𝐓𝐈𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐂 ৷৷ ᴅ. ᴅᴇᴍᴇᴛʀɪᴜꜱ ✶

𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙥𝙚𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡

FIRST PERSON POV

I laid there, I had been unconscious for a while. I don't remember how long though, it almost felt like I just woke up from a well deserved sleep. But then the urgency shot back up my spine when I had realized the cold and musty room I was placed in was like. I sighed, as I tried to move, but I was restrained within the chair with something. I tried to find ways to free myself, until suddenly the door opened.

"You finally woke up, Cruel Hero," the same subtle, yet menacing voice enters the room. Filling the room with a sense of dread, as I looked up and met my eyes with Perpetual.

"What do you want, Perpetual?" I tried to keep my cool. But I knew nothing about her, and who knows what type of information Noah had been telling his older sister about me. Now that I think about it, it makes sense as to why Noah was always at the most randomest spots wherever I had been. It couldn't have all been a coincidence, could it?

"I want to know more about you, Cruel Hero," the same menacing tone responds. There was a small smell of blood, the normal human nose couldn't have detected it. But with my enhanced senses I could smell a little bit of it. She was still wearing her mask, she never took it off.

"Don't you think it would be more fair for you to take off that damn mask and actually show your face? I mean, we are equals right?" I said with a cocky tone, trying to keep my demeanor calm and composed. As I looked at her, I could see the same ocean bright blue eyes that Noah had, "Or are you too scared?"

It didn't even take that long for her response. She removed her mask without a second thought. She had the same ocean blue eyes as Noah, and long black hair that went down to her waist. She had a more tan look to her, and she just had that sinister smirk anyone could imagine someone like her having, "Satisfied?" she asked, "Now can we continue on with what I can actually gain from having you here?"

"I don't know what you're trying to get at here Perpetual, what do you want to know about me?? Also if you wanted to know so badly, we could have just chit chatted and talked in the coffee shop or something," I replied, as I fiddled with the steel that had me locked up.

"Oh sweetie, but the things I want to know are things that we shouldn't let anyone else know. Of course, if we did, what would be the fun of it right? We all have our secrets," she walked up real close to me and went up to me ear, "Like how I like to make sure all my victims have the most gruesome death to mankind. Each one of them is gifted with a new way of death, there was one girl, her name was Clementina. I remember she used to work for me, but when she was of no use... I poisoned her drink. But a poison so small but so poisonous no one could detect it. Or the time I had a victim who I tested their eyes with. They were known to have good eye-sight, so guess what I did..."

I looked at her, my eyes filled with an unsettling sensation. This woman was nothing near normal, "What did you do..?"

"After killing them, I would gouge out their eyeballs. And try to run through some tests, but you want to know the annoying thing about the human body?" she whispered with a low and menacing tone, I just looked at her and stayed silent as I awaited her response, "The body doesn't function for long when someone dies."

"What are you trying to say here Perpetual.." I looked at her, as I could feel a shiver run down my spine, "Unknown won't be happy if they find out you did something to me."

"Who said I would do something to you, just answer the question and you'll be free! After All, we all have our own secrets, don't be Cruel Hero," she spoke, as if referring to something, "I wonder. When you first came into Puzzle, it was almost impossible for such a young girl to rise up the ranks so quickly. And when I tried to check your history, there was nothing to be found about you. I clear blank slate. So, just who are you Akari. And just how did you rise up the ranks so quickly. A child prodigy can only go so far."