Chapter Summaries

After the group escaped the underground cavern, they learned the cruise ship would not be running until morning and split up to complete their remaining missions. Amamiya Natsuki began searching the island for shadow clones with Fujiwara Chika and Shadow Chika.

• Amamiya Natsuki led the group out of the cavern and down the mountain after deciding not to confront the unknown creature inside.
• Shadow Chika revealed she wanted to try many foods and embarrassingly told the group about her desire to experience intimacy before her three days were up.
• Shinomiya Kaguya read that the cruise ship had broken down and would not be repaired until morning, prompting the group to suspect the source was preventing anyone from leaving.
• Amamiya Natsuki divided the group so they could finish their missions, then chose Fujiwara Chika to accompany him on his Shadow Hunter mission.
• Amamiya Natsuki, Fujiwara Chika, and Shadow Chika began searching the Commercial street, where Shadow Chika asked him to buy takoyaki, grilled fish, and dango.

Amamiya Natsuki spent time on a beach with Secretary Chika and her shadow double, who teased Chika and competed with her for his attention. As the three continued walking, Shadow Chika sensed another shadow nearby.

• Secretary Chika questioned Shadow Chika about eating so much, and Shadow Chika refused to transform into a bracelet.
• Amamiya Natsuki fed takoyaki to both Chikas, who bickered over whether Secretary Chika had agreed to date him.
• Shadow Chika kissed Amamiya Natsuki and touched beneath his shirt, prompting Secretary Chika to compete with her before Natsuki stopped them.
• The three continued along the beach, where Shadow Chika sensed a shadow nearby, but Natsuki could not make it out in the dusk.

Amamiya Natsuki and the two Chikas hunted shadow creatures, using Shadow Chika to lure them into a trap and Natsuki’s skill to immobilize and destroy them. After rewarding Shadow Chika with a piggyback ride, they eliminated another shadow woman, and Shadow Chika asked for another reward.

• Amamiya Natsuki arrested Dr. Zhang San after Shadow Chika lured him over, then destroyed the doctor’s shadow with a hammer.
• Shadow Chika asked Amamiya Natsuki for a piggyback ride, and he carried her while Secretary Chika watched with jealousy.
• Shadow Chika spotted a graceful woman whose shadow was out of sync and led her into a dim forest.
• Amamiya Natsuki immobilized and destroyed the shadow woman, increasing the Shadow Hunter mission progress by two.
• Shadow Chika tugged at Amamiya Natsuki’s sleeve and asked for another reward.

Amamiya Natsuki and the two Chikas continued hunting shadows on the island, while Shadow Chika asked for increasingly unusual rewards. After Shadow Chika confessed that she wanted to date him, Fujiwara Chika accepted the idea of dating together because players might not have another chance, and the trio went to a park to fulfill Shadow Chika’s latest request.

• Amamiya Natsuki called Shadow Chika “Mother Fujiwara” as her reward, and Fujiwara Chika stopped Shadow Chika from agreeing to his teasing request.
• Shadow Chika led Amamiya Natsuki and Fujiwara Chika to a local councillor who was a shadow, and Amamiya Natsuki defeated him with the Anti-crime sweep Combination Skill.
• Shadow Chika asked for a collar and Traction Rope so she could walk Amamiya Natsuki on a leash, then said she wanted to be his girlfriend.
• Shadow Chika argued that players should avoid regrets because they might die tomorrow, and Fujiwara Chika fell silent before accepting the idea of dating Amamiya Natsuki together.
• Amamiya Natsuki took both Chikas to a Convenience store to buy the collar and Traction Rope, then followed Shadow Chika to a quiet park.

Amamiya Natsuki and Secretary Chika mistook Komie-san for a shadow and restrained her in the park. Shadow Chika revealed she was human Shoko, leaving Chika to realize they had mistaken Shoko’s communication disorder for suspicious silence.

• Secretary Chika spotted someone who resembled Shoko and assumed she was a shadow, so Shadow Chika slipped away to avoid detection.
• Amamiya Natsuki and Secretary Chika intercepted Komie-san when she tried to run, and Natsuki’s arrest effect left her unable to move or explain herself.
• Secretary Chika photographed Komie-san, while Natsuki pinched her cheek and claimed she was just like the real Shoko.
• Natsuki and Chika removed Komie-san’s tights despite her helpless protests, humiliating her as Chika noticed her blue-and-white underwear.
• Shadow Chika appeared and confirmed Komie-san was human Shoko, prompting Secretary Chika to realize she had forgotten about Shoko’s communication disorder.

Amamiya Natsuki encountered Shadow Zhuzhu and pretended not to recognize her, using fabricated memories to manipulate her while trying to learn about the other Shadow Clones. In the park, Komie-san received a message revealing that the Zhuzhu who had just passed by was a shadow, while Natsuki continued following Shadow Zhuzhu to look for her supposedly lost bracelet.

