Code Zulu Alpha: Nerd in the Apocalypse!

At this moment, Aoi and I were still tangled with each other's body—covered in sweat and our fluids—but for some reason, not only us, but the whole mountain would know when Kaiseki Ojii-san stepped foot on his domain. Take note, the two of us were fucking hours away from the entrance of the mountain, and our first instinct was to fucking snap out of it and jump on the water to get cleaned up.

Aoi-san was in a complete state of panic, "He's here, he's here, he's here! Everybody calm down!"

"W-W-Why are we panicking again?!"

"I-I-I dunno! W-We did something— O-Oh no, will he get mad—"

"W-We're adults, right?! Hold up— It's not like we're telling him—"

"But Ojii-san'll know for sure!"

"Why?! Does he check your hymen if its still intact— Youch! I'm kidding—"

"YOU— Don't be a— Y-You're the first one I've done those things, okay?! A-And promise me! You won't tell them a-about this! I-It's our secret— and i-if I ever found out, and I will, I promise you, this won't happen again!"

I stopped in the process of cleaning myself, "Oh."

"What now?!"

I smiled like a fucking idiot, "So there's a next time, huh?"

"Ugh… Of course, it is! W-We wouldn't have stopped if— I— Y-You… You enjoyed it t-too, right? Sora-kun? Did you?"

"I mean— we haven't really confirmed if Ojii-san could sense our presence around the mountain, right?"

"What are you on about?"

"I was just saying, we can stay here for a few more hours—"

"N-Not happening! What if they start looking for us since we're nowhere to be found?! They'll find this spot for sure!"

"R-Right, right… but Aoi-san… Can I uhh… Can I ask about something else too?"

"What is it? Is there anything on my hair?"

"N-No, it's about what we did here. I know it's our little secret and all but what does that mean?"

"What does that mean what?"

"You know… about us? It's pretty common in the village if we fancy someone our age since—"

"Ah— I… Umm… C-Can we… Can we talk about this l-later? I would LOVE to talk about that too but—"

"Right… Ojii-san might start looking for us…"

"That too, but…" Aoi-san trailed while looking away but she suddenly leaned into me before giving me another kiss, "I mean~ If you don't mind trying with someone older than you— Umm… L-Let's just say I'm not a-against the p-principle.

I— Y-You're pretty alright… I heard some things from my friends a-and it's totally different from what y-you did— w-what we did… So… It's not like we can talk about this right now, right?"

"R-Right…"

In any case, Aoi-san was the first to leave the water as I was just left there stunned in place—but before I even thought of other things, we definitely forgot about a lot of things before we ended up in Aoi-san's secret beach cave.

Because not only did we leave my room in tatters, we weren't even sure if the wake Aoi-san left as she was chasing me up and down the mountain was untrackable—and spoiler alert: it fucking was.

And our world just crumbled when we heard familiar voices coming from one of the passages and we knew that the jig was up and Aoi-san's spot was discovered.

"Pardon the intrusion~" Mashiro-san was the first to come in.

Followed by Arashi-san, "Wha— Huh. I didn't expect this."

"Oh~ There's a place like this here! I'm gonna make a spot for my treasures in— AHH! BAKA-SORA! YOU'RE HERE! YOU'RE HERE!" exclaimed the fucking runt known as Eikiji-kun.

All I could do was force a smile and hope to god that Aoi-san was fucking decent, "Hiii~ Nice morning, huh?"

Eikiji tried to get my attention, "OI! You hear me, right—"

But Mashiro-san's voice overpowered his as he looked around and walked towards me, "Nice morning? Really? Everyone at the village thought something was wrong because of the state of your room, prompting us to follow this fucking trail which eventually led us here and— Where's Aoi-chan, by the way? I swear they heard she was chasing you down or something…"

I scratched the side of my cheek, "Ah…"

But all of a sudden, not only did Aoi-san scream for dear life but Arashi-san let out a deathly wail that prompted Mashiro-san to suddenly disappear from view and appear several feet away with his own blade, a slightly longer katana than mine, while Eikiji's first instinct was to hide away from the source of the distress signal.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE, YOU PERVERT! I'M CHANGING!"

