Relentlessly Approaching the Poison-Tongued and Indifferent Beauty to Tickle the Cutesy Reactions out of her [Dropped] - Chapter 16 - Abducted?
“What’s with this intense development!?”
“Shut up.”
Naoya screamed with all of his energy, but the supposed leader of this abduction team was only giving him a nonchalant reply.
He was tied with ropes and was carried like a sack.
Naoya was taken to the audiovisual room. There were several such rooms in this school, and clubs and societies could borrow them if they applied for it through proper means.
In the dimly lit room, with blackout curtains drawn, students wearing hoods were lined up. About twenty of them. They surrounded Naoya, who was sitting cross-legged in the center of the classroom, and the room was dead-silent.
It was quite an eerie scene.
Meanwhile, the male student who took the lead in the abduction announced in a flat voice,
“There’s something I want to ask you. Just be quiet for a while.”
“What, are you trying to lynch me or something?”
“That depends on your attitude.”
“…Then I have something to say too.”
With a sigh mixed in, Naoya glared at the group surrounding him.
“Hey, you there, third from the right. You’re Yoshino, right, in the same class as me.”
“Huh!?”
One of the masked men, whose name was Yoshino, trembled in fear with a shocked look on his face.
“W-wait a minute! How did you know!? I haven’t said a word since I got here!”
“I can tell by your build and the way you walk. And the one next to you is Harada from Class 5, and the one next to him is Saito from Class 2.”
“What!?”
Harada and Saito also showed similar reactions of disbelief.
Finally, Naoya gazed at the leader of this group who was also trembling.
“You seem like a senior, maybe a third-year. I don’t know your name, but judging from your build, you’re probably in a sports club… like the baseball club.”
“What the—… how did you know that!?”
“Good, my guess was right on the spot. I now remember your voice and build, I can easily look it up later.”
Naoya grinned provocatively.
This level of deduction is a piece of cake for him. Even if they hid their face using different means, they couldn’t hide all aspects of a person’s personality.
“So, by now you understand, right? There’s no point in hiding your face. Let’s have a calm discussion with each other, shall we?”
Looking around at everyone, Naoya gave a dry laugh.
Thanks to him, everyone was still wearing their masks, unable to see each other’s reactions.
“I’ve heard rumors about him, but he’s really scary…”
“He’s like a modern-day Sherlock Holmes.”
“He’s like the protagonist of a drama! Maybe we should have him replace Holmes if he ever gets picked up again.”
“Oh, there might be a chance! We’ll have to gather some stones…”
The masked figures whispered among themselves.
And apparently, there were some girls among them.
‘Why the he-l did they abduct me…?’
Naoya could only scratch his head in perplexion.
He had suggested a calm discussion, but to be honest, he had no idea what their goal was.
All he could sense from them was an intense curiosity. That was it.
Their appearance and actions were like those of extremists, but they didn’t seem to intend to harm anyone.
As he gazed at the group, the leader shrugged.
“…However, I misjudged one thing. Unfortunately, I’m not the leader, I’m the co-leader.”
“Huh…? Then where’s the leader?”
“I am right here.”
“What…!?”
Suddenly, he felt a presence behind him.
When he looked back, there was another student wearing a black hood standing right behind Naoya. It was a girl with a small stature, probably a first-year student.
As soon as she appeared, all the remaining students in the room lowered their heads in unison.
“Good work! President!”
“Yeah, good job.”
The small girl — who was apparently the president of Koyuki’s fan-club — nodded calmly to the group.
It seemed like she really was the leader.
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