CH 189.1

Chapter 189.1: Class Meeting 5

Well then, the story of Masaru and me against Higuchi was truly the last story of a classmate who died in my hand.

「Who else has killed their classmate?」

The air plunged into an eerie silence when I asked in a carefree voice. Eh, could it be that aside from Mei-chan and me, everyone else was a virgin who had never killed anyone all the way to this place?

Like hell I’m gonna believe that…

「Humph, does that mean no one really killed their classmate before coming here? It won’t be too late to confess right now, this is your only chance.」

「Why are you looking at me, Momokawa-kun?」

「Well, it’s nothing Class Rep, I guess the next topic after the murder is attempted murder you know. Do you think the complaint that you will hear after the confession will be different compared to murder?」

「Haah… You should have told me about this before, but it doesn’t really matter I guess, not that it makes any difference―― Minami!」

「Hyai!?」

Natsukawa-san, the evil 『Thief』 suddenly shrieked when she was called by Class Rep.

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Natsukawa-san, who had shown no interest in this topic up until now, looked like she had no idea why her name was suddenly called out of nowhere.

「I’ve told you about this before, but let me tell you again, Minami and I abandoned the wounded Futaba-san to die before she was saved by Momokawa-kun.」

「Uuh… Ple-Please, forgive me for that…」

「Well, I don’t care about that anymore though.」

Mei-chan didn’t seem to care about that particular event, but still, this wasn’t a matter of their crime being forgiven or not, it was to clarify the motive and give the full picture of that event. It was something that everyone in this place had to know.

「What do you think, any comment from you, Souma-kun?」

「… Why are you asking me?」

「Naturally, aren’t you curious about the crime committed by your COMRADE?」

I have been blamed so thoroughly for my crime by you, after all.

「I’ve nothing to say. Even if I said something, it would only look like I’m trying to gloss over the matter.」

「Eh, how unusual. I mean after you say that you won’t forgive me, you say nothing after hearing that Class Rep and Natsukawa-san left Mei-chan to die from her injury, how selfish of you!」

「Who said that?」

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「You said that to me thou~gh.」

「Shut up. Either way, the crime confessed here won’t be pursued any further, saying something won’t change anything.」

Whoops, now my absolutely innocent verdict had backfired on me. As expected, he was sharp when he calmed down.

「Well, even Class Rep was really cornered back then to the point that she had to take the most drastic measure of abandoning her classmate.」

「I feel ashamed of my own incompetency.」

「Well, the situation back then was really serious and you’d have no choice but to take that extreme measure. I also suffered from the same hardship for a while after I saved Mei-chan back then.」

「Ge-Geez, please stop mentioning such an embarrassing period!」

How I missed the time when we ganged up a red dog, just to get experience.

While immersing ourselves in the nostalgia, since Class Rep had finished her confession with a well-reasoned explanation behind her attempt of abandoning the injured Mei-chan to die, I really hoped that the next one would follow her example.

「Well then, anyone else atte~mpted murder?」

My question was followed by an eerie silence.

Oh my, even though I could literally pinpoint the very person who tried to kill me, the culprit was actually still unwilling to admit her crime even in this kind of situation.

「Remaining silent doesn’t mean no one knows about your crime. What gall you have for keeping your silence even though everyone in this place already knows of your crime eh―― Kenzaki-san?」

「!!!」

Kenzaki Asuna’s shoulder twitched upon hearing my question.

Seeing her looking down with a pale face, it seemed that she was at least aware of her crime eh.

「Asuna, I won’t blame you for that. You should just confess rather than receive indecent complaints from Momokawa-kun.」

Hey, what do you mean by unpleasant? Well, I am aware of that side of mine, but my indecent thoughts have always been toward Randou-san and Mei-chan.

「Kuh… I-I…」

After Class Rep gave her such advice, Kenzaki finally started talking, she looked anguished.

「Kenzaki Asuna pushed me out of the teleportation magic circle right before the transfer, and as a result, I was left alone. To be exact, she tried to kill me for real, there’s no way I can ever forgive such a blatant act of attempt to murder solely based on her selfish reason, the only way for me to forgive you is for you to kill yourself.」

「Momokawa-kun, please at least let her confess!」

「I refuse, she doesn’t even have the gall to confess her own crime.」

Souma-kun and the member of his harem party might be kind enough to wait for Kenzaki to confess her crime, but did they really think that I, the victim, was kind enough to wait for her? With the way she spoke like a robot, it would take her forever to finish her confession.

