1st Person (Junichiro)
As I regained consciousness, I found myself lying on something hard. As I opened my eyes, I found myself seeing…
Nothing.
The room was pitch black, was it still nighttime?
Somehow, my body was feeling extremely sore.
No, the bed I’m sleeping on is too hard, causing the pain from the soreness of all parts of my body.
Did I fall off my bed and sleep on the floor or something?
As I thought of getting up to return to my bed, my body—didn’t move.
I realized that I was completely paralyzed from my head to foot, not even my fingers could twitch. Was this the legendary lucid dream I had heard about? This is my first experience, but I would have been glad if this happened while I was at least lying on my bed, because even though I can’t move my body, the sensation of the hard floor is perfectly transmitted.
As I was at a loss on what to do, my eyes finally adjusted to the darkness and the surroundings became clear.
Where the hell is this?
I finally realized that this was not the room I grew up in.
Somehow, although I was unable to move most parts of my body, including my neck, my eyeballs were still able to move.
I took a quick scan of the room.
It was a completely empty room. I’m probably lying in the middle of the room, and nothing existed inside this room, other than me.
Not a single door existed either. A fearful thought flew into my mind, that maybe I’m trapped in a room with not a single opening.
What is this? Seriously, where the hell is this? Why am I in this kind of situation?
A bad dream, is what I wanted to think, but every sensation I felt is too realistic. And VR helmets only existed in light novels. I was unable to refute the fact that everything was real.
As I continued to try and escape from reality, some of my memories came back to me.
I was in the classroom, watching my friends bickering with each other, and Mana came in…
That’s right, as we were about to leave, blood red magic circles suddenly appeared on the classroom floor and caused everyone to have an extreme headache, and I was hugging Mana.
That magic circle, what the hell was—-my further incoherent thoughts were suddenly interrupted.
Oh shit, too bright!!
The room was suddenly filled with light, and due the instant change from darkness to light, my eyes temporarily stopped working.
However, I was able to get used to the light in a few seconds.
It seems that lights were not the only thing to change in this room.
I felt the presence of other humans.
Not some vague sounds, but the clear sounds of boots tapping on the hard floor.
The fact that someone came cleared the fact that I was not locked in an airtight room. But that relief was also instantly blown away.
Maybe, it would have been better if it were an airtight room.
The person who came into my view, his appearance was too extraordinary.
Clad in something like a white mantle and his head was also covered with a hood. It would have been fine if it was just that.
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He’s wearing a white mask. That looks totally suspicious. Not a gas-mask, but the type worn in operas, simple yet the whole surface was covered with abnormal designs.
What the hell?
These guys are definitely dangerous!
There were three people in my line of sight, all of them whom were wearing similar outfits.
Are these guys running some kind of weird cult or something?
However, I still lay paralyzed and I could do nothing but look around restlessly, unable to move even a finger, and to even moan.
I felt cold sweat trickling down my cheek. I don’t really understand the situation but I’m definitely in a very bad situation right now.
「הוא ער」[Masked Man]
Suddenly, one the masked men said something.
「אל תדאגו, אני בשום למקרים להמשיך」[Masked Man]
To that, another one answered.
Even though I was already in despair, I was further pushed into even more despair. That’s because I don’t understand a single word of what these masked men are talking about.
At the very least, it is not English or Chinese or any other foreign language that I might be familiar with.
Although, I, who barely got average marks in Chinese might not have been able to understand it too. At least it’s not Chinese, that’s for sure. Completely ignoring me who was totally in panic and chaos, the masked men continued their conversation.
That conversation suddenly, or so I thought, when one the masked men brought out a white ring.
It looked like a fluorescent lamp in the shape of ring, but that’s not it.
Then again, that special ring without any ornaments was not something I knew of.
A tool I have never seen before.
As I wondered what they would do with it, suddenly from inside the ring, thin needles came out.
Total of 6 needles came out.
With a *kashing* sound, I certainly saw them coming out.
I thought they were pretty, but at the same time I also had a bad premonition.
Similar to how it came out, they went back in an instant and the ring returned to normal.
And then the masked man who held the ring brought it towards my head—
Wait, wait a minute, don’t bring something dangerous like that, where needles fly out, towards my head!!!
Unable to neither move my body, nor produce any voice, other than restlessly moving my eyes and sweating from the whole body, I could not give out any other reaction.
The masked man, without any hesitation, with practiced hands, stuck the ring to my head.
Stop it, seriously stop it!
If the needles came out now, what is going to happen to my head?
With that length, they definitely reach my brain, and there are 6 of them!
I’ll die, I’ll surely die.
The fear of death instantly overcame me, but I had no way to put up any resistance.
Even crying or shouting while shivering in an unsightly manner was not allowed to me.
In what was barely a few seconds, the ring was set on my head.
Stop, please stop—
Unable to speak out, mercilessly, from my head, came a *kashing* sound.
And at the end, I lost my consciousness.