-S.C.-

As I woke up, the sun already shined in from the windows. Something was laying on me, or better, someone. Yuna was sleeping peacefully on my body. Her head laid on my chest, the arms wrapped around me. I'm not really into body contact, but this woman was doing something to me I didn't knew yet. I didn't wanted to wake her up, so all I did was lay there silent. After some time, Yuna's body started to move and not a pair of seconds later, her eyes opened. "Morning." She needed some time to realise, that she laid on me. "Oh shit. I'm sorry." The black haired directly rolled of my body and sat up at the edge of the bed. Then I stood up from the bed and walked into the direction of the bags of food. "What do you want to eat?" Yuna still sat on the same place, probably thinking about what just happened. "I'll take that what you got."

We ate in silence. She barely took some bites of the food. "You should eat a pair of more bites. I know you haven't eaten since we came from the beach." The only thing her face said, was nothing, it was emotionless.

-N.Y.-

The time flew and we changed into some better clothes. Chishiya got from me his jacket back, I still had on. I changed into some long cargo pants in black, a white top and a grey jacket over it. "I need to check your wounds, to see if we can play today already." I just nodded and sat down, to let him look over them. Chishiya carefully lifted my shirt, a shiver went down my spine. "Looks good, I'm sure you're fit to play today." He then put it down again and sat up. "Which game are we playing?", I asked. "I'm not sure yet, but the nearest is the Jack of hearts. I'm sure that it is the next game that's starting. It's only a jack, so I'm sure that then there won't be only one person left." My first thought was, he wanted to get rid of me, but I knew he wouldn't do that. "Then what are we waiting for?"

I decided to let my bow in the apartment and only take some knives with me. I also put one secretly into Chishiya's pocket, in case something could happen.

We waited on the roof from back then. It was already dark as one of the buildings started lighting, not a pair seconds later, the card above it got lighted too.

The Teio prison. "We act like we don't know each other, okay?", Chishiya said. I nodded. We walked into the prison from different entrances, so they wouldn't knew we came together here. A white table was in the middle of the room. On it laid a black collar. "PUT ON THE COLLAR AND GO UPSTAIRS TO THE CENTRAL GUARDROOM." I lifted it up and inspected it. After opening it, I put it onto my neck and it closed. A sound could be heard from it, just like it was triggering something. Reaching the central room, Chishiya was already there. A lot of other people too, a woman with a blue dress and orange hair catched my eyes. Just like a doll. They were all looking pretty scared. "Difficulty, Jack of Hearts. Game, Prison cell. Rules, guess the suit that appears on the back of your collar. However, you cannot see your own suit. The time limit per one round is one hour. Five minutes before the time is up, enter one of the prison cells and guess what your own suit is." The light to the cells turned on and a bunch of cells were revealed. "If you do not guess your suit correctly, the game is over for you. When time runs out, your collar will explode and you will die. In addition, your suit will change at every round." "But we just need to have someone tell us what it is, right? That'll be easy.", a young boy next to Chishiya said. "I wouldn't be so sure. They haven't told us how to clear the game." I never would admit it, but it was relaxing to hear the blondes voice. "Prison cell is a test of how much you can trust others. In addition, the Jack of Hearts has secretly joined the game, as one of the participants." On a screen got a all pictures of the players showed. I now realised how different I looked since I came here. "See? There it is."

"Every hour, this will be repeated. The game is cleared when the Jack of Hearts who is hiding amongst you, is killed. Prophited activities. Using reflective objects to see your suit. You also may not use violence or weapons to kill others." "In other words, until the Jack fails to answer correctly and dies, this game won't end. Which means, unless we lie to the Jack, we can't clear this game." Since when does this man talk so much? "There is no time limit." Well, I guess we will stay here long. "There is plenty if food. While participating in this game, the days remaining on your visas will not be reduced." "Unless we lie like crazy and eliminate anyone suspected being the Jack, we'll be in this prison forever. A life sentence, huh?" He looked at me, knowing I hate prisons, to be exact, he knew I hate hearts. "The game will now start. You may pass the time anywhere you like until it is time to enter a prison cell."

