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I need answers. I can't focus on anything else besides that. So I jump off the bed, grabbing my phone and texting Miko-senpai.
"Are you awake?"
As unlikely as it is for her to be up at this hour, I try texting a few times. As expected, no luck. Next, I try calling her. She almost always wakes up to a phone call. Except this seems to be one of the few times she doesn't.
Please wake up, Miko-senpai. I feel like I'm going insane from not knowing for sure what's happening. So much so I'll do what would usually be considered unthinkable for me, I'll go outside.
I quickly change my clothes, grab my wallet, cellphone and summon a taxi through the app. I'm outside in less than five minutes, getting on the cab and heading towards Miko's house. She doesn't live too far, so I'm soon knocking on her door and ringing the doorbell.
"Miko-senpai, it's me, Miko-senpai."
It took her a bit, but soon I heard the sound of the door being unlocked and the door slowly opening to reveal a sleepy-looking Miko-senpai.
"Usada?"
She asks, visibly confused. Not only that, but she's completely disheveled, way more than she'd usually be from waking up, and she's lacking her pajama bottom. The smell coming from her and the house isn't the sweet smell I'm used to. It's a bit more impure, like sweat.
"We need to talk. Aren't you going to invite me inside, peko?"
"Ahhh.."
She looks even more confused now, but more importantly, she's hesitating. She looks back towards the corridor leading to her room, and on her neck, I can spot some marks. Like she took a beating, or-
"Miko-senpai, what are those on your neck?"
She flinches, quickly covering it in her hand.
"Ahh, it must've been some mosquitoes."
"It's too cold for mosquitoes, peko."
"..."
She goes completely silent, still hiding her neck. And I'm growing more anxious by the second, and I'm sure even if I drop by out of nowhere, she'd invite me and take me as a guest. Why is she hiding like that? Or instead, what is she hiding.
"Excuse me, Miko-senpai."
I just walk inside while she's frozen in place. I can distinctly hear a gasp coming out of her as I storm in, going through her living room and corridor to reach her room. My heart was almost ripping a hole in my chest and jumping out as I pushed the half-closed door open. And I genuinely wish the smell coming from this room wasn't what I think it is.
"Ahhh.."
And there she was, in the same bed I slept just a few months ago. Suisei-senpai was utterly naked, staring at me with a surprised look on her face. It doesn't last, as she immediately grabs a blanket to cover herself, holding it over her chest.
I feel like my heart is being broken into a million pieces. Over and over again. I stare in pure disbelief, my brain refusing to process what is happening fully.
"What is the meaning of this, peko."
It seems like Miko-senpai finally managed to catch up as she entered the room beside me.
"It's not what you think, Usada.." She tries to justify, but the weakness of the voice coming out of her mouth betrays her.
"Is not what I think? THAT?" I point towards the naked girl on the bed. "That is not what I think?"
