What are you people doing?
No matter how innocent she was, she could still guess what the two of them were doing right now.
Especially the faint, wet kissing sounds coming through, which made the girl's cheeks burn.
Who was so shameless as to do this kind of thing in a haunted house?
But very quickly, Soyo seemed to realize something.
Wait, that's not right. Up to now, aside from Kamijou Mutsuki, she hadn't seen any other boys at all—especially not inside the haunted house.
So who exactly were the two people kissing right now?
At that thought, the flush on Soyo's face deepened even more.
Only, the emotion contained within it was completely different from before.
So in the end, her carefully laid plan had once again ended up making a wedding dress for that Mutsumi?
And wasn't this a bit too desperate?
Kissing right here in a haunted house?
Shameless!
Just thinking about how, separated by only a wall, that Mutsumi was taking advantage of the opportunity she had worked so hard to create, freely kissing Kamijou Mutsuki—while she could only stand here listening—made Soyo extremely anxious.
But clearly, anxiety alone wasn't going to do anything.
The wall panel separating her from the two of them seemed to be telling her:
You are not allowed to join this "impart"!
Feeling the increasingly intense movements from the other side, Soyo felt both furious and wronged to the extreme.
No, she really couldn't stand this grievance any longer.
Looking at the prop axe beside her, stained with "blood," a wicked thought suddenly arose in Soyo's mind.
She reached out and touched the wall panel in front of her. Unlike elsewhere, it seemed to be made of a special kind of foam board, mixed with some other materials.
Then she weighed the prop axe in her hand. It was mainly plastic, but quite heavy, with solid construction.
Soyo made her decision.
At worst, she'd just pay more in compensation later. Anyway, her income from Houbunsha Animation was already enough for financial freedom.
She couldn't hesitate any longer. Now was the time to go meet Kamijou Mutsuki and that Mutsumi!
Thinking this, Soyo directly picked up the prop axe and began hacking at the seam in the wall panel.
Once, twice—along with Soyo's movements, the wall panel began to shake.
Although it was just a foam wall, it was specially made and mixed with quite a few other materials.
If it were any of the other girls in the band, even with a prop axe, they might not have been able to break it open.
But as the bassist of the band, Soyo had already trained up quite a bit of strength.
The seam in the wall panel really was getting wider and wider under her chopping.
And along with her actions, the pair of girls who had been getting intimate outside also noticed the disturbance.
What's that sound?
Their overlapping bodies separated as they looked toward Soyo's direction, only to see the wall there suddenly begin to tremble slightly.
At the same time, waves of impact sounds came from inside, as if some kind of monster was about to break free from its restraints.
"Is this… part of the haunted house program?"
One of the girls, whose cheeks had been slightly flushed from intimacy, now turned pale as she spoke, as if trying to comfort herself.
But they themselves were staff of the haunted house—how could they not remember such a segment?
Could it be some kind of employee-only feature?
That's right—the two girls hiding in the haunted house and secretly getting intimate weren't players at all, but NPCs.
If the lighting were a bit brighter, one could clearly see the female ghost and vampire makeup on them.
Because this haunted house didn't get many visitors to begin with, and there were plenty of NPCs—they had simply decided to slack off for a bit, finding a hidden spot rarely visited by players to be intimate with the person they liked.
What they didn't expect… was that the haunted house would start "Soyo-ing."
Crack!
At that moment, the wall panel was suddenly split open, and a blood-stained axe thrust through from inside.
"Ahhh!"
Already somewhat frightened, the two girls' legs gave out instantly, and they couldn't help but scream.
A "female ghost" and a "vampire" clung to each other, crying and screaming at the same time.
Wait… why did those voices sound a bit off?
At this moment, Soyo had already sensed something was wrong, but there was no turning back once she had started. She could only speed up her chopping.
To the two girls outside, however, that blood-stained axe felt as if it were chopping straight into their hearts.
With each strike, the fear in their hearts gathered and deepened.
Finally, the wall panel was completely broken through.
Though it was only a hole—just big enough for something the size of a head to pass through.
But because something had sounded off earlier, Soyo had already grown suspicious.
So the moment she broke open the hole, she impatiently stuck her head through, wanting to see what was happening outside.
However, from the perspective of the two girls outside, what they saw was a "hideous" face covered in "blood" suddenly protruding from the axe-split opening.
Under the already dim and eerie lighting of the haunted house, that face looked around, then fixed its gaze on them.
"AHHH!!!"
The fear that had been building up finally reached its peak at that moment—and completely exploded.
"An axe!"
"A k-killer!"
"Don't come any closer!!!"
The two girls were so frightened that they could barely speak coherently. The "vampire," in particular, went completely limp, almost collapsing to the ground, utterly losing the ability to resist.
The "female ghost," however, held up a little better.
At that moment, she finally snapped back to her senses, grabbed her lover, and while crying and shouting, ran toward the exit.
Clearly, even though they were NPCs, these two had truly experienced a real haunted house during this school festival.
Hearing their screams, Soyo was also startled.
A killer?
Where is there a killer?
With Tsukinomori Girls' Academy's security, how could such a terrifying person have slipped in?
Subconsciously, the girl tightened her grip on the prop axe in her hand, ready to protect herself.
But soon, Soyo seemed to realize something and lowered the axe.
It seemed… she hadn't wiped the "strawberry juice" off her face earlier?
For some reason, the girl suddenly felt a bit guilty.
Still, so it wasn't Kamijou Mutsuki and that Mutsumi—it seemed to be two girls?
At that thought, Soyo felt slightly relieved, but also oddly shaken.
Wait, Tsukinomori really has that kind of girls?
Yuri… right beside me?!
Soyo couldn't help recalling the girls in her class who called her "wife," or wanted to be her wife.
They weren't actually serious, were they?
She subconsciously swallowed, deciding that she should keep some distance from those overly "yuri-ish" girls in her class.
But right now, the most important thing was still Kamijou Mutsuki.
Although she had mistaken the people, at least this proved that the two of them weren't so impatient as to start kissing right in the haunted house.
Especially not using the opportunity she created—otherwise, wouldn't she have become a complete sucker?
Still, she should find Kamijou Mutsuki first…
No, wait—first she should find a mirror and some water to clean her face.
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