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Nanana’s Burried Treasure Volume 5 Chapter 3.6

What was that? Well, that was the rectangular transparent case I threw when I opened the treasure chest.

「What!? 」 While the vice-chairman was taken by surprise, we moved on to the next action. Tsurezure-senpai dove straight out of the window and landed on top of a pile of luggage piled high nearby. I go out of the door in front of me into the catwalk against the wall.

As I run down the catwalk I look out into the warehouse below.

Ibara-senapi, after receiving the long pass from Tsurezure-senpai, ran towards the exit. She was trying to avoid Imawano-san whose reaction was delayed by the same surprise as the other two.

「Don’t play me for a fool! Wasn’t that older guy going to open the treasure chest? 」, this angry voice that was chasing me from behind was the vice chairman. They are noooot happy.

「Well, for some reason I suddenly felt like opening the treasure chest, so I did it without thinking. 」

「What’s the matter with you?! You suddenly wanted to open in? You were obviously planning to catch us off guard! And then throwing the nanana collection! What are you going to do if it breaks!? 」

「You didn’t expect us to do that did you? To pass it over such a long distance. 」

There are numerous items in the collection, all of which are one-of-a-kind treasures. It would be like an expensive urn that costs tens of millions of yen. No one would throw it around like a football.

「What were you going to do if it was too big to throw? 」

「If that was the case the plan was for senpai to act as a wall to obstruct the vice-chairman as I carried it away. 」

「This was all part of your plan! Being so close to you when you started completely backfired on us! Dammit! You really piss me off, you know that? 」

The vice-chairman venting his frustration naturally brought a smile to my face.

Crash. Clash.

The smiles freeze when the sound of crushing begins to reverberate in the warehouse.

「…Oy, oy, are you serious? 」

At the end of my line of sight are wooden boxes stacked here and there in the warehouse. All at once hands were sprouting from these crates. Breaking through most if not all of the boxes were 100 or more wiggling arms. This is truly a hellish sight.

So what the vice-chairman said before the confrontation was true.

With a cracking sound, a mannequin doll popped out of the box. I have no idea how the mannequin is moving. With its arms outstretched in front of it, the way it moves looks just like a zombie.

「Kyaaaa! 」

Of course Ibara-senpai screams as she is attacked by the mannequin army all at once. The girly screams of Ibara-senapai are just like those of the heroine in a zombie movie, as she runs away from the attackers. A scream from the depths of the stomach. And then she punched the mannequin with full force. …Did she punch it? Yes, and kicked it. Then crushed the head of the fallen mannequin!

The only part of that that was cute was the first scream, after that it was the usual Ibara-senpai. Apparently she isn’t the heroine of a horror movie, but the heroine of an action movie. She was still afraid, running and screaming, but she wouldn’t stop attacking either.

Imawano-san was following her. She isn’t so scared that she’s screaming, but she is having trouble avoiding the mannequin zombies who are trying to block her way. So she is unable to close the distance between her and Ibara-senpai.

And then the savior appears. Tsurezure-senpai, who had jumped lightly over the luggage, easily passed Imawano-san and caught up to Ibara-senpai.

「I’m here to help Ibara. 」

「You’re late Kagetora! 」

With Tsurezure-senpai’s arrival, the two work together to push away the Mannequins. The distance between Imawano-san who is chasing them begins to grow.

This feels nice, although that feeling is fleeting.

「Hey. Seriously! 」

As I run along the catwalk by the wall on the second floor, I saw a group of zombie mannequins advancing from the direction they were going to. The sight of all the mannequins jumping out of the cargo in the warehouse at the same time and settling into the narrow aisle looked like a moving wall.

Ibara-senpai seemed to have saw this and they stopped dead in their tracks. As a result Imawano-san, who had been chasing them, caught up. However Imawano-san seems to be at a loss on how to make a move against the other two. The rules of the game were that anything goes. If she made a bad move she might get counter-attacked. It seems that it would be difficult for Imawano-san alone to take the nanana collection from the Ibara-senpai and Tsurezure-senpai.

The sound of mannequin dolls being blown up and shattered echoed from behind me.

「I’m coming! 」

The vice-chairman who was running down the same catwalk as me grinned.

Kishitani-san, who was the last one and was completely late, violently pushed the mannequin aside and caught up to the three of them. As Ibara-senpai had foreseen, he seems to be quite capable, and with a single blow he would crush each mannequin as he closed the distance.

With a swarm of mannequins in front of them and the enemy team behind them, they are on the verge of disaster. However the danger was the same for the members of the enemy team. Imawano and Kishitani must deal with the mannequins coming from the front, or they will not be able to escape from the ruins. What will they do?

The first to make a move was Kishitani-san, who was catching up.

「Come on Misao! 」, he called out, then put his back on some nearby wooden crates and put his hands together to build a foothold. Imawano-san noticed the intent and immediately dashed to him. Using Kishitani’s crossed hands and shoulder as footholds, she climbs onto the wooden boxes. It was a great team maneuver.

I see this and shout, 「Senpai! Run away! 」

Ibara-senpai, who had noticed the two behind her, acted quickly. First, Ibara-senpai grabbed the Tsurezure-senpai’s head and jumped up. Using the wobbling Tsurezure-senpai as a foothold, she jumps up to the top of a pile of crates. As for Tsurezure-senpai, he was knocked over by the jump. He rolls across the floor and is swallowed by a mannequin army. It was like a lizards tail that got cut off. I can’t hold back my tears from this tragic scene. After that, Tsurezure-senpai crawled out and with his natural leaping ability succeeded in escaping onto the top of the crates.

I don’t know how they did it, but for the time being my senpai are both safe. I’m relieved.

The vice-chairman who was running behind me shouted, 「Misao, go around to the exit and buy some time! 」

He jump from the railing onto the nearby crates. Seeing that her two teammates caught up, the three of them seemed to want to surround Ibara-senpai and Tsurezure-senpai at once. I immediately understand the situations and jump over the railing to follow him as if I was ‘it’ in a game of tag.

Seeing Imawano-san start to take a shortcut across the top of the crates to the exit, Ibara-senpai also starts running. Meanwhile the two men stop and confront each other. Kagetora Tsurezure and Masaaki Kishitani. Ninja vs full contact fighter, a matchup of different styles, but not skill levels.

Kishitani-san was the first to close the gap. He unleashed a heavy blow with a twist of his hips. However the Ninja, Tsurezure-senpai, dodged the blows without a hitch. He kept dodging Kishitani-san with his light body movement. In addition, he lands quick attacks when he sees openings. Kishitani-san is at the mercy of these inevitable attacks. It seems that Tsurezure-senpai is very skilled after all.

Kishitani was not silent though. When he was about to launch another attack he instead suddenly jumps through Tsurezure-senpai’s waist and knocks him down. He then uses his brilliant body control and wrestling techniques to quickly roll over and take the mount position on top of Tsurezure-senapi. Kishitani-san, who Ibara-senpai had believed to be a full-contact figher, was actually an all-around mixed martial arts fighter. The ninja who had been mounted was in desperate need of help. A smirking Kishitani-san raises his elbows. The ninja was forced to twist his body to the side while being mounted. Kishitani-san’s elbows slammed into the wooden boxes they were on.  A mannequin flew out from inside. The crate which was full of holes, tilted to an angle after the blows. The two people on top of it slid down and fell into the crowd of mannequin zombies.

「Um, Tsurezure-senpai. It’s about time…」 I crouch down in front of the treasure chest and throw it open.

「I know」, he says as he turns around and catches the palm-sized item I threw at him. He then throws it out the window as hard as he can.