Chapter 200 - Different Stage

Hm...? Where...where am I? What's going on? Something feels off, in an uncomfortably familiar way, and my neck feels heavy...

"Oh, you're finally awake, Ariodred. Er, that is you, isn't it?"

"Huh? Oh, it's you, Wick. What happened, I don't remember anything after I-...wait, hold on, am I in a cell!?" I exclaimed in realization, before noticing the Suppression Collar around my neck.

N-no...no, not again! Damn it, I can't go through this again, I refuse to-...!

"Calm down, easy now...take a breath, this isn't what it looks like. After the explosion, we made our way over there, where we found you unconscious. We had to consider the possibility that you had been possessed and taken over, so this was just a precaution, nothing more. But it seems like it really is you, so we'll get you out of there right away," He assured me, glancing back as a policeman came walking over and unlocked the cell door.