Hello once again dear readers!

This is the biggest chapter I've written so I really hope you like it.

This chapter was very interesting to write and many horrible discoveries are made.

Anyways, see you next week!

-RicartElit

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Previously:

I slowly turned towards the origin of the sounds and what I saw horrified me.

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-(A few minutes before)-

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-Nagisa(P.O.V.)-

After separating from Akari I carefully made my way through the corridor, avoiding the cameras as best as I could in order to get to the experiment chamber. It was a slow and tense walk, after all without Ritsu's help guards could pop out at any time, or even worse, Akari's sister. That is a can of worms I would rather not open, at least not now.

I arrived at the door. It was electronically locked, though that wouldn't be that much of a problem because of our equipment. Ritsu made sure we always had the best tools available for our missions. It took a few seconds for the device to unlock the door, a few horrendously nerve-wracking seconds, but just a little time nonetheless. I would have taken far longer trying to do it manually, if I managed to do it at all. I opened the door slowly and carefully in case there was anyone on the inside watching for intruders, but I felt incredibly relieved when I detected no signs of anyone's presence inside, or at least no one that was making any move towards me. I should have not felt relieved, as it just made what came next hit even harder.

It took a bit for my brain to process the scene I was greeted by, not only because it was unbelievable but also because of the dim lighting of the room. It was, in one word, horrifying. The first thing I could notice was the blood (despite that the trained assassin in the back of my mind still noticed the utter lack of surveillance of any kind, go figure), though it appeared to be dried already and it's color dulled, thus it had not been recently spilled. If that was not enough to put me on edge, the next few things ensured that I would not stay unaffected. There were what seemed like old rotting corpses laying around. Most of them were wearing white lab coats but some of them had what looked like security outfits and others patient gowns, like the ones from hospitals. I was becoming increasingly distressed and the putrid stench that emanated from the room did not help. The lack of smell on the outside would suggest an insulated room, was what my subconscious curiously noted. My mind was racing, trying to figure out what the hell had happened there. Apart from the things noted before there was also what looked like an operating table, which was stained in blood and gore and a lot of lab equipment. The last thing I noticed was that the part of the room where I was was separated from the horror movie-like scene by a transparent wall of some kind, which I doubted was glass, that had some holes whose purpose I suppose was the transfer of objects to and from the inside. Karma who was watching through the camera I had strapped to my head sounded ready to pass out and had run to the bathroom to dump whatever meals he had before down the toilet. Not even Ritsu was unaffected as she became rather silent when I entered the room.

Still shellshocked by the scene and barely holding inside my dinner I nervously approached the barrier. As I made my way closer and closer towards it a foreboding feeling started to make itself known in my head. Something was not right and It would be bad, very bad. I started to expect some jumpscare like those from the horror movies but it didn't stop me from seizing up when it happened. From one moment to the other a figure collided against the wall. It looked terrible. If I had to describe it, I would have to say that it was a cross between a normal person and Koro-sensei, just extremely botched up. Some of it's limbs where ripped apart and had badly connected tentacles coming out of what little remained of them. It's face was mess, as the eyes mouth, nose, everything was horribly displaced. The top of it's head had some tentacles coming out of it but they looked wounded and half melted. The chest cavity had one enormous hole in it through which you could see tentacles wriggling on the inside. Despite all that, it's greatly predominant color was Korosensei's yellow and it's bloodstained mouth had the smiled he many times wore. For a moment I seized up thinking it was actually Korosensei but the similarities ended there though as the various features were different from his, such as a slightly bigger nose, smaller eyes and different body size among others. The creature wore a torn, blood and gore stained hospital gown and much of it's body had splotches of dried blood on it. Just seeing the figure made me want to puke. It's inaction, despite the erratically moving tentacles made me hope it was dead, after all, how do you survive a hole that massive being punctured into your chest. But all my hopes were for naught.

The creature suddenly, as if triggered by something, started screaming with a very warped voice and scratching at the walls. It's wails reverberated throughout the entire room and they proved to be extremely contradictory, probably because his psyche was completely torn apart. It went from variations of: "KILL ME. KILL ME. KILL ME. END ME. I DON'T WANT TO EXIST ANYMORE."; to various forms of: "I WILL KILL YOU. TEAR YOU APART. YOU WILL SUFFER FOR DOING THIS TO ME."

