I'm in Tokyo, caught in the clutches of the demon princess.

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Kana Kumagai was panting heavily.

"It seems that without real skills, one cannot even pass the first hurdle."

The bleeding holes began to heal, and a Hannya mask formed on Kana Kumagai's face.

Both arms and hands were covered in red and green auspicious cloud-shaped exoskeleton armor.

Kana Kumagai leaped and delivered a powerful punch.

The man in the suit with half his face disappeared from the spot, but Kana Kumagai vanished into thin air as if she had opened fire, her attack locked on the top of the man's head.

The man in the suit couldn't dodge that punch aimed at half his face.

The man in the suit, with half his face visible, parried with a sword.

But the umbrella sword was too thin, and unsurprisingly, it broke. When the fist touched the man in the suit with half his face, the man in the suit with half his face instantly shattered into pieces.

The half-faced man in the suit, now fragmented into hero pieces, tries to heal, but the hero fragments shatter when they come together.

The man in the suit with half his face on his chest was not dead, but he was now incapable of fighting.

Kana Kumagai looked at the stairs leading to the second floor.

Without hesitation, I went up to them.

Upon arriving at the second floor of the teaching building, Kana Kumagai was confronted with two monsters.

One is a human spider perched on the second-floor ceiling.

Why is it called a human spider?

Because that spider was made entirely of human limbs; a typical spider has eight eyes, but this one had eight human heads.

Joy, anger, sorrow, happiness; fear, love, and hate.

These represent eight human emotions.

There was also a centipede that had sprung up into a small mountain.

The centipede's head had grown a human head, while its legs alternated between insect legs and human legs.

The expressions on the human-shaped spider changed from one another, and its stiff limbs creaked as it moved.

The human spider was the first to emerge, moving from the ceiling to above Kana Kumagai's head.

The eight heads opened their mouths and spat out spider webs that bound Kumagai Kano.

Meanwhile, the mountain-sized centipedes also moved out and surrounded Kana Kumagai at a speed that humans could hardly react to.

The centipede's body tightened.

In an instant, the centipede shattered into countless pieces that were scattered throughout the entire second-floor corridor.

The human spider on the ceiling frantically tried to escape, but Kana Kumagai wasn't about to let it get away so easily.

A frantic chase ensued below. She jumped onto the left wall, causing a dent in the wall where she landed, and then launched herself onto the wall diagonally opposite.

By repeating the same method, the distance between the spider and the human body was greatly reduced.

With the final ejection, a punch traveled from the base of the tail to the head, piercing the human-spider spider vertically in two.

The human-shaped spider fell to the ground and began to writhe erratically.

Kana Kumagai shook off the bloodstains on her body.

Looking at the ceiling above him, he jumped up and punched a hole in it.

A few seconds later, a person wearing a funny mask fell down.

The man was rubbing his buttocks.

Kana Kumagai bumped fists with him.

"Since you jumped down from here, it saves me the trouble of going upstairs to find you."

The man stood up.

"No, no, it's a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding. I'm not your enemy."

Kana Kumagai frowned.

"What's the meaning."

"I was sleeping when I suddenly flew up, my head was stuck in the ceiling, and then I fell down."

Kana Kumagai then realized that she had taken a shortcut, but unexpectedly, this person had taken it.

The person wearing the mask is no more than 1.3 meters tall.

The banner was dressed in an old-fashioned style.

"You are not my enemy, so what are you doing here?"

"Well, it's a long story, so I won't go into details. In short, I'm not your enemy. I'm just trapped here too."

Kana Kumagai didn't say much, she simply jumped and grabbed the edge of the hole, climbing up through it.

There were no enemies on the third floor, so Kana Kumagai headed towards the fourth floor.

To avoid a repeat of the earlier incident, Kana Kumagai chose to walk upstairs.

I only made it to the fourth floor and saw the hole from before.

Kana Kumagai realized she had been tricked.

That masked dwarf was her enemy.

Kana Kumagai went down again and found that she was still on the third floor.

Kana Kumagai went to the hole and looked down.

