Chapter Summaries

Amamiya Natsuki’s team investigated Hito Island’s history and concluded that Rhombus Hospital and the Hishigata Family were likely connected to Ebisu God’s centuries-long feeding. After gathering clues and disguising themselves with copied appearances, they prepared to enter the hospital.

• Amamiya Natsuki split the group, sending Koyasu Tsubame, Kitagawa Marin, and Yukinoshita Hiyori to investigate Ebisu God’s past while his team headed for Rhombus Hospital.
• Amamiya Natsuki’s team reviewed the islanders’ accounts, learned that Ebisu God appeared during a famine three hundred years ago, and theorized that the Hishigata Family founded Rhombus Hospital to feed him.
• Yukinoshita Yukino reported that stories of Shadow Sickness had circulated for generations and that an air raid had damaged the old Rhombus Hospital decades earlier, possibly injuring Ebisu God.
• Amamiya Natsuki and the others recorded their theories, pasted their skills, and chose people whose appearances they could copy before heading to the hospital.
• Shinomiya Kaguya and Yukinoshita Yukino transformed into twin sisters, while Hayasaka Ai teased Amamiya Natsuki about the couple he had seen at the KTV.
• Yukinoshita Yukino urged the group to hurry to Rhombus Hospital.

Amamiya Natsuki and the others entered Rhombus Hospital to investigate its director, but their assumed identities led them to discover that Kaguya and Yukino were pregnant, with Yukino carrying twins. After learning the director's location and dealing with the shock and suspicion their visit caused, they reached his office and began their confrontation.

• Amamiya Natsuki and his companions entered Rhombus Hospital and identified director Hishigata Seido on the staff board.
• A nurse recognized Kaguya and Yukino and revealed that both were pregnant, with Yukino carrying twins.
• Kaguya and Yukino collected their pregnancy reports, while Natsuki claimed to be accompanying them because Yukino's husband Naoki was away on business.
• Fujiwara Chika accidentally told Haruno that Yukino was carrying twins, and Yukino confronted Natsuki before the group reached the director's office.
• Natsuki chose to approach the office openly rather than sneak in through a window, then entered and addressed Hishigata Seido.

Amamiya Natsuki and the others interrogated Rhombus Hospital director Hishigata Seido, who revealed Ebisu God’s origins and its ties to the Hishigata Family. The chapter ended with the group learning that Four Hands was Hishigata Shisu hiko, who had repeatedly reincarnated by transferring his memories into a lookalike child.

• Amamiya Natsuki and the others captured Hishigata Seido, then realized he was human rather than a shadow when sunlight cast his shadow on the floor.
• Hayasaka Ai and Fujiwara Chika pressured Hishigata Seido by threatening to involve his family, and Shinomiya Kaguya used the Truth Mirror to make him answer their questions.
• Hishigata Seido explained that Ebisu God first appeared as a giant whale during a famine three hundred years earlier and became attached to the Hishigata Family after copying and devouring Hainada.
• Hishigata Seido identified Four Hands as Hishigata Shisu hiko, the Hishigata Family’s ancestor and Rhombus Hospital’s founder, whom Ebisu God loved.
• Hishigata Seido revealed that Hishigata Shisu hiko had children with Ebisu God and used its powers to transfer his memories into a child who looked like him, allowing him to reincarnate.

Amamiya Natsuki’s group interrogated the hospital director and learned about the Ebisu God, the Shadow Beasts, and Four Hands’ identity before securing the director and preparing to strike at the shrine. The group set off for the shrine, while Shinomiya Kaguya privately fretted over what might have happened in the Previous Round.

