On an ordinary night, a hooded person entered a video game store and directly went to the cashier, he was attended by a young man of about 28 years old; with black eyes and hair of the same color, he had nothing remarkable.
"Good evening, sir, are you looking for something in particular?"
The stranger did not respond for a few seconds.
The young man felt uncomfortable, but it was not because of the silence, but because of the feeling of danger emanating from that guy, the only thing he could see of his face was his mouth, suddenly he began to smile and say.
"I came to drop off a videogame…"
He gives the boy a CD case with no title, and no presentation cover, the boy is surprised and tries to ask the gentleman why he left him that set, but it disappears in the blink of an eye.
"Who would that weirdo be?"
He looked at the box.
How strange, it doesn't say anything, it's just a box with a black CD, and nothing else... I'd better throw it away...
The boy was about to throw it in the trash can, but he looked at the cover again, and a great interest consumed him, he decided to give it a try, so he tested it on the office computer.
"Let's see what it's all about."
As soon as you open the game, it sends a pink screen with only the options to start the game and its difficulty.
First, he entered difficulty, there he found the options of easy, medium, hard, and custom. He opted for easy, a message appeared that took up the entire screen that said.
[Discover your stalker and escape from her].
Immediately the game was closed, and the reader ejected the disc.
What the fuck!
With great disappointment, he put it on the bargain counter, then closed up the store and went home.
Once at home, the boy went to bed thinking about that game.
Would it have been right not to throw it away?
He fell fast asleep. In the middle of the dawn, the door to his room opened, and a shadow approached the boy's bed, to watch him sleep through the night, when dawn broke, the visitor disappeared.
The boy got up and began his daily routine, except that he felt someone was watching him early in the morning.
What is this sensation I feel?
On his way to work, he felt that someone was following him, suddenly, a person grabbed him by the shoulder, the young man prepared to hit his pursuer, but recognized his voice, it was a young girl the same age as him, she had honey-colored eyes; a long, beautiful and shiny blonde hair, with a ponytail that exposed her splendid nape.
"What's up, Josei!"
Josei is surprised, she did not expect to meet her co-worker.
"What the...? I almost had a heart attack, Kuuko!"
The girl smiled at him, immediately grabbed his arm, and pressed it against her two fluffy breasts.
"How cruel! I just wanted to play a little joke on you…"
Little joke...? He almost hit her!
At that, her partner whispered in her ear.
"Josei... Today, after work, will you be free?"
She blushed thinking about something.
"No... Why?"
"Today I wanted to make a delicious meal, I'm alone, and I wanted to invite you."
That's strange, doesn't he live with his brother, maybe he's gone to visit his parents…
Josei hesitated, but in the end, accepted the proposal. After work, they went to the market to buy some ingredients.
Josei went to the bathroom first, while Kuuko went ahead. When she comes out she runs into a guy with black hair and unusual red eyes.
"Oh... sorry."
The subject smiles.
"No problem, after all, I was looking for you, Josei."
Huh? Do you know me?
"I'm sorry, but I don't remember where I know him from."
"Don't worry, I know you don't recognize me, maybe with this?"
He put on his hood and so Josei remembered who he was.
"You're the one who left me that video game with no name!"
"It's good that you remember me…"
"That game is garbage, I couldn't even play it, as it came out of nowhere!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the subject grabbed him by the collar, and in a cold voice said.
"So you're already playing it, can you tell me what level you chose?"
He did not understand what was happening, but when he looked into the eyes of that guy, he saw something abnormal, something he could not describe, a deep terror seized him and he decided to answer without asking.
"The easy …"
"Oh, I see."
She released him and immediately asked him.
"Do you want some advice?"
Josei answered him with difficulty.
"A... advice?"
"Complete the mission given to you by the game."
With a smirk, the guy disappears, leaving him with many doubts.
But what are you talking to me about!
He stopped to see in the reflection of a mirror Kuuko behind him, this startled him enough for him to fall to the floor.
"But what are you doing here, Kuuko?"
His companion approached him without saying a word, and this made Josei more nervous.
"I was…"
Tears began to stream down her face.
"I was so worried about you, I thought something had happened to you!"
