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ลำดับตอนที่ #27 : Chapter 1 - A certain cameraman's day
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Chapter 1 - A certain cameraman's day
Part 1
"Ugh, why are you always like that?"
"Don't say vague words such as like that. Was there
a problem?"
"A big one, you baka! You're always, always forcing
everything on me! To think that just by standing there you get paid, don't you
think of apologizing to the diligent working people?"
"Not at all."
"You low-life scoundreeeeeell!"
The girl's angry roar, rumbled in a big way.
It happened during the evening, in front of the Shinjuku
Station. The lovely girl's scream, became the focal point for the people
passing through.
"Ah."
Belatedly realizing she became the target of attention, the
girl's face became colored with shame.
"You're the center of attention."
The man who seemed to accompany her, nonchalantly informed her.
For a second time the girl frowned but being careful of the surroundings this
time, she said in a whisper.
"Who- whose fault is it?"
"It's yours, yours, yours. Don't shift the
responsibility."
"Uuu.......a- anyway, we're changing the place."
The girl took the man's hand and left that place behind as if
running.
Without being particularly unusual, a commonplace act found
anywhere.
But this was the beginning of everything.
"Go- good grief......I was so embarrassed."
While out of breath because of the powerful sprint, the girl
glared at the man standing next to her.
The man, while running the same distance at the same speed, with
no indication of heavy breath, he replied calmly.
"I already told you it was your fault. Don't complain to
me."
"A- aren't you in the wrong for not working seriously?"
In short, it was like that.
The girl's name was Kannagi Ayano. The man's name was Yagami
Kazuma.
Their occupation is to exorcise evil and protect the world from
harm.
As the man's motto was earn money with ease, for people
that possess first class battle abilities like Ayano, whom he met during work,
he doesn't hesitate to bear the stigma of a salary thief.
That's what happened this time. Without literally raising a
finger Kazuma watched over Ayano like a sightseer frivolously ridiculing the
seriously fighting Ayano.
Being too serious and having pride towards herself as a
practitioner, Ayano couldn't forgive Kazuma's attitude.
"J- just stop it already you low-life scoundrel!!!"
Which means her anger exploded in the already familiar way.
What happened until now can be called an ordinary scene. But -
"That's no good, making your woman work while you have it
easy, such a windward man is no good."
"Eh?"
Called out from an unexpected direction, Ayano frowned with a
twitch. Turning her face around, a strange man before his twenties, with a
sloppy smile, approached grinning.
"Forget about that useless man and come with me. I'll make
you happy."
.....What, a flirt.....
Ayano instantly lost her interest for the man. Ignoring him, she
turned to where Kazuma was. But - no one was there.
Watching around even more, the useless man was putting a
coin into a vending machine.
"Hey.", said Ayano in a crushed to death tone.
But even so, without changing his facial expression Kazuma took
a sip of the Oolong tea, enjoyed the cold liquid reaching his neck, sampled its
flavor in full and finally answered.
"......What?"
"It's not .......what? is it!? Why, when I'm being
involved with a left-over inferior man, are you ignoring it without taking any
sort of position!?"
"Don't say that. The job is already finished, so I don't
think I have any obligation to protect you."
In spite of absolutely not protecting her during the job, Kazuma
said so, shamelessly.
Of course, Ayano can't be deceived with those words.
"This has nothing to do with work. Every man had the duty
to protect the girl he's with at the same time!"
"I think that sort of sexual discrimination has no logic.
To begin with, one or two dozen of skirt-chasers makes no difference for you
right?"
"That's why I told you that's not it! With the technique of
escorting a young woman - any man of caliber should care about that!"
"That caliber should be fine even without asking."
While arguing noisily both of them naturally took their leave.
The skirt chaser saw them off dumbfounded, but after finally
noticing something he shouted with grim eyes.
"W- wait you!!"
".........."
".........."
Stopping at the same time, both turned around with bored expressions.
"Why couldn't he watch us off quietly?"
"He's really an idiot that can't read the atmosphere."
"You....you!!"
Completely made fun of, the man's face flushed bright red. Of
course, not being ashamed because he doesn't know his standing.
Gripping his fists, the man drew closer with a rough gait. No
matter how you look at it, he wasn't in the disposition to flirt with Ayano
anymore.
"Really......"
Letting out a bothersome sigh, Kazuma took a step forward. It
seems he intended to become the man's opponent but from that figure, standing
there with one Oolong tea can in his hand, no tension can be felt.
"You should pick your partner a little better. It's
impossible to get this woman through flirting you know?"
".........What does that mean?"
At his tone that was definitely not praising her, while her
temples were twitching, Ayano pressed a question.
Kazuma answered with nonchalantly.
"It means that your behavior is firm, that you're a very
level-headed Ojou-sama."
"............."
With a pure white look, Ayano stared at Kazuma very long.
"Say that again while looking into my eyes."
"Sorry, that's impossible."
An immediate reply. Furthermore, he adverted his eyes making an
unnatural face.
"Kazuma?"
With a sweet smile but while her temple veins were pulsing Ayano
grabbed Kazuma's collar.
She pulled Kazuma closer with a superhuman strength her slender
arms didn't seem capable of and glared at him point blank, their faces very
close.
No matter how those two think about it, that was from the start
nothing more but a lover's quarrel.
What's more, they didn't even pay attention to the existence of
the man drawing closer.
His very small pride stepped over, the skirt chaser's face was
warped with anger.
"Yooooooooouuuuu!!"
Glaring at the two huddling closer preparing to kiss, the man
struck.
But, just before the attack reached, Kazuma gently pushed Ayano
aside and retreated himself, using that recoil.
The man's fist and then his body slipped through the space
between those two.
First his fist and then his upper body and then the lower half
of his body went through.
Nonchalantly, with his foot left in place, Kazuma swiped the
man's feet.
