chapter two: the judge
Kagome stood up to follow the man in white, for the first time, she noticed she was wearing a dirty white scrub instead of her normal schoolgirl outfit. Some carvings on the wall caught her eye 'I... walk along... darkened corridors...'.
"please, this way, thank you."
The man in white walked out of the room into a long, concrete hallway, Kagome followed, dotted along the hallway were multiple wooden doors identical to her own, next to each door was a small plastic sign, she read one.
'Elanor Rigby, ate her husband alive'
She looked into the bars, inside was a woman with frazzled hair, a distant look in her eyes, and a bloody razor blade, Elanor Rigby was dead.
'Jonathan Mckensie, poisoned chuch communion, killed eighty'
Inside was a man clutching his knees, sitting in the corner, crying and rocking constantly.
'Lucy Thompson, bombed Times Square, five hundred assumed dead'
A repeating banging sound eminated from the cell, it was her head, against a blood-stained section of wall. Kagome shivered and turned to her own sign.
'Kagome Hiragashi, killed her mother and brother'
Kagome gasped, the man in white turned to her.
"something wrong, Mrs. Hiragashi?"
Kagome hesitated.
"no... no... nothing wrong... let's go..."
Kagome followed him down the hallway, glancing at the atrocities behind the bars, a man with two mouths, one in each cheek, a person with a pair of nail clippers, but no fingers or toes, and a man with a golfball in his right eye socket, and an eight-ball in his left, at the end of the hallway was a door, at least twice as large as all of the others, artificial light sifted through the edges of the door, she read the sign.
'THE JUDGE.'
The man in white opened the door, light flooded into the room, Kagome squinted, temporaily blinded, the man in white gestured into the door.
"I must leave you now, my eyes are not worthy to behold the judge, please continue through this door, he wishes your presence."
Kagome nodded and walked through the door, a man, identical to the man in white, only taller, about seven feet, stood on the other side of the room.
"ah, Mrs. Hiragashi, I have been expecting you, you are wondering where you are, you are wondering how you got here, you are wondering who I am, you are afraid, is this correct?"
Kagome paused, unsure wether to respond or not, he had said it as a statement, not as a question.
"relax, Mrs. Hiragashi, all will be explained in due time, do you have any idea where you are?"
Kagome shrugged.
"the man said I was in Takenawa insane asylum."
"exactly, do you know how you got here?"
"the sign outside my cell said I killed my mom and brother... but that's impossible!"
"how is it impossible, Mrs. Hiragashi? you've been locked in that cell for the past three years."
Kagome clenched her fists defiantly.
"I've been-"
"you've been in a dream world, Mrs. Hiragashi, yesterday, we injected you with an experimental medicene, the HOPE drug, it was desined to cure your insanity, I belive it worked quite well."
Kagome stood for a couple of seconds in stunned silence.
"I did not kill them."
"I beg to differ, Mrs. Hiragashi, do you wish me to read the transcript?"
Without waiting for her to decline, he began reciting what appeared to be Kagome's trial.
"two-thousand-one, September, nineteenth, five o'clock, you accuse your mother of killing your father, she deny's it but you continue, five and ten minutes, after a prolonged argument with your mother, you go to your bedroom to brood, you hear your brother crying downstairs, five and fifteen minutes, you open your dresser drawer, inside is a chef's knife, you have this all planned, you walk downstairs, five and twenty minutes, you stand on the stairs, contemplating, you decide and walk into the kitchen, five and twenty-five minutes, at this point we assume you had a nervous breakdown, you stab your mother to death, your brother stands in the corner, screaming, five and thirty minutes, at this point, the insanity has taken control of your entire being, you kill your brother, by five and thirty-five minutes, your neighbor calls the police claiming a 'disturbance of the peace', five and forty minutes, the police arive, you are still at the scene of the crime, staring blankly into space, when arrested you pose no resistance.
two-thousand-one, November, sixteenth, your trial, you have not spoken since the killing, twelve o'clock, the trial begins, one o'clock the trial ends, the ruling: guilty, the punishment: be sent to Takenawa insane asylum until deemed mentally sane."
two-thousand-two, September, nineteenth, the first anniversary of the killing, no progress has been made, you have shut yourself into your own mental dream world, all attempts to cure you are futile, you carve on the wall-"
Kagome remembered the carvings in her cell
"-mommy killed daddy, I saw it, mommy is a bad person, she must die, I am of the dead, I have no feeling, goodbye, cruel world."
two-thousand-two, December, twenty-third, all attempts at rehabitation have been in vain, no drug, therapy, or program will work on you, we have two chices, to kill you or to inject you with the experimental HOPE drug, the hope drug, although curing you from your insanity temporarily, would eventually wear off and leave you in a permanent irreversable dream world, we chose HOPE."
Kagome shivered 'the insanity will take my body...' the judge looked at her.
"yes, the insanity will eventually set in, Mrs. Hiragashi, then, I'm afraid, we will be forced to kill you."
to be continued...
