Chapter 9

Lumber Hunt

So there have been more days, more performances, more special performances… Nobody died though. For today the class had 2 classes, math and physics. Before they did though, they had to get up at 6am. Once again they had an announcement through the newly discovered speakers, only that it was Yamada talking this time.

“Today you will have a unique type of performance, as you will be the executors. Two girls will hunt down one of the students without making commotion, bringing them to the stage 3. Afterwards, the victim will be hung upside down and the same 2 people will saw the victim in half. The further they get, the more points they will score. But you must not make commotion in public! The way you achieve the hunt is up to you. Good luck!”

At 10am the 2 classes were over and the girls stayed in the classroom. They were trying to figure out if they should do it, who would do it, who would be the victim, and most of all, how to keep them from making a fuss? It wouldn’t be a problem if one of the weaker girls wandered around the halls alone, so they could disable her and duct tape her mouth. But they aren’t stupid to wander around alone. Hunting somebody down without making a fuss – isn’t that kind of impossible?

Our girls knew they should do it for points, but none of them, except Nori, was killer type. But it’s good for them they stayed together, as they were safe like this.

“Ayumi,” Nori noticed, “you… Haven’t been active lately. You don’t seem the type, but if I figure something out, we can turn somebody in and I would spare you most of the dirty work.”
“I’ll do it.” Stated Ayumi.
“So you’re up for it. Good.”
“No. I’ll participate in cutting. I have to. I don’t want to die.”
Rest of her friends felt her there. The more death they saw, especially since having that snake in their guts, the more they were becoming concentrated on doing stuff for points.
“I have never seen this much death.” She continued. “I don’t like this. I don’t want this as my future. I don’t want to be… tortured. And killed, but tortured, that’s what I fear actually. I will not be in bottom half of the group. I want to do it.”

“Good!” Nori answered, although she was actually thinking ‘Great!’ Nori liked executions, and she would be glad to do one with her after-competition promised friend with benefits, Ayumi.

However, what caught everyone’s eyes was a quite gentle long-haired brunette Umaru Kaede, normally demanding everyone to call her Kaede and Kaede-chan, resting on her table. Or rather, not resting anymore. She literally fell asleep. When they all noticed, they started gathering around her like flies around shit. Her roommate explained she had been painting until 2am, because she’s an enthusiastic painting club member. She was sleeping so sweetly that many just enjoyed watching her. But it was obvious which 3 people were after her without doubt. Twins Akane and Akemi, and Nori.

“We’re taking her.” Said Akane with a deep female voice. “We are two, you are one.”
“I have a partner, she’s just not next to me.”
“Well, beat it. We’re taking her.”
“Not gonna happen.” Nori smiled
“And what are you gonna do?”
“I will wake her up.”

Those 2 were startled.
“You would do something… So dirty?”
“It’s dishonorable to snatch someone in their sleep. So I’ll play dirty too.”

“Let’s compete!” Akemi, who had much higher voice, suggested. “Let’s do an endurance training!”
“Why should I? I could disable you both without making a fuss, without you making a sound. And I take her away.” They knew she was right. Eventually, they got to know everything Nori was capable of.
“Because that’s fair of course!”
“She’s not going to play fair, Akemi.” Complained Akane. “And she knows your endurance factor. She doesn’t have the guts to face you.”

Several seconds later, Izumi said from Rika’s arms.
“Umm… I can fight in Nori’s stead if you wish!”
Now if they accepted, that would be a tight fight, as Izumi was pretty enduring herself.
“What do you say, Nori?” Akane inquired. “Would you dare playing fair if you had someone better fighting for you?”
Nori first ironically laughed, making it seem like she would decline. But then she said:
“OK then.”
The twins were startled as hell, looking toward Kaede. Luckily, the laugh didn’t wake her up. She even drooled.

