Inside the Capsule

🍽️ Episode 1
“I lost to Chima... Using a diuretic was definitely wrong of me. I’ll buy her some new panties as an apology next time...”
Sitting in a chair at a high-end restaurant, Rui sighed to herself, recalling Chima’s overwhelming wild-child behavior at the amusement park.
Cutting through Rui’s reflective mood, her mother’s cold, sharp voice rang out.
“Rui, are you finished eating? We’re going to a bar after this, so you’ll have to take a taxi home by yourself.”
“What! No way! Just me getting locked out!? Take me with you!”
When Rui pouted and protested, her mother sighed with an obviously dissatisfied look on her face.
“Well, today is our wedding anniversary. You’ve already tagged along enough. Don’t disturb our adult time.”
“...Fine.”
Feeling dejected by her parents’ lovey-dovey aura and her mother’s blunt treatment of her as a nuisance, Rui reluctantly agreed.

🚖 Episode 2
“Here is the taxi fare. Driver, please take the highway home.”
“Understood. Right this way, miss.”
Clutching the bills her mother had handed her, Rui slid into the rear seat of the private taxi. Sitting in the driver’s seat was a middle-aged man who seemed somewhat friendly.
“Please.”
Just as Rui closed the door and leaned back into the seat, before the car even started moving, the driver narrowed his eyes suspiciously in the rearview mirror and held out a small box.
“Miss, please have some if you’d like. These are delicious.”
Looking at the box she was handed, Rui frowned for a split second.
(Huh? No wrapping paper? ...Well, they look delicious, and it would be awkward to turn down such a kind gesture.)
Even though she should have been full from the restaurant, Rui took one on a whim.
“Thanks for the treat!”
Rui popped it into her mouth.
A dull sound of the central locking system engaging echoed, and the taxi quietly pulled out onto the night highway, picking up speed.

🛣️ Episode 3
The taxi passed through the highway interchange and accelerated onto the main road. At that moment, an intense “wave” like nothing she had ever experienced before surged into Rui’s lower abdomen.
(Wait...!? I have to... pee...! Why so suddenly...!?)
The water she drank at the restaurant, plus that mysterious snack. The liquid explosively produced inside her body was mercilessly pressing against her bladder. The micro-vibrations of the speeding taxi were directly pushing her limit meter higher.
“Um... excuse me, I need to... go to the bathroom...!”
Rui desperately held her crotch with her hands, her face turning pale as she spoke to the driver’s seat. However, the middle-aged driver reflected in the rearview mirror, while sounding troubled, had eyes that were narrowed in a somewhat amused way.
“What! We’re on the highway? I can’t stop the car here, and there are no parking areas until the next interchange. Can’t you hold it?”
“Ugh... I... I don’t think I can... I’m really at my limit...!”
Rui writhed on the seat, her legs trembling in small increments. Then, as if he had been waiting for this, the driver took something out from the passenger seat and handed it to the back seat.
“In that case, please use this.”
It was a familiar “emergency portable toilet” with a plastic opening.
“Please do it in here, right now.”
“Whaaat!? That’s impossible! In the car...!”
Rui screamed at the outrageous demand to relieve herself in the car, directed at a teenage girl. However, the driver’s voice rang out coldly.
“If that’s the case, you’ll have to hold it until we get off the highway. ...Oh, and just so you know, if you wet the seat, I will charge you a high cleaning fee.”
“No way...!!”
Either wet herself and be charged a huge sum of money, or swallow her shame and let it all out into the portable toilet right in front of this suspicious driver—.
Clutching the hem of her shorts, trembling with teary eyes, Rui was faced with the ultimate choice...!

🚽 Episode 4
“Haa, haa...! Don’t look! You absolutely must not look, okay!?”
Rui screamed as if in agony, holding her crotch tightly with teary eyes. However, the middle-aged driver in the rearview mirror was staring calmly into the darkness ahead.
“I’m driving on the highway. I can’t look behind me. Miss, please go ahead and use it without hesitation.”
“U-ugh...! Okay, I understand...!”
There wasn’t a second to spare. With trembling hands, Rui pulled down her shorts and panties together to her knees in one go.
The cold air from the taxi’s air conditioning brushed against her exposed thighs and buttocks.
Inside the sealed space speeding at 100 kilometers per hour, Rui desperately pressed the plastic opening of the portable toilet against her delicate area.
(Aah...! This is so embarrassing...!!)
As the vibrations of the car transmitted directly to her bottom, her face flushed redder than ever, and Rui finally loosened the valve of the dam that had been swollen to its limit—.

🚽 Episode 5
“Phew... I, I’m saved...”
Letting out a deep sigh as if the strength had left her entire body, Rui hurriedly pulled up her pants and panties. In her hand remained the portable toilet bag, heavy and warm with liquid.
“I’m really glad the seat didn’t get dirty.”
Through the rearview mirror, the middle-aged driver smiled as if nothing had happened.
“...Yes.”
“You can leave that there. I’ll dispose of it later.”
The driver tried to collect the bag under the guise of kindness. But Rui’s instincts sounded an alarm. (If I give this to him, I don’t know what he’ll do with it later...!)
“No! I’ll take it home myself!”
Rui flatly refused, wiped her hands with the wet towel the driver had offered, and paid the taxi fare she had been entrusted with by her mother.
“You’re very well-prepared with a portable toilet, aren’t you?”
When Rui asked in a slightly prickly voice, the driver answered with a faint narrowing of his eyes, showing no sign of guilt.
“Hahaha, I often have passengers who say they ‘might leak’ while on the highway.”
“...Huh?”
The taxi door opened, and the cold night air brushed against Rui’s cheeks.
As she got out of the car and watched the taillights fade into the distance, Rui felt an indescribable, unsettling sense of discomfort.
To think that the punishment for trying to teach Chima a lesson would come back in such a way...

📺 Episode 6
A few days after the taxi incident.
Rui was watching the news on TV in her living room, feeling indifferent. But the moment she saw the photo of the man displayed on the screen, her body froze.
“—Next news. A man in his 50s who drove a private taxi in Tokyo has been arrested on suspicion of non-consensual indecency and violation of the Child Pornography Prohibition Act. The man allegedly posed as a kind driver to distribute homemade snacks laced with diuretics to young female passengers, causing them to feel the urge to urinate while on the highway, and secretly filmed them using portable toilets inside the car with hidden cameras—”
The announcer’s detached voice exploded like a roar in Rui’s brain.
That suspicious smile in the rearview mirror, the overly prepared portable toilet, the gentle lie that “I can’t see behind me”... It was all a despicable trap targeting young women.
“Noooooooo!!! You’re kidding, I was being watched!?”
In front of the TV, Rui held her head and screamed.
The fear that the video might have been leaked to some underground site, combined with her own lack of caution, caused tears to overflow and not stop.
“Ugh... hic... sob... because I used a diuretic on Chima... I got what was coming to me...!!”
It was a case of karma so intense that her attempt to punish her best friend had come back to her as many times over in the form of the “worst kind of humiliation.”
As she sobbed in the corner of the room, hugging her knees, Rui found herself feeling just a little bit envious of the boldness of Chima’s “aerial rainbow.” —

[End]

※ This work is a fiction created based on reports of actual incidents involving diuretics being mixed into drinks and secret filming inside taxis; all characters and organizations appearing are fictional.