"Gee!?"
Unable to defend, the man lively fell down. And soundlessly
meeting him half-way, using the pointed end of his tiptoe, Kazuma kicked the
man's jaw.
" - gh!"
Raising a voiceless shriek, he fell flat, the white of his eyes
showing.
Without even making sure of the conclusion, Kazuma turned back
to Ayano.
"Well, let's go."
"Yeah."
Heartless, the two started walking leaving the fainted man as it
is. But, after advancing a few steps, Kazuma suddenly stopped.
"What happened?"
Without answering Ayano, Kazuma turned back unusually slow.
Ayano too, followed his gaze, and looked at the same thing he was.
" - Why?"
Ayano inclined her head a little. There's no mistake about it,
Kazuma's kick shot the lights out of the man's jaw.
That man's cranium and his brain were violently shaken inside
and he wouldn't be conscious for at least an hour.
"Hmmm - "
Icily looking at the man that was recovering with an unusual
speed, Kazuma pushed out his Oolong tea to Ayano.
"Hold it."
"Ah, yeah," nodding obediently Ayano took the can.
Fleetingly looking at the can in her hand, for some reason her
cheeks were dyed red.
"Y- You....u...."
Looking at Ayano, although staggering, the man got up.
Admirably, his sturdiness is clearly exceeding his intellect.
"You made me so angry.......I won't go easy on you - I'll
kill you!"
While spouting words with no ingenuity, the man was rapidly
recovering. The unfocused pupil, was glaring at Kazuma now.
" - Raah!"
Raising a strange voice, the man started running towards Kazuma.
He was fast.
The movement excluding any technique based only on force and the
explosive power was closer to that of a beast.
Reaching top speed in just three steps, he brandished his
hardened fists.
"Dieeee!"
The fist pushed out in a straight line. Kazuma handled that with
a empty handed movement, parrying by rotating. Simultaneously seizing the
opponent's arm, making sure to catch his fingertips, he lightly overturned the
opponent's wrist.
Only by that movement, the man's body flew in mid-air. And then,
with no sign of effort put into it, he was blown off with extreme force.
By seizing a linear motion thrust with a circular one is
swallowed up and the center of gravity crumbles.
This is a technique that is called Aiki in Japan and China or
Hapki in Korea.
By utilizing the opponent's power, a larger amount of power can
be controlled with a smaller one - that is the advantage of this power but -
- bekiii! -
But even so, how much power did that man's attack have, to be
flung away with enough force to break the roadside trees he crashed into.
Kazuma looked down in silence at the man that tumbled from the
nearby crashed trees. There is no negligence in those eyes. It was an
expression convinced that he will definitely get up.
"Heh......hehehehehehe.....there's no use......"
As he thought, the man showed no sign of damage.
"On the me right now, human attacks don't work!"
While screaming the man took off his jumper. That body dressed
in a T-shirt is skinny. But -
"Koooo......"
Together with the exhalation, the thin body rapidly grew thicker.
The over-sized T-shirt was pushed and stretched by the inflating
body.
"Ooaaaa!!"
It was torn off when its limit crossed-over.
".....Is this what you call pump up?" asked
Ayano, lacking a sense of reality.
By repeating muscle contraction, by means of pumping large
quantities of blood containing oxygen, the muscles will dramatically expand -
there certainly is such a technique. But still -
"Well - did the human muscle fiber extend this much?"
Kazuma returned with a bitter smile.
Practically, when seeing this you have no choice but to laugh.
The man's transformation reached the limit of metamorphosis.
The thickness of his arms, the width of his chest, all his
muscles, without exaggerating, swelled up more than three times.
The body, neglected because of laziness, suddenly evolved to the
utmost limits of a well trained bodybuilder.
"Ku ku ku ku ....."
Expressing a full smile, the man inserted power in his muscles.
The body that increased its thickness to the limit became even wider.
"You'll die you know? There's no one who survived after
seeing this body!"
".........."
With sober eyes Kazuma inspected the surroundings. It was
obvious but they became the target of attention for many pedestrians crossing
in front of the Shijuku station.
"This is a rough estimate but a hundred people are watching
you. Do you intend to kill them all?"
"Shut- shut-up!"
Since his cool line was calmly retorted, the man shouted with a
red face.
"Don't talk down on me! Let's go!!"
Together with his voice, the man's figure disappeared. That's
what it must have looked like through the eyes of ordinary men.
Much faster than the first charge, with a speed that obviously
exceeds what a man can achieve, he dashed.
The fist pushed out a second time and Kazuma dealt with it using
the same circular motion.
But, whether Aiki or Hapki, although it appears like a
supernatural movement for the untrained eyes, the principle is still the same.
Even using the principle of leverage, if the opponent's power is
bigger, there won't be any effect.
The man's physical strength, drastically transcended the human
limits. Although Kazuma had a far better posture, even using his whole energy,
he couldn't change the thrust's trajectory.
As soon as he noticed that, he moved. Diagonally stepping ahead,
he moved his body from the trajectory and going even further, he went around
the man's back.
The powerful fist was dodged and his slovenly stance was
destroyed, leaving his back defenseless. Placing his foot on the back of the
knee, Kazuma stepped on it with all his strength.
With a crumbling sound, the knee's ligament broke. But still he
mercilessly stepped on it, beating the man's knee to the ground. The white
tiles spread on the ground broke at the same time with the kneecap.
"Hikyaaa!"
His knee completely destroyed, the man screamed with intense
pain. Maybe because of the dull sound made by the knee, his upper body arched
with force to watch for Kazuma behind him.
Using the foot he broke the knee with as a pivot, Kazuma raised
his elbow overhead.
The cranium that was approaching from the opposite side was
attacked by Kazuma's elbow that seemed to bore a hole in it.
The <
The man's body convulsed, then fell down like a doll with broken
strings and was silent.
