idolpro | Izanagi's Heart Game

[He can at least get them out of the way, but they're very tough flowers, somehow.

There’s so many books, what stands out most is... actually the absence of books. It seems there’s a ten volume series, but three volumes are missing: 3, 5, and 6]

....

[Are those the ones scattered on the floor? Also plants, don't make me use my once in heart splunking item on you.]

[Could be! If he looks around, he'll find some books on the ground that seem like they may fit the bill.

The Green book has this shape on it.
The Orange book has this shape on it.
The Yellow book has this shape on it.

[So what does 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, and 10 have on them?

You know what 3 slots 3 books. That's only nine combinations. Time to test everyone until something clicks or explodes!]

[The other volumes have proper numbers, but he'll eventually find that the green book slots in as 3, yellow to 5, and orange to 6.

You’re deep underwater, and you are terrified.

Though you can breathe, it’s so, so deep, it’s pitch black, wet and freezing cold. No matter how much you look around, no matter how much you strain your eyes against that darkness, you are certain; you’re completely, utterly alone here.

You've forgotten how to see.

There is nothing left in this world.

You don't float, here. You're simply underwater - leagues beneath the sea. Deep, deep, deep down below, where nobody can hear you.

Nobody will ever hear you again.

The color here isn't merely dark blackness - it's something that pierces your soul. The sort of thing that threatens to tear you apart and make you as if you never existed

And the whole time, the words echo in your mind:

Never forget,
that when you feel happiness or joy,
it will never last long.

All things expire in the end. All things return to null.

When day is bright,
alway remember horrible night.

...Or at least, that's the scene you believe yourself to be in for a brief moment. Once you return to the present, you find yourself in the library still, surrounded by shelf after shelf full of books. And, should you check, your badge is glowing faintly as one of the fragments goes from clear to blue.

You've found another Fragment.

There is also a book in your hands with the name Hizumi Mizushiro emblazoned upon it.
]

[Buddy. Pal.

He opens the book.]

The first page contains a profile:

Hizumi Mizushiro. 16. Clone of Yaiba Mizushiro. The Devil, fated to destroy humanity. Life expectancy: 18-19 years. Complications due to the cloning process have resulted in genetic abnormalities leading to decreased functionality of internal organs until death. Other than organ failure, the only other possible cause of death is by Ayumu Narumi.

The text begins in a neat print, shifting to a handwritten scrawl as the words continue.

Created with high charisma and intelligence to draw in friends and companions to assist in the destruction of humanity upon reaching adulthood. As the Devil, I can’t connect with others. But even a fake relationship is better than none at all.

I don’t want to be abandoned again. But I can’t be saved, either. So I’ll maintain what I can get to avoid that dark loneliness again. If I try to wish for things that can’t be granted, I won’t be able to hold it together anymore.

It would be so much easier if I could accept death.

I wish I could have been saved.

There are a few more blank pages, and then the beginning of a timeline listing out events in Hizumi’s life: Birth, transferral to a foster family, meeting Kiyotaka Narumi, studies, travels, meeting Ayumu, final meeting with Ayumu, and then his time spent in Imeeji. The line stretches on to the end of the book with plenty of blank space after the various games and events he’s participated in, eventually ending in Graduation > Return Home > Death.

Edited 2021-01-23 20:30 (UTC)

[He replaces:

Graduation > Return Home > Death

with

Graduation > Go to another Star > Find Happiness.

He will also go find his own book and write. "You are not alone. Come talk to me."]

[The words have been written! Anything else he would like to add, or would he like to continue perusuing the library/venture elsewhere?]

[Nope. Any following conversations are best in person.

One more to get. Time to go to the stage.]

[Away!]

Izanagi's Heart Game - Session #1

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