Saturday,12th of April,2XXX
"I wonder if this is the place."
As I hold a Paper Flyer that my parents gave to me in, which they send me off to this school with, whilst the spring breeze blows my skirt and gives off a scent of the sakura leaves that grows not too far from the school yard.
"๐ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ค๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ด๐ต ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ต๐ช๐จ๐ช๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด ๐ด๐ค๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ข๐ฑ๐ข๐ฏ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ญ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ ๐ฆ๐น๐ข๐ฎ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฉ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ง๐ช๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฆ๐น๐ข๐ฎ๐ด ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฆ."
I thought, while trying to wrap around an absurd concept that is a Highschool exam is harder than a college entrance exam.
After thinking to myself, that it's probably a baseless rumor that someone made up and has no proof to back it up. After an hour of standing still in front of the school gate and contemplating my life choices, that is the decision for me if I want to enter this school or not just because of the difficult exam that I need to face.
I started to push the gate and it creaked with an awful sound of a metal bar rubbing onto each other.
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"๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ข๐ต๐ณ๐ฐ๐ค๐ช๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด ๐ด๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ." I grumbled in irritation towards the noise that the gates were making which in turn makes me regret opening the gateway to my new highschool.
"๐๐ฉ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ค๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฑ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด ๐ข ๐จ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ข?", As the gate started to open for just a little bit. I let out of a big sigh and fall to a sitting position, while leaning on the school gate
Exhausted from opening the large school gate, I sat down for awhile to get a little bit of rest, to again make progress on the pair of large school gates, a thought pass through my mind like a flash, an oddly specific yet important thought that keep bugging my mind since it passed.
"๐๐ฉ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฑ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต, ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฅ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ช๐ด๐ด๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ต?"
Keeping that thought in my mind, after a short but well needed rest, I continue on pushing the large gate that's on my way to enter the school, until I feel something continue to blocking it from opening. I kept pushing and pushing and finally, I stumbled upon something, something perculiar.
"๐๐ข๐ณ๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด?! ๐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ'๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ข๐ช๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐น๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ค๐ข๐ณ๐ณ๐บ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐บ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ด ๐ข๐จ๐ฐ, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐บ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ? ๐๐ฉ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ฆ๐น๐ช๐ด๐ต ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ช๐ณ๐ด๐ต ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ?"
My brain scrambling for an explanation to explain how an inexistent technology, ended up in the most successful and also hardest school to enter in this country.
Whilst I was thinking that, I accidentally got launched into the insides of the barrier by the small gap that I made from pushing the school gates, and fell onto the ground, face flat.
"Oww...Why did I even get launched here."
Saying that when also trying to stand on my feet, "Well, at least I made it into the barrier." After that very painful landing, I finally stood and tried to observe the school yard that I was just fling onto.
"๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ'๐ด ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐บ? ๐๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต'๐ด ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฃ๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฆ๐น๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ค๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ ๐จ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ค๐ญ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ช๐ณ๐ด๐ต ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ, ๐'๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ค๐ถ๐ณ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ญ๐บ ๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฑ๐ข๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ."
Standing in position with this thought in my mind while I'm currently checking the place.
"Excuse me?"
I whisper with a little bit in a bowing position, quietly and also to my self, not to alert any security, if there's even any in this desolate and looks abandoned place.
Looking and also Squinting both of my eyes for good measure, I began to walk slowly and trying to not make any noises as possible, still occupied with the thought of if this school has any security guards at all.
Slowly but surely, I was walking to the main building, or the school building. From my first observation, it seems that it has at least 5 Floors from the top to bottom.
"๐๐ฐ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ค๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ ๐ช๐ด ๐ค๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ด๐ค๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ค๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฎ๐ข๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ท๐ฆ, ๐'๐ฎ ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฅ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ช๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ค๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ?"
A moment later after I successfully get into floor one's hallway, I started to start my trek, walking across the empty halls within the school, and took a peek into the rooms that is surprisingly massive with chairs, tables and also the stairs floor that looks like somethings that pull straight out from a college teaching room.
"๐๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ ๐ ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ธ๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ข๐บ๐ด ๐ข๐ง๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด, which is ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ข๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ธ๐ฆ, ๐ด๐ต๐ถ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง๐ง๐ช๐ค๐ช๐ข๐ญ๐บ ๐จ๐ฐ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ค๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ, ๐'๐ฎ ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ค๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฏ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ค๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ด. ๐๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด ๐ง๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ."
Me thinking to myself after seeing how this school has no spider webs, unorganized chairs and tables left out by the seniors, and also how the hallways feels like a scene from a horror film or the liminal spaces that is popular five or six decades ago.
As I walked through the empty hallways to the toilet, I opened the door and found, as expected, nothing but an eerie silence and freshness of the toilet room. With my first step onto the bathroom door, with my squeaky sounding shoes, and breaking the silence of it.
I was so freaked out by my own produce sound, that I started to momentarily jump but landed safely afterwards, learned just because I was traumatized by the first fall that I suffered when I started get into this place.
