6 DAYS LEFT TILL POLL CLOSES!

CLEAR-5

KOUJAKU-3

MINK-3

All right guys this is the last chapter of Noiz Route before we move on to Noiz's Bad and Good end. So the next five chapters I will not show the votes on the future chapters now, the poll results will be hidden as well but you can still vote! Just remember as of now Clear is in the lead if you want it to change then please vote. Guest vote in the comments Users go to my profile.

Okay this is all I have to say now, so let's get started on the story!

Noiz Route #11

White walls, a white floor and a white ceiling. Is this Toue's room, the one Noiz mention?

"Noiz…"

…There he is. Good, he's safe.

Extremely relieved, I smile. "I…was really worried about you. You didn't come back at all. Were you all right?" I try to walk towards Noiz, but I stop midway.

Strange.

Noiz just stands there, watching me without moving. Staring at me with sharp eyes.

…Lifeless, chilly eyes.

"…Aoba, it's coming."

"…!?" Suddenly, the space around us twists and distorts inward.

…No way.

"…Rhyme?" I said in shock before looking over to Noiz "What's happened to him?"

"The details are unknown, but it's possible that he's being controlled by someone." Ren said in his 'Rhyme form'.

"Controlled…But by who!?"

"Aoba, he's coming."

Noiz's Allmate came charging at us as I quickly gave instruction to Ren who quickly defend, but we still took a lot of damage.

"Ngh!"

"Aoba, instructions."

"…Fuck!" I cursed out an anger "Being controlled…That can't be true. Noiz, wake up!" But Noiz doesn't respond and mad another attack. "…! Noiz! Get it together! Hey!"

"Aoba!" Ren called out.

"! Ren, defense! Whoa!"

"Aoba, an attack!"

"God damn it!" I gave Ren an attack which he successfully did but the next thing I knew was the rabbits coming right at us again "!" I yelled out in pain, catching Ren's attention.

"Aoba!" Ren took most of the hits making our Durability to hit zero, bringing us back to the real world.

"…Ouch…" When I return to reality, I fall to my knees, trying to endure the pain that attacks my entire body. My sweat slowly drips to the floor. In addition to the wound on my side, I'm in even more pain now. Not to mention the damage I took from Noiz's merciless beating earlier…

"Aoba, be careful."

I look up and see Noiz standing there, just like he was not long ago. Noiz lowers himself into a crouching posture. …And dashes towards me.

"Uwhao!" I block his right-fisted punch with both arms. The impact runs itself all the way to my bones. He continues to pummel me with his fists in rapid successions. "Noiz…!" As I guard, I catch a glimpse of Noiz's face.

I knew it, his eyes…

They didn't seem to be watching me. They were the eyes of a human who was manipulated by someone. Mizuki and Akushima were like that, too. "Guh!? Whoa!" Noiz's fist, which had been targeting my face until now, suddenly moves to attack my stomach area. I quickly pull myself back to avoid him but he still manages to graze my side.

And I have a burn there.

…Is he doing it on purpose?

As if answering my question, Noiz aims only at my side. "Guuh…!" I have no idea if he can even recognize me. But…he's being pretty damn serious about this. "Noiz, stop!"

"…" Noiz's expression doesn't change. He only keeps attacking indifferently, gazing at me.

I'm forced into a one-sided defensive battle by his non-stop mechanical movements. I don't want to fight Noiz when we're both like this…! I have to do something…! My arms begin to numb and I know for sure that I won't last.

BA-DUMP

- Use it -

BA-DUMP

- Use the power -

BA-DUMP

- Use it-

…Again. The headache returns and I hear the voice.

BA-DUMP

- If you don't hurry, it'll be too late -

BA-DUMP

BA-DUMP

BA-DUMP

- Come on, use it -

BA-DUMP

BA-DUMP

- Go inside his head -

BA-DUMP

- and reveal it -

"AAAAAAaaaaaaaaaah!" An intense spear of pain pierces through the inside of my head and everything begins to move in slow motion. My hand grips Noiz's forehead on its own. And… "…I'll go inside of you."

… …. It's pitch black.

I can't see anything.

I can't hear anything.

I can't tell if there's anything on any side of me.

This…Is this the inside of Noiz's head?

