*Pant *Pant
How has it come to this?
My vision's blurry,
With my fuzzy vision I stare at my own bloody hands,
Why does this hands of mine,
Feel—S-o foreign
I look around myself
It's only me,
Just me who's left
As my mind calms, the weight of my actions presses down on me.
'What do I do?'
I am scared
Tears fall down my cheeks
I don't know what to do?
...…..
*Alarm*
"ugh"
*Alarm*
"Why is it already morning?'
I pop my head from under the blanket
6:00 A.M
'Why did I not turn it off?' I grumble half-asleep
"My schools at 9 what am I ganna do waking up now?"
I lay there staring at the celling
A feeling of unease creeps up to me
I look around, check all the locks,
Nope, everything's in order.
I ignore it and lay back down
"hmm… lets lay for 10 more minutes"
"Besides, school's at a 5minute walk, I can prepare later"
...…
"??"
I open my eyes slightly,
"What the….? "As I rub my eyes while sitting up " isn't it tooo bright for 6:20?"
My body jerks up
8:56
Almost 9? What?
I look again just to be sure
8:57
"OH ,SHOOT! ….not again"
"Aghhhh, that gorilla will make me do squats till my legs fall off, again"
I scramble towards my closet, quickly put on my uniform and grab my bag and head for school
Half way to school
"Why are my eyes burning?"
Tears streaming down
"Damn it, my glasses!!"
I run back home,
Grabbing glass and umbrella I bolted out of the house
On the wall hangs the clock
"9:00"
....
*pant* *pant*
Yup, I was already late … why did I even run?
9:08
I stare at the school gate, there stood a muscle man, Mr.Eun-sil.
He stared at me
"Sir I am so.."
"Again, really?!"
"Sorry I over slept"
He stared at me with scrutinizing Gaze.
The gaze that is filled with disappointment.
His gaze felt heavy,
"Hey be honest, do you enjoy getting punished or something?"
'huh?!'
Its took me 3 seconds to comprehend his statement
I could feel blood rushing to my face as I bite my tongue " thoh.. I mean noh"
"You know Seo-jin, try and be on time next. Today, I will let you off the hook."
"Thank you sir"
....
I feel a tap on my shoulder
As I look over my shoulder, I see Ms. Ji-Yoon staring at me
"what you doing?'
I think I feel asleep.
I tilt my head to the right "thinking?"
"What perverted thought do you have to drool like that?
I quickly bring my hand to wipe the drool
There is nothing
She lets out a small chuckle
"Face card really is the most unfair thing"
The classmate burst into laughter at the sight of my face getting bright red.
In a low voice I apologies
"Go wash your face. That should mediate the sleep'
....
I splash water on my face,
I feel a bit present.
In my gut, something felt wrong about today; to drive the thought away I splash more water.
In a minute my raging heart calms
My eyes fell on the mirror
I chuckle at the reflection,
There, stared back at me is a pale looking boy with white body hairs.
His eyes, red as blood, lips cherry red.
I suffer from a very severe case of Albinism.
Now many would say that I am lucky with my looks. In fact, many go to great length to be pale,
some, dyeing their hairs white 'as its cool'.
Many even expressed jealousy because my apparently my bloody eyes are edgy.
Although I chuckle at their remark, my own opinion couldn't be further from their remarks.
This albinism, pale skin or red eyes are not pleasant. AT-ALL
Because this has caused me many trouble.
My skin lacks what helps against Sunlight, I cannot stay much in the sun. Even getting exposed to the sun causes sunburns.
My red eyes? The same, any bright light cases severe head aches
Whenever I go out, the bright light causes my vision to get blurry.
In a short time I eyes becomes a teary mess.
Not taking about doing rapid eye movement also causes problems.
But in my 15years of being alive, I have come up with a work around these problems,
Covering up or using sunscreen and carrying black glasses and umbrella.
