p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="87186544cf30e4965f47827f8e8f8ac4"em style="box-sizing: border-box;"Black. The darkness consumes me as I stare blankly back into nothingness. My sense of time, sense of touch, and sense of feeling all escape me. My lips are motionless while I remain in a paralyzed state. I reach out for any hope of help, but I receive none. Life itself does not exist. Do I even exist? All the classes I took over the breaks or in my free time I took to studying and expanding my knowledge on the human existence and easier ways to make it through the world which did exist. Now everything I've learned, everything I had, is gone. Nothing matters anymore but the present. Nothing matters but this moment in human species is but an ant in a world of behemoths. I swim through a sea of black trying to search for the light when I suddenly discover something else. Pain. Excruciating pain throughout my body yanks me out of the stillness. It happens quickly, but enough to make me screech./em/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="15dcb7ced122f8226b53a9014eaa2c7b"em style="box-sizing: border-box;"Someone must've stabbed me a lot, but not too much as to make me die from blood loss. The kidnapper seems like a sadist to sit there and listen as my screams fill the room, echoing the sounds of displeasure and emphasizing the fact of how slowly my life is being whisked away from me, like a daisy that is one day lively and blooming, yet the next stepped on and squashed. Dead. My feet are tied together, but with this sort of imprisonment, I already know I have no chance of escaping. The one thing that strikes me at an odd is how easily my lips move about. My mouth should be duct taped, or better yet, gagged so that no one can hear my measly cries of SOS. But it's not./em/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="37b07df58211d5e3866151a2c85fdf95"em style="box-sizing: border-box;"How did I get here in the first place? Let's work backwards from the start...My name is Satoshi Mochida. I'm seventeen years old, and I'm a male student from Kisaragi Academy Senior High. One of my best friends, Ayumi Shinozaki, was graduating from Kisaragi and going to attend college, so we had a little party inside the school. We spent time in an empty classroom telling ghost stories and eating snacks, but we didn't want that to be the end of our memories and journey together./em/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="978a97cfb04406fbe2dd2d0868c85275"em style="box-sizing: border-box;"Sure, we could always call or visit each other from time to time, but we all would soon go our separate ways. To be with each other always, we performed the Sachiko Ever After ritual, which granted us a charm that would guarantee the fact that we would stay friends for all of eternity. We ripped the paper doll together, each one of us getting granted a piece. Then we recited the words, each of us nine times, "Good Luck, Shinozaki!", to wish her good luck on her trip to college. The only warning we were told before the ritual is if any of us counted one less or one more phrase then the original instruction required us to, something terrible would happen to all of us./em/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="e44a397b15065a7d2e08449fc09555b3"em style="box-sizing: border-box;"The second victim I see nothing wrong with at first, until I move my eyes upward to see the mouth that is gaping wide open. Blood also spills over out of her, but instead it's inside the mouth. I see a detached tongue nearby. I soon realize they cut her tongue out of her mouth with the scissors, then died of choking to death on her own blood./em/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="53e6b9f296830716e6ea34f767d13043"em style="box-sizing: border-box;"After seeing all the students, something strikes me as an odd. They're all blindfolded, but I'm not. Also, none of these students was anyone who was with me when we fell through the roof. In fact, they're all from elementary school. So why am I with juniors? Did we all end up some place different? And why hasn't she killed me yet? Turning to look upwards at her, my mouth starts to form words and I dare ask her a question. "What are you doing?" I hesitantly state, trying to stay calm so that I don't freak out. "Why am I-," before I even get the chance to listen to her answers, she thrusts the scissors into my eye. I screech in agony as she jerks the scissors around, ecstatically moving them around to get more screams out of me. My right eye goes blind and plunges back into the darkness of where I once came. As the scissors get plunged into my head over and over again, all the memories of the people this girl has killed flood into my brain and answers that I've been searching for have been found./em/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="15dcb7ced122f8226b53a9014eaa2c7b"em style="box-sizing: border-box;"Someone must've stabbed me a lot, but not too much as to make me die from blood loss. The kidnapper seems like a sadist to sit there and listen as my screams fill the room, echoing the sounds of displeasure and emphasizing the fact of how slowly my life is being whisked away from me, like a daisy that is one day lively and blooming, yet the next stepped on and squashed. Dead. My feet are tied together, but with this sort of imprisonment, I already know I have no chance of escaping. The one thing that strikes me at an odd is how easily my lips move about. My mouth should be duct taped, or better yet, gagged so that no one can hear my measly cries of SOS. But it's not./em/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="e44a397b15065a7d2e08449fc09555b3"em style="box-sizing: border-box;"The second victim I see nothing wrong with at first, until I move my eyes upward to see the mouth that is gaping wide open. Blood also spills over out of her, but instead it's inside the mouth. I see a detached tongue nearby. I soon realize they cut her tongue out of her mouth with the scissors, then died of choking to death on her own blood./em/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="53e6b9f296830716e6ea34f767d13043"em style="box-sizing: border-box;"After seeing all the students, something strikes me as an odd. They're all blindfolded, but I'm not. Also, none of these students was anyone who was with me when we fell through the roof. In fact, they're all from elementary school. So why am I with juniors? Did we all end up some place different? And why hasn't she killed me yet? Turning to look upwards at her, my mouth starts to form words and I dare ask her a question. "What are you doing?" I hesitantly state, trying to stay calm so that I don't freak out. "Why am I-," before I even get the chance to listen to her answers, she thrusts the scissors into my eye. I screech in agony as she jerks the scissors around, ecstatically moving them around to get more screams out of me. My right eye goes blind and plunges back into the darkness of where I once came. As the scissors get plunged into my head over and over again, all the memories of the people this girl has killed flood into my brain and answers that I've been searching for have been found./em/p
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