Ch.272Ghost Shota (1)

I had already figured out the locations of all the rooms. I immediately started climbing the building, heading toward the balcony.

“Hup!”

I skillfully carried Sasits on my back as I climbed over the balcony.

“This is what a first-class thief… or rather, a master burglar does.”

I entered self-praise mode.

Men were creatures who would climb walls just to meet their girlfriends.

After that, I knocked on the window by the veranda.

“Santa Claus is here~”

At my words, the veranda door swung open.

“Shota! You’re here!”

Eri welcomed me right away.

“This guy. He really climbed the wall to get here. Hehehe. How badly did you want to see us? Hm?”

Taiga snickered and put me in a headlock.

Squish-!

The soft, warm sensation of Taiga’s chest pressed against my face. I’m already feeling healed.

“Sasits…..”

Frill immediately rushed to embrace Sasits.

“Yes. Frill. I’m here.”

Sasits immediately brightened up. I’m Arigiri Shota, love’s pack mule!

“I bought lots of snacks and drinks!! Let’s eat first!”

Umi said with a smile.

“Umi…. didn’t you just have dinner?”

I gave Umi a hard time.

Grip-!

Umi simply grabbed my wrist with a strong grip.

“Let’s eat first, okay?”

Umi said with a strange pressure.

“S-Sure.”

Eating and drinking is good. Going straight for the sexy time would be a bit much anyway. Mood was important for everything.

With the television on, we had a late-night snack party. The late-night entertainment shows weren’t particularly interesting. But there was definitely a sense of fulfillment in sharing a page of youth together. With the television music as our background, we started cuddling up to each other.

Before long, Sasits and Frill had entered their own world, riding the mood, and I was slowly trying to set up that kind of atmosphere too.

“Shota… after all… the yukata doesn’t suit me well, does it?”

Even as she said this, Eri was strangely opening her chest area, blatantly seducing me.

“Eri. I told you earlier. I’ll give you the most.”

I smiled and immediately slipped my hand under Eri’s skirt.

“Shota!! Your hand movements are lewd!”

Eri giggled.

I eagerly explored Eri’s depths. But… I couldn’t feel the texture of underwear.

“Y-You’re not wearing underwear?!”

What lewdness…!!

“W-Well, that’s how yukatas are supposed to be worn.”

Kana said.

“That’s right. If you wear underwear, the panty lines show… and it feels awkward.”

Umi said in agreement.

“Holy shit!!!”

Is this how yukatas are supposed to be worn? As expected of Japan. They really know what turns people on!!

Soon, my girlfriends untied their yukata sashes.

“So… let’s hurry up. It’s embarrassing.”

Taiga mumbled.

“You all…!!”

I would have been disappointed if they had gotten completely naked right away!! The appeal point is doing it while clothes are still precariously on!!

“Everyone line up one by one.”

I also wanted to respond to that, so I quickly undid just the pants part while keeping my clothes on.

“I get to go first, right?”

Eri showed the confidence of the official girlfriend as she climbed onto my lap.

After that, everyone in the room literally enjoyed “Hot Kyoto.”

In the middle of it all, Kirtan also invaded through a warp hole and joined as a new fighter. Anyway, everyone rolled around in bed together happily. It was the usual development, but the excitement was amplified thanks to the unusual situation of being on a school trip.

———-

Around deep dawn, I opened my eyes. I had heard the sound of a bird fluttering and flying away outside.

“Squawk! All ages!! Squawk! Minors!! Squawk! Squawk!!”

Something about the bird sounds was strange… must be my imagination.

“Water… I need water.”

As soon as I got up, I was overcome with extreme thirst. I had sweated too much. I wanted to use the bath, but I couldn’t use the bathing area at this hour of dawn.

“I’m… thirsty too.”

Sasits got up. He must have overdone it with Frill as well.

There was no bottled water or water purifier in the room. To drink water, we had to go to the lobby’s water dispenser. But that was too much trouble.

“Let’s just drink tap water.”

I just turned on the faucet in the kitchenette.

“You’ll get a stomachache if you drink tap water carelessly. Plus, it tastes like pool water.”

Sasits said.

“Come on. It’s not like we’re going to die or anything.”

I shrugged and brought my mouth to the faucet.

“Don’t do that. Let’s just go to the lobby.”

Sasits strangely held me back.

“Ugh… it’s such a hassle. Go by yourself.”

“Let’s just go together. Okay?”

Sasits strangely clung to me. Seeing that… I caught on.

“Ah-ha. Sasits. You’re scared to go alone down the dark corridor at dawn.”

I immediately figured it out.

“Who said I’m scared!”

Sasits immediately got angry. Bull’s-eye.

“Can’t be helped. Come on, little Sasits. We’re going to the lobby.”

I immediately pulled Sasits along.

“Who are you calling little!”

Sasits was angry but seemed somewhat relieved.

———-

I was worried there might be faculty members in front of the lobby… but the female teacher on watch duty was asleep. Well, she must be tired.

Glug-glug-glug-!

Sasits and I filled paper cups with water and gulped them down.

“Ahh. That’s the stuff.”

When you’re thirsty, plain water is really the best.

