Previously:
"B-But… that's an herbivore..." Segawa said.
"Even an herbivore will attack other animals," Torako said.
"All animals have instincts… they can decide whether to attack or run when facing an enemy," Yarai explained. "It's called the 'fight-or-flight response'."
"..." Segawa furrowed her brow looking troubled. "I-Idiot! Idiot! Idiot! I don't need to be saved by someone like you!"
"We'll talk later," Yarai told her.
"Eh?" Segawa said.
"It looks like those guys have decided to get serious..." Yarai said as more of the horse-apes came out. "1… 2… 3… Three at once, huh…?"
"How do you want to handle it?" Torako asked.
"Well… I guess we have no choice but to do this!" Yarai said, scooping up Segawa and putting her over his shoulder. She didn't look like she would be able to keep up with them otherwise.
"Eh!?" Segawa exclaimed. "P-Put me down! Let go!"
"Hold on tight," Yarai told her, gripping his keys.
Chapter 7: New friends
{ November 19th, Day 47 }
"Yarai-kun~! Fukui-chan~!" Kurusu-sensei called. "Segawa-san~!"
"Saki~!!" Shigeno called. They were looking for Yarai and the two girls. "Kurusu-sensei, Yarai told us to wait here and get ready to leave..."
"Are you sure we should be moving around like this…?" Matsumoto asked.
"But I'm worried about them…!" Kurusu-sensei said. "I can't just stay quiet and wait around for them to come back."
"Ye-Yeah, you're right… I've never seen saki so agitated before… She did say that Yarai disgraced her so much that she wanted to die..." Shigeno said. "I wonder if… Yarai did something terrible to Saki..."
"Segawa-san~!" Kurusu-sensei called. "Yarai-kun~! Fukui-chan~! Segawa-san~!" 'I'm curious as well… I know that he's not someone who would do something like that...'
—∞—
The horse-apes growled at Torako, Yarai, and Segawa.
"Don't tell me that you want to… f-fight!? Against those animals!?" Segawa said nervously.
"..." Yarai kept his eyes on his opponents. "These guys are following their 'fight-or-flight' instincts, and have chosen to fight. That's why… we need to teach them that rather than fighting, running was the better choice."
"Huh!?" Segawa said. "Do-Don't be ridiculous! There's no way you can do that! Kyaaahhhhhh!" she screamed as Yarai and Torako dodged another attack that destroyed the ground in front of them. 'N-No way! What's with the power behind those claws…!? There's no way he can win...'
"Do you really think they'll let us run away at this point?" Torako asked her. "Yarai-kun is right! We have to fight!"
"!!" Yarai said when they were surrounded by all three of them at once. One of them swiped its claw at Yarai and Segawa, while the one Torako injured swiped at her.
"Eek!" Segawa thought. 'N-No… he can't dodge… And if Fukui dodges, that one will hit us as well!'
"Tch," Yarai said, gritting his teeth and punched the claws of the one attacking him. At the same time, Torako braced her spear against the ground and aimed it at the paw coming her way.
"Kyaaahhh!" Segawa screamed. The horse-ape attacking Torako screamed too. Its paw was being stabbed by the blade of her spear. They could see the tip of the knife sticking out out the back of it. Torako gritted her teeth and held on tight as it recoiled from the pain, ripping its paw from her spear. "… Eh?" Segawa said as she and Yarai slid back, unharmed. 'We-we're okay? Why…? And Fukui was able to fight that thing on her own?'
"Hey, keep your mouth closed or you'll bite your tongue," Yarai told her. "Don't get separated, Fukui!" Torako retreated to stand next to him again.
"!" Segawa said, closing her mouth. She looked at his hand. 'Keys… No way. Don't tell me that this guy… Used those keys to stop the claws!?'
"Tch. That hurt," Yarai said. "I guess I can't win with just power."
'H-He's really going to fight!?' Segawa thought. 'Th-This guy isn't human...' The two uninjured horse-apes growled and attacked again. Yarai deflected one attack with his keys, while Torako stabbed the paw of the other.
"… Shit. It's hard to move… because I have to carry this extra weight..." Yarai said.
"!" Segawa said. "Hmph. You could at least think of it as your way of repaying me! You owe it to me, remember?"
"What do you mean?" Yarai asked.
"Stop pretending! You've always been like that… pretending to be a lone wolf, acting cool, and staying away from other people. You're like an idiot!" Segawa told him.