• Secretary Chika confirmed that Komie-san was the real Shoko after Shoko showed her personal notebook, and Shoko explained that she had come out with Zhuzhu.
• Amamiya Natsuki spotted Zhuzhu and discovered she was an unbreakable Shadow Zhuzhu, then pretended she was the real Zhuzhu and led her toward the park.
• Shadow Zhuzhu claimed she had dropped her bracelet, and Natsuki agreed to help while deciding to use the encounter to learn about the other Shadow Clones.
• Natsuki invented memories of Shadow Zhuzhu wanting affection and lifted her several times before she warned him that the others might be angry with him.
• Komie-san received a message from the real Zhuzhu asking where she was, and Fujiwara Chika realized the Zhuzhu who had passed the park was a shadow.
• Natsuki followed Shadow Zhuzhu along a lamplit street as she repeatedly said her lost bracelet was just ahead.

Amamiya Natsuki was dragged into a hot spring inn, where Shadow Zhuzhu, Shadow Senpai, Shadow Shoko, and Shadow Marin confronted him about the Memory Mist and the missing Shadow Chika. He began demonstrating the phenomenon to them by making mushrooms appear on their heads.

• Shadow Zhuzhu pulled Amamiya Natsuki into the inn, where he met Shadow Senpai and Shadow Shoko.
• Shadow Marin arrived naked, and the Shadow girls accused Amamiya Natsuki of manipulating their memories and cheating on them.
• The Shadow girls questioned Amamiya Natsuki about the Memory Mist and Shadow Chika's disappearance, while he realized they had been assigned a quest by Ebisu God.
• Amamiya Natsuki offered to explain the Memory Mist and said the girls could experience it for themselves.
• Amamiya Natsuki snapped his fingers, causing mushrooms to sprout on the four Shadow girls' heads, then asked Shadow Shoko to peel him a tangerine.

Amamiya Natsuki used Sin Mushrooms to make the shadow girls experience powerful desires while asking Shadow Marin to reveal Four Hands’ location. Shadow Marin offered to tell him if he pushed Shadow Senpai away, but Senpai warned that he was plotting something.

• Amamiya Natsuki asked the shadow girls about Four Hands, and Shadow Marin said she knew someone terrifying with four arms.
• Amamiya Natsuki explained that Sin Mushrooms caused the Seven Deadly Sins and used them to affect the shadow girls.
• Shadow Zhuzhu gave in to a Gluttony Mushroom, while Shadow Senpai succumbed to a Lust Mushroom and Shadow Marin became jealous.
• Amamiya Natsuki restrained Shadow Marin with a Magic Rope and used Shadow Senpai’s reactions to pressure Marin for Four Hands’ location.
• Shadow Marin agreed to reveal the location if Amamiya Natsuki pushed Shadow Senpai away, but Senpai warned her not to tell him.

Amamiya Natsuki escaped the Shadow girls after extracting information about Four Hands and refused to leave the instance, then encountered Zhuzhu and realized she had mistaken him for his Shadow Clone. He cornered her and asked her to say that she liked him.

• Amamiya Natsuki used a Momotaro Onigiri to lure Shadow Zhuzhu out of the inn and a Sloth Mushroom to immobilize Shadow Shoko, then obtained information about Four Hands from Shadow Senpai.
• Amamiya Natsuki answered Kaguya's call, proved his identity with private memories, and told her he had gained important information.
• As the Shadow girls began recovering, Amamiya Natsuki used a weapon against them, completed the advanced mission, and chose to remain in the instance.
• Amamiya Natsuki met Zhuzhu near the park, realized she had mistaken him for Shadow Natsuki, and played along with her excuse about a lost bracelet.
• Amamiya Natsuki took Zhuzhu's hand, let her pull away, and asked her to say that she liked him.

Amamiya Natsuki revealed that he had been pretending to be Shadow Natsuki to keep Zhuzhu alert, then teased her and Komie-san. The chapter ended when Zhuzhu answered Kitagawa Marin’s worried call.

• Zhuzhu searched the park for her missing bracelet while Amamiya Natsuki asked about her memories of Ghost Story Town.
• Zhuzhu tried to bind Amamiya Natsuki with a Magic Rope and warned Komie-san that he was Shadow Natsuki, but he proved he knew their real Ghost Story Town memories.
• Zhuzhu realized Amamiya Natsuki had been fooling her, bit him, and was bitten back before Komie-san untied them.
• Amamiya Natsuki teased Komie-san by asking her to go out with him, and Zhuzhu scolded him for trying to make a move on her friend.
• Amamiya Natsuki told Komie-san and Zhuzhu about encountering their Shadow Clones, then Zhuzhu answered Kitagawa Marin’s worried phone call.