And I was definitely not doing this to harass her either.

I just wanted to use this chance to let everyone in this place know the truth. That Kenzaki Asuna was someone who would have attempted to murder for no clear reason. I guess it meant that the same applied to all the members of Souma-kun’s harem.

「In fact, I really wanted to hear from your own mouth the reason why you pushed me out of the transfer circle back then.」

I didn’t beat around the bush and asked for an explanation for the reason behind that attempt.

Though I knew that Kenzaki Asuna had always been doubting and hating me to the bone, I’ve been wondering why she went as far as dirtying her own hands.

I could still accept if such a situation happened right after she discovered my mastr*bation session by accident back then. But now that I think about it, the timing of her pushing me out of the transfer circle was after the 『Hero』, Souma-kun saved the day, and right when we were about to be teleported to the next area was too suspicious.

「This is your chance to confess, Kenzaki-san. Why did you try to kill me back then?」

「Tha-That, I… I don’t know.」

「Haah?」

Kenzaki’s answer was the most unexpected answer on the list. As I saw Mei-chan glare hatefully as she unleashed her killing intent toward the former more than me, the victim had instead put me at ease.

Yup, I know that you’re really enraged right now but spare her for now at least, Mei-chan.

Thus, I decided to investigate this matter even further while stopping Mei-chan with a gesture of my hand.

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「You said that you, the person herself, have no idea why you committed such an atrocious act? Can you please stop making such petty excuses?」

「You’re mistaken! I, I really can’t remember that particular moment… Even I, have no idea why I did something like that to you…」

Is she putting on an act―― No, it doesn’t seem to be that case.

「Momokawa-kun, Asuna was in a confused state back then. We also cross-examined her back then, but she didn’t give a satisfactory answer.」

「Humph, so the person herself had never expected that she would commit such a crime out of nowhere.」

Hmm, so she gave the same answer as when Souma’s side questioned her motive. Even if Kenzaki wasn’t thinking when she pushed me out of the transfer circle, her state back then was indeed very strange.

This meant that what happened to her before that played the most crucial role. She must have a reason for pushing me out of the transfer circle.

「Well, I guess it’s not a secret that I really resented Kenzaki-san for pushing me out back then, but don’t you think that the timing is a bit too suspicious since it happened right after Souma-kun saved us?」

No matter how much I thought about it, there was no way the people around would let her act go unquestioned after she pushed me out back then. I mean, she didn’t think that they would all praise her for excluding me from their party, right?

「I wonder about that. At that time, Asuna was really hostile toward you, after all, she might have unconsciously moved her hands forward upon seeing your defenceless back.」

I see, so it was my fault for letting my guard down.

Let’s reflect on that matter. From now on, I won’t enter the teleportation circle unless I’m hugged affectionally by Mei-chan. I swear that it isn’t because I want to enjoy those supple, massive pair of t*ts.

「So you’re trying to say that the timing for her to do that in such a situation is simply too bad huh…」

「Asuna might have been worried that Futaba-san or the other group might be controlled with Momokawa’s brainwashing hex.」

「E~h, that’s just nonsense.」

「I also think that you won’t go that far, but the possibilities do exist.」

I see, it seems their vigilance was more than I expected. Maybe she thought something along the lines of the ero doujin plot such as “I’ve to do something before this guy brainwashes us!”

Though she seemed to have an abnormal conjecture about me, was she really such a shallow girl who believed such conjectures―― Without evidence on top of that?

「Uhm… Well, let’s set that matter aside for now.」

I wanted to ask Class Rep a bit more time to ask more questions to Kenzaki, but any more questions would lead to something outside of the clarification of her motive.

In conclusion, her action back then was strange. But I felt that she wasn’t lying about not understanding the reason either. To be honest, I wanted to ask her more about this since it was way too strange.

「By the way, how’s the situation after the teleportation back then?」

「Honestly I don’t want to remember it.」

「I might’ve killed her if not for Class Rep’s intervention.」

「Thank you for the hard work, Class Rep.」

「If you really feel that way, make sure you rein Futaba-san properly, Momokawa-kun.」

Leave it to me, I trust Mei-chan with my life. Even now, she was ready to tear Kenzaki’s limbs apart as long as I gave her OK sign