Farewell?
That doesn't sound right, it sounds as if the system is trying to say that we have to prepare for something dangerous.
In the train, Yi Mei Lu and Akiyama Suzu were resting on the other seat of mine and the others were talking to each other from the other seat,
While I close my eyes as I rest my mind, crossing my arms as I tilt my head to the side, letting my head rest on the window behind me with my bag pack leaning beside my shoulder
The others were starting to get tired from talking for so long and slept a few minutes later,
[ Night time... ]
With the sound of Yi Mei Lu's snoring filling the room, the lights were flickering strangely.
The feeling in the train was deep and luring, it is as if it is trying to lure us. With an aroma smell fadingly crossing to us.
????….~
??????.... ~
I kept my eyes closed while trying to keep my ears sharp to hear its sound. I didn't understand it but I tried to.
I hold on to not smell or breath because I knew if I did, I would definitely be lured by that thing.
But one of the people from the other seat did and was caught waking up when the luring ghost was checking on us.
Not a few second later, there were blood splashed from the other seat and was stained on my bag.
I didn't dare to even open a single peek of it because it could have a sharp eye sight. So I waited till it was gone,
When I woke up, it was already gone and I then opened my eyes slowly.
I see that Akiyama Suzu and Yi Mei Lu were still asleep, I didn't want to waste time on just watching them sleeping, so I checked the window to look outside.
It was not much of my expectation, it fortunately was just full of fog.
The feeling when I touch the window is icey, perhaps it is pretty cold on the outside.
I turned to the others from the other seat and saw two of their faces were in horrific, they were wrapping themselves with their arms.
Their eyes were wide that was swallowed with water,
And one of them suddenly turned to me, he pointed at me with his eyebrows narrowing and gritted his teeth while looking at me and yelled,
"You.. You killed him!"
"Huh? What are you talking about?"
I looked at him with calm expression onmy face yet confused with his words.
I looked around to see if he was pointing at someone else, but there was no one.
I pointed at myself, looking confused and said,
"Me?"
"Stop... Stop lying!"
"I know... I know that you were just pretending to sleep, so... So that you wouldn't get suspected by them!"
He immediately stood up to go in front of me and so did the guy beside him, who was clearly terrified from the blood of their friend,
His eyes were wide open in anger, his hands curled to fist, ready to hit me in any time now.
But his friend stopped right in time he was about to reach out his fist on me and said,
"Hey, hey, calm down!"
"He...! He killed Fu Qing..! So why are you defending him?!"
He shouted at him, as he tried to get away from his grasp.
His eyes was starting to get watery the more his friend tried to hold on to him,
I looked at them both with calm, covering my mouth from the fact that I'm seemingly amused by their interactions
Because if only their friend didn't just wake up like that in the middle of the night, then he wouldn't die.
"But— You, you can't just point it out on him!"
"He...!"
When his friend finally spoked about it, his mouth was shut and his eyes softened, before lowering his hand and went to the other seat again,
He covered his face with his hands before crying, while his friend went to sit beside him, comforting him by slowly caressing his back. His friend's expression saddened the more he cried.
I felt kinda bad for him, they were becoming a great trio but suddenly their friend... DIed.
I turned to my bag and pulled out my phone to check what time it was, even though it is useless to know the time now.
But it could perhaps be useful for one of the scenarios we will go through.
It is 7:34A.M.
I was still really tired even after just waking up, so I took a quick nap and hoped this day would go fast.
I'd doubt for them both to not wake up before I woke up from my quick nap. If they do, then I'll have to wake them up by myself.
A short while later, I woke up with Yi Mei Lu chattering with Akiyama Suzu.
"and—"
She suddenly paused after hearing the noises I made as I was waking up. She turned to me excitedly and went directly at me, waiting for me to wake up.
Akiyama Suzu stood there behind her, looking at her before turning to see my reaction. She continued to hold on to her belly.
