To you - Chapter 5

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𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐲𝐚'𝐬 𝐏𝐎𝐕:

It has been five rounds already. Yet, no progress during any of those rounds. We haven't found The Jack of Hearts and people are already willing to kill others. As for 'that', Niragi never looked my way nor spoke to me at all, not even to ask for his suit. This was even more troublesome than I thought it would be.

Looking at him is doing nothing but showering me with guilt and regret. Everything was my fault from the start, if I hadn't used him then none of this would've happened.. No, no, I shouldn't put Niragi first right now. My life matters at this moment and I need to find out who The Jack of Hearts is. 

I shook my head and looked around the room to observe everyone who was currently in here. Of course, everyone looked nervous but that's normal considering the situation we were in. I decided to go look for every single person in the building. 

"I'm gonna go walk around." I told Ippei.

"Alright! Just please come back here once its time to tell each other our suits.." The man in overalls sighed. I chuckled and nodded before heading towards the empty halls.

A few people had passed by and just as I thought, everyone looked nervous. I mean, every single person was going insane and killing each other by lying for the past few rounds. I can't really blame them, our lives are on the line. We have no choice but to try to trust the people playing this game. 

I looked in the cafeteria, upstairs' hallways, and the bathroom. I noticed some blood droplets on the floor while walking up the stairs. Someone left a trail so might as well go see who it was. I followed the trail and surprisingly, I was led to the prison's clinic.

The door was slightly ajar and there were no blood trails going back to the main area. 'The person's still inside.' I thought to myself. I tried to open the door quietly but of course the building had to be older than my dead grandma, basically saying, the door made a creaking sound. There was no response so I opened the door wide which revealed the messy raven-haired man resting on one of the beds. I hesitated for a bit but I ended up walking over and sitting on the edge of the bed where the man was sleeping in.  

"Niragi.. Wake up, we still have to play the game." I sighed, shaking him as a way to wake him up. My efforts were quite useless though. 

He turned to his side, now I was able to see his face. He no longer had the giraffe-printed shirt wrapped around his head and there were a lot of burnt marks that replaced his soft, white skin. I placed my hand on his cheek, caressing his face as I frowned knowing the fact that I'm the reason why he looked like this. Unfortunately, that only woke him up at the wrong timing. 

He slowly opened his eyes and stared back at me. I expected him to cuss me out but.. he put his hand on top of mine while gently stroking the back of my hand with his thumb.

"It's you again.." He said, half-asleep. Niragi slowly sat up as he brought my hand down. I'm surprised he was still holding my hand.

"We still have to play the game, you can't sleep." I pulled my hand away before getting up.

"Where're  you heading?" Niragi asked. I ignored him and walked towards the drawers, grabbing aloe vera and some bandages that I found before going over to him again.

"Stay still, alright?" I said before applying the aloe vera on his burn marks gently. Afterwards, I wrapped the bandages on his face to apply a bit of pressure on the marks.

"Thanks.." He said, looking away from me.

"No need to thank me." He just nodded. It was silent, and very awkward at the same time. 

"Chishiya."

"Hm?" I hummed, turning to look at him.

"You know, even if you do this, I won't forgive you."

"I know."

"Then why are you doing this?" He asked, looking me in the eye. I turned away from him while shrugging, I really wasn't so sure. I didn't care about his life at all at first but now.. I shook my head repeatedly to get rid of the thoughts. Niragi seemed to have noticed this though.

"You good?" He raised a brow at me.

"Yeah, I was just thinking."

"About?" I was gonna open my mouth to answer him but then I couldn't. I didn't know why, I felt as if I shouldn't tell him now. So I stayed quiet as the awkward silence filled the room once more.

𓆩♡𓆪

After for what seemed like years, we finally found The Jack of Hearts. Sadly, Ippei had committed suicide by saying the wrong suit. I really am grateful to him, especially how much he trusted me to tell his own suit. Banda and Yaba were doing whatever they wanted to the poor citizen. As for Niragi and I, it was already dark when we left the prison. We just walked side-by-side and it was quiet.. Until he spoke up.

"Hey.." He stopped walking, which made me turn around to look at him.

"Why'd you stop wal-" He cut me off.

"What am I to you?" 

𓆩♡𓆪

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