chapter 31
31. Test of Courage
31. Courage test
Toduk-
Took-
Tududuk-
Shoot ah ah-
“…”
It started to rain.
Sudden rain that wasn’t even in the weather forecast.
The faces of the students who were looking for their mates and waiting for the courage test were stained with embarrassment.
It was the same with the teachers, so their faces were also stained with embarrassment.
The teachers guided the students inside the building.
But their faces were still filled with worry.
It was because there were students who had already gone into the forest for the test of courage.
A slippery mountain road on a night when the moonlight was obscured by clouds. It was an environment that was not at all strange no matter what happened.
Teachers formed groups and started going out to find students.
And while watching the scene, I, fortunately, succeeded in being selected for the back number, and thanks to that, I entered the building.
To be precise, the place where I was was inside the front door of the building, on a bench.
I was sitting there, looking outside where it was raining heavily.
Perhaps another incident is taking place outside where it is raining heavily.
The main characters, Haruta Toyoda and Sakura Morish*ta. That’s what happened between the two.
***
-20 Minutes ago-
Sakura Morish*ta was walking on a mountain path with a boy.
She herself does not know who the boy is.
However, among the boys who offer her to test her courage with her.
The child only had no choice but to be with him because he was actively clinging to it.
The hand of the boy holding the flashlight was shaking.
Looking at that Morish*ta Sakura, she is also trembling.
How did she notice that she was trembling when even she was trembling, the boy said in a loud voice.
“Only believe in me! Mo, Morish*ta-san!”
“Uh, yes…”
Although she honestly had no confidence in the words of the child who was shaking her body.
She decided to pretend to believe for the boy.
That was the time.
“Wow!!!!!!”
“Kyaaa!!!”
At the surprise of the man dressed as a ghost who suddenly appeared, the boy screamed and ran away.
Morish*ta Sakura She was also surprised, but she was so surprised that she forgot to scream and just ran away.
How many minutes had passed since she ran so frantically?
She came to realize that she herself was in an unknown place.
I couldn’t see a way for people to walk in the jaw that came in so deep.
The only things that filled her front were trees and blades of grass.
Even the boy who ran away with them disappeared at some point.
She almost cried out of fear, but at the same time she didn’t want to be a crybaby anymore.
It was a promise I made after I caused damage to Shujinkoo Haiseki in middle school.
Although the promise she had made in front of him made her cry.
For this reason, she decided to overcome this situation as bravely as possible.
“Yes! Yes! I can do it! I am a high school student now?!”
She mustered up the courage to make a commitment to write in her own words once again.
Gathering up her courage, she started walking, finding her way.
No matter how much she walked, she could only see trees and blades of grass, but she didn’t give up.
I wonder if I walked like that for about 10 minutes.
Took-
Toduk-
“Huh..?”
It started to rain drop by drop, drop by drop.
She was perplexed. And suddenly she started to get scared.
She wanted to get out of this situation quickly.
Because of this, she started to run fast, carelessly.
As she ran, she began to see the road. She was delighted with that fact.
And that was the time.
f*ck-
“Huh? Huh?!”
Kung-
She fell into a pit.
Into a deep pit that she cannot come out by herself.
***
About 15 minutes passed, I continued to look outside where it was raining.
Perhaps soon Toyoda and Osana Najimi will bring Morish*ta Sakura who fell into the pit.
That’s because in the original story, Morish*ta Sakura had a crush on Toyoda, which was the pit incident.
And this crush develops in the manga department and changes to something you like.
Some might ask.
Why didn’t you try to stop this incident? You said your goal wasn’t to prevent this from happening.
That’s right, my goal was to stop the main character’s harem. It was to prevent the misfortunes of the heroines through him.
But, but Morish*ta Sakura, she shouldn’t have been saved by me.
It was a decision I made after much thought over a long period of time.
She still likes me.
Therefore, if I were to solve the case.
I, I end up going the same way as the main character I hated so much.
I am no different to her than her protagonist.
I can’t repay her feelings.
In the end, it will hurt her heart.
What is different from the main character?
Only the late and early times of hurting are different, but essentially they become the same.
…I am.
I am content with myself, knowing that I will hurt her, saving her as she would have been saved without me. I didn’t want to be such a hypocrite.
“After…”
That doesn’t mean I just avoided it. I had my own worries and calculations, and I saw the potential.
I decided to bet on that possibility.
The reality that she changed because of me. And in the changed human relationship, the possibility that the main character will not care even if he saves him.
If I’m going to hurt you for sure when I save you, I’d rather bet on that small possibility. That was my idea.
I’ll say it again, but as I said before, this decision was never made lightly in an instant.
Even within summer school, during golden week, and after telling her to go out with her senior. It was something I had been thinking about constantly.
On the contrary, it must be said that I made a heavy decision.
As much as it was such a decision, I am what I did and what I did not do.
In order to face the outcome of that work, he was sitting on a bench and looking outside.
“…”
The rain was getting stronger.
***
I wonder if another five minutes passed like that.
At a quicker time than I thought, I saw three people walking from far away.
The rest are all back, so maybe Toyoda and Osana Najimi. And Morish*ta Sakura.
I continued to look at them.
It was to keep the things I had done clearly in my eyes.
And when we reached the place where the light hit, the faces of the three began to appear.
Yes.
Toyoda.
Osana Najimi.
And…
Teacher.
“…?”
There was no Morish*ta Sakura.
What…?
I was genuinely embarrassed.
I ran to Toyoda who reached the building and asked if he hadn’t seen Morish*ta.
I hadn’t even met Toyoda at all, so he asked me back who it was.
Unable to understand how this situation came about, I became even more confused.
I couldn’t get a sense of what happened to the development that was different from the original.
And.
Being so confused, a possibility suddenly began to emerge.
“…No way.”
…Maybe.
Due to her changed reality and human relationships, it is not only her that can change, but also other people.
If, if.
Due to the influence of my presence, even though Osana Najimi started to rain like in the original story, she did not insist on being with Toyoda anymore, so if you didn’t hear Morish*ta’s cry…
Even if that wasn’t the case, if there was something else like that…
I quickly grabbed my umbrella and ran outside.
I heard the teacher calling from behind, but I ignored it and continued running.
Because I have to go to the place where Morish*ta Sakura is.
With her wet body from the rain and the cold weather in the mountains in May, I didn’t know what would happen to her.
I ran fast.
In order to find something quickly within the limited information, while retracing my memory as much as possible.
I ran endlessly regardless of whether muddy water splashed on my body or slipped and fell.
And.
After running for such a long time, I am.
“…”
“…Ko-kun…”
She was able to find her.
I mean Sakura Morish*ta, shivering from the cold and then collapsing, struggling to call my name.
She passed out the last time she called my name.
When I saw that, I thought that if I continued like this, there might be really big trouble.
I went down into her very pit and lifted her up.
Then I climbed up too, and I threw down her umbrella and, carrying her on my back, ran toward her forest school building.
Hanshi was in a hurry.
***
How long has it been?
I saw the light as I was running frantically. They reached the forest school building.
Looking at the entrance of the building, I saw some teachers, Toyoda and Osana Najimi. And I saw that even Inazuke was out.
I handed her over to her teacher.
I did everything I had to do.
The teacher asked me if I was okay.
I was about to reply that it was okay, but I suddenly started to lose my mind as if my tension had been relieved.
And then I just fell down.