She hugged him tightly, and this moved Josei, then stroked his head, while saying.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine…"
With that, the two left for their destination. Once there, they cooked and had dinner together. As he was having a drink, Josei began to think about what that strange fellow had told him.
What does the mission of the game accomplish, now that I remember, it was telling me something about a stalker…
Josei begins to feel dizzy and very tired. Meanwhile, Kuuko speaks with a cold tone of voice.
"Josei, can you stay today?"
"I... I... I…"
Unable to maintain consciousness, he falls asleep. When he wakes up, he finds himself tied hand and foot to an aluminum chair, the only lighting he has is a small consumption spotlight, which is above him and only illuminated up to a meter away, he forces his eyes to see where he was, but he could only see some silhouettes of tables and work tools.
Where am I?! What's going on?
Suddenly, Kuuko appears with a plate of food.
"Kuuko, thank God, you're here! Please untie me!"
Josei did not realize that something was not right about his companion, she had a totally serious expression, and without so much detour, he told her.
"I don't think that's going to happen."
"Hey, what are you saying?"
She sighs.
"Every time you were getting farther and farther away from me, I wanted to get closer in every possible way, I investigated your tastes, the places you used to go to, what kind of girls you liked, even if you had homosexual orientations…"
Josei is shocked, he doesn't know what to say.
"What are you... talking about?"
Her face showed someone who was on the verge of insanity.
"8:00 am. Your alarm clock rings, at 8:30 am. You get up and wash your face, then brush your teeth with a toothpaste that you bought on sale at the corner market two weeks ago…"
His voice starts to get colder and darker, every time he speaks.
"At 3:00 pm. You take a nap until 4:35 pm. Then you practice with your baseball bat until 6:00 pm. From there you walk to work and arrive at 6:10 pm. When you're back home, you leave the forecast channel on and look out the window, then you go to bed at 11:35 pm and go to sleep at 00:05 am."
Josei felt his breathing very heavy, he felt he had to escape from there, but a few seconds later, he felt somewhat relieved, and he could not understand why. He took the opportunity to ask.
"How do you know that?"
Kuuko replies with a smile.
"It doesn't matter... Now you will be with me forever!"
He reached for a knife he had on a table and started walking towards Josei, who was terrified thinking the worst.
"Wait Kuuko, you don't have to do something like that!"
"To do what?"
He began to cut the meat from his food in front of him, and the knife was always pointed at his stomach.
"I would never hurt you…"
Change the tone of voice to a cold one.
"Unless necessary."
She pricked the part she cut off and fed him.
"Why are you doing this?"
"I do it because he loved you, he couldn't resist seeing you with someone other than me…"
What, just because of that?
That excuse infuriated Josei.
"What a stupid thing to say, I would never go out with a monster like you!!!!"
Those words made Kuuko sad, who in a fit of rage, grabbed the knife and slit Josei's throat, immediately realizing what she had done.
"I'm sorry, Josei, I didn't mean to do that!"
She tried to stop the bleeding, while the blood spilled all over the floor, Josei felt a sharp pain in her throat, when she tried to breathe her nostrils were clogged with blood, which gushed out, and from her mouth came out foam and blood non-stop, that liquid covered her whole body, while she saw how everything turned red until she faded away. Immediately he saw a sign.
[Lives remaining: 2]
Suddenly he woke up with a start, not understanding what had happened.
What happened, was it a nightmare?
He looked at the time and it was 00:06.
That was not a nightmare, so was it real what happened, did I die?
Suddenly, he remembered something.
The weird guy, he must have some explanation!
He didn't finish his thought when he suddenly heard footsteps inside his apartment.
Will it be...!
The door opened and Josei pretended to be asleep, the intruder went straight to the side of the bed, stared at the young man for a while, then went to the bathroom, at that moment he took advantage and looked at who he was.
As I thought, it's Kuuko, so she was the one spying on me... What is she doing with my toothbrush?
The girl grabbed the brush and started sucking it, this disgusted Josei, but not content with that, she pulled down her pants and inserted it into her private parts while touching her breasts, besides she started moaning and saying "Josei" non-stop.
With this Josei covered his mouth so that his retching could not be heard, besides he closed his eyes while thinking.
She's not Kuuko, she'd never do something as disgusting as that! I know, that damn video game! Because of...!