“Shota. Talk quietly. The teacher might wake up.”

Sasits nudged me as he spoke.

“Come on. This much…”

Then Sasits and I looked at our homeroom teacher.

Soon, I noticed something strange.

Whoooosh-!!!

Something like smoke started being pulled out from the head of the female teacher in the lobby.

But… it wasn’t just smoke.

The semi-transparent silhouette of the female teacher herself was being sucked out and heading somewhere.

“What… t-that’s a soul, right? Her soul is being pulled out… right?!”

Sasits’s face immediately turned pale. When the inn owner and employees looked semi-transparent earlier, we weren’t sure, but now that a supernatural phenomenon was happening right before our eyes, we were certain.

“Sasits. Get a grip!”

I immediately decided to reassure Sasits.

“T-That’s… dandruff! It’s just dandruff from her head being scattered by the wind!”

I shouted loudly.

“What do you mean dandruff!! Her soul is clearly being pulled out!!”

Sasits shouted.

“Well… some people habitually dislocate their bones, right? There might be people who habitually have out-of-body experiences.”

I went into ultra-positive mode to maintain my mental stability.

“Stop talking nonsense!! I knew it!!! I should have known when the employees’ bodies were semi-transparent!!! This is a haunted inn!!”

Sasits said with a bewildered expression.

“Habitually semi-transparent…”

“I’m going to hit you, Shota.”

Yeah. Let’s refrain from jokes.

“Anyway, let’s check on Eri and the others in the room! See if they’re okay.”

I immediately decided to go where my girlfriends were.

“Yeah. Frill… please be safe!”

Sasits and I immediately headed to the room.

———

Whoooosh-!!

I feared the worst, and I was right. My girlfriends were sound asleep, and souls were being pulled out from their heads. The same was happening to Frill.

“Is this an attack from the Pink Beard faction?”

Sasits muttered that and immediately tried to take out his psycho-robo.

“Come forth! Plague Doctor!”

Sasits immediately tried to summon his psycho-robo.

Bzzt-! Bzzt-!!

The silhouette of the Plague Doctor started to appear, but it didn’t last long. The silhouette of the Plague Doctor crackled and disappeared.

“Pinocchio! Come out!”

I also tried calling Pinocchio as a test.

“Ma…ster…!”

Pinocchio was about to come out but disappeared.

“Damn it…”

Sasits clicked his tongue. For some reason, we couldn’t call our psycho-robos despite it being dawn.

Something was definitely happening. Whether it was Pink Beard’s doing or not.

“At least… everyone’s still alive. Let’s take comfort in that.”

Even though their souls were being sucked out, it didn’t seem to stop their vital functions. Everyone was still breathing. That was reassuring.

“Besides… all the souls are going to one place. If we go there, we’ll probably find out what’s causing this.”

That was the conclusion we could draw from the current situation.

“You’re right, Shota. Let’s go.”

Sasits said.

Whoooosh-!!

Souls transformed into fog-like shapes were being sucked from all directions toward somewhere. It was toward the inn’s lobby.

“Alright. Stay calm…”

I opened the door and walked down the corridor. The eerie lack of human presence intensified the ominous feeling.

“Sasits. All the souls seem to be going that way.”

I turned to look at Sasits beside me, trying to talk to him.

“Yeah. We should head to the temple.”

Sasits coolly folded his arms, portraying a calm cool guy.

But… Sasits was semi-transparent. Sasits’s physical body was just lying face down on the ground. Above Sasits’s head, his soul was floating out in a fluffy form.

“Sasits!! You!! You’ve turned semi-transparent!!”

I shouted loudly.

“What are you talking abou… AAAAARGH?!!!”

Sasits immediately dropped his cool guy act upon realizing what had happened to his body.

“I-I need to get back into my body!!!”

Sasits struggled, trying to return to his original physical form. However, Sasits’s hands just cut through the air futilely.

No!! First he turned into panties, and now he’s a ghost?!! You’re really experiencing everything, aren’t you, Sasits!!

But… why am I fine? That was a question. However, there was no time to think about such things.

Whoooosh-!

At that moment, the flow of the wind changed.

“I-I’m being sucked in!!”

Sasits started being sucked in somewhere, just like the other souls.

“Damn it… Sasits!!”

I sensed that it would be a big problem if Sasits’s soul got sucked in. I tried to somehow pull Sasits’s semi-transparent body toward me.

Whoooosh-!!

And then something unexpected happened.

Sasits’s soul itself was sucked in through my mouth.

“W-Wait…! I…!!”

Sasits seemed to finally realize what had happened to him.

Sasits’s soul had entered my body. To be precise, Sasits’s upper body was slightly protruding from my shoulder.

That’s right. This… was exactly like the Stand from JoJo’s Adventure! I had gained a Stand! My lifelong wish had come true!!! Everyone, receive this energy!!!

“Sasits Platinum!!!”

I immediately shouted loudly.

“Why are you so excited!!!”

Sasits complained at me.

Anyway, thanks to somehow catching Sasits, I managed to prevent his soul from being sucked away.

I thought the school trip would go smoothly… but as usual, I found myself caught up in an incident.