Death

Bai Yuze walked into a store, preparing to purchase daily necessities and the items on his list.

He looked around on a whim and discovered a girl acting suspiciously, glancing left and right.

Because Bai Yuze was behind her, she did not notice him.

I remember she seems to be Kamuro Masumi.

During the time Bai Yuze was reminiscing, Kamuro moved. She first pretended to be picking out items, then, in the split second her back was turned to the surveillance camera, she slipped a can of beverage into the bag she was carrying.

Having witnessed everything, Bai Yuze thought: Brilliant!

Knowing that Kamuro simply had a penchant for shoplifting, Bai Yuze stepped forward to greet her.

"Classmate, that isn't very polite, is it?"

Kamuro was startled by Bai Yuze. She glared at him fiercely and cursed.

"You psycho, don't just suddenly stand next to people and talk, you jerk!"

"Fine, it's my fault, but could you put the item in your bag back?"

Bai Yuze smiled, then went straight to the point.

"Item? What item?"

Kamuro stared at Bai Yuze vigilantly, her hand subconsciously tightening around her handbag.

"Things haven't reached the point of no return yet. I advise you to behave yourself."

Bang!

"Sorry."

Because Bai Yuze and Kamuro were standing together, they had blocked the aisle, so a student accidentally bumped into Bai Yuze.

"It's fine."

Bai Yuze didn't mind; he took a step back to let the student pass.

"Hmph! Since you saw it, I won't pretend anymore. But I didn't hear the sound of a phone camera, so you don't have any evidence, right?"

Kamuro mocked him. Bai Yuze felt a bit helpless; after all, phone cameras here had a shutter sound, making it hard not to be discovered by others.

"Heh, classmate, it seems your act of justice is going to fail."

Kamuro gave Bai Yuze a sneer, then walked out of the store with a light step.

After walking out of the store, Kamuro triumphantly waved the bag in her hand at Bai Yuze.

Squelch!

The sound of a sharp blade slicing through flesh rang out, and Kamuro's footsteps froze.

The next second, Kamuro's head parted from her body.

Kamuro was dead.

Bai Yuze looked at this scene in disbelief. The girl who had been lively just a second ago was now lying on the ground, decapitated.

Shouldn't it be ten times the compensation or working it off?

Bai Yuze carefully recalled the content of the rules.

Discovered by the store clerk!

Bai Yuze understood. If the theft was discovered by the clerk, one could still survive; if it wasn't discovered, then a bizarre force would directly kill the thief.

But what surprised Bai Yuze even more was that the people in the store seemed accustomed to such things, continuing their own business as usual.

"Tsk, every day there's trash like this who run out of points and can't survive, wanting to get things for free. How ugly!"

"Haha, though that girl looked pretty good. If I'd known she was having such a hard time, I would have... hehehe."

The two clerks didn't hide their malice at all. In their minds, they had mistaken Kamuro for one of those second-year students who had run out of points.

This piqued Bai Yuze's curiosity. Aren't there free daily necessities and food? Why would they be unable to survive?

Bai Yuze then picked up a beverage and walked to the checkout counter. After paying, he casually put the drink in his pocket, pretending to be a second-year student, and struck up a conversation with the clerks.

"You two, is work going okay? Have you become numb to this kind of situation?"

Bai Yuze joked casually.

"Ugh! Don't even mention it. People die in front of me all the time; I'm really fed up."

Seeing an opportunity to vent, one of the fat clerks immediately complained.

The other, thin clerk looked at Bai Yuze vigilantly.

"Do you need something?"

"Me? What could I need? It's just that not many people in my class talk to me, and I don't want to go back to the dormitory, so I came to chat with you guys."

"Hahahaha, classmate, which class are you in? Not many people talking to you—did too many people in your class die?"

The fat clerk patted Bai Yuze on the shoulder and laughed loudly, but the content of his laughter made Bai Yuze unable to smile.

Seeing Bai Yuze say he didn't want to return to the dormitory, the thin clerk suddenly fell into a memory, and he sneered.

"Heh, dormitory, what a warm yet disgusting name."

Bai Yuze saw the thin clerk looking like he was reminiscing about the past, and he was immediately filled with questions.

But soon, the fat clerk beside him cleared up his confusion.

"Haha, Lao Gao used to be a student at this school too."

"Heh, just ancient history. Finish checking out and get going."

Lao Gao suddenly cut the conversation short, and seeing this, Bai Yuze had no choice but to walk out of the shop.

Outside the shop, the corpse of Kamuro still lay on the ground. Bai Yuze felt a sense of complexity in his heart; although people had died in front of him on the bus, those people had all been resurrected.

Yet, Kamuro, lying on the ground, showed absolutely no signs of coming back to life.

Bai Yuze sighed and reached out his hand, intending to take a drink from his pocket.

The next moment, he froze.

With an expression of disbelief, Bai Yuze used his trembling hand to pull the item out of his pocket.

A piece of candy...

"What... when?"

Bai Yuze looked tremblingly at the candy that had suddenly appeared in his pocket.

Suddenly, memories flooded in like a tide.

"Sorry." "It's okay."

"It was him!"

Bai Yuze remembered the student who had "accidentally" bumped into him just a moment ago.

"Damn it! I've been set up!"

Bai Yuze felt extremely uncomfortable and regretful. He should have realized that in a bizarre school where people died at every turn, this atmosphere of despair would inevitably lead some people to develop a desire for revenge against society.

Bai Yuze looked up and happened to lock eyes with the student who had bumped into him earlier. The other party was looking at Bai Yuze with a mocking expression.

"You bas..."

Bai Yuze wanted to run over, but his feet felt like they were filled with lead and wouldn't move.

He felt as if his heart was about to explode. Helpless and desperate, he collapsed to the ground, clutching his chest tightly.

But that eerie power did not stop because of his pain.

In the end, Bai Yuze's heart stopped beating. His eyes became dull, his pupils dilated...

The murderer walked over to Bai Yuze unhurriedly and began rummaging through his body.

"Whoa! He actually has over ninety thousand points! An unexpected harvest!"

The murderer chuckled and patted Bai Yuze's face. As for Kamuro's corpse, he didn't bother searching it.

In his eyes, he also felt that Kamuro was trash with nothing to his name; searching such a person's corpse would simply dirty his hands.

As for looks? Just kidding, if you have points, would you ever lack girls? The man wore an evil grin, fantasizing about a life of luxury.

Bai Yuze could feel everything happening around him. He wanted to roar, he wanted to open his eyes, but he couldn't do anything; he could only helplessly feel his consciousness slipping away.

Am I going to die? I'm really not reconciled to this.

At this moment, Bai Yuze felt a burst of red light.

Is this... that sphere?

Bai Yuze discovered that he was in a space, and the only light in the space was that vermilion glow.

Whoosh!

That vermilion light suddenly began to expand. Bai Yuze instinctively closed his eyes, and when he opened them again...

He found that he had returned to the shop.

At this moment, a girl was sneaking around, looking left and right, and Bai Yuze was standing right behind her...