When he opened his eyes, Kuuko was a few inches from his face, staring at him.
"Ku...!"
He was unable to react when he received a blow right in the throat, which left him breathless, and then he received another blow to the back of his head, which knocked him out.
When he woke up he realized that he was tied without clothes, hands, and feet to the bed, while his partner was on top of him completely naked, he tried to talk, but he realized that he had adhesive tape in his mouth, immediately she introduced Josei's member inside her, he wanted to scream for help, but it was impossible.
"Don't resist... I do it because he loved you."
Without wasting time, she began to move her hips mercilessly, while sucking hard on his neck and did not stop until dawn. Josei ended up soaked in all kinds of bodily fluids, and before leaving, she says.
"I'll be back in the afternoon, sweetheart…"
He changed to a serious tone.
"Don't think about escaping or I'll cut your legs off."
The young man tried again to escape, but it was impossible until the door of his room opened, he thought it was his companion, he pretended to be asleep, but when he opened his eyes a little he saw that it was the man who had given him the video game.
"Well, if it isn't my first user! What happened to you, you look pretty haggard."
Josei wanted to speak, but could not, only unintelligible noises could be heard.
"It seems that you can't talk with that in your mouth…"
He removed the tape.
"Help me, please untie me, I beg you!!!!"
The stranger was upset because he had been shouted in his ear, and immediately said.
"I'm sorry, but I can't help you, it's against the rules of the game."
"What...? What are you talking about!?"
"Of the game you started, or have you forgotten?"
Game I started, would it be when I set the easy mode?
Mockingly, the stranger says.
"Although I must admit you're pretty bad at this, it's the easy way and you already lost one life…"
"So, everything that happened is caused by the game?"
"You can say yes, although it also has something to do with the feelings of the characters…"
He treats Kuuko like she's a character, this guy is out of his mind!
Josei was very angry at that comment, but suddenly, he felt that his anger vanished. He asks seriously.
"Who are you?"
The subject smiles in a very macabre way.
"Do you want to know?"
His eyes began to glow an intense red color, so intense that it seemed a color never seen before by a human being, when Josei saw it, he felt an indescribable terror, he began to hear voices that did not seem like human voices, he began to scream and tried to escape, he was so desperate to escape from there that he broke the bed where he was tied, and so he fled the place.
When he left the house he met Kuuko, who had gone to get his things to move into the apartment with him, he ran in the opposite direction, but when he crossed a street without looking he was hit by a truck, a large part of the bones broke, and perforated many of his organs, causing the skin to open, scattering parts of his organs all over the street, this caused massive bleeding and he died instantly.
He saw a sign that read.
[Lives remaining: 1]
He woke up back in his room and immediately looked at the time, it was 00:06.
There he understood that this was real, suddenly he remembered something, went to the front door and put the extra lock, besides putting a chair against the door, he also secured the windows.
With that done he went to bed and rested for a few hours before the alarm clock went off.
After breakfast, he goes to work to look for the video game he left behind.
Once he arrived, he went straight to the offer section, and a black-eyed, bald employee approached him to greet him.
"What's up, Josei, what brings you to this hour?"
"Hi Kitoki, I'm looking for a video game I left around here, didn't you see it?"
"What was it like?"
"It had a black cover."
"Mmm... oh, that game, a boy just took it…"
Those words were like a bucket of ice water, he immediately asked in desperation.
"What did that boy look like?"
"Eh...? Well, he was a boy about 15, 16 years old, hair... Black? and he was wearing high school clothes... I think so…"
Without saying a word, he ran off to find the boy.
He searched and searched, but couldn't find it, asked nearby schools, and they all refused to show him information about their students.
What do I do now, I lost the buyer…
"Well, it looks like you're in serious trouble!"
Says the stranger with the terrifying eyes, who was standing on a lamppost.
"Losing the video game equals suicide."
"Suicide?"
"Yes, you need to have access to your game."
Access? Then...
He immediately went to his work and searched for the game on the computer, managed to find the game, but realized that he had not yet completed the mission.
Do I still have to find out my stalker and run away from her?
At that, Kuuko appeared from behind and hugged him, but he, remembering what she had done to him earlier, got scared and pulled away.
"What's up Josei?"
