After school, when I returned to the Student Council office, Kumagawa-kun was dead.

“He died again…!”

Kumagawa-kun was lying face-up on the floor.

The “Hero’s Sword"—it apparently had a name, but Kumagawa-kun had forgotten it—had pierced through his chest and even into the floor, making him look like some insect mounted on a needle in some insect collection.

Well, it was hard to say whether the insects in insect collections could be described as being mounted face up or face down… Anyway, he’d quite blatantly died, in a way much like what you’d see in a police drama.

It almost made me want to get some chalk from a classroom somewhere and trace along the edges of his corpse—ah, no, even if the target was Kumagawa Misogi, it would still be a bit imprudent to do.

Closing the door behind me, I approached Kumagawa-kun’s corpse, and—though I didn’t know if it was the right thing to do—grabbed the hilt of the sword in my hands and pulled it out in one go.

Splurt, went the blood that flowed out in one go.

It seemed that the sword had quite perfectly been impaled into his heart somewhere around the aorta, as I ended up showering in a powerful fountain of blood—of course, that had to mean that pulling out the sword was not the right thing to do.

It was like in police dramas where the knife was stopping the bleeding… I’d doubted the authenticity of that idea in the past, but after getting to experience it in reality, it seemed that such things really did occur.

「Don’t just say, 'such things really did occur’,」 said Kumagawa-kun, getting up. As if it were completely normal. 「You make it sound like it’s somebody else’s problem, Saki-chan.」

"Ah, Kumagawa-kun. You came back to life.”

「You sure are awful to pull out the sword even if there was no guarantee of me reviving—you’ve gotten way too used to bathing in blood, haven’t you? Good grief.」

Kumagawa-kun patted himself and his uniform down to fix things up—that is, he returned everything to as it was using “All Fiction”. As a result, the hole in his body and the hole in his uniform closed up just like that.

The blood that colored my entire body also disappeared.


Good Loser Kumagawa Gaiden - Sukinasaki Saki’s Unwarranted Substitute - 2