Chapter Summaries

Amamiya Natsuki kissed Yukinoshita Yukino after she fulfilled her promise, then visited Miko and teased her until Miko’s mother jokingly approved their marriage. The chapter left Natsuki with Miko and her family as they prepared to eat together.

• Yukinoshita Yukino kissed Amamiya Natsuki on the cheek in a park, and he pulled her into an embrace.
• Amamiya Natsuki kissed Yukinoshita Yukino on the lips, and she pushed him away before leaving the park in embarrassment.
• Amamiya Natsuki saw Yukinoshita Yukino off at the Tram station, then returned home and visited Miko.
• Amamiya Natsuki lifted Miko in his arms and teased her about letting him kiss her, but Miko’s mother interrupted them.
• Amamiya Natsuki gave Miko, her mother, and Kyosuke souvenirs, and Miko’s mother jokingly approved his marriage to Miko.

Amamiya Natsuki visited Miko, heard about her uneasy days without him, and collected the Witch’s Potions she had made. Back home, Hayasaka Ai left for her hometown, and Natsuki and Kaguya settled into a quiet summer routine.

• Amamiya Natsuki visited Miko, recounted his dangerous Summertime Rendering experience, and comforted her with a hug.
• Miko showed Natsuki the Witch’s Potions she had made, and he paid her for them before heading home.
• Hayasaka Ai told Natsuki and Shinomiya Kaguya she planned to return to her hometown for summer vacation, then explained to Natsuki that she wanted to keep their relationship secret from Kaguya.
• Hayasaka Ai punched Natsuki after he teased her, then left with her suitcase the next morning.
• Amamiya Natsuki and Shinomiya Kaguya stayed home during the heat, while Tsubame-senpai attended cram school and Marin went shopping with friends.

Amamiya Natsuki heard Fujiwara Moeha’s story about a mysterious door and warned her not to investigate, then arranged to meet Hayasaka Ai after teasing her over messages. He met Hayasaka at an ice cream shop and joked to two bystanders that he would make her fall for him and then humiliate her.

• Fujiwara Moeha told Amamiya Natsuki that her classmate’s brother had vanished after reporting a strange red door inside his apartment, and asked him to investigate.
• Amamiya Natsuki refused to investigate and asked Fujiwara Chika to keep an eye on Moeha in case she pursued the story herself.
• After Fujiwara Chika’s house arrest ended, she went shopping with Kaguya and Marin while Amamiya Natsuki stayed home.
• Amamiya Natsuki messaged Hayasaka Ai about finding the owner of the Talent 100% skill, then persuaded her to meet by saying he would visit Marin instead.
• At the ice cream shop, Amamiya Natsuki saw two men admiring Hayasaka and jokingly claimed he would make her fall for him before dumping and humiliating her.

Amamiya Natsuki traveled to Kyoto with Hayasaka Ai to meet Tamura Yuka and copy her [Talent 100%] skill. After setting aside Tamura Yuka’s attempt to seduce him, he successfully copied the skill with the help of Lucky Favor.

• Amamiya Natsuki confessed to Hayasaka Ai, who rejected him, but he treated her refusal as acceptance and took her to a dessert shop while holding her hand.
• Amamiya Natsuki and Hayasaka Ai traveled to Kyoto, where he promised to show her around after meeting the other player.
• Amamiya Natsuki met Tamura Yuka, who explained that she had quit her job after joining the Mutual aid group and becoming financially independent.
• Amamiya Natsuki introduced Hayasaka Ai as his girlfriend, ending Tamura Yuka’s attempt to repay him by seducing him.
• Amamiya Natsuki gave Tamura Yuka Witch's Potion and had her use a Blank Skill Scroll, successfully copying [Talent 100%].

Amamiya Natsuki copied Miss Tamura’s skill, tested it with Hayasaka Ai, and returned to Tokyo. Days later, Fujiwara Chika reported that a mysterious red door had appeared in Moeha’s room, and Natsuki hurried to investigate with Shinomiya Kaguya and Mrs. Kaguya.

• Amamiya Natsuki copied a skill from Miss Tamura and left with Hayasaka Ai.
• Amamiya Natsuki and Hayasaka Ai tested Time stop and charged Talent 100% during their stay in Kyoto.
• Amamiya Natsuki and Hayasaka Ai returned to Tokyo, where Hayasaka left and Natsuki went home to Shinomiya Kaguya.
• Several days later, Fujiwara Chika called Amamiya Natsuki and reported that Moeha had seen a door appear in her room.
• Fujiwara Chika confirmed that she could also see the red wooden door, and Amamiya Natsuki set out with Shinomiya Kaguya and Mrs. Kaguya to investigate.