As expected, he didn't get up this time.
"Many thanks."
"Ah, I pointlessly used my physical strength."
At Ayano's thankful words, Kazuma made a sluggish reply.
Although it was minor, because he exercised he felt thirsty and
extended his hand to Ayano.
"Oolong tea."
Kazuma carelessly stretched his hand but the next second he
turned his entire body around.
He noticed that Ayano's hand was empty.
"My Oolong tea?"
Cross-examined by Kazuma, Ayano's cheeks lightly colored and
smiled while showing her tongue.
"I drank it."
"Aah!?"
Extremely childish, Kazuma's eyes peeled openly angry.
"You, don't behave selfishly with the social standing of a
rich woman! Return my Oolong tea!"
".....Still, don't you think that it's
unsightly......" Ayano murmured, dejected by the excessive cheapness.
Rare nowadays, she was full of disappointment.
"Shut up. I can't stand when other people take my
stuff."
"Well, leaving that aside...."
Considerably displeased, Ayano forcefully changed the topic.
"What do we do with this?"
In front of her eyes, the fallen flirty man became a mere shadow
of its former self.
His flesh deflated and his body returned to the modest former
self.
No, it didn't just return. Even after returning to the same
shape, the muscles' atrophy didn't stop.
Thoroughly endless, as if air slipped out of it, the man's body
shrunk until it turned into a creature of only skin and bone.
"Is this...the backlash of power? But he doesn't seem
dead."
"Well then."
"Who on earth was this guy?"
Kazuma shrugs his shoulders but doesn't answer. Different from
Ayano, tilting her head in wonder, he does not seem to have any sort of
interest towards it.
Taking an attitude with no sense of responsibility, Ayano stares
at Kazuma including blame.
"You'll just ignore it?"
"It doesn't concern me. Well, as for the obligation I have
as a citizen, shall I inform the police?"
Taking out his cellphone, he pressed the buttons. But, contrary
to his words he didn't press 119.
"Kirika? There is knocked down half naked suspicious person
at the south entrance of Shinjuku. If you catch it, you may hear something
interesting. Bye."
Without waiting for the other side to reply, he one-sidedly
informed her about the business and closed the phone.
Ayano looked up at Kazuma with a stunned expression.
"How to say this, you can't be kind no matter the
circumstance?"
She knew who he contacted. That's someone she definitely didn't
like but she couldn't help but feel pity for Kirika.
But, Kazuma replied very naturally.
"It's fine because it's Kirika."
A casual tone full of trust. That careless contact, unkind but
without omitting crucial steps, recognizing the signs of Kazuma's confidence in
if it's Kirika, that's enough, for some reason Ayano felt discomfort.
"Hmmm, is Tachibana such a capable police officer?"
Not in other areas - without using words just by placing
accent, Ayano spit out the thorny words.
Tachibana Kirika is the name of the person Kazuma called. Her
rank is police superintendent. She serves as the Chief of the Special
Investigation Unit, the institution dealing with expelling evil spirits.
It would be better not saying this but, as a matter of fact,
this organization is made of only puny abilities.
Especially their battle capabilities were really meager. So
after discovering the devilishness to be defeated, they leave the actual defeating
to the big guns - the Kannagi Clan.
And so, the trust Kazuma was placing on Kirika seemed to be
related to police business but -
"Aa, ahhh, Kirika is really capable even as a
government worker."
It appears that Kazuma was trusting Kirika as a practitioner.
Answering her question that was supposed to be mean earnestly made Ayano's face
become even more grim.
"You meant very capable as a practitioner?"
"Yes, isn't she a top class Onmyoji?"
"But isn't that person from one of Tachibana's branch
families?"
Even if it is an Onmyoji name, it belongs after all to one of
the branch families. To say nothing of the do-nothing-job as a police chief.
In front of Ayano who was having such warped thoughts, Kazuma
shamelessly praised another woman.
"Because she was more capable than the branch family, she
was gotten rid of to Tokyo MPD's Special Investigation Unit as some sort of
exile."
".............Really?"
"Especially for her, because she adopted fairly
unprincipled different style techniques, they had various reasons for
punishment. But, at the very least now there isn't a single person from the
Tachibana more capable than her."
"Hmm, really?"
Seeming really displeased, Ayano made agreeable responses in
short sentences with no intonation.
Incompletely understanding her obvious I'm angry
attitude, Kazuma looked into Ayano's face.
"What happened?"
"Nothing!"
Shouting angrily, Ayano turned her face away. Watching her
reaction, Kazuma's lips curved as if finally noticing something.
"What's up with you, don't tell you have a sense of rivalry
towards Kirika?"
"I- it's not like that!"
That was an almost reflex answer but it was definitely not a
lie. The one Ayano was fussing over was not Kirika.
More than that woman, I was, by far...
She looked up to Kazuma peevishly.
As for Ayano, she was conceited about the fact that Kazuma was
her partner. More than Kirika, she was far more helpful. She fought for the
sake of Kazuma.
"It's fine because it's Ayano."
He never told her such words, not even once.
He doesn't trust in her. Perhaps he doesn't even have confidence
in her.
Am I that useless?
It seems she'll forever be nothing more but an unskilled
half-share. Thinking like that, she becomes unbearably anxious.
Even so, this man never says what she wants to hear and only
spouts worthless bullshit with a frivolous laugh.
"It's fine. In other areas it's out of the question but as
a practitioner you won't loose. When exchanging blows you're absolutely stronger."
- Like that.
At the expressively well timed reply, Ayano is helplessly
enraged.
"That's not a follow-up! You baka! Just die!"
Kazuma stares at Ayano's fit of anger really, really happy.
Since before the trust comment, for the sake of enjoying himself
with Ayano's reactions, Kazuma takes careful aim with his words and before she
will realize it, many of these incidents will happen.