After everyone just repeated what just got said, a pair group of players formed and asked each other to tell what suit they have. Chishiya teamed up with the young boy next to him, while I stayed alone. The emo boy and the murderer, who was in the newspaper, teamed up too. The biggest group with the doll girl asked Chishiya and his teammate to join them, they accepted. I watched them telling each other what suit they have, also to make sure they weren't lying to Chishiya.

When we walked past each other, on the way to the cells in the last five minutes, we both made a plan to tell each other secretly. "Heart", he told me. "Diamond." I stepped into the cell. Behind me the door closed. "Heart."

No shot could be heard, everyone survived.

In the second round, the guy who punched the innocent boy got lied to and died. Chishiya and I did the same like last round and told each other our suits secretly.

I sat down in the cafeteria, watching the group exactly. Chishiya was sitting on the bench, eating his cookies quietly. The innocent boy got lied to too and died. In round 4, a woman in a yellow blouse died. The doll girl is killing everyone here. What a psychopath. The group always met in the "cafeteria", I got myself some Mikado sticks, what Chishiya must have noticed. As he saw, he smiled proudly at me. In round 5, a girl and the woman with the orange blouse died, cause two other guys told her something different, cause she didn't trusted her group.

Everyone got now more scared, scared of the death. In the next rounds, more people died. In round 9, a man who nearly poked all the place full, wanted to lie to the blue dress girl, but changed his mind then. In round 10, she died, cause of her teammates who finally realised that she's crazy. Chishiya and I did all the rounds the same thing and told each other our suit. I even ate some crackers. What he found great.

After three rounds, there were only 7 people left, Chishiya, his friend, the emo, the murderer and the love pair. In another round, Chishiya's teammate killed himself, cause he wanted to get out. "Well, I've lost my partner." Six people left.

Chishiya was now alone too, because his whole group died by betraying each other. We both made a plan, he should talk with mister emo and I with the last woman expect me.

I found her in the cafeteria, where she got things for her and her boyfriend. "There are only six people left. A minute ago, that Chishiya guy told me my suit. But I don't think he trusts me, so I think he probably lied. You know, you look really honest. I don't think you'd lie. Could you please tell me what my suit is? Eh, if course I'll tell you what your suit is. And I'll be truthful." She looked away, unsure what to do. "You sure seem to be infatuated with that Yaba guy. That's how a con man works, you know." I walked in front of her and put my hear to the side, for her to tell me my suit. "You have heart by the way. Mine.. is club, right?" I felt her eyes looking at it, but she didn't said something and just walked away.

As I walked past Chishiya, I told him his symbol. "Diamonds" "You too."

We all walked to the cells. "Diamonds." One shot could be heard. Then it was silent till the emo guy opened his door. He saw that no one was out yet. "I won.", he started to laugh creepy. Chishiya opened his door and not a second later, I opened mine. "You're the jack of hearts, just as we thought." He was pretty shocked to see Chishiya still alive. "How.." "I saw when you and the murderer, Banda, paired up. Even if you were impressed by what Banda said, there's no way anyone could be accepting of a stranger so quickly." Another door opened. "There aren't many people who'd approach someone like me." Banda. "And if you tried to kill me, then you're either scheming, you're just a plain idiot, a Psychopath, or a sociopath." "Why you.." "To find that out , I decided to play along. You thought that you could control me. Also, you were confident that you were superior to everyone else.", he stepped near to him. "And the more important your position is, the more your confidence manifests itself. Like the Jack of Hearts.", this time I said, leaning on a wall. "Sorry, but it's not me. Banda is the Jack." He pointed his finger at Banda, then another guy came in. "It's such a shame, but it's not him.", Yaba said. "You were in cahoots with Kotoko. I told Kotoko her real suit. But still, she died. This means somebody else was controlling her." "Then.. then that girl must be the jack!", now he pointed at me. "When I was in the cafeteria, each of you would always come and get snacks around the same time. Every time, you'd get the same type of snacks. You and Kotoko used the cafeteria to communicate. Both of you pretended that you were being controlled. Those snacks come in four flavors. You used the snacks that you got.. to confirm with each other whether your suit was right or not.", I told him, he looking pretty shocked. "Then.. you told Kotoko to lie to me about my suit. I honestly did trust that woman. Expect at the end.", now Yaba talked again. "When did you four start working together?" "In the opening announcement for this game, they said that it's a test of how much you can trust others. We simply followed that advice but the black haired woman. The surest way to ensure trust isn't through persuasion, manipulation, or even domination, nor is it through brainwashing, hypnotism, deception, or fear. It's equality.", he walked to the side of Banda. "It's still possible that one of you is the Jack of Hearts! Yeah, maybe I did try to deceive you guys, but you can't declare I'm the Jack of Hearts just based on that!", mister emo now had slightly tears in his eyes. "I wouldn't be so sure. If those two were certain that you were the Jack of Hearts, then why didn't Banda lie to you during the last round and try to kill you?", the blond man asked, coming near to emo. "They must have made a deal and are going to try to get some info out of you." He turned his head shocked to the other men, them coming near."Round 14 will now start."