Amamiya Natsuki and Shinomiya Kaguya searched the Fujiwara house for Chika and Moeha, then used a hacker’s report to identify Miss Sakura as Sakura Rinko. After learning that Sakura Rinko had met Moeha before the girls vanished, they went to her apartment to investigate.

• Amamiya Natsuki and Shinomiya Kaguya searched Chika’s and Moeha’s rooms but found neither girl nor the red wooden door.
• Amamiya Natsuki read Moeha’s diary and learned that she had seen the door after meeting Miss Sakura, whom he considered suspicious.
• Mrs. Kaguya found no sign of Chika or Moeha, and Amamiya Natsuki concluded they had entered another space through the door.
• Amamiya Natsuki contacted a hacker and promised Shinomiya Kaguya he would find the door within twenty-four hours or use the Time Restart card.
• The hacker identified Miss Sakura as Sakura Rinko and sent records confirming she had met Moeha and another girl at a cafe.
• Amamiya Natsuki and Shinomiya Kaguya went to Sakura Rinko’s apartment building and decided to go up without waiting for the others.

Amamiya Natsuki and Shinomiya Kaguya questioned Sakura Rinko about the Door of Despair, a cursed red door that trapped people in a deadly haunted-villa trial. When it appeared in Sakura’s apartment and marked them with its curse, the Game issued a mission to eliminate it, but Natsuki concluded that simply destroying the door would not work.

• Amamiya Natsuki and Shinomiya Kaguya entered Sakura Rinko’s apartment and convinced her they were Supernatural Investigation Bureau staff by demonstrating Kaguya’s supernatural presence.
• Sakura Rinko explained that the Door of Despair had appeared after her friend went missing, compelled her to enter, and trapped her in an abandoned villa where only she and one other person survived.
• Sakura told Natsuki and Kaguya that people who survived the villa were dragged back through the door repeatedly, and confirmed that the missing junior high school students had sought her out for information.
• Sakura clutched her chest as the red Door of Despair appeared on her apartment wall, and the Game marked Natsuki and Kaguya with its curse and triggered a mission to kill the entity.
• Kaguya asked whether they should destroy the door, but Natsuki said that destroying it would not help.

Amamiya Natsuki and Shinomiya Kaguya entered the Door of Despair with Sakura Rinko to find Chika and destroy the door from within. They arrived at a rainy bus stop, where Amamiya Natsuki realized that turning the trapped people’s despair into hope might be the key to escaping, just as the Ghost Bus task appeared.

• Amamiya Natsuki and Shinomiya Kaguya entered the Door of Despair with Sakura Rinko after notifying Marin and the others.
• Amamiya Natsuki and Kaguya emerged from the fog at a rainy bus stop, where Sakura Rinko announced that they were Supernatural Investigation Bureau staff.
• A woman in a red tracksuit said there was no official supernatural organization, and Amamiya Natsuki admitted that he had entered to find someone.
• A tattooed man threatened Amamiya Natsuki and Kaguya, so Amamiya Natsuki kicked him across the shelter and warned him not to try again.
• Amamiya Natsuki sensed that Chika was somewhere in another scene and reasoned that the trapped people’s despair needed to become hope.
• Blood writing revealed the Ghost Bus task, which required everyone to ride the midnight bus to its final stop without getting off.

Amamiya Natsuki boarded a ghost bus and robbed its driver with a supernatural axe, securing six hell banknotes and giving the stranded players a chance to ride. With too few tickets for everyone, he went to rob a ghost passenger for more.

• A ghost bus arrived, and its driver demanded hell banknotes or a finger from each passenger.
• Amamiya Natsuki threatened the ghost driver with a bloodstained axe and injured him, forcing him to hand over six hell banknotes.
• Shinomiya Kaguya reassured Miss Sakura that they intended to end the haunting, and the onlookers began to believe her.
• The group realized there were nine people but only six tickets, leaving some at risk of losing a finger.
• Amamiya Natsuki walked to a black-haired ghost passenger and demanded that she hand over her money.

Amamiya Natsuki collected ghost money and gave every player, including the Yakuza man, a ticket onto the ghost bus. As the bus picked up more ghosts and its seats dwindled, a plastic mannequin demanded the dinosaur-pajama girl’s clothes.

• Amamiya Natsuki axed two resisting ghost passengers and collected ghost money from the others.
• Amamiya Natsuki gave tickets to Shinomiya Kaguya, Sakura Rinko, the middle-aged Auntie, the other players, and the Yakuza man, then boarded with Kaguya.
• Amamiya Natsuki warned the passengers to stay seated, and the ghost driver drove the bus into the rain.
• Two new ghosts boarded at a later stop, and the scar-faced man took the middle-aged Auntie’s seat.
• A Gothic plastic mannequin boarded at the next stop, ignored the final empty seat, and demanded the dinosaur-pajama girl’s clothes.

