Chapter 59: Ko-chan’s Despair (2)
"Woah, she got caught again! I thought she would get away this time.." I sat on the balcony of the council room, watching some girls play Cuddle Dodge in the courtyard below.
Matsuko laughed. "Did you think it was so easy? Even though it took months before you could start escaping from the fans."
Sakari came into the room looking worried. "Have you seen Hinari? She was supposed to arrive with Asami a long time ago."
Matsuko frowned. "No, I haven't heard from her. Have you tried calling her?"
Sakari shook her head "No answer. Naruyo said she was going to go call the driver and the operations division."
"What happened?" They seemed worried, so I wanted to know what was going on.
Matsuko sighed. "We don't know. They could have been in an accident or something. Hinari is one of us, so she shouldn't be in any danger, but there is a lot of bureaucratic paperwork involved in traffic accidents. I should probably contact the city and see if there have been any accidents so far this morning on the road between the dorm and the school."
Matsuko rubbed my head. "Stay here for a while, Ko-chan. I'll be back in a few minutes. Let me know if anyone finishes a challenge" She chuckled as she left the room.
Sakari said "I'm going to go call Hinari again. I'll be back too."
"See you in a bit~" I cheerfully replied as I went back to watching the girls run around in the courtyard
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"What the hell? What happened?" Hinari yelled as the car screeched to a halt.
"I don't know, something jumped out in front of us, I couldn't dodge it." The driver reported back after confirming no one was injured.
"Ugh, why today. We're already late due to that accident." Hinari grumbled as she shoved her door open.
The car was smoking, but there was nothing else on the road. Hinari looked all the way around the car. "Um... What did we actually hit? There's a big dent in the hood, but I don't see what we hit."
"Uuuuugh. Better let everyone know." Hinari got her phone out of her inventory, and then screamed in shock.
"What the hell?" In her hand wasn't a phone, but a black ribbon. And that black ribbon was wrapping around her wrist.
"What..is..this..GAH" She fought with the black ribbon for a few seconds before her inventory opened again on its own.
"You really should hide your subspace a little better. Anyone in the know can throw whatever they want in there and you would never know..." She heard a mocking voice in her ear before the black ribbon yanked her straight into her own subspace.
After the portal closed again, a girl with black ribbon wings flew down from the nearby building.
"Pathetically easy. Is this the level of your subordinates, Matsuko? I really wished it was a bit more of a challenge." The girl laughed to herself before looking over at the car.
"Another one? Let's see..." She came over to the car and opened the trunk, revealing Asami's bound appearance.
"Oh, you must be.... Asami? How thrilling! How does it feel to fall so far from where you once were? Well, no one complains about one more toy to break." She shot a ribbon at Asami and raised her up by the middle before disappearing with Asami in tow.
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"Ugh... Pick up, already! What happened to you?" Sakari paced back and forth in an abandoned hallway of the school building.
"Maybe I should see if anyone in chat has seen her?" She loaded up her family's communication program to ask for a search party, but when she looked at the last few messages, they were all glitchy and shifting.
They all changed one by one to "Sakari...I...see...you...", causing Sakari to quickly drop the phone and back away. The phone hovered in midair when she dropped it though, and streams of black ribbons shot out of it.
Before she could even react, it wrapped around her head and dragged her into a small portal that opened up in front of the phone.
The phone clattered to the ground and the screen broke, but no one was there to pick it up.
* * *
"Driver disappeared? Car disappeared? Impossible." Naruyo was on the phone, pacing back and forth in a small patch of grass behind the school.
"More info. Send someone. Call me." Naruyo got increasingly impatient as her contact kept telling her they didn't know and didn't have any more information.
Right as she was about to hang up the call, she jumped backwards at a speed near teleportation. Stuck in the ground where she was just standing was a rigid length of black ribbon.
"Attack? Show yourself." She instantly brandished her knives and took a fighting stance.
She dodged left and right to avoid more ribbon projectiles, and then slashed at something coming for her face.
She was shocked for one second too long when the projectile was not cut in half, but instead wrapped around her dagger and yanked her off balance.
She tumbled to the side and, as she fell, a portal appeared right underneath her and she fell in. The portal closed afterwards, leaving nothing but a phone on the ground in the grass.
* * *
I leaned over the rail as I saw another girl get caught and hugged.. and kissed.. and groped a bit. It seemed a little sweet that they were such close friends that they could do that with each other. After that girl left, I saw the next girl who would join the fun. She seemed to need help walking in her heels, because there were two people pulling on her arms and another pushing her from behind. Her friends are so kind though, because after she tripped over her friend's outstretched foot, they all crouched down to make sure she was okay afterwards.
It looks like her tutu must have come loose during the fall? Her friends were holding her down to stabilize her while they pulled the laces on her armbinder tight. Oh well, it's always good to keep these things neat and tidy. After they helped her from the floor, she seemed quite grateful to them because I could see the tears streaming down her face. Her friend gave her a pep talk right up close to her face though, and I could see the surprise on her face as she decided to keep playing.
The game progressed as most of them do, with the dodger lasting a few seconds before getting caught. After seeing how effective it was during the Carnival, everyone seems to have adopted the strategy of catching the wings and lifting the dodger into the air to be caught. This time was no different, and soon the girl was dangling in the air and kicking her feet.
Oh, I guess she must have lost some of her gear somewhere, because her friends are helping her put it back on. They shoved the vibrators in and laced the muzzle onto her face while pulling her legs into her hobble skirt. She was shaking her head and crying the whole time, seems like she was embarrassed that she had lost parts of her outfit and didn't want to let anyone know. Oh, dear.. they must be good friends indeed, just look at how personal they're getting! She's shivering with pleasure down there. I know just the feeling, it's the same one I feel when Matsuko starts whispering into my ears at night…
The door slid open as I was watching the beautiful friendship between my classmates. "So, what was it?" I asked without even looking back since I was expecting Matsuko's return.
"You must be Kogamo." I didn't recognize the voice and quickly turned around.
"Who are you? Why did you come here?" I got a bad feeling from this girl in the black dress.
"Oh, no reason. I just had to pick up a little gift for a friend on my way out of town." She smiled derisively.
"...Well...there's no gifts here. Maybe look somewhere else?" I was on my guard, but I suddenly realized that not only was she not surprised to see me, she also wasn't surprised to hear my telepathy.
And what's worse, I was currently completely locked into my tutu and I had no way to even begin to free myself. Matsuko made sure of that.
"Oh, I don't know about that. In fact, I think I've already found what I'm looking for!" She took one step forward and she was in front of me.
"You---" I didn't even get a word out before she hugged me and said "Caught you." In a flash of light we were gone.
