"..."
Terror spread across Yuuna's face as he took in his surroundings all at once.
He'd just opened the door, and suddenly...
Everything was gone.
He was all alone in this empty, desolate place.
"..."
"W...Wait..."
Yuuna fell to his knees.
"Don't tell me... Don't tell me this is Heaven..!"
"What if this is Heaven... and I'm dead...? Is that's what's happening?..."
Yuuna quickly raised his hands to his head and pulled on his hair as he gnashed his teeth anxiously.
"...But nobody's around. Heaven has people, right? Heaven has... people... I can't be dead."
"I just opened the door, and... and I was here..."
"Is this all really just... one big fever dream...?"
Yuuna's anxious expression slowly devolved into a crazed, nervous grin.
"Yeah... Haha. Definitely. I'm imagining things... there's no way something like this..."
"Could happen so fast..."
Yuuna fell over onto his back, staring up at the endless white expanse.
"..."
"It goes on forever, doesn't it?"
"..."
"Maybe this is the world's way of telling me..."
"I shouldn't have ever agreed to go outside."
"Not after what happened."
Too exhausted and lacking in motivation to try to find a solution to his seemingly inescapable nightmare...
Yuuna closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep...
For that was all he knew how to do.
...
...
...
"Hey..."
"Hey, can you hear me?"
"..."
"NAP TIME'S OVER, SLEEPING BEAUTY! WAKE THE HELL UP!"
Yuuna's eyes flashed open as he gasped, noticing he was in a cold sweat.
"H-Huh?! Who...?"
He turned his gaze- his eyes meeting another pair which was staring right at him.
A tall, muscular young man- with finely-tanned skin and spiky black hair.
He wore a tank top and baggy martial arts pants...
But what Yuuna noticed first was his hands-
Which were gripping onto Yuuna's shoulders firmly.
"G-GAH! Get the hell off me!"
Instinctively, Yuuna smacked the man's face, causing him to flinch and let go.
This gave Yuuna just enough time to pull himself out of the man's grip.
"T-Tsk!"
The man wiped his mouth and glared at Yuuna with harshness in his eyes.
"What a crybaby. Couldn't you have woken up sooner? Then this would have never happened!"
"I-I don't even... I don't even know who you are!"
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Otoriphobia
Horror----- How much suffering will Yuuna Otori have to go through? How much hardship will his friends have to suffer to survive? And what lies beyond these twisted, psychopathic games? Nobody knows. ----- Cover art by @Chachamaru69
