The ten members of the third team were found drowned.
This one had the effect of making us pale.
「 It would be too much work to bury the ten bodies by ourselves. We’ll leave them alone spread out like that for now. Let’s come back again after breakfast. We’ll ask everyone to help 」
「 Certainly 」
Sofia and I split up and laid down the drowned bodies on the beach.
We moved them toward the land so the waves won’t take them away
(Is that driftwood lying around the wreckage of the raft?)
I wondered what to do with the driftwood, but I left it as it was.
I can collect them when needed. But that’s not necessary for now.
「 This should be enough 」
Arranging the corpses wasn’t that hard.
Unlike the girl they raped, these guys are clean.
That girl was a horrific mess and it makes me sick just remembering it.
「 It’s all fine that they take on that reckless challenge, but bother getting washed on the nearby shore 」
They’re annoying us even after their death. I thought while returning to the hideout.
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After breakfast, I brought everyone to the sandy beach with the corpses.
「 Ugh, you got the fate you deserve for being rapists 」
Arisa cursed them.
Nearly everyone nodded in agreement.
They can’t help but feel uncomfortable when thinking about the girl who committed suicide.
「 Let’s take off their uniforms and bury the bodies 」
「 Eh? We’re stripping them? 」
Mana’s surprised.
Arisa also has a tight look, asking “Seriously?”
「 Uniforms are the highest quality materials here. It can be used for a change of clothes for the boys, or the handicrafts team can reuse them for other garments. Fortunately, these guys have clean clothes from the seawater, so there’s no reason not to use them 」
「 Hokage-kun’s being a realist as usual 」
「 They say that women are realists, but Hokage’s even more than that 」
Eri said and Karin added.
「 And so, please do me a favor 」
Thus, we buried them after stripping off their clothes.
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We continued working after burying the bodies.
Today, I returned from a day off to search the nearby beaches.
We’re looking for student bags.
「 I found it, Shinomiya-kun 」
「 Found one here too! 」
「 I found one as well 」
Meiko, Arisa, and Sofia found them.
Just like uniforms, school bags are extremely valuable items and we don’t overlook them.
「 I found one too! 」
「 Here too, muscle! 」
After that, we continued to college the student bags.
By the time lunch arrived, we were able to collect eight student bags.
「 The remaining two don’t seem to be nearby. That’s enough searching 」
We stopped looking for the other bags.
「 Just getting eight of them is already big enough 」
「 Hokage, you look happy 」
Karin points out as we’re going back to the hideout.
「 Well, we weren’t fond of the dead guys, rather, it’s disgust. So, it’s not shocking at all 」
「 I see 」
Karin’s expression didn’t seem to be in complete agreement.
It’s not because she’s menstruating.
「 Perhaps you knew someone among the corpses? 」
「 Why do you think that? 」
Karin asks back.
「 I mean, Karin’s the only one with a different expression when Arisa said “a fitting end for rapists,” Even now, it’s still gloomy. I thought that you were on your period, but that face doesn’t say that 」
Karin’s eyes open wider than usual.
She mutters with a surprised look, “you sure observe a lot”
「 Don’t worry. I’m not acquainted with any of the corpses 」
「 Really? Then, why are you being gloomy? 」
I asked.
The other people walking with us seem concerned as well.
「 I mean 」
Karin stopped and turned around.
She said, looking at the spot where we buried the bodies.
「 If we fail to make our trip, we’ll end up the same as them 」
Karin’s words weighed heavily in our minds.