Chapter 34:

After standing there like an idiot for a few seconds, it seems like the voice who's name I do not know--

Let's just go with psycho man, anyways, psycho man finally has an 'idea' not like I was looking forward to it anyways..

"Ahah! Lucky you! Another player has joined the server!"

I blinked in confusion.
"What do you--mean?" I asked, fearing for the life of this other person.

"Someone accidentally entered one of the rooms here, so he automatically joined the game! Poor him, there's no way out now!"

A look of horror crossed my face.
"A-A stranger?"

"No, but you know him quite well."

I gulped, if it was a he, then I think I know who.
"Please tell me it's not--M-Mutsumi-senpai."

I waited for an answer, but at the same time, I didn't want to hear it.

"No! I wish, but sadly, no, but I know that you know this person, I'm sure of it!"

I involuntarily sighed in relief, knowing that Mutsumi-senpai wasn't dragged into this, but psycho man is so persistent to tell me that I know this person.

How am I supposed to know who it is if he doesn't give me a name? I strongly dislike guessing games.

Suddenly, I heard a scream and heard some sort of thing splatter on the walls, deep down I knew what it was but I refused to believe it.

"I-Is he d-dead?" I asked, even though I do not want to hear the answer.

"Well, surprisingly, no, he's strong for someone that looks so puny, I'll give him that much, but I'll let you meet him!"

Just as psycho man said those words, a door that was previously closed, automatically unlocked.

I stared at it in disbelief, just how is that possible? So many things are happening that breaks the many laws of science.

Like that time when I saw sparkles and various colors suddenly appear around Kae, sometimes I wonder if she's an actual human being, or an alien sent from mars.

I watched anticipation as the door opened revealing a person covered in blood, but it wasn't his blood.

Psycho man was right, I did know this person, but I can't believe he's standing here right in front of me, a stony look on his face.

His eyes widened when he recognized me, his jaw slightly dropping.
"Y-You're here too--Ayano?"

I gulped, slightly trembling.

"V-Viktor."

I tried walking towards him but he gave me a glare.
"Don't get any closer!" He yelled out.

Hurt flashed across my face.

"How could I know if I could trust you? How could I know if you're not going to try and kill me too?"

This time, I had a look of disbelief.
"Do you honestly think I'm capable of doing that? All I want is to go back and live a normal life, anything but this."

He had a torn look on his face, wondering if I should trust him or not--but I guess he decided.

He cast his face down, one stray tear leaving his eye.
"I'm sorry Ayano, but he said if I'd kill you, he'll let me leave, the officials would never find out, but I'd be classified as a victim."

This time he looked at me.
"I-I'm---s-sorry."

"But you just arrived!" I exclaimed.

He shook his head.
"No, I was here for a few hours, but I only passed the first round a few moments ago."

He stepped closer to me, a bat I haven't noticed before, in his hands.

"Y-You're really thinking of killing me?"

He closed his eyes.
"It's either my life or yours."

Just like that, he charged at me, the bat in his hands ready to kill me, on instinct, I started to run, looking around the room for something---anything, to help me.

Out of all the people in this world--why me? Just, why? I'm sure a lot of people in this world want adventure--I don't want adventure! I want to be like the other people in this world sitting on their living room sofa watching tv and worrying about exam finals after weeks of not studying only starting to study everything before the exam date.

My eyes landed on a vase.

It seems like vases has been saving my life a lot today.

I grabbed the vase and threw it at Viktor, he may have the same name of my favorite character in Yuri on Ice.

But this is a different Viktor.

Miraculously it was able to successfully hit his head, I didn't know I had great aim until now, but then again it's probably just dumb luck.

The reason I survived until now is because of dumb luck.

While he was still on the ground I quickly took the bat from him, steadily making my distance.

He started to get up, and started to head towards me.

"D-Don't make me do this, Viktor!"

He didn't stop, just when he was about to land a punch on me, I screamed closing my eyes as I hit him with the bat.

He collapsed on the floor, now unconscious, I've hit him somewhere at the back of his head but...this is terrifying.

Tears started to fall from my eyes.
I didn't want this, I never wanted this.

"He's not dead, he's not dead, he's not dead." I mumbled repeatedly trying to console myself.

"I swear, you're one lucky piece of shit, next time I'm not going to put vases inside the game rooms anymore."

I sucked in a deep breath.

"I'll let you go now, you're probably thirsty, I've prepared a drink for you, don't worry there's no poison."

The walls started to go down again revealing another room, just how spacious is this underground place?

In the middle of the room there was a cup, I warily picked it up and sniffed it.

I dipped a finger and touched a piece of paper, there was no chemical reaction.

"I told you, there is no poison, now drink that's a condition for getting out of here."

Having no choice, I gulped it down, suddenly I felt light-headed and dizzy.

"Y-You lied you said there wasn't any p-poison." I stuttered out, collapsing on the floor my vision getting blurry.

"There isn't."

This time, instead of the usual mechanical voice I heard on the speaker's it was a person's voice, a voice I knew.

"There's only heavy sleeping powder and a drug that lets you lose your memories."

I looked up weakly.

"W-Why--Izumo?"

He gave me a malicious smile, Kira now at his side.

"This was fun, Aya." They told me.

"Unluckily for you, you won't remember anything, not even a single bit as you wake up."

The last thing I saw was their smiling faces as I blacked out.

"Goodnight, let's play again soon, okay?"

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