Chapter 94: I didn’t think you’d actually push me down and try to do me

The woman had an expression as if she had noticed Kazui’s presence, but she did not seem particularly bothered.

(Th-this is... outdoor play?)

Just as Kazui thought, the man and woman were enjoying outdoor play in the grove.

"S-sorry! I interrupted you!"

Raising his voice in panic, he said words of apology, then turned on his heel and went back.

Dashing in a fluster, he tried to leap out of the grove.

But because it was dark and his vision was bad, and on top of that he was extremely panicked, he missed the curb of stacked bricks.

As a result he caught his right foot on the curb and nearly pitched forward.

Having lost his balance and leaped out into the plaza, he noticed there was a human shadow in his path.

(This is bad! I’m going to hit them!)

Having completely lost his balance, he could not avoid the human shadow.

Like a rugby player landing a tackle, he collided with the black human shadow in a body check.

A man and woman’s screams rang through the night park.

The man’s was Kazui’s, and the woman’s was the scream of the woman who had been pushed down by Kazui and was lying on her back on the stone pavement covering the plaza.

"I-I’m sorry!"

In a panic he tried to get off the woman.

But when he tried to get off, the woman screamed.

"Ow!"

A button on the left sleeve of the blouson Kazui was wearing had gotten tangled in the woman’s sky-blue hair.

That was why when he tried to get up it pulled her hair.

"I’m sorry! I didn’t mean to... eh?"

When he reached his right hand to the woman’s hair to undo the button, the woman’s face twisted in pain came into his view.

Seeing the woman’s face surprised him, because he knew that face.

(W-why... of all people did I run into Monica?)

What came into Kazui’s view was Monica’s face.

He realized he had collided with Monica, currently the person he least wanted to see.

Normally Monica could easily dodge someone leaping out from the side.

But this time Kazui’s body check came when she was drunk and off guard, so she could not dodge.

"Eh? Kazu?"

With a flushed face that immediately showed she was drunk, Monica looked up at Kazui’s face.

At first her expression was surprised, but it immediately turned severe and she glared at him with eyes that looked ready to kill someone.

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"Sorry! I’ll get it off right away!"

While panicking, Kazui used dexterous fingers and, just as he said, immediately got the button out of her hair.

"Then, well... that’s how it is!"

He immediately stood up and tried to hurry away.

"Like I’d let you... get away!"

Right after declaring it in a strong tone, Monica instantly moved behind Kazui.

She grabbed the collar of his blouson and lifted him easily.

Like a cat grabbed by the neck and lifted, Kazui became unable to run.

His feet were not touching the ground, so there was no way for him to escape.

"Earlier you said something like, ’If you want a man, I can do you’..."

Glaring at Kazui from behind, Monica continued in a strong tone.

"I didn’t think you’d actually push me down and try to do me."

"No, um... we just happened to collide and it ended up like that. I wasn’t trying to push you down..."

Feeling far too awkward, Kazui made an excuse.

"There’s no way you’d just happen to tackle someone from the side!"

"It really was an accident!"

In a desperate tone, he explained how it happened.

"I was sobering up on a bench, but I saw you walking this way, so I hid in the grove for now to let you pass, and then..."

He hesitated over whether he should say what he had seen in the grove and faltered.

"Let me pass, and then what?"

Still lifting Kazui with only her right hand, Monica grabbed his left wrist with her left.

Then she calmly twisted his left arm up.

"Ah, ow! It hurts! I’ll talk! Stop!"

Seeing Kazui raise a pathetic voice at the intense pain, she put on a satisfied smile and loosened the force in her left hand.

Then, because Kazui had raised his voice, she noticed that the gazes of the few people in the plaza were gathering on them.

"If I keep talking while lifting you, we’ll get weird misunderstandings, so we’ll sit on a bench and talk. Don’t even think about running."

"Got it."

Kazui honestly agreed with Monica’s words.

He thought sitting on a bench and talking was better than being grabbed by the collar and lifted like a cat.

Monica set Kazui on the ground, but firmly grabbed his left arm and walked up to a nearby bench.

After sitting him on the bench, she sat down on his left.

Kazui’s left arm was being held by Monica, so he could not run.

Monica was far stronger, so shaking her off was impossible.

"So, when you tried to... let me pass, what happened?"

"...When I tried to let you pass, there were people in the grove... doing it, so I panicked and ran out."

He glossed over the outdoor sex that had been happening in the grove.

"Then I tripped on the brick curb, ended up body-checking you, and pushed you down."

"People in there... doing what?"

"Doing what... well... that."

"So what is ’that’?"

"No, so... um... there were people sitting on a bench... having sex, so I got surprised and ran out."

Judging it was impossible to keep dodging against Monica, who kept pressing, he ended up saying he had seen sex.

"Ah, so that’s it."

With a somewhat embarrassed expression, Monica understood why Kazui had faltered.

"When it gets night, those kinds of people are here. There aren’t that many who start before midnight, though."

In a tone as if it were obvious, she continued.

"That’s why this place gets oddly lively late at night. Not just couples. There are even people who come to peek at those kinds of people doing it."

"To peek? There’s a police station nearby. What are they doing? They don’t crack down on doing it outside or peeking?"

Just as Kazui wondered, near Stone Sphere Park there was the police station of Aquila’s south district.

The Aquila autonomous government did have a police organization, and there were police stations in all five districts, the center and the east, west, south, and north.

"Why would the police crack down?"

Kazui answered the puzzled Monica with a question.

"Why? Doing it outside and peeking are crimes, so they’d crack down, right?"

"No, they’re not crimes. What are you talking about?"

After asking that, she put on an expression as if she had noticed something and declared,

"Ah, in that country you lived in called Japan, those things are crimes?"

"They are, but it’s different in Aquila?"

"Not just Aquila. I’ve never heard of an autonomous city that goes out of its way to crack down on even that."

What Monica said was correct. Few autonomous cities went out of their way to crack down on outdoor sexual acts or peeking at them.

But both acts were actually illegal not only in Aquila but in many autonomous cities.

They were illegal, but the prohibiting laws themselves had become a dead letter.

There were many other targets that should be prioritized for crackdowns, so they were effectively left alone because there was no time to crack down on even this.

But being left alone was only a matter of nighttime.

If you had sex in a park during the day when children were playing, a parent might file a report and you could be arrested.