Chapter Summaries

Amamiya Natsuki and the others gathered firewood and returned to the Ancient Castle, where the mushrooms’ effects continued to worsen. During the night, Fujiwara Chika came to Amamiya’s tent for food, and he pulled her into his arms, blaming his own mushroom.

• Amamiya Natsuki and Shinomiya Kaguya stopped kissing when the dwarves called for him, then joined them to collect firewood.
• The group returned to the Ancient Castle, where Fujiwara Chika reported that it was empty and the Guide Loli had kept the fire burning.
• Amamiya Natsuki discovered that he still could not remove the mushroom from Hayasaka Ai’s head, then set a watch schedule and went to rest.
• Fujiwara Chika slipped into Amamiya Natsuki’s tent during her watch and asked him for bread because her mushroom made her intensely hungry.
• After Fujiwara Chika ate the bread and tried to leave, Amamiya Natsuki pulled her into his arms and said he could not hold out any longer because he also had a mushroom.

Amamiya Natsuki teased Fujiwara Chika in the tent before Hayasaka Ai interrupted them and confronted him with jealousy. He revealed that the mushrooms had become ripe enough to harvest, leaving the group ready to collect them.

• Fujiwara Chika entered Amamiya Natsuki's tent for bread, and he kissed and teased her until Hayasaka Ai called her outside.
• Hayasaka Ai entered the tent, questioned Amamiya Natsuki about Fujiwara Chika, and threatened to punish him for cheating.
• Amamiya Natsuki told Hayasaka Ai that the mushrooms were partially ripe and could be collected.
• Fujiwara Chika and Hayasaka Ai left the tent with Amamiya Natsuki, and Fujiwara Chika celebrated that harvesting the mushrooms would end her hunger.

Amamiya Natsuki removed the ripe mushrooms from Fujiwara Chika, Hayasaka Ai, Koyasu Tsubame, and several other players, but Shinomiya Kaguya and one player still had to wait. He discovered that his own Lust Mushroom had ripened, yet he could not remove it himself, leaving the group to seek another way to manage its effects.

• Amamiya Natsuki checked the players’ mushrooms and found that Shinomiya Kaguya and one other player’s mushrooms were not ready to be removed.
• Amamiya Natsuki removed Fujiwara Chika’s mushroom, relieving her constant hunger, then removed Hayasaka Ai’s mushroom and restored her clarity.
• Amamiya Natsuki removed Koyasu Tsubame’s mushroom and treated the other ready players, but could not yet remove the mushrooms from Shinomiya Kaguya and one other player.
• Koyasu Tsubame reminded Amamiya Natsuki that he still had a mushroom, and he revealed that his Lust Mushroom had ripened.
• Amamiya Natsuki explained that he could not remove his own mushroom, so the group agreed to rest and look for another way to slow its effects the next day.

Amamiya Natsuki and his companions investigated the Queen and her Magic Mirror, learning that the Queen had not left her palace since the snowfall began and might have mushrooms growing on her head. Unable to safely enter the heavily guarded palace, they returned to join Hayasaka Ai’s group as it searched for Karen, the owner of the Red Dancing Shoes.

• Tsubame-senpai worried about taking responsibility for Amamiya Natsuki’s Sin Mushrooms, and the group rested through the night.
• Amamiya Natsuki split the group’s tasks, sending Hayasaka Ai, Tsubame-senpai, Little Red Riding Hood, and the dwarves to search for Karen while other players mapped the royal city.
• Amamiya Natsuki, Shinomiya Kaguya, and Fujiwara Chika asked a guide about the Queen and learned that she possessed a Magic Mirror, had not left the palace since the snow began, and might have mushrooms on her head.
• Fujiwara Chika suggested approaching the Queen as diplomats, but Amamiya Natsuki and Shinomiya Kaguya could not safely pass the guards because they still had mushrooms on their heads.
• After finding that the palace’s cliffs and guards made infiltration too dangerous, Amamiya Natsuki’s group postponed the Queen investigation and returned to meet Hayasaka Ai’s group, which had identified three possible targets for Karen.

Amamiya Natsuki's group found Karen and completed the Red Dancing Shoes side quest, then returned to the Cursed Ancient Castle and finalized their plan to enter the palace as diplomats and steal the Magic Mirror. Before setting out, Natsuki called over Hirata to help remove the mushroom growing on his head.

• Hayasaka Ai led the group to a red-haired woman they mistook for Karen, but Little Red Riding Hood recognized that she was not Sister Karen.
• The group found the real Karen, and the Red Dancing Shoes returned to her as the players received notice that the side quest was complete.
• Karen danced in the shoes, which then went to Amamiya Natsuki; he appraised their abilities and put them away.
• The group returned to the Cursed Ancient Castle, where players shared a map of possible Glass Slipper locations and agreed to carry out Fujiwara Chika's plan to enter the palace disguised as diplomats.
• Amamiya Natsuki beckoned Hirata over and offered to help remove the mushroom growing on his head.

