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Valt Possibility

Game Chat

Server: Time to vote!

Server: Make some last minute discussions and then cast your vote.

Daigo: I know who the Assassin is.

Daigo: It's Valt.

Valt: No! I'm the Investigator!

Wakiya: Got any evidence for us about the Assassin then?

Valt: I forgot to pick each night.

Daigo: There. Proof.

Valt: Guys, it's not me! I promise!

Xander: I don't know...

Honcho: Whatever. It's not Valt!

Valt: It's too late Honcho.

Valt: Pick me. You will lose.

Server: Voting time!

Valt - 3

Honcho- 0

Daigo - 2

Wakiya - 0

Xander - 0

Valt: Before I'm eliminated...

Valt: Daigo is the Assassin.

Server: Valt was eliminated!

Valt set down his phone, waiting to see all his friends.

Now, in the face of death, he felt strangely calm. There was no use fighting anymore. Besides, everyone was waiting for him. The others had to sort their own problems out now.

"Hey, Valt."

"Shu!" Valt threw his arms around his best friend.

He hadn't even noticed the pain of being eliminated. One moment, he was blind to everything but his own reality. The next, flickering ghosts were everywhere. Valt could see Free and Cuza watching from behind the doorway.

"Are they going to die?" Valt whispered. "Will they vote Daigo out?"

Shu shrugged. "They might follow your advice, or they will all die. It all depends on what happens during the game and during the night. Here, this way."

Valt shook his head. "If you wanted to watch the others, where would you go?" "The main room," Shu answered. "There's a window that also lets you see through to the game area."

The main room was packed with ghosts. The window overlooking the game area was given a wide berth, as if nobody wanted to see anybody get eliminated anymore. "It's a immunity and elimination game," Cuza told him.

"That means that someone will make it through the night alive," Valt said. "And one will die down there. An Assassin is down there too, along with maybe another accomplice or Assassin. If only one murderer is down there and they don't get immunity, that means the good ones have a fifty-fifty chance because one person gets eliminated now, one killed off in the night, and a tie in the morning, which leads to either a drag on or the Assassin or the good one winning."

Shu nodded. "Unnecessarily complicated, but yes, that's the idea. It should follow the same pattern if the Assassin gets the immunity anyway. Unless the Assassin has an accomplice or a fellow Assassin. Then they, providing they know who the other is, will be able to kill the last person and win."

"And that means we probably have a less than quarter chance of escaping this game alive," Valt finished.

His heart was pounding. He didn't realize exactly what death was and the odds he would really have to face it in life when he let the others vote him off. If he had known, he would have fought more for his innocence.

He didn't bother to pay attention until the voting time. Xander, Wakiya and Daigo were the last ones remaining.

Vote Daigo, Valt pressed silently. For me.

Two minutes later, darkness arrived.

Xander and Wakiya had escaped, out into the sun. But for Valt and the other ghosts, they weren't so lucky. Daigo had come.

"I guess I can't apologize. You're all dead."

"But Daigo... just forget this!" Valt pleaded. Daigo shook his head. "And live an eternity of suffering? How 'bout I do you a favor."

The lights went out.

A gunshot. Two. A series. Then silence.

"Daigo?" Valt asked timidly. "Why haven't you killed me yet?"

His "friend" laughed. "I'm out of bullets, of course. Don't worry, I'll come back tomorrow."

Then... silence.

All the lights flickered back on. Only two other ghosts were still standing. The others were dead. Lui and Clio, the two people Valt did not want to be left with.

Shu, Ken, and Honcho, all of whom were standing right next to Valt, had dropped down dead by Valt's feet. They were on both sides, which gave him absolutely certainty that Daigo had left him alive on purpose. He wanted Valt to suffer a little longer.

Valt would never understand. But he knew he couldn't change Daigo's mind.

Not anymore.

Tears slipped from his eyes. There was no way he would let Daigo kill him.

Definitely wouldn't happen.

He would survive.

Valt found a small hammer that was lying on the floor. He used it to pound on the window overlooking the game area. The glass shattered easily. Valt started to climb through to a tree outside, but paused, looking back.

This was probably the last time he would ever see his friends again.

I won't die, he promised them silently. I'll come back one day.

Trying to hold back his tears, Valt clambered out the window into the tree. Is there a way out? he wondered fearfully. There has to be.

So he ran.

.  .  .

One week later...

Finally home.

The game let him run to the very limit. The game center had been shrouded in darkness and shadows long after Valt made a break for it.

He knew both Lui and Clio had followed him, but they stayed away from Valt.

When the Daigo came back the day after he promised to kill them, he must have been infuriated, because Valt knew he killed himself to hunt for them as a ghost. But by then, the game was over.

One moment, Valt was running through the dark trees, and the next, he was running through the park at midnight in real life.

Valt wanted to curl up and cry. He had finally left the game, but his friends— including Daigo, hadn't made it out.

But home... he was so close...

He burst into the bakery, breathing in the scents of his favorite food, Beybread. Valt ran upstairs. His own door was closed, but his mom's was slightly ajar. He ran in and hugged her. "Mom!"

But now everything was pretty much normal, except for him.

The game had affected him. Valt visited Xander and Wakiya every day now. All his other friends were gone.

Valt played Survival one more time. There was no way he would break his promise to Honcho, Ken, Shu, and all the others.

He was playing with some random people, and luckily the game didn't suck him in. A person had been controlling that round.

Soon enough, he was voted out for being unnaturally silent. Then...

"Hi Valt!"