“Get out of the classroom now! The Void’s breaking up the room!”
The nameless Protagonist cried out at the top of his lungs. However, his cry was drowned out by the deafening noises of the crumbling classroom and the unearthly, howling din from the Void beyond the cracking walls.
He was about to rush right into the classroom when the wooden floor started to violently shake. An unnatural draft of deathly cold wind swept into the room through the fractured walls as well.
The draft whipped up dust and soot from the crumbling walls and formed a thick fog that crackled with unstable static. That cold wind also blew out the flame that had been eating away at Monika’s burned administrative notebook and scattered the notebook’s ashes out into the abyss.
In the midst of that chaos, Sayori felt chills running up her spine.
The club president could barely hear the Protagonist’s desperate cries from the threshold. Even the panicked shrieks of Yuri and Natsuki were muffled before they reached Sayori’s ears. There were only supposed to be a few paces of distance between them, but everyone else felt frighteningly far away.
They were all in the same room, but Sayori felt like they were worlds apart.
Sayori’s body shriveled up from the cold and it became hard for her to keep her balance on the shifting floor. Her breath was fogging up before her eyes as well.
Without saying a word, Monika quietly held onto the shivering Sayori to support her. The club president felt Monika’s warmth contrasting the abyssal draft. Sayori also felt Monika’s heart beating together with her own.
However, Monika’s heartbeat made no sound. Yuri’s strikethrough command still remained and kept Monika completely silent.
The rules of the game - and the story, perhaps - were still cruelly absolute.
Sayori furrowed her brow at that thought.
She brought out her administrative notebook with her free hand and tried to think of a solution. The club president dutifully turned the pages of her notebook with her thumb as she proposed,
“Monika… I’m going to transition the scene back to our clubroom. We can’t stay here.”
Monika shook her head in response. The vice president then reached down and touched Sayori’s notebook.
A short message then appeared on the page in Monika’s handwriting,
‘ The Void’s already unstable as it is, Sayori. The game’s on the brink of crashing…'
'Also, I don’t really know exactly what the status of this ‘novel’ we’re in is.’
Sayori read the message then turned to Monika to complain,
“B-but we have to get out of here…! Everyone’s in danger!”
Monika shook her head again and touched Sayori’s notebook to write more messages,
‘ The errors in the code are only local - for now. The glitched classroom is coming undone.'
'It was the most vulnerable place in the game to begin with.’
‘If the game crashes now, then there’s a good chance the corruption will spread into the rest of the files.’
‘Nowhere will be safe - our character files will be in danger too. ’
Sayori gasped as she read Monika’s messages and a concerned frown formed on her lips. She then turned to Monika and asked,
YOU ARE READING
Post-Credits
FanfictionMonika and Sayori start their first full day with the new Literature Club, but Monika notices that something is amiss.
