The Handsome Boy I Saved from Getting Beaten on the Train… Turned Out to Be the “Prince” of an All-Girls School - V1 Chapter 29: I’m Soaked! I’m Totally Soaked!!

Chapter 29: I’m Soaked! I’m Totally Soaked!!

“Fuuuh! Haaaah!! Okay, next one!”

“Hee! Hee!! Even if the basin’s empty, pulling it over and over is exhausting!”

“You got this, Rei!”

“Alright, next kid~!”

I cheered on Rei from across the pond as I kept pulling kids in the basin with a rope.

Since it felt like a waste to have the return trip empty, we ended up switching off—Rei and I took turns pulling from each side of the pond.

“Wow! So fast!”

“We’re gliding right over the water!”

“Kyaa!”

“I wanna go again~!”

The little kids were completely hooked, and once they found something fun, they just wouldn’t stop.

Thanks to that, I was now trapped in an overtraining hell of rope-pulling work.

“Come on, keep it up, Saito and the Wimpy Prince.”

“Rinna-chan, help out already!”

“I’m in charge of managing the line, remember? Someone has to keep things balanced on both sides. Okay, next rider’s ready. Hurry up and pull, Saito~!”

While I was over here suffering, Rinna, who casually volunteered earlier, was dodging all the hard labor with style.

No, seriously—how is she getting away with this!?

But the line of sparkly-eyed kids just kept growing nonstop, so I stopped thinking altogether and devoted myself to becoming a tub-pulling machine.

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“Onii-chan, onee-chan, thank you! Bye-bye~!”

“Thank you so much for playing with our child.”

“Haa… haa… no problem…”

Finally, the kids lost interest and the endless line disappeared, freeing us at last.

Still catching my breath, I somehow managed to respond to the thanks from the children and their parents… but my arms were so dead I couldn’t even lift them anymore.

“Wait—did the line vanish just because it’s lunchtime? Hey, let’s grab something to eat too… Huh? What are you two doing?”

I figured all that unexpected muscle work was decent training, and now I was craving a protein-packed lunch. But just as I called out to the girls across the pond—

“Hold it, you Wimpy Prince! You got pulled by Saito first, didn’t you!?”

“I clearly worked harder than you, so I should go first!”

Rinna and Rei were bickering over who got to ride in the basin next.

“What are you even arguing about?”

“Listen to this, Saito! I haven’t had a single turn being pulled by you yet, but this greedy, wimpy prince is messing everything up!”

“Rinna-chan didn’t help with pulling the basin at all, and now she wants to talk about fairness? The one who sweated the most should go first—and that’s me!”

Honestly, it was the dumbest argument ever.

Also, I’m standing right here, completely worn out… and you’re just going to ignore that?

“Does it really matter who goes first?”

“This is a matter of pride!”

“That’s right, Saito! Backing down here is absolutely not an option!”

These two… seriously, they’re such a pain.

I’d been dragged into all this from early morning on my day off—forced to play referee for their showdown, then stuck entertaining kids the whole time after that.

So maybe that’s why—

“Then how about you both just ride in the tub together?”

I tossed out the idea half-heartedly, without thinking too much about it.

“I guess… if neither of us is willing to give in…”

“Yeah, and the kids are watching too…”

To be fair, both Rei and Rinna had already done a full lap of the athletic course earlier just for their silly contest, and afterward, they helped deal with the swarm of little kids.

Plus, by the time they noticed a new line of children forming behind them while they argued, the embarrassment probably made it hard to keep acting stubborn.

So, considering those two factors, it’s understandable that none of us were thinking straight at that point.

“Alright, pull us then.”

“Let’s do this, Saito~”

“Got it~”

Normally, you sit cross-legged inside the basin, but there clearly wasn’t enough room for two people to do that.

So Rei and Rinna stood side by side inside the basin, gripping the ropes and getting ready.

Technically, there was a support rope stretched across for standing riders, so riding the tub like this wasn’t against the rules.

That’s right.

If it’s just one person.

“W-Wait, wait, wait! Saito, stop! Stop!!”

“We’re sinking! Water’s getting in!”

As soon as I started pulling the tub, screams erupted from Rei and Rinna.

Yeah… turns out this tub ride was only meant for one person.

Even if they were both slim, it just didn’t have enough buoyancy to support two high school girls.

At first, when they were just standing still at the starting point, the tub barely stayed afloat.

But once I started pulling, the weight shifted—

And just like that, water started pouring in.

“Ahahaha! Bwahaha!!”

“Why are you laughing, Saito!?”

“Hurry and pull! My shoes are soaked! Totally soaked!!”

Nope… I couldn’t do it.

I was laughing way too hard to get any strength into my hands.

What a scene—

Two desperate girls, waist-deep in water, screaming in panic,

While a guy stood on shore, wheezing from laughter as he tried to pull the rope.

Naturally, the kids around us were cracking up too.

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“Ahh… I haven’t laughed that hard in forever… My stomach hurts.”

“You’re so mean, Saito… I told you to stop, but you just kept pulling while laughing…”

“Ugh… Even my shorts are completely soaked now…”

Taken out of context, that last line might sound like something way too inappropriate—

But really, Rei and Rinna had just been submerged waist-deep in the pond.

Of course their lower halves were totally soaked after sitting in water like that.

“You were laughing pretty loud, Saito…”

“I mean, c’mon… anyone who saw that would’ve—pff—cracked up too. It’s impossible not to laugh.”

“Your face is still grinning, Saito!”

Rei gave me a damp, deadpan glare, and I couldn’t help but let out another chuckle just remembering it.

It had honestly been a long time since I laughed this hard from the heart.

“But seriously, we’re soaked to the bone. There’s no way this’ll dry naturally.”

“Yeah, no way.”

The sun wasn’t strong enough yet—it wasn’t quite full-on summer—so their drenched clothes weren’t going to dry anytime soon.

Staying like that for long would definitely lead to catching a cold.

“Which brings us to this, Saito. Go buy us some shorts.”

“…Huh?”

Wait, wait, shorts? As in… the kind that protect important areas!?

“You can get simple ones at a convenience store. Pleeease, Saito~”

“Eh… But I’m a guy, you know? Buying girls’ underwear is kinda…”

Rinna, for once, actually asked in a super cute voice…

But come on! What she’s asking is a nightmare-level task for a high school boy in the middle of puberty!

“Ohh? So basically, you’re saying it’s fine if I—and the wimpy prince over here too—catch a cold, huh?”

“N-No, that’s not what I meant…”

“Saito… I’m cold… Achoo…”

Why is it that they were just fighting earlier, but now they’re suddenly in perfect sync when it comes to ganging up on me!?

“Fiiine! Okay, I get it already!!”

Damn it!

Unfortunately…

The option to say no was never on the table for me.

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