The Heroines Want to Confess

Chapter 449 449: Five Nights at Freddy’s

"What time is it now?"

Sakurai Saki looked at Yotsuba's face right in front of his eyes and asked a question.

Yotsuba forced herself to suppress her panic and said, "One in the morning."

If it were morning, when the sun was up, she wouldn't be this scared at all!

Precisely because it was so late, the frightening atmosphere had reached max. Yotsuba had only gone to the toilet for a bit and was already scared pale!

"…Go on." Sakurai Saki yawned. "What happened?"

"My teddy bear disappeared." Nakano Yotsuba's face gained a few more traces of fear.

Today she had brought home a teddy bear, and it was even one that Sakurai Saki had personally shot for her at a festival stall. Its size wasn't small either, about thirty centimeters.

"Maybe someone hid your bear. Go to sleep. When morning comes, just ask and you'll know." Sakurai Saki really didn't have the mood to look for a teddy bear in the middle of the night. There was no need.

It was definitely a prank by Nino or Itsuki. Seeing Yotsuba leaving things around, they probably just casually put it away.

"I'm the one who sleeps the latest. Before going to bed, I put it in the living room, several corridors away." Yotsuba said tremblingly.

"But when I checked just now, it had rolled down from the table in the living room to the floor, and it was also very close to the door of the living room."

"Maybe you didn't place it steadily."

After saying that, Sakurai Saki wrapped himself in the blanket, closed his eyes, and planned to go back to sleep.

"Then why did it… Sakurai-san, don't sleep." Yotsuba pulled at his blanket, then crawled straight in.

Sakurai Saki opened his eyes and turned his face to look at the cute face only a finger's distance away—kind of wanted to kiss it—"Why did you crawl in?"

"I'm scared."

This reason was way too overpowered. As long as a girl said it, anything could be forgiven. Truly cunning.

"…." Sakurai Saki fell silent for a few seconds, then got up. "Let's go take a look at the scene."

"?" Yotsuba watched him get up and put on his clothes. She froze.

Wait, Sakurai-san, we were just lying under the same blanket, okay? How can you calmly leave like that?!

Yotsuba began to doubt her own feminine charm.

If Sakurai Saki knew what she was thinking, he would definitely retort: women—horny and they say the guy is lecherous, no horny and they say the guy is pretending to be upright.

"What is it? Didn't you say you wanted to go take a look?"

Seeing her curling up in fear, Sakurai Saki chuckled softly: "I'll protect you, don't worry."

Yotsuba stood up, still wearing her pajamas and showing no intention of changing.

"Not changing clothes?"

"Pervert." Yotsuba blushed and hugged her chest.

"It's a bit cold outside. Even though it's summer, the nighttime temperature… if you go out dressed like this, it's very easy to catch a cold."

"…Outside?"

"That's right. According to what you said, that teddy bear is very likely to have gone outside."

As soon as those words left his mouth, Yotsuba's legs went weak. She didn't dare to go anymore, hurriedly crawled back into the blanket, stuck her head out to look at Sakurai Saki, and said weakly: "Can I not go?"

At this moment, compared to the teddy bear being haunted, she would rather believe it had simply accidentally fallen from the table.

The corners of Sakurai Saki's mouth curved into a malicious smile. He forcefully grabbed her hand: "Don't say that. There are no ghosts in this world, right? We have to believe in science…"

"I know, but I'm just scared." Yotsuba pouted, stepping out of the blanket with great reluctance.

The two quietly left the washitsu-style bedroom and then arrived at the pitch-dark corridor.

Sakurai Saki turned on the light beside them.

The light here was an old-style one, flickering orange light. Combined with the timing, it really gave off a bit of a horror movie feeling.

"We didn't wake them up just now, right?" Yotsuba turned her head and looked back.

"No, every single one of them is sleeping like corpses."

"That comparison is too much." Yotsuba shot him a glance.

Using that kind of comparison in a situation like this was definitely intentional to scare people!

But Sakurai Saki's personality had always been rather mean anyway, so she was already used to it.

"Shall we check the living room first?"

"Umu."

The two of them started walking. Yotsuba followed behind Sakurai Saki, turned her head to look at the pitch-black corridor behind them, felt a little scared, and then jogged over to stick close beside him, grabbing his hand: "I'm scared."

