Chapter Summaries

Amamiya Natsuki led his team into the Aomori Hotel’s supernatural space to find the players who had entered earlier. After the hotel’s rule turned Marin and Sayu into dolls, Natsuki struggled to keep himself from using his time-rewinding card.

• Amamiya Natsuki and the girls entered the hotel, where daylight changed to night and their watches showed they were cut off from satellite communications.
• Fujiwara Chika used a watch to locate the other players, whose signals were clustered near the top floor, and the team went deeper into the hotel.
• At reception, Amamiya Natsuki found a notice stating that guests must obey changing daily rules and that they must not turn around when someone called from behind.
• A voice called out behind the group, and Marin and Sayu turned around and became dolls.
• Amamiya Natsuki resisted using his Time Restart card, though he could not bear seeing Marin and Sayu transformed.

Amamiya Natsuki learned that Marin and Sayu were trapped inside dolls, then led the group through the Nightmare Hotel to search for players who had entered earlier. He and Fujiwara Chika prepared to investigate a room on the second floor, with Chika wearing the Bride Skin Card as they entered.

• Amamiya Natsuki learned that Marin and Sayu were alive but trapped in dolls, and he warned everyone not to look back if they heard a voice behind them.
• Amamiya Natsuki received a mission to eliminate the supernatural entity Nightmare Hotel and led the group upstairs to follow a locator signal.
• Amamiya Natsuki and the others found an unlocked, apparently ordinary room, but nobody answered Fujiwara Chika's calls from inside.
• Amamiya Natsuki decided to enter with Fujiwara Chika while Shinomiya Kaguya stayed behind to lead the others.
• Shinomiya Kaguya suggested that Fujiwara Chika use the Bride Skin Card in case the room contained a curse, and Chika put on the wedding dress before entering.

Amamiya Natsuki and Fujiwara Chika entered a room in the Supernatural Hotel and fell into a nightmare that gave them false memories of being married. Natsuki recovered his memories with Miko's Advanced Spirit Vision and returned to Chika, who said someone was hiding under the bed.

• Amamiya Natsuki and Fujiwara Chika searched the room, but Chika's wedding dress turned black and Natsuki lost consciousness.
• Natsuki woke in a false life as Chika's husband and discovered prompts explaining that the hotel rooms trapped guests in nightmares that blocked their memories.
• Natsuki used Miko's Advanced Spirit Vision to break the Cognitive Distortion and remembered that he was a high school student at the Supernatural Hotel.
• Natsuki created a small clone from the Black Sludge and returned to the bedroom, where Chika clung to him in fear.
• Chika told Natsuki she had seen someone under the bed, and Natsuki claimed he had fought ten people at once in high school.

Amamiya Natsuki found two identical Fujiwara Chikas in a dark room and used an improvised story to keep them confused while trying to understand the nightmare. The chapter ended when a thud came from a box, drawing both Chikas’ attention.

• Amamiya Natsuki found a pink-haired Chika hiding under the bed while another Chika sat on it, and the hidden Chika warned him that the other was an impostor.
• Amamiya Natsuki told the Chikas they were twin sisters with memory problems caused by a car accident, and both became confused about which one was the hostess.
• Amamiya Natsuki invented a story that the Chikas had married him together and urged them to change out of their pajamas, leaving both embarrassed and bewildered.
• Amamiya Natsuki considered how to escape the nightmare but could not find a hint explaining how to break it.
• A muffled thud came from a box, and both Chikas said something was inside it.

Amamiya Natsuki found five Chikas hiding around the room and convinced them they were quintuplets who had forgotten one another after an accident. A prompt revealed that the nightmare fed on fear, and he decided to use pleasure to dispel it and wake the real Chika.

• Amamiya Natsuki discovered a Chika hiding in the snack box and persuaded her and the two Chikas on the bed that they were triplets.
• Amamiya Natsuki found a fourth Chika behind the curtains and claimed they were quadruplets.
• Amamiya Natsuki discovered a fifth Chika in the wardrobe and told all five they were quintuplets with short-term memory loss.
• The five Chikas argued over whose room they were in while Amamiya Natsuki wondered how to find the real Chika.
• A prompt told Amamiya Natsuki that the nightmare drew power from fear and would fade without it, so he decided to dispel the Chikas' fear with pleasure.

Amamiya Natsuki and Fujiwara Chika escaped a nightmare in the Supernatural Hotel, revealing that each room might contain a dangerous nightmare that traps its victims. After discussing ways to investigate and rescue anyone trapped, Natsuki prepared to enter the next room with Tsubame-senpai.

