Chapter 1 Time Rewinds Ten Minutes

Time rewinds ten minutes.

After searching the female dormitory's Yi Doctor, he entered the somewhat dilapidated school hospital.

He heard a group of girls cursing and yelling from the restroom, along with the sounds of fighting and objects smashing against the ceramic floor.

Something was amiss. Yi Doctor decisively took out his weapons and equipment and slowly approached.

He pushed open the restroom door with his wooden staff, but the room was empty, as if the sounds he had heard were just an illusion.

Suddenly, a bundle of long black hair, like seaweed, spewed frantically from the floor drain at the far end of the restroom.

Yi Doctor instinctively raised his staff, preparing to unleash an offensive skill.

However, the speed of the black hair far exceeded his expectations. It shot out and wrapped around Yi Doctor's waist like a python, dragging him into the restroom.

The door slammed shut.

When Yi Doctor woke up again, he found himself transformed into an unremarkable female high school student, wearing the Ibaraki Middle School uniform and standing in the restroom washing his hands.

Then, the restroom door was kicked open violently, and four hoodlum-like girls walked in, cursing and pushing him into the corner, grabbing his hair.

This was the dead girl's memory. Yi Doctor knew this clearly.

He wanted to fight back, but his limbs wouldn't obey. He could only inhabit this female high school student's body, enduring the beating and silently watching everything unfold.

School bullying is a cancer. It is rooted in the evil of the human heart, thriving in the unclear school hierarchy, nourished by the herd mentality, and gradually growing into a flower called "group nuèdài."

Most bullies have been influenced by violent events during their upbringing. Out of fear, inferiority, and a lack of security, they seek out timid and weak individuals in the crowd and establish emotional connections through mutually agreed-upon violent agreements.

The girl that Yi Doctor was inhabiting was targeted as someone "okay to bully" simply because she came from a poor family, had excellent grades, was aloof, didn't speak much, and rejected social interactions.

At first, it was just isolation and verbal ridicule.

The teachers' indifference and the parents' neglect allowed the bullying to escalate.

They would put the lunch box on her head, throw mud, prick her with needles, kick her, pull her hair, and shove her head into the toilet...

The girl Yi Doctor inhabited endured it all with difficulty, lowering herself like a weed.

It would, it would all pass eventually.

However, the letter she had put in her locker, addressed to a male teacher who was quite popular among the female students, was found and read aloud in the classroom, which was filled with mocking laughter.

She hid in the most remote restroom in the school hospital, hoping this day would pass quickly.

However, the bullies, who also admired the male teacher, followed her.

Filled with jealousy and anger, they abused her for half an hour.

Cranial injury, temporal bone fracture, scalp laceration, subarachnoid hemorrhage, cerebellar hemisphere contusion and laceration, lung contusion, cervical fracture, open fracture of the ulna, open fracture of the tibia, countless zhenkong, cigarette burns, and bruises all over her body.

She died, submerged in sewage and blood.

The bullies kicked her a few times and received no response. They all took a step back in surprise, no longer able to muster their previous arrogance.

Fear crept into the bullies' hearts, and they shed tears.

But these tears were not of regret for killing someone.

They cried only because they were afraid that their bright futures were about to be ruined.

Like cowardly, weak, and timid lambs, they gathered around the corpse, poking the lifeless body again and again with their fingers.

The local Ibaraki police arrived. The dead girl's soul remained in the school, watching the police cars take the bullies away, harboring resentment in her heart and hoping for justice.

However, the ending was not as she imagined.

Because the four bullies were still minors, and the ringleader's father was a local councilor with considerable influence, they managed to have the four bullies diagnosed with mental illnesses after some manipulation.

They didn't spend more than a few days in jail before returning to society and transferring to other schools.

The intense resentment devoured the girl's rationality.

She dragged the Ibaraki Middle School leaders who helped provide false testimony in this matter, the teachers who ignored the bullying, and the classmates who ridiculed her, all into the restroom.

She forced them to experience the pain of her death over and over again, until the victims were overwhelmed by physical and psychological trauma and committed suicide.

The deaths of more than thirty people finally alarmed the local extraordinary forces in Japan. The bully's councilor father spent a lot of money to hire an Onmyoji to exorcise the demon.

The Onmyoji succeeded. The girl was sealed in the dirty, narrow restroom, never to leave, never to threaten the councilor's daughter again.

Yi Doctor was the last person to enter the restroom.

In a short ten minutes, Yi Doctor experienced seven rapidly flashing death memories, his body slumped on the sewage-covered floor like a tattered burlap sack.

The girl named Hanako stepped on Yi Doctor's sunken chest with her pale feet.

"Cough, cough, cough."

The corners of Yi Doctor's mouth turned up miserably. He wanted to take out a cigarette, but his twisted arms couldn't move at all.

Hanako raised her head and stared at him with her pure white eyes.

Why, won't you die already?

Hanako's eyes clearly conveyed this meaning.

"Now, is not, the time for me, to die, cough, cough."

Yi Doctor stared at Hanako and smiled miserably.

Hanako was silent, her pale feet slightly increasing the pressure, and the sound of cracking bones was endless.

Why, are you still holding on?

Yi Doctor coughed violently, and a small piece of internal organ splattered on his black robe.

"Death, is not difficult, living, is difficult."

He tilted his head, smiling with difficulty, his muddy eyes somewhat unfocused.

"I still have people I want to see, things I want to do, and battles I have to fight. I can't just die here..."

Hanako slightly relaxed the foot stepping on Yi Doctor's chest. She stared deeply at this unremarkable middle-aged man, and the resentment on her face gradually calmed down.

She opened her mouth and said in a hoarse, metallic voice, "Kill them for me, and you can live."

Them, naturally referring to the four bullies who escaped punishment.

Yi Doctor also stared at the other party, "...Deal."

Hanako released her foot. Yi Doctor endured the pain and placed his hand on his chest, activating his title skill.

Title Name: Miao Shou Hui Chun (Miraculous Hands Bring Spring)

Release Method: Active

Effect: Temporarily heals the injuries of a single biological unit during a task. The injuries will reappear after the task ends.

Consumption: 30% of total stamina

Cooldown: Can only be used twice per task. Cannot be used outside of tasks.

Note: Patients with broken hands stand here, patients with broken feet stand there, patients with broken heads... Sorry, this clinic does not currently offer head reattachment surgery.

A burst of emerald light flashed, and Yi Doctor's injuries began to heal. His chest slowly swelled, and the broken bones in his elbow began to contract slowly.

Hanako watched all of this indifferently. After Yi Doctor took out the walkie-talkie, she stared at him deeply.

"Remember, your promise."

Yi Doctor nodded and said the code word into the walkie-talkie.