"Huh? What're you going on about…?" Yarai asked.
"Nothing…!" Segawa said.
"Then can you save the 'nothing' for later?" Torako asked. "We're trying to fight here!" The horse-ape whose paw was just injured swiped its good paw at Yarai.
"… Tch," Yarai said, dodging. "Damn it. This is why I hate crowds."
"They won't back off even when they're injured!" Torako said when the one she had stabbed twice came back for more again.
"…!" Yarai said as they both dodged a deadly swipe at them like they were playing limbo. "Tch."
"Kyah…!" Segawa screamed. "H-Hey! Are you crazy!? I can't die yet! I still have a lot of things to say to you… huh!?" The uninjured horse-ape's claws were headed straight for her and Yarai. Yarai deflected the attack with his keys again.
"Shut up. It's not like I can die yet either," Yarai said. "I still have things I need to do..."
"… Eh? Things you need to do? What do you mean…?" Segawa asked.
"..." Yarai furrowed his brow. "I need to solve the mystery behind this strange world…!!"
"… Eh?" Segawa said. "Mystery… behind this world…?"
"..." Yarai thought maybe he might have said too much in front of Segawa. "… That's enough talking."
"Y-Yeah. Now's not the time anyway," Segawa said, finally showing some sense.
"Exactly!" Yarai said, kicking a horse-ape, striking it from under its chin.
'A-Amazing… He's starting to be able to fight back,' Segawa thought. 'This guy… I wonder how long he's going to pretend that he doesn't know anything… or perhaps he's really forgotten who I am? Would that even be possible? I mean… I mean he… used to love me so much, didn't he…?' She remembered the note she found in her locker about how someone would be waiting for her under the tree. She remembered how he looked standing there. "..."
"Hey, what's wrong? Stop daydreaming!" Yarai told her.
"I-I wasn't daydreaming..." Segawa said, blushing. "I was just wondering… you're so amazing… yet why do you hate being with other people so much…?"
"… That's because I'm naive..." Yarai said.
"Eh?" both girls said, looking at him. Yarai kicked the head of another horse-ape into the ground, stunning it. That created and opening for him and Torako to jump back and put more distance between them.
"Ah…!!" Segawa gasped. 'It's the first time that he's gotten some distance between us and them!! He… He did it!' The three horse-apes stared at them. 'Are they being cautious…? They're not coming straight for us like before… Does that mean that what Yarai was talking about earlier was true…? Maybe we're saved…?'
"… Hey, don't show them any openings," Yarai told Segawa. "We're gonna retreat."
"!" Segawa said. She stared at the horse-apes with Yarai and Torako, watching them for any signs of movement. 'That's right. If we let our guard down, they may attack again… I need to keep my eye on them...'
"Segawa-san!!" Kurusu-sensei called.
"!?" Segawa and Torako gasped as Kurusu-sensei, Shigeno, and Matsumoto came running towards them. 'Se-Sensei…!?'
"I'm so glad that you're both okay..." Kurusu-sensei called. Suddenly, one of the horse-apes raised its arms.
"…!?" Segawa said. 'Wh-What the!?' It swung its arms forward and dug into the ground, propelling itself into the air. It closed the gap between them in an instant.
'It-It jumped…!? It can use its arms like that…?' Segawa, Torako, and Yarai thought, startled.
"Eh?" Kurusu-sensei said, looking back at it. Its mouth was open wide, ready to bite her. "Kyaaahhhhh!!" Torako pushed their teacher out of the way, but now she was in its path.
'… See? I can never hold myself back...' Yarai thought, dropping Segawa so he could push Torako out the way of its claws. 'That's why I dislike being in crowds so much...'
"Eh!?" Torako and Kurusu-sensei said, surprised. The horse-ape slammed Yarai back into a tree. Its claws just missed his neck.
"… Eh? Ya… Yarai-kun…?" Kurusu-sensei said as Torako stared at the scene with wide eyes, horrified. Some blood came out of his mouth.
"Y-Yarai!!" Torako yelled.
'He protected us…!?' Segawa thought. "Ya… Yarai..." 'There was no chance of him avoiding that...' The horse-ape withdrew its claws, letting Yarai drop to the ground. He wasn't moving.
"Ya… Yarai-kun…!!" Torako, Kurusu-sensei and Segawa yelled. Their teacher had tears running down her face. The horse apes growled and turned on them next.
"!!" they all gasped.