• Amamiya Natsuki and Fujiwara Chika emerged from the locked room, and Chika said her legs were weak after a frightening ordeal.
• Amamiya Natsuki explained that the hotel’s nightmares blocked memories and fed on shock and fear, while Fujiwara Chika described the impostors she had encountered.
• Amamiya Natsuki said Yukino might be trapped in a nightmare and proposed testing the next room, while Shinomiya Kaguya and the others discussed ways to counter the danger.
• Fujiwara Chika proposed using the Sleight of Hand Combination Skill to pull someone out of a nightmare, but the group could not agree on a plan.
• Amamiya Natsuki chose to investigate the second room with Tsubame-senpai while Fujiwara Chika rested and Shinomiya Kaguya stayed outside to coordinate.

Amamiya Natsuki and Koyasu Tsubame entered the second room’s nightmare to investigate its rules, but Natsuki arrived alone in a false home filled with supernatural figures. After finding a ghostly child who called him Daddy, he followed her upstairs to look for her mother and heard a sound from the wardrobe.

• Amamiya Natsuki and Koyasu Tsubame entered the second room while Shinomiya Kaguya waited outside, ready to pull them out after ten minutes.
• Amamiya Natsuki awakened in a fogbound courtyard with false memories of being a married office worker and searched the dilapidated house for Tsubame-senpai.
• Amamiya Natsuki encountered a black cat and explored the house, finding no one in the bathroom, kitchen, or storage room.
• Amamiya Natsuki grabbed a pale, black-eyed little girl hiding behind the sofa, and she called him Daddy.
• Amamiya Natsuki asked the little girl about the household and followed her upstairs to find her mother.
• Amamiya Natsuki entered a dark bedroom, and a muffled sound came from inside the wardrobe.

Amamiya Natsuki found Tsubame-senpai hiding in the wardrobe under the nightmare’s false identity of his frightened wife, Kayako. He tried to ease her fear with candlelight, a rose, and gentle attention, then began inventing a romantic story about their past as she listened with growing confusion.

• Amamiya Natsuki recognized Tsubame-senpai as the wife in the nightmare and called her Kayako-senpai.
• Amamiya Natsuki carried the frightened Tsubame-senpai downstairs and realized he needed to make her stop fearing him to escape the nightmare.
• Amamiya Natsuki lit candles and gave Tsubame-senpai a red rose, which she accepted with surprise.
• Amamiya Natsuki brushed Tsubame-senpai’s hair into a familiar style and claimed it was how she wore it in high school.
• Amamiya Natsuki told Tsubame-senpai he had fallen in love with her at first sight, while she admitted she could not remember.

Amamiya Natsuki treated Tsubame-senpai affectionately in their nightmare home, hoping to ease her fear and restore her memories. After dinner and a bath, he used a Sloth Mushroom to weaken her fear, and she finally recognized him as her junior.

• Amamiya Natsuki apologized to Tsubame-senpai, professed his love, and prepared a candlelit dinner with food from his backpack.
• Amamiya Natsuki brought their Vengeful spirit daughter to wash up, and the three shared a peaceful dinner together.
• Amamiya Natsuki and Tsubame-senpai washed each other's backs, but she refused to bathe with him.
• Amamiya Natsuki planted a Sloth Mushroom on Tsubame-senpai, reducing her fear and helping her recover her memories.
• Tsubame-senpai looked at Amamiya Natsuki and recognized him as her junior.

Amamiya Natsuki helped Koyasu Tsubame recover her real memories while the nightmare’s sloth kept her helpless, and the two waited for the nightmare to end. When it persisted, Natsuki realized their vengeful-spirit daughter was still providing fear and might be another hotel guest.

• Amamiya Natsuki told Koyasu Tsubame that he had been unable to wake her until he used Plant Mushroom, and teased her about falling for him.
• Natsuki carried the still-slothful Tsubame to the bathtub, where they bathed together until her strength returned.
• Tsubame noticed the nightmare had not ended, and Natsuki reasoned that someone was still providing fear.
• Natsuki found their vengeful-spirit daughter hiding beneath the table and suspected she was one of the hotel’s earlier guests.

Amamiya Natsuki and Tsubame-senpai tried to calm the frightened girl Aoi, a former hotel guest who was sustaining the nightmare, by bathing her and giving her a toy. They left the room with Aoi calling them her parents, shocking the waiting girls, and Tsubame-senpai blushed as she tried to explain.