After Amamiya Natsuki removed the mushrooms from the other players, Koyasu Tsubame mistook his snowball-eating for a sign that he was suffering and followed him to offer help. Natsuki tried to resist the Lust Mushroom’s influence, but Tsubame agreed to let him touch her legs, and he pulled her close before she stopped him from kissing her.

• Hirata explained that he had matured his mushroom after losing his temper, and Amamiya Natsuki removed the mushrooms from the other players.
• Koyasu Tsubame saw Natsuki eat a snowball and assumed he was tormenting himself because he was struggling to resist his mushroom.
• Tsubame followed Natsuki into a ruined room and offered to help him ease the mushroom’s pressure.
• Natsuki warned Tsubame that touching her could make him want to go further, but she decided to try helping him anyway.
• Natsuki embraced Tsubame and reached for her legs, but she stopped him from kissing her.

Amamiya Natsuki’s group prepared to infiltrate the palace, using Hayasaka Ai’s disguise as Snow White to gain entry. They reached the palace gates, where the guards welcomed Hayasaka as the princess.

• Amamiya Natsuki warned the players that the Palace Mission was dangerous, and one stranger withdrew while Tsubame-senpai and Yamashita continued with his group.
• Hayasaka Ai used Disguise to take Snow White’s appearance, and Amamiya Natsuki used the Witch’s Mirror to reassure Shinomiya Kaguya that he found her cuter.
• The group planned to use Snow White’s identity to enter the palace, while Amamiya Natsuki and Shinomiya Kaguya transformed into Shadow Cats to conceal their mushroom-covered bodies.
• Tsubame-senpai gathered Amamiya Natsuki and Shinomiya Kaguya’s clothes, and the group approached the palace with Hayasaka acting as Snow White.
• The guards recognized Hayasaka Ai as the princess and welcomed her back.

Hayasaka Ai led Chika, Tsubame, and Yamashita into the palace, where they subdued a guard after her disguise expired. Amamiya Natsuki joined them and copied the guard’s appearance so they could approach the Queen and borrow the Magic Mirror.

• Hayasaka Ai used her status as Snow White to get the group past the palace gates and claimed they had discovered a cure for Mushroom Sickness to secure an audience with the Queen.
• When Hayasaka Ai’s disguise expired outside the Queen’s hall, Chika and Yamashita used Sweep away evil to immobilize a guard, and Tsubame stuffed a towel into his mouth.
• Amamiya Natsuki left Shadow form, dressed, and used Copy Paste to copy the disguise skill from Yamashita.
• Amamiya Natsuki absorbed the guard’s appearance and transformed into him, while Chika and Tsubame checked that the disguise looked and felt convincing.

Amamiya Natsuki and the girls confronted the Ice Queen, Elsa, hoping to obtain her Magic Mirror and treat Mushroom Sickness. Their attempt to restrain her failed, but Natsuki used an affection-raising balloon and his Warrior of Love title to win her over, leaving Elsa willing to consider lending the mirror.

• Hayasaka Ai resolved to help Natsuki control his Lust state to protect Shinomiya Kaguya.
• Natsuki led the girls through the freezing palace and met the Ice Queen in her study.
• The group used a flashlight and the Sweep away evil Combination Skill to restrain Elsa, but her power let her slowly turn toward them.
• Natsuki learned that Elsa had no affection for him and needed goodwill before his Warrior of Love title could work.
• Natsuki gave Elsa a red heart-shaped balloon, then used his title skill to charm her.
• Elsa softened toward Natsuki and said she would consider lending him the Magic Mirror, asking him to call her Lady Elsa.

Amamiya Natsuki entered the Ice Queen’s bedroom to use the Magic Mirror, which demanded a month of memories in exchange for an answer. After learning he could choose which memories to pay, he argued that the mirror could help people discard painful memories.

• Amamiya Natsuki’s Warrior of Love won the Ice Queen’s affection, and she led him and the others to the Magic Mirror.
• The Ice Queen summoned the sealed Magic Mirror and warned Amamiya Natsuki that it could bewitch him.
• The Magic Mirror demanded one month of memories before revealing the rest of its message, and Fujiwara Chika, Tsubame-senpai, and Shinomiya Kaguya urged Amamiya Natsuki not to accept.
• Amamiya Natsuki withdrew his hand and learned from the Ice Queen that she did not know whether the Magic Mirror offered other payment options.
• Amamiya Natsuki asked the Magic Mirror whether people could choose which memories to pay, and it answered yes.
• Amamiya Natsuki called the Magic Mirror a divine artifact because people could use it to surrender painful memories, and Hayasaka Ai and Shinomiya Kaguya agreed.

