"𝔹𝕖𝕪𝕠𝕟𝕕 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕎𝕒𝕝𝕝" (RAY X READER) - The Promised Neverland

Ａｃｔ Ｙｏｕｒ Ｐａｒｔ － ４ －

Emma and Norman looked up at you with eyes wide, "Y/N..?" Emma stuttered out your name, you can tell she was terrified, her expression only fueled your satisfaction. "You know...because you two are such dear friends, I was planning to keep you alive until the end- ah, but I guess I can't do that anymore..." You walk towards them, hiding your gun behind you.

"w-what do you mean..?"

"Oh Norman, you know what I mean, don't you? You don't need me to spell it out for you. After all, you're one of the top 3 with full scores!" you reply enthusiastically.

You step away from the two with a smirk, and start walking. You smiled even wider when you noticed Norman froze when he saw the gun you were holding. You weren't actually planning to kill them both, after all it is true that they are one of rare children who get full scores, you know it's not worth sacrificing both of them, they're 11 anyway, they would be sent away in only a couple months, all you have to do is keep them from escaping.

You lift your gun at Norman with a small smile gracing your features.

"Sweet dreams, and good night."

You pull the trigger.

"NOOOOOOO! STOP!"

You hear Emma screaming hysterically as she runs towards Norman.

All you needed to do was threaten them enough so they won't try and escape.

Your bullet misses his head, scraping his cheek by a mere inch.

Walking towards Norman, who's still frozen in shock, you wipe the blood on his cheek with your thumb.

"How was it?" asked Ray as Emma, Norman, and you returned back."We didn't make it" said Norman looking away, hiding his cheek where you shot him. As they went upstairs, you turned towards Ray with a disappointed look, "You did that on purpose didn't you?" You ask still facing down, Ray flinches as you lift your head to look at him, your eyes showing nothing but hollowness. In an instant you tackle him to the ground, taking out your gun and placing it right under his chin. "Why don't you tell me what's up hm?"

"W-Were we living just to be eaten? A-and what happened to Y/N?! Was she always like that? Was all her smiles and kindness- our friendship...was it also all a lie? Is she- is she also with those, those demons...?" Emma stuttered out of fear, as tears flooded her eyes. "Let's run away, get out of here. Don't worry, we can do it. If it's just Emma, Ray and me." Said Norman, eyes widened. "N-no! w can't do that! What about the others? If we leave them here they'll definitely get killed!I don't want anymore of my siblings dying!"

"Don't worry, we can do it. Let's runaway, with everyone." said Norman, more calmly this time, sitting down next to Emma. "B-but how?! We're just kids. How can we runaway from such creatures!" Asked Emma, reminded of the shivering sight of demons. ".......wait! strategy! Just like a game of tag!" Emma stuttered out, "Yes, we're going to find out a way, for us to survive." said Norman determined this time, Emma nodded.

"Conny?..." Asked Emma, lil bunny in her hands as she walked slowly to the dining table in front of her. She saw Conny on a plate in the middle the table and her eyes widened with fear, Slowly creeping at the back was a demon with sharp teeth, saliva dripping drop from its jaws, ready to rip Emma in half any second...

Heavy breathing can be heard as Emma woke up from her nightmare. The clock was ticking in front of her 'Tick tok, tick tok'

Morning came again as all the kids in the orphanage got ready for breakfast.

Gilda was setting up the plates when Phil ran through the hallways to the dining room. "Good morning!!" Phil shouted, "Hey! Phil, no running through the hallways!" Gilda shouted back. "Okay, so Marco, you can set up the plates too, alright?" Said Mother Isabella smiling. "Okay!" Emma noticed the familiar voice of her so called 'loving' mother, and looked to where the voice was coming from only to be reminded of that very night.

You were setting up the utensils when you caught sight of Emma's weird behavior as a small sigh escaped your lips, 'Was this girl actually dumb? I spared her life and she doesn't even try and hide what she found out last night. If she keeps this up, mother Isabella will notice. If I knew she was going to get herself caught anyway I should've just killed her last night.' you deadpan

"Good morning Emma!" Said Norman as he entered the room with a smile on his face. "You have to smile Emma" he whispered close enough to her ear.

"Listen closely Emma, We need to act normal like always, we went to the gate yesterday night and we broke the rule from doing so, but we didn't see anything." Said Norman sternly, "But lil bunny..." Emma said, scared of the thought, "Yeah...Mom probably found it. But she don't know who exactly it is, unless Y/N told her, but nonetheless we still need to act." "M-mom was smiling, she doesn't show it at all!" said Emma frightened, "We're gonna need to do that too. If we show it on out faces mom will notice. We can't lose, Let's smile."

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AN: Phew, a lengthy chapter indeed (〃°ω°〃) Hope you readers liked this chapter!! Because this is quite a big plot point so I tried by to make it detailed! Thanks again ;) See in the next chapter~