I didn't know what to say.
Is she like that? Maybe it's triggered by this video game…
"Today you are busy, I would like to have a nice dinner at my place."
You're asking me something you probably already know, but this is an opportunity to fulfill what the game is asking me to do…
"I am free…"
"Good, then let's go together to buy things for dinner."
"Of course... I'll be waiting…"
When they were on their way to the store, Josei was planning their escape. Once they arrived at the house they started cooking. The atmosphere became more tense every time the time of the "important event" approached, dinner passed and suddenly Kuuko invited him to a glass of wine.
It's the signal!
"Thank you, but I'd better go home…"
She is surprised, and with despair says.
"Hey, you're leaving so fast, don't you want to stay today?"
"No, it's okay…"
He grabbed his jacket and went to the door, immediately he felt something pulling him from behind, suddenly he heard a cold voice say.
"You are not leaving here…"
"Kuuko...?"
When she turned around she saw her friend with an expressionless face, her eyes glowing bright red, and she was holding a kitchen knife in her hand. When she managed to get her attention, Kuuko's voice changed to a cheerful one.
"Please Josei, I want you to sleep here... Forever!"
"Sorry Kuuko, but tomorrow I have something important to do, so I'd better leave…"
He tries to open the door, but it is secured.
What, I don't remember Kuuko closing?
He begins to feel something cold on the side of his stomach, when he looks at that place he notices that he is bleeding, and immediately slips and falls to the floor, with great fear he looks at his partner with the knife soaked in blood.
"I'm sorry Josei, but I don't want you to leave my side, please understand that I'm doing this for your good."
She helped him stand up.
"I'll take you to my brother's room, after all, he's not going to use it anymore…"
He lets out some laughs that scare Josei.
He pushes her friend and tries to force open the door, but suddenly he feels the knife in his left leg, he pushes her back against the wall, he tries to pull the knife out, but the pain it produces when it hits the bone is immense, so he decides to pull it out with a jerk, the pain is drowned out by the adrenaline of wanting to escape from there when he stops he slips on his blood, at all this, his friend grabs the bottle of wine and when he is trying to stand up, she hits him in the back of the neck and he collapses unconscious on the floor gift of his blood.
When he wakes up he realizes that he is in the same situation as the first time he died, suddenly, Kuuko appears with a plate of food.
"You're awake, good, here I bring you some freshly made food…"
"Newly-made...?"
"Yes, you've been sleeping for about two days…"
It didn't reach the drugs to make you stay asleep longer…
"How sleepy you are, my love…"
"What did you make for lunch?"
If I say anything that displeases him, he will kill me without hesitation!
"It's a stew, I made it the way you like it…"
"Great, you can untie me to prove it…"
"Of course not, I'll feed you…"
He grabs the spoon and blows on it to cool it, then brings the spoon close to Josei's mouth, and Josei refuses to open his mouth.
"Come on my love, open your mouth, come on, open, open... Open your fucking mouth!!!"
With that, Josei obeyed immediately.
"Well, how obedient you are, sweetheart."
"Kuuko, aren't you worried about your brother finding out?"
"Relax, I told you my brother won't be back, so don't worry."
You're not coming back, what do you mean by that?
The girl laughs in a very aberrant way, and between laughs says.
"What do you think I made your food with?"
As soon as he understood what he had just said, he began to vomit, which made him soil his pants and part of his shirt.
"Hey...! Look how dirty you got! Now I'll have to bathe you…"
She grabbed him and took him to the bathroom, where she undressed him and put him in the bathtub. There she took the opportunity to grope him, when Josei tried to resist, she grabbed him by the hair and plunged his face into a basin of water in the bathroom.
"Why are you resisting?, it's a normal thing for couples to do these things, isn't it?"
Damn it, I'm too weak to resist!
He let himself be touched, once she finished bathing him she dressed him and took him to the basement, she carried a taser in case something unexpected happened.
As he was about to sit in the chair, he grabbed both of her hands in a struggling manner.
"Don't resist, or I'll have to…"
Suddenly, Josei kissed her, and Kuuko reciprocated the kiss, sticking her tongue in without a second thought.
With her stalker amused, she took the opportunity to take the gun from him, and before she could react he electrocuted her, collapsing immediately. That's how Josei barely climbed the stairs to get out of the basement.
