I was brought to the police station accompanied by several policemen. I didn't resist, because I knew that I had done something terrible, even if not of my own free will. Gradually, we approached the interrogation point, passing between the cages with prisoners, and among them I saw our classmate Rina. Her red hair, previously sparkling in the sunlight, now just looked like straw... her eyes were all red from lack of sleep and also from the tears that she was brushing from her eyes. How exhausted her prison life had been. Apparently, I'm about to face something so terrible.
Finally, I was shoved into an interrogation room and forced to sit on a chair.
— Hey, be careful, please, I'm not resisting.
The department employee, who looked to be about twenty-five years old, decided to start the interrogation with the most banal:
— My name is Kitsuki. Sarli-kun, what have you been doing in the past few days?
Of course, I don't want to hide everything that happened, because everything was done by my hands. But seeing how Rina is suffering now, I started shaking all over, as if I was afraid of the same outcome. But no way! I have to tell the whole truth. Let me suffer, but I understand why. For the suffering of those people whom I have hurt.
In the meantime, I was silent, an employee had already started calling out to me:
"You don't want to talk?" — he said, curling his lock of hair.
— Please excuse me, I'm going to tell you everything that really happened, maybe you won't believe me, but it really will be true.
After coming to the house, after I visited Minori in the hospital, I went to the kitchen to cook. I cut all the vegetables, all the ingredients and had already started to heat the pan, and suddenly, something got into my mind ... something dark and with the order "punish them!" began to invade my body. And this something took control of my body… With my mind… The frying pan was in my hands and my first victim was Nasa. How painful it is for me to see what this "killer mode" was doing to her hands…
— Wait, do you really want to say that a certain "killer mode" is responsible for all that you have done?
— I'm telling you, you won't believe me, but to tell the story to the end, I still need you to pass sentence on me.
At first I beat Nasu in the bathroom with a slightly hot frying pan. It hurt me to see all this, Nasa was crying and screaming in pain. But why didn't any of my classmates stop me? It's not clear… Then I carried Nasu, who was bleeding all over. I took it to the very room in which I turned on the air conditioner to the minimum level. Then, when I was already walking away from the room, I saw Mika and immediately another signal came from the "killer mode" in my head: "We don't need witnesses! Turn it off," and my body obediently complied with that request. I hit her in the face and she instantly blacked out and I carried her to the same room where Nasa was desperately trying to open the door. Her scream was strong, so that everyone could hear: "Sarli, stop! Please stop it!" But unfortunately, I had no control over my body. Then four more of my classmates came running to shout, and I hit them all with a frying pan and threw them into the very room, where later during the day I tormented them, cut them up… How much blood was there, how much resistance… The horror! Kabayashi stayed down somewhere, hiding from me. When Minori came, he asked to stop him himself, apparently even then the killer mode was starting to move from me to him, but my body stopped it with an injection into him and all the same killer mode continued to control me. And then, I launched an attack on Minori. While I was occasionally coming out of killer mode, I was crying from what was happening…
— Enough revelations! We already know the rest of the story. The testimony is recorded, wait for the decision on your case. But I'll tell you honestly, no one will believe in such nonsense. To get away with some kind of killer mode, how strange you are.
I hit the table with my hand, which held my sister's "Memorization" card
— Then explain what this thing is!
— Well, the card is ordinary... playing. Did you get something out of a board game?
— And you'll try to tear it up. It won't work.
— What nonsense are you talking about. He walked over, picked up the card and tried to tear it up. And... it didn't work out. He tried to tear with more force, but the card just slipped out of his hands.
— Who is right? That's right, this is not an ordinary card. This is about the same card and the control of the killer mode is performed. You already have a prisoner who was previously subject to this mode. Rina, my classmate, who, after disabling one of the controlled ones, became the same killer. As I say, you don't have to believe me. See you tomorrow, Kitsuki-san.
He gathered himself in silence, looked around the room for some reason and hurriedly left the room, and other police officers came after me and took me to a separate room, until tomorrow.
All night I had nightmares where I continue to disfigure my classmates, including Minori, whom I liked for a very long time, even though I hid it from her, and in general from everyone else. It was terrible to have such nightmares, especially before I was supposed to be convicted.
The morning of the next day began with rather unexpected events for me. There was a girl sitting next to me who was wearing a medical gown and also had an unusual hair color — blue-green. Yeah, it seems like my imagination is running wild or I still haven't woken up. I rubbed my eyes and saw her clearly. So it's not a dream after all.
— Sarli? That's your name, isn't it?
"Y—yes," I said in a trembling voice, afraid of this girl, it's not clear why.
— You need to get out of here, otherwise you will die in a few days. This is the reality, but I have come to change it at the behest of the stars. My name is Mimica Ai, I came from the past, but at the same time I saw your future, because we had access to information about what was happening here. And this is our war, you should not participate in it, at least ordinary people. Your friend is Minori, not an ordinary one. So if you want to help her anyway, then you need to change yourself. To become a different person – close to the stars.
— You know, it sounds like the speech of some cult fan. But you know, I believe you. There is really something wrong in this world, and especially these strange maps.
— Yes, the cards. It is them that we protect from the forces that bring house into our society. The most dangerous of these cards are the "Moons" type and the "Scarlet" type. There are several dozen people left who possess these cards with malicious intentions. Of course, there are also harmless cards, like your sister's card from we leave with the carriers, so don't worry. So are you ready to become a different person and help Minori catch a really dangerous enemy.
— Yes, I'm ready for that. I'm already tired of seeing all my classmates suffer. Tell me what to do.
"Come with me, you'll figure it out soon enough."
Instead of a door, some kind of pink-blue-yellow mess formed in the cell, which resembled a portal and Facial expressions pushed me there and what I saw there plunged me into a small stupor…