DISPUTE

Ming Zhu ignored her and focused on the guy.

"Because you're pretty." He simply said. He didn't seem bothered by what he did but he still tired to avoid Ming Zhu eyes.

Ming Zhu was furious and it was evident, her blood boiled and her cheeks turned red instantly.

The memory of those who just froze still then disappeared just like that popped up in her head.

No one understands what is going on and no one knows what's happening to them, they could be dying.

The possibility of that kept on ringing in her head and she just couldn't accept it. 

"Hey! What is with you? Do you realize you could have caused her death?" She shouted.

She was all serious now, no questions ran in her head, all she could think about wasn't that the guy who helped her could have killed someone, it was that she could have died too if not for him.

"Is that my thank you? I saved us!" He hissed and then scratched his head. His dirty blond hair was already messy, he was making it worse but he did not care about that. No one cared about their look at this point.

The woman who wanted to attack him earlier because he pushed her had backed off and instead she watched what was happening in bewilderment.

"You fool, you could have become a murderer!" Ming Zhu shouted in his face again.

Why did he picked to save her like a nice guy then strip someone else. He even offered her his hand which she took. She could not understand why he would want to save her since they had just met.

What he said about her being pretty went through her head.

"And what's wrong with being a murderer?" A feminine voice echoed in the room and a light suddenly appeared from a corner, a pair of high heels appeared. 

The sound of her heels filled the room which had gone completely silent. Everyone's focus and attention were on the approaching person.

The sound of boots stomping on the floor was also heard and together the people wearing them appeared on the light of the room and the door opened behind them which had brought in disturbing bright lights closed slowly behind.

The lady's face soon became clear, she was a woman seeming to be in her late forties. Her black hair I up in a tight ponytail.

She was dressed professionally as a business woman with a fitted suit and skirt above her knees. They hugged her hips perfectly.

She was wearing heavy makeup and sharp red lipstick.

Two other men were behind her wearing the jacket with the picture of a woman's head with snakes for hair.

Their jacket wasn't sleeveless though but their necks were not covered by the jack and some tattoo could be seen on them although it was enough to decipher what they were.

They were all muscularly built and had an unfriendly though face, all except the woman.

She had a smile on her face but anyone could tell it's a for show smile.

She placed her hand on her hips and observed everyone.

With that move, her unbuttoned suit raised but although not clear enough, anyone could tell that it's same picture of the woman with snakes for a hair on her inner white shirt.

"Could anyone please tell me what's wrong with that?"She asked again, "Cause that seems serious." She added with a big grin on her face looking at everyone from her right to left.

Everyone just kept on looking at her.

After she composed herself, Ming Zhu started walking towards her. "What do you mean that seems serious?" She yelled as she approached her.

The rest were in agreement and yeah what she said.

"Why are you killing us one by one? Is this some kind of squid game?" A woman yelled from where she was but some people were already moving towards the woman like Ming Zhu.

"Stop." The woman ordered and Ming Zhu stopped immediately, the same goes for the rest but they quickly regained their selves and questioned why they had actually stopped for her.

"And why should we do that?" A man shouted from where he stood. "Come on, let's bust ourselves out of here." He said to everyone and encouraged them. "Let's do it now that they have no weapons."

"Nah uh, I wouldn't do that, did you see us kill anyone with weapons earlier? We rule out everyone who has failed to be obedient in the commandment we instilled in them and thus are taken out." The woman informed them. "Don't take a step closer, that side is for the beginners not eliminated yet while this side is for the Medusa's beheaders." She threatened.

That sank into all their heads and they did not move any closer.

"Hey, what is it that you want from us, What's all this for?" The guy who had helped Ming Zhu began. He still stood where he had been since his race for his life and where he was attacked by the woman he stripped and Ming Zhu. "At least tell us something to calm us down, we are not brainless you know. The players in squid game knew they were playing a game."

"Yeah tell us something, where are we?" Someone echoed from the crowd.

"Why is that woman's head on all your shirts and jacket?" Ming Zhu asked instead. "And why is her head filled with snakes instead of hair?"

The woman stopped smiling and began laughing instead.

"That's it, that's the right question to ask. Not where you are cause we are never going to tell you that." The woman happily said. She pointed at Ming Zhu and nodded.

"This question has saved you still you fail to protect yourself." She announced to her.

"How reassuring." Ming Zhu sarcastically remarked. "You know that does not answer my question. What's up with that symbol is my question." She repeated.

