Chapter Summaries

Amamiya Natsuki and the others entered a mission to escape Narukami Village, then found rules warning visitors about dangers after dark. While the other players hurried toward a distant tunnel, Natsuki and the girls decided to return to the bus and avoid both the village and the uncertain escape route.

• Shinomiya Kaguya panicked that her thoughts could be overheard, then put the charm away to stop the effect.
• Amamiya Natsuki checked the mission panel and learned that the main quest was to escape Narukami Village, with no time limit.
• A suited player organized the group, and the players agreed to try leaving by following the mountain road away from the village.
• The group found a stone tablet listing rules against going outside after dark, thinking about fears, answering calls from behind, or reacting to strange sights.
• The suited player spotted a cave tunnel ahead and led the group toward it, while Amamiya Natsuki, Kaguya, Yukinoshita Yukino, and Takanashi Rikka chose to return to the bus instead.

Amamiya Natsuki searched the foggy forest for Sayu after she vanished near the bus and found her alone beneath a tree. He reached her safely, but stayed wary when she asked him to pull her up.

• Amamiya Natsuki invited Sayu to join the group heading back down the mountain, and she accepted.
• Dense fog covered the forest, and Yukinoshita Yukino noticed that Sayu had disappeared when the group reached the bus.
• Amamiya Natsuki chose to search for Sayu, drank a Witch's Potion, and followed her footprints into the forest.
• Amamiya Natsuki found Sayu alone beneath a tree, overwhelmed by the fog and loneliness.
• Sayu asked Amamiya Natsuki to pull her up, but he stepped back and began checking her identity.

Amamiya Natsuki found Sayu in the foggy instance, where she was being pursued by her former friend Yuzuki, now a Human-faced Dog. Rather than flee, he tried to exploit the creature’s canine instincts with a Momotaro Onigiri, leaving the encounter poised for his next move.

• Amamiya Natsuki confirmed Sayu was human, told Shinomiya Kaguya he had found her, and learned Sayu had followed a voice calling her name.
• A naked, dog-bodied girl emerged from the fog and called Sayu by name, claiming to be her friend Yuzuki.
• Sayu said Yuzuki had once been human and refused to abandon her, so Amamiya Natsuki decided to face the Human-faced Dog with her.
• Amamiya Natsuki noticed a prompt identifying the Human-faced Dog’s canine instincts as her weakness and offered her a Momotaro Onigiri.
• The Human-faced Dog devoured the rice ball and demanded ten more, while Amamiya Natsuki whistled to call her over.

Amamiya Natsuki used Momotaro Onigiri to make the Human-faced Dog obedient and tried to help Sayu reconcile with Yuzuki. After Sayu got lost in the fog, he found her and brought her back to the bus by the hand.

• Amamiya Natsuki trained the Human-faced Dog, whose mouth resisted while its canine instincts obeyed him.
• Sayu pleaded with Amamiya Natsuki not to hurt Yuzuki and offered to do anything to atone for their past.
• Amamiya Natsuki suggested Sayu adopt Yuzuki and contacted the Young Lady to reassure her he was safe.
• Amamiya Natsuki discovered Sayu had gone missing, learned from the Human-faced Dog where she was, and found her beneath a tree.
• Amamiya Natsuki took Sayu by the hand and led her back to the bus.

Amamiya Natsuki brought Sayu back to the bus, reunited Fujiwara Chika with the others, and learned that the fog contained many monsters. The chapter ended as returning players reported seeing a monstrous version of Thomas the Tank Engine in the mist.

• Amamiya Natsuki told Yuzuki to stay away from the bus, then released Fujiwara Chika from her accessory state.
• Fujiwara Chika reunited with Shinomiya Kaguya and met Sayu, who revealed that Yuzuki had been her best friend before killing herself.
• Amamiya Natsuki opened the bus door after verifying the identities of four returning players, then used a fire axe to make a threatening man back down.
• The returning players explained that the tunnel looped back to its entrance and that monsters in the fog had scattered their group.
• A player reported seeing a hellish version of Thomas the Tank Engine in the fog, and others confirmed the sighting.

Amamiya Natsuki and the others learned that monsters in the fog took the form of players’ deepest fears, then left the bus when the fog cleared and searched an abandoned village for clues about its missing residents. The fog returned before they found answers, and the group took shelter in a wooden house to eat.

