episode_0076

As I was going about my ordinary day today, I was now hastily climbing a mountain.

“Haa! The air is good!”

The reason was very simple.

[Takuyakun, Kumoto wants to meet at the office today, so I don’t think I can see you today.]

It was because Kumoto had suddenly made a move.

Kumoto was making a move. So why was I climbing a mountain?

The answer was simple. The place Kumoto had prepared to discipline Haru was right on this mountain.

As I thought that and continued to climb the mountain for a while.

“Phew. Anyway, he set it up in a ridiculously high place.”

I finally arrived at the place Kumoto had prepared.

Looking at the fairly large warehouse, installed in a mountain valley where cars couldn’t reach, I clicked my tongue in disapproval.

‘Since it’s in a place like this, he can scream at the top of his lungs. Does he not know that?’

Remembering that even without me blasting the in-game voice, it was quite loud, I shook my head at Kumoto’s meticulousness.

Looking at a place where even beasts seemed not to live, I waited for Kumoto to approach.

And in the meantime, I made a call.

[Huff! Huff! He, hello?!]

“Brother, come quickly! It’s an urgent situation right now!”

[Ah, alright… pant…]

The owner of that call was Hiro, the protagonist of this game, and the person who would become the main character of the grateful stage Kumoto had created.

After chiding Hiro, who was climbing the mountain with ragged breaths, I looked at the empty warehouse.

‘Now then, how should I rescue her, or how should I make it shocking? Let’s think about it.’

***

Late afternoon, as the sun began to set.

A burly middle-aged man was climbing the mountain, carrying a large sack.

The middle-aged man’s name was Kumoto.

“Huff! Huff! For a high school girl, she’s damn heavy.”

He was currently a kidnapper, abducting a high school girl.

Perhaps it was because he was carrying a heavy load, or perhaps it was because it had been a long time since he’d climbed. Despite his rather good physique, he still let out ragged breaths as he moved up the mountain.

‘Next time, I should quit smoking.’

He thought the same thought he had thought dozens of times before, and continued to climb the mountain.

As he climbed, he discovered a subtly artificial-looking path on the mountain, which had been nothing but bushes.

‘Almost there!’

Seeing the path, Kumoto joyfully stepped onto it and moved forward.

Now that he had come this far, there wasn’t much left until the warehouse.

Thinking that, Kumoto quickly ascended the mountain and soon arrived at the warehouse he had prepared.

Kumoto looked around, turning his head this way and that to check if anyone was nearby, then quickly opened the door and entered the warehouse.

The inside of the warehouse was fitting for its name, but this wasn’t the main part.

Kumoto carefully placed the sack containing Haru onto a mattress, then opened a secret entrance.

“Cough! Cough! Phew. Next time, I should at least clean up before I leave.”

Kumoto, thinking that, followed the stairs that opened beneath the floor and went down.

What he saw as he moved to the bottom of the stairs was.

“Heh heh. This place always looks impressive, no matter how many times I see it.”

It was a place lined with all sorts of sex toys.

Following the perverted chairman’s taste, it was an excellent place fully equipped with all sorts of tools, as well as gels and cosplay costumes.

‘I was surprised the first time I saw this place.’

But after using it a few times, it was hard to find a better place than this.

Kumoto, satisfied with the sight of all the sex toys, opened the sack.

Inside the sack, Haru was quietly sleeping, letting out small breaths.

Seeing Haru, Kumoto grinned a vile smile, took her out of the sack, and tied her to an X-shaped device.

Naturally, with her school uniform still on.

It was always best to start with the school uniform.

Kumoto looked at Haru, tied up like that, with a satisfied smile, then seeing her perky breasts, he salivated.

‘It’ll be a while until she wakes up anyway. Shall I enjoy myself a little?’

Thinking that, Kumoto grabbed Haru’s chest with a *thump!*

No. He *tried* to grab it.

-Bang bang bang!

That is, until he suddenly heard a loud noise from the floor above.

‘What is that sound?!’

At the sudden noise, Kumoto wondered, “Could it be a bear?” He pulled his attention away from Haru’s chest and carefully climbed back up the stairs.

What he saw when he went up was.

“Son of a bitch.”

“Kumooooootooooo!!!”

It was the sight of a boy sighing and holding his head, and another boy who looked extremely angry at him.

Kumoto was momentarily flustered by the sight, but he quickly assessed the situation.

It didn’t seem like they came here out of curiosity, so the answer must be…

“It was you two, wasn’t it?”

