Otherside Picnic: Volume 8 by Iori Miyazawa

Author:Iori Miyazawa [MIYAZAWA, IORI]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2022-08-22T00:00:00+00:00

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“I was really scared.”

“Mm-hm, I’m sure you were.”

“I’d never seen her face like that.”

“Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.”

“But it was Toriko’s face. It was all messed up, but I could still recognize it, and that was scary.”

“It’s okay. You don’t have to worry anymore.”

Laying there on my back, getting my head patted, I gradually calmed down. The voice that soothed my frayed nerves had a lovely ring to it, and as I listened with my eyes closed it felt as though it were sucking me in.

“I’m glad you came, Kamikoshi-san.”

“Why is that?”

“Because I’d never have expected you to rely on me like this.”

“Rely on you...”

Rely on...who?

I opened my eyes and looked up to see a smiling face with big scars on its cheeks.

“Huh?! Runa?!”

“That’s me, yes?”

Runa Urumi watched with a smile as I hastily sat up.

“Why... Huh?! What’re you doing here???”

“What am I doing here? Didn’t you come to see me, Kamikoshi-san?”

“I what...?”

Looking around, all of the walls and the ceiling were white. This was Runa’s cell all right. Based on our current positions, it looked like I had been laying in bed, resting my head in Runa’s lap.

What made me do that...? I was just confused.

“I was surprised when you just suddenly showed up out of nowhere. It’s happened before, though. What’s up with that, Kamikoshi-san? Do you always pass through my room on your way back from the blue world?”

“No, no, no, no... No way.”

“Well, that’s sure how it seems. You got startled and left in a real hurry last time, but this time you hung around, so I got all happy, thinking you’d finally come to trust me a little.”

I couldn’t tell if that smile, accentuated by her scars, was just an ordinary grin, or if she was trying to insinuate something.

“How long have I been here? I can’t remember all that well.”

“An hour or so, I guess? You came tumbling out of midair just as I was going to sleep, and I screamed.”

The wall clock said it was three o’clock. In the middle of the night.

“You were super scared, and shaking, so I stroked you and kept on saying, ‘It’s okay, it’s okay,’ until you settled down. You had something scary happen to you over there, didn’t you? Involving Nishina-san.”

“What did I say...?”

“That Nishina-san’s face was scary, that she had no face, that she had a bunch of mouths; it was a whole lot of nonsense, really. Are the two of you not getting along recently?”

I got off the bed, unable to say anything. My shoes were neatly laid out at my feet. Had she taken them off for me? They were wet to the touch and dirty with mud and bits of grass. The waterproof nylon bag I had put my stuff in was sitting next to the bed. I don’t know how I escaped from the Mayoiga, but it’s impressive that I hadn’t abandoned this bag in the process.

“Hey, listen.”

“Yes?”

“Could you, um...keep what happened here a secret, maybe?”

“Why? Would it be bad for you if someone found out?”

“Uh.

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