Alice In Borderland The First Cycle [Part I]

[04] Three of Clubs (3)

-Tito's POV-

Hiroshi Tito

38 Years Old

Electrician

Tokyo, Shibuya Ward

Tito's 15th Day of Sojourn

Visa Remaining: 1 Day

6:40 PM

I pressed the button that corresponds to the update button on the telephone stand; nothing happened. I smeared my hand accidentally across the screen of the telephone only to realize that it has been a touch-screen sensor all along.

The screen flashed for a second up until the map showed 3 layers of level across the entire venue.

'The store has three basement floors! That makes sense!' I thought.

"That's all answered by the hallucination trick... but yet... still... if I'm not hallucinating... what kind of trickery are they trying to do?" Hiroko reckons.

I then pressed the third layer, centering my screen back into the mini-map before.

"Uhm..." I said to the radio.

"Kiddo, you might want to see what I'm seeing... I think I finally found the solution to this simple game!"

"What?"

"This is why the game is labeled as Clubs... It's trying to make us fight each other by making us betray our own senses!" I said.

"It's a game that tries to make us fight..." I added.

"What do you mean?"

-Hiroko's POV-

Akihiro Hiroko

20 Years Old

Media Student

Tokyo, Shibuya Ward

Hiroko's 4th Day of Sojourn

Visa Remaining: 1 Day

Time Remaining: 9 Minutes

Levers Remaining: 3/5

I hid behind one of the shelves nearing the toilets.

"The map is in three, Hiroko. This means that there are three floor levels across the entire venue. Currently, you're on floor three, the lowest floor there is... That's why the air, the hallucinations, the difficulty and the debris are far more extended than the ones above it." Tito said.

"There are three floor levels? Why couldn't you have said that earlier?"

"I... I'm sorry Hiroko but technology hasn't always been my kind-a thing..."

"Ho... How..."

"The shaking that you get from entering the rooms with the levers are elevators. The increasing difficulty of the guards and the number of guards changes from floor to floor."