• The director revealed that Four Hands was Karikiri Masato, the shrine’s chief priest, and identified Head Nurse Nezu and Doctor Fujita as Shadow Clones.
• The director disclosed that the hospital’s autopsy room led to the underground cavern, where many Shadow Beasts guarded the Ebisu God, but he did not know the god’s weakness.
• At Shinomiya Kaguya’s suggestion, Amamiya Natsuki impersonated the director and told the Shadow Head Nurse he would be away until the next day.
• The group anesthetized, bound, and concealed the director in a filing cabinet, and Yukinoshita Yukino reported that her sister and Haimeng-classmate had safely met up.
• After using Skill Pasting to take a tourist’s identity, Amamiya Natsuki and the others headed for the shrine to capture Four Hands.
• Shinomiya Kaguya blushed as she wondered whether she and Amamiya Natsuki had been intimate in the Previous Round, then denied thinking about anything when he asked.

Amamiya Natsuki and the girls found Four Hands at the shrine and exposed his use of multiple bodies, but a shadow attack interrupted their confrontation. Amamiya stopped Four Hands from escaping, then took a bullet meant for Hayasaka Ai.

• Amamiya Natsuki and the girls reached the summit shrine and persuaded its shrine maiden to lead them to Guardsman Ganqie.
• Amamiya recognized Four Hands, dispelled his transformation, and discovered through Fujiwara Chika’s Truth Mirror that he had two clones.
• Four Hands revealed that his side had captured players and taunted the group about their inability to detect shadow attacks without a traitor.
• A shadow attacked Four Hands, but Amamiya used Time stop to bind him with the Magic Rope before he could escape.
• A Shadow Woman transformed from a dagger and shot at Hayasaka Ai, so Amamiya used Summoning Charm and shielded her, taking the bullet himself.

After Amamiya Natsuki was shot at the shrine, his companions feared he had died and prepared to force another round of the game. He revealed he had only pretended to be dead, then stayed behind with Hayasaka Ai while the others went to retrieve medicine for removing the bullet.

• Yukinoshita Yukino disarmed the Shadow Woman, who escaped after killing Four Hands, a clone.
• Shinomiya Kaguya and Hayasaka Ai decided to seek out the other Four Hands, believing her death would make Ebisu God restart time, but Amamiya Natsuki revealed he was alive and had been pretending.
• Amamiya Natsuki explained that the bullet had lodged in his muscle, and the group left the shrine to treat his wound without attracting Four Hands.
• Hayasaka Ai examined the wound, and Sayu offered a Berserker Pill that would make Amamiya Natsuki immune to pain while they removed the bullet.
• Shinomiya Kaguya, Fujiwara Chika, and Yukinoshita Yukino set off to collect the pill, leaving Hayasaka Ai with Amamiya Natsuki.
• Hayasaka Ai offered to use Copy Paste to take Amamiya Natsuki's pain onto herself.

After being shot, Amamiya Natsuki rested in a safe house while Hayasaka Ai cared for him and the others returned with medicine. The Berserker Pill dulled his pain but lowered his rationality, and the chapter ended with Yukinoshita Yukino leaving in anger after he insulted her.

• Amamiya Natsuki refused pain relief, asked for a bath, and let Hayasaka Ai wipe him down while he recovered.
• Hayasaka Ai continued caring for Amamiya Natsuki, who joked about the painful and pleasurable sensations before Kaguya, Yukino, and Chika returned safely.
• Shinomiya Kaguya gave Amamiya Natsuki a Berserker Pill, and he swallowed it to numb the pain before Hayasaka Ai began preparing to remove the bullet.
• Under the pill's influence, Amamiya Natsuki insulted Yukinoshita Yukino by comparing her figure with Haruno's and calling her Hirano.
• Yukinoshita Yukino left to stand guard, angry at Amamiya Natsuki's remarks.

After the Berserker Pill wore off, Amamiya Natsuki learned that his drugged confessions had angered the girls, then joined them in planning how to defeat Four Hands. The group decided not to enter Ebisu God's cavern and considered turning Ebisu against Four Hands.

