Vol. 3 Chapter 5.2

Translated by SoundDestiny Edited by SoundDestiny

Seventh day of girls’ track and field team confinement

“Hatsu-chan…..?”

The next morning, stepping into the breeding grounds for feeding, I heard Shima-senpai muttering in dismay.

I followed her gaze and I saw Captain Tashiro lying there limp. Her face is pale and sallow, and although her chest is slightly rising and falling, she is extremely weak. Insect breath, so to speak. She had clearly suffered an even worse lynching.

“Hatsu-chan! Hatsu-chan!”

Perhaps her consciousness is clouded, she shows no sign of even replying to Shima-senpai’s frantic calls. She merely leaks out a moaning voice.

Shima-senpai tried to rush over to her, but the sackhead  lady stood in her way. She pointed a huge machete at Shima-senpai and moved her hand to point at a bucket of food. Apparently, she was trying to say,『now is feeding time』

“Kuh…….”

Shima-senpai bites her lower lip regretfully and hurriedly starts preparing the food. There is nothing we can do until the pigs have finished their feeding. The only thing we can do now is to finish feeding as soon as possible.

Shima-senpai and I were in a hurry, Yui-chan didn’t seem particularly flustered, and Takasago-senpai proceeded to prepare for the feeding as usual in a troublesome manner.

“Come on, eat!”

As soon as Yui-chan announced this, the pigs rushed to the feed bins. Ugly pigs, their mouths smeared with milk, gobbled up the food. The disgust that welled up in me formed wrinkles between my eyebrows.

Captain Tashiro remained slumped in the corner of the room during the feeding, not moving an inch.

The moment Konparu-senpai kicked the captain in the back as if to say she was in the way, an unspeakable emotion swirled deep inside me.

‘You female pig!’

As I was about to raise my whip, the sackhead lady stood in front of me, and I hurriedly back away.

I found myself surprised to find that I no longer hesitated to use the whip to strike people. I was astonished that I had raised the whip as a spinal reflex.

‘Weird, this is not right……’

However much I may think so, this is the reality. If this situation continues, I may no longer feel guilty about whipping people up.

The feed bins were emptied and we cleaned up.

With tears in her eyes, Shima-senpai hurriedly carried the feed bins out into the corridor, and when it was all over, she stepped back into the breeding area without a pause.

“Hatsu-chan!”

When Shima-senpai rushed towards Captain, the pigs around her looked at her with a frightened but somewhat 『Suck it up』 grin on their faces.

‘How can you make that kind of face!　People are dying! You’re killing her!’

Almost at the same time as I was biting my back teeth, Shima-senpai held up the director’s body and called out in a tearful voice.

“Hatsu-chan, get a grip, Uchi, Do you recognize me?”

[Uchi is the context not referring a house, it’s ‘me’ ウチ]

“…..Ah, of course…. Stupid….”

Captain’s eyes are unfocused as she smiles weakly. I don’t even know if she can see Shima-senpai.

“Anta!　The one with a sack on your head! Please!　Please treat Hatsu-chan, help her!”

Shima-senpai appeals to the sackhead lady standing around the entrance, but she just shakes her head.

“Kuhh…Which one of you…..did this to Hatsu-chan!”

Looking around at the pigs with bloodshot eyes, Shima-senpai barked. To this, Shiratori-senpai responded, shrugging her shoulders.

“It’s the same as yesterday. Everyone except me”

“You guys, you’ve never learnt your lesson!”

With the head of the department in her arms, when Shima-senpai shouted loudly, the pigs jumped up and down and backed away.

However, Shiratori-senpai looked at Shima-senpai and opened her mouth without changing her colour.

“It’s you who’s at fault, Shima-senpai.”

“What did you say!!?”

“I know you think you’ve punished everyone who laid a hand on Captain but they’re getting used to being whipped, all of them. What you’ve done is taught them that if they all do it together, the number of times each of them gets whipped is not that big a deal.”

“Ghh…..”

Shima-senpai clenches her back teeth in frustration.

“Hatsu-chan defended you guys! She refused to become an Inquisitor because she didn’t want to beat you guys! And yet you guys!”

Shima-senpai barks like she is vomiting blood. Yui-chan tapped her on the shoulder.

“Calm down. If you’re that excited, you’re going to make a mistake”

“How can I calm down! This is crazy!”

“It’s not crazy. It’s just the way it is. When they see someone above them, they are jealous, when they see someone below them, they are relieved. If they can’t pull you down, they flatter you, if they think they can, they drag you down. They are creatures who cannot sleep in anxiety unless they keep checking their position, above them, below them……these people are now subhuman pigs.”

