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Two Meta Part 5

"What's going on in your head, Shujinkou?"

Shujinkou looked up from his math problems. Sitting on top of his bed was Sayori, thankfully without a rope around her neck. But that gratitude reminded him of why he was limiting eye contact with her in the first place.

Shujinkou quickly looked back down at his homework and mumbled under his breath, "Nothing. It's nothing."

"No, it isn't. You've been acting really strange ever since we found out there are two Monikas."

The young man wordlessly scratched his right cheek. He couldn't really find it in to mention the image of his friend hanging herself nor could he fathom why he saw what he saw in the first place. It was all too strange and out of nowhere.

Unless I'm being assaulted by images of alternative universes which serves as a sign that I'm connected to some big multiversal event.

The young man shook his head.

I doubt that. Actually, I don't want that. That would mean that those things actually happened somewhere.

"Shujinkou."

Shujinkou nearly fell on his back from the shock of finding Sayori's face mere inches from his. "Sayori!?"

"What are you thinking about?" she questioned.

"N-Nothing."

"Come on, tell me."

"It's really-"

"Shujinkou."

Sayori's stern stare made it clear that she wasn't going to just let him off with "It's nothing".

"It's just... I kinda had something uncomfortable pop up in my head."

"Really?" her stern stare softened into a curious one. "What was it?"

"Uhm..."

Anxiety swelled in Shujinkou's heart as he carefully considered his next words. What would Sayori say or think of him if he told her he saw her dead? Even if it really was nothing, surely she would be hurt if she assumed that he was thinking about her being dead.

"Shujinkou?"

"I..." In no time his anxiety transformed into a potluck of emotions; each one nudging him to respond. "I.. I saw a younger version of Sonic making fun of a vision of Infinite!"

"Huh?"

Shujinkou shared that confused sentiment. He had no idea where that response came from.

"What's so uncomfortable about that?" Sayori asked.

"...How out of nowhere it was."

Not only was his response seemingly pulled out of thin air, but-

"Aw, that's not that bad. I thought it was something super serious."

Shujinkou averted his gaze. Things have seemed off ever since the discovery of parallel worlds. When he thought about, he was already feeling like something was wrong ever since he worried he was growing narcissistic moments before he met Monika Prime.

I thought it was nothing serious, but when I think about it, me feeling like I haven't done much lately was kinda similar to everything else that happened. The death scenes, whatever that soft golden thing that obscured my view, the scene from my fantasy day dream and my reaction to Monika's review comments... It all felt the same.

I mean last semester, my mind could sometimes whisk me away to my imagination out of nowhere, but not only have I've not really done that this semester, but those moments weren't the same.