Amamiya Natsuki used the Magic Mirror to locate the Nightmare Seed, then stayed with the Ice Queen while the others went to gather residents willing to trade painful memories for information. As the Lust Mushroom heightened everyone’s desire, he flirted with Shinomiya Kaguya and the Ice Queen, leaving both reacting to his attention.

• Amamiya Natsuki asked the Magic Mirror to prove the Goldbach Conjecture and then answer questions about advanced technologies, but it could not comply.
• Amamiya Natsuki asked where the Nightmare Seed was, and the Magic Mirror said it would appear after dark in an alley south of the city.
• Amamiya Natsuki sent Hayasaka Ai, Fujiwara Chika, and Tsubame-senpai to find people willing to trade painful memories, while he and Shinomiya Kaguya stayed with the Ice Queen.
• The Ice Queen ordered the guard to let the group enter and leave the palace freely, and the guard obeyed.
• Amamiya Natsuki held Shinomiya Kaguya’s hand under the Lust Mushroom’s influence, then offered his jacket to the Ice Queen, who blushed and refused it.

Amamiya Natsuki learned about ways to acquire magic and received a Witch's Legacy Crystal Ball from Ice Queen. When Fujiwara Chika and the others arrived with players and locals hoping to erase painful memories, Natsuki prepared the Magic Mirror to begin the exchange.

• Amamiya Natsuki asked Ice Queen whether she could teach him magic, and she explained that witches might accept talented female apprentices or that meditation could reveal knowledge from legacy crystal balls.
• Ice Queen gave Amamiya Natsuki a Witch's Legacy Crystal Ball, whose description revealed it was restricted to female users but could be carried out of the instance.
• Fujiwara Chika, Hayasaka Ai, Koyasu Tsubame, other players, Little Red Riding Hood, and several dwarves arrived seeking to trade away painful or tedious memories.
• Amamiya Natsuki called for the Magic Mirror and asked a player who wanted to forget her school-bullying memories to reconsider before proceeding.
• The player agreed to the memory exchange, accepted paper and a pen from Amamiya Natsuki, and finished writing a note for herself.

Amamiya Natsuki and his companions used the Magic Mirror to learn about the Nightmare Seed, locate the Glass Slipper, and find the other missing players. Natsuki persuaded Elsa to send guards into the forest, then went to prepare her dinner, where he heard himself called her “Male Concubine.”

• A background player traded memories with the Magic Mirror and learned that the Nightmare Seed currently looked like a human child.
• Fujiwara Chika arranged for a dwarf to ask the Magic Mirror about the missing Glass Slipper, and it revealed the slipper was in an ancient castle east of town.
• The group learned that four other players remained in the dungeon, with three lost in the forest outside town.
• Amamiya Natsuki asked Elsa to send guards to rescue the missing players, and she agreed.
• Amamiya Natsuki went to the kitchen to prepare Elsa a dinner made with love and sent the chefs away.
• A background player told the group that the departing chefs had called Natsuki Elsa’s “Male Concubine.”

Amamiya Natsuki prepared dinner for the Ice Queen while trying to harvest the Lust Mushroom on Shinomiya Kaguya’s head. After kissing Kaguya until the mushroom ripened, he plucked it and then charmed the Ice Queen over dinner.

• Amamiya Natsuki assigned a player from the Culinary Club to cook and gathered spices and salt from the group.
• Amamiya Natsuki took Shinomiya Kaguya aside, kissed her repeatedly, and finally harvested her ripened Lust Mushroom when Fujiwara Chika found them.
• Amamiya Natsuki and the others returned to the dining hall, where a guard squad brought back the Unlucky Player from the city.
• Amamiya Natsuki served dinner to the Ice Queen and flattered her until she blushed and smiled.

Amamiya Natsuki persuaded Elsa to join the effort to destroy the Nightmare Seed and led the group to its location. The alley’s strange rules made each person who entered alone forget what happened inside, and Shinomiya Kaguya prepared to investigate next.

• Amamiya Natsuki told Elsa he planned to destroy the Nightmare Seed, and Elsa insisted on accompanying him.
• Amamiya Natsuki reunited with Shinomiya Kaguya, Fujiwara Chika, Hayasaka Ai, and the others, then led them out of the palace with Elsa and her guards.
• Hayasaka Ai confirmed the Nightmare Seed’s location in an eastern alley, but the group crossed it twice without encountering anything.
• Amamiya Natsuki had Elsa summon the Magic Mirror, which revealed that only one person could enter at a time and that no items could be used for illumination.
• Elsa, a dwarf, and two guards each entered the alley alone and returned unable to remember what had happened inside.
• Shinomiya Kaguya stepped forward to investigate, relying on her recharged Shadow Skill in case of danger.