So they moved to the corner of the classroom, to still have some sight on Kaede, but to be as far away as possible. With disapproval, Riko put limb-less Izumi on the table in the sitting position, but had to hold her because her legs were lets-say completely gone.
“So… Sister, Izumi, reveal your breasts!” Akane demanded as she took out a sterile needle from a cupboard. It was obvious what comes next. Izumi was thrilled, but gave an approval to Riko to take off her school shirt and bra, revealing the baby-pink nipples, in front of most of the class again. Akemi did so herself, but their nipples were large and brown.

“Bunko, you like torturing people, right?” She referred to Bunko from Biology Research Club. “Feel free to pierce my sister’s nipples. Avoid nerve cables not to damage them!”
Akane and Akemi were in biology club too, so they knew where each nerve cable was. If they were up to damage each other’s nerves, the participants would have to spend a day in the infirmary to recover them, but before that, they would need to get a permit for damaging each other, like Nori did back for shooting practice. It’s bad to waste time.

So, Akane had 1 needle, Bunko had the other. Sensation of needle on a nipple was scary for participants as nipples are especially sensitive in their age, but Akemi was excited. They started piercing in the same time and with confidence, as if they already did before. Of course, the needles weren’t medical. They were simply steril and for torture or playing around. When the 2 slowly pushed, the needles didn’t immediately pierce the tissue. It took some more pressure, and when they did, you could hear a tiny pop. Participants twitched immediately, but the point of the game was obviously not to make a sound. The next step was spinning the needles deep inside the nipples.

Akane felt like they were already winning. Akemi’s face was straighter than Izumi’s, but they both did well. Didn’t make a sound. When needles were fully in, torturers waited for 30 seconds, and then started spinning them left-right. It was obvious Akemi and Izumi were in much pain, only that Akemi was smiling. So they pierced their nipples on different locations with the same needles. Pulling out the needles hurt too. They repeated that 5 times and decided it’s a draw.

“Nori…” stated Akane. “I think it’s time for you to decide for a challenge now.”
“OK.” Nori said with a smile. “Take off you panties, girls!”

Rika wanted to put back bra to Izumi, but Izumi refused because that was hurting her nipples. She needed more time. With both of their panties off, they were embarrassed. Apparently, Akemi was not used to THAT. Rika watched Nori like father watches her daughter’s boyfriend.

“Now pierce through their clitorises!” Demanded Nori.

Now this was especially embarrassing for the 2. Having their pussy searched for their clitorises was embarrassing and it “felt embarrassing”. Bunko was quick to find Akemi’s clit, but she needed to keep it still for a while because it took a while for Akane to “pull out” Izumi’s. And they once again did the same thing, watching out for the nerve cables. Girls were obviously far more sensitive to that, twitched much more, and had their mouths open. When they were done, Nori commanded to pull the needles out.

Then nori took ethanol from the cupboard, and 2 ear cleaners.
“Dip them in and press them against the wound.”

Akemi was terrified. She never did that. Izumi was breathing deeply, closing her eyes as if she was meditating.
“Cover Kaede’s ears someone, this is going to be too amusing for that sleepy-head.”
Bunko and Akane pressed the ear cleaners tight and fast at the pierced clitorises. Akemi screamed like crazy. Izumi, in seemingly-special state, just kept her head down and eyes closed. Only shook.”

“That’s it! We get Kaede!” Happily said Nori.
“You’re a monster, Izumi…” complained Akemi. “You belong to a neural institute. You aren’t normal!”

However, when they got out of the so-far excited crowd. They discovered Kaede was – GONE! What the hell happened?
“Did you plug her ears?” Asked Nori.
There was no reply for a several seconds. But then a classmate said:
“I was going to but she wasn’t here…”

Nori asked 2 otaku girls watching anime on a tablet.
“What happened? Did you look?”
One of them shook her head, the other one answered.
“Right before you started needle game, crowd got thick so 2 of the girls took her away, supported by one more.
“Oh god…” Nori complained. “Did she run away?”
“No, she was still asleep. They even dropped her, she ‘oww’-ed in her sleep.”

