Extraordinary Minds: Road to Hell

Chapter 35: Secrets

Akira placed down the guitar, as he heard the clapping all around him. He had only wished deep down, that everyone was around to see this, as this was a shot in the dark opportunity that he took.

As Yumico had collected herself from the tears she shed, she began to speak. "Well, I think it's about time if we've explored this floor to perhaps gather and-Or...Well, I guess technically since were all here we might as well go over what we found."

"Well, here's a great fucking story for you. I witnessed a certain midget here go apeshit over a vending machine as I've probably shown." Lily sarcastically said.

"Hey! Don't you talk bad about Vendi!" Kentaro said. "She's an angel sent from the heavens above.."

"Yeah, yeah.." Lily said rolling her eyes. "As long as it's getting you to perk up a bit more, that's good enough for me."

"Well, me and Riku only found the Music Room so far..Oh! We also found a Chemistry Lab that's right next to this room!" Kioka said.

"And for some..really fucking weird reason. We found a Kitsune Plush in the back corner. Moment Kioka tried to give it a hug, well..." Riku said, as Kioka shouted.

"That big stinky Monodev took away the Fox!" Kioka said, pouting all the while. "I just wanted to give him a big hug! He was so cute!"

"A Kitsune Fox?" Akira thought to himself. "Sly little ones I've heard. Cute, but will claw your face off if antagonized."

"Ohoho..A Kitsune Fox? My my, it truly does all come together!" Raidon smirked. "That said, since you cretins seem to hate me and all..I prefer not to say anymore."

Maeko groaned, clearly angry by the banter Raidon had been putting her through up to this point. "Anyways. Forgetting his...Little Pity Party if I dare call it that. We did find my Ultimate Lab, but..We also found Yutakas and it..had some things in there."

"What..types of things?" Barisuta asked.

"Ok, so I did snap a few photos of what we found. Take a look." Maeko said, showing on her tablet the photos she took.

Within the photos...The shelves covered with puppets were visible, all seen placed perfectly together...

But what was utterly sinister and creepy, was a shelf containing all 16 of them in puppet form. 6 of them..brutally battered or mutilated similar to the ways they died. While the remaining 10 stood perfectly still.

"What's weirder is...When we looked in the back of one of them? We found the names of said parents." Maeko said, showing the slip of paper to Akira that was..his.

Yuna Odashi: Dead
Zenkichi Odashi: Alive.

"So if this is..." Akira began thinking to himself. "If...it's true Zenkichis my father, then..Why..Why did he never come for me? Why did he never save me and Junpei from the Orphanage and home us?"

"O-Ok so...Can someone explain why the hell the puppets are..You know?" Riku said with a surprisingly frightened tone.

"You sound afraid." Lily said.

"Yeah! Because it's fucking disturbing!"

"It is extremely unsettling, to be fair." Yumico said. "Though...This May seem selfish of me to ask, but. If were going with the ideology that..These puppets also contain info of our families and all. Did anyone else have any that...stood out?"

"Actually, yes. Rikus." Maeko said as she pulled up Rikus puppet next, and the slip of paper that..had something incredibly unsettling written on it

Chie Sato: Alive
Ren Sato: Dead