𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐧'𝐬 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐭 - Chishiya Shuntaro AIB

14- ☽ 𝐋𝐮𝐧𝐚𝐫 𝐄𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐬𝐞

𝑺𝒕𝒖𝒄𝒌 𝒊𝒏 𝒔𝒍𝒖𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒏 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆 

𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒈𝒏𝒊𝒛𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒔 

𝑰 𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒛𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌 𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒐𝒏 

𝑳𝒖𝒏𝒂𝒓 𝒆𝒄𝒍𝒊𝒑𝒔𝒆 

𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒘 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇

♧.♤.♡.♢ 

I locked myself in my room, well, the rooms don't have locks anymore, but you got what I meant. After the game, I was still in a kind of trance. What I did, or more precisely what I didn't do, and that panther. I was on my bed, looking at the ceiling with an empty stare, unable to stop thinking about it. It was making me crazy, rumbling in my head, not stopping-

Knock, knock, knock

I abruptly detach my eyes from the ceiling and blink and few times. Did I hear that correctly? It's like three in the morning. Okay, I'm definitely going mad

Knock, knock, knock

Or not. I rush to the door and open it but I am left confused by the presence in front of me

'Chishiya?'

And he looks as confused as me. 'You didn't come to my room, so... I came to yours'. 

That's right, like the good old times, right? When I used to sneak into his room at night. But stopped after our fight. I guess since now we are on good terms again he was kind of expecting me to do it again

But I didn't, and I clearly didn't expect him to do so. Why would he even want to come here? More questions, more confusion just feel like I am going insane, slowly losing my sanity.
I move from the entrance and let him in. My room is messier than his, well any room would look messy compared to his.
I still hadn't changed, still in my dirty-blooded clothes from the game.

I lay back down like I was before he interrupted my existential crisis.

'Your group arrived three hours ago, you weren't with them'

'I walked'

He nods, 'I guessed'

'You guessed? How could you be so sure I didn't die?'

He smirks. 'Because you're too smart to die'

I normally would have laughed but I don't react, because in fact, I was too dumb to live back there, I actually was supposed to die. Instead, I tear my eyes off him and look back up.

He notices my lack of reaction

'Are you ok?'

Not really. 'What do you want?'
He approaches me, since he was standing in the middle of the room observing me. He sits down.

'There had been a meeting a few hours ago after your group came back' I look at him intrigued, and with him being right next to me I notice a change, his bracelet.

He usually wore the 007, but, it changed, he won two places and now wears the 005 number, graduating and getting closer to what he wants to achieve. 

'All the cards have been collected, except... the ten of hearts'

I take a deep breath, of course it had to be, it had to be the last one. I don't want to participate in it, I know it would not end well. So I keep quiet, my eyes drifting back to the white ceiling.