“Holy shit…”
“What happened?” Inquired Ayumi.
“While we were playing, painter was snatched by someone completely else, still asleep, and didn’t wake up a single time.”

That gave her the idea. If she had been carried carefully not to wake Kaede up, perhaps they didn’t even get to stage 3. So she ran to snatch her back. But no luck there, the assistants were already hanging Kaede upside down onstage 3. Ironically, she was still asleep.

At 11 the execution was almost ready. Most of the students were around stage 3, which was tall enough for everyone to see what was going on. As the 2 thieves were carrying a very large saw with handles on both sides, Kaede started waking up.

“Hmm? What’s going on?” She asked herself as smile was slowly fading from her face. She was tied up upside-down, her legs spread, and her hands super-glued to her body. Naked. She saw the 2 carrying the saw and started whining.
“What are you doing? What’s going on?”

As they were trying to figure out how to apply the heavy saw between her legs, Kaede whimpered and cried more and more.
“No… This isn’t happening… What are you doing? How did I get here? What’s going on?”
She then broke crying. Something horrible was about to happen, and she knew it. Her roommate revealed to others she accidentally overslept the announcement and hadn’t known what exactly had been supposed to happen that day. That’s why she had had her guard down. Plan of the 2, whose names don’t matter, was leaning one handle on Kaede’s vagina, while the other executor would go in front of her and they could finally start cutting. She could only cry.
“What are you doing?! Please stop! It’s heavy, it hurts!”

Crying and begging only made it harder for the 2 to start. It was the worst crying the current competition had, because everyone sustained from crying and begging the best they could, to shame themselves less before death. But eventually the one on the front pulled the saw and you could say they started. Kaede screamed like crazy, but her voice was week. Blood slid from her pussy down her body. Saw was heavy and it wasn’t easy to cut with it, so while the 2 were figuring out what to do next, Kaede complained it hurt and to lift that thing off her. But it was no use. They kept on pulling the saw with pauses while they were figuring out HOW to actually do all that. She screamed and begged all the time, and the saw was getting deeper in the flesh.

When the 2 finally figured out the start of it, they managed continuously cut through all of Kaede’s crotch that wasn’t bone. It got really hard when they got to the spine, so they didn’t aim at the middle. As the progress got much slower due to spinal bones, Kaede wasn’t even able to talk, only scream. More and more blood slid down her torso and her bones were slowly taking damage. Some intestines peeked out of her crotch as the saw was pulling them as it moved.

The 2 had to take breathes. Many people watched, but not all of them. Cutting was very hard and slow since bones were hard to cut through. The 2 wondered how far they would make it. As the hours went by, Kaede’s screams became more and more hopeless. Blood remained in her head and lungs, so she was conscious and alive. Her bottom torso was slowly splitting in 2, and ropes on her legs pulled the halves, revealing the void in between. Intestines were being a bother so the 2 had to cut them every once in a while. And as time went by, and the 2 were getting more and more tired, Kaede’s torso was more and more split.

At 11pm Kaede was still alive. The 2 managed to saw through her stomach, which was more than half of the maximum points they could get. Her face was blank, but she was very much awake. Assistants just took the saw off, and everyone could clearly see Kaede’s part-split torso, pulled by her retrained legs, and the red blood on her whole body but her legs. It was chilly so she started shivering. But nobody helped her. Students weren’t allowed to, and school simply refused to. Everybody, except her and night guards, went to sleep. Those who stayed last could hear her asking to be killed.

In the morning Kaede was dead. Those who got first said she had her last breaths that morning, unable to move, only searching with her eyes as if begging for someone to shorten her misery. Ayumi was disappointed in herself, as they all got caught up in the competition between Izumi and the twins so much they didn’t see Kaede being snatched away. Ayumi was, however, part glad because she really didn’t want to kill anybody. She just hoped it would all be over soon, and that she had obligation to participate in fewest of violent events possible.