“KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!”
*STABS*
“DIEEEEEEEE!!!”
A man stabs a woman right in her neck with a knife.
“OOOHHKKKK!!! OHOK!!”
“DIE!! PLEASE DIEEEEEEEEE!!!”
Seconds after the stab, the woman no longer moves and dies.
*ZRSH*
The man pulls his knife out of her neck and stands up.
“NEXT!!”
The man is suddenly overcome by bloodlust. Killing someone inside this game triggered a switch to flip inside his head.
*ZRAASSHH*
“UUUUAAAARRGGHH!!”
But suddenly, the man was slashed on his back by someone else behind him.
*THUD*
The man falls to the floor. There was an 18-year-old boy standing behind, holding a machete.
“THAT WAS MY MOM YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE!! I AM GOING TO KILL YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!”
The boy jumps on top of the man’s back, lying on the floor, and he starts chopping off the man’s back over and over again without a care in the world.
*SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH*
“AAAAAAAAARRRGHGH!!! AARRGHGH!!! UUUAAARRGGHHH!! OOOOORRRGGHHHH!! AAAARRGGHH!!! STOOOOOOOPPPPP!!!! AAAAAAAAAARRRGGHHH!!!”
“FUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!! YOU DIDN’T EVEN CONSIDER STOPPING WHEN YOU KILLED MY MOM!!! DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!”
*SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH*
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!”
The boy continues to chop the man’s back, no matter how much he is screaming at the top of his lungs. Hatred has seeped into his heart, and he is overwhelmed by it. He has no other thoughts in his head other than making her mother’s killer suffer as much as possible.
“DROP DEAAAAAAAAAAADDDDD!!”
*ZRASH*
Lastly, the boy swings his machete into the back of the man’s head. It went deep into his brain and cut it in two, but it wasn’t cut all the way through.
*pant pant pant pant*
He stands up without picking up the machete stuck in the man’s head. He walks over to his mother’s corpse and hugs him.
*sobs sobs*
“MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM!!!!”
He starts crying and shouting intensely in great sorrow.
“MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!!”
*CHLACK*
But suddenly, yet another someone walks over towards the boy with a pistol, pointed directly at his head at point-blank range.
*BANG*
*ZRASH*
*THUD*
The boy was shot in the head, and the insides of his head fell off to the ground.
“SERVES YOU RIGHT YOU FUCKING THUG!! THAT WAS MY FATHER YOU JUST TORTURED!! ENJOY HELL!!!”
A young girl in her 20s has picked up a gun that she found earlier from one of the special rooms outside this amusement park and was searching for her father, only to find out he was being mercilessly tortured by someone younger than her.
*Thud*
Afterwards, she fell to her knees and started crying as well.
“HUUUUUUUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! PAPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!”
Now it’s her turn to grieve and mourn for her father’s passing.
This all happened in just a small area of the indoor amusement park near a garbage can in the corner of the room, near the popcorn stall where Luna was hiding. Chaos and consecutive murders have quickly erupted inside because of the killing game the clown bestows upon them.
“. . .”
Luna heard everything from under the counter of the cashier.
“(What should I do? I can’t possibly survive this on my own! Though I have my Faith power, plus the knife I got from that mother and the taser from that room, for self defense.)”
“(I’m also worried about Hana-san and Kasumi-san. We haven’t been able to locate each other since the start of the game.)”
The girls’ crying can no longer be heard. It seems that she has left the area.
*!!!*
But as Luna was lost in thought, she heard a footstep coming towards her location.
“. . .”
*step step step*
The sound of the footsteps indicates that they’re coming from one person, possibly an adult, based on the loudness and depth of the footsteps.
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*Step step step*
“. . .”
Luna tries as hard as she can to stay silent and also conceals her breathing by covering her nose and mouth with both of her hands.
“. . .”
The man walks towards the inside of the popcorn stall, to the cashier’s counter. His legs appeared visible to Luna from underneath.
“. . .”
“THERE YOU ARE!!”
*!!!*
All of a sudden, the man squats down quickly and discovers her. He’s showing a creepy and disturbing smile at her. Luna was startled, yet she appeared to be calm in the man’s eyes.
