Reincarnated Into The World Of A Rape Erotic Game ~ Since The Game World Has Become Reality... I Want To Save The Heroines~ - Chapter 5: Shoka Hiyori ④

The man’s fingers touched my bra—

My breasts were about to be exposed! Thinking this, I involuntarily squeezed shut my tear-filled eyes… because that was all I could do. At least so I wouldn’t have to see…

—That was the moment…

“CRASH!! Clatter clatter clatter—”

“Wh-what!? The house window suddenly broke…”

“WHOOSH! HISSSSSS!!“

“What’s happening!? Wh-what!? Sm-smoke!? cough cough… gag… I-I inhaled the smoke directly…!! Wh-what the hell is going on!? What in the world is happening…!? Cough cough! What…!? My-my eyes!? My eyes hurt!? My eyessssssssss!?!?!?”

“Breach—!!”

Wh-what… was happening!? I thought I heard the sound of window glass or something breaking… And… the sound of something rolling on the floor…? And then there was a strange smell…? Instinctively not wanting to inhale this weird odor, I reduced my breathing. I could only breathe through my nose anyway…

In the midst of all this… I heard it clearly…

A voice different from the man who had tied me up… something like the man’s screams… and the sound of something else breaking… and multiple footsteps running toward us with “thud thud thud—” sounds.

“Damn… damn! Really… wh-what’s happening… cough…!?”

“Don’t move!!”

“Wh-what are you guys—!? B-breaking into someone’s house without permission… urgh…”

“Suspect secured!”

“The victim appears to be safe too!!”

I sensed people approaching me.

“We are the police. Please keep your eyes closed. We’re going to remove the duct tape now and put a mask on you, then breathe normally after that. Understood?”

Police?

Was I… saved…?

Sob—

As I did what I was told, they quickly put a mask on me. Then… I began breathing normally. They immediately cut and removed the ropes that had bound my body, arms, and legs.

And then… I was carried outside the house, supported by police officers. Once outside, a police officer removed my mask. Like you often saw in dramas, they draped something over my shoulders. As I sat down on the spot, a female detective spoke to me.

“Do you feel any discomfort or pain anywhere? Nothing was done to you?”

“N-nothing hurts right now… My blouse was torn but… nothing has been done to me yet…”

“I understand. You’re safe now, okay? I’ll stay by your side, so if anything happens, please tell me right away, okay?”

“…Yes.”

I… was really saved… As I felt relieved, tears began overflowing again…

“Damn bastards! Let me go! I said let me go! Damn, my whole body hurts… and I feel sick~! Damn, damn it! I told you guys to let me go!”

“Shut up! Walk quietly!”

What entered my tear-blurred vision as I felt relieved was that guy. The man who had tried to rape me… The man was handcuffed behind his back, desperately struggling and resisting, but I could see him being dragged to the patrol car like an abducted alien, pulled along by force.

The man was roughly thrown into the patrol car, and the patrol car carrying him left the scene and drove away…

“…”

I wanted to shout “serves you right” loudly… but… I couldn’t… I think it was because I could finally feel truly relieved now that the man had been taken away by the patrol car. Also… when it came down to it, everything was something I had brought upon myself, and I was aware that I had done wrong…

“—You’re… Shoka Hiyori-san, aren’t you?”

The person who spoke to me was a middle-aged man in a suit. I nodded slightly. This old man’s face… I felt like I’d seen it somewhere before…? Where had I seen it…?

“Sorry, but could you step away for a moment?”

Told by the middle-aged man, the female detective left the area. Becoming a little scared, I looked around and saw that there were many police officers nearby. Reassured that there were people close enough to notice if I called out, I decided to listen to what this old man had to say…

“Now then… my name is Kagurazaka Yusuke. I’m a member of this country’s parliament… Do you know me? I see… if you know, that’s good… So, I’d appreciate it if you wouldn’t be too wary? Well, it might be unreasonable since you’ve just been through a terrible ordeal, but I’d like to have a casual conversation… how about it? Is that okay?”

“Y-yes!?”

N-no wonder… I had a vague memory of the old man’s face because I’d seen him on TV. But… why…? Why was such a person here talking to me???

“Hmm? It seems you find it strange that I’m here first of all?”

“Um… yes…”

“Well, of course you would. Something like this happened. You probably want to rest soon too… So let me be direct… I was the one who informed the police to rescue you, and I was also the one who mobilized that police force.”

“Huh? Why?”

“Why?… I see… Well, that’s something I’d like to hear about too.”

“H-huh…”

What did he mean by “I’d like to hear about it too”…? This old man didn’t make sense.

“No, no, that’s not right. Anyway. The fact that you were threatened by that man, that you were told to follow him, and that you followed him—all of it was clearly captured on the city’s security cameras. I was the one who confirmed that, so I contacted the police. That’s why I’m here. Is this clear so far?”

“…Y-yes.”

Although I replied yes… I wondered why this person was able to confirm that.

“And then… about the shoplifting that you committed, which became the cause of you being threatened…?”

Thump—

The moment I heard those words, my heart jumped… The old man knew that I had shoplifted… that I had committed a crime… Would I be arrested too…?

“Um… that was…”

“Well, to get to the root of the matter… you didn’t shoplift, you know? So you didn’t commit a crime.”

“…Huh?”

This old man… what did he say!? What did he say!? He said I didn’t shoplift… didn’t commit a crime…? B-but I definitely, with these hands…

“You see? You seem to think you shoplifted merchandise at that time, but the price for the item you picked up and put in your bag had already been paid by then. More specifically, the full price for all merchandise in that store had already been paid by him. So that you could take whichever item you wanted.”

My mouth hung open and I couldn’t close it…

No no no… what!?

Wait wait wait wait… who!? Why!? For what purpose!? How did they know I was going to steal merchandise!?

“And about that worthless man who tried to make you— you don’t need to worry because you’ll never see him again… You’ll never meet him again…”

“…N-never meet again…?”

That meant…

“There are various benefits when you’re a parliamentarian. Of course, for the police too… Well, I wouldn’t recommend you learn deeply about those matters…”

Being told that, all I could do was nod vigorously… Probably… it would turn out to be as terrible as I imagined. At the same time, all the questions I had been harboring until just now were swept away somewhere.

“Anyway, that’s how it is. That’s all from me. You’ve been through something frightening. You should rest well for a while.”

The parliamentarian old man named Kagurazaka said only that, then turned on his heel and left the scene. Seeing this, I could see the female detective from earlier, who had been standing at a distance, coming over.

And then the old man suddenly stopped… and without looking at me, with his back still turned to me, he said these words:

“It goes without saying, but… may I say one more thing? You understand now, don’t you? What was wrong? That it was something you shouldn’t have done…”

“…Yes. Something like that… shoplifting… no matter what happens, I’ll never commit a crime again…”

“…Good… I’m relieved to hear that. If my daughters had done such a thing… I would have lightly spanked their bottoms a hundred times. Of course, that wouldn’t be the end of it… just kidding…”

Sp-spank a hundred times!? The moment I heard that, I shuddered and my bottom “shrank” in fear… The old man, even though he wasn’t looking at me, left the scene laughing.

As for me… after that, I was taken home by the female detective… Honestly, thinking about what would happen after this… was scary…