✦1314✦Nanbaka✦Reverse-harem✦

✦49✦ Building 5 Arc - A shot of reality

"Trois, why are you grabbing Uno's hair to hold him back?" Michiyo asked with a sweatdrop. 

"Because it's the next easiest thing to grab." 

"Huh..." Michiyo looked at Jyugo to see he was looking dull as ever. He had been like that since coming out of the management office. She did ask him about it, but he insisted it was nothing for her to worry about.

"Not without Nico! I'm bringing him back! Come on, Jyugo, Michi!" 

Honey was getting annoyed at the 18 year old, "Idiot! Even if he is up there, that Chinese guy is with him, right?! Except for Michiyo-san, you two will just get in the way!" 

"If he's hiding up there, he'll actually be safer. Let's bet on that possibility." Trois suggested in hopes to change Uno's mind about going back up. Even if they go back, how will they dig up the stockpile of rubble and debris that Upa made? 

"But...then..." Uno was still refusing to listen, "We have Michi! We have a chance-" 

"I refuse to go up." Michiyo was quick to answer Uno. "Before you say anything about me not worrying about Liang or Nico...they have the resolve to stay behind to let us go on. If you go back up there now, you're wiping their resolve against your butt and then throwing it in their face." She hid her hands behind her back so they couldn't see it. However, Honey, Trois, and even Uno knew she was lying to herself. Truth was she wanted to go, but she told herself that Liang, Upa, and Nico wouldn't want that from them. So she chose the choice that respected their resolve and courage. 

"Michi..." 

"Not knowing if they're alive and safe, hurt, or even dead kills me, Uno." She looked at Uno in the eyes, "But we still have to go on! They don't want us to go back!" 

'She's trembling. She wants to go up as much as he does...' Honey thought to himself. 

'Even if she's on our side, she still thinks about Liang-kun and Nico-kun. She really is a kind girl.' Trois thought with a small smile. 

Honey voiced out to Jyugo that he should say something too; Uno was Jyugo's friend, right? When a friend's making a bad choice, it's another friend's job to tell them off for it...Honey wondered why Jyugo was doing none of that. Seeing the look in Jyugo's eyes really annoyed him!

"Hm?" Michiyo heard a weird noise behind her. Before she could respond, a powerful torrent of water poured from way above the stairs, descending upon them! "Kya!" Michiyo and everyone were swept away by the water! They couldn't fight against the current and they had no choice but to flow with it...

...

The flow ended once they reached the end of the stairs. It was a good thing it was drained away to god knows where. 

"This sucks..." Honey complained, hair now ruined by the water.

"That must have been a trap too." Trois explained, trying to keep his breathing steady. "Michiyo-san, are you oka-" 

"Achoo!" Michiyo sneezed cutely, hugging herself to stay warm. Her clothes were wet and it was sticking to her. 

"...on second thoughts, I think I like this trap." 

"Right behind you, Honey-kun!" Both Trois and Honey gave Michiyo a thumbs up, "A beautiful girl who suddenly gets wet from top to bottom, it's every man's dream!" 

"Don't sexually harass Michi!" Uno snapped at them. "Hey, Jyugo, you okay?" 

Ding! Jyugo's lying on the ground half dead.