Part 2[edit]
One ordinary day after school.
One section of the practice ground was filled with a silence
full of tension. Everyone was neglecting their practice and while holding a
hand to their mouths, their gazes were concentrating to one point.
Before their eyes...was that girl's figure. Elatedly reacting to
the gaze that was already turned into physical pressure, she was standing there
with a clear facial expression.
Someone gulped - strangely that sound clearly reached her ears.
As if that was a signal, the girl lightly kicked the earth's surface and
started running. Her route drew a light arc, a forward obliqueness, aiming at
the bar the same height as her stature.
Stepping on her left foot, the girl was released from the
restraints of gravity. Her bent chest aiming the sky, her slender limbs danced
in midair.
"Oooh...."
While watching over the excited onlookers, the girl's head, then
her beautiful arched body and her long stretched legs, passed above the bar.
The posture of a perfect jump. The body that jumped over the bar
was once more caught by gravity but that one moment was beautiful.
With a light sound, the girl's body was buried in the mattress.
Her limbs spread in abandon, overhead the bar was still, expressing the high
success of the jump.
"........."
A moment of silence. And then - an explosion of applause and
cheers.
"Veeeery goood! A new record!"
"Kudo-senpai is great!"
"Nanase, I love you!"
In the middle of the bursting cheers, the girl - Kudo Nanase
slowly got up.
Not really exposing her emotions, it didn't look as if she
sympathized with the uproar.
Looking up at the bar overhead, her lips faintly raised. That
was all the joy she displayed for breaking a new record.
Nanase Kudo - a beautiful girl with androgynous features and
straight short-cut hair.
Always calm, with quick movements and not an easy going tone
like most girls and yet not boyish, she was enjoying an overwhelming popularity
between girls her age - that's why, this kind of scene was a daily occurrence.
"Senpai, please use this!"
A first year, winning through a violent competition presented
Nanase, descending from the mattress a towel.
"Ah, thank you."
Nanase accepted it with a small smile. She returned it after
lightly whipping off her sweat.
"Haa..."
Inhaling with yearning her senpai's perspiration, the girl
embraced the towel with an ecstatic expression. The others in the big crowd,
having been outwitted, glared at the girl with murder in their eyes.
Somewhere close to the development of the all-girl's school-like
act -
"........"
Clearly separating herself from that naive society, with a
severe facial expression, Nanase looked in the way of the tennis court.
She glared at the blackish shadow clinging to the fence with a
violent repugnance.
"Is he here again?"
"Senpai?"
A girl's voice asked a question in a surprised tone. Noticing
that, Nanase looked at the girl and showed a harmless smile.
"Nothing important. Just, you know?"
While answering, she gently brushed the girl's head in a casual
manner. It as an action with no significance in particular but -
".........uu?"
With a scream that didn't seem to reach the surroundings, the
girl in question fell to the ground with a swoon face.
".....What happened?"
"No- no......nothing....."
With a red face and clouded eyes, as if fever made her
delirious, the girl slowly shook her head.
"I see. Then, take care."
Not really thinking about it, Nanase started walking - aiming at
the tennis court.
The moment she turned to it, she had already forgotten the
conversation with the girl. She was concentrating on the suspicious figure
clinging to the tennis court's fence.
With a cool expression, totally different from the one pointed
at the girl before, unforgiving, as if giving a sentence.
"Hey, he's still coming?"
A second year in the tennis club, Sughino Mie murmured so,
displeased from the bottom of her heart. Before her eyes, sticking to the
tennis court's fence, a short and fat shadow was peeking.
Just by looking, he was a suspicious man.
Setting up his digital camera, that figure taking snapshots of
the girls' appearance, no other word described him better than degenerate.
If this man wasn't a pupil of Seiryou Academy, they would
definitely call the police. Or perhaps, there are a lot of people who think
they should call the police nevertheless.
Utsumi Kousuke.
That is this man's name. He is a second year but his results
were so poor it was a miracle he managed to promote.
His facial features resemble a frog. His whole face is full of
pimples, and he had a greasy sweat regardless of the season so his frog image
is spot-on.
He belonged to the photography club but the subjects of his
photos are just a step away from criminal or maybe already crossing over that
line, only that kind of crap.
But even so, the perpetrator is claiming that this is art,
although nobody believed him.
It's only natural. If one were to see the expression on his
while taking pictures, there can be no place for misunderstanding.
The feeling of various dangers emitted from his blood-shot eyes
gave the impression of a real sex-offender.
"As I thought, he's dangerous. Shouldn't we do
something?"
"That's right, he's also scaring the first years....."
Weirdly stared at by Utsumi, pressing his shutter as if
possessed, the girls were murmuring between themselves.
As if hiding behind her back the first years that have just
joined the club, revealed their thought when looking for the first time at the
ominous living creature.
"Se- senpai......what is that?"
"That's a pervert."
Mie immediately replied with no hesitation. That answer was
something the first years, who didn't know the circumstance, could't comprehend
but just because of that, their disgust and dread didn't soften.
"Can't you do something? Maybe calling the teacher..."
"Ah, yes.....he won't come...."
Staring at her kouhais, supplication clearly in their eyes,
Mie's gaze wandered around, her face troubled.
No matter how suspicious he was, Utsumi was a pupil of this
school. Moreover he had the pretext of being a member of the photography club.
That means, photographing as a club activity was for him very
reasonable. They can't stop him from photographing just because his vulgar
smile was eerie.
"No way..."
At that explanation, based on last year's events, the first
year's crying faces were pitiable but nothing could be done at the present.
Just when she was instructing them to give up, it happened -
"Huh....Kudo-san...?" murmured Mie, recognizing the
girl walking behind Utsumi.
Simultaneously Utsumi also realized this and turned around,
separating his eyes from the fence.
At that moment -
"Bukyaa!?"
A foot sole with no leniency stroke Utsumi's back of the head.
