Kazama, now with a full beard, wakes up, Noya-chan stays asleep. It was good that she got some respite, since she was hooked up to those machines for 10 days straight.
Unfortunately, she couldn't sleep for long as the intercom spoke again.
"Subjects in containment for 376 days."
'Has it really been that long?' Kazama asked himself while viciously scratching at the rashes he had grown after they injected that into him. Noya woke up, her eyes blank, Kazama hadn't seen life in them in months.
He stares blankly at the wall covered in feces, urine, and other fluids, counting the squares on the wall for the first time today. He knows the answer is 2904, but he's done it 1,000s of times.
After he's done that, he grabs his pen he was gifted after the 72nd Challenge, and starts scribbling on the walls. Well, it looks like scribbles to Noya, but to Kazama, he had found all by himself tiers of math in his own head. He found up to differential and integral calculus. He's done so much mathematics, the only thing he can think about is that, and the challenges.
Noya sat in the fetal position in the corner, muttering "22, 23, 24, 25…". She does that recently, just counting the seconds, as sleeping is pure bliss. She rarely talks anymore ever since challenge 143.
She was hooked up to a machine for 3 days, where she could only consume her own feces and urine, while being pushed to orgasm throughout the whole thing.
Luckily, around 100 days in, Kazama had Erectile Dysfunction after he was made to cannibalize a child.
These challenges made him hate the idea of murder. He knows both of them hate themselves, why haven't they killed themselves yet? It's so petty, they want to live more than stop innocent peoples suffering.
Because while it is sexual torture for Noya, for Kazama it mainly revolves around cannibalism, murder, torture, etc. It doesn't stop at children either.\
But all this thinking and counting was interrupted by the intercom.
"Subject-"
"NO NO NO NO I JUST FINISHED A CHALLENGE YESTERDAY PLEASE NO NOOOO NOOOOOOOOOO!" The sorry state of a human tried bashing her head against the wall, but it was padded.
"-s you have been rewarded, with your biggest reward yet after completing the grueling challenge 301. Your reward is that you get to go outside for an hour!"
Outside ???
17 armed guards, all with Assault Rifles, except one, who has a double barreled shotgun. They all have knives on their waist and gas masks on their face.
Nevermind that, the 'outside' is a 102 m^2 area, there are watchtowers with sniper rifles aimed at them, and one guy on a rooftop with a rocket launcher. Kazama frantically thinks of an escape opportunity, but Noya is just laughing while rubbing dirt on her face.
Just then, he sees a pile of empty milk crates. Kazama walks over there and rummages around the pile. He feels something inside, it is a glock with a note attached 'Meet at Kizuki's bar when you've escaped'