Chapter 71 (1/2)
Extra Chapter 1 – “Monday Before Sunrise”
Where should I start…
About what? About the members of Girls Dead Monster of course, or Gldemo for short
By the way, Girls Dead Monster is a rock band, where I, Sekine, play as the bassist
Moreover, that very name was created by none other than yours truly
Back when the band first formed, our seniors, Ia and Hisako, were so strict and scary, so I one day jokingly told Irie, our drummer,
“These people are monsters… You leave me here and make your own escape, Miyukichi…”
And from that, the name was born
Okay, allow me to introduce the band members First up is one of our seniors, Hisako
Her nicknae much~☆)
Hisako is the lead guitarist of our band
You’d never expect it, but she also has another side to her: an avid gambler
To be ambler
I actually got a peek of her treacheries at work a while back
It was quite a spectacle
That day, I was playing hide-and-seek with Miyukichi and was hiding inside a locker
The sun was about to set, so I ondering if I should cohts came on A bunch of people came in, said, “Let’s do this!”, and then sat down around a table
There went my chance to leave
Little did I know, this was going to beHisako’s other side
The four at the table were Fujimaki, TK, Ooyama, and Hisako
They started shufflingtiles on it
The basic rule ofof an eye of two identical tiles, plus four melds of three-tile combos The first one to achieve a hand wins, and would then collect points from the other players
“Calling ready!”
Hisako tossed a thousand point stick onto the table, indicating that she was only a tile away fro a hand
“There… Go through!”
“Won by discard One-shot, all simples no pointer Oh ho, with the inner dora, that’s max pointsfor me”
It was quite a blitzkrieg
But I had already noticed that Hisako’s hand didn’t have enough tiles
There should have been 13 tiles, but she only had ten
With the other three tiles hidden in her hand, she won byjust three melds instead of four
“Tsk… Take ’em”
Fujimaki was an idiot so he didn’t notice at all He handed over the point sticks obediently
Hisako’s one-meld-less trickery had wrecked havoc
She would always make a hand faster than anyone else
“I call ready ‘Kay, won by discard All siain”
“Fck me!”
TK was more or less an idiot too, so he didn’t notice either
For the guy to have even used an R-rated word, heit
“I call ready”
This time, Ooyama finally drove Hisako into a corner
It was only the third turn She couldn’t make it even if she reduced her tiles to just ten
That hen Hisako decided to do soeous
She hid three more tiles into her hand
Now there were only seven left, and therefore, only two melds
“Ready here too!”
She tossed out a stick
But this was obviously too unnatural She only had half the tiles Ooyama had
Ooyama probably couldn’t take it anymore and voiced out
“That’s… 13 tiles you’ve got there?”
“Sure is”
…Whaaaaaaaa?!
His inner screaood spot it was too, complete with a perfect view of the table~☆)
But since no one else said anything, poor Ooyaot quiet and drew another tile
“Gimme a win…! crap! This one’s bad news!”
But he had already called ready, so he had to toss it out
“Get through!”
“Oh no it won’t,” said Hisako, “Won by discard Ready hand one-shot, all simples no pointer, all in one suit, two doras, ah, plus the inner dora… How much is that…? A multiplier of 13, huh? An ultimate maxer”
“Holy shi+t… That was freaking awesome, Hisako…”
Words of admiration escaped Fujimaki’s mouth
“Hold, hold on! You call that an all in one suit?! Anyone can do that with only seven tiles!”
“I told you it’s 13 ‘Kay, next round, let’s go-“ She pushed all the tiles to the center to destroy the evidence
“You are just nasty! Okay fine! I’ll do it too! I call ready!”
Ooyarabbed three tiles into his palm, and taunted with nine tiles, one meld short of a hand
“Wait, Ooyah tiles?”
Fuji
“See, you ain’t got enough! You’re out of winning noerp”
“What the?! Why a called out?!”
He was forced to toss back the tile he drew
“Won by discard,” Hisako declared
“Huh? Who won by whose discard?”
“I won by yours”
Flop She pushed her tiles open
The four winds plus the three dragons
“What the hell is that…?”
“Thirteen wonders, a double ulti-maxer”
“Thirteen wonders from just seven tiles?! Don’t you see any contradictions?!”
“Hah, all in the same suit too A triple ulti-maxer”
“Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?!”
“Whoa… I’ve never seen the thirteen wonders all in the same suit before…”
“Because it’s not freaking possible!”
