Editing Kami-sama no Inai Nichiyoubi:Volume3 Chapter2 (section)

===Part V===




There was no one who knew what had happened at that moment.

It was so sudden.

An explosion echoed in the bathhouse, smoke and dust rose, obscuring their vision. The children that were trained in the crazy curriculum of the crazy school, immediately jumped into the bathtub to protect themselves from blast damage.

Time slowly passed in the silence.

The fumes became entangled in the humidity, and their visions gradually cleared.

The smoke dissipated—and in the middle of it all, there was a hole where a single person could pass through.

Everyone was dumbfounded.

Then, a human head wearing dust proof goggles and a mask popped out like a mole. He was holding a torchlight in his right hand and a knife in his life, cautiously looking around. He was acting very cautious, and was reminiscent of a wild beast.

The head blinked repeatedly in the brightness of the room, looked left and right, and spotted Ai and the others.

Their eyes meet.

"What in the world…."

A mysterious figure muttered.

"What's going on, Delta 1? Were you able to dig your way out!?"

"Are you okay~?"

The muffled voices of the boys echoed from the depths of the hole.

"Delta 1 to Delta 2. It seems we've been had by intel…"

"What's going on? Where are you? What do you see? "

"Boobs."

"Huh?"

The mysterious person—Alice discarded his knife and torchlight far away to indicate he had no intention to resist, and faked an air cigarette puff like a condemned man taking his last drag, and inhaled deeply.

Twelve fists were clenched tightly.

"No, wait wait. I'm sure enjoying—no wait, I'm surrendering. Prisoners of war should be protected by the Treaty of the Queen. Fufufu, are you sure about this? If you leave a scar on me, you won’t be able to get a ransom…ah, no, sorry, I got too carried away. Stop, it’s an unfortunate accident. Seriously, Dee is the one at fault. Wait, no, hey, don't, nope, stop, you can’t stuff that..."

The first thing the girls did was to stuff a cloth into Alice's mouth to stop him from screaming.




After trying a series of simple tortures that could be done with hot water and towels, the girls finally got over their exasperation.

"I’m really...really sorry…"

Alice was in such a pitiful state that he could have been a benefactor of a welfare state. His hands were tied behind him by a towel, and he looked like a caterpillar.

Behind him were a group of girls, with towels wrapped firmly around their chests, discussing how they should deal with this pest.

"Let's bury him."

Tanya said.

"Let's bury him and sow flower seeds everywhere. We’ll get a beautiful flower garden in spring, and he won’t feel lonely…"

"Why, Miss Tanya…."

Ai clutched her chest, "Ha!"

"Hey wait! What are you making it sound so nice, prez!? It's just murder!"

"Let’s just finish him off"

"Wooaahh! Don’t admit it flat out like that! At least make it sound nice!"

"How noisy…"

Tanya covered her ears.

"Since ancient times, the price of seeing a maiden's soft skin is the same as the toll of sailing down the river of Hell."

"I said I’m sorry…"

"Did you really want to take a peek?"

Ai had a towel wrapped tightly around her chest, as she looked down at him.

"…Have you been seduced by my scent…?"

No wonder, She shook his head.

"Hey, brat, enough with the foul rumors. Who’s getting all horny from a loli body like yours? No, I can’t even use the word ‘body here’. Maybe ‘shape’ is more appropriate. Yep, shape. Hahaha, it’s more appropriate. ‘The shape helps to reduce drag resistance’, hahaha, now that sounds like a car advertisement. Ah right, I just shouted the word ‘boobs’, but of course that doesn’t apply to you, so don’t worry…woargh!! "

Ai shoved a wooden tub into Alice's mouth.

"What are you doing?"

"Listen to your own chest!"

"I don't have boobs on my chest!"

"I-I don't understand! Are you saying that flat is justice?"

"Yeah! You're no help!  Prez! Let’s talk! Try and catch on to whatever I say! Catch!"

"Catch…?"

The moment Tanya heard this, she dragged Alice to sit by the wall.

"All right, Alice. Let's play catch. Volrath."

"Yes."

The girl with fancy glasses stepped in front of Alice and clasped her hands together.

"Transfer student. I have a few questions for you. Just answer them honestly …but if you don't answer."

"W-What?"

"Mog."

Kya, Volrath's cheeks flushed as she crushed the stone in her hand.

"!"

Alice was speechless.

"By the way, if I do this twice, you can  enter a girls’ bathroom openly, Alice."

"Wow. And then we’ll call you little Alice." "I'll do little Alice's hair. "

"…I'll help with your clothes…"

"Good luck with that! "

Ai cheered, not knowing what was going on.

"So, first question..."

Alice broke down within two seconds.

