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Chapter 6 - Dystopia 6: Camping Trip

Kaede had decided to take her class to a camp as a field trip. The bus drove toward the camp, which was called FallWoods Camp.

Bmon glanced out the window before staring at Kana briefly. "...What made her want to bring us to a camp anyway?"

"...Maybe she wants us to learn survival techniques?" Kana responded.

"...B-But one of us can literally make fire out of nothing, not to mention I can basically teleport… Why would we need survival techniques?" He questioned.

Kana tilted her head slightly. "You need furniture to do that though, right?"

Bmon blinked for a moment before shaking his head. "I suppose so… Still, I don't see the point of this field trip."

He paused. "...Speaking of which, where is Daisuke-"

"Hmm… Seems like you rolled snake eyes Hiroyuki, sucks to be you I guess." Daisuke held back his laughter.

"...We are playing chess, you know that right?" He questioned.

Bmon glanced at them before facepalming. "Damn it, Daisuke…"

Upon arrival they got out of the bus and glanced around, several tents as well as a campfire surrounded the campsite. Nearby there seemed to be a waterfall and a cave.

"Whoa… This place looks cozy… Definitely a memory that I will remember for a long time." Kioko stated.

Akuma stared at her in disbelief. "...Y-You are weird… It's just a campsite, it isn't a big deal."

Kaede started to speak. "Okay, class! We will be staying here for the weekend! There's a few other locations around here, however you should stay in camp during the night."

Bmon raised an eyebrow. "...What happens if we don't-" He paused as Kaede transformed into him while smiling menacingly. "N-Nevermind! I don't know how long it would take to find my way back here if you threw me into Archived Space…"

Itsuki and Hiroyuki looked at each other before silently making their way out of the camp and toward the forest beside it.

"Now THIS is what nature should look like…" Itsuki stated.

"You said it, I can already see a poisonous mushroom over there…" Hiroyuki grinned.

"Hiro-san, let's find out which one of us can find the nearest thing in this forest!" He suggested.

"Hmm… That's a good idea, but I will be the one to find the neatest thing. I am a master at finding poisons!" Hiroyuki laughed.

The girls of the class stayed inside of a tent. Aoi glanced at Tsubasa for a moment before speaking. "S-So… A-Are you an actual angel?" She asked curiously.

Tsubasa nodded. "Yes… I'm as much of an angel as Akuma is a demon…"

Kirika's eyes lit up. "That's so cool! What can you do!? Can you bless people with good luck?" She questioned.

Tsubasa looked at Kirika with a neutral expression. "Y-You do realize… N-Nevermind…"

"So… Kuromi, what kind of games do you play?" Atsuko asked.

"W-Well… I recently played the latest entry in "Reborn Twin Dragons", It's a fighting game…"

Atsuko looked surprised for a second. "I-I played that one too! The main character, Sonia… Her backstory is so tragic…!"

"T-That is true…" She laughed nervously.

Meanwhile… Hiroyuki had found a rather dangerous looking mushroom and grinned. "Yes… This should be good enough to win against Itsuki…! Now the question is… Where am I?" He glanced around before blankly staring at a tree. "...Well, that's not good."

He flinched as he heard a rustling bush. "W-What was that!?"

Hiroyuki approached the bush slowly, the air around him felt colder than normal. As he reached for the bush a 6 legged monster rose from the Bush and stared at him.

He froze. "U-Uh… H-Hello…?" He laughed nervously, not even a moment later it screeched resulting in Hiroyuki running away. "N-NOPE! NOT DEALING WITH THAT!"

A pair of suspicious men talked to each other where the monster was. "...Should we deal with him? He got dangerously close to our testing site…"

The other man shook his hand. "No. Unless our boss says otherwise, we shouldn't do anything that would attract too much attention…"

"If you say so, man…"

They walked toward a strange facility which stood out from everything else in the forest.

Daisuke glanced at Bmon before speaking. "Hey, how funny would it be if we tried scaring Akuma?"

"...I don't think that's a valuable use of our time…"

"If you say so…" They walked out of their tent and went over toward the waterfall as Bmon spotted something.

"...Would you look at that, a convenience store that is very close to our camp…" He pointed beyond the waterfall.

"Oh hey, you're right… Guess we might as well buy some snacks." Moments later they entered the convenience store, where a cashier greeted them. "Welcome!" She told them.

They nodded and began looking around. "Oh hell yeah, look Bmon! They have hotdogs!" Bmon glanced at where Daisuke was pointing.

"They sure do… They look really good… Let's buy a few, I'm gonna buy some chocolates." He told him.

Meanwhile…

Itsuki had grabbed a few rare weeds from out of the ground, he stuffed them in his bag before hearing a scream. He jumped back slightly as Hiroyuki ran into him.

"W-What the hell!? Why were you running!?"

Hiroyuki glanced up at him. "Oh, thank god… I saw a creature of unimaginable horrors in that forest, man!"

Itsuki stared at him for a second before responding. "...A creature of unimaginable horrors, huh? Are you sure you didn't eat a hallucinogenic mushroom? That seems more likely than seeing a monster…"

He shook his head. "N-No! I did pick up a mushroom like that earlier, but I didn't eat it!"

"Whatever… Let's see who won, we need a judge though… Let's go back to camp." Hiroyuki nodded and they walked back toward the campsite.

As Bmon and Daisuke arrived back at the camp, so did Hiroyuki and Itsuki.

"...The hell were you two doing?" Bmon questioned.

"Hiro-san CLAIMS he saw a "Monster" however, he probably just ate a mushroom by mistake…"

"I-I swear I didn't eat a mushroom, man!"

Bmon stood there for a moment, seemingly lost in thought before grabbing a piece of paper out of a tent and drawing something on it. "...Say, did the monster you see look something like this?"

Hiroyuki glanced at the poorly drawn monster. "...I mean… It looks similar… But, the monster I saw wasn't a crappy drawing."

Bmon blinked before glaring at him. "...Ok, point taken. My drawings suck, but you claim you saw the same monster I did a few days ago?"

"Y-You saw that as well!?" Bmon nodded. "It was in the city when I saw it though… Not in a forest beside a campsite."

Kaede came out from the girls' tent and glanced at what they were doing. "What's going on here-" She stopped as she saw the drawing. "...Who drew this?"

"...Bmon did?" Daisuke replied.

She glanced back at Bmon. "Do you… Wait…" She stepped back slightly. "Nevermind, forget what I said…"

Kaede went back into the girls' tent while thinking. Bmon glanced at the others with a confused face. "What did I do? Was it how bad the drawing was?"

They shrugged.

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