I apologize, because I was really drunk while writing this.


"Stop the car! Stop the car! God damn it, stop the car! I do NOT want to die in the holy land of anime, manga and game! Holy—STOP THE CAR!"

"Screaming isn't going to help you." Len continued taking notes on his notebook. Both Rin and Len were trying to concentrate on solving the riddle, but they failed at it due to a certain someone's screaming.

"Then tell him to stop the car! This isn't Tokyo Drifting! This is trying-to-get-yourself-on-Tokyo-news-of-the-day!"

Kaito turned his head and looked at the screaming boy, "Just wanted to say, in Hetalia, I hate China."

"The hell…you got a problem with Chinese? And what is with the sudden talk of Hetalia? Crazy Japanese."

"You got a problem with Japanese?" Kaito shouted towards the boy.

"YES! For example, I have a problem with your driving skills! STOP THE GOD DAMN CAR!"

The two geniuses decided to ignore them.

Rin and Len were totally confused. Sure, finding out what games the riddle's about was easy, at least, easier than the other parts. But trying to get two people who never play games before to figure a riddle about games, even if they are geniuses…

This was about everything they got:

Last fantasy: Final Fantasy, obviously.

The angel that went crazy: Possibly the one winged angel, the antagonist of the game Final Fantasy VII, Sephiroth.

A creed of the third killer: Assassin's Creed, the word 'third' could be the third sequel of the series.

The devil that refuses to cry: Devil May Cry.

And that's all.

「他媽的。。。草泥馬,停下來,你這個神經病!真的是靠杯。。。停啊!」

Rinto suddenly decided to scream in Chinese, unfortunately, the blue-haired boy has no clue what he was talking about. More unfortunately, Rin and Len understood what he was saying…But due to the curse words coming out of Rinto's mouth, he decided not to translate it.

But after about twenty minutes of screaming, Len finally stopped them…by calling their parents.

He took out his phone calmly.

「你好,請問這是Rinto的母親嗎?。。。是的,我是連。。。」

「媽!你別聼他亂講話!」

(Hello, is this Rinto's mom…? Yes, I'm Len—)

(Mom, don't listen to him!)

Too late, Rin thought.

Kaito didn't understand a word, and he didn't want to. But after about five minutes…

「こんにちは,私はレンです。。。カイトの…」

"Wait, who the hell are you calling?!" Kaito urgently shouted.

Rin sighed…how did it end up like this? More importantly, when and how did Len get his hands on Kaito's parents' phone number?

Rin looked outside of the car, Kaito was indeed driving fast, everything passed by before Rin could even catch a glimpse of it. All she was hearing now was the sound of the three teenagers, two of them desperately pleading Len to stop while Len himself sounded like he enjoyed torturing the two.

Rin found herself smiling.


The ride from the airport to their hotel was about 43 minutes and 17 seconds long.

"So, you're telling me that…I had to catch a plane immediately from Osaka to Tokyo…just to tell you about games?" Rinto tried to smile, but couldn't, "Look, I know you're a genius, I know you're good at a lot of things, so I'm pretty sure you might know about…oh…what was it called again? Oh, right, WIKIPEDIA! I was practically enjoying my life back there! My friend sent a dozen bottles of vodka, six bottles of whiskey, two more bottles of Sake (Japanese Wine) and another whole box of those beauties. I could finally sit down, watch a whole list of Anime I was going to watch, start playing my lifetime supply of PC games while being drunk! And you just had to ruin my life. What do you want to know about? Battlefield? Halo? Mario? Zelda?"

"He sounds like he knows you for a long time; because I'm pretty sure you'll never let someone talk to you like this." Rin commented.

"What kind of anime?" Kaito asked…Really, of all the questions?

"One Piece, Fairy Tail, Hetalia, Gintama, Soul Eater, Switch, Hungry Joker, Deadman Wonderland, Man, Beelzebub, 1/2 prince, Bleach, Detective Conan, Pandora Hearts…" Rinto listed out. Len decided to ignore Rinto, because the little genius here is definitely not interested in these anime…especially after a certain incident with his father. (He caught his father watching that anime called Gintama in his room at midnight while laughing his life out.)

"Remember what I said about hating China in Hetalia?" Kaito looked as if he's in deep thought, "I might reconsider that."

Rin and Len both knew about the problems between Japan and China. Long ago in World War 2, China was invaded by Japan, about 3.75 million Chinese died by the hands of Japanese. If they included the disease and famine, that's a total of 19 million. The Chinese hated the Japanese, even until this day for the people of the last generation and a small percent of this generation.

As for Japan, well, you can't really blame the ones born after the war. They were taught in school that Japan was the victim in the war and that US dropped the atomic bomb on them for no reason. Some of them never even knew the truth until they went on the internet. The government over there didn't want them to feel guilty about what their ancestors did in WW2. And apparently, studies say that about 30 percent of Japanese students decided not to learn history. They know about WW2, they don't know about the details. They don't care about history.

China hates Japan for that, Japan in this generation don't know why China hates them, so some of the Japanese hate them back, the others…Yup, they don't care.

