v01_c21_Spider

GJ- Bu

Volume 01

Chapter 21

Spider

A certain day at the clubroom.

Everybody had gathered up to enjoy tea and cake when-

A spider appeared.

And quite a giant one a that.

It’s body alone was the size of a 500 yen coin. [TN: 26,5 mm diameter, roughly one inch.] With it’s legs spread it was about the size of the palm of a hand.

Wherever it had appeared from, the spider was now strolling down the round table they all sat at.

“Gyaaaah! Aaah!”

Before anything else, Mao screamed. Then she flipped her chair upside down as she went to hide behind Kyouya.

“K-kill it, kill it! D-do it. Come on, do it!”

She repeatedly urged him.

“B-bu-bu-but I don’t want to get near something this big either!”

Kyouya stepped away from the table too. The spider had a CD size enormousness.

Holding his ground without running already took all of his might as a young man. To actually oppose it was too much.

“Do it! Do it! That’s a p-presidential order!”

“N-n-no way! What if it’s poisonous and it bites me!?”

“Huntsman spiders are not poisonous.”

Shion said, tilting her teacup.

The genius of games always kept her cool, no matter what happened.

“They’re not even a native Japanese species, they’ve been entering Japan since the Edo period. It’s what they call a naturalized species.  Being hunter predators who don’t even make nests, just move around, these spiders inhabit human households and feed mainly on insects. After shedding 8 to 10 times, the adult’s size can surpass 10 centimeters.”

“Shi-Shion-san! Shion-san! Kill it, please!”

Kyouya left it to Shion.

However, the girl, using the same exact same tone as before-

“For ages, spiders were been seen as useful creatures by the Japanese, but in recent years, due to their unsightly external appearance, they’ve started to be treated as undesirable harmful beings too. Now, places that sell pesticides like home centers even sell pesticides specific for spiders.”

She was in encyclopedia reciting mode. In other words, she was panicking.

This one was a lost case already.

Kyouya’s eyes searched for someone reliable.

The GJ club’s sleeping lion, the ever eating lady, Kirara!

Kirara had her eyes wide open. The meat fell down from her mouth.

“Spider! Danger!”

In the blink of an eye she jumped back about 3 meters.

It was unimaginable that the girl who was usually just lazing around had such an agility.

“Spider. Has. Poison.”

“T-this one’s not poisonous! It’s not, right? Right, Shion-san!?”

“It’s poison is composed of substances such as proteases, hyaluronidases and esterases. These are actually digestive enzymes it uses on the insects it will eat. There’s no confirmation of them being toxic for humans.”

“See? See!?”

“Kirara. When she was four. Bitten by spider. Almost died. It’s dangerous.”

“Are you from South America or something!?”

Kirara, who was speaking a lot more than usual, stood on all fours, her eyes glittered and her hair stood on end. It was the posture of an animal completely prepared for battle.

“Who cares about that? Somebody just do something already!”

“You do something then. You’re the president after all! Bite it! Bite it good!”

His shout echoed.

Pushing forward or being pushed forward, nobody wanted to take the lead.

“What’s all this commotion for?”

That’s when Megumi appeared.

“Me-Megumi-chan! A sp-p-pider! There’s a spider over there!”

“Stop! Stop! It’s dangerous! Run away!”

He and Mao screamed.

“Oh, you’re right. Hello mister spider.”

Megumi said in a completely tranquil voice. She faced the spider and greeted it.

“Come on guys, it isn’t nice to mister spider if you look so frightened.”

She stretched out her angelic hand towards the spider.

After slightly touching it with her forelimbs, the spider started climbing Megumi’s hand, going all the way up to her elbow.

“Kyaah!”

They all hugged each other and screamed.

Megumi took the spider to the corner of the room and was about to release her there, but then, following Mao’s shriek, she unwillingly opened the clubroom window and conducted the spider outside.

“Bye, bye.”

It wasn’t clear if that was a wave the spider did with it’s paw in response to her angelic smile.

The peace had returned to the clubroom.