“Could you lie down on your stomach here?”
“Ish iht somehing pervehed!? Anf in front of Sanae-fan!?”
“Of course not”
“Then itsh fhine... lihe thif?”
“Yeah, just like that. Thanks”
“Haa...”
Yurika didn't really understand, but she followed Koutarou's directions. She stretched her body and laid flat, stomach down, on the tatami. There wasn't much she could do with her position like this, so she carefreely continued chewing on her rice cracker.
“Fuah!?”
That was when Yurika was struck with an acute sense of pain. The rice cracker spilled from her mouth because of it
“W-What is–!?”
Yurika was completely unable to move. The joints in her legs were locked and wouldn't move, and with her legs raised up into the air, her upper body was pushed down, rendering her unable to move. Her arms were free, but despite her best efforts to swing them around, she couldn't escape.
“Ouch, owowowow! Satomi-san, help, it hurts!”
“Like this, Sanae”
“I see. Like that”
Yurika, who couldn't understand the situation she was in, instinctively called for Koutarou for help, despite him being the source of her pain. As a result, her pain wasn't alleviated in the slightest as she was used as a guinea pig for Koutarou and Sanae to try their technique on.
“Koutarou, I want to try too”
“Before you do, you should hang onto me and get a feel for the technique”
“I see. You're right! ...Ei!”
“Gyaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!”
“Sanae, hold back a little”
“I see. Sorry Yurika”
“...S-Satomi-shan... i-isn't this a little too much, j-just for skipping on cleaning up the bathroom?”
“Actually, Sanae, you don't have to hold back”
“Got it”
“Gyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!”
Sanae was a diligent student, but because of that, it took a while before Yurika was freed from her hell.
After Sanae had properly mastered the Scorpion Deathlock, she began massaging Koutarou's body because she had recalled saying that it felt great feeling his back being stretched when she was trying the hold on him.
“Koutarou, you can't just leave it be until it gets this bad. Your circulation has gotten worse”
“I got it. I'll let you know the next time I notice”
“Good, just leave it to this Sanae-chan!”
Sanae massaged Koutarou like she always did. Using her poltergeist, she roughly massaged his muscles while using her spiritual energy to improve the circulation of his spiritual energy.
While Koutarou was receiving a massage, there was someone lying down next to him.
“This... is just too cruel...”
That person was Yurika, who had served as Sanae's training partner. With tears in her eyes, she looked at Koutarou who was right next to her. She had been complaining to him like this for a while now.
“If I knew this would have happened, I would have preferred having something perverted done to me...”
Having had her joints attacked, she was unable to move anything at chest level and below. All she could do was complain to Koutarou.
“I'm sorry, Yurika. We overdid it a little”
Koutarou was reflecting on his actions. His athletic blood ran wild and he accidentally went too far. Since he had no intentions of hurting Yurika, he honestly apologized.
“If you're going to apologize then please don't do it to begin with!”
But that alone wasn't enough to satisfy Yurika as she continued to complain. Now, opposite of before, Yurika's position was far above Koutarou's.
“That's because you're the only one I can ask”
The moment Koutarou said “you're the only one”, Sanae's hands unconsciously twitched. However, nobody noticed that minute change. Not Koutarou, and not even Sanae noticed it.
“You didn't ask! You just did it all of a sudden!”
“Really?”
“Yes, really!! And why is it me!? There were many more you could have asked!!”
Yurika moved her arms and pointed at the girls in the room.
In the room were Kiriha and Shizuka, along with Theia and Ruth who had just returned.
When Yurika was put under the Scorpion Deathlock, Theia and Ruth were somewhere else, but both Theia who he often got into fist fights with and Ruth who underwent combat training together with him would be good fits for the job. So adding in Yurika, Koutarou should have had five choices. And amongst them, he had chosen Yurika. She wanted to know the reason for that.
“That's because, everyone else are girls, you know?”
That was Koutarou's answer after he looked at all of the girls in order.
They were all girls of age, so he was reluctant to go out of his way to ask them to be guinea pigs.
And in particular, Theia, Ruth and Kiriha had shown clear affection towards him. He couldn't easily use wrestling techniques on them. Because for better or worse, the atmosphere would become an uncomfortable one.
“I'm a girl too!!”
Yurika was not happy, because it was as if Koutarou was saying that she wasn't a girl. And reacting to Yurika's words, the other girls began intervening.
“Well... if it's Satomi-kun... he wouldn't touch me inappropriately”