"32 days until we die."
"So, what'd you find, guys?"
Kiya had spoken, her eyes glancing among the three of us before her. Her eyes betrayed no emotion that she didn't want us to know about.
"I found something that lets us use the money we have to buy stuff to help us," Junichi offered. I stared at him.
"Wait- wait, really?" I was amazed. "Where is it?"
"There's one in every convenience store."
Aiko rolled her eyes. "And how's that supposed to help us?"
"We can get stuff like cars and grappling hooks at it!"
Kiya perked up for a second before settling back into her calm and unbothered persona. "Cars and grappling hooks? I can see how we'd afford grappling hooks with 25 thousand dollars, but I don't think we could get a good enough car and other things we'd need."
"I thought that too, but I looked through and everything is so much cheaper than you'd expect. A grappling hook is about 5 dollars, and a car is about a thousand."
A thought crossed my mind, and I decided to speak it. "Can... any of us actually drive?"
"I can." Aiko glared at me while she spoke and Kiya buried her face in her hands.
"We're going to die."
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Mystery / ThrillerWe had 40 days. We had an old photograph. We had 25 thousand dollars. We had the four of us. And that was all we had to escape death.
