Faceless

Chapter 23: Detention

We were interrogated thoroughly and we dared not to lie. The Jury (which wasn't a Jury at all and was actually the headmaster Mr S) decided our sentence was death, just like all of them were. An 11 year old and 12 year old dying because they wanted freedom. How horrible.

We were dragged by our hair to a room near the gym, apparently this crime was worth more than the machinery on the 4th floor. Behind some gym mats there was a door I had never noticed before. It said "detention room".

It was carefully unlocked and we were thrown inside, then the door was locked. It was a heavy door, no matter how hard we tried we could not knock it down. We were to starve to death. I thought that was a light punishment, could it be too good to be true? Absolutely, soon shooting pain spread across my whole body, enough to feel like I was being boiled. It hurt to move, breath, exist, I was just in utter agony. Probably the same agony that I felt having my face ripped off, probably the same amount as Eva Brookes. I was in so much pain I couldn't even scream. I was right, it felt worse than death. I wanted to die, it was better than whatever the hell was happening to me. And if I were to starve to death, I would have to endure 3 weeks of this. I guess this was why 006 wanted to avoid it so badly, she'd prefer what was up there than this, so did I now I knew what it was like. But now I had dragged her into this.

God please save me. I'm not religious, why would you let this happen if you existed, but please give mercy.

Time, I can't handle it, I don't want to move on into the future. I just wanted it to end, I wanted everything to end. God end it. God end it. God end it.

I could see 006s crying, pained non-face. Barely. Sometimes my vision went blank from pain, both physical and emotional from the punishment and the guilt. When I could see however, her pained non-face was all I saw, and that made me feel worse. We were both going to die together because we failed. This is detention and the punishment is death. I always felt like I'd die if I made a mistake, it was only here it was real though. We were both going to be murdered by education, as only kids.

God end it.

2 days passed. I had completely lost every single ounce of hope I had, the little I had left. I was 100% convinced I was going to die, I'd already been driven insane. I was insane, and so was 006. It had started when we arrived and had now been completed, the project of Mr Ss perfection was complete and we were now the epitome of madness. So it was unfortunate when some yellow-baged divine entered. Actually, screw the rules we'd broken them anyway, some yellow-baged student entered. She'd probably used her privilege to get a key, God knows why.

"Huh!? Someone's in here!?". The second she entered the pain shut off. I finally somewhat came to senses. After 2 days of utter agony. "I didn't know that uhhhh don't leave, I just wanted to see what it looked like in here!" The girl insisted. 006 chose to shove her out the way to leave. The girl, presumably sucking up to this place yanked her by the hair to throw her back in.

"Hell no! Get back in there I'm not dying because I let you guys out!". 006 refused to tumble and just about stayed on her feet. "I'm leaving! And I'm going to tell that you tried to leave!" The girl threatened.

"Who said you're leaving with your tongue? Or your life for that matter?"

"Eh?".

Seemingly from nowhere 006 pulled out a blade and slit the girls throat. The girl, defenseless, stared at her for a moment before grabbing her neck and yelling an ear-piercing scream to nobody that could hear, blood gushing from the gaps between her fingers. It was a gory sight, but I was too used to it and too far gone to react or be shocked at all. I felt bad, she probably didn't deserve that, I felt remorse. Clearly though 006 didn't, having clearly fallen victim to the sadism this place enforced. She was enjoying this.

006 took advantage of the girl opening her mouth to scream to stab the inside of her mouth, removing the knife and starting to repeatedly pierce her chest. Continuously fucking her body with the knife. And she was laughing the whole time. It definitely wasn't something I was used to, watching 006 be so violent, but what I was used to was the gore and the creepy forced smile she always painted onto her face. This time though, it looked genuine. Not in a good way.

"Whew, after all the visions I really needed that" 006 said, rising, drenched in blood.

"You murdered someone?"

"Yes. These divine don'y know the struggle, the pain... All because we happen to be a little less smart than them... I think it's time they felt a bit of it..."

"Is it really?"

"..." 006 started feeling guilty, I could see it on her non-face. "I guess I don't really want anyone to feel what we felt, nobody deserved that, I just..."

"... Jealousy?". 006 slowly nodded. I decided to not get too mad over the murder, it had gotten us out of detention. 2 for 1. "Have you had that knife the whole time?" I asked.

"Yes, I always keep it on me... I don't know why, it just feels correct in a place like this"

"You never used it?". She shook her head.

"No..."

"...Why? I would have"

"... I held onto my last slither of hope. The tiny fraction of hope I had left that someone would stop it. And it payed off!".

Wow... She sure had a lot of restraint! I looked at the corpse again... Maybe not. We got unbelievably lucky.

"What now?" I asked. I had had enough time to give up everything I wanted to do out of here so I didn't know what I wanted to do.

"Isn't it obvious?"

"Not to me"

"I thought it would be obvious to the girl that started it in the first place! Haha, we're going to finish this off, of course".