The Ferocious Rabbit Devours Flesh ~Survival of the Fittest at a School in a Chastity-Reversed World~ - 30

Chapter 30: How to Spend Golden Week ~Yuga Higashiya ~

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I let out a sigh as I waited for the elevator. I had gone through the trouble of putting on my uniform to come to school on the very first day of Golden Week. The reason I came was to earn points through mating practice.

The chime signaling the arrival of the elevator rang, and the doors slid open. I forced my heavy feet to move and stepped inside. As the doors closed, the elevator began to move, accompanied by a slight sensation of floating. To distract myself from my dark, gloomy mood, I slapped my cheeks hard with both hands to psych myself up.

“Alright! Let’s do this.”

It was a declaration of resolve by Yuga Higashiya, heard by no one.

The elevator reached the second basement floor, and the doors opened. I headed toward the mating practice room while recalling the conversation I had with my friends last night.

Last night, as usual, I was on a call with my friends. We were talking about the midterm exams following Golden Week. In these midterms, the male student with the worst grades among the remaining six would be hit with a penalty that cut their held points in half. We discussed countermeasures, but the only concrete plan anyone could think of was to study.

Ao Kitahara, the de facto leader of our group, had exchanged contact information with a female student and found out what would be on the test. Consequently, we decided to spend Golden Week studying together while staying on the call. Myself and the other three weren’t exactly thrilled. Even within this group, we were rivals for this upcoming midterm. However, Ao likely made the proposal knowing that full well. These were the friends I had made after enrolling in this piece-of-crap school. I could sense Ao’s desire not to turn those friends into enemies.

After all, if he intended to kick us down, he wouldn’t have needed to share the test scope he got from the girl. For the time being, Rui Nishiyama and Kosei Minamino—the others besides Ao—had agreed, saying there would be no hard feelings regardless of who lost. I, however, felt differently. I didn’t want anyone in this group to get hurt.

There was Ao Kitahara, the reliable leader who always kept us together. There was Rui Nishiyama, who always chided me when I got too heated and was about to go off the rails. And there was Kosei Minamino, who was always making sarcastic remarks. Well, maybe it would be fine if Kosei got hurt. But despite everything, I didn’t hate the silly bickering I had with him.

Because of that, I told everyone I was going to abandon the test and do mating practice instead. Kosei told me that even if I did mating practice, my points would still be halved, but I already knew that. I wasn’t good at studying, and I didn’t want to see my friends saddened by having their points cut in half. The others tried to stop me, but my resolve did not waver.

Lunch break arrived. Since there were no classes today to begin with, I wasn’t sure if it could be called a lunch break, but I was eating in the cafeteria. I had completed two sessions of mating practice during the morning, leaving some time between them. To be honest, it was pretty exhausting, but I intended to do more in the afternoon. This was the cafeteria on the floor reserved for male students, and there were fewer students than usual.

However, I was surprised to see Usami and Shizukuishi from my class. We weren’t particularly close. In fact, we had almost no contact because the two of them never came to school for classes after the first week. I didn’t know if the fact that they were here for mating practice meant they were also ditching the midterms, or if they were just that confident. I didn’t strike up a conversation. I simply ate my meal to prepare for the afternoon session.

I decided to do the afternoon mating practice with a first-year. This was because I wasn’t good with upperclassmen, and I was feeling tired. I took off my clothes and lay down on the bed. I waited, assuming the girl would mount me on her own, but instead of mounting me, she lay down right next to me, huddling close.

“Eh?… Hey, what are you doing?”

“You looked tired, so I thought it might be better not to start just yet. Are you okay?”

Looking at my face, she seemed to have worried about me on her own initiative. 

Mind your own business.

I thought to myself.

“Never mind that, just hurry up and get on top.”

“You can probably tell from the matching screen, but my name is Mio Natsuno. I’m in the basketball club. I’ve loved sports since I was a kid and tried my hand at all sorts of ball games, but I eventually settled on basketball. And you see…”

Without even trying to mount me, she just started talking on her own. Most of the girls I met in mating practice were usually aggressive and jumped right into it. She was the first one like this.

Even when I ignored her, she kept talking to me, so I waited for her to finish, thinking how annoying it was.

“Isn’t cutting points in half just cruel? I worked so hard to save up so I wouldn’t be ‘bought,’ you know.”

“So that’s how it is for boys. That sounds tough.”

Before I knew it, I was rattling on. I was supposed to be ignoring her at first, but I found myself drawn into the conversation, talking about all sorts of things and neglecting the mating practice entirely. Unlike the other girls, Mio Natsuno was easy to talk to.

“If your points are going to be halved, you really have to work hard on your studies too.”

“I’ve been bad at studying since forever… I was only ever good at sports.”

“I’d hate it if you were bought by an upperclassman, Higashiya-kun.”

“No, I’d hate it too. That’s why I’m working hard at mating practice, since I can’t study.”

After Mio Natsuno made a troubled face and went “Hmm,” she told me to wait a second and got off the bed with her smartphone. She headed to the shower room, presumably so I wouldn’t hear, and started a call with someone. Even though the person on the other end couldn’t see her, she was gesturing as she spoke, and I could see the bright and active personality she had mentioned.

She came back from the shower room.

“Let’s exchange contact info!”

She suddenly blurted that out.

“Wait, what’s this all of a sudden?”

“Just do it, just do it.”

She was so forceful that I ended up exchanging info with her. It was the first time I had ever exchanged contact information with a female student.

“There, I sent it~”

The notification sound on my phone pinged, and I opened the file that had arrived.

“Wait, this is…”

“It’s the data for the midterm exam prep that I made with my friends. We made it after asking seniors about past exam questions, so I think if you do this, you won’t lose to the other male students.”

It was a very clearly organized set of exam prep data. It was detailed, even down to annotations for each subject suggesting which parts were likely to appear.

“Is it really okay for me to have something this thorough?! This…”

“Yeah, it’s fine. I checked with my friends too.”

With this, it seemed like I could manage the midterms somehow. Right. If I send this to my friends, then they also…

“Hey, can I send this data to my frien—”

“Are you going to send it?”

“……Eh?”

When I tried to ask if I could send it to my friends, I was startled by her voice. Unlike the bright tone from before, it was cold and devoid of any emotional fluctuation. Then, she pushed me, and I fell back onto the bed. She immediately mounted me.

“Mmm… ♡”

She let out a sultry voice, shivering as her cheeks flushed, and collapsed onto my chest.

It was as if she were checking my heartbeat, which was racing from the surprise.

“You see, I sent that data because I don’t want you to belong to an upperclassman, Yuga-kun. I’ve already given you the data, so you can do what you want with it, but if you send it to your friends, your own chances of winning will decrease.”

She whispered that while pressing her body against mine.

“But I have friends and the reason I came to mating practice is because I don’t want them to be sad…”

“Even if you care about them, you don’t know how they feel. There’s a chance they think they’re lucky that you gave up on the test. Besides, you all agreed there would be no hard feelings about the results, right?”

“T-that might be true, but…”

“It’s okay. In the end, the test is just a result of hard work. You obtained this data because you worked hard today. That’s right, you like basketball, don’t you, Yuga? If you don’t come in last on the test, let’s play basketball together. If we’re with a male student, we can rent out the gym on the weekend. We’ll have an observer around, so we won’t be able to do any ‘intense play,’ though.”

What a sweet temptation.

I… I…

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