"Everyone! Get behind me!" Torako said, blinking away her own tears and standing up again. She held her spear at the ready. Kurusu-sensei stood directly behind her, trying to act as an extra shield for the girls behind her.
"Se… Sensei~~" Shingeno cried.
"Wh-What are we going to do…?" Segawa asked.
"..." Kurusu-sensei glanced at Yarai. 'Ya-Yarai-kun...' "!" The horse-ape swung its claws at them, ripping up the ground in front of Torako instead of attacking her directly.
'This one is more cautious of my spear than the other two…!' Torako thought.
"Kyaahhhh!!" Kurusu-sensei and the others screamed. "Kyaaahh! Yarai-kun!!"
"..." Yarai turned his head. "… Ngh." 'Sh… Shut up...' he thought. "…?" 'Huh? What happened to me…? I'm sure I took a direct hit… why am I still alive? … I see… it was a jump attack, so not all of the weight of the attack was transferred to me, huh? I guess it would be around 60% of the power of a standing attack… Tch. It still broke three ribs...' He clutched at his chest where he felt a throbbing pain. 'God damnit…!' He made himself get up.
"…!" Kurusu-sensei gasped when she saw this. "Yarai-kun!"
"!" Torako said, relieved.
"Yarai, you're okay..." Segawa said. The horse-apes growled and looked at him again.
'… Now then, how should I do this?' Yarai wondered. 'The only way I can teach them that they should've run instead of fight is to show them some pain… but going up against one is already heard enough… Torako could probably distract one for me, but… Damn it. That puts her in danger, and two on one is still...'
"..." Kurusu-sensei looked from Yarai to Torako. She furrowed her brow. She couldn't let just her students fight. She grabbed a stick and whacked the injured horse-ape that had been stabbed twice by Torako with it. It turned its head to look at her. "Hi—!" It swiped its claw at her. "Kya…!" she screamed, dodging it. Her stick was broken in two.
"…!?" Yarai and Torako gasped.
'Wh-What…!?' Yarai thought.
"!" Torako said, realizing what she was up to.
"Se-Sensei!?" Segawa, Shigeno, and Matsumoto shouted. Torako gritted her teeth and stabbed another in the back when it seemed like it might go after Kurusu-sensei, too. It was the same one Torako had stabbed once in the paw. It immediately turned on her.
"Kurusu-sensei! Don't go too far!!" Torako called after her as Kurusu-sensei ran away, leading the one chasing her away from the rest of them.
'Kurusu-sensei… Why would you do something so dangerous…!?' Segawa thought. 'And Fukui-san provoked a different one...' "….!!" 'I… I get it.' She watched Torako draw hers away too. 'I know what Sensei and Fukui-san are thinking about…! Even Yarai won't be able to win in a three on one. But if they become bait, and lure them away like this… Yarai is left to deal with only one...' She clenched her fist. She wished she had thought of that. 'And in that case, he can definitely...'
"Tch," Yarai said, watching Kurusu and Torako run around. "No one told you to do that..." 'But now I have no choice but to do this...' he thought with a furrowed brow. The horse-ape he was facing growled and raised its claws to attack. Yarai dodged the deadly swipe and delivered a powerful kick to its chest. "Ngh!?" He flinched at the pain it caused in his ribs. "Ugh." He dropped low to avoid another attack. "… Tch." 'My ribs hurt just from moving. What should I do…?' He looked around. Torako dodged an attack, but not enough to keep from getting cut on her arm by one of its claws.
"!" she gritted her teeth and kept going. The one Yarai was facing growled and swiped its claws at him. Yarai jumped out of the way.
'That bastard,' he thought. 'Now he's getting carried away. I don't have time to just stand around and think!"
"Nooo!" Kurusu-sensei cried as her arm was injured too.
'I need to do something soon, or they're all...' Yarai thought anxiously. 'Tch… but it's hard enough with my injuries just to dodge these claws...' "!" he gasped as his eyes widened in realization. '… Claws? It's claws...' He watched as it raised its claws to attack again. 'I know!! I could do that…!' He stood still, waiting for it to attack.
"!?" Kurusu-sensei, Torako, and Segawa gasped.
'Eh…!?' Kurusu-sensei thought.
'He stopped!?' Segawa thought.
'Don't tell me…!' Torako thought.
"Ya-Yarai!?" Segawa shouted.
