Devils' Coop

I am not the one they thought they know already, nor one that needs to be protected. There's no way that they would forgive me if they know who I really am. I just concealed the blood in my mind using my mouth.

On the first day of this game, I'm not scared as I should be or how everyone was. In fact, I should have laughed when I heard that announcement, but I swallowed it. It was glee that made my insides vibrate, hidden from my frowned face.

This first day dictates how I move. I try to find the first one I should go near and the one I should avoid; it was the leader and the misleading person, Yukawa and Manabu.

It turned out that I am the hunter. If that's not the case, I should have gotten near Manabu. He hates bad and disrespectful guys. He's an objective person and a bad liar, the more that I can use him.

On the second day, when Kino attacked me in the middle of the night, I have no vision of light in the hallway. He's a defender, and he didn't plan on killing me, but still, I begged him not to. He's too angry that he continues stabbing Kino on the floor, and that leaves stabbing marks on it.

"Please!! I'm a hunter… don't kill me… we'll both die…" I cried while kneeling on the floor half-naked. He whispers to me in reply.

"Scream after I enter the room. I'll leave the door half-open."

Just when he opens the room, I intentionally screamed, waking up everyone out of danger. The hunter was forced to close the door and hide beside it with the help of the darkness.

Just as I thought, the hunter will pull me down as a suspect, but that's when I discovered that it is Manabu after he said, 'The moment she screamed, we are all in the room, except for the two.'. After that, he averts his eye contact away from me.

I knew he was lying because his eyes are just the worst, or he wouldn't zoom in on the whiteboard on the first day. The proof that his notebooks are blank is the cause of his seat being far from the board. He also wouldn't miss his stabs on Kino if he isn't. But he's not the one I should avoid, and I only realized that on the third day.

Because of getting near us, Yukawa became suspicious of Hirari. He risked the five bags of useless chips just to discover that Hirari is doing something behind the scenes. That day, he was already convinced that Hirari is planning something that might affect us even though Yukawa already knew that the hunter is a male.

When I talk to her, our conversation goes smoothly not until she mentioned her plan. That's the same time I knew that Hirari is the sharpest one and that we have the same 'dreams.'

"You're pretty creepy."

"Huh… W… what are you saying, Hirarin?"

"Just as I've said. There's no Cinderella in real life… You're still playing dumb?" She smirked. "This drink has castor bean powder in it."

"I… I…" When I realized that she caught me, that's when I know that Hirari is the sharpest in the group.

"Scared? Your plan failed? Consider this our last conversation. I won't bother your plans or live after this by the way."

She gave me the stage to let me talk in my normal tone. "And? What are you pointing at?"

"Saorin, don't you think we're too much alike?" She chuckled.

"That we're both great actors? You have been awarded such a mountain of Oscars."

"Though you'll still do that too even after I die. But no, that we both have the same goal, same dreams."

"Does the poison kick in?"

She laughed. "You're really trying hard to kill me. But you know, I can just declare this as a suicide. I already told Yukawa that."

"And these dreams?"

"If I'm the one who got that deadly weapon in the cabinet, I would have done the same to you, and we'll be swapped positions."

"Don't make me fail as you losers do. I have many ways to execute my plan."

"Hey, don't be rude, Saorin! When I see you like that, you're pretty creepy but so cool!"

"Sounds strange for that thing to exist there unless you planted it and planned to kill someone in this school. Who is it?"

"You've already done it earlier, and I forced my cries hard. You've KS-ed me."

"And for what reason?"

"If my past is exposed, I wonder what will happen to me. But in this arena, does it still matter? If you already knew all of our similarities, we can just kill them all. But in this group, there's only one of us that will be needed."

"Why won't you too?"

"If I do, then our goals would decline, and we'll still settle each other's debt in the end. I can think that your motto is that you'll be the last murderer and will kill yourself."

"You're a full-time psychopath and a scary telepath."

"I told you. We're the same. We both got near the leader and controlled him. You already got a good start."

"Why are you telling me to stay away from Yukawa?"

"The aura around him is dark but still sleeping. If that awakes, he won't give you time to consider defeating him."

"First-hand experience?"

"You bet. I already encountered the same people in my life. We're the same, so you'll also suffer the same fate that I barely lived just to escape."

"You still have time. Why won't you confess me to everyone?"

"No way I'll do it! I've already decided. I'll follow and help this hero even in the afterlife."

"Are you out of your mind?"

She curls her fingers as a sign that she'll whisper something to me. She made it look like that because the whispers are still heard even with the lowest vibration. What she did is that she covered my ears with her hands and head while tapping her hidden finger in my ear.

That took us three minutes to deliver, but I got her point. This system is still undefined, and we need to investigate it more as soon as we dive. We can't really tell if the others die right after being killed. They just vanish.

Hirari's goal is to investigate the deeper of the system further. When I understood that, I stood up as I give her my trust.

"Hirarin, if we met in your afterlife, can I be your ally?" I asked.

"Yes, my hero!" She exclaimed as she shows me a folded paper. "The water isn't poisoned yet. At the right time, you'll put that there. Did I already help you with this?"

"The loss of water source is still 50/50, but if luck's on my side, you've already done too much. Thank you," and when I left her, she smiled warmly while I pull down my face. What she did… was risky.