Red Line || Chishiya Shuntarō ✓

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Ren did keep her distance, strangling behind the three men. It wasn't hard to figure out where they were headed. The neon lights gave away where they needed to head. Ren just wondered how the lights were working when after hours of sitting in a dark classroom with no cell service that a large building like the GM Building and the light up billboard still had power.

Ren couldn't keep up the act of tailing those three guys as she approached from behind. At the moment, they were more focused on the screen above their heads. It was another message about this mysterious game.

THE GAME ARENA IS UP AHEAD

The arrow on the wall clicked on, showing the direction they needed to head to get to the game.

Ren kept her footing as quiet as possible, but she could tell that the three guys in front of her were more focused on what the fuck was going on rather than a person coming up behind them. Ren paused, crossing her arms as they leaned forward around the corner of the wall.

"Are you three the Three Stooges' or something?"

Ren jumped, hands up as the three of them jumped at the sound of her voice. The shortest one out of the three even screamed upon hearing her speak. Ren kept her hands up on defense, showing she wasn't armed or going to hurt them. As soon as Ren knew they weren't going to hurt her, a place went over her heart. "For fuck's sake."

"Who the hell are you? Have you been following up?"

Ren lowered her arm, rolling her eyes. "You three were easy to tail all the way here. You didn't even hear my heels, huh?" Ren smirked as she looked down her feet. She lifted one up to show off the chunky and large heel to her combat boots. "Ren." Ren flicked her hands, having the guys move out of the way.

Ren moved into the hallway, seeing a window ledge with phones sitting across it. The sign under it said one per person.

"You're stuck here too?"

Ren looked back at the messy haired one. He looked nervous, not as nervous as the one who was dresses as if he was on his way to work, but nervous nonetheless. "Apparently." Ren leaned against the wall for a moment. "I started to think this was a bad dream." Ren rubbed her thumb against her still sore cheek. "But..." Ren huffed. "This is real, whatever the fuck this is."

Ren looked over the three men. "I told you my name, what's yours?"

"Arisu."

"Chota."

Ren turned to the bleached haired man, but he kept his mouth shut. Ren chuckled to herself. "Don't trust me." Ren walked backwards, feeling a little better about knowing there were other people and this wasn't just a horrible dream. She walked through the threshold she was unaware of. Her arms were out in front of her, "I'm not gonna hurt anyone." Ren turned to face the phones.

"Do you know where everyone went?"

Ren shook her head as she stared at the phones. "I was standing on the corner, smoking when it felt like I was going to fall. When I turned around, no one was around." Ren peered over at the three guys. "I haven't seen anyone else outside of you three, and that was by accident." Ren commented under her breath.

Ren just picked a random phone, lifting it up as the boys made their way over to her. They were hesitating for multiple reasons - and honestly, Ren was too. Especially when the message on the phone said: FACE RECOGNITION IN PROGRESS, PLEASE WAIT A MOMENT.

Ren's eyes narrowed as the screen shifted from the waiting screen to what looked like an old fashioned card game board. Ren was pretty sure she had an app on her phone just like that.