𝓕ᵃᵗʰᵉʳ'ˢ 𝓟ᵉʳᶠᵉᶜᵗ 𝓛ⁱᵗᵗˡᵉ 𝓖ⁱʳˡ

I | V

Hi 💋 I recommend rereading the last chapter because it's been 2 decades since I updated. No, I didn't forget about this story. Yes, med school is a bitch.

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CHAPTER — VI
part two

THE FIRST thing you realize is that your head hurts.

It's not a normal headache either, it's a violent ponding that makes you feel incredibly dizzy as you confusedly manage to stand on your two feet.

You first take notice of your surroundings—you're in a bathroom. The interior is beige and nearly made entirely out of marble.

It feels cool to the touch.

Every step you take is a challenge. Every single movement of your neck, every slight change of balance, you feel all of it resonate in your head in the most excruciating way.

Then you realize you're thirsty. Fortunately, there's a glass of water on the ground, right next to where you regained consciousness.

The person who put you there must've known you would be incredibly thirsty upon waking up. Nanami maybe ? Sounds like something he'd do.

Thirst quenched, you leave the bathroom in quest of someone—hopefully Nanami, or any of the Fushiguros, really, nearly automatically before the recent events come back to you.

Akame, Jasmine, your father.

Then you realize that this entire place is foreign, too. It only consists of a bedroom and a bathroom.

You blink blearily, once, twice. You try the main door, it's locked—you know you're not in the Underworld, because you're sure that if you were, then the Fushiguros would've found you by now. The windows are locked, too and tinted but you can still see. No one can see you from outside, though, you're also reasonably high up. It's the night, and from the looks of your surroundings, you're still in Tokyo.

You bang on the door and try to break it open while screaming for help, to the best of your ability considering your massive headache but it's to no avail. You're stuck in there.

Did your father leave you there ? Didn't he want you to go kill Toji or something ? What's happening ?

With too much time on your hands and nothing to do, you start to pace in the room. It must not have been that long, and yet you can already feel yourself going crazy. You have too much time with your thoughts, too much time rethinking about what's happened.

You haven't given any information to your father about anyone's whereabouts ever since you met with him at the Fushiguros. And yet, their ennemies seem to know so much about them, too much. How could the Inu clan have known in which room you'd be ? Even if they'd somehow managed to get their hands on the reservation list (which you're sure is not easily accessible considering how thorough with security the Underworld is), they would've seen that you're supposed to be rooming with Maki and Nobara - not Nanami. The Inu clan had no way to know that you were with Nanami, unless someone told them.

You know you didn't.

Then what does this mean ?

Simply that you're not the only traitor in the Fushiguro clan.

You dwell on this for what feels like ages. Logically, it should be Toge, right ? His father obviously hates the Fushiguros...

Your head feels like it's throbbing, your vision blurs. You close your eyes.

You hope the Fushiguros are fine. You hope they realized that Toge's the traitor.

You hope they don't know that you're a traitor too.