In a World of Reversed Chastity, I’m Rumored to Be an Easy Bitch (♂) Among Lustful Girls - 41

Chapter 41: (Riria’s POV) Hirakawa-kun Is My Backup Plan, Okay?!

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◆Riria’s POV

Believe it or not, I had several part-time jobs. Among them, the one that paid the best was food delivery. I liked speeding around on my bike, so I could get exercise and work done at the same time. It was a win-win solution.

Since it was Saturday, lunchtime brought in a flood of delivery requests. I raced all over the city, from restaurants to customers’ houses, and before I knew it, the lunch rush was over. A solid payday for me. 

I was taking a break, sitting in a park while fiddling with my phone when suddenly, a call came in.The caller wasn’t Hirakawa-kun—but Nishimeya-san. She didn’t seem like the type to make calls on her own. What could this be about?

“Hello?”

『Ah… S-Sotogahama-san?!』

“Yeah, it’s me. What’s up? It’s rare for you to call me.”

『Um… There’s something bothering me and I feel like you’re the only one I can ask about it…』

“Oh? You need my advice? Sure, bring it on. I’ll take any problem you’ve got.”

For the quiet and serious Nishimeya-san to come to me for advice… I definitely didn’t expect this. Maybe she wanted to debut as a gyaru? I mean, I honestly wouldn’t be against it. She had beautiful black hair, so it’d be a shame to dye it, but she definitely had potential. If even someone like me managed to turn out like this, then with her natural looks, she’d transform into something amazing for sure.

I pictured a gyaru-fied Nishimeya-san in my head, but it turned out her concern was something else entirely.

『Um… actually, I was supposed to go to a movie with Hirakawa-kun today, but he still hasn’t shown up…』

“Hirakawa-kun? Maybe he overslept?”

『N-no, I checked his location, and he was at a Chinese restaurant earlier today, so I don’t think it’s because he overslept…』

Whoa, checking his location?

So Nishimeya-san was fully using SENLY’s features. I thought she was the shy, introverted type, but she wasn’t like that at all. Yep, she definitely had potential.

“If he’s not asleep, maybe he just forgot? Did you try calling him?”

『I did… But he’s not answering at all. After he left the Chinese restaurant, he headed toward the station where we were supposed to meet, but then he veered off into a side street and has been in someone’s house ever since.』

“A house?”

『Y-yes. Sotogahama-san, do you recognize this address at all?』

Still on the call, I opened the SENLY app and checked Hirakawa-kun’s current location. It was pretty far from school.

A random apartment in a normal residential area. I was sure I had no connection to a place like that, but as I absentmindedly read the address displayed on the screen, something deep in my memory tugged at me.

“—Higashishinmachi Yamaura 11-45, Corporas Yamaura, Room 14… This sounds familiar…”

『You know it?!』

“Hold on… What was this again? I remember hearing it somewhere before…”

I rummaged through the jumbled storage boxes in my mind, forcing myself to dig up the answer. It had to be something related to Hirakawa-kun. That super public bath house from last time? The ramen shop? The net café? If I go back further, our first time in the classroom…. No. No way. Then… Maybe we caught that pervert on the train?

That’s when it hit me.

That address from earlier… It was that female pervert’s address. I must’ve overheard her address during the police questioning.

Wow. Maybe my hearing was actually amazing? No wondered people praised me for having sharp ears. 

“….That is, if I remembered her address correctly. “

『That’s really bad then! What if Hirakawa-kun is being assaulted by that pervert again…?!』

“It’s possible. This is a huge crisis for Hirakawa-kun! We have to go save him immediately! Nishimeya-san, where are you right now?”

『Where…? I’m in front of the station…』

“Got it. I’ll swing by to pick you up and we’ll go to Hirakawa-kun together!”

『O-okay!』

I sped over on my bike, picked up Nishimeya-san from the station, and had her hop on the back. …Honestly, if I were to give someone a ride, I would’ve preferred it to be a tall, lean, muscular guy, but this was an emergency, so I had to suck it up.

When we arrived at the scene, the door was locked, the curtains were drawn, and we couldn’t see inside at all.

“W-what should we do…? Should we call the police?”

“We don’t have any solid proof yet, and we haven’t caught anything in the act. We need to confirm whether Hirakawa-kun has actually been taken first.”

“H-hauu…”

“For now, I’ll pretend to be a delivery worker and ring the intercom. I just got off my shift, so I already look the part.”

I pressed the intercom button, putting on my best I’m here to deliver a package act. Wearing my bike helmet and my tight-fitting Pilates outfit—my favorite for easy movement—I definitely looked the part of a delivery worker.

“Yamakawa Express, here with a delivery~”

I casually used the name of a real courier company to lure the resident out. Then, I got lucky. Someone actually responded.

