The head fiend suddenly spoke, its voice cold and hollow, with deep malice lurking beneath it:
"You... can see me..."
Amamiya Natsuki replied calmly:
"That's right. I can see you."
For newbie players, evil spirits were a nuisance and a torment. But veteran players had long since grown numb to them.
The evil spirit froze. It hadn't expected Amamiya Natsuki to admit he could see it, and it immediately grew excited, shrieking:
"You can see me..."
Smack.
Amamiya Natsuki raised his right hand and snapped his fingers.
Invisible, transparent flames roared to life, quickly burning the evil spirit in the blanket to nothing.
"Time to get up."
Amamiya Natsuki dusted off his hands, got out of bed, picked up his phone from the bedside, and pressed the power button.
Before long, the phone had turned on successfully.
Amamiya Natsuki glanced at the time at the top of the screen. Somehow, three days had already passed.
He opened his messaging app, and 99+ messages immediately popped up.
Marin: "Natsuki, are you back yet?"
Marin: "Let me know the moment you're back, okay?"
Marin: "Sayu-chan and I are going to buy uniforms first. Bunny cop and wolf thief~ Hey, hey."
The Succubus Girl alone had sent more than a dozen messages, including quite a few photos she'd taken the day before. They were enough to make anyone's heart race.
There were also messages from Sayu, Zhuzhu, Haruno, and others. They hadn't said anything important, mostly just asking whether he'd left the instance and the like, so he skimmed through them for now without replying.
But there were a few important ones.
Shinomiya Kaguya: "President, I just got a call from the teacher. The new term is about to start, so the Student Council needs to prepare the opening ceremony in advance."
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