A/N: I'm using a Mothy song for this chapter.
This chapter is for Rin_chan32! Thank you for reading this, and for your comments too!!
(Seven Crimes & Punishments; last song in the Deadly Sins Series, by Gakupo, Meiko, Rin & Len Kagamine, Miku Hatsune, Luka Megurine, Kaito & Gumi)
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Len's POV
"Orienteering of the Seven Atonements huh..."
Staring at the Deadly Sins Card hanging below my neck, I muttered to myself.
After getting ready at the positions under the Discipline Committee members' directions, the race began with the sounding of a shrill whistle. Fifteen minutes passed within the blink of an eye.
"Awawa. W-W-W-W-W-What shoulda do... Auau." Miku asked.
"What to do... Well, it's just crossing a bridge," Gumi answered.
We were standing before a deep ravine. Staring at the bottom of the cliff, Miku, who'd just joined us by now, was shaking tremendously. The river flowing below seemed absurdly far away. Traversing the top of this deep gorge, where falls were fatal, was a ragged rope bridge that looked like it could break any time, swaying in the wild winds over the ravine.
The Sloth checkpoint that our team decided to visit first was just ahead. Just to be safe, we'd checked out the surrounding area, but in the end, this was the only path leading to the checkpoint.
Gumi was right, it was just crossing a bridge, but...
"Are you okay, Miku?" I asked her. "If you're not feeling well, I'll give you piggy back ride."
"Ueh!? Oh, umm... Well, well... I-I'm fine!"
Although Miku said that, looking at the way she was staring at the rope bridge and trembling, she totally did not seem fine. She probably had fear of heights.
"...Better not push yourself too hard, right?" I scratched the back of my head and was just about to let her climb onto my back when...
"Yahahahahah! This shitty bridge is no stress at all! Yahaha!"
Completely wrapped in bandages, the boy with the Frankenstein look was charging towards the starting end of the bridge. This student was the one who had been bludgeoned out of commision early this morning: Big Al.
"Argh, retard! Why is he charging on his own!?" Gumi screamed.
"...!?"
I instantly imagined a certain scene and recalled certain words:
Challenging the rope bridge with foolhardiness, stepping too hard and ending up falling through the bottom, straight down into the ravine, my classmate, Big Al. As well as...
'Losing any team member along the way means instant disqualification entailing coercive condemnation.'
--This was part of the orienteering rules.
"Hey Big Al! Hold it right there!!"
"Gopuu!?"
Using a lariat move, I forcibly stopped him who was just rushing past. Struck by the throat, he fell over on his face and stopped moving.
"Phew... Sheesh, that was really close. I almost died," I said.
"...He's not dead yet?"
"M-Maybe he's already dead..."
Looking at Big Al whose eyes were rolled up and frothing at the mouth, Gumi and Miku murmured.
"No, he should be alive... After all, it's Big Al," Gumi commented.
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