I didn’t feel the same threat to my life when it came time to prank Hareru-senpai, but instead, a gnawing anxiety took over. Hareru-senpai was utterly unpredictable. I had no idea how she’d react or what would happen next. I scrambled through scenarios in my mind, trying to prepare myself, but none seemed to fit. In the end, I just sat there, serene (unalert) and mindful (zoned out).
The text arrived, the door opened right after, and I lifted the can to my lips.
*GULP GULP GULP*
“Awacchiiiiiiiiii!!!”
Before I could even register what was happening, Hareru-senpai tackled me, nearly knocking the can from my hands.
“Hareru-senpai?!” I cried in shock.
“What do you think you’re doing?!” she yelled, snatching the can from me. “This is beer! Don’t tell me you didn’t notice that?!”
“What?” I whispered, still stunned.
“Oh, no. You actually didn’t realize? Oh, no, oh no, oh no, oh no!” Her voice was frantic. “You must be exhausted if you didn’t notice you weren’t drinking StroZero. Why didn’t you tell me? What are you still doing at work?!”
The genuine fear and worry in her tone struck me deeply, and that’s when it hit me. Hareru-senpai—she wholeheartedly believed I’d bought beer by mistake.
At first, I didn’t know what to feel. I guess I should’ve been happy to be trusted so completely. But considering I was here to betray that trust, it made me feel guilty. Honestly, I hadn’t expected to get this far, and now I had no idea what to do next! Do I come clean? Keep going? Gah! Why couldn’t she just make fun of me and judge me like Ehrai-chan had refused to do?!
“Come here!” Hareru-senpai shouted, grabbing my hand.
“Wha— Huh?!”
While I was stuck overthinking, she had already made up her mind. Before I knew it, she was dragging me by the hand into an empty toilet stall. Now what is happening?!
“You drank some, didn’t you?” she said. “Go on, puke it out!”
“What?!” I blurted out.
“Hurry up! Before your body absorbs it!”
“Um, okay. Uhh.”
My brain froze. Standing in a toilet stall, being told to vomit—it was so far beyond anything I’d imagined.
“You don’t know how to throw up?” Hareru-senpai asked. “Okay, let me help. Open wide and say, ‘Aaah!’”
“Nani?!”
A fond enjoyer of alcoholic beverages such as I obviously knew how to throw up. You just stick a finger in there and be done with it. But help? She wanted to help with that? Was she telling me that if I opened my mouth and said “aah,” she’d stick a finger down my throat? I would be completely at her mercy as she triggered my gag reflex and caused me to void the contents of my stomach right in front of her?
Now that’s hot.
This is like face-fucking, isn’t it? With a finger, so face-fingering? But it’s still S/M all the same, right?
But is this really okay? Can I really let Hareru-senpai do this for me?
No, no, no, of course you can’t let her do that for you! You want to dirty Hareru-senpai’s beatific fingers with your vomit? That’s enough candidness for one day—the prank stops here!
“Close your eyes, open your mouth, and say, ‘Aah,’” Hareru-senpai insisted.
“Aaaaah,” I said.
FUCK!
The horniness proved too much for me. I felt shame and regret, but it was the hot, sexy kind of shame and regret. It was her fault for adding that part about closing my eyes! That’s erotic as hell, okay?!
“Good girl,” she said. “Ready or not, here I come!”
My eyes were squeezed shut, fists clenched tightly on my lap as I knelt there on that public bathroom floor.
Sorry, chat. Sorry, management. Lord have mercy for I’m about to BUST...!
“And done!” Hareru-senpai said.
“Aeugh?” I mumbled, tongue half hanging out awkwardly.
Well, that wasn’t what I expected... Her fingers had only been in my mouth for a brief moment, and now, in their place, I felt that she had placed something small on my tongue. I opened my eyes and saw that Hareru-senpai had already retracted her hand.
Whatever was on my tongue made it hard to form words, but I was curious so I mumbled incoherently: “Hayeyu-shenpai? Wash dis?”
“A cricket.”
*BLEUGHHH* ☆Rainbow Splash!☆
“And so, on that day, I tasted cricket for the second time in my life.”
: I'm dying ￥50,000
: lmfaoooooo
: does this girl just walk around with crickets in her pockets?
: no way that's the first thing she thought of
“That’s what I thought too! I asked her about it afterward! This is what happened.”
“Why the hell did you put a cricket in my mouth?!”
“Well, the last time you threw up was because of a cricket, so I thought that’d be the fastest way...”
“Then why the hell did you tell me to close my eyes?!”
“Because I thought I’d have a hard time getting it into your mouth otherwise. Sorry, I didn’t mean to make you upset...”
“No. In fact, this is one hundred percent on me. For trying to prank you, then giving into my desires.”
“Wait. Prank me?”
“So, as you all can see, I am human garbage.”
: preach
: W self-awareness
: Harerun did nothing wrong lmao
: just goes to show how much she believed in your love for StroZero
: So no one's gonna comment on the crickets?
: i mean you gotta at least rein in the horny lmao
: there are people who find throwing up hot?
: hello, i'm people
: this is the way.
: the way? whose way? Elagabalus's way?
: fetishes come in all shapes and sizes. You stay here long enough, you come to realize that.
: Awa-chan was, in fact, not about to bust.
: And that is why she ended up throwing up
: tries to get one up on Harerun only to get one up in her stomach
: Awayuki, always full of surprises (and stomach acid)
“Sorry. But, um, what about the prank? She was completely fooled. And surprised. Can we count that as a success?”
: no lol
: that one was your biggest failure yet
: the joke was on you in the end
: if we're sticking with the ballgame metaphor, it's like leaving early, getting home, and finding out your team gave up another ten runs
: what does it say about you that no one called you out for drinking on the job?
It seemed that public consensus was not on my side.
But that was okay. It was all within scope.
“Yup. As you can see, my wholehearted first-ever prank project ended in complete and utter failure. I was frustrated. So, so frustrated! So I decided, ‘You know what? This is not gonna be how it ends. I’m gonna give it one more shot—one final prank to make sure I get the last laugh!’”
: huh?
: one more?!
: what does it mean???
“I pranked my fellow Livers the first time, and yeah, that backfired. So this time, the prank’s on you, my loyal viewers!”
: ?!?!
: Huh huh huh?!
: but if you tell us that then we know!
: wait... unless she's been pranking us this entire time?!
I flipped a switch, and spoke in a milder, more composed voice than I had all stream. “Heh, heh, heh... Look on my works, ye chat, and despair! This whole time, you thought it was Shuwa-chan streaming, but no! It was me, Awa-chan! You think I cracked one open earlier? Well, that was just soda water! You’re quaking. You’re all quaking right now, aren’t you? ‘What? It was seiso-sensei Awa-chan who said all those indecent, vulgar things?’ Well, guess what? None of you thought to call me out for it, so I win! Prank success!”
Out of nowhere, a smug Awa-chan exploded onto the scene. Chat took one look at this and reacted like:
: huh?
: o...kay?
: cool story?
: Serious question: what's the difference? literally can't tell
: Sorry, Shuwa and Awa are just the same side of the same coin now, hun
: might have fallen for this once, but now...
: and this, ladies and gentlemen, is what we call baseless confidence.
: the ole ego's gonna be feeling that one in the morning
: this good? ￥1,000
: A seiso saying weirdo things is one thing, but why would I be surprised by a weirdo saying weirdo things?
: Shuwa whipping out ole reliable: the seiso gag
“Aha ha ha! Wow! I got you all good, huh? Thank you, everyone! Let’s meet again when the light snow falls!” *SOB*
Ha ha. Who knew pranks could be so hard to pull off?