I saw the back of a head, and it was undoubtedly my own. Looking up, I saw a hole on the top of my head, and above that hole was myself looking up.

Kumagai Kana sneered.

"This kind of 'ghost wall' method is really interesting."

As soon as she finished speaking, Kana Kumagai started punching the entire corridor.

In less than a minute, the entire corridor was shattered.

Kana Kumagai knew she had stumbled into a mirror maze; she was not one to use her brain.

People who are good at using force don't like to use their brains much, because force can solve most problems, or even all of them.

Intelligent people have their own solutions, and those who are good at using violence have their own solutions.

That means breaking through the entire maze and shattering the mirror.

With the surrounding environment shattered, Kana Kumagai arrived at the true third level.

Kana Kumagai walked towards the stairs leading to the fourth floor, where the masked dwarf from before appeared.

"Why do you have to go up there? Now that you're here, you should already know the truth."

Kana Kumagai stopped.

"A wrong beginning must end wrongly. Since I cannot save everything, I can only destroy everything."

"There is still a chance, we are all waiting."

"You think that if I don't come, no one else will? We've all paid too much for this; it's time to put an end to everything."

Chapter 262 Kanako, Long Time No See

"Kana Kumagai, that's your name, right?"

Kana Kumagai, hidden beneath the mask, looked at the masked dwarf in surprise.

How do you know my name?

The masked dwarf shook his head.

"You'll know the answer later. You've already broken my skills. I can't stop you from moving forward. Go on, someone will stop you."

"No one can stop me."

"Yeah."

Kumagai Kana composed herself and continued her ascent to the fourth floor.

Upon reaching the fourth floor, the entire floor had been opened up, transforming it into a place resembling a dojo.

Kana Kumagai's body trembled.

She saw the person she had been longing for day and night.

That person who has been dead for a long time.

Kana Kumagai removed her mask and said gently, "Yoko, is that you?"

Following Kumagai Kana's gaze, a pretty girl dressed in the dojo's training clothes was making tea.

Her long, shiny ponytail and the willow-leaf-like tuft of hair hanging down on top of her head.

Kana Kumagai walked over to Yoko and sat down.

At this point, the other party finally responded.

"How has Kanako been all these years?"

Kana Kumagai picked up a teacup and started fiddling with it.

"Ye Zi, what do you think?"

Ye Zi was silent for a moment. "I'm sorry."

"No need to apologize, you'll be free after this."

Suddenly, Ye Zi raised her hand and placed a slender katana against Kumagai Kana's neck.

Kana Kumagai looked directly into Yoko's eyes.

"I don't believe you can touch me."

Ye Zi smiled slightly and with a graceful flourish, she sheathed the knife.

"Kanako, finish this cup of tea and then go back."

"leaf......"

"Kanako, if you finish this cup of tea and leave, we'll still be friends, best friends. But if you choose to continue, then we'll be enemies, mortal enemies."

Kumagai Kana argued hard.

"You are dead, your soul is trapped here, I want to save you."

“Kanako, you already know the truth. You should know that this is the last hope of Guanye Ward, and I must protect it.”

Kana Kumagai burst into tears.

"Ye Zi, you're always like this, always taking on everything and solving everything. We're partners, the best partners. Why did you tell me back then that I could be with you?"

"Kanako, I understand how you feel. I'm also sorry for hiding this from you, but this is the path I chose."

Kana Kumagai clenched her fists in excitement, trying to control her emotions, and issued an ultimatum.

"Let me through. I'll only say it three times."

"Let me through, this is the first time."

Ye Zi calmly picked up a cup of tea and put it in her mouth.

"Let me through, this is the second time."

Leaf continued wiping the katana as if nothing had happened.

"Let me through, this is the third time."

Kana Kumagai threw a punch, the wind from which made the strands of hair at her temples and the ahoge hanging in front of her face sway incessantly.

Kana Kumagai couldn't bring herself to hurt Yoko, and this was her last chance.

Kumagai Kana suddenly felt dizzy and then covered her head.

"Ye Zi, you..."