Sato Mai wore a long black-and-white dress. Beneath her veil, her face was filled with terror.
Ever since she'd been kidnapped yesterday afternoon, she'd been completely at a loss, unable to understand what these people wanted.
They'd said she had to become the Saintess of the Ultimate Bliss Cult, or they'd kill her whole family.
What could an ordinary little girl like Sato Mai do? Of course, she could only agree.
Fortunately, aside from restricting her freedom, these people hadn't done anything too outrageous to her.
That was, until just now, when they forced her to change into this strange outfit and brought her out with ten strange older girls.
At first, Sato Mai had thought those girls had been kidnapped just like her.
But she soon realized that the ten girls were just like puppets. They only followed orders and stood perfectly still when no one told them what to do. Their veils also hid their faces.
She was too scared to approach them and strike up a conversation.
Now, half-forcibly brought into the basketball court, Sato Mai was more terrified than ever, with no idea what awaited her.
Under the cultists' guidance, the ten Saintesses slowly walked over to the Blood Pool and formed a circle around it.
Sato Mai was pushed into their midst. She hugged herself and trembled slightly, feeling uneasy beneath the burning gazes of the hundreds of cultists in the surrounding stands.
She felt like an animal being watched at the zoo. As a little cow, Sato Mai was terrified.
What made it worse was the huge crowd. The entire basketball court was silent, without even the sound of people whispering. The atmosphere was truly bizarre.
The moment she approached the Blood Pool, Sato Mai smelled a powerful stench of blood.
She glanced down