[ Heart Of Stone] Kokichi Ouma x Shuichi Saihara

☆ Chapter 2.5 : Dream : 001 ☆

He does a quick reality check, like he always does. He moves his fingers, counting them, unlike in real life, here he has six fingers.

He's in a bed, laying down, but there is nobody by his side. 
Kokichi is gone.

He stands up, his legs shaking a tiny bit, he hasn't had a lucid dream in ages.

He looked around the room, it looked like the one outside of his dream, except smaller and the furniture is in different places. He knew that nothing looks the same in dreams, well, people usually do.

He stumbles over to the door and open it quietly, even in his dream, it was night time.
He walked around in the dormitory area, unlike outside of the dream, here, everyone got their own room.

Shuichi checked his pockets and he found a key, he guessed it was to his dorm. He closed his dorm door and tried to lock it with the key, and it did. His theory has been correct then.

He wandered outside of the dormitory area, for now, everything looked the way it was supposed to be. He noticed Kaede looking at him from across the courtyard, so he ran to her, but she ran away.

He decided to follow her.

She led him to Rantaro Amami, the person who forgot his talent and knew too much other useless junk.

He was sitting at a bench inside, one of the benches that can be seen before going into the small hallway that contained the dining hall, the student store and the warehouse.

He was looking down, his hands covering his eyes.

Shuichi looked around, he saw Kaede staring at him, her eyes only said one thing,
'Please help him'

Shuichi walked towards Rantaro, but he had screamed out, telling Shuichi to back away, as he might hurt him, just like he is hurting himself.

Shuichi asked him what was the matter, needing more information in order to help him.

Rantaro stayed quiet, soon, as if just after blinking, a puddle of blood appeared on the bench that Rantaro was sitting at, the blood came from his head, which has seemed damaged.

Shuichi walked forwards, closer to Rantaro. He inspected the damage and saw signs of Blunt Force Trauma. How was he not dead? Maybe because this was a dream, but Shuichi has lucid dreamed someone dying before, how come Rantaro isn't dead?

Shuichi ran to the warehouse, and began searching.
Not long after going in there, he found a bottle of water and a cloth. 

He quickly ran to Rantaro, damped the cloth with the water and began cleaning the blood. He tried not to hurt Rantaro despite knowing that this was a dream, it didn't matter.
But to him, it did.

If it was a random person, he might've let it slide, pretend he didn't see it.
But this, this is someone he had met and talked with.
This is a potential friend, someone who is also a part of the killing game.
So he had to do something.

Once he cleaned up the blood, he found a shot put ball on the ground, it was also covered in presumably Rantaro's blood.

He investigated the scene closely.

Rantaro, he should've been dead. The shot put ball is extremely heavy, and just having enough strength to throw that thing is impressive.
Yet, he isn't dead.

As Shuichi continued to investigate,
Rantaro spoke out.

Shuichi heard each word clearly.

"I have felt this pain over and over, it has stopped hurting that much now. The killer is not someone you think it is"

Shuichi questioned what he said, asking what he means.

But Rantaro doesn't answer, he stands up and faces Shuichi, who had moved back a bit.

"I have become so used to this pain that I no longer die from it. But I will die from something else, as I cannot stand to feel this pain again"

Shuichi tries to walk towards Rantaro to help, but he couldn't, he was forced to watch.
This was a sinister show.

He watched as Rantaro pulled out a small bottle of poison, Shuichi yelled out to him, told him to stop, but Rantaro didn't hear him, or didn't listen.

"This is lethal poison, it kills someone instantly as it is very strong, once I drink this, the pain will go away and I'll no longer have to keep coming back to this cruel reality"

Before Shuichi could yell out to him again, Rantaro opened the bottle.
And he drank the whole poison.

By the time Shuichi could move again, Rantaro laid on the floor, dead and cold.

Next to him was a document that Shuichi read through quickly while crying,

Rantaro Amami, The Ultimate ???
Cause Of Death: Blunt Force Trauma

There was more information, Shuichi read through it until he saw the last line in the document and it read,

'But you, you know that this isn't true, he didn't really die from Blunt Force Trauma, did he? :)'

And then,
The whole world darkened,
And Shuichi could no longer see
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