Red Line || Chishiya Shuntarō ✓

three

"The time limit for this room is one minute and fifty seconds."

"Oh, you've gotta be fucking kidding me." Ren said under her breath. Was the time limit just going to continue to go down with every room?

"She really died."

"What the hell is this?"

Ren leaned against the wall, breathing heavily. When the game said "Dead or Alive," Ren didn't think they meant literally dead or alive. But here they were, second door in, still staring at the same two postered doors, a 50-50 shot to making it.

Now the stakes were higher with the lower time limit and actual death.

This just made Ren hope to God that Takeru wasn't in this mess. She hoped he was as far away as humanly possible from this madness that she was stuck in. Ren couldn't even imagine her little brother doing a game like this.

"Do we choose 'die' here too?" Ren finally registered the fact she was stuck in the room with four other people, trying to make their way through the maze of doors.

"Since the last one was 'die,' the next one should be 'live.'" Arisu said.

"Yes. It can't be 'die' twice in a row."

"But it's hard to choose 'die.'" Arisu said.

"I see," Ren looked at the woman in white. "I'm sure that this is a game for us to choose a sacrifice within the time limit." She said.

"Sacrifice?" Arisu echoed.

Ren pushed herself away from the wall. "Yeah, let's call that Plan Z." She pointed to the door they just came from. "I don't wanna end up like that poor girl." Ren said as she stood next to Arisu.

"There's probably no meaning to the doors. What's important is who's going to open it. They're telling us to choose one person within the time limit." The woman said.

"You sacrificed that girl just now. Why didn't you open the door next?" Arisu said.

"I believe if I were to survive, it'll be for the good of all mankind." She commented.

Ren rolled her eyes. It was pointless to try to talk to this woman - clearly she already thought this plan through when she discovered the game, kill everyone else in the room to save herself instead.

"One minute remaining."

"No one's going to open the doors at this rate." Arisu said. Ren threw her hands up into the air, placing them behind her hair. It was pointless to play this game with these people, they couldn't stop arguing long enough to figure out the method behind the madness.

Ren began to cough as smoke filled the room again. "Oh my fucking God!" Ren really picked the wrong day to be afraid of fire.

"I'll open it." Arisu said. Ren turned her attention to him as he moved towards the 'Live' door.

"Arisu!" His friend called out as Arisu stopped. Arisu turned, going straight towards the 'Die' door instead. "Stop, Arisu. Don't be provoked by her!" He shouted.

"I'll open the door, dammit!"

Ren stared at Arisu, breathing heavily.

"Thirty seconds remaining."

Ren knew Arisu was scared, they all were. They were on the verge of dying if they picked the wrong door or stayed in the room longer than the time limit. Arisu removed his hand from the doorknob, falling to his knees. Ren's eyes closed, hissing to herself.

"See?" Ren's eyes flew open, looking at the woman in white. "You can't open it. Even you would have sacrificed that girl!"

"Shut the hell up!" Arisu's friend shouted.