System:On [DISCONTINUED]

Chapter 5 - Congratulations!

Aria's POV

I'm on a winning streak. The same goes for Toru. Twenty-one students were left.

'One more and all of this is going to end...'

And that was what I thought.

Ding Dong Ding DING!

"The Question Game is coming to an end, my lovelies. Just one person left! Oh man, I can't wait!" Rainbow announced.

With that being said, it's natural to have thoughts of who's going to be that one person, right?

'It could be me, Bran, anyone...'

"NO! It must never be me. It must never be me. Not me. HAHAHAHHAH. Not me." Mai's eyes were twitching furiously, great, she's gone haywire again.

"IT MUST NEVER BE ME!!!"

She ran across the room and grabbed a pair of scissor with a murderous attempt in mind. Where did that scissor even come from? I didn't see anyone putting one there. Fuck, everything's so mysterious. Rainbow could be a devil. A monster? Or he's not even real!

'Shut the fuck up, Aria. Get a hang of yourself.' I slapped myself.

Now back to Mai.

"If I kill any one of you, everything will be over. Please! One of you, please sacrifice your life." her hands were shaking I could tell. She didn't want any of this to happen, she didn't want to kill anyone.

"Mai, I know. Nobody wanted this. I know you meant no harm. Why don't you just put down that pair of scissors and come back to us. No harm okay? We'll figure things out, alright?" I tried to convince her, but she wasn't even listening to me at all. She's too absorbed on thinking of who to kill.

"Bran..." I shared a glance with him and whispered, "what do you think we should do now?"

"For now, let's just calm her down unless someone's willing to sacrifice their life." he said.

Suddenly, someone then stepped forward.

"Bry? Get back here!" I shout-whispered.

"Yeah! Don't do this to us! She's gone nuts!" his friends joined but Bry paid no attention to any of us. He continued to walk and even Bran tried to stop him.

"Bry?! Snap out of it!" Bran grabbed his arm but Bry brushed it off and stood in front of Mai.

"I can't just leave her alone." He said, "You can kill me, Mai. I'm willing to die for you."

PDA much.

"No, not you. You're the closest friend I've ever had. Don't make me do this, Bry. Go away!" she screamed.

Ding Dong Ding DING!!

"GOD THIS IS SO BORING. JUST GET OVER IT ALREADY. Kill him and everything will end, Mai. JUST DO IT!" Rainbow impatiently whined.

"No... I can't do that. Not you, Bry." She sobbed and dropped the scissors, "I'm sorry..."

Bry kneeled down and hugged her, "Just don't do something like that ever again." and Mai nodded.

I sighed in relieve. 'At least they're...'

In a split second, someone dashed towards them and

STABS

STABS

STABS

With constant stabs, an unknown identity who jumped on Bry stabbed through his head repeatedly, his skull cracked, and his brain bits came to sight.

"NO! WHAT ARE YOU DOING? BRY! BRY!" the sound of knife stabbing and flesh ripping continued and no matter how much Mai struggled to get the boy's grip away from Bry, there was no stopping him. She was only pushed aside, and no one dared to stop the boy.

"WHY IS NO ONE HELPING ME?" she cried and shouted at Bry's friends.

"AREN'T YOU GUYS HIS FRIENDS! HELP HIM! I CAN'T SURVIVE WITHOUT HIM!"

Still, no one moved from their spots.

I stayed frozen and as I collected my mind, I realized.

The boy who killed Bry was the boy who played with the knife when I entered the classroom!

"HAHAHHAHAHAHA. THAT WAS FUN" The boy finally stopped and stood up with the bloodied knife in his hands.

"Oops, my hands just slipped. Sorry?" he chuckled, "hey, what are you all looking at? Isn't this what you all wanted? Isn't that great? Now we've finally got ourselves twenty students!! Of course, that includes me."

"B-bran... he's the one. How did he get here?"

"W-what do you mean by that?" he asked, confused.

"Remember when I was knocked out in the classroom and you were too? Yeah, before all that, I saw him in there. He was playing with that same knife at the corner of the room and..."

Ding Dong Ding DING!!!

"Erhem! Congratulations to the ones who have made it through! Yes, the game has ended. However, please do not stay too relaxed and think that you're being let go because...

We're finally moving on to the real segment!"

-- 10/12/18

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