I stood there still for a while as my eyes adjusted to the dark. I'm still able to make out some shapes. But all I could see was the outline of the floor, the walls, and the ceiling. Nothing else but those. This is a room without anything in it.

Where is Noiz?

Suddenly, a rectangular hole widens on the wall to my right. A white light fills the dark room and I see the figure of a human. The grey shape sluggishly walks into the room, hunched over, a white mask concealing its face. A group of more figures with the exact same look were coming in.

They were a ghastly sight, as if they were people who had sucked the life and color from the earth only to let it rot inside of them. The masked people gather in the center of the room, making a circle. In the center of the darkness, a crying mask comes to the surface and starts to spin around.

My eyes glued to the bizarre display, I notice something in the center of the circle. A seemingly out of place monitor sits there, and on it is something like a sandstorm. In it…it looks like someone is cowering on the floor.

…It's Noiz.

"…" It looks like he's sleeping with his eyes closed.

…Noiz.

I try to call him, but my voice won't come out. All that'll come out of my mouth is air. At that moment, the orderly masks started to move around strangely. The sound of cracking bones caused them all to scatter about. The awful sounds piled over, and then music came flowing in.

The rhythm distorted and turned into a faint sound of an old record. What was happening now was stirring up even more uneasiness than I had before.

"…?"

"Honestly, why did he do that…?"

"I wonder if it would just be better to have him not go outside. The shame he's brought onto us will always linger. If he hadn't been brought to this world, I would've considered it a blessing."

"Dear, you've gone too far…"

"You don't have any intention of letting him out either, do you?"

"…That is true."

"…"

…This conversation.

This is inside Noiz's mind. Everything inside of him is manifesting. So this is a conversation Noiz has heard before. And the two talking are probably his parents.

…How awful.

"…Noiz!" I push my way through the jumble of masked people and make my way to Noiz. But the masked figures started to change when I tried to get closer to him: they all began to sway around and blocked me off from Noiz. "Move!...!" A disgusting feeling goes through my fingers when I try to push them out of my way. I pull my hand back in surprise.

The masked people start to sneer and shake with noise. I check my hand, but nothing's wrong with it. Was I just imagining my hand distorting when I touched them? Thinking that, I try my way through the crowd again.

…My fingers warp again. What the hell?

When I try to get to Noiz, my fingers start to warp. The masks sneer at me.

…Are they testing me?

So I can't get to Noiz unless I get over this disgusting situation?

This is different from reality, so it's not as if it's actually disfiguring my body. This is only in the mind, but I still need the courage. But either way, I need to get to him. I was scared still, but I tried to push through the masks again. An unnatural, raw feeling spreads from my fingertips to my bones.

…This isn't reality.

This isn't real.

I pushed aside the dancing masked figures, praying silently to myself. They fell without resistance as I pushed them aside, and laid there like dead fish on the floor. When I get through all of them, the monitor-like thing binds to Noiz. And suddenly, every sound goes dead.

"…I'm detached from the world." With a sigh, Noiz starts to speak.

Noiz is cowering in front of me.

This…

So this is the world that Noiz has always felt…

Abandoned by his parents, the world where Noiz is forced to live alone. Unable to feel any pain, unable to see. Left behind in an isolated, dark room.

That's the world Noiz feels as if he's in.

He's laying on the floor with his feet and hands held by shackles, the locks lost somewhere far in the dark. I bend down and try to undo the shackles. And suddenly, Noiz's eyes open and look at me.

"!"

His eyes capture me, and one of his shackled hands reach my cheek. His thin lips open and turn into a small smile. His red tongue sticks out of his smile. It passes down his lower lip and reaches his chin. His impossibly long tongue brings fear over me.

In this colorless space, I found the deep red of it both extremely strange and oddly fascinating. Noiz held both sides of my face with both of his hands and brought my face closer. I reflexively pull myself back…Then I remember Noiz's words. He said that he couldn't feel anything else but his tongue.

This isn't the real world.

He might've been exaggerating when he said it was only his tongue. The only part of his body that allowed him to feel.

…Then.

The part of him that felt like it was 'alive'… I have to accept him.

"…!" I felt the anxiety and tension build up at the nape of my neck. I…opened my shivering lips to Noiz. I reached out to his long tongue and closed my eyes. Something lukewarm entered inside my mouth.

…Noiz.

I'll accept you.

So…

…Come back.

Do you want to feel even better?

Yes
No