Hated by life itself (SaiOuma) [discontinued]

Chapter 11

~~Saihara Shuichi~~

We had been in this room -the third of the game- for a while, solving puzzles to get out. Well I was solving puzzles, and Kokichi just either stayed in the middle of the room or stayed right next to me, holding my arm.  I saw him trembling before we even entered, and I felt bad for not trying to make him give up. He helped me on the two first puzzles, then panicked when the door we entered the second room from closed. Obviously I understood him, he was irrationally panicking because of his phobia, but it really made me question why he was in THIS club.  But he was not in a state to answer that question so I tried to go out faster. 

I glanced at the clock in the room. We had ten more minutes to get out. I informed Kokichi we would be out soon, and even though he was still shaking, he answered. 

"Then let's finish this... I don't want to lose." 

It was not the first time I heard this from him. The first time was earlier, when I asked him why he didn't take the emergency exit back to safety.

"Because I told you to come, would be a shame if I left... And also... I don't want to lose."

He walked away from me to gather things he had probably seen. I smiled, glad that he tried to help me after around fourty minutes of walking around scared and doing nothing. Not that I minded, but it made me happy to see him doing better. 

"I found this. Weren't you struggling with that code earlier ?"

"Yeah... But I don't know how it can help, so I left it here." 

"You don't know how to read this ? I do, I'll decode it."  

He kept the paper and walked toward a safe I was struggling to open earlier. A few seconds later, he had opened it, which left me impressed.

"It is simple code... I'm surprised the Ultimate Detective didn't understand it !" He said while giving me a key. "I got this in there, it might help you !"

"So what was the code in the end ?"

"11037."

We worked together for a while, and the ten minutes that were supposed to go by fast went down in the slowest way. We arrived in the last room, and suprisingly, we were able to finish all the puzzles in it, and we were done in the last minute.

"W-we did it..." He was stunned. The door opened, allowing us to exit, but he was not moving.

"Are you okay Ouma ?"

He nodded before hugging me like he did earlier when he was scared.

"Thank you. Thanks to you we did it. We didn't lose." A surprised smile appeared on his face when I gave him his hug back.

"Thank you. For stepping against your fear."

We stayed like that for a couple more seconds, before Kokichi broke the hug.

"Let's get out of here and get something to drink !"

He took my hand to get out and we left, recieving applause from the others.

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"Whoa, you two did it ? Even the three of us didn't succeed !" Nagito said.

"It might just be that you're forgetting that Chiaki didn't really help."

We left to get a drink accompanied by the second year trio. Kokichi had drifted back to his usual joking self, laughing and mocking the trio for failing. I didn't mention Kokichi's shaking or anything, just how we finished right in time.

We sat in a little café, everyone ordered their drinks and we started talking about basically anything that went through our minds. Chiaki played her console while talking, and the two other second-year students sat on each side of her and watched her play. Kokichi and I were sitting next to each other too, talking for a while. It just... Felt right, somehow.

"Shuichi~? Are you okay ? You look like you're lost in thought"

"Ah, yeah, I'm fine."

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Uhm
This is crappy? I don't even know where I am going and I take a thousand years to upload, sorry.
I'll finish it though because I don't like unfinished buisness xD

So that's all I had to say... That was short  af for once lol
Bye bye, and again thank you for Reading this (3k views wth you guys are amazing, i never expected that, like ever. Sorry if I don't answer to all yours comments, but I'm either busy IRL or idk what to answer you... Sorryyy)