• A passerby explained that the terrifying Thomas the Tank Engine matched his childhood nightmare, leading Yukinoshita Yukino and the others to suspect that the fog’s monsters embodied players’ deepest fears.
• Shinomiya Kaguya remembered the Yandere Kaguya from the mirror space, and the bloodied double appeared in the fog with a dagger, vowing to kill her rivals and keep Natsuki by her side.
• As the group waited on the bus, Fujiwara Chika asked what the others feared; Takanashi Rikka named tomatoes, while Yukinoshita Yukino said she did not know her deepest fear.
• When the fog cleared after roughly two hours, Amamiya Natsuki led the players off the bus and into an abandoned mountain village filled with lifelike scarecrows and mannequins.
• Amamiya Natsuki, Shinomiya Kaguya, Fujiwara Chika, Takanashi Rikka, and Sayu searched the wooden houses and found signs that the residents had disappeared suddenly, but no other clues.
• When Shinomiya Kaguya noticed the fog returning, Amamiya Natsuki told everyone to stay inside, and Fujiwara Chika laid out food; Sayu declined until her stomach rumbled.

Amamiya Natsuki and Fujiwara Chika caught a moving doll, then used Shinomiya Kaguya’s magical gun to make it confess the story behind the village’s Netherworld Marriage. The confession revealed a new quest to recover the Ghost Bride’s dismembered body, while the doll refused to reveal where its two companions were hiding.

• Fujiwara Chika asked Amamiya Natsuki to accompany her to the bathroom, and they spotted a doll following them through the hallway.
• Amamiya Natsuki trapped the doll with the Magic Rope and brought it back to the others, who discovered that the other two dolls had disappeared.
• Shinomiya Kaguya’s third shot with the Magical Girl’s Reform-and-Repentance Gun made the doll confess that Ayaka had been sacrificed to the mountain god after a plague struck the village.
• The group received a Main Quest to break five seals, recover the Ghost Bride’s body, and dispel the Mist of Grievance surrounding the village.
• Amamiya Natsuki tried to persuade the doll to reveal where the other two dolls were hiding, but it refused.

Amamiya Natsuki and the others captured the remaining dolls and used the Magic gun to learn the Ghost Bride’s five burial locations. As the fog cleared, the dolls went limp, but the Magic Rope sprang free and tied up Fujiwara Chika, Sayu, and Rikka, leaving Kaguya glaring at Natsuki as he looked them over.

• Amamiya Natsuki and the others lured the dolls into the main house and found them bound with Magic Rope.
• Shinomiya Kaguya charged the Magic gun after Amamiya Natsuki kissed her in private.
• Kaguya fired the Magic gun, and the group learned the Ghost Bride’s five burial locations.
• Yukinoshita Yukino noticed the fog clearing, and the three dolls became motionless.
• Fujiwara Chika tried to untie a doll, but the Magic Rope sprang loose and bound Chika, Sayu, and Rikka.
• Amamiya Natsuki looked over the bound girls, and Shinomiya Kaguya gave him a sharp glare.

Amamiya Natsuki earned the other players’ trust by sharing his skills and helping organize the search for the Ghost Bride’s remains. At the mountain pool, he sent the girls to search underwater while he waited behind a boulder.

• Amamiya Natsuki showed the players his many skills, convincing them to trust Fujiwara Chika’s information about the Ghost Bride.
• Amamiya Natsuki gave each player the All Become Shadow skill, while Fujiwara Chika sold Witch’s Secret Potion and Kaguya limited purchases to two bottles per person.
• Amamiya Natsuki, Kaguya, Fujiwara Chika, Sayu, and Rikka followed a stream to a mountain pool where part of the Ghost Bride’s body was said to be hidden.
• Sayu volunteered to search the pool, and Kaguya ordered Amamiya Natsuki behind a boulder while the five girls entered the cold water.

Amamiya Natsuki rescued Shinomiya Kaguya from a severed hand in the pond, but the group was caught in the returning mist on their way down the mountain. They encountered a Head Balloon that changed its face to Natsuki’s, and the Human-faced Dog and Tomato Monster appeared as the chapter ended.

• Amamiya Natsuki pulled Shinomiya Kaguya from the pond after a severed hand grabbed her ankle, then freed her from its grip on shore.
• Amamiya Natsuki and the girls changed into dry clothes and started down the mountain with the severed limb.
• Amamiya Natsuki gave everyone Witch’s Secret Potion when mist spread across the hills, but the group was swallowed by it before reaching the abandoned village.
• Shinomiya Kaguya spotted something moving in a tree, and the group tried to go around it before encountering a floating Head Balloon.
• Fujiwara Chika and Yukinoshita Yukino warned against attacking the Head Balloon, which then changed its face to Amamiya Natsuki’s.
• The Human-faced Dog emerged from the mist and taunted Amamiya Natsuki, while Rikka spotted the Tomato Monster.