『Can you just leave it there? I’m a bit tied up right now.』

“Sorry, this package requires in-person confirmation…”

『Tch… What a hassle. Can’t you come back later?』

“I’d like to, but…”

I kept pushing, trying to extract more information. Then finally, I heard the undeniable proof.

『HELP MEEEEEEE!!! I’M BEING HELD CAPTIVE!! SAVE ME!!』

Hirakawa-kun’s voice came through the intercom speaker. There was no doubt about it. Hirakawa-kun was there and Nishimeya-san had recorded the entire exchange on video. We had procured solid evidence.

I told Nishimeya-san to call the police while I circled around to the window. Finding a decent-sized stick, I swung it with all my strength, shattering the glass. Inside, I saw Hirakawa-kun tied to a chair, his hands and feet bound. And right in front of him, the same pervert from before—just about to assault Hirakawa-kun.

…What the heck?  Seeing that scene made me feel really unsettled. What was this feeling? She went so far as to kidnap and confine him just to make him hers? Was she actually insane?

Besides, Hirakawa-kun was MY backup plan! He was the one who let me lose my virginity! He fulfilled all my girlish fantasies and accepted me no matter what!! Kidnapping alone was already a serious crime, but now she was about to violate him too? That was beyond unacceptable!!!???

Anger boiled up from deep inside me.

“Hey, you! What are you doing to Hirakawa-kun?! Kidnapping him and draining him dry—how envi— I mean, how despicable! I won’t forgive you!”

After that, everything happened in a flash. Nishimeya-san freed Fujisaki-kun’s older sister, who had also been captured.

Apparently, Ayame-san—my future sister-in-law (tentative)—was a former wrestling champion, and she swiftly subdued the pervert with a perfect grappling move.

Soon, the police arrived, and the case was wrapped up for the time being.

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A few days later.

After dealing with the police, the school, and all the formalities, I was finally back at McDonald’s with Hirakawa-kun, just like always. He’d been questioned over and over about the same thing, and he looked exhausted.

“Ugh, it’s finally over… I never want to be involved in a criminal case again…”

“Good job surviving. But you know, Hirakawa-kun, you really have something about you, you know?”

“I don’t want to have something like that…”

“Getting fixated on by the same criminal twice? There’s no way that’s just a coincidence. You should look into it more.”

“Look into what…?”

“Hmm…I don’t know, maybe your pheromones?”

“Don’t say random stuff.”

“Eh, but it’s possible, right? You might be emitting some kind of pheromone that drive women crazy. Hasn’t anything similar like this ever happened before?”

“……”

Hirakawa-kun fell silent.

…Huh? Wait a second… Did he? He actually had?  But still, I had to admit—Hirakawa-kun had something that other guys didn’t. It wouldn’t be strange if other girls were drawn to him. Otherwise, there was no way I, a self-proclaimed tall, lean, muscular guy fetishist, would keep getting turned on by him over and over again.

Ugh, this kind of bugs me. But to be fair, sexy guys are always targeted by women. Women are hunters, after all. We’re always on the hunt!

“…Oh? So you do have something in mind. Hmm.”

“…Huh? Sotogahama-san, did you say something?”

“Nothing at all~ Anyway, since you are more prone to being targeted, it wouldn’t hurt to look into it, right?”

“Even if I wanted to look… Where would I even check?”

“The National Research Institute or something?”

“Stop making things up.”

“Well, in any case, I’ll help make sure nothing like that happens again.”

“Ri-Right… Thanks. Then, for the last use of the ‘do anything I say’ right I earned the other day, I’ll use it for this. If things get bad, I want you to save me.”

“You don’t have to waste your last request on something like that. I already have an obligation to protect you, you know?”

“Oh yeah, that’s right.”

“So, come on~! Use your last request for something fun instead!”

“…That smirk of yours is seriously pissing me off. Maybe I should use it to tell you to turn yourself in to the police.”

“Booh! If you do that, I’ll just have to trap you between my boobs again, like last time!”

As she said that, Hirakawa-kun nearly spit out the coffee he was drinking.

“You… Y-you idiot…! T-that’s… Well, I mean… It depends on the situation…”

“So you won’t refuse, huh? You’re surprisingly weak to pressure, Hirakawa-kun.”

“S-shut up…”

Hirakawa-kun’s face turned red. Looking at him like this…He was actually kind of cute.

For a plain guy, that is.

Yeah… Hirakawa-kun was definitely not an ordinary person. The more I thought about it, the more I wanted to dissect his mystery. And to do that… Maybe I should try something a little unconventional?

…Would he be weirded out, though?

No, if it’s Hirakawa-kun, he’d probably go along with it.

Maybe he’d even use his last “do anything I say” right the same way he did last time…? If he did, then next time, I’d….

And so, I found myself sinking even deeper into the enigma that was Asahi Hirakawa…

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