As the Japanese government discovers a mysterious artifact with 4 hidden worlds in it, they send a criminal, anti-social hacker against his will with an additional operation team into the worlds to obtain the 4 keys to decrypt the artifact. Discove...
Location: 1. World (Oritsu), auf dem Weg zum Mondberg
[from Kaito's perspective]
After a long time of hiking, we were almost there. There at the goal. We were about to get the first key. The huge mountain was already visible, it was still huge despite the overgrowth of time that Hiretsuna had mentioned often. I wondered how huge the mountain would be in real then. At the moment we only saw the tip, the actual 'body' was in further thousands of kilometers of earth. The path we'd been on for hours was studded with stones and surrounded by grass and trees. Weird, I noticed. The closer we got to the mountain, the colder it got.
We passed a place, a place in the huge forest.
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There was a stone circle drawn on the map, I remembered. It looked very interesting, some of the stones were placed in a very orderly manner around a small campfire. The place attracted me almost magically and I looked at the others to see if they felt the same.
"Let's take a little break here", Mukanshin said. "We are so exhausted from our long journey and I think we can afford that"
"I agree", Aima said.
"Well, I don't mind either", Boryōku approved, who was in charge of the mission.
We sat down on the stones. They felt cool, almost icy. Still, inexplicably, I couldn't tear myself away from these seats. In comparison, they were actually softer than any upholstered chair. I never wanted to leave this place. It was so peaceful, calm and quiet ..
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Hours later, or were it years, I woke up. I sat up more relaxed than ever before. "I guess I fell asleep", I muttered.
I let my gaze wander. And saw them. Them all. They were all ... dead.
Don'yoku, Aima, Mukanshin, Shōkyū, Boryōku, the 7 natives and the 7 soldiers ... all lay stabbed to death in huge pools of blood that covered all the grass.
Shocked, I tried to grab my long knife, but found that all of my weapons were gone.
"Hi, Kaito"
I spun around but saw no one. "Who's there ?!", I screamed flabbergasted.
"You can call me Niretsu"
A hooded figure, completely wrapped in a black cloak, emerged from between the trees.
"What the hell?? Are you the killer? You killed them all !! "
"Didn't you want that yourself?", the killer replied. "You wished for it yourself, I heard it all!" He giggled sickly.
"Damn it, why? And how do you come to the conclusion that I wished for that? I belong to this team! "
"Just pretend, deny it. That won't undo your wish. One could literally hear your thoughts scream, hihihi "
"Go away!"
"NO! I WILL NEVER DISAPPEAR! I WILL ALWAYS BE THERE! ", he suddenly freaked out, then his state of mind changed just as sudden as before. "Oh, ui, you are probably wondering who I am, what, hihi?"
I was speechless. This guy was completely sick in his head.
Without waiting for an answer, he continued. "You know that yourself, Kaito, it's obvious, hihi", the madman giggled.
"YOU ARE YA SO SMART! PROVE IT! PROVE THAT YOU ARE THE SMARTEST! THE SMARTEST, THE STRONGEST, THE BEST !! EVERYONE SHOULD SEE IT !!! "
"Oh and beware of Shokyu, hihi"
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I woke up drenched in sweat. What the .. what had just happened? I looked around again in shock.
Don'yoku, Aima, Mukanshin, Shōkyū, Boryōku, the 7 natives and the 7 soldiers ... all lay sleeping, alive, on or next to the stones.
"Shit .." I thought out loud, confused. Just a dream, nothing more, my mind told me. You only imagined that guy and his name. But what did he mean by 'beware of Shōkyū' ?? Was that supposed to be a vision, a warning that Shōkyū might be the real killer? When Hiretsuna spoke to me in my mind shortly before his death, did he built some kind of clairvoyance into me or something? Or did he play me tricks, even after his death? Or was it just something nonsensically dreamed up?
I sat on the floor for a long time brooding over this dream, using a large, triangular stone as a backseat. Until the others woke up too. Not a single one of them was talking, all of them rather looked disturbed. Did they see anything like I did?
Suddenly I just wanted to get away from this cursed place, all the feelings of affection from before had completely evaporated. The others seemed to feel the same way, everyone hurried to move on.
We ran in record time and reached our hopefully last stop in Oritsu. The glowing Moon Mountain.