• Amamiya Natsuki recognized the vengeful spirit girl as a former hotel guest and agreed with Tsubame-senpai that they should cautiously win her trust rather than use Original Sin.
• Tsubame-senpai took the frightened girl to bathe while Amamiya Natsuki waited, noticing that Chika’s signal had not arrived and that time in the nightmare differed from time in the hallway.
• After the bath, Amamiya Natsuki gave the girl a Shiba Inu Figurine, and Tsubame-senpai called her Aoi as the girl thanked them and accepted their care.
• Aoi clung to Amamiya Natsuki and Tsubame-senpai when they left the room, calling them Daddy and Mommy and asking to be carried.
• Shinomiya Kaguya, Fujiwara Chika, Hayasaka Ai, and the other girls assumed Aoi was their daughter, while Koyasu Tsubame blushed and tried to explain.

Amamiya Natsuki and the group learned that Little Aoi was a missing hotel guest trapped in a nightmare, then entered the third room to search for Yukino. Inside, Natsuki found Hayasaka and a stranger fleeing a knife-wielding killer, but the stranger shoved Hayasaka down and shut herself away.

• Amamiya Natsuki explained that Little Aoi had been an earlier hotel guest and that the nightmare had made her and Tsubame-senpai play her parents.
• Little Aoi warned the group that the hallway was dangerous when the alarm sounded, and the group returned to the lobby to check the hotel's rules.
• The group decided to stay together, check the rules every ten minutes, and send Amamiya Natsuki and Hayasaka into the third room.
• Amamiya Natsuki and Hayasaka entered a nightmare set on an empty train, where Natsuki's false memories cast him as a student traveling alone.
• Amamiya Natsuki ran toward a scream and found Hayasaka helping an unfamiliar woman escape a bloodied killer.
• The unfamiliar woman shoved Hayasaka to the floor and shut the carriage door behind herself as the killer approached.

Amamiya Natsuki protected Hayasaka Ai from the Train killer after a selfish woman tried to leave her outside the carriage. Hayasaka struck the woman back, then prepared to face the killer with Amamiya, while the woman blocked their escape route.

• A strange woman refused to let Hayasaka Ai into the carriage, and Amamiya Natsuki slapped her before opening the door.
• Amamiya declared that he had fallen in love with Hayasaka at first sight and blocked the Train killer’s dagger, then kicked the monster across the carriage.
• Hayasaka kicked the door open and pulled Amamiya inside, then slapped the strange woman when she tried to shove them back out.
• The strange woman fled into the next carriage and blocked the door, trapping Amamiya and Hayasaka with the approaching Train killer.
• Hayasaka proposed that she and Amamiya attack the killer together.

Amamiya Natsuki rescued Hayasaka Ai from a train murderer and told her that her memories were false. Hayasaka began to doubt her past and wonder whether she and Natsuki were really dating, while keeping her distance from his advances.

• Hayasaka asked for a weapon to fight beside Natsuki, but he gave her popcorn and defeated the train murderer with a fire axe.
• Hayasaka noticed Natsuki’s wound had disappeared, kicked him after he admitted the blood was ketchup, and called him an idiot.
• Natsuki explained that false memories had been implanted in Hayasaka and pointed out that she could not readily recall her parents’ names.
• Natsuki claimed he had fallen in love with Hayasaka at first sight and that they were dating, and she began to believe him after seeing his eyes.
• Hayasaka warned Natsuki not to approach her until she recovered her real memories, while he admitted he enjoyed teasing her and called himself a pervert.

Amamiya Natsuki kept Hayasaka Ai close while she struggled with missing memories, teasing her about how naturally her body responded to him. After the Jealousy Mushroom restored her memories, Hayasaka confronted him about what happened and asked whether the woman who shut the door was the room’s original resident.

• Hayasaka tried to escape, but Amamiya Natsuki used a Summoning Charm to pull her into his arms.
• Amamiya Natsuki kissed Hayasaka and pointed out that her hand repeatedly slipped inside his clothes, suggesting they had been intimate before.
• While they waited for the mushroom to mature, the dead serial killer stood up carrying his head and Amamiya Natsuki defeated him again; he also encountered another unfamiliar man.
• Amamiya Natsuki detonated the mature mushroom, and the Jealousy Mushroom made Hayasaka demand that he avoid other women and threaten to imprison him in a basement.
• Hayasaka’s memories returned as the mushroom’s effect took hold, and Amamiya Natsuki kissed her until the jealousy faded.
• Hayasaka regained her memories, accused Amamiya Natsuki of enjoying bullying her, and asked whether the woman who shut the door was the room’s original resident.

Amamiya Natsuki and Hayasaka Ai escaped a train nightmare and continued exploring the hotel’s rooms, using Steal to avoid rescuing ordinary guests. In the next nightmare, Natsuki found Yukinoshita Yukino and faced an Ouija game with her and the others.