And thus, Ooyama sunk even deeper in debt…
“Alright, hand over the meal tickets you owe me”
“Aw, c’mon…”
Ruthless to no ends, haughty beyond measure Such is our Hisako A cheat, a pure incarnation of the Devil
Next up is our drummer Irie, nicknamed Miyukichi, who joined the band at the same time I did If Hisako is the Devil, then Miyukichi is definitely Devil Jr
With her delicate physique, she often teeous things, just to see how far she can push theirl she truly is
“Hey, hey, so you know that guy, uh… Kinoshi+ta, the NPC? He’s like, totally into ot like so red! Oh my God, he’s so obvious!” she boasted one day
“So yesterday, I told him that I was into like, the ‘delinquent’ look fro a pair of baggy pants! I’ his school blazer with the baggy pants on the botto! Oh my God it was hilarious!”
These NPCs sure were soy pants? Did he ht?
“Then he started yelling, ‘Whatchoo lookin at, fool?’ at other classonna look! Ah ha ha ha! What’s funniest is that he did all of that just to like, get on ood side!”
There she went, speaking like the Devil Jr she was…
Weabout it
“So shi+orin~ What should weI tell him!”
“Geez, Miyukichi, haven’t you had enough fun? You’ve teased him plenty already”
I tried to bring out the morals in her She was once alive, so she must have had them too
“But aren’t you just a little bit curious about how far they’ll go? We are spies of the Spirit Soldier Squadron after all”
Since ere you a spy?
Besides, the SSS was a bunch of idiots anyway; they couldn’t possibly have smart members like us
“What about like, an afro?! If I tell hiuys with afros, he’d so cohing!”
“You should just quit it Baggy pants are already bad enough Any ht push the poor NPC to its limits”
“But that’s like, totally the point! I wanna knohat their limits are! Okay then, tomorrow, afro, Kinoshi+ta!”
The next day
“Oh my God, that Kinoshi+ta!”
I was inside an e to practicein After she finally hter, she said,
“He did it! He really ca! damn, I didn’t even like, know our school’s barbershop had that kind of talent! What a total waste!”
“I saw him too He was pretty easy to spot I could tell who it was the uy”
“So what’s next? He’d seriously do whatever I ask! Oh my God, this is just too funny!”
“Sheesh… What happened to your original goal? Now you’re just doing it for the laughs”
“Nah, I’m not! This is totally serious business… Heh heh heh heh~”
Hard to believe such an unseemly snicker could come out of that cute lil’ mouth of hers
“Oh hey, next ti skewers into his afro?! The cafe’s having a skewer special tonight, so let’s make him come in with like, a bunch of skewers in his afro! Heh heh heh~”
“An afro is still a hairstyle at least, but sticking skewers into an afro? How can you possibly get him to do that?”
“Easy I’ll just tell hi like, ‘Oh, if only you had skewers in your afro, Kinoshi+ta~ I could just take one dohenever I wanted one~ Ah, I et attached to you~’ Heh heh heh~”
What a fiend…
I returned to my solo practice
The next day
“Oh my God, oh my God! He really stuck skewers into his afro!”
Tears were cohed all the way here
“Yeah, I saw He sure had them”
“I know, right?! And a friend of his was even like, ‘Gimme one!’, and he was like, ‘No, don’t touch!’ Ah hah hah hah! Oh my God!”
“So, did you eat one?”
“Ew yeah right! They were a day old and all cold! And he probably even like, went to the washroom with them! Gross!”
Oh boy, Miyukichi was really going too far…
This world did turn people into this…
And yet ether to fight against God
“Oooh, let’sbut he’ll like, walk around with a swi out, and a swionna have more character than us!”
Thwack!
I gave her a good slap on the face
Miyukichi just looked blankly into space She was completely shocked
“NPCs may not have souls like we do, but they are still people! They have feelings too! And on top of that, Kinoshi+ta’s even the innocent type! Unless you tell hi you say! Yet all you do is take advantage of that to make fun of him! Don’t you have any shame?!”
“B, but… I thought you were having fun too…”
“How could I have fun with these vulgar pranks of yours?! Kinoshi+ta is way more human than you are!”
“You ood as an NPC…?”
“Yeah You go think about that”
“S, sniffle…”
Miyukichi’s shoulders started to shake…
“Waaaaaaaaaaaaah!”
She ran aith her face in her hands
Sheesh…
Later, I explained the whole thing to Kinoshi+ta