My mind quickly started locking up. It latched on the few similarities that this being shared with Koro-sensei and my nightmares came back. Everything I hoped to have left behind in my past life came rushing into my mind, causing me pain and suffering that I had struggled to forget. The world around me disappeared, everything but the screams and the endless scratching faded into black and the demonic Korosensei from my nightmares substitutes it. It's deranged laughter and bloody figure, coupled with the screams made me feel like a terrified child again, whose only desire was to run, run, run until nothing could catch me. But despite that desire I was rooted to the spot, unable to do anything but witness the terror my mind forced on me. Soon I became incapable of most rational thought and it felt like I was drowning in my fear, incapable of escape.

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-Nagisa, Akari(P.O.V.) & Ritsu-

The scene in front of me was nothing that I expected in reality. Sure, in horror movies we got a lot of things like this, but in real life? Never. And that was what made it the more nauseating. The blood and gore scattered around, the corpses just left there to rot and last but most definitely not least, the terrifying creature that was wailing and desperately trying to break the transparent wall. My mind was about to lock up due to fear but Ritsu managed to keep me from suffering the same fate as Nagisa. "Akari, focus! Nagisa is vulnerable so you need to help him and if you become unresponsive too you will both be in danger!"

Ritsu's reminder about Nagisa's condition was all I needed to snap out of it. I ran towards Nagisa and started to shake him and talk to him. "Nagisa? Hey Nagisa! Are you okay? Come on, answer!" He was completely unresponsive and that caused a certain fear to take root in my heart. I slowly turned his face towards me and looked him in the eyes. I didn't want to believe it but the proof was right in front of me. His eyes were filled with a kind of terror, sorrow and guilt that I hadn't seen since our past life, since his depressive spiral. This could not be happening, not again. I simply could not lose him again, I couldn't bear to lose him without losing my mind. Filled with a new determination I embraced him and started whispering what I felt into his ears in the form of comforting lines. I would not lose him again, not now, not ever. I love Shiota Nagisa and nothing was going to take him away again!

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-Nagisa(P.O.V.) & Akari-

The darkness and cold surrounded me. Korosensei's demonic visage was the only thing that stood out. Fear and grief was all I felt. My thought were muddled and even the most basic things were like trying to swim upstream in a river of dense sludge. And I was drowning. Not in a literal way, but I was drowning in my darkness. How long had it been since I was like this? I couldn't find the answer in this state. How foolish I was... To think that I could escape from what I did by using this second chance. To think I even deserved this opportunity. No. Akari and Ritsu were probably the targets of whoever did this, I was just dragged along by mistake, much to the chagrin of whatever being is responsible for the violation of time and space. I don't deserve any of this. Akari is deluded, to be able to keep loving someone like me. She probably just hasn't noticed the monster that I am. She will notice in time and then kill me. Justice will be served for I do not deserve anything. It was all a foolish mistake.

I kept spiralling back into the darkness that used to cover my mind day and night when I heard it. At first it was faint, like the light at the end of a tunnel, but it grew and grew until I could understand what was being said. "-kay. Na-sa it- -kay. You don- need to suf-r through this again. I am here with you. I won't leave your side. Ever."

The voice was familiar but it took me a while to identify it. It was... Akari's! But how is she here? Why do I suddenly feel warm? What is happening? What about my punishment?

Unaware or unfazed by my questions the voice continued, my surroundings becoming slightly brighter and warmer with every word. "Please Nagisa, come back to me. I can't lose you again, the first time was terrifying enough. Please don't make me go through it again. Remember what I said the day we reunited. Remember everything I said the various times we were together. Please, don't leave me, I love you too much to lose you."

And I remembered. Every time she comforted me, all the times she told me to be strong and that she was there to help me and she would stay with me, both in the good and the bad times. The various times she reassured me that all would be well despite my insecurity. Korosensei vanished, the cold turned to warmth, the darkness to light, and though some treacherous thoughts still lingered, my mind felt far lighter than before.

I started to return to reality. I became aware of my surroundings and of Akari's arms embracing me. Of her soft voice whispering in my ear and I smiled. Though a bit of a strained smile because of the situation around us but nonetheless a smile. I closed my eyes and embraced her back, reassuring her that I was now ok. "It's ok Akari, I'm back. I won't leave you again. I love you too so don't worry, it's alright."

I opened my eyes and looked at her. She had stopped whispering and was looking at me with blatant relief in her eyes. I was such an idiot, to worry her and make her suffer like that.