 

 

 

"Escape?"

Everyone said in unison.

"That’s right."

Alice replied.

"We're planning to escape—Hey, Gigi, Hardy, come on out!"

Alice shouted "Ehh!?" and there was an echo.

"B-But it’s the girls’ bathroom, right!? We can't go in there!!" "I don’t dare too~!!"

"Gigi, Hardy."

Tanya called out to the owners of these voices.

"Just come here."

With that, Gigi the ‘Winter Frog’ and Hardy the ‘Mud Eater’  emerged.

Gigi was a pretty boy who was of a similar body type as Ai, while Hardy was a fat boy with a soft smile.

The moment Volrath saw Hardy, she was filled with tears, and leaped over.

"Uuuu~~Hardy, you can't go about peeking when you have me…"

"Ahh~no~Volrath, this is~…"

"No need for an explanation!"

Kiiii~!! The long fingertips tugged at Hardy's cheek, and they looked like a young couple flirting with each other. Given her ability though, this probably was not a joking matter. Hardy, who was in this predicament, could only give a troubled smile.

The ‘Mud Eater’ Hardy.

Due to his excessive hunger, this boy obtained the ability to convert inorganic materials into nutrients. Alice would dig, and Hardy would eat. That was how the three of them managed to dig their way out of the ground.

"Uuu~. Hardy, were you going to leave us here?"

"I wasn’t~ Volrath, I was only going to help. It's Gigi who wanted to run away."

The twins showed a cat-like reaction to these words.

"Hey, Gi. Why do you want to peep?" "Yes, I did. You're not ready to be horny, Gi. Shouldn’t you wait until you're out of elementary school at least?"

"I wasn’t here to peep!"

The boy's face turned red and he became angry at the twins who were teasing him.

"And I'm not in elementary school, after all! I'm already twenty-two!"

He looked and sounded like a toddler throwing a tantrum, twelve years old at most.

The "Winter Frog," Gigi Totoki was a recently discovered boy. He was the son of a trader who had strayed over the snowy mountains ten years ago, and had been ‘hibernating’ alone in a cave.

"I am a child of Elha! The snow and wind are my home! I’ll return to my parents!"

"But Gi, you don't know where your mother and father are, do you? "Yeah. I mean, they might be dead, right?"

The twins nonchalantly stated the tough question plainly.

"I heard the news!"

Gigi smiled in an age-appropriate (?) way.

"They changed routes! They should have headed counterclockwise towards Elha! I can still catch up with them. I have to, no matter what!"

"So that’s why you want to escape…"

Tanya muttered with a gloomy expression, "Now this is troublesome…"

"Alice, are you the same? It's only been a week since you entered…"

"No, because that's what I'm here for."

"Huh?"

Everyone echoed in unison.

"What are you talking about? Are you trying to tell me that you entered this school to escape?"

"No no no , I'm not that crazy."

"Alice is here to help me!"

Gigi said.

Tanya tilted her head and said,

"So you're saying you got caught to get Gigi to escape?"

"Something like that."

Alice replied.

"…Did you two know each other, or?"

"No, I didn't know until that idiot Dee whispered to me."

"We'd never met before!"

"???"

Everyone tilted their heads in unison again, but only Ai took it in stride and said, "Helping people, huh? I understand."

Tanya rubbed her brows and put the matter on hold for now.

"…Even if that’s the plan…Isn't it inefficient to escape by digging a hole?"

"Not really, with Hardy around, prez."

"But you don't know the direction, do you? You can't just show up here and…"

"That’s because our periscope played a prank on us…ahh dammit—oy Dee, come out here! You’re definitely around, right!? Enough with the jokes!"

Alice shouted at the empty space, and then,

Absolutely without warning.

"Ahahahahahahahahah! That’s funny! Your stupid face is so funny Alice!. And you went all "Wait, no, hey, don't, nope, stop". Why is it that you could only say two words! Ahahahahah, my stomach hurts from laughing! Ahahahahahahaha!"

Dee Ensy Stratmitos appeared.

She slipped through the floor."Damn you! What's with the ‘I'll check out the path’? That's what you've been trying to do all along!"

"Nfufufu! It’ll be bad if you ran off without Ai, Alice!"

"You could have said so! What do you think we’ve been doing for the past few days?"

"Ahh, I heard that’s called 'toil'. And also, 'wasted labor', 'free labor', 'idle labor', or 'broken bones'…"

"Enough! Don't say such words anymore! You make me sad!"

Dee was floating in the air, basically sitting upside down as she bantered away happily with Alice.

Everyone else was taken aback, as though reality had turned into a fairy tale. The girl could pass through objects, and floated in the air, but there was nothing amiss about her. Inexplicably, she even had a shadow.

