Morpheus - A Drv3 fic

'' Hypnos ''

Content warning: dissasosiation

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This was it. They were finally going to be free from the killing game.

The three survivors looked up at the bright sky above them, bits of broken glass and rubble surrounding them.

"I guess...this is it" spoke shuuichi.

"Yeah.."

Somehow, something felt..odd about it. Actually leaving that dreaded school they had been trapped in so long. But he didn't dwell on it. Taking the first step forward, the other two followed suit.

Towards the bright light ahead of them.

Towards...the bright.....light........

wh@~s ha%pe9ing?????

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He woke up to a bright light.

Not the one he was seeing before.

It was blue, and artificial. Overbearing.

After a few moments of his eyes adjusting to the light, he realised he was in a hospital room. A wave of pain crashed over him as the room span. 'But..how? I was just in the school...'

A few people in lab coats he assumed were doctors came in. they asked him questions, none of which he could remember. He would've asked them where he was, but his body felt so heavy he couldn't move. Their faces all blended together.

Soon, they left. And he was left with the stark white and deafening silence of the hospital room.

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[12/20/20XX]

A few days have passed. He has no window, the only way he knows is because a nurse comes in to check a day off the calendar every morning. It's December. Usually, people say December is the most joyous time of year. But this year, Shuuichi has to disagree.

Not much has happened. The doctors come in every now and again to ask him questions. A neutral point in his already bleak day.

When Shuuichi isn't talking to doctors or nurses, he's sleeping, or at least trying to. Ever since he left the school, he's been dazed. He still doesn't know where he is, and he feels lost. He feels...floaty. Hours pass by in an instance, minutes feel like days. Everything around him is happening, but Shuuichi isn't present.

He feels like he's dreaming.

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[12/28/20XX]

It's been....about a week. Shuuchi is more.. There? You could say. He can hear the questions he's asked, not just answer them. Even once, he gets up, and walks around his room. It makes me feel alive. The doctors tell him, his condition is more stable, he'll be out soon.

He understands more of his situation, the game wasn't real, a simulation. His friends are all alive. It Makes him feel happy, vene though he was a bit dazed when they told him. At least they're all okay....

He can't wait to leave this damned hospital room.

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[01/02/20XX]

Today is the day.

The doctors told him yesterday, that he can leave his room today.they tell him those who died earlier as well as the other survivors should all be out at the same time.

Shuuichi can't deny... he's excited. Especially since, if those who died earliest are out, then, he can see kaede...

He wants to apologize to her, slightly. He can already predict what she will say- "oh no don't apologize! I admitted to the crime, after all." but still.... He wonders if she knows that Tsumugi framed her? To his knowledge once you die in the simulation you don't go back in, so she wouldn't have seen the sixth trial... But maybe they told her? He supposes he'll have to ask when he gets the chance. Which will be very soon, looking at the clock. The doctors will be here in about thirty minutes.

Soon enough, a doctor and a nurse enter his room. The doctor asks him some questions, then leaves. The nurse's the one to escort him to the hospital's common room, where the others are supposed to be.

As soon as he enters the room, Kaede runs up to him.

"Ah! Shuuichi, you're here! I was so excited to see you when I heard that you were allowed to leave soon.." she said, throwing her arms around him.

"O-oh.. um, yeah i.. I really missed you.." he says, slightly nervous. He hasn't spoken to her in so long, and it feels slightly... odd? Speaking to someone he has seen die with his own eyes...

"Me too!" Kaede lets go of Shuuichi, smiling bright with her eyes closed.

As they were talking, rantaro walks up to them both and waves casually at shuuichi. "Nice to see you man"

"Oh- hi! Um, it's nice to see you too.." Shuuichi internally curses how awkward he is. If rantaro norcies, he doesn't mention it.

"So, you ended the game, huh? That's pretty impressive. Props" shuuichi blushes slightly at the praise "oh well.. I didn't do it all by myself- actually, in a way, you helped to- since finding your survivors perk monopad really helped our investigation" rantaro laughed slightly. He was being really...'chill' for what they were talking about, but Shuuichi supposed that's just Rantaro. "Really? Well, it's nice to know that even if I couldn't end the killing game while I was alive, I did help when I was dead" even though rantaro was smiling, it was still pretty uncomfortable to talk about...

"Let's move on from the killing game guys!" Kaede blurted suddenly, raising her voice a little. "Let's just forget it ever happened for now, okay? This is your first time out of your room, right Shuuichi? Let's show you around then!" Before anyone could answer, she had already started walking. The both of them followed her.

Kaede and Rantaro showed him around, showing him where everyone else's hospital rooms are, and also where everyone's dorms are, for when they are out of the hospital room. Rantaro explained that you visit some people who are still under doctor surveillance, as long as they are open to visitors. "Currently only kirumi is", he said.

Later, after the tour, Maki and Himiko arrive in the common rooms. There's some quiet conversation, but it's still a bit awkward. Shuuichi and Kaede get along great, and Rantaro's great with everyone. Himiko's quite obviously out of it still, maki just doesn't talk to anyone. Except for him and himiko. And even that is rare.

Even though it wasn't ideal.. Seeing everyone again was...nice.