It's a misunderstanding.
But, it's too late to think about it now.
In a matter of moments from the time the shriek began, a window from the veranda opened with a banging sound.
And from the first floor, a shadow jumped out. Shadow. Shadow. [7]
With that, while besieged by accusations, I remained in the position of holding the raised panties.
Somehow, I don't know what's going on.
[A, e~to, um...]
[Hmpf!]
The one spearheading it was a girl with an excessively well-built body.
How should I say it? A girl? A woman? A bandit? A gorilla?
This person gave off that kind of impression.
The width of her shoulders was nearly twice my own.
Is she a Beast Race...? Instead she's likely a Magic Race.
[You are perverted trash!]
To the confused me, she spat that.
I was suddenly insulted.
That doesn't seem like the actions of someone who is supposed to be the sage of the forest.
What?
What is going on?
Why am I suddenly being treated as an underwear thief?
Certainly, as a 15 year old boy, I have an interest in underwear. But, I wasn't trying to steal them this time, I didn't even smell them.
I just had grabbed it before it reached the ground is all, I was only trying to return it to its owner.
[Please wait a minute, I haven't done anything.]
[Haven't done anything?]
The Gorilla-girl grabbed my arm.
She's got huge hands.
[If it's nothing, then what do you have in your hand?]
There is a certain item in my hand.
A face was made, about to say that it was the evidence in question against me.
The surrounding stares are filled with hostility.
My feet start to tremble.
[Those, those are Ariel-sama's underwear aren't they? Even if someone like you admires the princess, you must have no shame at all to do something so brazen as that!]
To Gorilla-san's caustic words, the surrounding girls pour on the jeers towards me with things like [That's right!] [Hentai!] [Go Die!]
What the hell, I am already crying now.
[Listen! Don't come this way, someone like you should repent on their actions, and never be allowed to do these kinds of things again.]
I am pulled along, being caught from arm-to-shoulder.
The only resistance I could put up was the tracks in the dirt the bottoms of my shoes left as I was being dragged.
The power of the women's dorm.
Even though I had been building up my muscles, was the difference in our muscle strength really that great?
I am being dragged into the building, as it is.
Am I about to be subjected to a horrible lynch mob?
I'm being falsely accused.
Should I run away?
Even though I didn't do anything wrong?
If I run away, will rumors spread widely?
What should I do, this is like the feeling of being falsely accused as a train molester.
Can I make them understand through talking?
However it's probably already too late for that....
No, at times like this I need to remain stubbornly confident in my innocence.
I did nothing wrong here.
Thinking so, I used earth magic, and firmly affixed my feet in place.
I immediately stop being dragged, and the Gorilla makes a surprised face.
I was going to fight through the misunderstanding.
[Hee~, What's this, planning to become violent?
Even though you are just a shitty, shameless underwear thief.
Against this number of people, do you think you can win?]
Maybe, I wonder.
While I get the feeling I won't win in the way I want to.
However, underwear thief.
If I get violent here, I will have the label of my person changed to that of an underwear thief.
It's a false accusation.
However, if I get violent, the false charge would likely change into something like rape and pile up.
Then, the current false charge becomes lost entirely.
I might be dealt with in some kind of appeasing move by the administration, could be driven in a corner to the point where I would have to withdraw from school.
How annoying.
What good can come out of this?
[Wait a moment! Stop the arrest, wait for just a moment!]