"Actually…We aren't trying to ask about a game. We're trying to figure out a riddle." Len decided to bring back the topic instead of think about Japan and China. He took out his notebook and pointed the riddle for Rinto.

"Lily…" Rinto frowned, then he snatched the notebook away. Rinto took a good look at the whole riddle, "Life just got more interesting…When did you get this?"

Len answered his question, "Not long before…We need to ask about the games possibly listed in this riddle and that—"

"STOP…Why would you automatically assume that these lines are about gaming?" Rinto asked curiously. Of course, the question was not without reason.

"Well…"


"This is the
Deep sea city underground, the farthest end of the island, a shrimp's paradise.
Deep sea city underground, princess suffering from Paranoia.
Deep sea city underground, the sparkling diode stars are breaking down now.
Deep sea city underground, dying from Liar schizophrenia."

The green haired girl sang to herself in a childish way, and either she doesn't know what she's singing about, or that she's just singing this twisted song on purpose, she was scaring Rin. Judging by the way she's acting…no, Len couldn't figure out which personality she is now.

She was changing too much, her expression, her eyes, her smile, the way she follows the tempo of her own singing, the tone, it was changing so fast, Len couldn't keep up with all of them.

It was like a choir, a choir of ten different people.

"Gumi~" Kaito called out, "Over here~"

Gumi, Len thought for a while…

He remembered who Gumi is now.

Long story short: Five years ago, a girl got dumped by her boyfriend. She killed him in a sickening way and her crime was found out a week later while she was talking with her neighbor. The neighbor found out from her strange behavior and the way she talked about the break up.

At the court, she said, "He told me I can take back my most cherished item that I gave him; I gave him my heart, but how can I take that back? So I took him away…"

The sentence sounded romantic until…

"…but it took me four bags to pack him up."

The body was found in four bags. The first one was full of the flesh and meat of the boy, the second one contains his bones, the third one contains his internal organs and the fourth one was his head.

After multiple checkups, they found out about her mental problems.

The girl with ten-personalities…

…Right before Len's eyes.

"Do I answer him? No, I don't want to choose…Do I ignore? But how do I decide…No, no, NO. Stop it, stop it, deciding? Why must I decide? No, too much questions…!"

Deciophobia…Len thought.

"Oh, hi! Welcome, random guest! Sit down please! Haha! But still, get out already! Why are you still here? Get out! Get out!" The girl suddenly shouted at them for no reason.

Bipolar, Len whispered under his own breath.

"I'm sorry," Kaito decided to interrupt her, "We just need some of your time and-"

"NO! Please! Not time, anything but time! It's taking my life away from me! Don't you feel it? Seconds by seconds, every single bit of life…" She started crying and blabbering about things Len couldn't hear or even understand.

Chronophobia.

"Sing, it calms you down…doesn't it?" Kaito suddenly told her.

"Yes…yes…sing, sing, sing." Gumi laughed. She calmed herself down and started nodding her head like she was finding a beat for the song. Then she opened her mouth.

"King!
What now!
Help!
With what exactly?
The…The princess has being kidnapped…again
The hero?
We don't have one…
Oh, maybe…if so you're the hero from now on.

SETTING DESTROYED.

Come, take the contents of the chest, get some rest, a party next, buy an upgraded vest.
Get up, level up, run around and fight the monsters now.

Wait, you're kidding me right?

In a pinch, in a cinch, you'll get hints, from the citizens by talking.
Rescuing, boss-killing, leveling, fighting!

Repetez?"

What in the world is she singing? Both Rin and Len quietly thought.

As if reading their minds, Kaito turned around, "A song called 'Death should not have taken thee', a song about RPG, a song about games."

Len suddenly started focusing about what she was singing.

Of course, the song wasn't helping him; it was just a song about how the protagonist of a game who is just a normal citizen just suddenly became the 'Chosen One' for no reason and was sent to save the world.

Both of them sum the song up in one word: Random.

Gumi was silent for a while after she finished the song. She looked around as if trying to check where she was, then she looked at the three people.

"I am so sorry." She said it like she was full of regrets, "That was so embarrassing. I can't believe of all the times I could go crazy, I chose today."

"You…choose?" Rin asked, sounding like she was very interested with Gumi's condition.

"Yes," Gumi smiled at her, a cunning smile, the smile of a fox, "I know of their existence, but they don't. I let them out sometimes, because if their thoughts keep on swirling in my head, even this last bit of sanity will be taken away. Still, sorry for the delay."

"No problem, so you are…?" Len wanted to guess which personality she is now; it was either one of the dual-personalities or the one with obsessive compulsive disorder.

"The one with OCD," Gumi smiled, "The girl with the ribbon over there, the left side of your ribbon is an inch lower than your other one. Fix it, now. Blue guy, tidy your hair before I pull them off of your head. And that boy over there," Gumi stared at Len for a while, then said, "Nice shirt."

"Thank you." Len replied.

"Now, back to business," Even in a straitjacket, Gumi was still scaring Rin.

The crazy girl smiled.

"I'm guessing you guys want to ask about…Lily?"


And, another hint about the riddle.

The code: Four directions and two actions.