Amamiya Natsuki stopped Doll Lolita from robbing passengers, then helped Miss Mitsui give her seat to a pregnant evil spirit and confronted a bandaged passenger. The ghost bus continued through the mist, leaving Amamiya demanding that the bandaged spirit get off or prove it had not committed a lewd assault.

• Amamiya Natsuki subdued Doll Lolita's giant killer bear and forced her to stop robbing passengers and sit down.
• A pregnant evil spirit boarded the bus, and Amamiya told Miss Mitsui to give up her seat before revealing that he had been teasing her and promising to find another seat.
• Amamiya led Miss Mitsui to the bandaged evil spirit and accused it of peeking up her skirt.
• Amamiya demanded that the bandaged evil spirit leave the bus or prove it had not committed a lewd assault.

Amamiya Natsuki controlled the ghost bus and its passengers, forcing a troublesome spirit mother to restrain her baby before the bus broke down in the rain. He left the bus with the evil spirit driver and passengers pushing it, then invited a wary Old Lady aboard to help push.

• Amamiya Natsuki forced the bandaged evil spirit off the bus and let Miss Mitsui take its seat.
• An evil spirit baby emerged from its mother and crawled around the bus, so Shinomiya Kaguya lured it with a Momotaro Onigiri while Amamiya Natsuki caught it.
• Amamiya Natsuki threatened to cut the baby's umbilical cord, making its mother restrain it and later leave the bus with it at the next stop.
• After the bus broke down in the darkness and rain, Amamiya Natsuki ordered the ghost driver and several evil spirit passengers to get out and push.
• Amamiya Natsuki greeted an Old Lady at a bus stop and invited her to board, claiming the bus needed someone to push it from behind.

Amamiya Natsuki kept the ghost bus moving by making the evil spirit passengers push it and obey him, then confronted the driver when the bus reached the Starting Station instead of the end. After the bus turned back, the passengers reached the Final Stop and found the Door of Despair waiting to take them home.

• The evil spirit Old Lady fled after Amamiya Natsuki invited her aboard while evil spirits pushed the bus.
• Amamiya Natsuki returned the Killer Bear Doll to Doll Lolita and used his axe to force the evil spirit passengers to push the bus and behave.
• The bus reached the Starting Station, and Amamiya Natsuki threatened the ghost driver until he agreed to turn around and continue toward the Final Stop.
• The bus passed the familiar first bus stop and stopped at the nearby Final Stop, where the rain had ended.
• The human passengers got off and found the Door of Despair, which Miss Sakura identified as the way back to the real world.

Amamiya Natsuki and Shinomiya Kaguya sent the survivors home, then used the ghost bus to travel between stages in search of Chika and Moeha. They reached an abandoned mansion where a group of newcomers faced six hours of survival, and the chapter ended as a middle-aged man warned them about the evil spirits hunting them.

• The survivors thanked Amamiya Natsuki and Kaguya, and Kaguya said they intended to destroy the Supernatural Story Gate.
• Amamiya Natsuki told the survivors their Gate Marks should disappear by the next day, and they returned to the real world with Sakura Rinko carrying Kaguya's diary page.
• After the Door of Despair vanished, Amamiya Natsuki and Kaguya paid the ghost driver with Momotaro Onigiri to take them to other stages.
• The ghost bus brought Amamiya Natsuki and Kaguya to an abandoned mansion beyond the boundary of the downpour.
• Inside the mansion, a middle-aged man warned the newcomers that they had to survive six hours while evil spirits hunted them.

Amamiya Natsuki and Shinomiya Kaguya entered the villa to rescue the six frightened newcomers, who fled when they mistook the pair for evil spirits. Natsuki found a girl hiding in a wardrobe and drove off an evil spirit lurking in a mirror, but the girl was now terrified of him.

• The Middle-aged man warned the newcomers about the villa’s dangers, then an evil spirit opened the front door and sent everyone running.
• Amamiya Natsuki and Shinomiya Kaguya split up to search the villa and agreed to use a miniature clone to communicate.
• Natsuki followed footprints to a room on the second floor and tried to persuade a girl hiding in a wardrobe that he was human.
• The girl started to come out, but Natsuki sensed an evil spirit in the mirror and struck it with a fire axe before it escaped into the glass.
• Natsuki warned Kaguya that the evil spirit could attack through mirrors, while the girl remained too frightened to speak to him.

