The three are taken to the police station

(Chapter originally by faith on writing.com)

"Wait! Aren't you taking us to the school?" Yukari asked.

"Like I said, by the book." Kurosawa said. "I do try to cut you kids some slack, what with all the good you do. But roaming around naked in broad daylight? We can't just pretend it didn't happen, now can we?"

"I-I suppose not." Mitsuru said in a small voice. "But if you've already identified this as some offshoot of Apathy Syndrome you surely can't press charges!"

"True enough. The department has standing orders to release any Eden Syndrome sufferers we identify. They're all victims, after all. But since word broke of the phenomena a whole mess of perverts and exhibitionists have hit the streets claiming to be suffering the same affect. Kirijo apparenty found some way to tell the difference...something about a particular patch of activity in one part of the brain that normal folks don't have...but it takes time to run the scan. Unfortunately, my orders are to round up all the folks running around naked until we can put of through the scan and properly figure out who has ES and who's being a deviant."

"I see. That makes sense." Mitsuru sighed.

Minako looked at her naked compatriots. Both Mitsuru and Yukari had dejected looks, practically as lost and adrift as they had seemed after the Chairman's betrayal. It was heartbreaking, and Minako wanted desperately to do something about it. And..maybe she could?

"Guys...I know things look bad. Heck, I know things ARE bad. But...I've got a plan. We're gonna get back control and give this thing the smackdown! I promise!"

The dubious looks she received were not exactly what she was hoping for.

"Mina-chan....I just stripped off in front of downtown traffic! Every morning commuter on Tatsumi Port Island knows what we look like naked! My friends have pictures of me screwing myself in public on their camera phones! And I couldn't do a thing to stop any of it? WHAT CAN YOU DO ABOUT IT THAT I CAN'T?" Yukari growled.

"Word of our late night exploits has no doubt already trickled to the Kirijo Group. Those members who aren't laughing at my predicament are no doubt offering insightful sexist commentary on how inevitable my breakdown was...being a woman with the audacity to try and run a business. I can never repair the damage this has caused, or live down what I have done. Nothing we plan will change that." Mitsuru said in a more despairing tone.

Minako looked down for a moment. Then her lips pressed together and her eyes narrowed. With an air of (slightly adorable) determination, she pushed and crawled her way into their midst, until she assumed a sitting position between them, her small frame facing them and pressing in close (the journey was not helped by the handcuffs, nor the tiny electric tingle she felt whenever her skin made contact with their bodies).

"I said...I have a plan." Minako said with an edge in her voice. "I know someone who can help us."

"What do you mean?" Yukari asked, trying not to let her indignant sullen mood wither under Minako's piercing stare.

"We're going to Inaba." Minako said firmly.

"....What's in Inaba? Who is this person who's going to help?" Mitsuru asked.

"....." Minako paused, realizing she had no answers, then glared ever more fiercely. "Neither of you need to worry about that. All you need to know is we are going to get through this. I have a way to make this better, to help us and everybody else who's suffering here! The leader of the Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad is gonna fix it all! But she still needs her team!"

Yukari and Mitsuru stared at her, then looked away, a bit embarrassed by the stare.

"SHE STILL NEEDS HER TEAM." Minako said in a louder voice. "There's a way out of this. Do I look like I'm lying about that?"

She looked at Mitsuru. The older girl let out a breath, shaking her head. She turned to Yukari, who glanced at her then away from her again.

"Hey." Minako said gently, pulling herself in closer. "Do I?"

"......No." Yukari said in a small voice.

"And do you trust me?" Minako asked softly, her face very close to Yukari's own.

"I....y-yeah." Yukari said, blushing intensely. Mitsuru smiled. "To the ends of the Earth."

"Good." Minako said, moving in and kissing her embarrassed teammates firmly on the lips, first Yukari and then Mitsuru. "Right now, I just need you both to get through this. Endure it for one more day. Stay strong, and be ready to move when I say to. We're getting through this tonight! I'm relying on you guys as much as you are on me, okay?"

"Yeah, yeah. We get it! Geez." Yukari muttered, touching her cheek to Minako as an alternative to hugging. Mitsuru mimicked the gesture on the opposite side. "Thanks." They both whispered.

Minako smiled. These people...sometimes...just like a herd of lost puppies. Good thing Minako was a dog lover...and that she was willing to put up with a little biting every now and then. Of course, it definitely helped that they were hot! Humiliations aside, that was one thing Minako was relieved about. She could officially take a peek at them whenever she wanted in all their glory. None too soon, too. She'd been running low on excuses for making them slip into the High-cut Armor, and it'd been months since she dared to suggest running around the dungeons in swimwear.

"Okay ladies, we're here."

The trip into the mall was rather excruciating in its own right. Early morning shoppers stared and snickered as the three completely exposed girls were marched to the center of the complex. To their surprise, a new addition had been added. Right in front of the police station were two large cages, one empty and one full of naked women.

"What...what...?" Mitsuru stuttered.

"This is just a local police box." Kurosawa said as he removed their handcuffs. (Author's note: Japan has little community police stations set up in various neighborhoods to handle little stuff like missing items, etc. Do no confuse it with a certain British time traveler's preferred conveyance). "We aren't a jail. But Kirijo has asked to keep all the ES sufferers on the island for now, so what are ya gonna do?"

"Are those...leashes?" Yukari asked.

"Yep. ES folks seem to have a penchant for allowing random passersby to **** em if they get close enough to the bars. We started leaching em up to keep them out of the public's reach."

"You won't...do that to us, will you?" Yukari asked in mounting horror.

"Don't be silly."

"Okay, good."

"Your just gonna get chained up."

"EH???"

The three were led into the empty cage. Along the wall that ran next to the ES sufferers were a series of manacles. To their bewilderment Kurosaw instructed each girl to place her hands and legs in one of the manacles, leaving them clamped to the wall in a roughly spread eagled pattern.

"K-kurosawa-san! This...this is...!" Mitsuru tried to stammer out her complaint, but her sense of mortification was too overwhelming. Anyone from the street could see them fully exposed!

"Sorry Ms. Kirijo. We've discovered that the Eden Syndromers tend to get...frisky and rowdy if we treat them decently. Look at this as some mild humiliation so you girls don't get it into your own heads to do something to yourselves even more humiliating. Or worse, do something dangerous to yourselves. That's my biggest concern right there. We'll get you tested as soon as possible."

And then he left them there!

"He's...he's got a point...." Minako ventured. "With us strapped up like this, we can't exactly do anything else to embarrass ourselves!"

"True." Came a singsong voice behind them. "But we cannnnn."

With growing alarm the three girls felt dozens of long slender arms reach up between the bars touch their exposed bodies. The cage opposite theirs was full of naked woman who had their hands free! Evidently no one thought to worry about keeping them out of reach of the other cage!

"Suh-Suh-Soooooooo f-fear-le-lesssss leeeeader! A-any words to in-inspire usss OH! now?" Yukari asked as she felt her ass, breasts, and inner thighs getting felt up amidst a chorus of laughs and excited cooing.

"N-Noooooo." Minako answered, as two dozen strange horny women pinched, poked, groped and played with exposed helpless body while any passerby could stop and stare (and oh many did). "This....This is just HUMILIATING!"