After having a restroom break. I came out of the toilet and flushed the toilet, close the toilet door and leave like not even a ghost has been there, before starting to explore again, with me, walking to the second floor of the building through the stair pathway, and in the process, missed the lift that can take you to the second floor without wasting any energy.
Gasping for breath, I finally reached the second floor. With a bottle on hand that I bought from a strangely still stocked vending machine, and with the feeling of being jumpscared every second I'm here, I continue on.
After the second round complaining about the stairs, again, I stand on both of my feet from a sitting position and finally make a move. As I expected, nothing has changed besides the room placement, which is now from the left that switches from the right.
With me, finally discovering that there's an elevator system, installed into the school building, I sighed.
"Talk about a waste of energy. Urgh, Who even designs elevator in the middle of the building?!"
With that done and smoke finally go out from my system, I got into the elevator and press for floor three.
The next third and fourth floor also has the same structure as the first and the second floor. Knowing that, I went straight to the fifth floor, where the elevator finally got to the top, which is the balcony.
The elevator room opens and I can walk out and breathe a group of fresh air.
"๐๐ช๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ข ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ง๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ข๐ง๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ด๐ค๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ช๐ญ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ค๐ฉ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ ๐ช๐ด ๐ข๐ญ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ด๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ."ย
"๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ด ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ต'๐ด ๐ข๐ญ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐บ 5 ๐๐..." After letting that concept linger in my mind for a while, I finally found out how long I spent in this building without any care in the world. "๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ข๐บ?!"
With this thoughtful and certainly not helpful notions finally sets in, my mind goes into a panic mode, where it the thoughts chains into, "๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ??" and "๐๐ข๐ฏ ๐ ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐จ๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ??".
With this, I quickly sprinted towards the elevator, closed the elevator, and pressed the button to floor one. And after that, I rushed out of the school, like I was being chased by a ghost.
After several minutes has past and I already calmed down, I finally remember what did my mother said before I was order to go here:
"Izu-chan, listen to your mother, I already listed you on a dorm school, so if something would happen to us, then I want you to go to your dorm system on the school, okay?"
After the memory flashback, I started searching for the dorm that my mom talks about. Minutes have gone by and the sun has already set, the spring weather and temperature is getting colder, and while that's happening, I'm still searching for the entrance to a maybe nonexistent dorm.
"Where is it? Where is it?!" With my tone of voice starting to get more desperate and desperate every passing time, in frustration, I throw something onto a random tree and- ๐๐๐
A large sound echoes throughout the desolate school yards, with me knowing that the object that I throw did not hit the floor, and also that's not the sounds that an object that hit the floor is supposed to sound like.
After that discovery, I'm starting throwing from rocks to twigs to a random side of the yard. The clocks is ticking and every throw, I start to lose hope again, until- ๐๐๐
Another sound echoes across the empty yard, with this, I'm sure where the sounds came from, and rush there with full force.
"As I expected...Barrier"
With a faint smile on my face, I pushed my hand and successfully clipped my whole body through the barrier, and without tripping this time, I landed on both of my feet.
"Finally, it looks like I'm in the dorm that my mom is talking about", while saying that to myself with an exhausted and also a smug smile on my face.
"๐๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐บ, ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ต'๐ด ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ช๐ฏ๐ท๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐จ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต'๐ด ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ช๐ณ๐ด๐ต ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ." I thought when preparing myself for another exploration.
"Woaaaaah...", I shout in shock when looking at the wide road that I just encountered, meanwhile my mind is screaming about the logic of:
"๐๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ข ๐ด๐ค๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ช๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ข ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ-"
With my sentence halted by a sign that says: "Don't question about it, just take the reality".
With that, the part that's always questioning things in my brain stopped completely, it was like something like a magic spell was planted onto that sign that makes me stop questioning about why a wide road can be in a dorm.
Progressing, I finally begin to walk the huge road that's, on the side stacked with houses.
Looking at the ridiculous sight, I started to realize that every single house has a name on it and I started to approach one of the house with a house signs on it, attached to the fence of the house and it reads:
"Naoki Kazuto," and accidentally read it out loud.
After a while of strolling through the road, I stumbled upon a Takoyaki shop, in which when I started to get closer to see what's happening in the shop.
Suddenly, an AI in form of a robot appeared and jumpscared me out of nowhere.
"What can I do for you, Customer?" Says the robot to me in which still in a shock state,
"N-Nothing, I was just checking if there's anyone was here."
"I see, then Customer, I hope you can find anyone here, wish you luck."
While the robot waves his hand to me whilst I walk away from the shop, Intimidated by the robot's jumpscare.
"๐-๐๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ...๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ด๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ญ๐บ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ...๐๐ถ๐ต ๐'๐ฎ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฃ๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐บ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ง๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฃ๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต."
I thought once I got a little bit farther from the robot spotting me.
But as soon as I finished thinking that, my confusion and the little hope that's visible on my face vanished in an instant and was replaced with a horrified face by something...something so unpredictable. Something that I wasn't prepared for nor expected at all.
Something that's both horrifying and also so twisted, that at that moment I said with my whole body trembling and with a shaky voice:
"I really wish that I didn't come here...At all..."