After Reaching the Happy Ending, I Was Locked up by the Extremely Possessive Heroines I Had Conquered

Chapter 39: I Got Imprisoned

“Akira, it’s Akira’s fault. He’s the one who broke the vow with me and tried to leave the island…”

The dim wooden house. One room in it had its windows covered with thick wooden boards.

Almost no light entered, and the only thing illuminating the room was a meager ceiling bulb.

The light it cast fell on weathered pillars and the darkened grain of the walls, stained with age.

But what drew the eye most was the iron door that separated this room from the outside world.

It didn’t suit the wooden room at all; it was a thing specialized for confining a particular person inside.

There was no keyhole on the inside, and it looked heavy. Force alone probably wouldn’t budge it.

“It’s Akira’s fault…”

With her back to such a door, looking down at me whose both legs were restrained, was Satori, the head of the three great families—the Jindaiji family.

She wore a rapturous smile as she repeated the same words over and over.

Each time, she poked my chest, and though a ticklish sensation assailed me, I couldn’t resist in the slightest.

The current situation I was in could be summed up simply.

It seemed I had been imprisoned.

“…”

Huh? That’s weird, isn’t it?

According to plan, I should be outside the island by now.

I should have pulled off a cool escape successfully.

So why was I imprisoned by Satori?

It made absolutely no sense. And this wasn’t a shed. It was some old folk house.

An old folk house renovated and specialized for confining me.

The air conditioning worked well, the bed was fluffy, the handcuffs were a loose fit, the pillow was from the same maker as the one I usually used—it was all built for comfort, as if assuming long-term confinement.

“Um, Satori?”

“It’s Akira’s fault, right?”

“No, I just made a suggestion. I only presented one possibility. So, hey? Don’t do anything as scary as imprisonment.”

“Scary? This is normal on the island, isn’t it? If you try to leave the island, you get imprisoned. That’s the four-person system.”

Satori’s eyes gleamed. As if it were the most natural thing, her expression, her attitude, her eyes all asserted it.

“What a stifling rule to make.”

“It’s not stifling. I’m serious.”

“…”

“Dead serious about a rule to confine Akira.”

Satori murmured that and sat on the bed.

She placed a hand on my shoulder and slowly brought her face closer.

Her long hair tickled my cheek, and a faint shampoo scent teased my nostrils.

Even as I felt my heart pounding fiercely, her emerald-like eyes reflected my figure straight on—and.

In the next instant, she said it like a whisper.

“We vowed. To live together on this island until death.”

“Th-that’s—mmph.”

The moment I opened my mouth to argue back, her fingertips sealed my lips. Softly, yet with a force that allowed no refusal.

I could no longer resist.

After all, her eyes reflected only me.

Just how had things ended up like this?

To look back on the cause, I would probably have to go back three days.

It was right after I had declared to the Shiomine old lady that I would escape the island.

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Chapter 40.1: When I Proposed Leaving the Island to My Stepsister

Escaping from the island.

First and foremost, what I had to do was persuade the three of them.

Mahiru, Toa, and Satori.

After explaining the situation to the three of them, I conveyed my intentions. And then I made my proposal.

Come with me.

Those words carried weight. Immense weight. It was inevitable if they were taken as a confession or a marriage proposal, and they were words I could not utter without the resolve to take responsibility for a lifetime.

But I possessed that level of resolve.

Leaving this island and carving out a new future with them.

That was my resolve, my choice.

However, how they would receive it was another matter entirely.

Depending on that, I would likely face considerable difficulty. Especially with Satori, it was clear it would not be straightforward.

As a last resort, just as the Shiomine old lady had said, it would mean leaving the island on the premise of being pursued, but I did not particularly want to be chased. It was frightening.

I could only hope for a peaceful resolution.

“Alright.”

There was no time to wallow in weakness. I decided to go explain right away.

With that thought, I parted ways with the Shiomine old lady and hurried back home on quick feet.

Along the way, my eyes suddenly caught sight of a surveillance camera.

Was the way I was walking right now being reflected in Satori’s eyes as well?

While thinking such things, I advanced my steps in as natural a manner as possible to avoid arousing suspicion.

“…………Hmm?”

Just as I turned the corner in the residential area, a familiar silhouette caught my eye. It was Mahiru.

She was vigilantly scanning her surroundings, behaving as if she were searching for someone.

Was she wary of the surveillance cameras?

I did not know the reason, but she had shown her face at just the right moment.

I decided to start by persuading Mahiru first.

“Mahiru!”

“Brother?!”

Mahiru reacted with surprise to my call,

“You’re there. I was looking for you.”

She relaxed her expression in relief and came pattering over.

“Me?”

“You disappeared out of the camera’s range, so I was so worried, I couldn’t help it.”

“The camera’s… range?”

That was odd. It was the first time in my life I had heard such a line.

“I got so frantic thinking maybe someone had kidnapped you…”

Mahiru gripped both my hands and shook them vigorously. I could see she had been extremely agitated, but the matter of the cameras weighed on my mind too much.

“Hey, Mahiru, can I ask you a bit about the cameras?”

“The cameras?”

“You know, lately there are cameras everywhere on this island. Especially at our house and such.”

My room was even worse.

“Who installed those cameras? And where can you view the footage?”

When I asked, Mahiru answered immediately.

“Satori installed them.”

“Hmm.”

“And you can view the footage in Satori’s room and my room.”

“Hmm… Wait, in your room too?!”

“Yes. Of course.”

I could not understand in the slightest what made it “of course,” but the way she puffed out her chest proudly was adorable.