The creature was still lashing out against the barrier but it didn't affect me past the obvious horrifying vision. No more demon Korosensei, no more darkness or cold. Just this creepy room and Akari.

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-Nagisa, Akari(P.O.V.) & Ritsu-

I looked at Nagisa, while feeling an immense relief and happiness that he was back. He was not fully recuperated as he was still a but pale and lightly shaking but it was miles better than before.

We stayed embraced until Ritsu's voice interrupted us. "Sorry to cut your moment short but the screams have attracted a few guards and your sister is becoming alarmed. Though by her expression, she had absolutely no idea of what is going on. She was probably delegated to paperwork duty. I suggest you leave before more problems arise"

Deciding to take Ritsu's advice we bolted out of the room and made our way out. It was far more difficult to make our escape than it was to infiltrate because now the guards were aware that someone was there. Having still only the access to 3 cameras on the main lab area made our job far more difficult. We had to sneak around the rooms, avoid alert guards, avoid cameras and any other surveillance devices and go towards the storage room we had first ended up in. We had quite a few close calls, either by guards who almost found us or by almost wandering into an active camera's field of view. It was far more nerve-wracking than before but our skills were well trained so we were able to do it.

We made it to the room with quite a bit of time left to escape. With half an hour spent on the archive investigating, more or less 45 minutes on the separate lab wing and one hour and 10 minutes spent on our escape we still had about 1 hour and 5 minutes give or take to leave.

We made our way through the chute just like when we entered and ran from the building, hoping to not be spotted by any guards outside. Luckily we made it out safely with nothing but our sanity damaged. We got back to the hotel by 2:47 AM and immediately went to Akari's room.

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-(Yukimura sisters' room)-

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-Nagisa, Akari(P.O.V.), Karma & Ritsu-

When we arrived at the hotel room we found a very pale Karma laying on the bed. It was obvious that he had seen everything. We sat down on the bed and he lifted himself up to sit too.

Silence permeated the room until Karma, after regaining his bearings and forcibly stopping himself from trembling, broke it. "I had already decided that I was going to help you but this was the final nail in the coffin. That bastard needs to die. Atrocities like that cannot be allowed to exist so I will support you all the way in taking down that monster."

We were surprised by his reaction but at the same time happy. Karma is proving himself time and time again to be a reliable ally and friend.

Nagisa spoke up. "Thanks for the support Karma, we'll definitely need it. The situation is much worse than what we envisioned so it will require a lot more investigation and care. Yanagisawa Kotaro will fall, of that I have no doubt. We will make sure of it."

Happy at seeing Nagisa so confident I smiled. It was good to see him like this and not full of fear. "Well, this has been a very exhausting day, both physically and psychologically so it is better for us to rest for now. You guys go back to your rooms so we can all get a much needed night of sleep."

Nagisa, agreeing with me got up and started walking towards the door with Karma right behind him. "Indeed, rest is the most welcome thing right now. Good night Akari."

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-(3 hours later)-

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-Aguri(P.O.V.)-

As I got to my hotel room I could only smile at seeing my little sister sleeping. She is one of my dearest people. A list of people that the funny guy from the lab is making his way into.

But today something else was puzzling me. While I was organizing some files I suddenly started hearing a lot of screaming but when I was making my way out of the room where I was to investigate one of the guards told me to stay put as they would see what was happening.

A few minutes after the screaming stopped and the guards told me that someone, probably from a rival company, had entered the lab unauthorized and tripped an alarm or something like that. The story sounds a bit farfetched but there was not a lot I could do as I was not able to see what happened.

The screams though always made their way back into my thoughts. I wonder what really happened...

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-(Yanagisawa's research facility)-

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-Yanagisawa(P.O.V.)-

I was contacted in the middle of the night by one of my subordinates. He reported to me that someone had infiltrated Paris's research facility and had seen Subject 00. Such a failure, but science was made by correcting the failures in order to perfect the method so sacrifices must be made.

None of the cameras showed any sign of the infiltrators and the only proof that they even were there was the fact that Subject 00's room was opened and a small device found in the server room, though it had completely fried itself, making it impossible to retrieve information from there. The intruder or intruders were highly skilled professionals as there is no way an amateur would have escaped detection. If I had to guess it was probably the same ones responsible for the security breach some months ago.

Whoever this group is they are good. I must be careful, Subject 09 is was showing a lot of progress and it would be a catastrophe if outside interference made it fail. I must reinforce my security but alas, this at least makes the experiment more interesting. Let's see how far they can get.