• Amamiya Natsuki and Hayasaka Ai escaped the abandoned train nightmare, and Fujiwara Chika and the other girls fussed over Natsuki while he was still transformed into a sheep.
• Amamiya Natsuki and Hayasaka Ai explained what happened on the train, then agreed to keep exploring rooms and leave ordinary guests for the Bureau to rescue later.
• Amamiya Natsuki and Hayasaka Ai explored more second-floor rooms with Steal until Hayasaka grew too tired, so Yukinoshita Hiyori took her place.
• Amamiya Natsuki entered a classroom nightmare with Yukinoshita Yukino, Yukinoshita Hiyori, and an unfamiliar girl, and realized they were about to play Ouija.
• Amamiya Natsuki tried to persuade the girls to skip the game and have ice cream instead, but they all refused.

Amamiya Natsuki was forced to play the Ouija game with Yukino, Haruno, and an unnamed girl, where each correct answer triggered a command. After Ouija revealed that Yukino liked Natsuki and the girls were left in their underwear, Natsuki posed a college entrance exam problem as the next question.

• Amamiya Natsuki was forced to join the Ouija game, and he established that Ouija would also be punished if she could not answer.
• Haruno asked what she had eaten the previous evening, and after Ouija answered correctly, she suffered supernatural pain before removing her stockings as commanded.
• Yukino and the unnamed girl asked easy questions and removed their stockings when Ouija issued the same command.
• Amamiya Natsuki asked how two shooters should be sentenced when it was impossible to tell whose bullet killed their target; Ouija answered that both were guilty of attempted murder and ordered him to do fifty push-ups.
• Natsuki asked whom Yukino liked, and Ouija spelled out his name; Yukino denied liking him, then Natsuki completed a handstand walk around the classroom when commanded.
• In the third round, the girls removed their skirts, and Natsuki began asking Ouija to solve a college entrance exam arithmetic-sequence problem.

Amamiya Natsuki forced Ouija to reveal her ghostly form, then helped Haruno and Yukino navigate the game’s commands. After Yukino was ordered to fill a wineglass with blood, Natsuki offered to take her place, and Ouija demanded that he fill two glasses instead.

• Amamiya Natsuki used his command to make Ouija reveal her true form, frightening Haruno, Yukino, and the ordinary girl.
• Amamiya Natsuki secretly guided Haruno to ask whether Ouija was a boy or a girl, and Haruno used his jacket to obey Ouija’s order to remove an item of clothing without being exposed.
• Yukino asked whether Ouija’s psychological gender was female, and Ouija ordered her to fill a wineglass with blood.
• Amamiya Natsuki offered to fulfill Yukino’s command for her, and Ouija agreed on the condition that he fill two wineglasses with his blood.

Amamiya Natsuki took Yukino’s punishment, then used his title skill to make the Ouija obey him and protect the group from the game’s punishments. The game continued, and the Ouija revealed that Yukino liked Amamiya Natsuki, leaving her furious and unable to dismiss the answer.

• Amamiya Natsuki filled two wine glasses with his blood to take Yukino’s punishment, but the Ouija said the game would continue.
• When the Ouija ordered Amamiya Natsuki to fill a larger cup with blood, he used his Warrior of Love title skill to make her withdraw her hair and free everyone.
• Amamiya Natsuki learned that the game could not be stopped and that the Ouija could choose punishments, then promised to keep the others safe.
• Yukinoshita Hiyori asked whether Yukino’s crush was in the classroom, and the Ouija answered that he was.
• Yukinoshita Yukino realized the answer pointed to Amamiya Natsuki, but she denied liking him as the passerby girl insisted the Ouija never lied.

Amamiya Natsuki used Miss Ouija to make the girls perform silly punishments and reveal that Yukinoshita Yukino’s first kiss had been with him, though she could not remember it. He pointed out inconsistencies in their surroundings and claimed they were in a shared consciousness space after a car accident, then began explaining his supposed connection to their subconscious.

• Amamiya Natsuki ordered Miss Ouija to make Haruno, Yukino, and the bystander meow as punishment.
• Yukinoshita Hiyori asked Miss Ouija whether Yukino still had her first kiss, and it answered that she did not.
• Miss Ouija revealed that Amamiya Natsuki had been Yukino’s first kiss and that Yukino had initiated it, leaving Yukino shocked and unable to remember.
• Amamiya Natsuki pointed out that the candle had not burned down and that the summer night was unnaturally quiet and comfortable.
• Amamiya Natsuki claimed the girls were unconscious in a hospital after a car accident and that they were inside a shared consciousness space.
• Amamiya Natsuki said he was Yukino’s boyfriend and a folk scientist who had connected upgraded VR headsets to their consciousness space.