Though this helps, you can imagine, ALWAYS needing to carry this is tiresome
So because of this, I tend to go out at the evening
BUT! Even there problems follows me
Whenever I go out at evening, there not has been a single day when I was not asked out by some random dude
Whenever I say I am a guy, most of the times the guys runs away crying or stares at me with such puppy eyes that I feel bad for saying no.
Though every single day facing such scene is annoying, it's in some way…alright.
But other times
When I inform that 'I am a guy', they go "even better"
like "huh?!"
Some even doubles down, saying along the lines of
"Look female enough" or "Cake is cake even with a candle"
Just remembering those moments causes shivers to run down my spine as I unconsciously put a hand on my butt.
I quickly splash more cold water to drive away those thoughts
12:27 pm
Boring
Very bor-ring
I wish I could be at home now, even reading those slop Web novel feels better.
Actually… I take that back.
Those slops are unreadable.
My eyes were drawn to the birds flying on the blue sky, how they fluttered their beautiful wings.
Though it hurt, really hurt but still I couldn't take my eyes off them.
My mind began to wonder,
If I could fly in the sky,
Mind began to immerse into fictional imagination. I continue of a imagination of a web novel I read last night.
Where magic reigned supreme.
I don't know for how long I was day dreaming about—
A bloody battle, I am clashing against heroes,
Casting mesmerizing spells with one hand, rearranging terrains.
With another, defending against a light beam like sword energy launched by dark saber.
A smile could be seen pasted on my face
But as the saying goes, all good thing must come to an end, and so had to my daydreaming
I was jolted to reality by the buzzing bell,
This reality—
It felt so boring
Unfair
Being tapped in this repetition.
I wish I could break all this shackles and fly away sky high into those stars
I sometime find myself wishing that 'Why is this reality so boring, why couldn't this reality be hit with magic like I see in those novel'
'What is someday a tower appeared which unleashes monsters'
'What if...'
My internal monologue came to a halt as an overwhelming sense of dread drowned me
My heart started pounding again.
'What the heck? Am I suffering from some heart disease or something?'
No..
Today it self feels weird.
My heart is not in the right place.
Everything feels distant. Somewhere inside me a weird feeling keeps surfacing— Similar to the time prior that accident.
My gut keeps warning me, why though?
I looked around myself.
A group of student was together. Laughing. They seem to be talking about one of the group member's date.
My attention was soon drawn by the trio beside me—hurdled together, giving a creepy vibe. Soon I heard what they were talking about.
They were talking about some adult game which unfortunately I also recognized.
Diverting my attention away from the, I focus on the front; I notice the class rep, talking with two other students when our eyes met. He beamed a smile and gave a wave then getting back to his conversation.
He is one of the individual whom I admire. He is very charismatic and helpful to all. At the beginning I had thought that maybe he was doing this to keep his authority
Though it didn't take long to understand—
He is just a gentle soul who likes to help.
At the door I see a student trying to open it. But it seemed not to budge. It occurs sometimes. Home room teach said it would be fixed by weekend and asked us not to close it in the meantime. Seems someone had forgotten and did just that.
My eyes were drawn to window, they are suddenly GRAY?
I look around the class no one seemed to notice
I turn my head back to the window as I get up to see what's up
….wait
Something new just clicked in my head
My head sharply turns from the window to the podium. There I see a floating white doll; no it's not a doll
Its gestures…
It's impossible to be doll
It wasn't there before…just looking at it made my instincts to run.
The strange white fluffy creature, two horns wearing a stray mat. It was grinning, around it were sparkling stars.
[@!$#@^$%@##]
A voice rang in my head. The noisy classroom became quite. From everyone's reaction, I think I am not the only one.
[AHM, its appears the Korean patch was having some issues. can you understand me now?]
Everyone reflexively turned their head towards the creature.
Around me,
Students started expressing their interest, some exclaimed at its cuteness.
