CH ss - 13

SS 13: The Couple Experiencing the Locked-in-a-Room Event

Translated by: chocolalaEdited by: Seiryuu

“Come to think of it, it’s amazing that this room has been left as it was for so long.”

Inside the literature club room as usual.

Yuzu muttered to herself as she drank the bottled coffee she had bought from the vending machine.

“Well, I guess they don’t check every room that isn’t in use. Teachers aren’t always free either.”

Our school’s literature club had been shut down a long time ago, and we usually sneaked in there to play games left behind by the alumni.

“Furthermore, the jurisdiction of the literature club was Sugawara-sensei of the Modern Japanese, right?”

“Uh… urm,” Yuzu nodded her head in agreement.

Sugawara-sensei, a teacher of Modern Japanese, was famous for being bad at tidying up.

He would never do something like organizing a disused club room.

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“Well, it’s safe for us, isn’t it?”

It’s not a restricted area, so there’s no problem with students being in the abandoned club room, but it changes the way people look at us when it’s just the two of us.

Therefore, it was best not to be found out at all.

—Oops, did I just jinx it?

Suddenly, I heard footsteps coming from the hallway.

“Yuzu, the TV.”

“I got it.”

We turned off the TV with a practised hand and held our breath.

Normally, the owner of the footsteps would simply pass by, but today, unfortunately, the footsteps stopped in front of the literature club room.

There was rising nervousness among me and Yuzu. From the door, the sound of chattering and scraping metal could be heard. Probably a bunch of keys.

No doubt about it, the owner of the footsteps was a teacher who had a key to this room and was trying to get in here…!

“…”

“…”

I communicated with Yuzu through eye contact and quickly hid the game console and our bags inside a shelf. The teacher outside was having a hard time finding the correct key or was repeatedly inserting and removing the key.

We erased all traces of our presence. Now we just needed to find a place to hide.

However, it was hard to find a place where we could do that.

“…What do we do? Where do we hide?” Yuzu also asked in an impatient whisper.

At that moment, I noticed a locker with cleaning supplies in it.

“There’s no choice, there…!” It was too small for the two of us to fit, but we couldn’t turn our backs.

We went into the locker as fast as we could in silence and closed the door quietly. A beat later, the door to the literature club room opened.

I peeked outside through a crack in the locker and saw a muscular, middle-aged male teacher there. He was, of all people, the student guidance teacher. If he found us, we’d be in trouble.

“I thought I heard voices coming from here… Was it my imagination?” The student guidance teacher curiously looked around the room with a tilted head.

‘Damn it, just get the hell out of here.’ I inwardly complained.

“Ya-Yamato-kun…! Don’t move…!” At that moment, I heard Yuzu’s whispered voice in my ear.

It appeared that because I was trying to peek out through the gap in the locker door, I ended up in close proximity to Yuzu, who was between me and the door. The feel of her soft body and her embarrassed breath on my neck made me squirm.

“So-sorry.” I hurriedly let go of her body, but the atmosphere was somewhat awkward.

“…”

“…”

Even though we were not exactly intact, we were still very close. The distance between us was so close that I was worried that Yuzu would be able to hear my heart beating.

“I guess there’s no one here after all…”

And with that, I heard the door slam shut and the door was locked. Apparently, the student guidance teacher had decided to give up.

“Oh, thank God…”

“Yeah…”

We looked at each other and let out a sigh of relief.

For the time being, I just wanted to get out of this awkward space. So, I put pressure on the locker door so that the sound would not be heard outside.

“…Huh?”

But the door didn’t budge.

“Yamato-kun, what’s wrong? Yuzu looked up at me with a puzzled expression, as if she didn’t understand the situation.

“Urm, the door was closed tighter than I expected… Wait a moment.”

I pushed the door as if I were pounding on it with the bottom of my hand, thinking that the student guidance teacher would have left by now.

But it still wouldn’t open.

“…Oh no. I think we’re trapped.”

“What?!”

When we entered, the lock was either crooked from being closed too forcefully, or rusty from being left unattended for so long; at any rate, the door showed no signs of opening.

“Wh-what are we going to do? Yamato-kun. Call for help?”

“That’s possible, but we’ll probably be scolded very badly, because… that is like admitting that we hid on purpose.”

Worst case scenario, we might get banned from entering the club room. If possible, we should escape on our own.

“In the meantime, try to find something you can use…”

Despite being stuck, I craned my neck to check the contents of the locker and noticed that Yuzu was fidgeting for some reason.

“What’s wrong?”

“Urm, it’s… how should I say this?”

I asked, but Yuzu clammed up as if it was hard to say.

“What, I won’t understand unless you tell me?”

When I still urged her, she seemed to have made up her mind and exhaled one breath before muttering.

“……………..I need to go to the bathroom.”

