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DE-ZONE

chapter 3: manipulation

chapter 3: manipulation

Jul 09, 2025


There was an all girl-school near that area and looked like one of the classe's light was still on.

It was on because of a pink haired girl that was waiting in her classroom for someone.

“it looks like the rain wouldn't stop huh?”

“until when are you going to wait for your brother Asuka?” another girl entered the class and told her these words with a bothered face.

“but, he doesn't even answer my calls anymore so i'm even more worried now.”

The brown haired girl that seemed like a close friend to Asuka tried to convince her to leave the school so she came closer to the window where Asuka was standing at, to calm her down.

“Listen, i know what you mean but-” she cut her own words there and made a different expression while looking at the outside of the window.

Then she pointed at that window.

“what is that thing in the sky?”

 Asuka's attention got to the direction that her friend was pointing out.

“that moon shapped thing in the sky!!!”


***

Two days passed, Tokyo was full of chaos but not for all part of the city, it looked like only a few parts have witnessed that moon shaped eye.

When one turn on the TV the only things one can hear are the news of that incident from that day.

《So it looks like this might be the attack from terrorists but the police didn't confirm anything yet.》

《Could this be the UFO's and aliens? Still no confirmation from NASA as well.》

《There's still no contact from the area that was involved. People are worried for their families inside the mentioned area.》

《My son's job was there, we can't contact him anymore, his wife and little son are worried sick.》

The TV and social media was full of people losing their minds, and even foreign news channels were reporting this issue, for example, one of the biggest U.S channels 'CBC' reported about that incident:
《No one knows what's happening in Japan right now but they have reported that they sent hundereds of professional rangers to the restricted area and they're still waiting for them to contact. 》

Reporters also wanted clear answers from the government officials.

“Mr Hayashi, any news from the rangers you sent yet? Did they get any information from the inside of that area?” asked one of the hundreds of reporters that were surronding the prime minister.

“no news yet. They didn't come back and we can't contact them anymore.”

People's comments on social media showed their deep worryness towards the ones that were confined in that area.

《What if this incident start to happen randomly all over the world?》commented someone on the TingleApp.

《I don't want to die, i still haven't met my idols, hahaha》

Everyone were making different reactions, some made jokes and some of them still couldn't believe whatever the media was saying and labled everything as 'propeganda'

《Do you guys really believe what they're saying in the news? They're just giving us false information to take our focus away from the main issues, don't be so stupid y'all.》

The world started to change little by little, everyone that weren't involved inside the zone couldn't stop talking about that incident which happened in Tokyo on 12th october.

But even after a few days still no news from the people of that area was updated, it was as if a big invisible wall was surronding a part of the city and turned it into a seperate world.

Is that part of the city still on the earth? The unknowledgeness from what was on the other side was scaring the society even more because they didn't know what was to come.

《What is really happening to the world? Is the world finally coming to an end?》

***

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 as if it was a hallucination.

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 while carrying a smile on her lips and not a sweet one, it looked so creepy!

“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 a big terrace.

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

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

Where am i right now? Was what i saw just now, a nightmare? it looked like a long and looped 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 moon appeared in the sky, you were covered in blood and that outcast girl was also there as well, you were unconscious untill now.”

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

“Don't you remember what happened?” asked that 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 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 moon shaped eye burning under fire 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 nothing strange around so i thought maybe i might just have imagined it.

The house i was in, looked like those pretty european mansions but in a smaller form, did 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 thing that i saw was real?!

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

I listened 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.”

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 because why that guy had to mess with me but after hearing my response he looked serious, his expression said it all.

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

I decided to stay quiet and listen carefully because of the determination his eyes were giving.

 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 evil 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 for 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, when 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 only covering his ears, he was wearing one earring in his left ear that had shorter hair and that earing looked like the pelaque that 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?”

“yes, not even his name.”

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

“But Arima this is...”

And it 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.

Then Arima countinued his sentence; “this way, we can manipulate 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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