Chapter Text
Player
Suguru Niragi
Days left on visa
1
With only a day left on his visa, Niragi had to find a game arena by dawn if he wanted to live another day. Visas, games, cards, it was a non stopping thing they had to do ever since somehow getting here. No one actually knew what the borderlands were. Is this hell? Or mabye this it's 2094 and aliens have taken over. Nontheless, this day had been pretty boring, outside from shoving up his beloved gun in a couple people's faces and threatning them with it, the day had lacked any form of stimuli. He wasn't gonna deny that the death games they were forced to face ever so often gave him a sick rush of adrenaline that he enjoyed, so maybe this night would lighten his mood. He groaned then crawled up from his bed where he'd been laying, staring up at the ceiling for what felt like an eternity, and took one final look in the mirror to make sure his physical looks contracted how much of a mess he felt on the inside. Stepping out of the room he'd been assigned to begin exiting the beach. It was loud as usual, what better way to distract yourself from the reality of the situation than to indulge in sex and partying? On his way he overheard a couple people gossiping about a rumour saying a hearts game was going to take place tonight, guess that was just his luck. Niragi wasn't particilary fond of heart games, that ofcourse had nothing to do with his past he'd done his best to bury deep beneath.
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all of shibuya was gone, he felt a panic creep up on him. Was this some kind of sick prank? Running out on the road had no result as it was empty everywhere he inspected. With no idea what was going on he was pretty freaked out, reasonably so. Being completly isolated in a big city with no way of knowing what was going on made him feel small and powerless. There was little to do in such a situation exept sit and wait for anything to happend; a sign of another human being to come.
Waiting around became tiring quickly, he planned on heading back to his shitty apartment untill further information about this whole ordeal was provided, right at the moment of declaring that to himself a faint voice could be heard somewhere around the corner. All of this felt like some badly coded indie horror game, exept it was actually happening, and Niragi was not about to be the protagonist who passes away from investigating the creepy noise coming from nowhere. Tho after some more thinking (about a minute later) he sighed, what the hell, if nothing was gonna happend he might aswell go there he had heard that voice come from.
"Hello?" He called out, it felt idiotic but at this moment enough time had passed to make him feel kind of desperate for any sign of life. No answer, how suprising. Turning around the corner would however open up a path leading to a bank kind of building, inside there he could faintly spot other people standing. He began increasing the pace
In there he would come to face a bunch of people standing around phones, come to think of it, his phone hadn't been working last time when he tried calling someone earlier. In front of them all was also weapons, blades, boxcutters, knives, guns, you name it. Was this shit even legal? Before his thoughts could wander more a woman took a look at his questioning expression and opened her mouth
" are you new here ..?" Brown haired girl carefully spoke
"New to what? Fuck is goin' on?" He yelled, probally louder than neccidary but you can't blame him, he was kind of terrified and really wanted to get back home
"What's your name?" She continued
"My name? My name is very fucking confused, what's your name?" Niragi sneered back at her
" i.. we have to play these games- in order to survive.. just stick by me, okay? I'll explain it all later"
Hah?
Did he hear that correctly? What was this, a horror movie? The earlier comment about the badly programmed indie game seemed even more prominant now that he had met this nutsack of a woman. He was just about to throw a petty insult at her when a robotic voice spoke up from the TV screen above all the mobile phones
[登録は終了しました]
[ registrations closed ]
[Game: last one standing]
[ゲーム：最後の一人]
[Difficulty: 5 of hearts]
[難易度：ハートの5]
[Rules: you are all going to be exposed to a sound which has been proven to cause extreme psychological distress and bring back past trauma on test subjects. Your objective is to sit through 45 minutes of this soundwave. If you attempt to leave the building you will be eliminated. if you attempt to cover your ears you will be eliminated. Time limit: 45 minutes. I will not be repeatinf the rules . . . ]
This has to be some sick joke right? What the fuck did they mean eliminated, no way in hell could this all be real. he let out a choked chuckle
"Okay, wow, what is this, science fiction? Yeah right, now tell me what's really going on" he said, to no one exept the people who were listening.
"Sir.. please listen to the instructions provided" brown hair uttered with a shaky voice"
"N' what happens if i don't? Am i gonna die?" He huffed, voice filled with sarcasm, but when she looked at him dead in the eyes and no reaction to him stating the game could be deadly most of his amusement died.
