“…?”
“You pervert!!!”
What I heard was a childish voice with a slightly nasal tone. You could describe it as the kind of voice you might hear in an anime. This voice alone would bring fans to their knees saying something along the lines of, “A voice like that coupled with that face and that figure? This is just too good to be true!”
“You-, y-y-y-you're the worst!” Aria, who had apparently woken up, was glaring at me as she quickly pulled down her blouse. What followed was a flurry of hammer punches to my head, delivered by her bent arms and not all that powerful.
“H-hey! C-cut it out!”
“You molester! Ingrate! Scum!” Aria continued to unleash punches upon the top of my head. Evidently, she thinks I’m the one who lifted up her blouse.
“I-it’s not like that! I-I didn’t–” I was trying to justify myself as I was being showered by her fists when all of a sudden–
Bratatatatat!!
A thundering sound filled the air around the storehouse.
What the-?!
Several times, I could feel the impact of something violently colliding with the vaulting horse near my back. It was just like being under fire!
“Ugh! There’s more of ‘em!” Aria peeked outside of the vaulting horse with those crimson eyes of hers and pulled two pistols out from underneath her skirt.
“More of what?!”
“Those weird two-wheelers! They’re toys being used for Butei killing!”
Butei killing? Weird two-wheelers? …Is she talking about that Segway?! That means when I felt those shocks, it wasn’t just like being under fire. We actually were under fire!
Luckily for us, at Butei High, firearms are used during P.E. as well, so the vaulting horses are also bulletproof. But what are we supposed to do, cornered in a box like this? I have no clue, and I can’t do anything about this situation. Not the way I am now.
“What is the matter with you?! Fight back! You’re a Butei High student, aren’t you?!”
“I can’t! What do you expect me to do?!”
“We’re outgunned! There’s seven of them!”
Seven? We have seven submachine guns aimed at us?! It was at that moment when something completely unexpected happened. In order to shoot at the Segways, Aria unconsciously leaned forward . . . and planted her breasts firmly in my face in the process.
Blam, blam! Blam, blam, blam!
Aria, returning fire from the gaps of the vault horse, was too busy concentrating on taking out her targets and didn’t seem to realize that her chest was pressed against my face.
Ahh. Here we go. It's all over now. “Why,” you ask? Because they were there. It didn’t look like they were there. In fact, they practically weren’t, to tell the truth. But there were the breasts of a girl. Despite being this small, they were still soft and bulging out like they should be. At this moment, I had two unbelievably soft, cute dumpling-like objects shoved in my face.
I never knew. A girl’s breasts are this soft even when they’re so small. I always figured they wouldn’t be so soft unless they were bigger and more rounded, but it looks like I was wrong. The reason I was able to make such a calm observation, given the dire situation we were in, is because I knew I already broke the rule that I had set out for myself. Sitting there taken in by Aria’s breasts, I could feel “that sensation.” That indescribable sensation like the core of my body heating up, hardening, and growing to the point of bursting. Lub-dub. Lub-dub.
My blood, hot enough to burn me from the inside, began to converge at the center of my body.
It’s going to happen.
I can’t stop it.
There it goes.
I’ve entered . . . hysteria mode!
Blam! Blam! Blam! Click.
Aria’s pistols signaled that they were out of bullets, and she stooped down to switch magazines.
“Did you finish them off?”
“I just made them fall back out my range. They’re hiding behind the row of trees . . . but I’m sure they’ll be back soon enough.
“You're a strong little one, aren’t you? That alone is quite a feat.”
“…huh?” Aria knit her brows at hearing my tone of my voice, which had suddenly become that of a cool guy.
Ah, man. I’m about to do it again, aren’t I?
My last bit of hesitation vanished in the next instant. I slipped my hands underneath Aria’s slender legs and tiny back, which easily fit in my arms, and swept her off her feet as I stood up.
“Aah!” Aria yelped in surprise.
“For your reward, I’ll give you the princess treatment just for a little while.”
Having suddenly been swept up in my arms like a princess by her knight in shining armor, Aria opened her mouth wide, exposing a pointy little feline-like tooth as her face flushed. With Aria in my arms, I placed my foot on the rim of the vaulting horse and leapt to the edge of the storehouse in a single bound. Once there, I gently sat Aria down on a pile of mats like a cherished doll.
“W-w-w-what are…?!” Aria looked at me with blinking eyes in response to the display of agile movements which I didn’t seem capable of seconds ago.
“Sit right there and relax, my princess. It’ll be enough for me to be the one doing the gun-slinging.”
What am I…? It looks like there’s no stopping me now.
“W-what’s gotten into you?! Did you lose it?!” Aria’s flustered anime character voice was immediately followed by a rally of gunshots.
Bratatatatat!!
Once again, the Uzis riddled the gym storehouse with bullets. But the walls were bullet proof and this was a dead angle. It was essentially just a waste of ammunition on their part. Smiling wryly, I walked towards the door, where their line of fire was concentrated.
“L-look out! You’re gonna get shot!”
“A much better alternative than you being the one getting shot.”
“W-w-what’s with the change of character all of a sudden?! What do you think you’re going to do?!
I turned my head halfway around and winked at Aria, whose cheeks were bright red, and was in a state of confusion.
“I’m going to protect you.”
Pulling out my matte silver Beretta M92F, I walked out the door, exposing myself to the Uzis. The seven Segways lined up on the field all fired on me simultaneously. And every one of their bullets missed their mark. Of course, they did. After all, I could see them. In my current state, I could see every single one of those bullets as if they were travelling in slow motion.
Good aim. Each one of them has its sights pointed right at my head.
I bent the upper half of my body a fair ways back diagonally, dodging the barrage. In that same position, I made a sweeping motion with my arm from left to right and fired my gun in full automatic. I knew where each bullet was headed without even having to look. The number of shots I fired was seven. I already knew that each bullet would find its way into the muzzle of an Uzi.
Blam, blam, blam, blam, blam, blam, blam!
Every single Segway had its Uzi blown right off the barbette. And all it took was seven bullets. It was almost too easy. After confirming that the pile of fallen Segways were no longer operational, I made my way back into the gym storehouse. For some reason, Aria was once again inside the vaulting horse. She had the upper part of her body sticking out and an expression on her face that seemed to say, “What in the world just happened?” The second our eyes met, she scowled at me and retreated into the vaulting horse like a mole from the Whack-a-Mole game.
Uh…
I’m not sure why, but she appeared to be quite angry.
“D-don’t expect me to be thankful. I could have taken out those toys all by myself. I’m serious. I really mean it.” While putting up a bold front, Aria seemed to be wriggling around inside that vaulting horse.