Triple Nightmare /Bakudekutodo

Chapter 74: A plan to get out!

Midoriya POV:
The next morning I was woken up by the sun sneaking in through the window. I sat up. Shoto was still lying next to me. He looked peaceful. I got up and climbed the ladder. Kacchan was still there. I was relieved. A little bit of a bad conscience suddenly overcame me. I climbed back down and walked into the bathroom. I filled the bathtub with water and got in. I needed to feel the warm water massaging all the stress and concern out of my muscles right now.

Bakugo POV:
My sleep hadn't been very deep. I was woken up by muffled noises. My head hurt and I felt sick. As I sat up it got worse. I leaned against the wall when I heard water running in the bathroom. I took a look downstairs. IcyHot was still sleeping. I sat down on the bed next to him and stroked through his hair. It was soft, wich surprised me considering our circumstances. As I touched his face I noticed that it was slightly warm. "Sho?" I carefully tried waking him up. His forehead frowned. Before it relaxed again his eyes slowly started opening. "Hey Love, you alright?" He grabbed the hand that was just caressing his hair and placed it on his cheek. He closed his eyes again. "Can I get you something?" He slightly shook his head. "Alright, rest then." I waited for him to fall back asleep then carefully pulled away my hand.

I got up and walked over to the closed bathroom door. I knocked. "Deku?" For a moment there was nothing. I even had the feeling it got quieter than it was before. "What?" He answered about half a minute later. "Can I come in?" The inside got quiet again. I sighed and sat down on the floor with my back leaning against the door. The bright sun was hurting my eyes and made my headache even worse. I closed them and not much time passed before I dozed off.

Not long after my back support suddenly gave in and I was woken up by my head dropping onto the floor. "Kacchan?!" I grunted. "Are you ok? Why were you leaning against her door?!" I carefully got up and rubbed the back of my head. "I'm fine." I answered. Deku grabbed me under my arms and helped me up. We sat down on the bed next to Shoto. Deku rummaged around in the backpack. He pulled out a book. The once brown leather panelling was now black and cracked. The pages were yellowed and as wavy as the restless sea. When he opened it, I could see that most of the ink was smudged. The letters were only very slightly visible. It was the diary Deku found in the Cabin. It must have gotten quite wet when we were rescued by the fisch lady. I looked at him. Deku starred at the pages with full concentration. Instead of disrupting him. I watched as his eyes followed the words one by one.

As he tried reading the smudged letters the space between his eyebrows wrinkled. For the first time in all those years of knowing him I thought it was cute how he mumbled in a way that no one had a chance to understand. I had to smile. Quickly I covered my mouth and tried to suppress the urge to touch him. I wanted to say something, apologise once more. This time be genuine. But for some reason that was really hard. It took me a whole minute to just open my mouth and the moment I was about to say something I heard a rustle behind me.

Shoto was rubbing his sleepy eyes. His shirt hung off one shoulder and the blanked was still wrapped around his body. "Good Morning, sleepy." Deku chuckled. "You feel any better?" I asked. He nodded. Just to make sure I placed my hand on his forehead. It was still warm but I suspected it being from him just woken up after being cuddled into bed for a couple hours. He closed his eyes and leaned against my hand. "What are you guys doing?" Shoto asked after I pulled back my hand. "Trying to find an easier way out." Deku answered quickly. "Any success?" "Didn't get to that part yet." Shoto came closer and had a look over Dekus shoulder. "Wait, you can read that gibberish Izu?" Deku looked over to IcyHot surprised he couldn't. After continued flipping a couple more pages he suddenly halted.

"Seems like we are lucky." "How so?" IcyHot responded. "I had hoped that the once's who came here before us would have also been passengers of this Ship and it seems like they have." Deku said. "What does it say?" IcyHot asked. We gave him a second to read a bit more then he turned around and swung his legs onto the bed so that he would face Shoto. "Apparently there is no way to get out for the passenger ." "Huh? But those guys made it to the cabin we were at, no?" Shoto wondered. "Well as far as I understood the biggest mistake we can do now is try to make it through the labyrinth, because no matter what we try we won't find the exit. Apparently Minotaurs little prison halts every month at a different harbour. If what Thunderhoof said is true then they will probable check every passenger until they find the outsiders. It said here that one after the other they were lead into a tent right after getting off." Deku flew over the pages with his eyes once more. "They don't describe it closer but if we want to proof we are from this world we can only pick one." "Huh?! That doesn't make sense." I said. "I'm sure we will see about that when the time comes." Dekus tone was harsh and IcHot looked at me with a questioning expression. I shook my head and his eyes agreed to talk about it later.

"Sooo, only pick one?" Shoto shifted his attention back to Deku. "That's what is says yeah." Deku bitt around on his right thumbnail as he further scrutinised the pages. "I'm not sure whether I understand what they mean but apparently one of the group members explained only picking one by saying that meeting someone for the first time you usually don't tell them apart by their appearance or name but by their most prominent character triad in the moment upon meeting them. For example you are being introduced to someone who tells you they like playing the Violine. While that might be only one of a lot of interest you usually remember them as the person who plays Violine until you get to know them better. If we would go off of that then I guess what Ojiro told me back in Silverbrook village might be true." Deku finished. "What was that again?" "Well, the Spectator created this world, right?" Shoto nodded. "If that were so how did he create such a huge world inhabited by thousands if not more people out of the top of his head? Ojiro said that every person we have met so far and everyone we will meet not only exists in the real world but also must have come across the Spectator at some point of his life. Looking back at what the journal said all of these people most likely have one prominent character triad they feel a special bond to because that's how they met the Spectator. And somehow Minatour found that out and used it as his advantage in order to sort the true from the fakes."

To be continued ...