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⚠️TRIGGER WARNING: CRINGE STUFF AHEAD. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.⚠️

It was indeed a long and hectic journey to take out the trash. At least in this universe anyway.

The adventure had been a few hours since that bald guy incident but I calmed down and was now just chilling in my room. I couldn't go to Aniki yet because my legs were still unstable from all that running. Besides, what was I going to do there anyway? Everything, the time I hid with him from that lady was all a dream...

or was it?

My stomach suddenly grumbled loudly. Maybe it was already lunch time in the normal world.

I prepared myself to leave my room. If I was going to die, I would prefer getting killed by the monsters that lurked here rather than die pathetically of starvation.

As I slowly climbed down the stairs, I couldn't help but hear repetitive bumping sounds in the living room. Carefully, I poked my head out to peek.

A familiar figure was standing in front of the wall. It was Aniki.

"Aniki!" I frantically called my step brother and ran to him. He was in the living room, continuously slamming his head on the wall.

I rushed to him and wrapped my arms around his torso. He must have already lost touch with reality too but I couldn't let him go like this. With all my might, I pulled him but he wouldn't budge. It was as if his feet were glued on the floor.

"Please! Stop it!"

He continued banging his head against the wall as if I didn't exist.

I pulled, turning my head to the opposite direction. But shockingly, Aniki stood by the stairs carrying a baseball bat.

I looked back at the other Aniki, and he was still there. Both Anikis were there at the same time.

I ran to Aniki who was by the stairs. He was only staring at his doppelganger with an emotion I couldn't tell.

"Aniki? W-What's that?" I asked, trembling all over.

"That?" He replied, now emotionless. "That's my dark side."

What?

I couldn't figure out what he was talking about and remained silent instead.

"I'm going to go and kill that thing."

"Uhh, yeah..." I trailed off, not knowing what to reply any longer. I just stared at his back as he walked towards his other self.

When he was about to swing his bat, the other Aniki turned around and swiftly snatched the weapon from the former's hands, hitting him with it a couple times until Aniki collapsed on the ground. He laid in his own pool of blood, lifeless.

Returning back to reality, I still could not comprehend the whole scenario. Aniki was dead but he was alive, if that made any sense.

I could hear the wooden bat ramming against flesh as Aniki's doppelganger beat him with the baseball bat. My legs were locked into place but I knew I had to run.

I dashed to the stairs but the awful noise stopped. However, that only meant the doppelganger was now after me.

"yn..." I heard Aniki say. His doppelganger had the exact same voice.

I rushed to the nearest locker which was located in the storage. The same locker where I hid with Aniki.

This can't be happening. Please.

I didn't realize I was crying until I felt hot tears dripping from my chin. I was holding back the sobs despite the suffocating boxed-up space.

"Where are you?" he cooed as he roamed around the halls. "Can't I see my little sister just for a bit?"

This was Aniki's dark side. Whatever he'd say right now would be the supressed and negative things he had been hiding. I was scared to hear him spill his innermost thoughts.

"yn, please. I don't want to be alone. I can't live without you."

Surprisingly, I wasn't that affected by his sickeningly loving voice. It almost reminded me of an obsessive psychopath in horror movies we used to watch and I was the victim he was coming after.

Please leave me alone.

I carefully sat in the locker, patiently waiting for him to go away. I still couldn't believe that the real Aniki was dead, beaten by his own dark and broken self.

Aniki walked around, searching for me in every corner of the ground floor. When he was finally in the other side of the house, I used that opportunity to sneak to Aniki's bedroom.

But that wasn't easy.

As soon as I got out of the locker, Aniki passed by, almost spotting me. I held my breath and tiptoed to the stairs.

"yn!" He suddenly screamed, running towards me.

Well, shit. He saw me.

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