I just have to get to the door...I just have to get to the door, I just have to get to the door, I just have to get to the door, I just have to get to the door…
As he grabbed the door handle, he heard a chilling voice say.
"Where are you going, my love?"
Then he feels the blow of a baseball bat on his back.
"Look what you made me do, my love…"
He immediately kicks him down the stairs.
How can she possibly have that strength, it's almost inhuman!
Josei stopped rolling when he hit the wall. When he saw Kuuko, he noticed something.
Her eyes are a deep red color, just like that time.
"Since you disappointed me... seeing that you are so resistant, I'd better amputate your legs…"
Amputate my legs!!!?
"Where did I leave the axe?"
He began to look everywhere for the axe.
"Wait... you don't have to do this!"
He paused, and staring at Josei with a terrified expression on his face, he said.
"I do it because I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I can't stop thinking about you, love you, love you, love you, love you, love you, love you, love you, love you, love you, love you, love you, love you, love you, love you, love you, love you, this feeling is uncontrollable…"
He grabbed his head and began to thrash.
"Even if I resist, this feeling still haunts me!!!"
So, she tried to resist?
"I want you so much, that when you fainted I took the opportunity to rape you as many times as I wanted... but the feeling remained, it even increased much more... Why can't I resist this desire to have you all to myself!?"
He knelt and began to bang his head against the floor, on the third impact he began to bleed, but she continued without stopping.
Josei took the opportunity to escape, managed to get out and reach the kitchen.
I need something to be able to open that lock…
In desperation to find something to open before Kuuko reacted, Josei opened the refrigerator where Kuuko's brother was, or what was left of him, Josei fell to the floor, shocked and terrified by what he had seen.
Suddenly Kuuko's voice is heard, her face covered in blood, just like her clothes, but with a haunting smile.
"You found it... it was supposed to be a surprise…"
He goes to a pot and with a ladle shows a boiled human head.
"It was the secret ingredient of my soup…"
Josei fled, but Kuuko pounced on him, and with a kitchen knife at his throat, along with a cold voice, he ordered.
"Take a seat to eat... Now."
He was about to sit down, when he decided to throw the chair at her, and taking advantage of those seconds to grab the knife he had next to the plate, so he faced his companion, he went straight to stab her heart when... she woke up.
He was in a dark room, and across from him was the weird guy who gave him the video game.
"What... happened?"
"Didn't you realize...? You died."
"I died, but I was about to stab Kuuko."
"She was more skillful than you, a perfect cut to the throat, then hung herself while hugging your head."
"And... Why am I still alive?"
"Because I wanted to, you could say that I am like a god of this world…"
A god...?
"Why did you make that video game?"
"Why did I do it, that's simple! Because I was bored…"
"Boring?"
"Yes, after centuries and centuries of watching people suffer, I realized it was getting monotonous, so I started to think of something innovative…"
This guy doesn't care about human life!
"That's how I found a dating video game, in which you played a high school student, who had the responsibility of getting a girlfriend before he graduated…"
What the fuck are you talking to me!
"I took it as the basis for the final product, and of course, I improved it to make it more entertaining..."
Josei tried to punch him in the face, but the guy dodged it with no problem.
"How can you be so cruel!"
"You were the one who started the game, so your partner died because of your incompetence?"
What was my fault, you fucking son of a bitch!
"If you had listened to me, maybe you would be with your friend, although it is partly my fault since I foolishly believed that a human would understand me, after all, it was true that they are useless, I don't know why I wasted my time with a piece of meat like you... but that doesn't matter, it's time to say goodbye…"
Josei asks him one last question.
"What are you?"
The gentleman smiled.
"Since you are so insistent, I will tell you my name…"
Josei saw the true form of this being, he tried to close his eyes, but his eyes did not respond, what he saw made him doubt everything he thought was real before, that amorphous aberration crossed all limits of what was real, in matter of fractions of a second the deep madness consumed him.
"My name is…"
As soon as he finished pronouncing that word that said his name, Josei saw the last thing that sentenced him, a sign that read.
[Game over].
The unknown being appears on top of a roof, with great satisfaction.
"Now, who will be my next victim?"