Amamiya Natsuki and the girls were confronted on the foggy mountain path by supernatural beings embodying their fears, including Yandere Kaguya. Natsuki confused Yandere Kaguya with a staged confession, then helped the group escape to the abandoned village.

• Yandere Kaguya emerged from the fog and accused Natsuki of abandoning her while attacking the group with a flying hatchet.
• Natsuki used the Truth Mirror to make Shinomiya Kaguya claim she had fallen for an older person and visited a mixed-gender hot spring with them, leaving Yandere Kaguya confused.
• Natsuki planted a mushroom on Yandere Kaguya and used a Momotaro Onigiri to make Yuzuki attack the Tomato Monster.
• Shinomiya Kaguya had Fujiwara Chika transform Natsuki into a lamb, preventing the Head Balloon from lassoing him.
• Natsuki and the girls fled through the fog and reached the abandoned village.

Amamiya Natsuki and the others escaped the fog into a Wooden House, where he negotiated with the Human-faced Dog and the group discovered Yukinoshita Yukino had grown cat ears from the Witch’s Potion. After they captured the dolls inside, Shinomiya Kaguya quietly tugged at Natsuki’s clothes, leaving her concern unrevealed.

• Shinomiya Kaguya led the girls into a Wooden House, and Amamiya Natsuki changed back from a sheep and dressed.
• Amamiya Natsuki baited the wounded Human-faced Dog with a rice ball and offered Yuzuki a chance to go to the real world as his employee.
• Yukinoshita Yukino discovered that the Witch’s Potion had given her cat ears, and Amamiya Natsuki explained that its side effects could last three days to a week.
• Amamiya Natsuki and the others caught and tied up the dolls hiding in the house.
• Shinomiya Kaguya tugged at Amamiya Natsuki’s clothes and began speaking to him in a low voice.

Amamiya Natsuki helped Shinomiya Kaguya remove a potion side effect that had temporarily enlarged her chest, despite her embarrassment and Chika's interruption. After Kaguya rejoined the others, Natsuki noticed the fog outside was clearing.

• Shinomiya Kaguya told Amamiya Natsuki that the potion had caused her chest to grow and asked him to remove the side effect because it made moving difficult.
• Kaguya refused to undress, so Natsuki gave her a drink and used his Negative Effect Removal skill by reaching beneath her uniform.
• Fujiwara Chika knocked and asked what they were doing, and Natsuki claimed he was massaging Kaguya's injured ankle.
• Natsuki finished removing the side effect, and Kaguya sent him out before rejoining the girls.
• Natsuki went to the Wooden House entrance and announced that the fog was clearing.

Amamiya Natsuki and the girls retrieved another of Ghost Bride's limbs from the cemetery and returned to the village before the fog arrived. As the fog brought the Human-faced Dog back, Amamiya used the Gluttony Mushroom to lure her with food, while Sayu refused to betray him at Yuzuki's demand.

• Amamiya Natsuki reunited with the player strangers, who had retrieved Ghost Bride's right leg from the shrine, and learned that the fog lasted longer than before.
• Amamiya Natsuki and the girls searched the cemetery, found three unusual bare graves, and used Mrs. Kaguya's ghostly power to identify the grave containing a limb.
• Amamiya Natsuki dug up the limb and returned to the village with the group, where they waited for the fog and discussed a plan to deal with Yandere Kaguya.
• Yukinoshita Yukino observed that daytime had shortened by about ten minutes as the fog spread over the village.
• Yuzuki confronted Amamiya Natsuki, accusing him of making her hunger and run to him, but she ate the meat bun he offered.
• Yuzuki ordered Sayu to kill Amamiya Natsuki, but Sayu refused because she could not betray him after he had helped her.

Sayu tried to atone for Yuzuki by following the Human-faced Dog’s demand to seduce Amamiya Natsuki. When Sayu leaned in to kiss him, Natsuki stopped her with a flick to the forehead.

• Amamiya Natsuki forced the Human-faced Dog to apologize by threatening to soil the steamed bun, then fed it to her.
• The Human-faced Dog pressured Sayu to seduce Natsuki as the price of forgiveness, and Sayu hesitated under the weight of her guilt.
• Amamiya Natsuki, Fujiwara Chika, and Shinomiya Kaguya played Mahjong while the fog kept them indoors, with redemption tickets proposed as prizes.
• After Natsuki left for the bathroom, Sayu waited for him and approached him with an unusually bright smile.
• Sayu hugged Natsuki’s arm and tried to kiss him, but he flicked her forehead and made her cry out in pain.