'It's all right,' Yarai thought. 'What I'm waiting for… is this guy's strongest weapon...' As soon as its claws came within reach, Yarai grabbed one of them and jumped on its arm.
"Eh!?" Segawa said. 'H-He grabbed it's claw and jumped on its arm!? He didn't try to dodge the attack because he wanted to do that!?'
'B-But… what can he do!?' Kurusu-sensei thought.
'As I thought, he's going for that…!' Torako thought, furrowing her brow.
"Whooooaaaaaa!!" Yarai yelled, gritting his teeth as he pulled and twisted the claw. It snapped and he ripped it off.
"AAAAAARRRRHHHHHHH!" the horse-ape howled in pain.
'He did it!!' Torako thought.
'He broke the claw…!!' Kurusu-sensei and Segawa thought. The horse-apes going after Torako and Kurusu-sensei faltered. They and the one Yarai ripped the claw from turned tail and ran.
"!!" Kurusu-sensei said. "L-Look! The animals are running away…!!" 'I get it! Without their weapon, these animals have no hope of surviving. That's why they ran…'
'He really did it...' Torako thought, amazed.
'He converted his opponent's weapon into their weakness… What a guy...' she and Kurusu-sensei thought. "Ya—"
"Yarai!!" Segawa cried, launching herself at him. They were all surprised to see her wrapping her arms around him.
"… Eh?" Kurusu-sensei and Torako said.
—∞—
They walked back to the branch of the river to treat their wounds.
"Let me see your arm," Yarai told Torako.
"My arm is fine. What about you?" Torako said. "You were slammed against that tree..." She stared up at him.
"… Three of my ribs are broken," he admitted.
"I see… You'll need to rest," Torako said.
"Shouldn't we wrap his ribs?" Segawa said.
"That'll make it hard to take deep breaths. Taking deep breaths may help prevent pneumonia or a partial collapse of a lung. Ribs will heal on their own," Torako explained. She had tried to explain that when they were wrapping Akira's ribs, but Rion and Yuki had insisted something needed to be done.
"And what makes you such an expert?" Segawa asked.
"My dad broke his ribs before," Torako replied.
"So we should take care of your arms," Yarai told Torako and Kurusu-sensei. "I'll go keep lookout." he walked away.
"Ah! Wait!" Segawa said, going after him. Once he was out of sight, Kurusu-sensei unbuttoned her shirt, and Torako removed her sweater and took her arm out of the long uniform sleeve, pushing her shirt up so Shigeno and Matsumoto could clean and bandage their wounds.
"Se… Sensei, does it hurt?" Matsumoto asked.
"Don't worry. The injury's not that severe," Kurusu-sensei said. "What about you, Fukui-chan?"
"I'm all right," Torako said. "It was really shallow."
"… I wonder if Saki will be okay… She went after Yarai who's on look out..." Shigeno said.
"Even so, I'm kind of surprised that she would cling to him all of a sudden..." Matsumoto said.
"..." Kurusu-sensei and Torako said.
'What happened between the two of them…?' Torako wondered. 'And why does the idea of those two together make me feel so….' She realized she was jealous and blushed a little bit.
'I'm really curious! As their teacher...' Kurusu-sensei thought, concerned.
Meanwhile, Segawa was talking to Yarai about why she was upset with him.
"Huh!? Love letter…!?" Yarai said, shocked.
"Th-That's right! I'll never forget it!" Segawa said. "It was the twelfth of July two years ago!"
"..." Yarai stared at her. He had no clue what she was talking about.
"That morning, I opened my shoe box and found a love letter inside..." Segawa said, blushing. "It didn't say who the sender was, but it said: 'I'll be waiting for you under the tree in the rear garden.'… It was the first time that I had received such a letter, so I went to the rear garden excitedly. And you were there… Since I had never spoken to you before, I was so surprised and I barely said anything before I left. But that night, I stayed up all night. It took all my courage to write a reply… and the next day, I placed it inside your shoe box… and of all things… you just ripped it up and threw it away!! I had spent all night writing that…!! Do you know how traumatic that was!? I-I had to take a few days off from school after that…!"
"I've never written a letter or anything to you," Yarai said.
"… Eh?" Segawa said, sweating nervously.
"Actually, I don't even remember the incident you're talking about," Yarai said seriously.
"Th… That can't be true! Look at me! You have to remember something!" Segawa said, grabbing his face and pulling it closer to her.
"Ow-Ouch," Yarai said. Bending over hurt his ribs. "Wait..."