Kagome stood up to follow the man in white, for the first time, she noticed she was wearing a dirty white scrub instead of her normal schoolgirl outfit. Some carvings on the wall caught her eye 'I... walk along... darkened corridors...'.
"please, this way, thank you."
The man in white walked out of the room into a long, concrete hallway, Kagome followed, dotted along the hallway were multiple wooden doors identical to her own, next to each door was a small plastic sign, she read one.
'Elanor Rigby, ate her husband alive'
She looked into the bars, inside was a woman with frazzled hair, a distant look in her eyes, and a bloody razor blade, Elanor Rigby was dead.
'Jonathan Mckensie, poisoned chuch communion, killed eighty'
Inside was a man clutching his knees, sitting in the corner, crying and rocking constantly.
'Lucy Thompson, bombed Times Square, five hundred assumed dead'
A repeating banging sound eminated from the cell, it was her head, against a blood-stained section of wall. Kagome shivered and turned to her own sign.
'Kagome Hiragashi, killed her mother and brother'
Kagome gasped, the man in white turned to her.
"something wrong, Mrs. Hiragashi?"
Kagome hesitated.
"no... no... nothing wrong... let's go..."
Kagome followed him down the hallway, glancing at the atrocities behind the bars, a man with two mouths, one in each cheek, a person with a pair of nail clippers, but no fingers or toes, and a man with a golfball in his right eye socket, and an eight-ball in his left, at the end of the hallway was a door, at least twice as large as all of the others, artificial light sifted through the edges of the door, she read the sign.
'THE JUDGE.'
The man in white opened the door, light flooded into the room, Kagome squinted, temporaily blinded, the man in white gestured into the door.
"I must leave you now, my eyes are not worthy to behold the judge, please continue through this door, he wishes your presence."
Kagome nodded and walked through the door, a man, identical to the man in white, only taller, about seven feet, stood on the other side of the room.
"ah, Mrs. Hiragashi, I have been expecting you, you are wondering where you are, you are wondering how you got here, you are wondering who I am, you are afraid, is this correct?"
Kagome paused, unsure wether to respond or not, he had said it as a statement, not as a question.
"relax, Mrs. Hiragashi, all will be explained in due time, do you have any idea where you are?"
Kagome shrugged.
"the man said I was in Takenawa insane asylum."
"exactly, do you know how you got here?"
"the sign outside my cell said I killed my mom and brother... but that's impossible!"
"how is it impossible, Mrs. Hiragashi? you've been locked in that cell for the past three years."
Kagome clenched her fists defiantly.
"I've been-"
"you've been in a dream world, Mrs. Hiragashi, yesterday, we injected you with an experimental medicene, the HOPE drug, it was desined to cure your insanity, I belive it worked quite well."
Kagome stood for a couple of seconds in stunned silence.
"I did not kill them."
"I beg to differ, Mrs. Hiragashi, do you wish me to read the transcript?"
Without waiting for her to decline, he began reciting what appeared to be Kagome's trial.
"two-thousand-one, September, nineteenth, five o'clock, you accuse your mother of killing your father, she deny's it but you continue, five and ten minutes, after a prolonged argument with your mother, you go to your bedroom to brood, you hear your brother crying downstairs, five and fifteen minutes, you open your dresser drawer, inside is a chef's knife, you have this all planned, you walk downstairs, five and twenty minutes, you stand on the stairs, contemplating, you decide and walk into the kitchen, five and twenty-five minutes, at this point we assume you had a nervous breakdown, you stab your mother to death, your brother stands in the corner, screaming, five and thirty minutes, at this point, the insanity has taken control of your entire being, you kill your brother, by five and thirty-five minutes, your neighbor calls the police claiming a 'disturbance of the peace', five and forty minutes, the police arive, you are still at the scene of the crime, staring blankly into space, when arrested you pose no resistance.
two-thousand-one, November, sixteenth, your trial, you have not spoken since the killing, twelve o'clock, the trial begins, one o'clock the trial ends, the ruling: guilty, the punishment: be sent to Takenawa insane asylum until deemed mentally sane."
two-thousand-two, September, nineteenth, the first anniversary of the killing, no progress has been made, you have shut yourself into your own mental dream world, all attempts to cure you are futile, you carve on the wall-"
Kagome remembered the carvings in her cell
"-mommy killed daddy, I saw it, mommy is a bad person, she must die, I am of the dead, I have no feeling, goodbye, cruel world."
two-thousand-two, December, twenty-third, all attempts at rehabitation have been in vain, no drug, therapy, or program will work on you, we have two chices, to kill you or to inject you with the experimental HOPE drug, the hope drug, although curing you from your insanity temporarily, would eventually wear off and leave you in a permanent irreversable dream world, we chose HOPE."
Kagome shivered 'the insanity will take my body...' the judge looked at her.
"yes, the insanity will eventually set in, Mrs. Hiragashi, then, I'm afraid, we will be forced to kill you."
to be continued...