CHØSEN: Surviving Horrors

𝟷:𝟷𝟹 𝙱𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚔

Tai felt his scalp burn a hand pulled at his hair.
"What the hell-..."
"Where did the two of you go?"
His grip was heavy like metal. Tai realized perhaps this was his true face. None of that golden retriever personality. Or savior of all that he puts with the classmates. Just an extremely angry face with a possessive desire to monoplize. As if he expects the entire world to worship under his feet.

"...that hurts."

Unlike the past he didn't let go. Tai felt the entire situation weighting on him. He's been through too much time loops. His mental health was taking the tool. The situation was starting to feel real. Like the tears of frustration he shed at the pithole or before Neo had appeared.

"What's happening to me..."

"Your luck might be running out."

"Asshit you're actually still alive."

"Why would I disappear..? I suggest you complete this soon. If you continue in these loops you might just find yourself stuck in it"

"What do you mean?"

"The longer you stay here the more your body adapts, you might find yourself more inclined with the original host & become his true self as your luck diminishes"

"How much more luck do I have?"

"How would I know.."

"But you just-"

"I was just deducting. Something you can't do"

Riki had his entire person to his face causing him to move back.

"Why do you always go to a place I can't reach"

"Why are you being this way"

"Take what I give you and in return I'll treat you well"

The hands in his hair lighten but the grip was still tight. The fingers ran across his skull feeling his scalp. It brought tracks of shivers to his spine.

"Don't ask to many questions or get involved with questionable people"

"Neo is not questionable people he's our classmate".

"You don't know that, no one can be trusted"

"Can you?"

There was a glint in his cold eyes that brought the image of a winter tiger as their eyes shine in the snow. A strange look of delight or amusement.

If in the past he only felt fleeting strangeness toward Riki's behavior in the current present that feeling was no longer fleeting. It was evident. The boy had something to do with the time loop and he needs to find the clue.

The atmosphere was getting tense as the moment thickened. Both sides refused to surrender. Until a Josh who had claimed Neo intervened.

"Half our classmates are dead. Their bodies littered to the ground like beef jerky. And you two still have the luxury to pick a fight?"

Could be seen from his frown the man was angry. One could assume from his dirty clothes and slight trace of blood he had tried to save the moment by giving them a peaceful rest but wasn't getting any help with the situation. The women were traumatized and so were the men. Except for himself and Riki he had no one to help him clean the gore scene. But the man had sat and refused to help. Eyes glaring at the forest waiting for the two figures that appeared.