• While Amamiya Natsuki was still dazed, he apologized to Fujiwara Chika for calling her Mother Fujiwara with Moeha and revealed Moeha had said Chika gained weight.
• Amamiya Natsuki told Shinomiya Kaguya that he liked her most but wanted all the girls, then told Hayasaka Ai that he liked her and suggested doing it again.
• After the Berserker Pill wore off, Amamiya Natsuki found Kaguya, Chika, Hayasaka, and Yukino waiting downstairs, and they teased him about what he had said.
• Hayasaka Ai reported that she had removed the bullet, while the group discussed finding Four Hands and agreed that entering Ebisu God's underground cavern was too dangerous.
• Amamiya Natsuki proposed that Ebisu God was Four Hands' greatest advantage and suggested making Ebisu fall in love with someone else so Four Hands would lose its support.

After recovering from his shrine battle, Amamiya Natsuki reunited with the worried girls at their mountain guesthouse and spent the evening with them. He secretly rewarded Sayu with kisses, then confessed his feelings to Shoko while asking her to accept his desire to date everyone, leaving her angry but oddly reassured.

• Amamiya Natsuki and the others cleaned the room, left, and reunited with Marin and the girls at the guesthouse.
• Marin and the others checked on Natsuki, who reassured them that his gunshot wound had mostly healed.
• Tsubame suggested dinner, and Kaguya and Chika agreed to prepare food while Natsuki rested.
• Sayu summoned Natsuki to the bathroom and asked for a reward for helping him; he kissed both her cheeks.
• Natsuki confronted Shoko after she saw him leave the bathroom, then confessed that he liked her and asked her to date him along with the others.
• Shoko called Natsuki shameless and left the balcony, feeling angry but strangely reassured by his confession.

Amamiya Natsuki and the others tied up the parents of three missing elementary school students, then climbed the mountain to face Ebisu God. Yukinoshita Yukino’s Witch’s Potion gave her fox ears and a tail, and she finally asked Amamiya Natsuki to use a Skin Card to remove them.

• Amamiya Natsuki and his companions entered the first home with help from Mrs. Kaguya and tied up the mother after confirming she was an ordinary human.
• Amamiya Natsuki and the others handled the other two households the same way, then stopped for drinks before heading to the mountain.
• The group drank Witch’s Potions to prepare for possible attacks by shadows, and Yukinoshita Yukino developed fox ears.
• Yukinoshita Yukino put on a baseball cap and continued up the lantern-lit trail, but a fox tail appeared beneath her skirt.
• Yukinoshita Yukino asked Amamiya Natsuki for a Skin Card, and he teased her by pretending not to hear.

Amamiya Natsuki and the others planned to draw Ebisu God out by offering Four Hands information about a player invitation card, hoping to stop the shadows from killing tourists. They found Head Nurse Nezu and offered Ebisu God a deal, but the chapter ended before she responded.

• Yukinoshita Yukino dragged Amamiya Natsuki into the woods to demand the Skin Card, and he offered to return it in exchange for touching her fox ears and tail.
• While they waited for Yukino's side effects to disappear, Fujiwara Chika asked how they could save the tourists, and Amamiya proposed using Four Hands' desire to become a player to lure her and Ebisu God out.
• Yukino's fox ears and tail vanished, and the group returned to the mountain path to find a shadow who could deliver their message.
• Shinomiya Kaguya recognized Head Nurse Nezu at a takoyaki stand, and Hayasaka Ai explained that Nezu had carried corpses to Ebisu God.
• Fujiwara Chika, Yukino, and Amamiya told Nezu they wanted to trade a player invitation card for Ebisu God sparing the tourists that day, and Nezu asked what the card was.

Amamiya Natsuki used his Title Skill to make Ebisu God fall for him, turning the island’s final boss against Four Hands. Ebisu God ordered the shadows to capture Four Hands, who had fled, while Natsuki prepared to settle their score.

