After Reaching the Happy Ending, I Was Locked up by the Extremely Possessive Heroines I Had Conquered - Chapter 46: Escape from the Confinement Room

Chapter 46: Escape from the Confinement Room

“Wait. You think you can escape?”

The moment the handcuffs came off and I was free, someone suddenly grabbed my shoulder from behind.

When I turned around, Uncle looked pale as a ghost, holding another pair of handcuffs in his right hand.

And behind him stood the blonde gal, watching the scene.

“Is it okay to leave your customer like this?”

“Yeah, but I have some work to do first. Work to drag a great sinner back to his cell.”

“You’re straight-up calling it a cell now!”

“Shut up. To me, a confinement room or a cell—it’s all the same.”

As he spoke, he tried to snap the handcuffs on me.

I dodged to the side on instinct.

Toa Watarase had just taken them off me, so I could not let him cuff me again.

But the situation was pretty dire.

He had a weapon—handcuffs—while I was unarmed. And if he grabbed my arm, it was game over in one go.

There was no way I could escape in a spot like that.

“Surrender quietly.”

In no time at all, he cornered me.

I had my back to the wall, facing off against Uncle. Sweat trickled down my cheek and plopped onto the floor.

It was a do-or-die moment, no doubt about it.

“Go back to your room. If you do it now, I won’t tell Satori.”

“…”

“I’m saying this for your own good. You know better than anyone what’ll happen if Satori finds out.”

“That’s…”

Of course I knew.

An enraged Satori would pull out all the stops to destroy my dignity.

She would get even more extreme than before. Just thinking about it was hell.

But that was only if I got caught. If I did not, there would be no problem at all.

“Toa!”

I called for help from my beloved junior, who I figured was watching from behind.

“I’ll do anything you say, so help me out!”

“You’re always leaning on me like this.”

Toa grumbled in annoyance,

“But since it’s a request from you, Senpai, I have no choice. You really have to listen to anything I say, okay?”

“I got it, I got it.”

“Seriously, Senpai…”

After a sigh like she could not believe it, Toa fired something toward the inside of the building.

The liquid shot out from what looked like a squirt gun and flew straight ahead—hitting Uncle right in the face.

“Whoa! What the hell is this?”

Uncle clutched his eyes and dropped to a crouch right there. The handcuffs clattered to the floor when he let go.

His face was beet red. Red enough to look like he was bleeding.

“…”

“Senpai! Now’s your chance!”

I had no idea what it was, but it seemed to have weakened Uncle successfully.

Handcuffs, door, Uncle.

With all three barriers cleared, all that was left was to get out.

I took a deep breath to steel myself, then bolted at full speed.

It was just barely too high to climb out the window, so I went with the straightforward option and headed for the entrance.

“Wait! Running is pointless!”

I put distance between us in a flash and ran without looking back, single-minded.

It had been a while since I last moved like this, so my breath was already ragged, but I forced my legs to keep going.

“Even if you make it off the island, I’ll chase you to the ends of the earth. That’s the Jindaiji way!”

Uncle’s threat was probably not a joke.

But that did not mean I planned to hole up quietly on the island.

I blew past the management office and headed straight for the entrance.

“…”

On the way, I crossed paths with the blonde gal, but she just glanced at me for a second before looking bored and checking her nails.

She clearly had zero interest in me. Her neighbor was the only thing on her mind.

That was a solid attitude. Even after we left, the island’s future looked bright. I hoped she would keep leading Black Tide Island from here on out.

“All right!”

With no time to catch my breath, I shoved open the entrance door and linked up with Toa, who had circled around to the back.

She ran up to me with a soft smile.

“Senpai, I missed you.”

Those words melted away all the tension and stress from before.

“I missed you too.”

Our eyes met, and our hands reached out naturally, fingers intertwining.

When I gripped hers tight, she pulled back just as hard. The back-and-forth felt so familiar and comforting.

“Let’s head to the ferry dock like this. The boat’s all set to sail whenever.”

“For real?”

“Mahiru-chan went overboard… I mean, she handled everything. Let’s get out of here, all three of us!”

“Yeah!”

We dashed through the woods hand in hand.

As the scenery whipped by in a blur, I could not stop wondering what Mahiru had been up to while I was locked away.

But there was something else nagging at me even more.

“By the way, what’s that?”

I pointed at the squirt gun she had fired at Uncle earlier, even as I gasped for air.

“It’s a squirt gun.”

“It did not look like it had water in it at all.”

It was bright red. And Uncle had looked like it hurt like hell.

At the very least, I could tell it was not water.

“You’re curious about what’s inside, huh?”

“Yeah.”

As she spoke, Toa fired it with her right hand.

In the next instant, red liquid sprayed onto the ground. It looked slimy, with a sticky quality. Bright red, but with bubbles floating in it.

“It’s a mix of detergent, Tabasco, and shichimi.”

“What kind of dangerous liquid is that…”

I was totally creeped out. Spraying some unknown stuff like that on someone was not right in the head.

How did she even come up with it, anyway?

As that question crossed my mind—and apparently showed on my face—Toa explained in a casual tone.

“Here’s the thing. When Mahiru-chan was doing a big cleanup, she found my Tabasco. Of course, she was about to toss it…”

“Huh.”

“But it was more than half full, so throwing it out like that would be such a waste, right? That’s when I got the idea. What if I used it to blind someone?”

“Blind someone?”

Toa beamed with pride as she talked.

Her smile was so innocent that it scared me instead.

“Tabasco and shichimi make your lips burn when you eat them, right? So I figured it’d be the same if you got it in your eyes. Looks like it worked great.”

“Haha, good for you.”

“Yes! I’m so glad!”

Her pure, innocent smile was downright terrifying.

Not wanting to end up on the receiving end, all I could do was force a wry smile.

“Tabasco lives up to the hype.”

“Yes! Spicy stuff really is justice!”

“But if you could hold off on firing that at anyone but Uncle, I’d appreciate it. Especially not me—actually, feel free to blast anyone else as much as you want.”

“Of course that’s the plan.”

She tilted her head and looked up at me with puppy-dog eyes, cute as ever, but the weapon in her hand made the fear win out.

In the end, the real MVP was that armed Tabasco.