"And I will gladly answer that question cause that's what we are all about." She walked over to Ming Zhu and stopped when they were only five feet part. "First of all I'm SET. That is the name I'm called and the name you all will refer me to. Set." Set introduced herself.

"All the names you remember now will be discarded and new ones will be given. That is how we shall refer to ourselves to keep everyone's identity." She speech. "Now that has been said and put aside, before I answer your question I would like the question I asked when I was coming here to be answered."

"What is that?" Ming Zhu asked.

"You should know better, you were the one who made me ask that question." Set respond. They were both looking at each other eyeball to eyeball and none of them looked pleased at all. Although the smile on Set's face never disappeared but it was still looking forced.

Ming Zhu for a while about what she was saying but it did not take her too long to figure it out.

"Hey what isn't wrong with murder huh?" The woman which the blond guy that saved Ming Zhu striped over shouted. "If you're going to die then die, don't drag someone else into your place. That's still murder." She continued looking straight at the blond guy and he shook his head and turned away.

"The lady is right, you tried to kill her to save yourself and your friend." A guy echoed. He was a bit chubby, he was fair and had dark hair.

"Oh shut up, no one asked for your opinion fatso." The blond guy cursed.

"Hey you even have the nerve to get an attitude?" The woman stepped towards the blond guy again. She was furious. Her hair was short with parted bangs. She wasn't that tall and looked to be in her late twenties.

"Oh come on not this again, you did not die now did you?" The blond guy groaned and began walking off but the woman attached him and grabbed his blond hair and pulled it.

He cried out in pain.

"Let go of my hair you freak." He held the hand in which she used to pull his hair and tried to remove her hand whilst using his other hand to hold down his hair so it doesn't hurt him that much.

"Why? You can hurt someone but others can't. You animal, you are no different from these people here." She ranted on and cursed at him. "I which I could Just end you now."

"End me and you will become just like me, is that what you want?" He teased her and gave her a mocking look.

It pissed her up and she pulled his hair hard and he cried out in pain. "You bastard!" She shouted.

"Crazy woman do you want me bold?" He still whined in pain, he inhaled deeply then he finally yanked her hand off of his hair.

He turned to her and met with her murderous glare, she wished at this particular moment looks could kill and this time around he wouldn't disappear like the rest but instead she will see his blood and flesh scattered around and on her body.

But he couldn't careless and he pushed her to the ground. She fell on her butt and winced in pain.

"Hey!" A chorus of some men and Ming Zhu.

"Hey what do you think you're doing?" A dark muscular man with a funny looking mustache shouted. "I've been watching you all and you are crazy!"

"Go to hell!" The blond guy cursed.

"What did you say?" The black man clenched his fist in rage then rushed over to him and grabbed his shirt and pulled him up to his face.

He was a head taller than the blond guy and he had far more muscle than him.

"Hey hey hey!" Ming Zhu quickly rushed over. "He's sorry, no I'm sorry on his behalf." Ming Zhu put her hands together and begged the black man.

"Hey are you looking to be beaten up?" Ming Zhu turned to blond guy. "You escaped death but you won't escape a beaten if you continue using your mouth like that so please!"

Then she remembered that the people running this place was still here and they were doing nothing.

"Hey you, Set? Are you going to watch this happening?" Ming Zhu fired at Set but she only shrugged her shoulders and continued watching them without another word.

"Unbelievable!" Ming Zhu exclaimed then walked back over to Set, "So what is your business here anyways then? We are attacking each other here." Ming Zhu stressed and glared at Set.

"And you are attacking me." Set added then smirked.

Ming Zhu furrowed her brows in confusion but the confusion did not rule out the anger she felt.

"Hey all of you dickheads!" Someone shouted. The voice was really tiny and it came from the back. Everyone turned back but saw nobody until some people cleared the way and a young black girl, obviously in her teens appeared. She was sitting on the floor in a meditating post.

"Did you just call us dickheads you brat?" A lady close to her smacked her on her head but she didn't move instead she just glared at her.

"Hey let me go already." The blond guy struggled to come down and free himself from the black man's grip on his shirt but he wasn't able to.

The black man seeming a bit relaxed and also tired of holding him up like that dropped him down but refused to let go of his shirt.

"Ugh you savage people. I thought were are civilized now. What is wrong with you people or did you all forget the important thing here?" The black girl spoke up again.

"Instead of fighting about how you escaped death why not worry about what will happen to you next?" She suggested. "I've been waiting for ages but you all won't stop yapping. Seriously! Set and snow white were talking about something, can't we just get this going and find out what on earth we are doing here and why? Fuck what's the Medusa's beheaders gang?" The black girl groaned then eyed everyone.