• The group refused to hand over the player invitation cards until Ebisu God agreed to their deal, and she came to meet them at the market.
• Amamiya Natsuki activated his Title Skill on Ebisu God, who took his hand and agreed to be with him.
• Four Hands ordered the shadows to kill the group, but they ignored him, so he fled into the night.
• Amamiya Natsuki asked Ebisu God to capture Four Hands, and she ordered the shadows to search for him.
• A shadow reported that Four Hands had fled from behind a tree, and Hayasaka Ai mocked him for running away.

Amamiya Natsuki and the girls learned key details about Ebisu God's time-restarting ability and Four Hands's clones and original body while exploring the summer festival. They headed for the underground cavern to confront Four Hands, who was waiting there, and Fujiwara Chika teased Shinomiya Kaguya about her and Yukinoshita Yukino having a baby.

• Amamiya Natsuki and the girls learned that Ebisu God had been kept underground for centuries and recorded how her time restart worked and why it had limits.
• Ebisu God revealed that Four Hands had two clones, that one clone had died, and that his immobile original body was in a room beside hers underground.
• Amamiya Natsuki decided to go directly to the underground cavern after the Shadow Head Nurse failed to find Four Hands on the mountain.
• Four Hands hid in the cavern wearing mud armor and vowed that nobody would take Ebisu God from him.
• At the hospital entrance to the cavern, Fujiwara Chika teased Shinomiya Kaguya about her and Yukinoshita Yukino having a baby, prompting Kaguya to answer with a sweet, unnerving smile.

Amamiya Natsuki and the girls entered the hospital’s hidden underground passage, where Four Hands attacked them with a bomb to force Natsuki to use Time stop. Natsuki saved Yukinoshita Yukino from falling into an abyss, and, expecting a reset into the next round, kissed her while they dangled above the cavern.

• The group found a hidden door in the hospital autopsy room, and Ebisu God said she had just come through it.
• Four Hands realized the players had tricked him and stolen Hainada’s love, then left the monitoring room to pursue them.
• Shinomiya Kaguya and Yukinoshita Yukino reasoned that Four Hands might try to bait Natsuki into using Time stop, but a bomb suddenly blasted apart their passage.
• Natsuki activated Time stop, moved the girls out of danger, and caught Yukino with a Grappling hook as they fell above a deep abyss.
• Natsuki warned Yukino that Four Hands might have another trick and that they would likely enter the next round, then kissed her as they hung from the Grappling hook.

Amamiya Natsuki returned from the Third Round to the Fourth Round after Four Hands impaled Ebisu God and forced her to restart time. He explained the lost round to the girls using diaries they had written, then removed the Memory Mask and lost the memories again.

• Four Hands attacked Ebisu God with black spears, and Amamiya Natsuki and Yukinoshita Yukino retreated to the passage while praising Badao.
• Ebisu God restarted time, sending Amamiya Natsuki back to the rocky beach at the start of the Fourth Round.
• Amamiya Natsuki told the girls they were in the Fourth Round and had them read the diary entries they had written as records of the Previous Round.
• The girls learned how they had investigated Four Hands and recruited Ebisu God, while Amamiya Natsuki recounted how Four Hands had forced the restart.
• Amamiya Natsuki removed the Memory Mask and lost his Third Round memories, then wondered why his head hurt as Shinomiya Kaguya told him to look at his right hand.

Amamiya Natsuki and the others entered the Fourth Round, completed the pre-quest, and found that Four Hands had gathered every shadow in the underground cavern to defend himself. Natsuki argued that Four Hands’s hiding would let them reach midnight and activate the Nightmare Theater, though Zhuzhu questioned whether it would work.

• Amamiya Natsuki used information from the previous round to defeat the Shadow elementary school student and complete the pre-quest with the group.
• Hayasaka Ai read her previous round’s diary entry about a first experience with Amamiya Natsuki and became flustered while trying to hide it.
• Fujiwara Chika briefed the reunited group on the previous round, and they discussed how Four Hands might respond to the reset.
• The group completed the pre-quest without encountering shadows, then found that the shadow police officer, Shadow Head Nurse, and other known shadows had vanished.
• Amamiya Natsuki and the others concluded that Four Hands had summoned the island’s shadows to the underground cavern and was hiding there with his clones.
• Amamiya Natsuki said Four Hands’s defensive strategy would give them time to reach midnight and activate the Nightmare Theater, then beckoned Zhuzhu when she doubted it would activate.