"What!? What!? You remembered!?" Segawa asked.
"July, 1st year? If I remember correctly, that was around the time when I first started going to that school," Yarai said, furrowing his brow slightly. "… All of a sudden, some seniors called me out and told me to go to the rear garden. Then there was this huge brawl. … Hmm? Now that I think back, someone did come before that… That's right. It was some girl saying some stuff that didn't make sense… Ah! Now I remember! I got some weird letter the next day! It thought it was from those seniors. It said something gross like: 'Let's just start as friends', so I threw it away. Ahh! That's it! Now I remember everything!!" he stopped and stared at Segawa.
"..." Segawa stared back at him, blushing.
"Bwahahahaha!!" Yarai burst into laughter. "That was it!? How does a misunderstanding like that even happen…!? Ahhh! Hahahahahahaha!!" He fell to his knees, banging his fist on the ground.
'Does this guy laugh at everything…?' Segawa wondered, blushing deeper as she stared down at him, starting to get annoyed.
"Well, I guess I'm sorry," Yarai told her.
"Eh?" Segawa said.
"I'm sorry that you've had to hold that grudge for two years," he said with tears from laughing in his eyes, still smiling. Segawa blushed again. "Ahahahahaha! Anyway, you're such a klutz! I feel sorry for the guy who wrote the letter to you."
"You're so rude…!" she told him.
"Ah! There they are!" Kurusu-sensei said as she, Torako, and the others jogged over to them. "Yarai-kun~ Segawa-san~"
"Huh? What happened, Saki?" Shigeno asked. "You're a little red."
"No-Nothing," Segawa said.
"… Hey, Yarai-kun," Kurusu-sensei said. "Did something happen between you and Segawa-san?"
"None of your business, Sensei," Yarai said.
"Eh? Eh? Come one, tell me," Kurusu-sensei said.
"Nahh, it's really nothing..." Yarai said.
"Ehh~~~" Kurusu-sensei said.
'Is it really nothing?' Torako wondered. 'If it's nothing, then just say what it is...'
"… More importantly, what are you gonna do about them?" Yarai asked, looking at Segawa, Shigeno, and Matsumoto.
"What am I going to do…? Of course I'm having them come along," Kurusu-sensei said. "There's no way that I can just leave them..."
'Poor things didn't even have a proper bath before they met up with us...' Torako thought. Yarai looked at Torako. He could see from her face that she agreed with their teacher.
"… Tch. I guess there's no helping it," Yarai said. "But it's only until we meet some other people. I still have things that I need to do." He started walking.
'That's right… we still haven't solved the mystery of this place...' Torako thought. She followed him.
'… You want to save everyone, right?' Kursusu-sensei thought, looking at him. 'You just want to face all the dangers alone… I can't say it out loud as everyone would call it favoritism… but I… I think that it won't be Sengoku-kun, but you… who would save us all…'
"Where are we going to go now~?" Segawa asked, throwing her hair over her shoulder.
"I've brought Saki's things," Shigeno said, holding up her bag. She and Matsumoto had grabbed their own bags as well.
"Don't fall behind!" Torako called to them.
"Hey, wait up!" Segawa said as she, her friends, and their teacher caught up to Torako and Yarai.
—∞—
{ November 24th, Day 52 }
"You sure do know a lot about survival, Fukui-san," Matsumoto said as they were walking.
"Yeah, to think you even know how to make jerky from scratch..." Shigeno said.
"And you have that fire starter," Segawa said. "You really came prepared, didn't you?" There was an almost accusing tone in her voice. Torako got the impression that Segawa didn't like her very much.
"I'm used to roughing it," Torako said. "I've struggled to make a fire without matches before, so I decided to never be without it."
"But to take it on a school field trip..." Segawa said.
"You never know what will happen," Torako said.
"Ah, that's so true..." Shigeno said. None of them ever saw this place coming. Torako picked up the pace to walk next to Yarai.
"Are we heading for the inlet?" Torako asked him.
"Yeah. There's something I want to confirm," he replied.
'I wonder what that could be...' Torako thought.
"Hey! What are you two whispering about?" Segawa asked.
"We aren't whispering," Torako said, frowning a little in annoyance. Why was she so suspicious of everything she did?
—∞—
Torako and Segawa were sitting up around the fire. Yarai had gone to relieve himself and the others were asleep.
"Fukui-san… What's between you and Yarai?" Segawa asked.
