Iketerite Academy, Jella Memorial Square.
The hands of the distant Clock Tower had just passed five o'clock. The afterglow of the setting sun spilled across the windows of the rings of teaching buildings surrounding the square, reflecting dazzling orange light and illuminating the Stone Steps and the metal frame of the Open-Air Mega Screen.
Before night had even fallen, the steps around the square were already packed with people.
Many students held drinks or snacks, more excited than usual.
Amid the hubbub, it was nothing like the usual leisure time after classes!
Most of the pedestrians passing along the road outside the square had also stopped, gaping in surprise as they looked up at the images on the Open-Air Mega Screen.
"I only went to grab something to eat just now. How has the traitor already been deduced?!"
Many students in the distance stared at the Open-Air Mega Screen with looks of disbelief as they spoke.
"'Deduction'..."
"Think about it carefully. Just imagine Principal Lan catching two bad students. Doesn't that simplify a complicated problem?"
"If it were a Resurrection Cultist with a weaker mind, they probably wouldn't even make it through one round of Principal Lan's anti-cult pop quiz."
"What a Late Meaning of Bi Yang."
A five-day, five-night Dark Killing Game.
It was supposedly the most dangerous and most mentally devastating type of mind-game Shadow World.
Yet under Lanchi's manipulation, he had somehow turned it into the same thing as the previous Shadow World!
"After Frei directly reversed the psychological pressure between both sides this morning, Lanchi kept increasing the psychological pressure on the traitor while simultaneously easing it for the allied challengers. He also drew all the hatred onto himself, so the other challengers wouldn't have to worry about being killed tonight. This minimized the panic among