Otherside Picnic: Volume 6 by Iori Miyazawa

Author:Iori Miyazawa [MIYAZAWA, IORI]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2021-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

11

It was the second day of break when Benimori-san and the others went to do their test of courage. One of them mentioned rumors that there was a haunted place near the university, and they ended up deciding on going there.

“We’d actually been talking since some time before the break...maybe the day of our last seminar. A bunch of us went out to eat together, and I think it came up then.”

That was the day Akari and I were tailing T-san.

“Right, right, I remember now. Actually, it was kind of your fault too, Kamikoshi-san.”

“Huh? My fault?”

“Okay, fault’s not the right word. Um, you’re pretty famous for being into scary stories, so—”

“Oh, I’m famous for it...”

“Yeah, like, at the start of first year, during our department’s party to welcome new students, you got in a fight with the second- and third-years over it, and then left in a huff. That left a real impact. I was surprised.”

Urgh...

Come to think of it, yeah, I think that was a thing that happened. I wish I could have left it forgotten, though.

“You were a loner after that, and nobody knew you all that well. But then in second year, you started showing up wearing this flashy color contact in just one eye, so you really stood out, and you were walking around with a girl who looks like an amateur model. She’s blonde and ridiculously pretty.”

“Uh, yeah.”

“That got people talking again, and then there were rumors you fixed a girl in another department’s troubles with a spiritual phenomenon of some kind, and everyone just sort of accepted it as you just being that kind of person.”

“R-Right...”

That had to be Akari. It wasn’t a spiritual phenomenon attacking her, it was actually the Ninja Cats, but I wasn’t going to correct Benimori-san since it would just complicate things.

“After that... I just had classes that overlapped with yours occasionally, and I didn’t know you all that well, but when we had our first seminar together, you introduced yourself saying you were into true ghost stories. I thought, ‘Yeah, she hasn’t changed.’”

“You were there then, Benimori-san?”

“I was, yeah. It was the first class and all.”

“What was I doing?”

“What do you mean?”

“I don’t remember that well.”

“Huh...? Were you drinking? Or...”

Benimori-san said that in a kind of jokey way, but I could see she was a little suspicious. Noticing that, I hurriedly said, “No, no! I’m not doing any weird drugs, okay?!”

“Y-Yeah?”

“You know how I was wearing an eye patch a little while ago? I apparently hit my head somewhere. Got a concussion.”

“Oh, wow. Sorry. That sounds awful. You okay now?”

“Yeah, just fine.” Maybe because I’d told Akari this lie once already, even I was surprised by how smoothly it came out.

“Hmm... What were you doing that day, Kamikoshi-san...?” Benimori-san, who believed my lie, stared into midair with a serious look on her face. “Oh, I’ve got it. After seminar ended, when we were going home, I noticed you left in a big hurry.”

“I did?”

“Yeah. There was someone who left before you, and it looked like you were chasing after them.

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