“Heeee? I thought you were gonna scream! Not bad, kid! You’re not an ordinary teenager, right?”
“. . .”
“Say, wanna come out willingly from there, or should I force you with violence? I promise you it won’t be pretty.”
Luna gently nods. The man stands up, and she crawls out of her hiding and stands face-to-face against the man.
“Let’s stand outside with more space, uum. . .”
“Luna Eriniva.”
“Eriniva-san? Wow, what a unique name! Let’s go outside!”
The man immediately turns around and walks outside the counter. He didn’t wait for her response, signalling that it was a command rather than a request. Luna has no idea what he’s capable of, so she has no choice but to obey.
“Now we have a lot of space to move around!”
“. . .”
The man finally turns around and faces Luna. Luna finally notices the man’s entire appearance.
The man looks to be in his 20s. He has messy white hair that seems to have never been combed his whole life. His hair looks similar to the shape of the mane of a lion, and his side bangs reach past his neck. He has a pair of bright lime green eyes with a terrible pair of eye bags underneath them. He wears a dark green hooded long-sleeved sweater with a dirty white T-shirt underneath, a pair of ripped blue long jeans, and a pair of ripped and damaged brown running shoes. His entire appearance looked like a homeless man. He’s 167cm tall and weighs around 63kg. His body build is very slender, and it is almost to the point that he looks like he hasn’t been eating anything for months. One strange thing that Luna notices is that, even though everything about him seems dirty, he doesn’t have a bad smell when she stands so close to him at the counter.
“My name is Scar! My hobby is to scare people off. I can’t explain it to you, but the feeling of seeing someone get so scared, especially if it’s because of me, always makes me feel good to the point that I feel alive!”
The man suddenly introduces himself as well as his hobby while spreading his arms wide open, with such a giant smile on his face. A complete 180-degree facial expression from what he has worn all this time.
“So, what do you want?” asks Luna.
“Basically, I’m enjoying this killing game that was presented both by the clown and the Game Master! And as for you, I’VE ALWAYS WANNA HEAR A YOUNG GIRL LIKE YOU SCREAM!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!”
He’s suddenly laughing hysterically, giving off a mental instability vibe coming from him.
“What a sick pervert!”
“NO NO NO NO! Don’t lump me in with those rotten child molesters! I’ve simply heard many people’s screams my whole life! But I’ve yet to hear one coming from a girl your age!”
The man puts both his hands into his sweater’s pockets.
“Say, Eriniva-san, are you afraid of me?”
*!!*
“(W-What is this feeling? Right after his question, I get a terrifying feeling when I look at him. It’s like there’s a pitch black darkness oozing off from all over his body. What is this??)”
Luna’s entire body starts shaking uncontrollably.
*!*
All of a sudden, the darkness oozing from Scar, which is only visible in Luna’s eyes, slowly changes shape into that of a woman. The woman was entirely pitch black and made of gas, and she stood next to Scar.
“Eh? This is your fear?? Really, Eriniva-san? I was expecting something like a giant cockroach, a giant spider, a ghost of some kind, or something along those lines!”
Luna was stunned seeing the woman next to Scar. She subconsciously utters a word that she hasn’t said in forever.
“Mom. . .?”
*??*
“What? Mom?? This is your mother? *Sigh* Lame! Though I guess it makes sense for kids at your age to be very afraid of their parents.”
*!*
But when Scar takes a look at Luna, he realizes that the fear in Luna’s eyes is a lot different than the type of teenagers in their rebellion phase to be afraid of their parents.
“Hmm, an abusive mother, huh? I guess different family has different problems, eh?”
“. . .”
Luna doesn’t say anything. She keeps standing in place in fear as her face starts sweating a lot. Her body also trembles a lot more than before.
“Huh? What? That’s not how my Faith power works! You shouldn’t be trembling this much after your fear has been given shape!! What is going on here?”
“. . .”
“O-OIII!!! Eriniva-san??”
Luna doesn’t answer.
“. . .”
“*Sigh* I wanna see people scream, not frozen in fear! This isn’t fun anymore. . .”
*Wush*
The pitch black woman figure fades away as per Scar’s will.
“Forget about it, Eriniva-san! Given that I am from the Underworld, bullying little kids isn’t my style! *Sigh* Guess I’ll look for another prey. . .”
