Before going, Duanmu Huai had already asked Sakuya about the air-raid shelter. According to Sakuya, most of the students knew about it. It was located behind the hill at the western end of the school's athletic field, and was said to have been dug long ago to hide from air raids. Of course, these days it was more like a warehouse, mainly used to store disaster-relief supplies and props that were useless on ordinary days but needed for large events.
Therefore, aside from some upperclassmen who had gone to the air-raid shelter to retrieve things for the cultural festival, sports meets, and the like, basically no one else went near the place.
According to Sakuya, the place gave people the creeps. Besides, this school was full of girls, and there weren't many particularly brave ones to begin with, so everyone normally stayed away. Sakuya herself had once gone inside to move some props, but she said there was actually nothing special about the air-raid shelter... at least, that was how it seemed to her.
But now...
"Hehehe..."
Duanmu Huai raised his head and looked at Minme Satori, who was happily circling around as she walked ahead like a bird. He frowned slightly. It was already sunset, and because school had ended, the students had long since left. They had either returned to the dormitory or gone home. The enormous campus had instantly become as quiet as a ghost town, to say nothing of the fact that they were now heading to the air-raid shelter along a path through the woods. Anyone else would have been extremely nervous.
Yet Minme Satori looked as relaxed and cheerful as if she were going on an outing... as though she had no such emotion as fear.
As he watched Minme Satori's figure, Duanmu Huai