✔️The funhouse of murder • Stray Kids X reader✔️

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I couldn't help but curse loudly, watching as the needle only scraped Hyunjin's neck. It could have been so easy to finish all of this for good, but no. Now I actually had to look him in the eyes. Hyunjin's hand reached for his neck, turning back to me. "Are you okay? What happened?" he asked worried, watching as a couple droplets of blood had stained his hand now. I let out a scoff, laughing to myself about the irony. Hyunjin clearly wasn't following, he still had no idea. I couldn't blame him though. I'd done everything I could to keep it hidden after all.

"Hyunjin... do you trust me?" I asked him after regaining my posture, the instant I saw his facial expression change. "Of course I do," he answered immediately, already walking up to me again. "Stop!" I yelled, maybe a bit too abruptly as I saw the startled look in his eyes. "I'm sorry, I mean..." I took a deep breath, feeling the frustration build up more and more. I couldn't mess up right when I was so close to the finish. If I didn't calm myself down now, all would have been for nothing. "Then, for 10 seconds, do you think you could stand still, and close your eyes for me?"

Though clearly unsure, he did as he was told, closing his eyes. Within an instant, I pulled the gun out of my bag, hearing the audience gasp. I pointed it at him, feeling my hands shake vigorously. Come on, come on, calm down. I can't shoot him like this! "Nine... ten," Hyunjin concluded, slowly opening his eyes. Fuck! Not now! Seeing his eyes pierce through mine, my finger hovered over the trigger, and still I couldn't get myself to pull it. "Y/N..." was all he said, in that hushed tone of his. "Shut up! Shut up shut up shut up!" I screamed, still keeping the gun aimed at him.

"Was it true? All that Chan said?" he asked, somehow still seeming quite calm. For a second I wondered if he had known all along, but even he couldn't have been crazy enough to still go with me then. "What does that matter right now!" I yelled out, trying to stop my head from spinning. Hyunjin slowly took a step forward, only to be stopped by my yelling once again. "Yes! Yes I killed them! But what else could I have done? I could finally get out for good! I could still win this fucked up game! Jut told me, if only one person remains, they'll get all the prize money instead! I could still get a new life, and now all I have to do is kill you off too!"

Hyunjin didn't cry. He didn't become angry, or even scared. All he did was step forward once more, stopping to ask yet another question. "When did it start? Did you plan this from the start?" I let out another scoff, yet a little unsure of whether I even had the right to be offended. "Of course not. I may be a horrible person, but this didn't have anything to do with you guys. You just had shitty luck to be paired with me." I knew very well what he was doing. Trying to talk me out of what we both knew I was planning on doing. Keep me talking, and as soon as my guard was down, overtake me. I knew it so well, and yet with every word he spoke I got more and more agitated. Almost like I still needed to prove myself.

"Don't you think I was devastated at first too, when Seungmin and Felix died? I not only lost the person I thought I wanted to spend the rest of my remaining life with, even though I didn't have hope of it being long, but lost all hope of escaping that hellhole of a home of mine. I didn't even care about anything anymore, but when Jut told me... it felt like my world turned upside down. It was my one chance of getting another chance at life. We weren't going to win any prize money otherwise anyways, it was my only chance!!"

As Hyunjin set another step forward, my hand started shaking more and more. He was only a few metres away, and yet I still couldn't bring myself to pull the trigger. Come on, don't hesitate now. It was just one more out of all of them. The final one. The final person standing between me and the freedom I had risked my entire life for. "Y/N, I know it's only been a month since we first set foot in here, but if there's one thing I know, it's that you're not a killer."

Without thinking, I pulled the trigger, just barely missing anything vital as the bullet scraped his cheek. At least now he didn't seem to get any closer. "Don't underestimated me! You remember the video shown, of Minho looking back when Jisung was in trouble? He turned around because he saw me! I was the one witnessing it all, and yet, because I didn't do anything they're now dead. I watched it all happen, and left them to die! Same with Changbin and Jeongin! Jut had left me notes even in the next zone! It was incredibly dumb of Chan not to think of UV lighting, but I knew exactly what to do and where to go, and yet I let them go right to their death. Even you and Chan nearly died!"

I took a deep breath, trying to regain my posture again, a smirk appearing on my face. "I don't even think I have to tell you about Chan. By now you probably realized too that I knew all along." My hand by now wasn't shaking as much anymore, feeling like I now had the upper hand in this again. That's right. I already killed everyone here. I could kill one more, couldn't I? "And you? You stupidly believed in me all this time. I don't even know how you were stupid enough to not believe Chan even after all he had said, but whatever is about to come next, that's not on me, but you."

"Then do it. Just shoot me."