Ming Zhu then calmed down, she realized what the girl was saying is correct.

They had completely forgotten about what they were supposed to worry about.

They could always take care of this later or never cause they won't each other again from their respective homes!

Everyone nodded in agreement.

"She's right." The woman who smacked the black girl admitted. "But her tongue needs some watching."

"And her body too. Look who's calling someone snow white." A guy remarked with a smirk but it quickly vanished once everyone cast him a dirty look.

"Hey don't distract us again." The woman with short hair and parted bangs scolded the guy.

The black man let go of the blond guy's shirt and everyone focused on Set.

"Glad to have y'all attention again." Set began with her smile still on. "Obviously your humanity is still in track and that's what we were checking but not only that but some of your brains still work and reason."

"My question still stands but first let's get names for you all so we can properly refer to ourselves and not reveal our identities."

"One question please." Ming Zhu raised her hand and spoke. "Why is that vital? Keeping our identities hidden from each other? It's not like we are criminals, in second thoughts you guys are the criminals."

"Well all questions will answered after names are given and introduction so please be patient." Set used the opportunity to announce to everyone.

"And if we don't want to be patient?" The woman with short hair and parted bangs retorted.

"Well you all don't have a choice." With that she raised her hand a little above her head and one of the men behind her since who hasn't been contributing at all expect show their emotionless face took that as a signal and walked away. He covered a close distance to the wall then clicked on something.

The room began rearranging and the shelves with guns and table with swords disappeared to nothing and new things appeared.

A table filled with cloths appeared in the middle of the room and a giant screen appeared as well.

Ming Zhu looked up and to her relief, the flashing lights were gone.

She thought in her mind perhaps this wasn't another test. She really did not want to go through another one.

She tried again to recall something but nothing came but this time she was sure she was human and she knows somethings are not right because of some certain laws.

To kill isn't right, that was the answer to Set's question. Ming Zhu was sure of it. She knows there are some laws that stops them from murder because they are humans and not animals.

She was going to answer Set's question with all confidence and demand her release and memory restored.

It was really killing her inside that she could not remember people that she might love dearly and there's a big possibility that they are looking for her right now.

She needs to find a way out of here quickly.

"Everyone pay attention now." Set began again. "Get in a single queue." She ordered.

Everyone hesitantly obeyed and got in a single queue not so orderly.

There was pushing and shoving but in the end they ended up in an almost straight line.

But Ming Zhu wasn't in the line as she has not yet return from her train of thoughts.

She was still trying to picture herself. That was right, she still don't know how she looks like and that was more freaky.

The blond guy had said she was pretty but she can't know for sure if that is true.

But that would be a stupid reason to save someone and risk someone else life instead right? That wouldn't give him that reason, she was sure of it.

But she still can't be too sure as she don't know how she looks like.

"Hey." Someone tapped her shoulders and she snapped out of it. She saw the blond guy looking at her with a confused look on his face.

She looks around and saw everyone on the line.

"What's going on?" She asked.

"What do you mean? Where's your head always at?" He asked her and shook his head.

"In question land." She simply answered then walked to the back of the queue.

She figured that they were probably asked to stay that way and she missed it.

The blond boy pulled her away then stood there. "You can stay behind me cause I'm before you." He said.

"Seriously! Look you are no longer looking nice in my eyes." Ming Zhu told him and he shrugged his shoulders.

"It's a shame your savior does not seem appealing."

Ming Zhu rolled her eyes then stood behind him.

The tattoo guys with sleeveless Jacket both came from where ever they've been and took the cloths on the table. It turns out to be blindfolds and they handed one everyone.

"Blindfold yourself." Set instructed and they obeyed some grudgingly while others with snickers and some just did not care.

Once they were done, Set addresses them, "The screen before you has a keyboard with letters. You all are to step forward and click on three letters. After which, open your eyes to see the names you have picked for yourself."

One by one everyone went forward and stopped once they were instructed to do so.

They clicked on three letters and opened their eyes to see the names they got.

Many got stupid names and went on to shout out their names in disbelief.

Soon it got to Ming Zhu turn.

She walked forward and stopped once she was instructed to do so then she clicked on a letter on her left then decided to click one at the bottom and also decided to go back to her left.

She opened her blindfold to see the name she had made hoping it wasn't another bad name like a lot of them there.

At the top, written boldly was the three letters she picked.

EVE