The Mistake Every Man in the World Makes

"Puchi..."

As a headless corpse collapsed, the smell of blood instantly permeated the classroom.

"Ah!!!"

Screams rose one after another.

Especially from the female student sitting next to that cherry blossom country boy, Natsuki.

Warm, sticky red and white matter was smeared across half of her face.

"Yada!!"

Natsuki screamed in a breakdown, her hands scratching desperately at her face, trying to wipe the stuff off.

"So disgusting! It's so disgusting!!"

The other cherry blossom country students were also terrified, their faces drained of color; some bent over and began to dry heave.

In less than ten minutes.

Of the original eleven cherry blossom country students, first Guinan was "counter-killed," and now another had been decapitated.

Only nine remained: five girls and four boys.

This mortality rate was even higher than in a horror movie.

What was even more terrifying:

With the death of another person, everyone's ghost face mark had darkened significantly, as if it were absorbing the resentment in the air.

"What are you doing!?"

Lu Shiyan looked at the headless corpse, his entire body numb.

He turned his head abruptly, pointed at the man in the back row who was still "sleeping," and couldn't help but demand an answer.

"Jiangnan! Do you have any idea that doing this will get us killed!?"

"This is a ghost realm! Killing people increases the concentration of the curse! Are you trying to get everyone killed?!"

However.

Facing Lu Shiyan's angry questioning, Jiangnan maintained his relaxed posture, not even lifting an eyelid.

He simply raised his right hand lazily and waved it casually toward the front row.

The gesture was just like swatting away a fly.

"Understood!"

Sitting in the front row, Liu Yuqing instantly grasped the intent. She stood up with a sudden motion and pushed up her glasses.

"Got it, Boss! Your Royal Mouthpiece, Qing, is now online!"

She saluted Jiangnan with immense loyalty.

Following that, Liu Yuqing made a sudden turn to face Lu Shiyan at the lectern, activating her zaunite mode.

"Hey! You smoking middle-aged man! What are you barking about?"

"Which eye did you see our boss killing someone with?"

"Logically speaking, we've been in this dump of a school for less than ten minutes. We haven't even warmed our chairs yet!"

"And how long have you bunch been in here?"

"That so-called bullshit curse, that ghost face—it's clearly something you triggered by killing people earlier!"

"By all accounts, the only possible murderers are you! We are the victims being dragged down by you!"

"What right do you have to accuse our boss?"

Lu Shiyan was startled by this rapid-fire retort: "But he clearly just..."

"Clearly what?"

Liu Yuqing interrupted him directly, pointing righteously at the dead, sleazy man:

"Are you blind? Didn't you see what that guy was trying to do to Teacher Chen just now?"

"Our boss merely committed 'the mistake that every man in the world would make'!"

"As a man, when you see your woman being fantasized about by such disgusting trash, shouldn't you take action?"

"This is called 'an angry outburst for the sake of a beauty'! This is what a real man is!"

"What's wrong with standing up for your own woman?! It's just killing someone, what's the big deal?!"

Yu Shishi, standing to the side, also waved her small fists and shouted in support.

"Exactly, exactly! Boss is the coolest! Unlike some middle-aged men who only know how to smoke and act profound!"

"..."

Listening to this rhetoric that shattered everyone's values and logic, everyone present...

They were actually silent.

Not only did no one stand up to object, but quite a few people were even nodding silently in their hearts.

It wasn't because they were afraid of Jiangnan's display of american iaijutsu.

It was because...

This was the barbaric realm!

It was an apocalypse that devoured people!

Here, laws and morality had long since become toilet paper.

Jiangnan's overbearing, protective nature—killing at the slightest disagreement—might make him a dangerous madman in modern society, but here...

He was a hero who dared to fight and possessed loyalty!

Those few cherry blossom girls, who had been terrified out of their wits just a moment ago, now looked at Jiangnan with changed eyes.

It was the look of being conquered by an expert.

"Sugoi..."

They even wished they could crawl over right now and offer themselves to that powerful man.

But the moment they thought about how their own extensive "experience" might make him despise them, or even bring about their own deaths, they could only regretfully abandon that thought.

As for the remaining four boys, they were nearly scared to the point of wetting themselves.

Although they also thought "this is too cool" in their hearts, in their eyes, Jiangnan was simply a living yama who killed without blinking!

What if they were next?

On the lectern.

Kujo Ran, who had been silent all this time, clutched the wound on her thigh, staring at Jiangnan with cold, sinister eyes.

This huaxia man... so arrogant, his strength is unfathomable...

Could he be the "no need to say more" mentioned in the intelligence?

Kujo had already guessed it to be roughly correct.

On the weird island, apart from that mysterious man, no one dared to be this arrogant.

The next moment, she let out a cold laugh.

"Fortunately..."

"Before I abandoned the car and fled, I triggered the highest level radio distress signal."

"Mr. Muraguchi should be arriving with the main force to rescue us soon."

