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DE-ZONE

chapter 3: alive and dead

chapter 3: alive and dead

Jul 09, 2025

Where am i...

All iI could see was nothing but a white room with no end.

I couldn't feel or hear anything.

Am i dead?!!

Suddenly i could see two people appearing in front of me, they were't walking towards anywhere but they kept distancing from me.

I could't tell for sure who they were because i could only see their backs.

But for some reason i had my doubts that even from behind they looked like Sakura and Yuji.

“Where are you going without me?”

“Sakura?”

The girl with light orange hair didn't respond to me so I gave up.

Untill She turned her head and looked at me.

Her skin color was peach black with a smile on her lips and not a sweet one, it was a really scary one.

“Accckk!”

I screamed from the top of my lungs and woke up.

Everywhere looked somehow normal then, i was sleeping in a warm bed and could feel the weak sun touching my face since my bed was right beside the big terrace.

What time even was it? morning or afternoon? Was it during sunrise or sunset? I couldn't tell.

I got dejavu, the last time i saw that orange color in the sky, when was it?

Where am i right now? Was what i saw just now, a nightmare? it looked like a long and repeated nightmare.

“Wow you're finally awake after such a long time.”

A boy with curly blonde hair, a small purple flower tattooed under his right purple eye, wearing a headband that was styled in the same color as his clothes, was standing right in front of my bed.

Since when he was standing there?

“where am i? What is this on my forhead?”

And i had some bandage on my forhead for no reason.

“We found you 30 days ago, the day that eye appeared, you were all bloody and that outcast girl was also there as well, you were unconcious untill now.”

30 days? What could have happened? I can't remember anything...!
So this bandage could be because i hurt my head somewhere or something...!?

“Don't you remember what happened?” asked the blonde guy with a curious expression.

“no i don't, not even my name.”

That guy was shocked, i could see it written all over his face but it was true, i couldn't even remember my own name.

The blonde haired guy sighed then countinued.

“You were having a nightmare right now, am i right? Can you try to visualize it again?”

What the hell is he saying? How do i visualize it again? I forgot it the moment i woke up.

But still before i say my complain out loud i wanted to try it for once.

Then suddenly a big eye appeared in my thoughts.

It was so clear, did i see it in my nightmare?

What the hell!!!

I ran towards the terrace to confirm it for myself.

The sky looked prettier than always, i could paint it, and no, there was no strange eye around so i might have just imagined it.

The house i was in, looked like those pretty european mansions but in a smaller form, do we even have places like this in Japan?

The blonde guy also came to the terrace after me.

“of course you don't remember the whole thing but at least you remember some details.”

So he claims the eye that i saw was real?!

“Follow me, i'm gonna show you something.”

I listened to him with no hesitation and followed him.

This mansion looked quite big, it had a big hallway with big windows, i could say they didn't need any lights around because those windows brought enough sun into that place, and for me it was as if we were not even in Japan anymore...!

But the real question is, why am i following this person?! Who's he? Can i even trust him?!

“we're here.” said the blonde guy.

I looked over there, this place looked like an empty drawing room but there was something in the corner of the room that caught my attention.

This blonde guy was looking at me and waited for my response or my reaction to the thing i was looking at.

“what is that?” was the only response that i could make over a human shapped doll sitting on an old chair, not moving a finger and not to say that the doll was colored in peach black. Who would buy such a thing? Weird.

Maybe he wants to scare me a bit? But why?

“hey, i'm done with you, is there any hidden cameras around or something?!” i was furious and this guy had to mess with me but after hearing my response he looked serious, his expression could say it all.

“i'm not messing with you, so listen to me carefully.”

At that moment i got more scared.

 What if he's not really joking and everything i'm seeing right now is reality.

“we're confined in this zone, and it happened 30 days ago, when that eye appeared some humans changed inside this area, for example this one over there.” he pointed out that peach black doll.

Does he mean...that's actually a human?

“we can't leave, this place is now like a prison to us and humanity inside this zone is destroyed completely.”

What is he saying? He's not serious, is he?!


***


The blonde haired guy's name was 'Rounin'.

The next day he went outside, there was a park near the mansion, but he didn't go there for a stroll, he went to see someone, a guy with black hair that had an uneven haircut, one side of it was as long as untill his shoulders and the other side was until his ears, he was wearing one earring in his left ear that had shorter hair and that earing looked like the pelaque Taio had lost, he had a strange sense of fashion, wearing a black crop coat with chains all over it but that was an style that only he could nail.

Him and Rounin had a long conversation.

“what do you mean he doesn't remember anything?” asked the black haired guy.

“yes, not even his name.”

“well...it's okay, look over him for me.”

“But Arima this is...” Arima was the surname of that black haired guy.

And looked like Rounin was against what Arima was thinking at that moment.

“Listen Rounin, now that he doesn't remember anything it's better this way isn't it?”

Rounin couldn't disagree anymore, he choose to obey Arima because he knew he had no way out of this.

Arima then countinued his sentence.

“this way, we can manuplate him more easily.” 
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Faisal Hussein
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Oh, I tend to hate those kind of creepy smiles.

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