Chapter 17

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The ghostly boy stared longingly at the door, impatiently waiting for it to swing open. His wide and innocent amber eyes began to lose their brightness. Sakura looked down at him, a small smile making its way onto her face. "Waiting for someone?" she teased him in a soft tone.

"I miss L/N-chan.." he mumbled, not paying attention to the question. "Relax, I'm sure Y/N has things to do. They'll come by tomorrow, " Sakura tried to reassure him. Tsukasa looked up at her, pouting like a little child. "I want them to come now!" he whined impatiently.

"Now, now, don't go acting like a child. Y/N has a lot of things to focus on besides they're club. They have exams, friends, family, many things. Be patient, I'm sure they'll be here tomorrow, " Sakura opened up a book and began reading. Tsukasa perked up, feeling angry.

"You don't get it, Sakura! I'm not impatient, I'm worried! I want to see how L/N-chan's doing!" he cried. Sakura frowned at him. "Well, you don't have to worry. They'll be here soon, " she began losing her patience with Tsukasa. The apparition shot her a glare, and he turned away.

An abyss began to open up beside him, leading into a whole other world. Sakura raised her head and stared at the agape portal. "And where are you going?" she raised her eyebrow. Tsukasa turned to her, a pout still present on his slightly red face. "Somewhere!" he spat.

Tsukasa hovered above his spot and pushed himself inside. Sakura worriedly watched as the portal began to slowly close, seeing nothing but Tsukasa's back. She closed her book and sighed. "Don't do anything dumb..." she quietly mumbled to herself, clutching her book.

Inside this other world, Tsukasa's feet touched the ground, and he looked around. 'This was where we talked to that Yashiro girl...' he thought, his hands grazing the soft fabric of the midnight-coloured curtains. He walked around, rembering everything that happened.

A childish smile adorned his features, and he felt his heart getting lighter. But then, your image filled his mind. Worry began flooding into him, as sweat dripped from his forehead. "L/N-chan, if you're there, give me a sign..." he mumbled, reaching his arm above his head slowly.

His amber eyes darkened, and his arm dropped to his side. You were such an impressionable person, that he couldn't help but hold an acute interest in you. He wanted to spend time with you, play with you, do everything with you. But he didn't even know why he felt like that.

"L/N-chan, you're my friend. I care about you so much. So can you just come back to the club, and we can go back to playing together. Y'know, like how we used to? Please come back, we all miss you. I miss you the most..!" Tsukasa began to recite, not caring that he was alone.

Something...didn't feel right. What was it? Something about calling you his friend didn't sit right with Tsukasa. He frowned down at his hands, not understanding these feelings. You were his dearest friend...yet why did he feel so incomplete with you just being his friend?

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"My head...ugh, it hurts..." you mumbled, clutching your head as it throbbed with pain. Your raised it slowly and took in your surroundings. You had passed out, and your memory was hazy. The last thing you remembered was being pulled down into a dark pit of emptiness.

"Yu-chan!?" memories of Yui started coming back to you, and you clenched your fists. She was the one who had gotten you into this mess. But you didn't know why or how she was doing this. You didn't even do anything wrong and yet..yet you were stuck in this situation.

You felt warm tears pricking your eyes as a feeling of dread washed over you. You covered your face and started to take deep breaths, trying to calm yourself down. There was nothing you could do except find away out of here, or you might die without any basic resources.

Slowly, you began to feel your strength coming back to you. It might be hopeless, but you needed to at least try to find a way out. The fear began to wither away, but you couldn't forget it entirely. Tears rolled down your cheeks helplessly, as you didn't know what to do.

"Sakura-chan, you're so gentle and mysterious. Natsuhiko-senpai, so flirtatious, but you have a kind heart. Mitsuba-kun, cute but snarky, that's what I love about you...Tsukasa, you're a powerful apparition, yet you're so childish and melodious, " you began to recite.

"Nene-chan and Aoi-chan, the first friends I've made here at Kamome Gakuen..." you closed your eyes, trying to gather enough courage to start running and not stopping. "Everyone...thank you so much for giving me a reason to love my life, " the words suddenly spilled out.

Your eyes were glossy from your tears, but you could see perfectly. The future you wanted for yourself, the life you wanted to go back to. Your fist clenched and you held it against your chest, feeling light. "For you, I'm going to make it back into the real wordl!" you yelled.

Your legs began moving as you started to run. No matter how long you had to search, what you had to do, how you had to do it, you promised yourself that you would find a way out. Find a way out and live your school life, with Yashiro, and Tsukasa...with everyone else!

But what should you do first? It was an infinite world, full of doors and dices. One of those doors should lead to the real world. You ran up to one and grabbed the handle. You pulled the door open and saw something you really didn't want to see. It caused you to scream.

You slammed the door shut and leaned against it, sweating profusely. Your eyes glanced at every door that was in this strange world, and sighed as you forced yourself off the door. Getting to the real world and living your normal life again was going to be harder than you thought...


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