[ Game stats now ]
A loud beep that felt like it was cutting through your eardrums began playing. Niragi instinctivly covered his ears right away, looking up at the woman as if to say "what the fuck is going on?", and if he could he would've cursed her out but this noise was too unbearable. It was overwhelming, like all his repressed emotions came back and all overtook him at once, hower no emotion could be distinguished from the other. It was all a blur, the world soon felt like it began warping, dreams and memories becoming one and unabillity to tell what was going on, he felt every sensation and none at once. He was numb and in unbearable pain. It felt like he was watching himself suffer from another universe unable to influence the demise of himself. He was everywhere and nowhere, his worldview felt fourdimensional. All thoughts was gone and left was only sorrow and agony. Then he saw it, infront of him, thete layed a freshly sharpened knife. Despite his disconnected state he knew that was all it took to end the misery. Within a secound he grabbed it and positioned it against his wrist, Niragi was no expert on the vein/artery system but he did know that slitting the radial vein was all it took to bleed out. In the loss of all emotion it felt like the only outcome.
"stop! This is what they want you to do"
That made him stop mid action, his vision felt like static tho he could faintly make out the same woman fron before, desperatly crying out to him
all the other people in the room were struggling aswell, one had a gun against his head, sobbing, with a finger on the trigger. Niragi quickly closed his eyes before he could witness anything. Despite what she had told him just now he pressed the cold metal against his skin and swiped fast. The warm liquid sippering down felt familiar but the flow of this one was diffrent. Panic couldn't even simmer in before he was passed out against the floor
I guess i wasn't strong enough after all
He opened his eyes. And the migrane instantly hit him, it was enough to make him groan loudly, for the first moments he couldn't even remember what happend but then it hit him. What the fuck happend and why the fuck was he still alive? Glancing towards his wrists, there was a pool of blood beneath it
"you cut the, uh, median antebrachial vein, not the radial, luckily. It's not as high pressure and therefore you were able to make it" it was that familiar woman's voice. Why the fuck was she still here? Niragi got up, well, tried to, before he fell against the floor again, it hurt badly.
"Yeah you're gonna have to deal with that for a while" she exhaustingly mumbered, his memory of the previous events were dull but he could make out this unbearable aching sensation overtaking his entire body.
"Are you gonna explain what the fuck is going on now?" He managed to make himself sigh out
" everyone in tokyo dissapeared, we are unsure of the exact situation. But we have to keep playing these deadly games if we wanna live. "
okay, this is just crazy, was he supposed to belive this crap?
Seems like it, he didn't have any other choice at the moment
" okay... and what we played yesterday, that was one of the said death games? Didn't seem very deadly to me " if this was some reality show he was gonna strangle whoever was responsible for it
" it was a psychological game, the whole meaning was to fuck with your vurnabilities and make you do the killing yourself. You see, the suits have meanings. Spades is for physical games, diamonds is for intellectual, clubs is a mix between both, often played as team games and hearts messes with your emotions and empathy "
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Bringing along his rifle he begun walking outside. The chilly air made him shudder lightly, mabye bringing a coat would've been a good idea, he cursed to himself. It was dark outside, with no way to tell the time you kind of just had to go off the sun like in the early bronze ages. Nonetheless, he keeps on going. There was always an eerie feeling to this place, especially when you were alone in the dark, but right now? It felt like he was being watched, which was stupid, he knew there was no one else around at this hour. But yet he couldn't shake the dread, sometimes his steps would make an echo like sound, yet there was no one there when he turned to look. It was probally the insomnia getting to him. After looking around for a while eventually he spotted a neon sign, unmistakably a game arena. There was a sign that said "no weapons allowed". Loud sigh, well damn, there goes the fun
Stepping inside he would faintly spot a shadow slipping past him, turning around there stood stood chishiya fucking shuntaro, out of all people. Ofcourse that little prick had been stalking him. He shot the other man a nasty glance, right now he really fucking wished he had his rifle. Rolling his eyes he began further examing the place, it looked like an everyday household with the main part being a livingroom kind of area, on the table under the tv was there phones laying, he didn't waste any time going there and grabbing one right away, right next to there was a kitchen. You could also see 2 closed doors presumably leading into diffrent rooms. Most likely a diamonds or hearts game going off the enclosed nature of this house
There were 5 other people around, a tall-ish woman with navy dyed hair, a middle aged man keeping a stern expression, another man with heavy facial scarring and a patch covering his left eye, a younger looking woman and yet another guy who was pretty average looking, too average looking, mabye he was new here?
