yet. After wrapping Kushida Kikyo in a towel, he shoved her under the bed. After closing the door, he also crawled under the bed, and smeared some ketchup on his left hand. First, to confuse Kushida Kikyo, as it was hard to distinguish in the dark, cramped space, and second, he was afraid she would smell the ketchup on his left hand.
After doing all this, he reached out his right hand and pinched Kushida Kikyo's philtrum.
When Kushida Kikyo regained consciousness, he quickly covered her mouth with his right hand.
Kushida Kikyo, having just woken up, hadn't fully recovered her awareness, and she wasn't particularly intelligent to begin with. Under the double debuff, her brain at this moment lacked logical thinking ability. Therefore, she couldn't even think of the suspicious points about where Bai Yuze went initially and how he got her under the bed...
Kushida Kikyo was startled and immediately tried to struggle, but Bai Yuze's voice came from beside her.
"Shh! Quiet! He's still here!"
Kushida Kikyo gradually regained consciousness. Hearing Bai Yuze's words and the sounds of movement in the room, she nodded.
Seeing this, Bai Yuze released his hand. He pointed at the feet pacing in front of the bed and whispered.
"I didn't expect the revived eerie Yamauchi Haruki to be able to open doors. I could only turn off the lights and hide in the kitchen."
Kushida Kikyo was somewhat surprised, but she still asked the doubt in her heart.
"I remember the window was open. Why didn't you jump out to escape?"
Although jumping out of the window would result in being half-dead, at least there was a chance to survive. Being trapped in the dormitory by an eerie entity, what was the difference from encountering a big cat crawling into your tent during an outdoor camping trip!
"Do you think I didn't want to? If you weren't still in the room, I would have run away long ago!"
In a dangerous situation, people cannot concentrate on thinking. Moreover, Bai Yuze was still controlling Yamauchi Haruki to wander around the room, so Kushida Kikyo couldn't distinguish Bai Yuze's lies.
Bai Yuze then "accidentally" revealed his "injured" left hand in front of Kushida Kikyo. Coupled with the suspension bridge effect, Bai Yuze's words would be a decisive blow in Kushida Kikyo's eyes at this moment!
"I... I'm sorry, Bai Jun... It's all me... It's all my fault for implicating you."
Kushida Kikyo sobbed softly, then wiped away her tears and said firmly.
"Don't worry, I'll distract him. You take the opportunity to escape. Even if we can't find help from others, at least one of us can survive."
Listening to the girl's firm tone, Bai Yuze felt a little embarrassed to look into her eyes.
"It's fine. Speaking of these troubles, it's all my fault. If I hadn't recorded randomly, there wouldn't be so many problems."
"No! It's not your fault. A rotten person like me isn't worth you blaming yourself for."
Kushida Kikyo had already fallen into Bai Yuze's meticulously designed trap. However, Bai Yuze felt something was off. He only wanted to trick her into giving him her eerie artifact, but judging by the current trend... he felt like he was tricking her body...
"Don't blame yourself. Don't worry, I'll hold him back!"
After saying this, Bai Yuze crawled out, smearing ketchup all over the floor, making the effect even more realistic!
It wasn't that Bai Yuze felt the time was ripe, but rather that he felt if he kept acting, he might expose himself...
Kushida Kikyo's tears had already fallen. At this moment, Yamauchi Haruki's roar came, mixed with Bai Yuze's shouts.
"Kushida! Go! Hurry up and go!"
As soon as Kushida Kikyo crawled out from under the bed, she saw Bai Yuze's palm pierced by the knife held by Yamauchi Haruki!
This was not actually the case. Since Bai Yuze and Yamauchi Haruki were sideways facing Kushida Kikyo, it appeared as if his palm was pierced by the knife, but it was actually a matter of angle. Bai Yuze deliberately had Yamauchi Haruki hold the knife in a regular grip, but with the blade facing upwards, while Bai Yuze himself was gripping the blade with his middle and ring fingers.
Due to the angle, what Kushida Kikyo saw was Bai Yuze's hand being stabbed through by the knife! Accompanied by the ketchup on the blade... the visual impact was maximized!!!
After all, it was just a self-directed performance. Although his hand could heal even if it were stabbed through, who would willingly suffer if they didn't have to? That would be suffering unnecessarily!
Poor Kushida Kikyo, being played by Bai Yuze in the palm of his hand!