Amamiya Natsuki rescued Moeha’s classmate from a closet and agreed to help her find her missing brother. They found a woman hiding beneath a bed, while the mirror-bound evil spirit watched Natsuki with resentment.

• Amamiya Natsuki found Hanamori hiding in a closet and learned that she had entered the space while looking for Moeha and her missing brother.
• Hanamori asked Natsuki to help find her brother, and he agreed despite warning that the boy had been missing for several days.
• Natsuki gave Hanamori a flashlight and followed footprints to a locked room on the third floor.
• Natsuki kicked the door down and persuaded a woman hiding beneath the bed to come out.
• Natsuki noticed the evil spirit still lurking in the room’s mirror and told the woman to leave with them.

Amamiya Natsuki gathered the rookies in the mansion and rescued the missing middle-aged man from an evil spirit in a mirror. With the spirit avoiding him, he disguised himself as Shinomiya Kaguya and let it drag him into the mirror world to confront it.

• Amamiya Natsuki returned to the lobby with Hanamaru and the pajama-clad woman, where Shinomiya Kaguya arrived with three other rookies and reported that one middle-aged man was still missing.
• Amamiya Natsuki searched the second floor, found the middle-aged man being dragged into a mirror, and drove the evil spirit away when he entered the room.
• Amamiya Natsuki brought the injured man back to the lobby, then told Shinomiya Kaguya that the mirror spirit was smart enough to retreat when it saw him.
• Shinomiya Kaguya proposed letting the spirit pull her into the mirror, but Amamiya Natsuki refused because she feared mirrors and went to face it himself.
• Amamiya Natsuki transformed into Shinomiya Kaguya, entered the bathroom, and let the female evil spirit drag him into the mirror as he smiled at her.

Amamiya Natsuki defeated and captured the villa’s female evil spirit, using her to escape the Mirror world before destroying her. Though the villa’s other survivors feared he was leaving them vulnerable, the six-hour trial was still underway.

• Amamiya Natsuki beat the female evil spirit into submission and forced her to swallow a rice ball so he could use her to return from the Mirror world.
• After searching the villa’s Mirror world and finding no other evil spirits, Amamiya Natsuki had the female evil spirit bring him back to the real world, where Kaguya and the other Unlucky people waited.
• Amamiya Natsuki made the female evil spirit reveal her monstrous maw, convincing the frightened survivors that she was truly an evil spirit.
• Amamiya Natsuki led the group to the living room and destroyed the female evil spirit, but the Door of Despair did not appear because the six-hour trial had not ended.
• Amamiya Natsuki said the villa was safe for now and announced that he and Kaguya would leave, prompting the other survivors to beg them to stay.

Amamiya Natsuki and Shinomiya Kaguya took Classmate Hanamori to a school level aboard the ghost bus, hoping to find Moeha and confront the supernatural beings. After entering the eerily empty campus, they found no players or spirits, and Hanamori stopped with a bashful expression.

• Classmate Hanamori chose to leave the abandoned villa with Amamiya Natsuki and Shinomiya Kaguya, while the other passersby stayed behind.
• Amamiya Natsuki bribed the ghost driver with a rice ball, and the three rode the ghost bus to a school level.
• The group climbed over the locked school gate and entered the campus, where Shinomiya Kaguya remarked that it felt familiar.
• Amamiya Natsuki and Shinomiya Kaguya searched the Teaching Building but found no players or evil spirits.
• Shinomiya Kaguya suggested the level might have no players, and Amamiya Natsuki proposed checking the rest of the school before leaving.
• Classmate Hanamori suddenly stopped, blushing bashfully, as the group continued through the silent campus.

Amamiya Natsuki and Shinomiya Kaguya investigated a restroom incident after Classmate Hanamori was seized by an unknown force that spread through physical contact. Kaguya escaped its control with her ability, and she and Natsuki tried to restrain Hanamori without touching her.

• Classmate Hanamori asked Shinomiya Kaguya to accompany her to the restroom, and Amamiya Natsuki waited outside.
• After Hanamori took a tissue from a hand reaching under a neighboring stall, she lost control of her body; Kaguya was affected when she pulled Hanamori from the stall.
• Amamiya Natsuki deduced that the force spread through physical contact as the two girls moved toward him, while Kaguya warned him not to touch them.
• Shinomiya Kaguya used her ability to enter the shadows and returned free of the control, then activated her Bunny Girl Skin Card.
• Kaguya used the Magic Rope to bind Hanamori and stop her from reaching Natsuki, and Natsuki suggested suspending her to keep her from scraping herself on the floor.