FakeKouji

𝓢1-𝓔30:𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓜𝓲𝓷𝓭'𝓼 𝓐𝓷𝓰𝓾𝓲𝓼𝓱

Warning: This chapter is filled with some psychological issues and their medical aspects. I tried to keep it as medically accurate as possible.

Ayanokouji's POV:

           PAIN

The word "pain" comes from the Latin "poena" meaning a fine, a penalty.

The medical term for "pain" is "algia" derived from the Greek "algos" meaning pain.

Pain is often linked with physical damage, ironically carries a plethora of emotions.  what people forget is pain and emotions are intertwined. Obviously, there is the moral aspect. 

Even neurologically the medial frontal cortex, the midbrain periaqueductal gray and the hippocampus are all involved in both pain and negative emotions, suggesting that the experience of pain influences the processing of negative emotions. 

The way that pain might modulate emotion processing has been rarely investigated, strange...isn't it? 

Class D is experiencing pain, many forms of it. Faces are a probable way to assess pain. What's noteworthy is how a pained person desensitises to happiness if administered to it over a long period of time, something I can relate to all too well. 

Class D, is currently struggling with worry causing actions ranging from Sudo's anger to Karuizawa's care to the utter shock of Mei-Yu Wang.

The 3 students were checked up by the onboard doctors. All have temporary injuries but are in pain. Given pain meds, they were able to sleep on the chairs for while, were then taken to the bedrooms when it was 12 am. The whole day went by in silence, no one was ready to do bets and rejected a few from individuals from different classes....

The next day also was bleak, they had to be shifted at 6am and we had to carry Horikita to activate the rooms at the 12 hour reactivation cycles.

Class C has destroyed Class D's morale. It is vividly broadcasted.  

These 2 days have been hard for Class D, No one left this room the whole day...No bets, no needless chatter.Just a gloomy shadow over class D. 

I hoped this calmness lasted longer....without the casualties of course. During that time, I tried to find out how Class C got it's points. Though it was unsuccessful as I didn't have any access to Class C without it looking suspicious.

Seeing their leaders in such condition, truly scared them. Karuizawa was uncharacteristically the most caring about Chiaki. The whole day she was tending to her needs. 

Wang and I were attending to Hirata and Horikita from time to time. 

Pain empathy is beneficial for human group survival since it provides motivation for non-injured people to offer aid to the injured and to avoid injuring themselves. 

The bilateral anterior (AI), rostral (ACC) are activated both in instances of first-person painful experience and observed painful experience. Though this is debatable as some have argued that only the affective components of the pain matrix, are activated when it comes to pain empathy. 

Is this pain empathy? I don't know, I never felt so.

When they woke up at night after 9 pm, I went up to Horikita and asked loudly enough for the 3 victims to hear," Do you 3 want to quit?" 

Chiaki got up slowly and with extreme pain, considering her body was shivering and her eyebrows were scrunched up. 

"N-No way. If we give up, C-Class C will get what they want."