"By then... reporting the intelligence on this Huaxia man and Lu Shiyan to him will be like killing two birds with one stone!"

"With this merit, my prestige within the family will grow even greater!"

"Even if my supernatural ability is only C-class, I will have the strength to compete for the position of family head!"

Kujo Ran was lost in her own pipe dreams.

Beside her, Hoshino Hikaru saw the expression on her face and opened his mouth, wanting to dissuade her.

But thinking of her illustrious family background and ruthless methods, he ultimately lowered his head in cowardice.

She possessed the arrogance of the nobility in her heart and would never listen to a commoner like him.

Meanwhile, in the front row.

Chen Tong was looking at the sleeping figure in the back row with a face full of admiration, pink hearts almost popping out of her eyes.

Who wouldn't like a boy who stood up for them?

Even if he were a demon, he would still be her demon.

"You... you guys..."

Lu Shiyan was rendered speechless by Liu Yuqing's combo of verbal attacks; he could barely hold his cigarette steady.

"Alright, Lu."

Yekaterina, who had been watching the show the whole time, finally spoke. She glanced at Jiangnan with interest before saying to Lu Shiyan:

"That little girl is right."

"It was my carelessness that dragged them into this. If you want to blame someone... blame me."

"Besides... that boy truly deserved to die."

Even his teammate had defected.

"Fine..."

Lu Shiyan knew he didn't have a leg to stand on. He was just feeling frustrated that his teammates weren't living up to his expectations, so he could only swallow his anger.

His hands trembling, he pulled three cigarettes out of that red cigarette pack all at once, lit them all, and took a deep, fierce drag.

"I have to splurge today! Otherwise, I'm afraid my high blood pressure will flare up and I'll be angered to death!"

"Phew~"

Exhaling a thick cloud of smoke, Lu Shiyan calmed his nerves.

He casually grabbed the back of a male student's hand beside him and glanced at the countdown on it.

Since his own mark was on his neck, he couldn't see it himself.

[02:13]

"Two minutes left..."

Lu Shiyan's expression turned stern.

And just at that moment.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

A series of footsteps echoed from the corridor outside the classroom.

Immediately after, two figures appeared at the classroom entrance.

"Oh, Boss! And the sisters-in-law!"

"Finally found you all!!"

A familiar figure rushed in, panting heavily.

Looking at his disfigured left cheek...

It was none other than Guo Shuai, wearing his school uniform!

Following behind him was a female student wearing a sailor uniform with her hair in twin tails.

Natsuki, who had just finished cleaning most of the brain matter off her face, looked up upon hearing the noise.

When she saw that girl, she was stunned for a moment:

"Huh?"

"Yayu-chan? Weren't you in the classroom just now?"

The girl called Yayu was also one of the students from the cherry blossom country.

Hearing Natsuki's question, Yayu was stunned for a moment, then scratched her head, looking embarrassed, and flashed a cute smile.

"Ah... yeah."

"When Mr. Lu took you all away, I went to the restroom, so I didn't catch up."

"Later, I tried to follow you, but I ran into a group of wandering corpses in the corridor... it scared me to death."

Yayu patted her chest, pointing at Guo Shuai beside her with a look of lingering fear.

"It's a good thing I ran into this... uh, Mr. Guo Shuai."

"Otherwise, I really would have turned into 'Yayu-chan'~"

"You're so lucky~"

Natsuki let out a sigh of relief, but immediately, a flash of jealousy crossed her eyes.

She looked at the man with the disfigured left face.

This person... he seems to be that transcendent who successfully escaped from the mouth of the "hungry ghost" before?

And he's also that little brother of Jiangnan...

Great, now this "roast chicken" Yayu has flown up to the branch and turned into a phoenix.

If she manages to latch onto his thigh...

Natsuki felt sour inside.

So, she quickly waved, putting on what she considered her most charming smile.

"Yayu-chan! Come here! Sit next to me!"

She intended to use the guise of being best friends to introduce herself to this expert as well.

Being the woman of a little brother wouldn't be bad either... he shouldn't mind that I'm not pure.

"Okay~ I'm coming right over~"

Yayu maintained that sweet smile, skipping toward Natsuki.

"Um... Mr. Guo Shuai, come sit with us too~"

Natsuki was still there dreaming her dreams.

However.

Just as the female student named Yayu reached Natsuki and was about to sit down.

In the back row by the window.

The man who had been "sleeping" the entire time slightly raised his right hand once more.

It was that same familiar gesture.

Bang.

Squelch!!!

Without any warning.

Yayu's head, tied in twin tails and wearing a cute, smiling expression, instantly exploded!

Huala!

Some unknown black viscous substance erupted like a fountain.

And Natsuki, who was sitting directly across from her...

Was once again covered in it, full face.

And because they were face-to-face this time, at an extremely close range.

He was covered even more evenly than last time.

There were even bits of meat foam hanging from his eyelashes.

"..."

The entire scene fell into silence once again.