Nagisa's P. O. V.

I woke up to the sound of a steady beep. There were adults talking around me and a man with spiky hair and long eyebrows in a suit held a phone in his hand, as if he was prepared to call someone in a second's notice.

I groaned and sat up, shocking the people around me. I strained my ears to hear what they were saying but I couldn't hear them. All I could hear was the beat of what I suppose was my heart.

"Nagisa!" I heard the man say and I looked up, drearily. He looked really happy.

'Nagisa.' Was that my name? I didn't when know my own name?

I blinked and the man was on his phone, chatting with someone and I heard him say 'Nagisa' and 'awake.'

So, was my name Nagisa?

The man hanged up the phone and looked back at me. "How do you feel, Nagisa?" He asked me, polite and serious.

I didn't know how to respond to that. "I'm sorry but who are you?" I asked and I almost immediately regretted it. The look on the man's face. His sadness and horror from that statement.

He tried to hide it but I could somehow see his true feelings. "You don't remember me, Nagisa?"

"Nagisa. Is that my name?" I asked him, curious.

His eyes widened. "Yes, your name is Nagisa Shiota."

"Where am I?" I asked.

"You're-" the man started to speak but was interrupted by the sound of the door banging open. I looked over and saw a rather busty blonde woman who looked about in her 20s and a bunch of other kids, that looked around my age, behind her.

"Nagisa!" They all screamed and rushed into the room. But they weren't the only ones that came in. Another thing entered the space. It looked like an yellow octopus with too many tentacles to count. It had clothes on like a human but what stuck me the most odd was the fact that I wasn't scared or surprised. Instead, I felt something else for the creature. Trust? Respect?

Before I could think further, a girl with green hair in pigtails hugged me, tears forming in her eyes. "Nagisa! I'm so glad you're okay!"

I patted her back, not knowing what else to do. I didn't know this girl. But somehow she knew me.

"Um.." I started to say, grabbing the students' attention. "Do I know you?"

The girl froze, as did the others. Maybe I shouldn't have said that so suddenly, they looked so happy.

"You don't know us?" A girl with blonde hair and blue eyes asked me. I shook my head.

"Karasuma! What happened?" The blonde woman asked the man with the spiky hair, apparently his name was Karasuma.

"I'm not sure, " he answered, "he just woke up but for some reason he doesn't remember anyone, not even himself."

The two engaged in a conversation, the yellow creature joining in. In the meanwhile, I surveyed my surroundings. Maybe I'd see something familiar and make all of these people loss their worries.

I glanced around the 30 or so kids that had previously entered the room, checking if any seemed familiar.

Then I saw him. A familiar redhead hiding in the crowd, his face knit was worry and guilt. I knew him!

"Karma-kun!" I exclaimed and everyone stopped talking. All eyes were on me, then Karma.

"Nagisa, you know me?" Karma spoke, his voice uneasy and afraid.

I tilted my head in confusion. "You're Karma Akabane, right?" I was confused. Was he not Karma?

"No, I am. I mean, how do you know me but not the others?" He asked, clearing my thoughts.

"Um..."

"Ah!" A girl with black hair tied into two braids exclaimed. "Could it be that Nagisa only remembers his life before he went into class 3-E?"

"But why doesn't he remember himself?" A boy with blonde and black hair said. To be honest, he looked like a bully but I could see that he was actually a kind boy who just didn't know how to socialize with people.

I blinked. How did I know that? I don't even know the guy and I know his life story? This doesn't make any sense...

"Agh!" I felt a sharp pain in my head and I placed my hands on it, as if to stop it. It didn't work.

I felt my arms and legs going numb and I couldn't speak, couldn't scream out in the pain I was in.

"Nagisa!"

"Nagisa, are you all right?!"

"What's happening?"

Voices swirled around me, engulfing me, swallowing me up. My eyes watered.

"S-stop...!" I choked out, my throat suddenly sore. My fingers dug into my hair and I closed my eyes.

You are okay, Nagisa.

"Who are you!" I yelled out, sounding like a maniac. I opened my eyes desperately, looking around to see where this voice originated. It was plain, monotone. I could tell that it was a robot or a machine.

Don't worry, Nagisa. It'll be over soon.

"Stop it! Get out of my head!!" I yelled, tears threatening to fall. The other people in the room talked to me but I couldn't hear them.

Karma came up to me and grabbed my hand, squeezing it as to comfort me. I stared at him, my eyes wide and surprised.

Kill him.

My eyes widened more. What? Kill my best friend?

Kill him now.

"No!" I shouted, but the voice in my head wouldn't stop.

Resistance is futile, Nagisa. Killing the boy there will be beneficial for both of us.

"No! I won't kill him!"

Karma widened his eyes, realizing the gist of the situation. He tightened his grip on my hand. "Nagisa, block it out. Just block it out. Think of something else, think of something that makes you happy." He advised and I nodded.

Kill Karma, Nagisa.

I closed my eyes and tried to think back to a time when I was happy. The first thing that came up was when Karma first talked to me. I was a loner, I had no friends because of my figure and my hair. But, Karma was the first person to talk to me, the first to treat me like an equal.

The pain in my head slowly faded away and so did the voice in my head. I glanced up at Karma and smiled, before realizing that my energy was heavily depleted.

Despite that, I felt myself get up and walk to the door. But before I could turn the doorknob, my legs lost all strength and I fell to my knees. The last thing I remembered was the sound of an explosion before I passed out on the cold ground.

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Shiro's P. O. V.

"Its time." I told my self and began typing in words on my computer that would be sent to the mind of Subject Kill.

You are okay, Nagisa. I typed. His reaction was interesting. His brain had already registered that there was a foreign intruder in the body. I wrote this down.

Don't worry, Nagisa. It'll be over soon.

I watched as the other people in the room reacted. I frowned as Karma, the mischievous redhead, came up and grabbed my subject's hand. His pulse slowed down, heading back to the normal level. This was not good.

How did that boy have such an effect on my subject?

Kill him. I typed and saw a reaction that I didn't like. My subject was resisting me.

Kill him now.

"No!" I heard him shout and my eyes narrowed.

Resistance is futile, Nagisa. Killing the boy there will be beneficial for both of us.

"No! I won't kill him!" He yelled and I watched the boy beside him put together the pieces.

He spoke some words to him, words too soft for me to hear. I leaned into the computer screen but couldn't hear what he had said.

Kill Karma, Nagisa. I typed as a last resort but it didn't work.

Subject Kill began to block me out, by himself! Most of the program had vanished from his system but I wasn't done yet.

I made him stand up and walk toward the door, as if about to leave the room. Then I flipped open the switch to detonate the room. When the subject was the farthermost away, I pushed the switch and watched as the room exploded.

I wasn't worried, though. With his new body surely he will survive the blast. If not, well, I guess I'll need another test subject.

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