idolpro | Izanagi's Heart Game

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hm

checking out the scattered books then >:V ]

You find three books on a table! Should you examine the spines, you will note a few things:

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

[ >open the yellow book ]

[It seems to be an adventure series! Especially since there sure are a bunch of characters showing up with little fanfare, like it expects you to already know who they are.]

[ open the teal book ]

[Same series, mostly the same characters, except there's even more names you're expected to know now.]

[ green... book... ]

[Same series, less characters.]

[ ok, checking out the shelves ]

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, 9.

[ :|a

picking up the scattered books to put them in

green = 3
yellow = 5
teal = 9 ]

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.

[ ah

well that was not great!!!

taking a moment to make sure he's not actually drowning before he studies one of the fragments . . . and then opens the book in his hands ]

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, transferal 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.

[ man

this fucking noise

setting the journal down . . . no he's collecting the other journals to put them a little ways away from the wild roses, before taking out THE CHEMISTRY KIT

it's Time. ]

[Time!

What are you mixing.]

[ 100 ml black + 25 ml blue + 50 ml red ]

You’re studying hard - sometimes it’s English, or biology, or chemistry. The textbooks before you are weighty, but you know what you’re doing is important, will affect so many people - will save so many people. So, you have to work hard (even though the knowledge seems to click easily enough into your brain as is) so that one day, your studies can bear fruit. There’s so many people (wait, who?) who need saving, and you will be their savior. You will give everyone hope.

You’re going to be a hero. And you can’t wait.

...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 the completed mixture in front of you, a strange iridescent color. And, should you check, your badge is glowing faintly as one of the fragments goes from clear to gold.

You've found another Fragment.

[ gold

hope. that memory was hope. but he

frick

frick

frick

FRICK ]

[ no

no calm down.

the metaphor of love applying here doesn't make sense.

besides that, this was before he fell into despair. so— ]

[ taking a deep breath, screwing the spray bottle attachment on

he doesn't get any do-overs. just do it.

spraying the wild rose down ]

[And just like that - at the first touch of poison, the plant immediately begins to wither, twisting up upon itself until it crumbles into dust.

You still have half a bottle of poison left.]

[ my fuCKING HEART, DUDE

be strong, my legs, do not turn into jelly now

starting to leave the library but remembering the books—

coming back over, to grab a pen and open hizumi's book to just. cross out "Return Home > Death" ]

[And so it is scratched out. Anything else to edit or add to any books, or is it hallway time?]

[ while he has the energy to he's editing his own book too

Ayumu Narumi, or Chrysanthemum. A member of LiliS. A clone of ~~God, and the only one who can kill the clone of the Devil.~~^{Kiyotaka Narumi.} Doesn’t participate in games much; if I had to guess he probably avoids hitting BARiTONES when he can.

~~The only other~~^A person I can truly connect with~~, and the most important person in any world~~. He wants us to go to another world where we can be healed once we Graduate. ~~But what’s the point if we’re forced to turn on each other anyway?~~ Based on what Yvette said, along with my own plans, he’ll probably end up alone. They need to communicate. I’ll have to try Yvette. ]

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