IT appears cute but I couldn't share the same feeling. It smelled— danger
"Is it done by the cinema club? It's so realistic"
"it's frisking sick dude, lets go close to get a better look"
Hellow?
Do you guys have a survival skill of a donut?
Didn't they see it's grin? Or am I paranoid?
I heard the fat on in the trio saying that this felt like the intro to anime.
Like how in some isekai novels the classroom of the future heroes are greted like this, though usually after isekai.
Unconsciously, I too became a little excited.
[Well thank you, I see some of you find me cute. Moving on, I need your full attention for what I am about the say next so can you guys please take your seats?]
But For some reason the thing felt wrong. I could see, people around me pulling out their phones recording, some were cheering. None took its word seriously, much less listen.
All my focus was on it, what it will do next when I was startled by the sound of banging by a student.
"WHY THE HELL WON'T THIS DOOR OPEN?" pointing at the creature, he yelled "Is it you and your accomplices' doing?"
[I believe I told y…]
He didn't allow the creature to finish, he rebottled back" And I don't care what you have to babble, OPEN THE DAMN DOOR! "
Along with his some others also started supporting that unwilling should not be forced to stay
Instead of getting angry, the creature started laughing.
While everyone was getting excited at the show, I was getting Goosebumps all over my body.
[I think you are mistaken about something]
He snaps his fingers, in an instant the boy who yelled at the creature had his head exploded like a bloody fire work.
My breath hitched at my throat
Seeing his headless body slum at ground….
My whole body froze up,
My eyes as not moving from his body
[Now, wh….]
As if IT's word marked a signal, many started screaming in terror.
I was broken out of my trace at someone scream right at my ear.
But his scream was cut short.
My whole face was covered in his blood, as I feel something lean on me—
His headless body
A series of wet explosion followed, exploding the head of those who screamed but I could pay attention to that.
I just stare at the body, my hand slowly get up onto my face
I look at my hand, pick-red like material
'Please don't tell me'
'No please, it's not h..'
[Finally Nice and Qui..]
I unconsciously let out a scream which I tried to muffle as I quickly as I could by holding my palm on my mouth. But it's too late.
His eyes were locked on to me
My leg lost all strength as I slummed down to the floor
'IT'S LOOKING AT ME'
'I AM DEAD'
Tears starts to stream down my face, body shacking
'I don't want to die, please don't kill me'
Yet I couldn't even get a breath out to beg.
It slowly floated towards me.
My legs scrambled uselessly to try and get back.
It came right at my face.
In sheer terror I close my eyes
Suddenly I feel a something wet on my face, I slowly open my eyes to see it licking my face
[You look good, so I will spare you this time.]
My body kept shacking; I hold my palm on top of my mouth to muffle the sound of hiccups
Only Now I notice, almost half of the students lay dead, headless.
A chilling silence settled down, students staring with wide eyes,
No body moved, all were frozen like statues
Staring with wide eyes
With a cheerful voice,
[Nice and quiet]
[Right , I was about to announce something very important, now that the noisy public are gone, I am sure you can focus on my words more attentively]
It talked in such cheerful, childlike innocence. As if it hadn't murdered half the class
I saw his mouth move,
Felt like hearing something, yet most felt distant,
My head refused to resister the words
My mind just kept railing the scene of how I almost died, my mind focused on the blood that all over me.
My body frozen in fear, my mind stuck, just stuck.
Unsure of what to do.
Slowly I started to resister it's words
[You monkeys have lived an easy live till now, worry not.
For I am here to introduce your life: to a meaningful purpose. Rejoice, your insignificant lives now shall entertain the almighty constellations.
But are you even worthy off that honor?]
Everyone unconsciously dry gulped
A small window emerged in front of everyone's blank eyes.
[The main scenario has arrived!]
[Main Scenario #1 – Proof of Value]
Category: Main
Difficulty: F
Clear Conditions: Kill one or more living things.
Time Limit: 30 minutes
Compensation: 300 coins
Failure: Death