CH ss - 19

SS 19: The Couple’s Reaction When a Huge Spider Appears in the Clubroom

Translated by: chocolalaEdited by: Seiryuu

“Hey, Yamato-kun. Why don’t we clean up this room soon?”

In the literature club room as usual; Yuzu made such a suggestion.

“What is it all of a sudden?”

I was preparing the game console, so my hands halted at her words.

“Hmm, when I properly think about it, I suppose no one has cleaned this room since the club went obsolete, don’t you think so? Even from before, I felt like this room was quite dusty.”

“Well, if you say so, it certainly feels like that…”

Honestly, this place was only meant as a temporary cover for us, so I didn’t really pay much attention to it, but it had been quite a while since I started dating Yuzu, it certainly felt like this place needed some light clean up.

“Yes, that’s right. Then, shall we clean it today?”

“I agree!”

So today’s plan was decided. I took a pail from the cleaning utensils locker and secretly went to take water while being cautious not to be discovered. I looked around me while filling the pail with water from the water pipe in the clubroom building and brought it back to the literature clubroom.

“Heyy, I brought water here.”

And as I opened the door—

“Umeooooowwwww?!”

Yuzu charged at me while screaming akin to a cat’s cry.

“Uokkk?!”

Compared to the mental shock from being hugged by a girl, the physical impact was so great that I let out a frog-like shriek.

“Wh-what’s going on?”

While staggering from the big impact, I asked Yuzu. I’d like to be praised for not letting a drop of water spill from the pail.

“S-i…der, sci…der…”

Yuzu was hugging me with great pressure that she could nearly break my spine as she answered me.

“Saider…? Eh, Cider…?”

Why was she saying an alcoholic drink’s name in this situation? A rare one, at that.1

“No! A spider! There’s a spider!”

“Oh, what’s the deal, just a spider?”

I was wondering what she was making a big deal of, it turned out to be only a spider. I thoughtlessly let out a sigh; Yuzu stared at me in disgruntlement.

“What’s with that face! I’ll tell you what, it’s not a common spider, okay! It’s so damn big! It can be a venomous spider, we don’t know!”

“I get it, so calm down.” I softly put the pail on the floor before I consoled Yuzu.

And, at that moment, I saw a shadow rapidly moving by my feet. I looked down and what entered my sight was a spider that was clearly even bigger than my palm.

“IT’S HEREEEEEEEEEE!!!!”

Yuzu instantly turned around to get behind me and hopped onto my back like Konaki-jiji2.

“You’re heavy! Get down, you stupid! Aren’t you too unruly! Do you still call yourself a high school girl?!”

“I can’t! I can’t! I can’t! There’s such a huge spider, how can I lower my leg on the floor! What should I do if it climbs onto me! You should just drown in happiness that you could stick this close to me! How about you being grateful to that spider?! You should say ‘Thanks to you, I could be stuck with my beloved Yuzu’!”

“You’re activating your narcissism at this time? You really never waver in that aspect!”

Besides, I didn’t have time to enjoy being pressed against each other like this, because the spider was bigger and creepier than I expected.

“An-anyway, let’s go outside, Yamato-kun.”

“I got it, so don’t go wild on my back, okay?”

I turned on my heel and started to walk out of the room. But no sooner had I done so than that spider circled in front of us, blocking our way.

“Kyaaaaaa! Yamato-kun, go back! Baaaack!”

“Whoa, don’t pull! My back!”

Yuzu, who was still on my back, tried to escape backwards; as a result, it was like she was performing camel clutch technique3 on me.

“Eh, ahhh, I’m sorry!” Yuzu snapped back to her senses and she suddenly loosened her hold.

“Wai… If you suddenly loosen—!”

I was desperately exerting force in the opposite direction of Yuzu’s pull on me, so when she no longer struggled backwards, the momentum caused me to lose balance—we stumbled forward to the floor.

“Kyaaa!”

“Gahhh!”

I was sandwiched between the floor and Yuzu on my back, my eyes spinning. Because I fell on my face with great force, my nose hurt like hell.

“Ouchhh… Yuzu, are you alright?” I tried to check the situation, while still being crushed under, I turned my head back.

—*Boing*

Immediately, I felt the back of my head wrapped around something soft.

“Hyaaaa?!” Yuzu’s scream instantly followed.

‘Ju-just now, don’t tell me…’ I had a bad premonition.

I turned around with an awkward gesture like a rusty tin doll and noticed that Yuzu was holding her chest with a bright red face.

“Wa-was that intentional?”

“NO. That was an accident.”

I raised my hands to show my innocence. I feigned composure, but I was probably red in the face too. My ears were burning.

“You’re lying! Normally, no one would raise their head in that situation!”

“Anyone would, okay! Just try being crushed like this! There’s only one thing I can say: ‘Thanks Mr. Spider, I could be stuck with my beloved Yuzu’.”

“Is there anyone who would truly be grateful to that spider like that! You Fake-Lucky-Sukebe4!”

“Who is fake?! That was a genuine lucky-sukebe moment, okay! In fact, it’s nine-tenths your fault!”

“Ugh…”

When I directly countered it with a fair argument, Yuzu went silent, probably realizing her own fault. As we bickered like this, the spider had had enough of us and left through the open door of the literature club.

“Aaaah… f-finally it went out.” Yuzu let out a deep sigh after her nemesis made its exit.

“What a terrible thing to happen…” Though I said so, I still couldn’t forget the feeling of the softness and size of the thing wrapped tightly around the back of my head.

“…Yamato-kun, you lewd.” Yuzu cornered me as if she could read what I was thinking; I instantly turned to a straight face.

“Say, that spider was not poisonous, was it…? If they breed somewhere in here, it spells trouble.”

“Wanna check it on the net?”

“Yep, please do that. I don’t want to see images of spiders.” Yuzu might’ve imagined it, she had goosebumps and there was a grimace on her face.

I took out my smartphone and keyed in some characteristics of the spider to search.

“Urm… ah, it’s this one. Giant crab spider5.”

“How about poison? Is it poisonous?”

“It’s okay, it says here it’s not poisonous. In fact, although they look awful, they are considered to be beneficial. The reason for this is that… It is one of the leading cockroach hunters in the biological world. They move from house to house chasing cockroaches, so any house that has them will have cockroaches in it.”

“Noo, Yamato-kun. Doesn’t that mean—” Yuzu reached her conclusion and here was where it happened—

Out of the corner of my eye, I see a black figure scurrying about.

“Umeooooowwwwwwwww?!”

“Whoa! My neck, my neccckkk….!”

It was thirty minutes later that a teary-eyed Yushu and I, with bruises on my neck, went to a convenience store to buy a bottle of Varsan6.

chocolala: poor Yamato-kun’s neck… but more lucky-sukebe moments! lol and many footnotes today

Footnotes

Yes, I changed the original pun so it matches the English words.Konaki-Jijii is a comic, absent-minded old man yōkai who attacks enemies by clinging to them and turning himself to stone, increasing his weight and mass immensely and pinning them down. A technique in pro-wrestling, like below but imagine Yamato-kun was still standing:

Lucky Sukebe is a situation where a person unintentionally falls into an intimate scene, in this case, his face squished into her boobs.Or Arcane spider, scientific name: Heteropoda venatoria. This is a photo I found. It’s climbing by the edge of a window, so you can estimate how big it is –>moved to the end of chapter under spoiler for people curios to see how it looks like.A famous pesticide brand in Japan, usually used at home to kill cockroaches and other pests.