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5 : Garden

---- a/n, shorter chapter, wanted this one to be slightly more 'light-hearted', flufy-fluffy. (or squishy-slimy(?), since troy_en confirmed that Kinito's skin texture was slimy and would make a splat sound if he hit the wall.)
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You're awake. 

You wait...
And you wait. . . 

Making sure the house is completely drowned in silence, you make a move. You carefully get out of bed, your thick socks dampening your movements. Looking out of the window, you see a pale artificial moonlight in the sky. Alright. Trying to investigate the fountain on the first night is too risky.
...Maybe you should do a bit of research beforehand, and think of a plan.

Trying to be as quiet as possible, small steps bring you downstairs. You look around.
Good!
No one is here.
But, you also don't know where Kinito was right now.

You carefully glance into what, in game, was the computer room. Yep, even in this world, there was an older looking computer with a CRT monitor, and a few shelves filled with many different games. The pale moon managed to fill the room with enough light to illuminate the area, showing off all of the different types of games on the shelves. Ah... some of these games were your favourites, some from your steam wish-list, and some of them were games for different consoles too! Some even for consoles you didn't own, but always wanted to try out...
Kinito must have done a lot of research into what kind of games you liked.

Wiping away the very thin layer of dust with your sleeve, you push the PC tower's power button. The computer whirs awake, monitor closely following suite. Despite it being a CRT screen, the resolution was really good, probably better than your own monitor back in the real world. The login screen pops up, with your name written on it. You click on your profile. 

Wait- password? It wanted a password from you? You tried using the password used for your own PC back in the real world... Nothing. Your name? Nothing. Birthday? Nope. You tried submitting nothing. ... Nothing. 

'What would that slimy axolotl put as your password...' you think for a moment. Oh. Right. You felt stupid for not trying that earlier. You type in KINITO, in all caps, as the password. Ding ding ding! Correct. (That insecure fish-) Now that you're in, you decide to check the date. It was one day later than when you first came here, still in present time. It's been a few hours... Has anyone noticed you're missing yet? Is anyone out there looking for you? ...Do they care? You lived alone, so, it might take some time for anyone to notice that you're gone.

Trying not to get distracted by frivolous thoughts, you open firefox, trying out a random query to see if the net is working, and it seems to be! Next, you try looking up some info about KinitoPET. 

That's... strange. All you got was old articles talking about some tamagochi rip-off, some plushies bundled with a CD-thing for pre-schoolers, and how the creator of some RRA technology committed suicide- But nothing about the game. No game-play videos, no steam page, no weird fan-fictions... -what was going on? Troy_en was also nowhere to be mentioned online. This really confused you.
It was almost as if you were transported to a different timeline, where KinitoPET really was just some 'Bonzi-Buddy's somehow even more malicious' evil cousin.

... You're not from this world, are you?

You were looking up some more stuff, reading article after article, until-

Bang.

The window's shutters suddenly rapidly crashed down, causing the room to be shrouded in darkness. You yelp from the sudden noise.  The monitor's lights dim, only illuminating a small section in front of it. You can hear the wind roaring outside, sending prickly chills down your spine. It's so cold.