Amamiya Natsuki and the others investigated an alley that made players forget what happened inside. Their notes suggested it gradually affected their memories and showed them things they deeply desired, but they had not yet found a way to counter it.

• Hayasaka Ai entered the alley with the Young Lady's Shadow Skill and returned unable to remember what happened, carrying a note that read, “When you read this, I will already have...” and “It's fake. It's all fake!”
• Fujiwara Chika entered with a notebook and came back confused, with notes about Christmas carols and delicious dishes that she could not recall seeing.
• Other players took turns exploring the alley and wrote down their experiences, which varied widely.
• The group compared their notes and learned that blocking their ears did not prevent the effects of the alley.
• Hayasaka Ai concluded that the alley gradually made memories fuzzy and showed people things they deeply desired.

Amamiya Natsuki overcame the Little Match Girl’s memory-altering illusion and found the Seed of Sin buried beneath the snow. Plucking it ended the instance, and the game offered to use it to complete his Midnight Nightmare Rule Card.

• Amamiya Natsuki entered the alley and resisted the Christmas illusion long enough for Mrs. Kaguya to show him a notebook explaining the players’ blurred memories.
• Amamiya Natsuki recognized the Little Match Girl and used a story about Aladdin’s Lamp to persuade her to come home with him.
• The illusion vanished, Amamiya Natsuki recovered his memories, and he dug up the Little Match Girl’s body beneath the snow.
• Amamiya Natsuki found and plucked the Seed of Sin mushroom, triggering a notification that the instance would soon end.
• Amamiya Natsuki recalled his Midnight Nightmare Rule Card, and the game asked whether he wanted to use the Seed of Sin to complete it.

Amamiya Natsuki and the others cleared the Ice and Snow instance, and he returned home with the little match girl’s ghost sealed inside a jack-o'-lantern. The group reunited, shared what they remembered, and examined the instance’s rewards, ending with Fujiwara Chika trying the Witch’s Crystal Ball.

• Amamiya Natsuki completed the Midnight Theater Rule Card with the Sin Mushroom, unlocking its theater function as the little match girl entered the jack-o'-lantern and the instance countdown began.
• Amamiya Natsuki and the other players left the instance and returned home, where Kitagawa Marin welcomed him and checked that he was unhurt.
• Amamiya Natsuki recounted how the little match girl had affected their memories, while Fujiwara Chika and the others discussed their experiences in the alley.
• Mrs. Kaguya claimed credit for helping clear the instance, and Fujiwara Chika asked Koyasu Tsubame to document her perspective for the Mutual aid group.
• Amamiya Natsuki showed the group the Red Dancing Shoes and the Witch’s Crystal Ball, and Fujiwara Chika placed her hand on the crystal ball to try to inherit the Witch’s magic.

After clearing the instance, Amamiya Natsuki and the girls returned safely, rested through the night, and prepared for school. The morning ended with Yurikawa Hana arriving to find that the others had gone out without her.

• Fujiwara Chika, Hayasaka Ai, Koyasu Tsubame, and Kitagawa Marin tried to receive the Witch’s inheritance from the crystal ball, but none succeeded.
• Hayasaka suggested that Amamiya disguise himself as a girl to bypass the crystal ball’s restriction, but he refused.
• Amamiya messaged Miko and Lord Zhuzhu to reassure them that everyone had returned safely, then wrote an account of clearing the instance.
• Amamiya returned the Witch’s Mirror to Takanashi Rikka, who left with Esteemed Secretary to get back to school.
• Amamiya and the girls ate breakfast and prepared for school, where Yurikawa Hana confronted them for leaving without her.
• Amamiya greeted Miko, and the girls headed to school together.

After returning from the Fairy Tale Instance, Amamiya Natsuki and the others resumed their Student Council duties and school routines. At the end of the day, Natsuki invited Shinomiya Kaguya to eat with him on Commercial street, and she challenged his explanation for wanting to go.

• Amamiya Natsuki, Shinomiya Kaguya, Fujiwara Chika, and Kashiwagi went to the Student Council Office and finished their routine tasks.
• After school, Amamiya Natsuki burned a long-necked evil spirit that tried to look at a picture on his phone.
• Koyasu Tsubame told Amamiya Natsuki she had used her skill against an evil spirit and asked him for another Evil Spirit Repellent later.
• Amamiya Natsuki visited the Game Club, then returned to the Student Council Office with Fujiwara Chika and Shinomiya Kaguya to work.
• After Fujiwara Chika left, Amamiya Natsuki invited Shinomiya Kaguya to eat on Commercial street, and she pointed out that he had enjoyed a candlelit dinner while the others ate bread.