“You talk like you know it all, don’t you….”

“Yes, I knew it well before I came here. I have learned first-hand that the world is a place where people come together to beat up the weak and vulnerable.”

Yui-chan smiled a somewhat sad smile.

“This is insane! People are dying!”

“They’re not people. They are pigs. Unfortunately, no matter what you think of the director, a pig is a pig. They are not like us inquisitors, aren’t they, Amemiya?”

“Y-yes. It is as you say, Yui-sama!”

I noticed that Amemiya-senpai was standing by Yui-chan’s side, with her legs spread in an M-shape with her secret parts fully exposed, the so-called dog’s pose.

“Ufufu, you’ve done exactly what I trained you to do~. I don’t hate smart girls. Amemiya……is there any stupid pig who was talking bad about me?”

“Y-yes! Adachi and Saito clucked their tongues after Yui-sama walked out!”

“So, those two are the ones who are going to be whipped today.”

Immediately, Adachi-senpai and Saito-san start cursing Amemiya-senpai. However, Amemiya-senpai remain unafraid of them. She was being patted on the head by Yui-chan and had an enraptured face.

Here again, a hierarchy is about to be established. By appeasing Yui-chan, Amemiya-senpai will have power over the other pigs.

Insanity. Those above beat those below them, and those below them beat those further down. The repetition continues. There is no end in sight. I felt as if I was being told that.

When I was unintentionally stunned, Shima-senpai asked Shiratori-senpai in a voice that seemed to stifle her emotions.

“Hey, Shiratori……how can I help Hatsu-chan……?”

“You know what you’re getting yourself into.　If you want a push, go ahead and ask someone else.”

“Haha…really, you’re not very sociable, are you?”

Shima-senpai smiles wryly.

‘How to help? Is there? Is there such a thing?’

As I stood there stunned, Shima-senpai suddenly turned her head and smiled at me. A smile like that, somewhat weakly.

“Moribe……I’m really scared, though. It seems this is the only way to save Hatsu-chan.”

Then, Shima-senpai put Tashiro-senpai’s head on her lap, looked into her face and began to speak to her in a trembling voice.

“You know, Hatsu-chan…..it’s almost summer holidays, we used to go to the swimming pool together. It was so exhausting and hot on the way home…….I wish I could go again, this summer holiday too……”

“…..Aaa..it was nice.”

A weak voice spills from Captain’s lips, who opens her eyes slightly.

“On the way home, there were lots of sunflowers, and I bought ice cream at my grandpa’s candy shop on the corner, and drank…… ramune”

“Grandpa? I thought it was……your grandma?”

At that moment, Shima-senpai quietly meditated.

Her lips distorted in self-mockery. I understood it. I understood it all too well.

『Don’t do it』I almost said that, but I kept my mouth shut.

‘Certainly it is the only way. It’s the only way, but…….’

“Yes……she’s my grandmother”

<b>Never answer a pig’s question.</b>

At the moment the rule was broken…

The sackhead lady was standing behind Shima-senpai.

Shima-senpai slowly lays Captain’s head on the floor, then stands up and looks at the sackhead lady.

“If it’s not a pig, but an inquisitor, you’ll treat her, right? Hatsu and I will switch places!”

The sackhead lady did not reply.

Her hand is on Shima-senpai’s collar and she tears off her clothes.

Captain was left to her own devices. The sackhead lady, who was immediately stripped Shima-senpai naked, put a red rope on her with a terribly skillful hand and completed the tortoise-shell bondage in no time.

“Shima…..Senpa,ii.”

“Sorry, Moribe. Please be as gentle as possible…….”

Shima-senpai smiles jokingly. The sackhead lady throws her out on the floor and walks over to Captain Tashiro and holds her body in her arms. She then walked out of the breeding ground.

A stunned silence descends on the dimly lit menagerie.

However, as soon as the sackhead lady  was out of sight, the pigs all burst out laughing and surrounded the Shima-Senpai.

“Hahahahaha! You’ve fallen! Finally, you’ve fallen!”

“I’ll take good care of you, Shima-senpai”

“You whip me up pretty good, so brace yourself”

Konparu-senpai immediately tried to kick Shima-senpai’s feet and I hurriedly raised the whip.

“That’s enough! Stay away from Shima-senpai!”

I whipped the floor and looked at the pigs while protecting Shima-senpai.

The pigs were grinning at me from afar.

But there’s nothing I can do about it. I can’t protect her.

Even if I can protect her now, the night will come again.

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