Under the leadership of the Four-Clawed Monster at the front, dozens of men and women walked onward. Duanmu Huai and Mary followed silently behind them. They left the town, and up ahead was...
"That's the school, right?"
Duanmu Huai looked at the familiar arrangement in the distance and spoke in a low voice. Mary nodded as well.
"That's right. It looks like it should be..."
"Bang!"
However, before Mary could finish, a gunshot suddenly rang out. Then, in the next instant... their vision flashed. When the two came to their senses, they were already standing on a street at dusk.
"...All right, now we can be certain."
Duanmu Huai silently spread his hands.
"This time rewind definitely isn't our fault."
"That gunshot just now... someone was hit, right? In other words, the person who was shot is the one causing the time rewind?"
"That's right, and now we also know where to find him!"
Duanmu Huai let out a cold snort.
"We're going to the school right now and wait for him to walk into our trap!"
...For Ajiro Shinpei, everything he was experiencing at that moment was beyond imagination.
Just a few days ago, Ajiro Shinpei, who was studying in Tokyo, received devastating news: his Childhood Sweetheart, Kozune Ushio, had passed away. To attend his Childhood Sweetheart's funeral, Ajiro Shinpei returned alone from Tokyo to Hito Island. However, everything that happened afterward completely overturned his understanding of the world.
First, he learned that his Childhood Sweetheart might not have died in an accident, but had instead been murdered. Kozune Ushio's younger sister, Kozune Mio, then told Ajiro Shinpei that three days before her sister's death, she and her sister had seen "another big sister"!
There was a legend on this island that its people could contract a disease called