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While snooping around the beach chishiya ofcourse had heard the rumour aswell, it intruiged him to know how Niragi would act during it knowing his dislike of hearts games (While Niragi locking himself in his room multiple days in a row chishiya took that as an oppertunity to dig around here and there and eventually he found that out from some weird bald guy, he thinks his name was Last boss?) So when he spotted Niragi going out of his room he decided to follow him to the game arena. Not like he needed to or anything, he had 3 days left on his visa
Boredome was the absolute worst thing chishiya knew, he could stand being on the border to life or death but he absolutly had to keep himself entertained at all points, perhaps that was why he had agreed to become "friends" (more like allies, but friends will do it) with Kuina, she was a huge chatterbox but a benifit was that he always knew the latest gossip around the place
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There was a sound Niragi was all too famliliar with by now and then the robotic female voice spoke up
[登録は終了しました]
[ registrations closed ]
[ゲーム : フリッカー ]
[ Game : flicker ]
[がいだ : ハト の9]
[ Difficulty : nine of hearts ♥︎ ]
[ルール : ]
[ Rules : you will be recieving your roled which will be be dividing you all into 3 teams. The good team, the neutral team, and the evil team. Every night the murderer will strike, it's up to the good team to defeat the evil team before they get killed. Players may discuss and argue about who is on the evil side during the day, players may also vote one player out each day, but once the light flickers you may not talk with the othet players, if you do so you will be disqualified. The roles will be explained now.]
[ Good team ]
[ - Detective. Each night the detective will be given a clue to help figure out what players are on the good or evil team, they are the leader of the good team ]
[ - Psychic. Once every night the psychic can see whether a chosen player is on the good or the evil team. ]
[ - Spy. Once every night the spy can view who visited a chosen player, and if they've been attacked or protected. ]
[ - Medic. Once every night the medical can save a chosen player from the murderer. If the player has been targetted by any other role able to kill however, the medic will not be able to save them. They can also save themself once during the game. ]
[ - Twin. A twin knows who their other twin is, twins are linked by soul meaning if one twin dies the other twin goes with them. ]
[ The rest will be survivors without any specific abillity ]
[ Evil team ]
[ - Murderer. The murderer can kill a chosen player once per night, their kills cannot be blocked by the witch, and they cannot be assassinated by the assassin. They are the leader of the evil team ]
[ - Witch. The witch can block a players abillity for one night, the witch however cannot stop the murderer or the assassin from killing someone ]
[ - Assassin. The assassin can only kill once during the entirety of the game. The assassin is aware of the murderer's identity but not vise versa ]
[ - Dark psychic. The evil counterpart of the pshycic. ]
[ - Scout, the evil counterpart of the spy ]
[ Neutral team ]
[ - Clown. The clown's goal is to get voted out (not killed), once they've been voted off they can drag someone into death along before they both get eliminated ]
[ Clearing conditions: ]
[ Good team: eliminate all the players on the evil team ]
[ Evil team: eliminate all the players on the good team ]
[ Nautral team: stay alive until either teams have won ]
Shit, that's alot of rules, niragi thought to himself, his mind running with all kinds of thoughta. Playing a hearts game with chishiya would surely be intresting, especially of a number this high. He licked his teeth and couldn't help but grin at the thought of watching the other man die right before his eyes, although he had to admit it would'nt be as fun as if his cause of death wouldn't be directly Niragi's fault. Looking around, the other players did not seem pleased, the girl with dyed hair looked like she was on the verge of tears, how humiliating for her. The others were also seemily affected by the new given information, the newcomer had a puzzling expression however Niragi wasn't gonna bother explaining anything to him, he would find out soon enough anyways. Taking a glance around his back he saw Chishiya standing right beside him, when meeting the other mans eyes, he gave Niragi a little smirk and in a blink he was shoved up against the wall "Why th' fuck did y' follow me y' little cunt" The blonde just raised his hands in a mocking surrender. It's funny how they always seemed to end up in his exact position; with niragi threatning to shoot or choke- or whatever it was- chishiya, with him just remaining calm and collected, and that's what pissed him off the most; how unbothered he always was no matter the circumstances. His grip loosned, not cause he wanted to spare Chishiya but cause he knew there was no time, the game was starting at any moment and he wasn't gonna lose his life due to not taking this seriously enough
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