Your Turn To Despair

Floor Two

 Just as Hinata reaches out towards his friend, the collar tightens around her neck, beeping loudly. Suddenly, chains descend from the ceiling, wrapping around her ankles and wrists and yanking her into the air.

"PLEASE!" He shouts desperately, "PLEASE DON'T KILL NANAMI, I'LL DO ANYTHING! TAKE-.... TAKE ME INSTEAD, JUST NOT HER!"

Akamatsu laughs maliciously. "Ehehe, nope! This is just the result of the majority vote, so only Nanami and Mioda can and will die."

"PLEASE, I WILL LITERALLY DO ANYTHING!"

"Aww. . .Alright, I'll give you a chance to save her," She snaps her fingers, a remote appearing in her gloved hand, "If you keep pushing this button, you'll be able to slow down or maybe even stop the block that is supposed to crush her!" She tosses the remote into Hinata's shaky hands, "Here."

Immediately Hinata looks up to the ceiling where a red Tetris block is slowly becoming loosened from its mechanical bindings. His thumb smashes into the button, pressing it over and over and over again as Nanami struggles in vain against her bonds.

Nanami groans, breathing rapidly and anxiously as the block above her becomes looser by the second. At the same time, more restraints wrap around her body and squeeze her tight, nearly cutting off her breathing.

"CHIAKI!"

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click. . .click. . .click. . . . .

'It's useless. . .this button isn't doing anything for Nanami. . .it was just given to me to cause me more despair. . .This is hopeless.'

Despite everything, Hinata continues to mash his thumb against the button with all of his strength, tears pouring down his face. The block above her becomes all the way lose. Nanami lets out one last shriek of fear as it plummets to the ground, crushing the peach-haired girl underneath it in an instant.

Nanami Chiaki expired.

Hinata's mouth falls open as he slowly falls to his knees, gawking at the splatter of magenta blood as he continues to press the button.

"Come on, Nanami. . .let's hang out during lunch with Sonia. . ."

Click. . .click. . .click. . .click. . . . . .click

"Hinata."

Someone takes the button out of his hand.

"Hinata, enough."

His bloodshot eyes look up slowly to meet Maizono's gaze. She's looking down at him with gentle pity. "She's gone. There's nothing you can do. You know there never was."

"Ah. . . .Ahaha. . .AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"Ah, yes, such beautiful despair! You were so close though, but at least you let her live a little longer. In agony, of course. Bye-bye, Chiaki-chan! Now for you, Mioda-san."

Since everyone is too shaken from Nanami's death, no one makes a move to stop Akamatsu as she crosses the room, reaching for the terrified Mioda. She smiles maliciously, reaching forward with a gloved hand and activating Mioda's collar.

Several needles immediately plunge into Mioda's neck. They gasp and sputter, stumbling back a couple of steps as some sort of lethal liquid is injected into her. Their face turns some startling shades of purple and blue before her eyes roll into the back of their head and she collapses to the floor, dead.