𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐧'𝐬 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐭 - Chishiya Shuntaro AIB

10-♚𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞

𝑴𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒎𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑨𝒑𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒆

𝑴𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒎𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚

𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒎𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒎𝒚

♧.♤.♡.♢ 

I woke up in his arms, feeling protected from any demons of the night.
I don't even know how it's possible, even after the events of yesterday, no nightmares had haunted my sleep.

Should I feel guilty for not having any? I do feel guilty about her death, but why doesn't it had affected my dreams too?

He helped me sleep tonight like he turned off the light and calmed my obsessed mind.

And that scared me, I don't want someone to be my remedy. I don't want to rely on people to be okay. I don't want them to have such power over me

I feel him move underneath my body and push myself up to give him space again.

'How did you sleep' he asks in a sleepy voice

'I- I strangely didn't have any nightmares'

He nods and I fully move to my side, the proximity being too weird to handle right now

There is this usual silence again
And once again, it's interrupted by a soft knock on the door

Chishiya stands up and opens the door, letting the person that stood out of the room, come in.

A shy and concerned Kuina enters the room
'hey' she softly says as she sees me

I sat up, 'hey' I give her a weak smile

'I'm in the shower if you need me' Chishiya says, leaving Kuina and me some time to ourselves.

I hadn't known her for a long time, but I knew I could trust her. And it meant a lot, because I had a lot of trust issues.

Except for Niragi, I never had any other friends, I couldn't trust anyone.

Until now, until Chishiya and Kuina.

She sits on the bed next to me

'It was the eight of hearts right?'
I look down
'Yeah...'

'You don't have to talk about it if-'

'I know' I cut her, I know I can speak to her

'It was a wolf hunt. Two wolves and six hunters. Whoever were the wolves by the end of the game won. We were eight players.
One of them was someone I knew. A little girl, Nozomi. I used to take care of her. She was so strong' I want to cry more but I just feel numb

'There was only a minute left, both of us being the wolves. Until another player came. I had gifted him my wolf, sacrificing myself so Nozomi could live, but he still stabbed her.
In the end, I thought she would still be able to live, but turns out her wolf passed to me. And she died in my arms'

She looks at me horrified

'I'm sorry' is the only thing she says, it's the only thing to say

'It's okay, it was a heart game, it was predictable.

Plus, she probably wouldn't have lived for a long time afterward. She had a heart disease, and her organ transfer kept getting postponed, so...'

Just as I finish talking, Chishiya comes out of the bathroom, wearing his usual beach attire, his silver hair wet, it looked good.