Having already been blocked by her explanation, Sakurai Saki couldn't really say anything.

Holding hands was fine then. After all, the five sisters all looked pretty similar, and besides, Yotsuba wasn't wearing her characteristic bunny-ear ribbon at the moment.

"Sakurai-san, there won't really be ghosts, right?"

"…Probably not?" Sakurai Saki said a few words that went against his conscience.

Yotsuba was the only one among the five sisters who didn't know his true identity, so it was best not to tell her.

"Why is that phrased as a question?"

"Because I'm not sure either. What if there really is? All those mysterious phenomena that can't be explained by science… it's not that they don't have rules, it's just that humans haven't discovered them yet, right?"

"Why do you have to ask me back when you explain…"

Before Yotsuba could finish speaking, the two of them had already arrived in front of the living room door.

Sakurai Saki didn't think much about it and directly reached out to push open the door, which already had a fairly large gap.

The two of them turned on the living room lights.

Contrary to expectations, the teddy bear that Yotsuba said had just fallen near the living room door had disappeared.

"!!!" Yotsuba wanted to scream, but was quickly covered over the mouth by Sakurai Saki, "Mmm mmm mmm~"

"It disappeared?"

"Umu umu umu!" Yotsuba nodded vigorously.

Only then did Sakurai Saki let go.

If Yotsuba screamed, then no one would be sleeping tonight.

"Haa." Yotsuba first let out a breath, then hurriedly explained: "Sakurai-san, I really did see it just now. I wasn't lying, and I wasn't tricking you."

"I know. It probably took advantage of us talking in the bedroom to push the living room door and leave."

"In other words, right now in our house there's a teddy bear that can wander around?" Nakano Yotsuba tightly hugged Sakurai Saki's arm, as if she wanted to attach it to her body. She was scared to death.

"Let's go to the front door."

"I want to go back to sleep." Yotsuba felt that acting like an ostrich was more suitable for this situation.

In horror movies, the bold people who go exploring usually die the fastest; instead, the foolish characters are the ones who live the longest.

"Don't be like that. If we don't catch it now, will you even be able to sleep later?" Seeing how scared she was, Sakurai Saki couldn't help having one bad thought after another pop up in his mind.

"U…"

Actually, Yotsuba had already prepared herself mentally to not sleep tonight.

Whether they caught it or not didn't really matter… wait!

"Catch it?"

"That's right."

"… I don't want to anymore."

"Thinking about the several thousand yen you spent to get it, are you sure you really don't want it anymore?"

"… Fine. We'll just go take a look, just take a look only."

"Got it, got it. Look how timid you are."

Sakurai Saki pulled Yotsuba toward the entrance.

Right in front of the front door.

The teddy bear was sitting right there, blankly, one arm raised toward the doorknob.

Yotsuba held her breath.

"There's—"

Before she could finish saying the word "ghost," her mouth was once again covered by Sakurai Saki.

'There really is a ghost!?'

Yotsuba felt a chill surge straight up from her feet to the top of her head.

But in such a situation, Sakurai Saki was completely opposite to the reaction one should have. He gestured for Yotsuba to be quiet and then walked over to the entrance, reaching out to open the door.

"Yotsuba, turn around. Don't look at it."

Yotsuba's whole body stiffened as she turned around.

A very faint sound came from the doorway.

When Yotsuba turned her head to look again, the teddy bear at the front door had disappeared.

Her legs went weak and she collapsed onto the floor, panting as she said: "It left?"

"It left."

"Let's go back to sleep." Yotsuba said, but then noticed that Sakurai Saki had no intention of closing the door.

'Eh? Why isn't he closing the door? Sakurai-san, you're not thinking of something strange, are you?'

Sure enough, Sakurai Saki opened his mouth and said: "Want to follow and take a look?"

"No…"

Yotsuba wanted to refuse, but the curiosity in her heart kept pushing her to do something stupid.

"Don't worry, I'll protect you."

Sakurai Saki's voice somehow carried a power that stirred people up.

Yotsuba thought for a few seconds, and in the end, she still didn't refuse—

"Umu."

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