"Between us?" Torako asked.
"I'm asking if you like him and he likes you," Segawa said with determination, blushing. "Answer me honestly!"
'Maybe she's actually a straight-forward person?' Torako thought, a little surprised. "Why do you want to know? Do you like him?"
"I do!" Segawa answered honestly, blushing more.
"I like him, too," Torako said, deciding to return the favor by being honest herself.
"!" Segawa said. "And Yarai?"
"He doesn't think of me that way," Torako said. "It's true that we've started talking more since we got to this island… but that's normal, isn't it?" 'Besides, he has other things on his mind, like solving the mystery of this place.'
"..." Segawa stared at her. "I can't trust you."
"Because I talk to him?" Torako asked, furrowing her brow.
"Because you're a woman, too!" Segawa said.
"..." Torako stared at her and laughed. "Pfft! Hahaha! Sorry, sorry! I know you're being serious, but have you seen me? I'm smaller than average, and so is my chest. I barely have any curves, and I'm not cute or girly. I'm quiet and gloomy and tough. I get along better with animals than people. What part of that sounds like a catch to you?" Segawa pouted as Torako laughed some more. "Hahahaha!"
"What's so funny?" Yarai asked as he returned. He saw the smile on her face and smiled a well. "I want to laugh, too." He had only seen her laugh once before. If Segawa could make her laugh like that, then maybe her addition to the group was worth it.
"Sorry, it's a joke between us girls, right?" Torako said, looking at Segawa.
"Right..." Segawa said, not liking the way Yarai was looking at Torako.
—∞—
{ December 1st, Day 59 }
"Ahhh~ I wanna go home~!" Shigeno said as they walked, coming to a break in the trees. Torako could already hear the light crash of waves in water and smell salt in the air.
"Ah…!" Matsumoto gasped as they stepped out of the jungle onto the beach.
"Th… The ocean!!" Segawa said brightly as her friends and their teacher all looked hopeful.
"..." Yarai stared at the water. Torako remembered that this 'ocean' where they could only see water on the horizon was actually an inlet surrounded by land, although it was connected to the real ocean.
"I see, we can escape from here by sea!" Matsumoto said.
"So that's why we're here…!?" Shigeno asked.
'We would need a lot of supplies for that… especially fresh water,' Torako thought.
'A great voyage,' Segawa thought, picturing herself being held by Yarai, while the others kept lookout and worked, as they sailed away on a boat with a sail that had her face and name on it. She blushed a little. 'M… Might not be so bad...' She noticed something. "Eh?" There was what appeared to be a mix of logs and rope that had been washed ashore.
"… Eh? What's this…?" Shigeno asked, also noticing it. The others came closer.
"W-What…!?" Kurusu-sensei said.
"It's a raft. A completely smashed up raft..." Yarai said, coming over to examine it.
"Ya… Yarai..." Segawa said.
"These are teeth marks… As I thought, I guess this means there's something in the sea..." he said.
"And judging by the size of the teeth, whatever did this was enormous..." Torako said, taking a closer look with him.
"As you thought…?" Segawa said.
"Didn't you come to the sea to escape…!?" Kurusu-sensei asked him.
"You should know I'm not that optimistic," Yarai said. He stood up again. "… Just like I thought. Solving this island's mystery comes first..."
"… Mystery…?" Kurusu-sensei said. "Come to think of it, you mentioned that before. What did you mean by mystery…?"
"… Hm?" Yarai said. "..." He pulled a handkerchief with some small pebbles in it out of his pocket and showed it to them. "Look at these..."
"…?" Kurusu-sensei said and she and Torako looked at them.
"They're rocks from the mountain we climbed earlier," Yarai said. "Do you notice something different about them?"
"…?" Matsumoto said as she and the others looked too.
"Rocks…?" Shigeno said, furrowing her brow.
"They're just rocks!" Segawa said.
"I don't know..." Kurusu-sensei said.
"…!" Torako said when she saw what he was talking about. She furrowed her brow. "I see..."
"Eh? You know something, Fukui-chan?" Kurusu-sensei asked.
"Hey, hey… you guys need to shape up!" Yarai said, furrowing his brow, looking at everyone but Torako. "This island is much more dangerous than you think!! Listen up, Sensei… if what I'm thinking is right… that mountain was made by man. It's a man-made mountain! Right, Fukui?"
"Right," Torako agreed.
"Eh!?" the others exclaimed, shocked.
