Checkmate
"Well, don't be so scared. We're not going to kill you. It's your clones we're going to kill. For now, I'm going to break your legs so you can't run away."
Ryūichi was slowly closing in on us.
We were surrounded on all sides by enemies and could not escape. Even if we nominated one person, we can't win with this number of people. We are in real trouble.
"Here we go!"
All the opponents had a weapon of some kind. But we only have a bundle of rulers made by Shōta, a shard of glass, and a fork from the cafeteria, and the clones are unarmed.
In contrast, the enemy team had three iron pipes, a kitchen knife, and a cutter knife, and each clone had its own customized original weapon in its hand. Two were holding a spear-like weapon with a cutter knife attached to the end of a one-meter ruler, one had what looked like a crossbow, although I don’t know how he made it. One wielded a lethal nail bat-like weapon made from a wooden bat with several drawing pins attached, needles facing upward. Another one had a scythe-like weapon with a long sashimi knife attached to the side of the tip of a ruler.
Most of our enemies have weapons with much longer reach than ours. They will kill us before we can cut them down. But if we can avoid the first attack we might get into the bosom of the enemy. But we're not all very athletic, and we don't have great reflexes either.
I tried to think my way out of this crisis, but no good solution came to mind.
"Tsutomu, Hiroyuki. I’m sorry."
I spoke to the two people on either side of me whose faces were full of tension.
"No, thanks to my senpai, I have managed to survive this far."
"They will not listen to us even we surrender gracefully."
"I’m sorry. Afterall I couldn’t save anyone."
At that moment, the eyes of the two who looked at me seemed to shine brighter than ever before.
"No, thank you very much."
"We are finally get freed from this hell. Thank you very much."
We stood back to back each other and faced the enemy in front of us.
"Hahaha. Finally made up your mind? Then die! Go!"
A clone of Ryūichi silently took what looked like a nail bat that he was holding and hit on my head…
"Bang!"
There was a loud popping sound.
"Buzz. Here is the status report. No I should say the result report. Team Reaper won the experimentation. As punishment, I'm going to explode the brains of Team Devil every two minutes…"
