Melted Memories

As the room kept getting hotter and hotter, everyone tried their best to remain conscious. Kessho's body remained on the heated floor along with Akumu while she lay, knocked out. Tsuki could feel the room circling around her. Tamachi was at the brink of a panic attack. Itai was searching for a clever way to escape. While he did this, he spotted a vent. "Hey gu-." He cut himself off, remembering that this room was ridiculously heated and that the vents were metal and would be twice as hot.

Tamachi looked over. "Itai, is everything okay? You stopped talking suddenly."

"Yes. I Just figured out my plan wouldn't work."

Tamachi looked away and began searching for an escape too. "Ah, gotcha."

It had now been about forty-five minutes and every minute it seemed, the room heated up even more. Tsuki began walking around and felt a floorboard creak underneath herself. Sakasu looked over quickly. "I think we found our way out!" She said with a bright smile.

Tamachi walked over and took out the floor board and the others next to it to make an exit large enough to fit them. He then walked over and picked up Akumu. Itai started to walk down the exit and everyone else followed. Itai in front, Sakasu behind him, Tamachi holding Akumu behind her, and Tsuki in the back. "Guys? Do you see what I'm seeing?" Sakasu called.

Itai held up the small lantern he had picked up from the small side table in the last room. The lantern revealed a room full of photos, files filled of papers, and red string held together by thumb tacks. The room was strangely cold, seeing how the room they were last in went higher than 150 degrees and caught on fire. "What the hell do you see?" Tsuki called out from the back. Itai led the group into the room and Tsuki began to study the appearance of it. "This looks like my older brother's room from before this. He was such a nerd." Tsuki said, realizing she still remembered what she wasn't supposed to.

Itai looked at her cautiously. "How do you remember that?"

Tamachi was confused. "Is she not supposed to remember her family?"

Sakasu looked over at them and thought about every word they said.

Itai looked around the room and there were no speakers or cameras. "Hey guys, normally the intercom guy blasts the speakers when we have a question, right?"

"Yeah." Sakasu said.

Tsuki looked around the room, "What the fuck?"

Tamachi looked back at Akumu and then at everyone else. "It's almost as if the intercom guy or game master or whatever didn't mean for us to find this room."

They nodded and headed back up to the room with the heater. The intercom blasted—"Hahahahaha! Beginners luck! Next round is a tough one though!"

They saw a secret passageway open. When they walked in, they found themselves in a room that looked almost identical to the one they started out with—An empty, large metal-walled room.

There were some differences though. For example, Blood on the floor, Jace standing there with his sick smile, and a satan Star written with chalk in the middle of it all. Jace swiped a bit of his hair out of eye and let it fall back into place, "Your next challenge is to choose someone to sacrifice in a ritual to get the final 4 survivors."

The intercom blasted just in time to make the moment horrid—"Hahahahaha! As always, good luck!"

Itai looked nervously at the people he had been forming his journey through a living hell with. He didn't want someone to die. And he himself did not wish to die. "Surely we can settle this in a better way." He stated.

Jace walked up to him. Because of his lofty height, he was towering over Itai. "This is what the game master wants, so it is what I will do."

Itai shivered at those words. It was like Jace was a guard dog and the game master was too scared to come out and play his own game so Jace is taking orders from him. It was sickening. Tamachi stepped up. "I know who we'll sacrifice."

He got up and pushed Jace into the satan star and the butler bled violently. Sakasu gagged at the sight and finally swallowed her fear. "What's done is now done." She stated.