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A great sea of rose petals flew past, with the only thing recognizable to me was myself and the sword that I had to sneak through a certain store.
...The rose petals felt awfully familiar, but...
Wait. No, how did I get here? This isn't Inaba, I was at home-
"Ruby, you go on ahead. I'll watch your back in case more of these damned monsters come." A gruff and painfully familiar voice rang out in front of me.
Wait- Ruby? She's here? Did the same thing that happened to Hyde happen to her?
Looking around the humongous trees, I tried to find a source of the said voice.
"Gotcha!" Another flurry of red rose petals flew by, and I ran it the direction it came from.
A figure with a red jacket, huge sword, and spiky white hair was on guard. I felt my face lit up in excitement as if I was some sort of child.
No doubt about it, that's Ragna.
I speed-walked towards him, the leaves under my feet never made any noise, weirdly enough.
The rustling in a nearby bush certainly brought my attention. I unsheathed my sword, and funnily enough, that made no noise either.
Why isn't anything I do making any sort of noise? I'm not even trying to be stealthy. Ragna was on guard, and he noticed the bush's uneasiness.
But he didn't notice me standing right next to it.
I was looking right into his eyes and he never batted one at mine.
Some black wolf-like figure jumped out of the bush before I could focus back onto the hedge, and its claws paid no mind and looked like it was going to scratch me before I could even defend or summon a Persona. I brought my sword up to defend, I thought I might as well try, and before it came in contact with me-
"Narukami?"
My eyes shot open. The surroundings went from forest to quiet abode. I got chills, and a concerned Hyde was looking right at me.
"You okay? Did I disturb your dream?"
Oh, it was a dream, huh.
"Mm, yeah. You did." I lifted my head off of my arms and rubbed my eyes. "It's alright, though. I think it was turning out to be a bad one."
Hyde gave himself a seat and plucked down right across from me. "Um, I couldn't sleep. I-I don't really know why, but I thought it'd be neat to ask you questions instead."
Well, I guess that couldn't hurt. Hyde's been in the dark this whole time and we've never told him about anything in this world.
"Shoot me with any questions you got." I smiled at him, and he fiddled with his tie.
"What's your story? Like, your world's gimmick. Linne and I have just been following you guys around since we got here." He crossed his arms. "I feel as if gaining a hold on the abnormalities of this world will give us more of a chance of going back to our own."
Well, I suppose.
I hope he doesn't mind long answers.
"I-um, well..." I was thinking of some way to shorten the description. "In this town, Inaba, there were a series of kidnappings and a group of friends helped me solve the case. It may sound farfetched, but we'd go through a TV to save this kidnapped person."
"Oh, wow." Hyde's tone of voice seemed interested, and a little scared. "The TV has magical properties here?"
"Yeah, I guess. Every night when it rained at midnight, the TV would turn on and show the person who would get kidnapped next." Hyde noticeably flinched. I panicked and stumbled to calm him down. "Of course, the Midnight Channel doesn't show up anymore. We found the culprit."
That didn't seem to work, as he was even shivering a little. Was he scared of some abnormal occurrence?
Even his voice shook. "It doesn't come anymore?"
"No, not at all."
I glanced at the clock. A few minutes past midnight. The downpour of rain suited the silence. Based on all these things I realized what Hyde was going to say.
"The TV in the room I was in turned on itself, and...
I...I think I was the one shown on the screen."
Right on the mark.
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I don't know what happened with the last 2 chapters, but I think I fixed it
