(Un) Fortunately the Yandere is Not After Me

Preparations

Summer break was officially started. Unfortunately, with things the way they are for Arata, this was going to be far from a vacation. It was his fault anyway, taking that job to help Hine and the other elderly folks.

Ever since the incident at the park, he was going to make extra sure that things wouldn't go wrong. They might not be children, but they are on the older side. Arata was writing down important numbers and notes about certain medical issues if it should ever come to that.

A knock at the door drew his attention, not what he was expecting. After all, he told everyone to meet him at the bus station, where they would take the bus to their location. Everyone in this case being Yogi and the gang. Matsu and her club actually had their own field trip in relation to gardening that they were taking elsewhere.

When he opened the door, it was Erina that greeted him. She didn't say what she was going to do, but he would've expected her to go to Yogi's place to walk to the bus with him.

"What are you doing here?" He asked, looking at her confused. She returned a look that made it seem like he was the crazy one here.

"Well I thought you'd want someone to walk with you." She answered. Letting herself in, something that he still didn't like about her.

"I'm probably the last person that'd need a partner." Despite his words, he was a little glad to have her with him. Arata would never admit this to her face. "By the way, I'm sorry about that whole deal with me and Misei." He apologized. All that time spent with Misie, he hadn't been very helpful with supporting her with Yogi. Considering the fact that he was being blackmailed, probably not a good idea.

"Oh no worries about that." She brushed it off, like nothing. "Just gotta work twice as hard me for this time, right?" He wished he could take that smug look she had at him right this moment. He rolled his eyes, crossing his arms in response to her.

"Whatever, sure." He said. "Don't worry, I haven't forgotten the dirt you've got on me." She giggled, and at this point it was time to depart. Arata doubled checked, and hoped that everything was in order. It would be a shame to forget something now.

"You look pretty happy." As they were walking, Erina couldn't help, but notice the glow that emitted from him. It was pretty rare seeing how joyful he was feeling.

"I do, I guess you could say I'm pretty excited for this trip."

"You of all people? That's a surprise."

"I would've thought you of all people would know what I'm talking about. After all, it's why we even know each other in the first place." He was pointing to the fact that he was an otaku. Something that wasn't initially clear to her.

"The reason? My blackmail... Wait a second, you're kidding me. You can't honestly be talking about those types of episodes."

"Ha! You know it." He laughed. Normally, there would be no way he'd talked about this to anyone else, but she was in on his secret, so what was there to lose? "Every protagonist gets that opportunity to live a beach episode. So what are the odds that some background guy like me gets that in real life." He may not have been the center of this harem, but he was certain to enjoy this.

"For someone that likes to avoid people, you sure are enjoying that idea." Erina couldn't believe what she was hearing. Of course, given most of the girls' status at school, this was most likely a dream for a lot of boys at school.

"Just because I don't care for being with people, doesn't mean I don't like to look at some of them." He replied. Then he remembered someone else. "Oh I gotta tell them about this."