The blow, more like stepping on him than trying to kick, forced Utsumi to
strongly kiss the fence.
"Gyaa.....Gyaabii.....?"
To Utsumi's ears, as he was wordlessly screaming, reached a cold
notice of conviction:
"How long did you think I would overlook your vulgar
molestation, low-life?"
"Guugyaaa....bebii...."
Although Utsumi was trying to escape the restraint, his lazy,
neglected body couldn't overcome the force of the foot trampling his head.
Vainly resisting, he was pressed down by the already doubled force.
The flesh of his loosen face was squeezed through the mesh of the fence.
"Uuu......"
Because his already ugly face was distorted even more, all the
girls in the tennis club simultaneously adverted their eyes.
A dozen seconds after - at the time everyone was starting to see
his face really getting cut in the mesh, the girl - Nanase removed her leg.
The released Utsumi crouched holding his face. Crawling
unsightly, from the gaps between his fingers he raised his eyes to Nanase.
"Hiii......please....stop the violence...."
A high shriek escaped. He tried to escape, stepping back as if
crawling on his ass, but in the crowded place the fence blocked his escape
route.
Fleetingly watching behind him, Utsumi's face became even more
grim. On the other side of the fence, the girls belonging to the tennis club
were watching him with grim eyes.
Being encouraged by Nanase's strong entrance, their eyes lost
their fear for the ominous thing. Their looks filled with anger and flared up
while their restraints towards the punishment of the insolent peeping demon
broke.
In confusion, Utsumi started an explanation,
"Please, please wait. As a member of the photography club,
for the sake of the year book photos, I - "
"Don't joke around!"
"Hiii -"
In a fit of rage the women kicked the fence and Utsumi fled that
place as if tumbling.
But of course, Nanase is in that direction. This time his face,
receiving a Yakuza Kick, was once again dragged in front of the girls.
"N- no, hey, listen....."
"Only lies, huh?" one of the girls shouted.
"How can you take such low angle photos for the year album?
Everyone knows that you take dirty photos for the sake of your hobby!"
"That's true! That's true!"
"You rotten fat otaku shit! Diee!"
"It stinks! Don't get closer than a hundred meters!"
several girls unanimously shouted.
Obviously there were some unjust accusations mixed in between
but Utsumi was quiet.
Originally, except for taking pictures of girl's lower parts he
is a timid person. While being surrounded by female students, it's impossible
for him to object coherently.
No matter how unreasonable the verbal attacks he received, there
was nothing to do but to put up with it in silence.
"Uuu, uuuu....."
"This should be fine, right?"
But a helping hand appeared from an unexpected place.
That was Nanase.
Naturally, she had the character of someone feeling refreshed
after <
To say nothing of the girls' words which had already entered
into a state of wild excitement and began to drift from the original point,
changing into nothing but slander and ridicule.
Nanase disliked that development so she got back to the point.
It was just that, but -
"Ku- Kudo-san!"
With a face as if seeing Buddha from the depths of hell,
Utsumi's eyes sparkled. It seems that he was convinced that Nanase became his
ally.
"I - I knew you would understand! That's right, my photos
are art. These women can't understand that!"
Bracing himself he stood up while talking non-stop. He didn't
notice the cold anger filling Nanase's eyes.
"Aah, I understand! That's why you were angry. Because I
didn't look at you and was taking pictures of this bunch. You don't have to
worry, you're my most important subject. From now on, always - "
Perhaps Utsumi's character wasn't vulgar but simply stupid. If a
neutral person were to stand there, he or she could only think that.
In the tennis girl's expressions, there was already no anger.
What dwelt there was pity and dread. As if looking at a bomb timer decreasing
each moment, they nervously observed Utsumi and Nanase.
And then -
GASYAN!
An ominous sound interrupted Utsumi's triumphant speech. His
camera, rolling on the ground, was trampled upon with all her strength by
Nanase.
"Aah, aaaaaaaaaa!?"
The expensive lens turned into shards of glass. Utsumi cried in
a bitter voice.
"Wh- what are you doing!?"
Without answering, Nanase kicked the camera with her foot.
Placing the camera with a crooked frame on the top of her foot, she used a half
rotation to volley-kick and sent it flying.
The camera that flew with power crashed into the school building
and smashed.
"Hiiiiii!"
With a pose similar to Munch's Scream, Utsumi shouted.
"Ah, ah, a..."
Leaking out as murmurs, as if his soul escaped his body, he
looked up at Nanase in blank amazement.
A frozen gaze looked down on Utsumi.
"Hi, hiii......"
Nanase ordered the pale Utsumi with indifference.
"Get out of my sight!"
"Ah, waaa........waaaaa...."
Revealing a meaningless cry, Utsumi started running on all
fours.
"Fucking trash! Just die!!"
"Don't ever come back!"
Showering his back with the tennis girls' boos, Utsumi ran away
faster.
Nanase stared at that retreating figure thoroughly indifferent.
Part 3[edit]
Shit, just watch you bitches....
While placing desks one on top of the other behind the tennis
club's room - in a perfectly blind spot from the front, Utsumi boiled in anger
when thinking of those bitches that didn't understand his art.
After shooting them at great pains, they falsely accuse me of
peeping and taking peeping films...then it's fine to answer your expectations
right?
The insistence of repeating the failed argument over and over is
filling his mind. That was nothing more than a pretext, but for him it didn't
matter.
Even if someone were to deny it, for him that was the absolute
truth and he found no reason to hesitate to respond to the undeserved
persecution with rightful retribution.
"Yes, it got through!"
Utsumi, standing on top of the desks, reached the ventilation
fan's frame. His body trembling in dark joy, he raised a small sound of joy.
He quietly inserted the small CCD camera in the small gap opened
in the corner of the ventilation fan. On the monitor he was holding,
silhouettes of girls in their underwear appeared clearly.
