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Chapter 16 - Chapter 16. Voided Room (1)

Kim opened his eyes to see himself once again in the voided room…

His whole body ached in pain, he tried to check for any wounds on his body, but there was none. No scars, no bruises, no blood, no nothing.

"I'm back here again huh?" he thought to himself while letting out a sigh.

Kim tried to speak again but nothing changed, he still couldn't let out any words while being in this room.

"It's a hassle really!" Kim thought to himself.

"I'm starting to think this is what death feels like, this what happen when you die, you get transported here.."

Kim starting to think that the void was the afterlife and that he was beginy to doubt himself, how does that even make sense?

"Huh, who talking to me?"

Kim appeared to hear what the {white text} was saying…

"The white text?…" Kim faintly yelled out…

"Wait! Who are you?"

Kim stood there quietly, not making any sudden movement… he waited for a response but no answer came to him…

"Just what are these words that are popping up in my head?"

Kim looks around his surroundings…

"Something changed… I'm not floating this time…"

Kim appears to be sitting at the end of the tables that is in the center of the room. He peers over to the other end of the table and he still sees the throne, empty and untended… Almost as if nobody have touch that thrones in decades…

Looking around his surroundings, he notice something different, "Wait where are the other people?" He thought.

Kim didn't see any people this time… the placements of the voided have changed but Kim didn't realize it til now…

"Wait.. you're right!" Agreeing with the {white text}.

Kim stares blankly out at the void…

"Wait am I really talking to myself? Words are popping up in my head and I'm acting like that's normal!"

Kim panicked as he felt like he was going crazy… he is probably already crazy…

"I'M NOT CRAZY!!!"

Kim replied to the {white text}.

"Who… or rather, What is this {white text} that keep on popping up in my head?"

Kim is going crazy, mad even… has loneliness caught up to him? Has his loser past came back to bite him? We will never know...

"I'm not crazy nor am I a loser! You need to shut up!!" Kim realized how crazy he was just acting… he was basically talking to himself… one-on-one with himself…

"This is worse than I thought!" Kim can feel this dire craziness in himself… he need to snap out of it and fast but oops… he can't!

"I need to stop replying to these words that are popping up in my head and start figuring out where I am!"

Kim begins to ignore the {white text} no matter how many time it pops up in Kim's head.

Kim doesn't love the {white text} nobody loves it, I mean, who would? it's so annoying…

"I just need to find clues… anything help!"

Kim is such a bad person for ignoring the {white text} he is neglecting {it} he doesn't love {it} anymore…

"Argh!!! Just shut up for a bit! I don't even know who or what you are!"

Kim shouted at the {white text} Kim don't care if he hurt the {white text} feeling after all… it's always where the {white text}… but never how's the {white text}…;(

Kim feeling some type of guilt for ignoring the {white text}. He let out a sighed and said to it, "Fine... I won't ignore you anymore just tell me where I am and quit bashing on my name!"

The {white text} filled with joy tells Kim that he is in the voided room.

"I know that already!!!"

"Geez you are so useless.!" Kim shouted at the {white text}.

That's quite rude of Kim!

"Wait, you have been referring to me as only Kim.. can you only speak in the third person?"

"But you were bringing up the word like {it}? So I'm confused as to what you are…"

Kim starting to figure out how the {white text} work.

"I'll take that as yes-."

But only a little bit, he is very far from knowing… what's the {white text} is.

"Just tell me then already!!!" What are you!?"

Before the {white text} can reply to Kim, it suddenly froze.

"Wait why did you just froze just like that?"

Kim didn't realize that there was another person in this voided room…

Kim begins to look around the room, he looks at the chair, the other end of the table, and the throne, the empty throne…

He stared at it for a few seconds, maybe even minutes, he snaps out of it, he look around for a bit more

"I don't see anything… what are you talking about?"

Kim didn't see the person that's were just standing behind him…

"Behind me?!" Kim turns his head around to check but he doesn't see anything.

"Why are you trying to scare me?" Kim said as he slowly turns his head back to look at the empty throne.

When Kim was going to look at throne, a face was staring at him, they looked at eachother face to face… it stared at Kim and Kim stares at it back…

"Huh!" Kim's mouth widen up, he was surprised to show who the person was "Is- is that me?" Stuttering his words.

Kim was looking at himself with a shocked look, while his other self eye stares blankly at Kim. Kim could see his other selves eyes voided, no emotion or feeling… just darkness… like this voided up room…

The other Kim opened his mouth and said to Kim, "Why did you try to find Vas? Why did you save all of those people and that kid?"

Kim baffled, he would never question saving his friends, he told himself "Vas is my friend… and I-I saved those people because they needed help!" The other Kim looked at him with confusion, he let out a disgust expression toward him.

"But you could've died, just like now… why didn't you go to the bunker with Filo and Uma?"

"I don't know... I thought I might've lured the man to the bunker-"

"So what? They're probably so many people there, if you saw the man, you could've run and leave the people in the bunker to die, you would've have enough time to escape…"

"That's just bad…"

Kim feels uncomfortable talking to the other Kim's.

"Shut up!!!" The other Kim's tried to tell the {white text} to stop talking but it won't listen to him…

"You're so annoying… just leave us be!"

The other Kim's try to shoo away the {white text} but fail… also even if the {white text} had gone away, it would've still heard their conversation, so it's pretty much pointless.

The other Kim simple scoff at the {white text} and look back at Kim, "So annoying… just ignore {it} and focus on me!"

The {white text} repeated what he just said about how the other Kim's didn't realize that he was making Kim uncomfortable just by being near him.

"Oh? I'm making you uncomfortable?" The other Kim said, ironic that he told Kim to ignore the {white text} but he didn't ignore it himself.

Kim chuckled a little bit to what the {white text} just said. His other self looked at him with murderous intent which make Kim nods while also not saying a single word to his other self.

His other self snaps, "And why should I care about that? You almost got us killed!"

Kim looked away from his other self, thinking what he should say to himself… after a while of thinking, he looked back at his other self and said, "I would've died for the greater cost!"

His other self looked at him with confusion on his face, he shakes his head, "No, you would've died for nothing! Greater cost? What's that?"

Kim was horrified by his other self replies, he hesitating ask him a simple question, "You're not me… are you?!"

"Oh!? Now you're asking the question?"

"Haha, but I AM YOU!!! I AM MUGEN!!!" Kim last name has been brought up, Kim ask Mugen why he had chooses his last name as his name. Mugen silently look at Kim and said "Because I know that you hate your last name the most…" Mugen said with a huge grinned on his face.

"I know more things about you than what you ever know about yourself!!!"

Mugen tried to gaslight Kim but failed greatly, he is just lying, he's just saying words now. The [ white text ] intervine between the two Kim.

Both of the Kims looked out at the voided room, they peered at it.

Kim thought that the {white text} intervening the two was funny but Mugen didn't, he simply looked out at the voided room.

Mugen tried to scare the {white text} with his gazed but failed miserably.

He then threw something at it but it just disappeared into the void…

The {white text} doesn't have any form, it is just here… Mugen can't stop taking L's…

He begins fuming at the {white text} but {it} knows that he's not going to do anything to {it}.

Look like the {white text} and Mugen don't get along, welp folks that's all. Kim was confused by what the {white text} just said. "Is this a reality show?" Kim thought to himself but Mugen mind was empty, he didn't think about nothing… he just stand there glaring at the {white text} wishing for {it} to leave them alone but {it} wouldn't…