Well, this girl was drinking coffee earlier.

She then added, “If you don’t get us out of here as soon as possible, I might not make it in time…”

“Wait, don’t be hasty! At least use a bucket!”

I grabbed the bucket with my blood running cold as I had a premonition of a catastrophe.

“NO! I can’t have my dignity stripped away like that! Let me get out of here somehow, Yamato-kun!” Yuzu began to bang on the door as if she had reached her limit.

“Whoa! Don’t freak out! If you get out of control in such a precarious place…!” I panicked and tried to stop her, but it was already too late.

As a result of her vigorous flailing in the small space, I could tell that the locker’s legs were floating limply.

“What the…… hell?”

“First……!”

My vision spun around and I heard a thunderous sound.

The impact of the locker toppling over caused me to roll my eyes for a moment.

“Ouch… Hey, Yuzu, are you okay?”

“Uh, yeah… I overreacted, sorry.”

It seemed that both of us were safe somehow. I had been losing my sense of balance due to the darkness, but I finally began to grasp our situation.

“Eh…”

“Ah…”

Before I knew it, it looked like I was pushing Yuzu down.

Her slim and slender body nestled in my arms. Her neck was clearly visible because her uniform had come off a little due to her flailing.

My eyes met with Yuzu.

“No-no, you can’t, okay? We’re in a pinch too…” I don’t know what she had misunderstood, but Yuzu turned red.

“No, no, no! It was just an accident! Anyway, we have to get out of here soon.” I pushed the door again, which had been on its side when we fell.

The door opened unexpectedly easily as if the impact of the fall had loosened the strain.

“Yeah… you did it! You did it, Yamato-kun!”

“Oh, yeah. That’s great, now go to the bathroom.”

“Yes!”

Yuzu whisked out from under me and ran to the outside of the room.

I slowly got out of the locker and exhaled deeply.

“That was dangerous…”

The image of Yuzu underneath me flashed through my mind. Perhaps it was because of the situation we were in, but she looked peculiarly sexy just then.

“…No, no, it was only an accident,” I muttered to no one in particular and shook my head.

“All right, now I should…” I sorted through the locker as if to get rid of all the messy thoughts in my mind and returned the locker to its original place.

Just at that moment, I heard footsteps coming from the hallway. It might have been Yuzu returning here.

“I knew there was a noise coming from here…”

But what I heard from outside was, of all people, the voice of the student guidance teacher.

Apparently, he heard the locker fall over and came back.

“Oh no…!” I panicked and went into the locker I had just raised back to its place.

At the same time, the door to the literature club room opened.

“Um? Did I forget to lock the door just now? That’s weird.”

The footsteps and the curious voice of the student advisor could be heard all the way to the locker I was in.

Damn Yuzu… I knew she was rushing, but she didn’t even lock the door when she left. Thanks to that, the teacher suspected something over here.

“Or is it just my imagination?”

After waiting with bated breaths, I heard the sound of the club room door opening and the lock closing, maybe the teacher no longer had any suspicions.

“Phew… finally gone.” I let out a deep sigh and tried to open the locker door without making a sound.

“Eh, huh?”

But the door, which should have loosened when we fell earlier, was once again tightly closed, and wouldn’t budge with my arm strength.

“Hey, are you serious…?” I used both hands to push, but still no luck.

I could try to make the locker fall one more time, but if a loud noise came from here, again, the student guidance teacher would be convinced that there was someone here.

“That’s right, I can get Yuzu to open it from the outside…!”

In the worst-case scenario, even if Yuzu couldn’t open it, I could get someone to come.

Just as I let out a sigh of relief at the thought, I heard footsteps coming from outside the club room again. This time it was probably Yuzu.

“Huh…?”

But she was muttering something in front of the club room. Just as I wondered what was going on, I received a message from her on my phone.

[Hey, the club room is locked, can you open it for me? I left my key inside.]

The moment I read those words, I felt my blood drain away.

“Hey, you’re kidding, right?” What, then? Did I need to try getting out of here by myself?

[I’m locked in the locker again.]

As soon as I replied like that to Yuzu, the presence that had been moving behind the door of the club room stopped immediately.

[If it comes down to it, you’ve got a bucket, so you’re ready for the long haul.]

[I need your help to make it as short as possible!]

[Anyway, I’ll get a spare key from the staff room somehow, so wait for me.]

[Please, I beg you!]

I prayed as I sent off the footsteps that were moving away from me.

[Oh, but if they find out and are about to get mad at me, I’ll withdraw, okay?]

[You heartless!]

It wasn’t until thirty minutes later that I escaped the literature club room with Yuzu’s help.

chocolala: I expected more to happen when Yuzu was underneath Yamato-kun, hehehe. But this was longggg, honestly. And actually, the sensei appears in main story ch3 that is coming soon…