“Choose,” breathes the intercom. “Choose, or lose them all.”
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Natsuki’s voice comes from beside him. “You promised, remember?” Her smile is a perfect, porcelain thing. But her eyes are already broken — not crying, just shattered. Like someone pressed glass into her face and left the cracks. “Choose,” breathes the intercom
The first bell doesn’t sound like a bell. It sounds like something wet giving way — a fruit splitting in the dark. Keisuke blinks. The classroom is still there. Sunlight, dust motes, the chalkboard half-erased. But the light is wrong. Too sharp. It cuts, rather than illuminates. “You promised, remember
He looks down at his own hand. A remote rests in his palm. He doesn’t remember picking it up. A single button. Red.
He tries to stand. His legs don’t answer. The floor tilts. Or maybe it’s the ceiling. Maybe the room is folding in on itself like a paper box full of needles.