After they both kicked him into a cell and did something, I don't even want to know, Chishiya and I walked out of the prison. Suddenly over us the airship exploded. "Oh." We just turned around and continued to walk, not caring what was happening behind us.

As we walked back to the apartment, we didn't exchange a word. "Thanks for not killing me by the way.", I told him. "I thank you too." What we completely forgot, was that the King of Spades was still out there. I heard something from our right. "Stop." He stopped walking and lifted his eyebrow. Before we could do anything else, bullets came flying our way. I took Chishiya's hand and dragged him with me. We ran very far away, till I knew we were safe. "Oh shit." My head turned to him, revealing that he got shot. "Don't worry, just a shot." I shook my head and picked him up, carrying him the whole way to our shelter. "Hey!.. wow, you're pretty strong." As we arrived there, I laid him onto the table and packed out a big first help kit, I got in the store. "You need to explain me now how to do that, I have no idea of taking care of bullets." He nodded and sat up, showing me what I need. "I can take care of myself, you know?", he spat out. "Yeah, but I want to do that now, so let me help you." Chishiya accepted it and helped me taking care of his wound. "Can you walk?", I asked. "A bit, but still hurts." "That means we should stay a pair of days here, until you can walk again." I knew he first wanted to argue, but then agreed. "It's getting late again, let's go to sleep and then look what we do tomorrow.", he suggested. "Yeah."

We both changed into some clothes to sleep in and then laid down in the bed. There was this silence again, we both were still awake. There was something we both wanted to say. "You know, I'm proud of you for eating some food in the game.", Shuntaro started. "Thanks, I'm not very comfortable with speaking about this, could we change the theme?" "Of course, I want you to trust me and start opening up to me. So I'm gonna ask, what happened in the eight of hearts game?", as he asked that, my heart skipped a beat. I thought about it for a moment. "I came here with my best friend. Whole Tokoyo was empty and we only had each other. We played together a game, 3 of diamonds to be exact. We only won because of me. All the other people who where too with us in the game, didn't made it out alive, expect Aguni. She was so scared.", I paused a second, my voice becoming thinner. "It was so hard for her to see people die in front of her. All she wanted to do was go back to her old life. After two days, she was still traumatized, but we joined another game. Of course we didn't knew what the cards meant and why we were here. As we joined the game, Eight of Hearts was showed on the screens. We didn't thought much about it, until we heard the rules. The game was called, "Hunger games in real life"." Chishiya took my hand, to let me know I was safe with him. "I killed so many people, including my bestfriend. Only to be alive now, blaming me for all their deads." A small tear escaped my eye and again, Chishiya wiped it away. "Don't cry, it doesn't suits you." I nodded and moved my body near to his. "Can I ask, why you weren't so shocked as your friend, when seeing people die in front of you?", he asked. "My parents died in front of me.", I said now cold, being already over their dead. "We could maybe... hug, if you want?" I turned my eyes to him, my eyebrows raised. "S-sure." Chishiya slowly opened his arms and i moved into his hug. "Thank you, Chishiya.", I began. "Huh?" "For being there for me." He smiled, it wasn't one of the waving smiles, it was a real one, his real one. "Thank you too, for saving my life multiple times. This world change us both, but it was destiny for us to meet." I snuggled more into him. He placed a small kiss on my head. "Goodnight, Peach." Within seconds, I feel asleep and had the best sleep of my life.