After reuniting at the park, Amamiya Natsuki and the girls learned that Four Hands would appear on Shadowward Mountain during the festival and set out to protect a targeted elementary school student. Natsuki infiltrated the girl’s home, where her mother mistook his threat to take a person for a sexual demand, and he left the misunderstanding unresolved.

• Amamiya Natsuki reunited with the girls at the park, explained his encounter with the shadow girls, and warned them that Four Hands would appear on Shadowward Mountain at nine that night.
• Shinomiya Kaguya and the others decided to protect the elementary school students who might be targeted, and they went to the first girl's home while the festival kept most residents away.
• Hayasaka Ai had put the girl to sleep, and Shadow Chika checked the house and confirmed that its occupants were human.
• Amamiya Natsuki chose to tie up the girl's parents as part of the protection plan, then entered the house while Shadow Chika went in through the front door.
• Natsuki found the girl's mother in her room and threatened her with a dagger, leading her to believe he wanted sexual favors in exchange for sparing her daughter.
• Natsuki clarified that he only wanted the mother to help dress her sleeping daughter, but she remained humiliated and ashamed.

Amamiya Natsuki gathered several families and their children at a safe house, then led a small team toward Mount Yougou to kill a target at the festival. The group reached the mountain and drank Witch’s Potion for better night vision, while Kaguya worried about its side effects and Shadow Chika asked what it tasted like.

• Amamiya Natsuki dressed the beautiful wife and her daughter, brought them downstairs, and led them outside to join the girls waiting nearby.
• Amamiya Natsuki’s group captured two more elementary school students and took everyone to a vacant house, where he promised to release them after sunrise.
• Amamiya Natsuki assigned Marin, Zhuzhu, Sayu, Shoko, and Haruno to guard the captives while he went up the mountain with Kaguya, Yukino, Hayasaka, and the two Chikas.
• Hiyori teased Yukino about repaying Natsuki and offered him childhood photos of her sister as a reward for looking after her.
• The team reached Mount Yougou, and Natsuki urged everyone to drink Witch’s Potion for better night vision.
• Kaguya drank the potion despite fearing its side effects, and Shadow Chika asked Natsuki about its taste.

Amamiya Natsuki and the others climbed the mountain toward the shrine after confirming most of them had no potion side effects. Shinomiya Kaguya developed an urge to remove her clothes, and though she managed to continue uphill after taking off one item, danger struck just as they neared the shrine.

• Shadow Chika asked to taste the new potion, and Amamiya Natsuki checked that Hayasaka Ai, Yukinoshita Yukino, and Shinomiya Kaguya had no immediate side effects.
• Amamiya Natsuki and the girls began climbing the crowded mountain path and talked about visiting a summer festival together after clearing the dungeon.
• Shinomiya Kaguya developed an escalating urge to take off her clothes, which Amamiya Natsuki linked to the potion's mole rat bones.
• Unable to reach the shrine while resisting the urge, Shinomiya Kaguya took off one item while Amamiya Natsuki turned away, then continued uphill holding his hand.
• Shinomiya Kaguya and Amamiya Natsuki neared the shrine, but danger suddenly struck.

Amamiya Natsuki helped Shinomiya Kaguya handle the Witch’s Potion side effect after an accident at the shrine. Kaguya changed in a secluded grove, and after the side effect eased, she returned to her normal clothes.

• Two children bumped into Shinomiya Kaguya and accidentally got an apple candy stuck to her skirt, but Amamiya Natsuki used Time stop to keep anyone from seeing.
• Shinomiya Kaguya found the bathroom too crowded, so she followed Amamiya Natsuki to a quiet corner of a cherry-blossom grove to change.
• Shinomiya Kaguya equipped the Pure White Bride skin card, and Amamiya Natsuki took several photos before leaving the grove to keep watch.
• Hayasaka Ai revealed that she had followed them, learned that the Witch’s Potion side effect had returned, and kissed Amamiya Natsuki to obtain a photo of Kaguya.
• Amamiya Natsuki returned to Shinomiya Kaguya, confirmed that the side effect had mostly passed, and watched her put away the Skin Card.

Amamiya Natsuki and the others discovered that shadows had begun slaughtering tourists at the Summer Festival. They abandoned their plan to wait for Four Hands and prepared to intervene, while the mass killings exposed the shadows’ feeding strategy.

• Shadow Chika reported that the shadows had left the shrine, and the group followed them into the suddenly silent festival.
• Amamiya Natsuki examined a murdered couple and concluded that a shadow had attacked them from behind.
• The group found an elderly couple and a child murdered, and Shadow Chika explained that the progenitor could feed most efficiently by killing the island’s humans.
• After hearing screams, the group found a shadow in a bamboo grove attacking fleeing tourists, and Amamiya Natsuki ordered the others to take it out.
• A fleeing woman fell, and her boyfriend hesitated before abandoning her as the suited shadow approached.

