Lucky School Live!

11. Insanity looms

The RV continues to be driven in the highway, with most of the passengers are asleep.

For the moment, Konata was the one who's driving, stating that she learned some driving in one of her games, and Kurumi stated that it's the same reason as her's.

Kurumi sat on the back, Yuki laying her head on Kurumi's lap.

"Is our destination still far, Kurumi-Chan?" Yuki asked.

"Yes. It's still far away, we'll probably be there in days." Kurumi replied.

Kurumi then looked at a sleeping Tsukasa.

"I guess it was right to trust them. We have a merrier group with the 8 of us here."

"You got that right, Kurumi-Chan."

"Oh yeah, by the way... It's about Tsukasa."

"Mm?"

"Should we have left her behind?" Kurumi looked at Yuki again.

"What? Of course not. Tsukasa-Chan is a good friend! What made you ask that?"

"Well, I saw her... Laughing to herself, and uhh... I don't think she'll make it for long."

"She's laughing to herself? Is she OK?"

"Physically, yes but I doubt her mental state is OK."

"..." Yuki stayed silent, and closes her eyes slowly.

She sat up and hugged Kurumi.

"I'm scared..."

"Me too, Yuki. Everyone is."

Yuki cried herself to sleep that night, followed by Kurumi who smiled at her sleeping, and proceeded to sleep too.

The next morning...

"Girls, wake up!" Konata called out.

Yuki woke up first, followed by Kurumi, Miyuki, Miki, Yuuri and Kagami. Tsukasa was still asleep.

They saw in the front window, a town with rising black clouds.

"Isn't that where we're supposed to be going to?" Yuuri asked.

"No doubt, Rii-San, that's the place." Yuki said reading a map.

"Well that's both the good news and bad news. We may have found where our destination is, but it's probably infested too!" Kagami shouted out.

"And the second bad news is, there's a gas station in front of us, and that's the station where I was held hostage." Miyuki pointed to the right.

"Do you think those bandits are still there?" Miki asked, remembering Miyuki's story.

"I doubt it, it was overrun when we came to save Miyuki." Konata replied.

"We need to check it. The RV is running out of gas!" Yuki suggested.

"Yeah, you're right. But we don't know if there's any gas left since we siphoned some back then." Kagami replied.

"Well we're still going there, there's no mistake in just scouting for resources right?"

The group nodded, and the RV was driven into the area of the gas station, and is parked next to one of the pumps.

"I'll fill her up, Yuki and Konata check the diner for food, Miki and Rii-San check the garage over there for things we can use as weapons, and Kagami and Miyuki watch my back, I don't trust it's safe." Kurumi told the group.

The group obeyed her directions, and spread out.

"Man, it's been a while since I last come here. It's intense."