"How about this, did you realize.......?"
Without realizing, while smiling simple-mindedly watching the
girls changing clothes, a naturally scornful smile appeared on his face.
While video recording the defenseless silhouettes of the people
that insulted him, he was intoxicated by his own sense on superiority as if he
could decide their fates.
"I won't be satisfied by just this. I'll leak your pictures
on the net. With no censorship. Hyahahahaha!"
Of course, he will spread the video address inside the school.
Intoxicated with sleazy delusions, in a sense, Utsumi was getting the hang of
being a man.
Making the gap and plunging the camera to the extent of warping
the secret ventilation fan's frame, bringing the old, discarded desks for
support- even if it was for the sake of peeking, maybe he deserves some praise
for putting so much effort into it.
At present, Utsumi's effort was greatly rewarded. Moment by
moment, the camera's memory is filled with undressed girls.
It's understandable for them not to notice. The back of the club
room had no windows, the fan is three meters high so nobody paid attention to
it.
Not one person noticed the fact that the fan's frame was subtly
warped. Therefore, Utsumi's plan against the tennis club could be called
perfect.
If there was a miscalculation, it could only be that he didn't
notice the gloomy path weaving its way through the groove of trees was used as
a shortcut.
And so, when she called out to him asking for his
identity, her character was not simple enough to make it a prior warning.
"Uhii!?"
Suddenly something shook underfoot. Realizing that someone
kicked the desks serving as scaffolding, his plump relaxed body fell, aiming
for the ground.
" - uu!"
He fell on his back. For an instant, his breathing stopped.
Without really being able to scream in pain, extremely nervous and convulsing,
Utsumi fainted.
"Good grief - "
A murmur reached his ear. For some reason he could clearly
understand that voice even in the middle of roaring noise made by the falling
bricks.
He slowly opened his eyelids, tightly closed in pain. The first
thing in his field of vision were two slender, long legs.
Ankles closed tightly. Calves covered with knee socks. Firm
tights - extremely healthy, the beautiful legs of an active person.
Legs he recognized. Without having to look at her face, Utsumi
knew who those legs belonged to. Track club, second year, Kudo Nanase.
They were without doubt the legs of that girl, his main target.
Forgetting the situation he was in, Utsumi was fascinated by
those legs soaring before his eyes.
The one he captured on hundred of pictures but as expected
looking at them so close, the intensity was different.
Furthermore, because of the extremely low angle he was looking
from, he could see almost to her crotch. Those essentials were covered by her
skirt but they were very suggestive.
This was a chance. Forgetting the pain in his body Utsumi
shuffled his feet remaining in the same position, approaching Nanase.
More, just a bit more...
He stretched his neck to the limit, trying to peek behind the
mystery veil but -
Together with a crash resounding all around his cranium, his
field of vision was plunged into darkness.
"Guu......Gyaa....?"
While not understanding that his face was stepped on, Utsumi
tried to brush away the thing covering his eyes. But he was powerless against
the unforgiving trampling that didn't hesitate to rub dirt into his eyes.
"You really don't learn, do you?" Nanase spit out
disgusted, while stepping on and grinding Utsumi's face.
"Don't techniques like reflection and regret suit your
body, bizarre frog man?"
"Fuu....Fuguu...Gyaaah....!"
Although her manner of speaking was excessive, Utsumi had no
strength to object, his face being ground and all, so he clenched his teeth.
That was the moment when the girls from the tennis club rushed
out, hearing noise.
" - Nanase-san?"
"Yo."
Nanase replied to Mie's reflexive cry, lightly raising her hand.
Of course, she didn't stop stomping and treading on the piece of meat beneath
her feet.
Noticing that movement, Mie shifted her gaze to Nanase's feet.
And then, to the surroundings.
First of all to the source of the noise, the scattered desks.
And then on the CCD camera thrust into a crack made in the ventilation fan. The
small monitor connected to the camera was swinging like a pendulum.
It was a very clear scene. After looking at Utsumi with a
penetrating cold glance, she exchanged looks with her colleagues that followed
her.
There was no need for words. Reading Mie's intent just by eye
contact, they rushed back to the club-room.
Ten seconds after, the club's door was opened for a second time
and all the girls in the club rushed out with rough steps. They speedily
encircled Utsumi and glared at him with eyes burning in anger.
A bit later the first years came out of the club-room. The
reason they were late could be clearly seen. They collected the lynching tools.
As expected they avoided the rackets, the emphasis was on the mop. But one
person was holding a battered metal bat taken from somewhere.
".....Thank you, Nanase-san. That's enough." Mie said
in a restrained voice.
"Yeah."
Nanase nodded, knocking down Utsumi's head with a thick sound.
While his body was faced up, she turned his head. Again, his head twisted.
"Oo...Okekereba..."
Bearing a pain intense enough to break his neck-bones, Utsumi
rolled his body the same way his neck did.
Nanase chose that moment, when he was lying with his face on the
ground, to retreat in a slippery manner of walking. That was only for the sake
of not having the insides of her skirt exposed while removing her leg but of
course, nobody complained that it was overkill.
The girls were rather impressed by that brilliant movement.
"Uuu.....Uuuuu....."
The released Utsumi tried to get up. And then he saw the
expression of the girls surrounding him.
"Uu....aaah...."
Revitalized by fear, Utsumi revealed a sight of agony and death.
Realizing he could not escape, he started to explain in a trembling voice.
"Th- this is art..."
"Shut up, you're annoying."
His thoughtless words rejected, Mie thrust her hand out to the
first years, waiting behind her.
"Demolishing bat!"
"Yes!"
Without a moment's delay, the first years presented her the
scratched metal bat. Strongly gripping the overused bat, Mie shouted.
"Heavenly punishment!!"
"Oooooooooooooo!"
