Reincarnated Into The World Of A Rape Erotic Game ~ Since The Game World Has Become Reality... I Want To Save The Heroines~ - Chapter 12: Kagurazaka Yuuka ⑤

“Yuuka!!!”

I heard a voice calling my name like that. It wasn’t just my imagination. I was certain of it.

The next moment—the strength in the right arm of the maid who had been holding me loosened. Even though she had been gripping me so tightly that I couldn’t escape, I slipped out easily and fell to the ground. I managed to put my hands out instinctively and, though ungracefully, I was able to land without sustaining any major injuries…

But… my body had been trembling from all the fear I had been feeling up until then, and I couldn’t move my body properly. Well, of course, right? I had almost been kidnapped without anyone noticing, hadn’t I? So I thought that was only natural…

Even so… to confirm what had happened, I turned my face toward both the maid who had tried to kidnap me and the direction of the voice that had called my name—

“—Owwww! What!? You damn brat! Let go! Let go! I said it hurts! Don’t bite me! Get off me! You damn brat!!”

What came into my view was the figure of a boy I had never seen before, desperately clinging to and biting the right arm of the maid who had been holding me. The boy looked to be about the same age as me. 

The maid, pained from being bitten, was trying to escape from the boy somehow, using her free left hand to punch the boy with all her might and pulling and ripping out tufts of the boy’s hair…

‘Stop it! Don’t hit him! Someone please help that boy!’

Even so, the boy didn’t let go of her arm and wouldn’t release his grip… He was desperately clinging and biting.

Naturally, or rather finally, the surrounding people began to stir… There was a woman screaming from being bitten by a boy. When something like that was happening, it was only natural that people around would notice and become noisy. What had been happening until now was what was strange…

It was as if a switch had been flipped and everything started moving… What had been happening until now was abnormal… To be honest, I wished they had noticed sooner.

“H-hey!? Look at that… Look at that!”

“A-a child is biting a woman!?”

“Isn’t he just a delinquent?”

“Kids these days…”

“Someone help her!”

“No, wait! Look at that woman! She’s seriously hitting the child!?”

“She’s pulling the boy’s hair so hard and ripping it out with all her strength!?”

“Stop it!”

“I don’t know the circumstances, but make her stop…”

“H-hey, someone stop this, will you?”

“No, you do it…”

Even though everyone had finally noticed, no one was willing to act… Some people even spoke badly about the boy who had helped me, despite not knowing anything and not having done anything themselves. I thought it was because they didn’t know the reason…

So I… like that brave boy… with all my heart wanting someone to help the boy who had saved me, I screamed with all the voice I had!

“That woman was trying to take me away! She was trying to kidnap me! That boy saved me! So… so… someone please catch that woman! And someone please help the boy!”

When I screamed, everyone around understood what had happened. The maid had been found out by everyone around that she was trying to take me away. The maid probably thought it would be really bad to stay in that place any longer. She thrust her left hand into her pocket, put on something, and struck at the boy again.

Crack… Snap!

I heard a dull, unpleasant sound… and also a sound like something cracking…

“Ugh…”

The boy groaned and let go of the hands he had been clinging with. The maid immediately ran off and left the scene…

Drip… drip, drip…

I could see something red dripping onto the ground. The boy probably thought the maid hadn’t given up on taking me away, because even though he looked like he was about to collapse, he stood between where the maid had been and me, like a wall…

As if to protect me… turning his back to me… I couldn’t take my eyes off his back…

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What followed was what I heard from other people. Since I couldn’t take my eyes off him… After the maid ran off, she apparently headed toward the temporary entrance.

“—Phew… I caught up…”

“What!? Master!? W-why are you here…?”

“Well… my wife and daughter are here playing. It’s not strange for me to be here, is it?”

“But… there was no contact…”

“Well, the reason I’m here doesn’t matter. More importantly… how dare you try to kidnap my daughter.”

“K-kidnapping… it’s a m-misunderstanding…”

“I know everything. Including that you were hired by Kanekui.”

“How do you know that…?”

“I told you, didn’t I? I know everything… Look around you.”

“Damn… shit!”

“Good grief… you don’t think I’d let you escape, do you?”

“Gah!?”

The maid apparently tried to run off again, but was blocked by my father and then taken down. I didn’t see it, so this was only what I’d heard. He apparently threw her with a judo technique and then apprehended her. My father had apparently learned various things for self-defense in the past.

And at the same time… as if he knew everything was over, the boy turned back to me…

“It’s… okay now… Yuuka.”

After saying that to me with a smile as if to reassure me… the boy collapsed right there and then…