Amamiya Natsuki and Hayasaka Ai searched for the natural entrance to the underground cavern beneath the island’s cliffs. They found the cavern and discovered two shadows playing on their phones, but had not yet confronted them.

• Amamiya Natsuki chose to scout the cavern entrance with Hayasaka Ai, and they rented a small boat from an elderly man at the pier.
• Amamiya Natsuki and Hayasaka Ai found a dark opening beneath the cliffs, tied up the boat, drank Witch’s Potions, and entered under the Shadow Cloak.
• Amamiya Natsuki and Hayasaka Ai navigated the rocky passages and confirmed they had reached the underground cavern.
• Hayasaka Ai’s potion gave her a tail, but she and Amamiya Natsuki continued through the cavern together beneath the cloak.
• Amamiya Natsuki and Hayasaka Ai spotted two shadows playing on their phones near a faint light.

Amamiya Natsuki and Hayasaka Ai located the shadows’ cave, then became intimate on their boat before returning to the group. After dinner, Hayasaka wrote a note for her next-round self, and the group prepared to check whether Four Hands was secretly moving across the mountain.

• Amamiya Natsuki and Hayasaka Ai found the shadows guarding a cave but could not contact the others because there was no signal.
• Amamiya Natsuki and Hayasaka Ai shared an intimate night on the boat, and he carried her ashore afterward.
• Amamiya Natsuki told the group that they had found the cave and seen shadows guarding it; Shinomiya Kaguya suspected Four Hands was keeping Ebisu God hidden there.
• Hayasaka Ai privately wrote a little essay for her next-round self while the group rested.
• Amamiya Natsuki proposed checking the mountain in case Four Hands was secretly crossing it, and Shinomiya Kaguya agreed.

Amamiya Natsuki and Hayasaka Ai scouted the summer festival without finding any shadows, then returned to the villa before the group set out for the final showdown. They reached the cave entrance by motorboat, drank Witch’s Potions to gain night vision, and entered.

• Amamiya Natsuki and Hayasaka Ai posed as festivalgoers to scout the mountain, but no shadows appeared, so they headed back toward the villa.
• Amamiya Natsuki led Hayasaka Ai off the path and delayed their return until they reached the villa at half past ten.
• At half past eleven, Amamiya Natsuki gathered the girls, and the group left for the shore to begin the final showdown.
• Amamiya Natsuki took keys from the boat owner's house, explained how to operate the motorboats, and led the group across the sea to the cave entrance.
• Shinomiya Kaguya urged everyone to drink Witch's Potion, and Amamiya Natsuki led the group into the cave after they gained night vision.

Amamiya Natsuki opened the Nightmare Theater with a rule meant to stop Four Hands from helping Ebisu God restart time, but the rule also caused embarrassing involuntary actions. He gathered the urban legends to face the dungeon threat, and Miss Sadako agreed to help in exchange for a day of Mahjong.

• Amamiya Natsuki failed to forbid Time Restart directly, then set a rule requiring anyone called by their full name to perform a backflip or lose control of their body and speech.
• Amamiya Natsuki opened the theater, and Yukinoshita Yukino broke the rule when Yukinoshita Haruno called her by name, causing Yukino to embrace him against her will.
• The Yandere Young Lady offered to help kill Ebisu God before she could restart time, while Shinomiya Kaguya challenged her ability to stop the dungeon.
• Amamiya Natsuki persuaded Miss Sadako to help by promising to play Mahjong with her for the whole day after they finished their business.
• Yuzuki the Human-faced Dog arrived and Sayu broke the rule when she tried to explain where they were, causing her to lift her skirt against her will.