Amamiya Natsuki gave Sayu hope that she might see her deceased friend Yuzuki again, then learned Yuzuki had asked Sayu to seduce him. A second Kaguya appeared in the fog and questioned him about Shinomiya Kaguya’s betrayal, leaving Shinomiya Kaguya speechless at his blunt answer.

• Amamiya Natsuki told Sayu that a player with Spirit Summoning could let her see Yuzuki, and Sayu clung to him in relief.
• Sayu revealed that Yuzuki had asked her to seduce Amamiya Natsuki, but he decided to leave the Human-faced Dog alone for now.
• Amamiya Natsuki returned to the Mahjong game and told the others he had waited outside the bathroom for Sayu.
• Yandere Kaguya called Amamiya Natsuki into the fog, where Shinomiya Kaguya accompanied him.
• Yandere Kaguya asked whether Shinomiya Kaguya had cheated because Amamiya Natsuki cheated first, and he denied it, saying she had forgotten him after meeting someone else.

Amamiya Natsuki summoned Mrs. Kaguya to introduce Yandere Kaguya to her mother, but the group soon discovered Yukinoshita Yukino had vanished. Natsuki went into the mist to search and summoned Human-faced Dog Yuzuki for help.

• Yandere Kaguya rejected Natsuki’s offer to join Midnight Theater but agreed to bet on whether she would fall for the person Shinomiya Kaguya loved.
• Natsuki summoned Mrs. Kaguya, who embraced Yandere Kaguya and led her away to talk.
• Rikka noticed Yukinoshita Yukino was missing, and the group searched the house without finding her.
• Natsuki warned the others not to search outside and went into the mist alone using the Shadow Cloak.
• After finding no clues, Natsuki whistled with a rice ball and summoned Human-faced Dog Yuzuki.

Amamiya Natsuki rescued Yukinoshita Yukino from a masked supernatural being controlling her with threads, then the two hid from the Underworld Miniature Train beneath his Shadow Cloak. After the train passed, Yukino broke free and distanced herself from Natsuki.

• Amamiya Natsuki forced Human-faced Dog Yuzuki to lead him to Yukinoshita Yukino, whom a masked supernatural being controlled with transparent threads.
• Amamiya Natsuki cut the threads with his box cutter, carried Yukinoshita Yukino away, and helped her recover her ability to move.
• Yukinoshita Yukino explained that the masked being had taken control after she approached it because it resembled someone from her real life.
• Yukinoshita Yukino sensed something ahead, and Amamiya Natsuki hid with her beneath his Shadow Cloak as the Underworld Miniature Train passed by.
• Yukinoshita Yukino struggled against Natsuki when he held her close under the cloak, then broke free and put distance between them.

Amamiya Natsuki and Yukinoshita Yukino escaped the half-bodied woman and hid in a Wooden House while the train approached. After Yukino treated Natsuki’s wound, their banter turned awkward when she noticed his physical reaction, and he warned her not to provoke him.

• Yukinoshita Yukino mistook Natsuki’s warning for a misunderstanding, then turned and saw the half-bodied woman crawling toward her.
• Amamiya Natsuki kicked the woman away, then used Sweep Away Evil to restrain her, but she clawed his thigh during the fight.
• Yukino heard the train returning and led Natsuki into a Wooden House, where he contacted Shinomiya Kaguya and reported their situation.
• Yukinoshita Yukino cleaned Natsuki’s wound while they waited for the fog to clear.
• Yukino called Natsuki a pervert after noticing his reaction, and he defended himself before warning her he might lose his temper.

Amamiya Natsuki and the others gathered the Ghost Bride’s scattered body and learned that restoring it would awaken her against the villagers. After they reassembled her in the shrine, she opened her eyes and engulfed everyone in a Ghostly Illusion.

• Amamiya Natsuki and Yukinoshita Yukino waited out the mist, then reunited with Fujiwara Chika, Takanashi Rikka, Shinomiya Kaguya, and Sayu.
• Amamiya Natsuki led the players to find the Ghost Bride’s final body part, her head.
• The players learned that villagers had sacrificed and dismembered the Ghost Bride, whose grievance mist trapped people in the village.
• The players carried the Ghost Bride’s body parts to the shrine and reassembled her in her coffin.
• The Ghost Bride awakened and unleashed a Ghostly Illusion that swept over Amamiya Natsuki and the other players.