Scar immediately turns around and walks away from Luna. She is now left alone in front of the popcorn stall.
*pant pant pant*
She has started to have trouble breathing.
“. . .”
Seeing her mom all of a sudden after all this time brought back a terrible memory of hers from the past. She could not process what happened, and she instinctively fought back by being silent and stunned.
*pant pant pant*
*THUD*
She falls on her butt to the ground.
*pant pant pant*
She’s trying as hard as she possibly can to regain her normal breathing. She is currently having a mental breakdown.
“(Calm down! That wasn’t the real mom! Calm down! *Pant pant*)”
*inhales exhales*
Luna takes a long breath and lets it all out as well.
*inhales exhales*
She keeps doing this for a few seconds until her mental state eventually stabilizes.
“(Okay! I’m fine. . .)”
She tries to stand up despite her shaking legs.
“Urgh. . .”
*pant pant*
She’s standing but bending down with her hands on her knees, holding her body up.
*pant pant*
“(Alright. . . I’m okay. . .)”
She finally stands up and leans her neck upwards towards the sky/ceilings.
“(I didn’t think that I would see Mom again after all this time. . . What a surprise. . .)”
*!*
“(I should find another hiding spot! This whole cruel killing game is still going on after all.)”
Luna turns around to start running to find somewhere else to hide, but she ends up stopping at the first step.
*!!!*
When she turns around, she immediately sees her mom again, in pitch black and gas-like appearance, with her face at point-blank range against her own. It’s the same figure she saw as the product of Scar’s Faith power.
*THUD*
Normally, anyone would’ve screamed, but Luna simply froze in fear, yet again, while falling on her butt to the ground.
“EEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHH?? You’re still not screaming? TCH!!”
Scar suddenly walks out from behind her mom’s pitch black figure.
“I would’ve thought that that definitely would’ve done it! You’re tougher than you look, huh, Eriniva-san?”
Luna looks at Scar and is shocked to find that he’s back.
“Didn’t you walk away? Saying that it wasn’t your style picking up little girls like me?”
“Didn’t I say that I never heard girls your age scream? I AM DYING TO KNOW HOW YOU WOULD SOUND AND REACT! GRRRRRRRRR!!! WHY DIDN’T IT WORK? IS THERE SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOU? SOME KINDA DISABILITY THAT DOESN’T ALLOW YOU TO SCREAM OR SOMETHING?? WHO WOULDN’T SCREAM AT THE TOP OF THEIR LUNGS WHEN SOMETHING APPEARED RIGHT INTO THEIR FACE WHEN THEY LEAST EXPECTED IT, ESPECIALLY IF IT WAS SOMEONE WHO CAUSED TRAUMA TO THEM IN THE PAST?”
*!!!*
All of a sudden, Luna gets up and jumps at Scar’s face. She closes her face into his and stares deeply into his eyes.
*!!*
And then her iris changes shape and color. The inner part of her iris has a blue ring in it, her sclera turns green on the top and the bottom part, and yellow color in between the green parts, with a big red ring circling the iris on the sclera as well. The skin around her eyes also turns pitch black.
*THUD*
She lands on the ground in front of him. He was stunned and frozen in place by the effect of Luna’s Faith power.
“Heh! You’re not the only one with fear-based Faith power!”
*Step step step*
Luna immediately turns around and runs away from him.
“(Alright time to actually find somewhere to hide!)”
*!!!*
But all of a sudden, Scar’s pitch black figure of her mom appears in front of her, interrupting her escape.
*BAM*
“URRPPHHH!!!”
The pitch black figure punches Luna in her stomach.
*Thud*
Luna immediately falls to her knees on the ground, holding her stomach with both of her hands. She immediately felt like she was going to puke from the sharp pain in her stomach.
*Pant pant pant*
Scar is heavily breathing.
“Naughty kids like you should be punished! How dare you make me experience my hellish past!! I AM GOING TO SEVERELY PAY YOU BACK YOU LITTLE BRAAAATTTT!!!”
*!!!*
As Luna is still enduring the pain of the punch in her stomach, she was startled to realize that Scar had already moved and even talked again, despite having fallen victim to her Faith power.