It meant they were the ones who knew his secret.

As that thought registered, Kumoto’s previous worries vanished, and his smile deepened to the heavens.

And the enraged boy who saw that smile—no. Hiro eventually couldn’t control his anger and rushed at Kumoto, shouting.

“You piece of trash!”

Seeing Hiro, Kumoto grinned, clenching his fist tightly.

He swung it towards the boy rushing at him.

-Crack!

Hiro, hit squarely by the fist, spun about twice in the air, then fell flat on the floor. The boy next to him, seeing that sight, was consumed by fear…

“Haa… useless bastard.”

…was not consumed by fear.

That boy let out a deep sigh, and rather, looked at the sent-flying boy as if he were pathetic.

‘He sees this and isn’t scared?’

Kumoto felt something was off about his overly nonchalant demeanor, but even stranger was the boy’s next action.

The boy poured some strange liquid from his pocket onto the collapsed boy, then lost interest.

Seeing such a boy, Kumoto ascended to the ground floor with an intrigued smile.

It seemed he would need a proper ‘conversation’ with that boy.

***

Things got twisted.

Originally, after joining Hiro, I was going to enter when Kumoto came out again. But the Salvation Stat was plummeting rapidly, so I hastily entered the building, and there, Hiro touched something wrong, and a sound was made.

Right. I could understand up to that point, but this idiot, upon seeing Kumoto, couldn’t control his anger and just charged in.

The reason for his sudden charge was simple.

‘Damn it, I shouldn’t have shown him the pictures…’

He probably charged due to anxiety and anger that Haru might have already suffered such things after seeing Kumoto’s actions that I showed him.

I definitely shouldn’t have shown him what Kumoto had done.

Actually, showing the pictures was unavoidable.

Kumoto had moved too suddenly, and there was no better justification than that to drag Hiro here.

‘And who would have known that he would rush at them like a madman the moment he saw them?’

“Little boy. What are you thinking so hard about?”

As I thought that to myself, I looked at the physical education teacher with a massive physique of about 190cm in front of me who had spoken to me—no. I looked at the villain.

‘Now then, what should I do about that person…’

Fleeing was not an option.

Since Hiro was already knocked out, I couldn’t run away.

If I were to run away from here, what would happen to Hiro? It wouldn’t be anything normal, at least.

And if Hiro were to become crippled, wouldn’t the Salvation Stat probably plummet to an irrecoverable abyss?

‘Damn it, if I had known this, I would have just called Hiro later.’

I deeply regretted my mistake and thought.

Now, there was only one method left.

“Heh heh. Why are you trying to fight?”

“Well, because there’s no other option.”

Fight and win. There was no other option.

It seemed I would have to experience the nostalgia of the past for the first time in a long while.

***

Basement.

—Crash!

Haru, who was tied up, opened her eyes at the loud noise.

“Ugh, ugh… What, what on earth is this…”

Awakened by the sudden noise, Haru realized she was tied up and panicked.

‘Why am I here… Clearly, I drank the tea Kumoto gave me…’

Right. Clearly, Kumoto had called me to his office, saying he had something to consult about, and served me tea, and I drank that tea…

Just as Haru was slowly recalling her memories.

[Aaaaaaaah!!!]

Someone’s scream began to echo through the building.

[You damn bastard!!]

No. To be precise, screams and…

-Thwack!

-Thud!

Violent impact sounds, as if someone was being hit, began to be heard.

‘W-what is this!’

At those violent sounds, Haru involuntarily trembled in fear, waiting for them to stop.

How much time had passed like that?

‘I-is it over?’

Finally, the violent impact sounds and someone’s screams were no longer heard.

Haru felt relieved that those sounds were no longer heard, but that relief didn’t last long.

-Stomp.

-Stomp.

Because now, the person who made those violent sounds seemed to be coming.

At the sound of someone’s footsteps, Haru pretended to be asleep for now.

‘B-but they won’t do anything, right?’

At least, it didn’t seem like they would inflict such violence on her.

How much time passed as she squeezed her eyes shut and waited?

“Why are there so many adult products?”

Perhaps because it was an enclosed space, the man’s voice echoed. Haru, who had been tense, thought to herself as she recognized the very familiar voice.

‘Could it be Takuyakun?’

The person approaching her now, could it possibly be that boy she had gotten close to a few days ago?

For a moment, she thought it was absurd, but.

“Ugh, damn it, that hurts like hell.”

The voice she heard from nearby was unmistakably Takuya’s.