The Dead One: The Final Grudge

Chapter 55

Yamada: DAMNIT!!!

Ryosuke punched the wall in home leaving a large dent in it. Frustration begin to take place swelling up inside him until anger came onto his face.

Kuro and Koga had explained the tragic fates of the others they were with some time ago...

Yamada: Konami...

Tokime: Natsuki-san...Konami-san...Shouta-san...

Kuro: So far besides us Shouta is the only one still living. Then there's Koutarou-Sensei.

Tokime: So everyone else is....

Kuro: Dead. Yes. I'm afraid so...

Yamada: And Mei...she still out there...

Kuro: Yeah...but so far...I haven't seen her yet...

Koga: So it's unknown what she's doing now. All we know is...she's killing everyone around her in order for the people who wronged her to suffer.

Tokime: But that doesn't make any excuses to take out the world!

Kuro:....But it isn't Mei that's in control...it's Yokai...

Yamada: Damn that doll.

Just hearing the girl's name pissed him off. Because of her. So many people are dead and his brother is missing.

He has a bad feeling that Yokai had done something to him.

He swears...if that little bitch had harmed an hair on his brother's soft brown hair. He's going to murder her.

Game or not. No one messes with Yuki and gets away with it.

Though...Hinata almost did...but we won't speak about him ever again....

Yamada: So what now?

Kuro: Like I said before. If we want to live. We have no choice but to play Yokai games. But we have to survive.

Tokime: I still can't Aishiteru-san is actually trapped in the realm of the dead. Like us, she's also suffering in this well...

Kuro: *Glares* Well duh. If I need to remind you guys. You also were responsible for the reason why she became this way.

Yamada:....

Tokime:.....

Koga: Kuro. There's no time to be guilt-tripping people.

Kuro: *Sighs* I know. I'm just tired. Tried of seeing Mei get hurt because of others. Tired of people acting like they have the right to make others loves miserable to make themselves feel better. Tired of...everything...
honestly...Has humanity really fallen?

Tokime: I can answer that for you, Mirai. In a way, yes...we have finally reach that peak where humanity has fallen...

Kuro:.....

Tokime: Think of it like nature. The undeniable truth is that we continue to do great damage to the planet and we haven’t learnt how to grow our economy without harming nature. In the past 50 years, truly a blink of an eye compared to the more than 2 million years of our species’ history, we have seen an exponential acceleration of the unsustainable and wasteful use of natural resources. If we were going to continue to produce, consume and power our lives the way we do right now, forests, oceans and weather systems could be overwhelmed and irreversibly damaged.

Yamada: Ugh...We did not need another dumb method about science, Shinozaki.

Tokime: I'm just trying to help...

Yamada: I know. But your help sucks and it's getting off topic.

Tokime:....

Koga:....These two got a strange dynamic going on...

Kuro: Yeah...

Tokime: Anyway. Back to the topic we were discussing. So you mean to tell me...I was going to be the next victim of this game...the red room...

Kuro: Yeah...

Tokime flicked his glasses onto his face, lens brighting up before showing his confusion spread across his face.

Tokime: If that's the truth. Then how did I ended up being in Yamada's home when the message seem like it was released for him.

Kuro: Ah...

Yamada:....

Koga: Now that you mentioned it...That is a good question. How did you ended up here in the first place? Why did that demon doll put you here?

Tokime: That's what I want to know...

Kuro: Maybe she did to create confusion or maybe she got bored of you both and decided to have you the two of you kill in Yamada's room.

Tokime: Okay...But you say the monsters that you been seeing have all been vengeful spirits of Aishiteru-san's ancestors or relatives.

Kuro: Yep.....

Tokime: But this is the Red Room. I'm not sure if any Aishiteru became a victim of the curse.

Kuro: That's what I'm going to find out. BTW. Speaking of the red room. Did you guys find anything odd about it.

Yamada: *Raised eyebrow* No....

Tokime: Actually...I think we did...

Yamada: We did? But it just like the rumor goes. Like Shinozaki said, the rumor usually takes place if someone is addicted to the internet. A pop-up arrives upon as a notification saying "Do you like the Red Room" when you are surfing the internet. If you close it, you will die...

Tokime: Yeah...we didn't received the notification by phone....

Yamada: Eh?

Tokime: Don't you remember. The mysterious caller. Someone contacted us from your phone.

Kuro: ?!

Koga: Well...That's totally different from the rumor...

Yamada: *Awestruck* Really?!

Koga: Yep. Usually you will receive a notification about the red room on your computer. By phone, it can be rare sometimes. But to have someone contact you by phone and ask that question....Now that's very extraordinary...

Both Kuro and Koga shared an knowing look while Yamada and Tokime looked frightened.

Kuro: So you do know what this means, Koga...?

Koga: It obviously means by a pointer...That a vengeful spirit is corrupting the red room...

Tokime: ?!

Yamada:....

Kuro: And who better than a Aishiteru...