The first one to recover was Ai.

"Well, yes, Miss Dee, if you're a student here, it's not surprising that you have some sort of..."

"Who are you?"

They all asked,

"Who, Miss Dee? She’s my roommate, …."

"You don't have a roommate."

Tanya said with a pale face.

"Who are you…you’re not a student here…you can penetrate through matter? Float in the air? Cognitive manipulation? There's not a single person in the school with such extraordinary abilities.…"

"Oh, pardon me."

Dee realized something was amiss, and descended to the floor.

"Hi everyone in Gora Academy."

She smiled good-naturedly, and picked up the hem of her skirt to bow with courtesy. There was something fishy about how she was wearing clothes in the bathroom, and a different uniform from everyone else.

"I'm Dee Ensy Stratmitos. You can call me whatever you want."

"The 'Witch'!"

Tanya shouted. Dee immediately showed a bitter face..

"'…I did say you can call me whatever you want, but I hoped it wasn’t that. At least add the words ‘of the West’. It’s bad to be called the same thing as her too."

"Oh, s-sorry!"

The Witch of the West, Dee Ensy Stratmitos, was a mysterious figure known to everyone. She could appear at any time, any location, in ethereal form to offer advice to those she meets. Her advice ranges from the small to the grandiose, and she would tell children where their missing items were or lead a small country to victory by telling her how to set up an enemy formation.

Her actions were soon likened to the original "Great Witch"—Vlado El Saikavaati, who would kill the Dead, tease the Living and play games with the Gravekeepers, ‘fulfilling the wishes of humans’. Thus, Dee was dubbed the ‘Witch of the West’.

"I don't like that name because it's so exaggerated. I think I prefer the nickname I was given at first—'The Ghost'."

With that, Dee softly rose up to hug Alice.

"The ghost is haunting Alice right now, whispering to him to get him to help others."

"And now I’m the one in the noose…"

What is wrong with these people?

Tanya and the rest of Q class stared at these new people in amazement—Ai Astin was a child of a Gravekeeper and a human, with the ‘sound of the rainbow under the moon’. Dee Ensy Stratmitos—a ghost, Witch of the West, had the ‘sound of a Dead’.

They had such stark differences, and yet were strangely powerful.

And at the center of it all, smiling, was the most ordinary-looking boy of them all: Alice Color.

Alice Color, the boy with the ‘the sound of a silver gunshot’.

"H-hey, Gigi."

"What is it?"

Tanya bent down, holding her towel around her breasts, and asked Gigi,

"What is…he?"

"He's on the side of justice."

"Huh?"

"Alice is my hero."

"???"

Gigi ‘sounded’ vaguely proud as he said so, but Tanya could not understand the subtleties of a schoolboy’s thoughts.

Before her, Ai, Alice and Dee were talking about something.

But Tanya was already tired. It was supposed to be a normal day, a normal bath, but before she knew it, she found herself in this abnormal situation. Talking about escaping from school? She just wished for them to take this discussion elsewhere.

"—rez, Prez!"

She regained her senses, and found Alice shouting loudly at her.

"W-What, Alice?"

"What else? Time’s almost up. That demonic supervisor will be patrolling around. We need to deal with this large hole."

The clock on the wall showed that a long time had passed. Usually, they would be draining the water and cleaning up.

"Y-yes."

Tanya suddenly felt as if she had woken up from a dream, and remembered Mageta's cold, angry face with a strange nostalgia. At the same time, she felt a sense of discomfort towards the boys in the women's bath and the big hole in front of her.

"Are you okay, prez? I'm sorry, but please take care of the rest. Please move the rocks. We’ll help out below too.."

With that, Alice shooed away Dee from the air and pushed Hardy and Gigi back.

Gigi protested as he was pushed into the hole.

"But Mr. Alice, are you sure you're okay?"

"What?"

Alice asked as he massaged his arms that were freed after a long time.

"You told everyone about it! If someone tells on us… "

"You idiot."

A chop landed on Gigi's forehead.

"O-ouch!"

Chop, chop, chop.

"Don’t doubt our buddies, you idiot."

Alice chopped Gigi until the latter squirmed and muttered "I’m not going to grow any taller!". The tone of his voice was not the inscrutable one Tanya had heard before, but a firm one that was convinced.

Tanya did not know what Alice was like as a person. She had heard of various sounds made by many different people with her extraordinary hearing, but she had never heard anyone with a sound like his before.

"Alright, see you tomorrow! I know you have something to ask me. I'll ask you then!"

He pushed them away, hopped into the hole, and waved back at them.

"Hold on, Mr. Alice."

Ai called out to him.

 

"We'll be joining your escape plan."

 

We?

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