Amamiya Natsuki and the girls hunted shadow creatures on the island, but a trap led them to Four Hands, a human in shadow-sludge armor who revealed that the island’s god was involved. The silver-haired, red-eyed Ebisu God appeared before them as the shadow creatures knelt.

• Amamiya Natsuki and the girls rescued a tourist from Shadow Man in Suit, warned her to hide until dawn, and continued hunting shadows.
• The group killed three more shadows, then fell into an ambush when the disguised shadow woman and Four Hands attacked Amamiya Natsuki.
• Four Hands revealed that drones had tracked the group and claimed it had copied the cruise ship’s passengers to avoid repeating an earlier mistake.
• Amamiya Natsuki admitted that the group were players, while Four Hands asked about dispelling Memory Mist and then invoked the power of a god.
• The silver-haired, red-eyed Ebisu God appeared in the air, and the surrounding shadow creatures knelt before her.

Amamiya Natsuki realized the Ebisu God had restarted time and was trying to copy Kaguya, so he used a time stop to kill Four Hands and trigger another restart. He awakened on the island with his companions beside him, retaining his memories through the Thorn of Remembrance as the Third Round began.

• Amamiya Natsuki deduced that the group was in the Second Round and that the Ebisu God could restart time.
• The Ebisu God seized Shinomiya Kaguya, while Hayasaka Ai and Yukinoshita Yukino fought off Four Hands’ attack.
• Amamiya Natsuki used a time stop to pull Four Hands close, break his shadow armor, and stab his heart with a scalpel.
• Amamiya Natsuki put on the Thorn of Remembrance as the Ebisu God went berserk after Four Hands died.
• Amamiya Natsuki and the others reappeared on the island, where he realized the Third Round had begun.

Amamiya Natsuki used the Memory Mask to retain his memories of the Previous Round and told the girls that the island’s time had restarted, leaving them in the Third Round. After removing the mask, he forgot what happened, but Komie-san’s notebook preserved his account and sketches of Four Hands and Ebisu God.

• Amamiya Natsuki recognized that the group had restarted at an unexpected point on the island and announced that they were in the Third Round.
• He had the girls check their backpacks, where they found Witch’s Potions, food, water, and a pair of Shinomiya Kaguya’s spare panties missing.
• Amamiya Natsuki dictated the island’s secrets, the instance missions, Four Hands’ identity, Ebisu God’s time-restart ability, and events from the Previous Round to Komie-san.
• Amamiya Natsuki sketched Four Hands and Ebisu God in Komie-san’s notebook, then removed the Memory Mask and lost his memories of the Previous Round.
• The girls showed the confused Amamiya Natsuki the notebook, and he read its record with an incredulous expression.

Amamiya Natsuki and the others realized they had entered a third time loop with his memories of the Second Round intact, while Ebisu God’s shadows hunted them. Using their information from the previous round, they hid their identities and began searching for Four Hands and Ebisu God, but their attempt to draw out Sakurako ended with Natsuki calling to her from the beach.

• Amamiya Natsuki confirmed that removing his mask had erased his memories of the Second Round, and the group deduced that killing Four Hands had triggered another restart.
• Amamiya Natsuki led everyone away from the beach as shadow clones searched for them, then had Zhuzhu and the others preserve information about the shadows in notebooks.
• The group planned to hide their identities, find Four Hands, and investigate Ebisu God; Amamiya Natsuki copied Hayasaka Ai’s transformation skill so they could disguise themselves.
• The players split up, with Haruno accompanying the upperclassman and Marin to retrieve the elementary school students while Amamiya Natsuki, Kaguya, and Chika headed to the beach.
• Amamiya Natsuki and the girls searched the rocks for the hidden Shadow elementary school student, then Natsuki shouted that Sakurako’s mother was calling her home for dinner.

Amamiya Natsuki and his group captured and destroyed a Shadow elementary student, then used knowledge from the Previous Round to complete Kaguya and Yukino’s instance missions at the abandoned hospital. They left the hospital with a follow-up mission to confront Ebisu God still ahead.

• Amamiya Natsuki lured out a Shadow elementary student, confirmed she had no memories of the Previous Round, and destroyed her to begin the mission to hunt five shadows.
• Amamiya Natsuki reunited with Marin and the others, and the group went to the abandoned hospital to unlock Kaguya and Yukino’s follow-up missions.
• Yukinoshita Yukino retrieved a key from the Ebisu God statue with Spider silk, and Amamiya Natsuki used it to open the hidden passage to an underground cavern.
• Shinomiya Kaguya and Yukinoshita Yukino received mission-completion notifications, while the group decided not to pursue the injured Ebisu God because she could restart time and might have guards.
• Amamiya Natsuki’s group left the hospital and assigned Zhuzhu, Shoko, and Sayu to watch over the elementary students.