Rising their voices, the girls raised their tools. And then like
birds of prey swarming around a dead body, they jumped on the petrified Utsumi.
"Uu, Waaaaaahhh!"
A torrent of high pitched shrieks - and then silence.
"........"
Nanase meaninglessly raised her eyes to the sky and then,
shifted her attention to the place where the gruesome lynching was performed.
The target was silenced but still, the sword of justice was continuously
swinging downward. The girl's faces were radiating great joy.
"Should I stop it?"
"It's fine."
As if reading Nanase's thoughts, a smiling voice could be heard
from her side. Turning her face around, before she knew, the one that commanded
the punishment, Mie stood beside her.
"Are you satisfied, Sugino?"
"Yeah, as you can see -"
Mie was holding the metal bat, stroking gently the sword
blade stained in new blood.
"The demolishing bat has the power to wound and kill and
beside it could turn bad so I had to stop."
"Must be hard being the vice-president."
"We are of equal status in this regard."
Both exchanged a bitter smile, bonding for being in the same
place and having the same troubles.
Unrelated to the disastrous scene happening a few meters before
them, there was a gentle atmosphere around these two.
"By the way, I didn't properly thank you. Thank you very
much for today. You helped us twice."
"That's fine. The track club was also at a loss when it
came to Utsumi so it wasn't just your business."
"Maybe it would have been better to do something like this
quicker, huh?" Mie said while looking at the girls beating the hell out of
Utsumi.
"True. This kind of idiot will only be spoiled if left
alone. Because he doesn't understand when talking to him, there's no way but to
painfully teach it to him."
"True. That's so true!"
Grasping tightly the metal bat, Mie nodded awfully forceful.
"Now that we inherited the Demolishing Bat, we can't
permit perverted acts towards the members!"
".......No, I don't think that has anything to do with
it..."
"Is that so? Anyway, it would be fine if the idiot learned
something from that experience."
They both had the same opinion on this point so Nanase nodded.
"Certainly. But don't overdo it. It's not worth it to be
charged with a crime because of such a guy."
"I know. Leave it to me."
Leaving it to the girl that declared so pulling out her chest,
Nanase said her parting words.
"Then, I leave the rest to you. See you tomorrow."
"Yeah, see you tomorrow."
A commonplace greeting. Smiling at each other. Without foundation,
both believed that the tomorrow that will come will be the same as today. At
that hour, they still thought so.
Part 4[edit]
"Hmm, did something like that happened yesterday?"
The next day's lunch break.
While eating her lunch, Nanase told her friends - Kannagi Ayano
and Shinomiya Yukari yesterday's incident.
"Ha ha, he got what he deserved," Ayano replied
delightedly from the bottom of her heart.
She also thinks Utsumi's deeds are unpleasant so she doesn't
have a particle of sympathy for him.
"So, is he still alive?"
At Ayano's question Nanase simply shrugged her shoulders as if
saying I wonder. Substituting her friend who really didn't care from the
bottom of her heart, Yukari answered.
"Of course he's alive. Because luckily Ayano-chan wasn't at
that place."
Yukari was wearing her shoulder length hair wavy, and seemed
like a very gentle girl. Although speaking slowly, quite a number of people
noticed at times her irony.
"I see, that was unlucky - wait a second!"
But, because they were friends for a long time Ayano couldn't be
deceived. On the verge of noticing, she glared with half open eyes at her
friend, grinning at her with a happy smiling face.
"Didn't you just say something inexcusable with a straight
face just now?"
"I wonder...I only spoke the truth."
"That's even worse!"
"Kya- Nanase-chan help!"
Pretending to be scared of the roaring Ayano, whose face was
blazing, Yukari hid behind Nanase.
"Wait!"
"Kyaa-"
The moving around Ayano. Yukari escaping again. Gradually
increasing their speed, both started running round and round around Nanase.
"You guys, I'm in the middle of eating-"
Amazed, Nanase warned them but without seeming to hear both
continued to run around.
After fixedly staring at them, Nanase closed the bentou lid and
casually pushed out her leg forward. With superb timing, that leg caught Ayano
running in front of her.
"Waahyaa!"
Ayano fell forward with all her strength. As expected, she
avoided falling down but Yukari crashed into her back half a second later.
"Waaa!"
"Kyaaa!"
Entangled, Ayano and Yukari tumbled on the floor of the rooftop.
Disregarding those two, Nanase calmly resumed her meal.
"Ow...uch..."
Several seconds after, Ayano got up raising a grazed moan.
Tearing off Yukari's body tangled with hers as in a judo locking technique, she
stood up while arranging her hair.
"Na - na - se."
Being spoken to in such a harsh voice, Nanase didn't show any
sign of being perturbed. While steadily chewing her fries she just put in her
mouth, she declared as a matter of course.
"I told you I'm in the middle of eating. You were raising
dust."
"But still suddenly tripping me up-"
"It's fine, I carefully chose the opponent. I wouldn't do
it to anyone except you."
"Don't do it to me either!"
"By the way-"
Ignoring Ayano's outcry, Nanase turned her eyes to Yukari.
Finally getting up while cleaning the dust off her clothes Yukari tilted her
head as if asking What is it?
"Do you know?"
Yukari accurately read the aim of the untitled question.
"About Utsumi-kun? Of course he didn't die, nor is he
hospitalized. You see, people don't generally use tools and seriously strike at
someone, right?" said Yukari while fleetingly glancing at Ayano.
Sensing that, Ayano frowned.
"Why were you looking at me?"
Yukari nonchalantly turned away. As if she didn't hear anything,
she continued her conversation with Nanase.
"That's why, the injury he received from those blows is
pretty much to the level of mouth cuts. They said his bones are whole."
"Just that...."
"Yes, just that. As expected, he will stay in bed today but
compared to the damage he would have suffered from Ayano-chan, that's just like
a gentle brush."
