After sneaking into the administrative building late at night and learning of Eternal Life Technology Company's conspiracy and Rabbit God Town's secrets, Lu Ming, still human at the time, began to consider one question—how could he save Reiko from being sacrificed?
During those six months, Eternal Life Technology Company had come under government investigation because the orphan death rate was too high, and it had nearly ceased all sacrifices.
Yet somehow, the students learned of the Rabbit God legend. In secret, they freely harmed classmates with no backing, hoping to please the Rabbit God and fulfill their own wishes.
Lu Ming could sense the danger he and Reiko were in. As orphans who had appeared at Hope Middle School, they were destined to die as sacrifices.
In his eyes, rather than letting both of them die in vain, it was better to enter the game himself and ensure that one of them survived.
Thus, on another late night, he went to the lakeside and spent the entire night playing Bamboo Cage Eyes with the Rabbit God that Kannagi Shichiro had become. Under The Rules' witness, he offered himself as a sacrifice in exchange for Reiko's life.
But he had not expected Reiko to share the same thoughts. She had also made a wish to the Rabbit God, hoping to trade her own life for his safety.
So, during a Bamboo Cage Eyes game organized by the students, Reiko lured away the boys and girls who had come looking for Lu Ming and quietly took his place as "it" in the game.
Reiko died. The students who killed her threw her into the lake, and her strongest wish before death was for Lu Ming to live on—a wish that had to be fulfilled.
Lu Ming knew nothing at the time. That