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO THIS— NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

"ARASHI! AOI! WHAT'S WRONG!"

"MASHIRO-SAN! T-THE— THE— THIS IS— HIS TACHI'S MANGLED TO SMITHEREENS!"

"WHAT?!"

And before I could even begin to explain what happened, everyone else present in the cave felt a sense of dread before we heard a loud splash from the other side of the beach cave—where the ocean and the rest of the water were—and a towering and imposing figure slowly appeared like fucking Gojira.

Out of all the things that fucking scared me, this was definitely on the top of the fucking list—fuck it, way, way~ above it since it was just in a league of its own—and it was when Kaiseki Ojii-san that his life's work was damaged.

And believe, I tried to calm the fucking monster but I haven't leveled up my speech kill to what I have now at this point in my life

So, all that came out was:

"O-Ohayou(Good Morning), Ojii-san… How was your—"

Then Ojii-san's voice echoed and made the beach cave tremble:

"Did I hear that right? Bring it to me."

And at that point, Ojii-san just spared me a glance to, for some reason, inspect my body—but before he could even say anything, Aoi-san came out of her cave wearing the same yukata as last night but she was in tears from each step she was making while holding my blade.

But aside from that, I could definitely feel the animosity in how Arashi-san—who came out after her—was looking at me because he was definitely just staring me down as Aoi-san made her way to Kaiseki Ojii-san.

And let's get the scoop out of the picture: Arashi-san and Aoi-san have known each other since they were kids and while the same could be said for me, they literally grew up together—though Arashi-san was brought here first and Aoi-san came a year after—and they were more brother and sister than Aoi-san and me were.

Of course, I wasn't entirely sure if he had developed feelings for Aoi-san from their time together but at this time, I wasn't entirely sure if he was mad at me due to brotherly love and was just protective of her or because of something else entirely since he had seen the blood on her sheets when he barged in her room.

'And again: even now, I wasn't sure of the exact fucking reason, unfortunately. Let's just say that we were already at odds the first time I was brought here by the old man… While we weren't at each other's throats before, it definitely felt like he wanted a piece of me at that time…'

But yeah, it didn't take long before I helped share the blame with Aoi-neesan as she tried to explain what happened as best as she could, but what angered Kaiseki Ojii-san more wasn't the damage done to my tachi but the same exact reason Aoi-san got mad at me the first time.

"Bozu, you… don't you consider us as family? You're leaving just like that?"

I sighed heavily, "It's… I— I was. Now, I don't. That was very stupid of me, ojii-san, it won't happen again, I promise. I'm also to blame for Aoi-san's actions, if I didn't speak too unkindly of you and everyone, she wouldn't have—"

Aoi cut me off, "N-No, I'm also to blame, I… I didn't even know what I did, I just…"

Arashi-san cut in as well, "You just destroyed Ojii-sama's life's work. Do you have any idea—"

Kaiseki Ojii-san cut him off, "Enough, Arashi-bozu, I'm handling it."

"I… I apologize, Ojii-sama…"

"Very well…" Kaiseki Ojii-san trailed as he inspected my mangled blade, "I thought this blade was idiot-proof—while I thought it was tough enough but I guess this just means I should just do something about it… Time for a re-work, no?"
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"Oh no…" Mashiro-san was the first to comment.

"..." Arashi-san just kept silent but the dread was also in his eyes the same as us.

And obviously, Eikiji-kun was probably a ways away from us the moment Ojii-san dropped down from the cliff— and he was probably off to looking for additions to his bug collection.

But yeah, if everyone could remember the part where I talked about the hardships we faced regarding the reconstruction of my blade, it would soon come in the form of gathering precious minerals and the training Mashiro-san would put us through due to mismanagement of my treasured blade.