"mmm…"
I muttered, slowly opening my eyes to look up to see Yi Mei Lu in front of me, seemingly staring at me in the soul with those "cute" eyes
Her eyes were frivolous for me, with her hands on my kness. I looked away to check the time on my phone.
Her face turned to frown in disappointment when she saw how I did just now.
"hmph, Mr Xiao is being rude to me!"
"Now now, Mei… He just woke up."
"But...!"
Akiyama Suzu placed her hand over to her shoulder as to calm her down, shooking her head,
But that made her eyebrows narrowed with annoyed, and spoked,
"Even if he just woke up just now, he should at least say morning to us...!"
"Mei—"
She was closemouthed by Yi Mei Lu's words. She knew talking back would annoy her more,
As I heard her response, I lean in close to her,
Noticing my presence getting closer her eyes went surprised with my sudden action and flinched,
"You're being stubborn already, Mei. We are not in some kind of situation where we could say morning to each other,"
"Because even if we did, that person would either die later or survive."
With my words, hit both of the guys' attention and glanced at me anxiously, the guy who had tried attacking me then added,
"That's... Are you trying to say that us all being close with each other is a waste of time?!"
I took his glance back and looked at each other sharply on the eye.
His gaze at me was full of anger.
"I'm saying that it is better to not stick around with each other other than just earning trust."
I replied calmly,
"But if you guys don't like my response, do as you please, is not my responsibility if you guys will end up being on your knees while losing your own sanity after seeing your friend die."
I added, before turning my glance back at them both.
Until she spoked,
"... Fine, I—I'm sorry, Ms Suzu and Mr Xiao for.. Being really stubborn earlier."
Her head was down, glancing at the floor, too shamed to face us both after making up a mess.
As I leaned back to the wall, she stood up and nod her head as a low bow, before going beside her,
Her eyes were swollen with tears as she heard my words, she was visibly shaking while she rubbed her elbow with her hand,
Akiyama Suzu's hand went up to caresses her back as comfort and said,
"It is okay, Mei. We both understand that you didn't mean those words earlier"
"..."
"Just please do not speak harshly next time, okay?"
Akiyama Suzu added, ! she gently placed her hand on Yi Mei Lu's head, ruffling her hair.
I watched them go on to their conversation as I sat in front of them, looking around to the windows as I crossed my arms.
I tried fidgeting my hands around to see if I could pull out the blue panel. Some moments later, I continued to fidget my hands and it finally did after I had swung my hand.
[ 2# Scenario - Find The Clue ]
Note :
— While on the train, there will be a 20 minute game after every survivor had taken enough rest from last night.
Reward: 500 coins
"20 minute Game", Games are usually more than 20 minutes long, or is it related to what I have heard that early morning?
I thought, as I continued to watch them talk on the other seat. Their voices were filling up the lull of this place.
Knowing that in a few minutes, there will be a game for us to finish without them knowing would put them in trepidation and one will possibly die, especially for Yi Mei Lu.
I looked at them quietly from the other seat in front of theirs.
Yi Mei Lu is having that mere smile on her face right now. While on the other hand, Akiyama Suzu is unsure of what is going to happen. Between them two, there will be possibilities of what will happen to them in the game.
"I think you guys should already know that we will be given a game in a few minutes."
"Game?"
They both said in confusion with my words, looking at each other for a few seconds before turning back to me.
"Huh?"
Yi Mei Lu opened her mouth, in confusion.
"Didn't you guys get the message?"
"What message? We didn't get any this morning when we woke up. Wait, we're we suppose to—"
Before she could speak any longer, there was a sudden blue panel of the time going down
[ 3… ]
"The system didn't sent a message to us, so what is this?"
said Yi Mei Lu, she seems to be panicking but at the same time she's still confuse on what's going on.
[2…]
"..."
Akiyama Suzu was in trepidation for this game.
"Good luck."
I said to them,
[1…]
"What—"
She answered, turning to me.
In an instant, we were transported to different rooms of the train.