Lucky School Live!

30. The Long Journey, Part 3

The group walked out of the RV to see a tanker hanging over from above an overpass bridge. What's worse? This road is the only way to get to Randall.

Kurumi curses a lot as soon as she gets out.

"Maybe we can just walk now?" Chinatsu asked.

"That's a stupid idea, Yoshikawa." Kurumi replied.

"Well, maybe we can just *hic* drive through it right?" Shiiko said, drunk.

"That thing isn't full of sake, Shiiko! It's gasoline!" Kurumi could still identify it even though the paints on the tanker is faded which normally makes it unrecognizable.

"Well, alcohol still burns, Kurumi-San..." Tsukasa sweat dropped.

It was then when they see 2 figures on top of the overpass.

"Hey! This thing blocking you!?" The first figure asked. This one is revealed to be a man with brown hair and eyes wearing a grey jacket and tan jeans.

"You won't go anywhere with this in the path." The second figure continued. This one is revealed to be a woman with black hair and a reddish brown right eye, whilst her left one is covered with an eyepatch. She is wearing a black track jacket and matching track pants.

Tsukasa looked at Kurumi, who just shook her shoulders.

"I'm coming up! You're not bad guys aren't you?" Tsukasa asked.

There is a service ladder which leads up to the overpass, and Tsukasa climbed it to meet the couple more closely.

"That's a nice RV. It's rare these days." The man commented.

The woman stayed silent.

"Whoa, and I couldn't believe it! You girls had a kid with you!"

Tsukasa turned around to see Ruu peeking from the ladder.

"She's Wakasa Ruu. Pardon her for interrupting. I'm Hiiragi Tsukasa... You can call me Tsu."

"I'm Sakakibara Kouichi, call me Kou if you want. This is Misaki Mei... My girlfriend." He pointed at the woman next to him.

Mei just looked away.

"She's not very talkative huh?"

"Yeah. It's hard for her to change. She only talks a lot when it's me she's dealing with... Right, hon?" He stroked Mei's cheek.

"Got any ideas on how to unhook that tanker from the truck?"

"I just got this, Tsu." Kouichi pulls out a roll of duct tape from his pocket.

"Nevermind."

Mei just elbowed Kouichi in the hip after Tsukasa said that.

"Ow, I'm just lightening the tone, Mei!"

"Who are you both and where were you when things started?"

"Well, We're actually on a bus trip cross country when things started. We missed our old friends from middle school." Kouichi replied.

"How about you?" Mei asked.

"Me? W... Well, I... There was a festival at my school when things started. Weeks before the festival I... It's complicated."

"How so?" Mei gave her a curious look.

"Y... You don't wanna know."

Mei's distrust towards Tsukasa just increased twofold. She won't tell her backstory.

"Well, there's nothing up here to unhook that tanker, but I indeed see a garage there!" Kouichi dropped the subject, and pointed at a small building ahead from the RV.