Tragical Love ✔

The Challenge

Third Person's PoV

In an empty room, there was a two person lying on the floor. They are both unconscious. It took an hour before one of them moved.

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Augustine's PoV

My head hurts when I woke up. I roam around my gaze and I realized that I wasn't at my room. The room was all white. From the floor that was white, the wall that was white, and also the ceiling that was white. I can't find any windows or doors here.

I felt something moving, and when I lowered my gaze; I saw a woman massaging her forehead. "Where am I?" the woman asked. I remained silent because that is the same question that was running in my mind since I woke up. She raised her gaze, and she found me. "Who are you?! Did you kidnapped me?!"

My forehead twitched. "I didn't kidnap you miss. I think they kidnapped us. By the way, I'm Augustine Heisenberg." I extended my hand, but she just looked at it. It looked like she is doubting if she would accept my hand. "I'm a good person miss," I smiled genuinely.

Finally, she accepted my hand. "I'm Seraphine Crimson," she said. She also smiled genuinely.

She was the first to remove her hand. "It's nice meeting you, Sera. Uh... Can I call you Sera? Seraphine is too long for me." I looked at her with a shy face.

"Sure! But in one condition." She showed me her point finger. "Can I also call you Aug or August?"

"August is okay to me. By the way, do you have an idea on who is behind this?" I asked her.

She shook her head. "I don't have an idea, August. The last thing that I remembered was I'm in the bar, dancing. After that, I didn't know what happened to me until I woke up and found myself here. How about you?"

I tried to remember what happened to me before I end up being here. "While I was driving, I saw a car coming in my direction. I think I lost my consciousness after that."

"Hello Mr. Heisenberg and Ms. Crimson. Do you like where you are right now?" We heard someone said. For the second time, I roam around my gaze and I found a speaker. I think I didn't notice it earlier.

"Whoever you are, stop this bullshit! It's not funny!" Sera shouted.

The person behind the speaker laugh sarcastically. "Do you think I did this just for fun? Well, you're completely wrong, my dear. I did this for fun and also for money."

"Money?! How much money do you want?! Five million?! Ten million?! Fifteen million?! I can give you much money as you want!" I shouted.

"I don't need your money. I need the viewers money. By the way, I am a person who is so closed to the two of you. You can call me Intel. And also, I'm a boy. I just used a voice changer," the person behind this said. I got confused when he said that he needs the viewers money.

"Are you filming us?" I calmly asked.

"I expected that you will ask that eventually, Augustine. Yes. I'm filming you," he answered. I heard some sobs and when I looked at Sera, she's on the edge of the room, sitting and crying.

I approached her. "What's wrong, Sera?" I asked.

She looked at me in the eyes. "I don't want to be here, August. This is hell!"

We heard someone laugh again. "Seraphine my dear, you're right. This is hell," he said. "And wait... you belong to hell," he added.

I raised my middle finger. "Fuck you! You're the one who belongs to hell."

Intel clapped his hands. "I'm getting bored right now. Let's start the game!" he excitedly exclaimed.

"August... I feel like I'm a bit dizzy," Sera whispered.

"Your first task is not to loss your consciousness. I have two face masks placed somewhere in this room. Good luck Augustine Heisenberg and Seraphine Crimson!" Intel said before I smell something that made me a bit dizzy, but I tried to control myself.

I faced Sera. "Cover your nose and mouth using your hands for the meantime, Sera. I will find the face masks." Before I can leave her, I felt Sera pulled my arm.

"W-What if he's just s-saying that there are two face masks p-placed in this room, b-but the truth is there is n-none?" Sera asked while coughing.

I held her hands. "I think he's saying the truth. Trust me, Sera. I will come back with two face masks," I said as I smiled at her. I left her to find the masks.

I found a table in the center of this room. I approached it while trying to think that they place there the face masks, but I was wrong. Instead of the face masks, I saw a five folded paper, scissors, knife, needle and thread placed on the table. I get the first folded paper and I read what is written. "I get cut, but I never bleed. I have teeth, but I don't bite. I get turned, but I'm not a page. What am I?"

I get the second paper. "This is something with an eye, but it doesn't have a head. What is it?"

I get the third paper. "I speak without a mouth and hear without an ear. I have no body, but come alive with wind. What am I?"

I get the fourth paper. "I'm closed at night. I give you a sight."

I get the last paper and read what's written. "The beginning is the most important part of the work."

After a minute, I realized that these are all riddles and I think we have to answer it so that we can get our face masks. I came back to Sera with the riddles. "Sera, I think we should answer these riddles if we really want to get our face masks," I said.

She coughed. "L-Let me see," she said, and I handed her the papers. She read it one by one before facing me. "The answer for the first riddle is a key. For the second is a needle. For the third is an echo. And for the fourth is an eye," she answered.

"Woah, you're amazing, Sera. But what do you think is the answer for the fifth riddle?" I pointed to the last riddle. She didn't answer me, so it means that she didn't know the answer. I read it repeatedly. "The beginning is the most important part of the work. The beginning is the most important part of the work. The beginningㅡ Wait! What if the answer is... knee? K for key, N for needle, E for echo and E for eye. Is that right?" Sera just nodded at me.

"If the answer is knee, I think the face masks are placed in our knees." I became nervous by what she told me,. What if she's right? I get the scissors from the table and cut my pants. Sera did the same, but before she can completely cut her pants, she lost her consciousness. Shit!

"Sera? Sera? Wake up," I said as I shook her, but it didn't change the fact that she's unconscious right now. I let her lie down first before continuing what I'm doing. I got more nervous when I saw a blood coming out from my knee. No! No! Shit! I saw that there was a shortcut on my knee. I get the knife from the table and I made the cut longer. I think the face masks are placed in my knee. I was right when I saw an elastic cord coming out from my knee. I pulled it and I get the face masks. Blood continued flowing from my knee, so I took the needle and thread on the table and sewed my knee.

Before I can wear the face mask, I lost my consciousness.

(To be continued...)