"Why are you using me as an example?" Ayano raised her
voice again.
Sensing she had reached a critical section, Yukari didn't ignore
her this time and faced her with an honest face.
"Listen to me, Ayano-chan."
"Wh- what?"
The atmosphere suddenly changed and as if pressured by Yukari
closing in, Ayano retreated a little.
"I think of Ayano-chan as an important friend."
"I see.....thanks."
That was a pretty common thing to say but not in this context.
She nodded frankly.
"That's why, please-"
The light of sincerity dwelling in her eyes, like a prayer, like
a request, Yukari continued.
"So please, don't say such mean things to me."
"..........."
Ayano's temple had a cramp. Staring at Yukari with a dark glare,
she let out a voice that must have crawled from the bottom of hell.
"Yu - ka - ri...."
"Wh ~ a ~ t?"
Contrary to Ayano's dark tone, Yukari's reply didn't have an
atom of darkness. The song-like tone felt like the elegance of a bright spring.
There's no need to say it but this only had the opposite effect.
Ayano slightly moved forward her center of gravity, the muscles
all over her body poised. An attitude that gave the impression of a feline
hunter on the verge of leaping on her pray.
"Yukari....it seems necessary. We need to have a lengthy
discussion one of these days......"
Ayano let out a low, small whisper. It seems it was lost in wind
but it was the kind of sentence that would definitely reach the other party.
The tiptoes of Ayano's feet placed on the floor, lightly
scratched the concrete.
When the few moments before the strife began expanding over and
over - at that time -
"Oh, it's open!"
Several boys came to the rooftop with a basket ball. It seems
they wanted to exercise some after eating.
The minute that the door was opened Ayano and Yukari returned to
their former positions so fast it didn't even leave an afterimage.
Sitting straight, those figures smiling elegantly didn't show
any sign a cat fight was about to happen seconds before.
"Hurry up. The lunch break will end - huh?"
The boy in the front - apparently a first year - finally
perceived Ayano's group. His eyes opened wide in surprise.
"Shi- Shinomiya-san? Kudo-san and- and even
Kannagi-san?"
The good fortune of being able to see the Academy's top three
beautiful girls in the same place made the boy's face become loose. On the
faces of the boys following him, an expression of supreme bliss floated.
"I'm sorry, we're in the middle of lunch. Can you restrain
yourselves?" asked Yukari, while showing an brutally cute smile.
As there were no boys who could go against that face, they
immediately replied with a straight posture.
"Of- of course! We're apologizing for causing you
trouble!"
"We're sorry."
Moreover, Ayano's smile increased the tension. The boys'
consciousness flew higher than the sky, their thinking ability all evaporated.
Nanase saw off the departing boys, their faces intoxicated.
The door closed, the sound of footsteps died out and waiting a
few more seconds just to make sure, Nanase spoke with a sigh.
"How to put this - both of you have a tremendous skill in
hiding your true selves."
"Isn't it fine? There're all happy.", Yukari replied
with a nonchalant face.
Ayano didn't reply, on account of resuming her lunch.
Understanding she said something completely pointless, Nanase
feebly shook her head, resuming her thoughts. She once again looked at Yukari
who knew all the gossip.
"So, Yukari. Was his punishment decided?"
"Three days of house arrest," Yukari quickly replied
to Nanase's question.
Unintentionally Ayano shouted when hearing the too indulgent
punishment.
"Just that?"
"Just that. He was a first offender."
Also dissatisfied, Nanase frowned.
"It could have been so peaceful had he been
expelled......."
"That's impossible. If it's Utsumi-kun, they won't expel
him before raping someone."
"<
"He's from a rich family in hospital administration. The
amount of his donations is top class."
"Ah, I see."
At the tough reality, Nanase kept silent with a sullen face.
Seiryou Academy was a private school but it wasn't unaffected by
the declining birth rates. The period when only the best pupils were selected
had passed and because its name was famous, noted families pursued it.
The management was definitely not difficult but the funds were
never enough.
To put it in simple words, it was hard to part from valuable
gold.
"I heard rumors he entered the school through the back
door, that guy."
"Yeah, but those rumors were false."
"Were they?"
"Yes.", Yukari declared with no doubt.
That was an information unavailable to a simple student but
neither Ayano nor Nanase were suspicious about it. Frankly this girl, without
changing her gentle exterior appearance, or maybe in accordance with her image
was randomly well connected.
Currently she is occupying the position of secretary in the
Student Council but except for that she belongs to different committees and
influential clubs. On top of that she has connections among the teaching staff.
That vast and subtle information network had an unparalleled
accuracy. No school event escapes her eyes.
"That's why, he'll probably come back to school after three
days with a calm face. Maybe he will be quiet for some time and reflect upon
his actions."
".....I wonder."
Remembering his persistent gaze trying to look under her skirt
even after he was caught during the crime, Nanase breathed a sigh, fed up with
it.
"It can't be helped, even if it's a makeshift solution. If
he will continue with this crap day after day, no matter how stupid he is, he
will come to care about his well being."
"Like yesterday? Ah, about that-"
"What?"
"Wasn't Sugino-san the one that organized yesterday's
beating? It seems she suddenly fell into a coma."
"Ehh? Is that true?"
Unintentionally Nanase asked again so Yukari's lips became sharp
seeming displeased.
"I never tell false information."
"Well, that's true - that's just so strange, she looked so
well yesterday," said Nanase doubtfully.
Yukari raised her finger and said to her.
"Maybe she was cursed by Utsumi-kun, huh?"
" - Yukari, that's not funny."
"Eh, that was an indiscretion. I'm sorry."
Gazing at Yukari, putting out her tongue, Nanase anxiously
frowned with a light reprimand.
She told herself she was thinking too
much. But she instinctively knew. That this is just the beginning. That
something bad, something really bad is just about to happen.
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