Soushin ^⁠_⁠^

It was strange to have ended up there in such a strange place... just like the situation Shin was going through. He didn't know when it was day, he didn't know when it was night, he didn't know what was happening around him, and he felt perfectly how little by little he was beginning to lose his sanity.

In each challenge, more and more people died. Shin didn't really know when it would end, but it seemed like it would only end when everyone was dead. Each challenge meant one less member, each challenge was a chance, a turn to die. Even so, Shin tried not to lose his mind, even though after everything that had happened, he didn't even feel like breathing. It was after a few challenges that he saw Sou, or rather, what appeared to be him, since now, a large part of him was a machine. Perhaps Sou didn't remember him, perhaps he did , perhaps he didn't, perhaps a little. Nobody knew, not even Shin himself, because everything that was happening was strange, and each time, the tension between them was so thick he could almost feel it. One day, Shin woke up with a slight headache. There was no one there . He expected them to be dead, and he would be next in the torture. *

• That's when he saw him. Sou was there, with that same smile as always, looking at him. He was direct; there was no beating around the bush. *

Sou: "Shin, Shin, Shin... I think... you're getting crazier every day, aren't you? Isn't what you crave so much your freedom?"

• And maybe deep down it was. There was nothing more important than not hallucinating and staying sane. *

Shin: "Yes, yes, I want freedom... why? Is this another one of your stupid games?"

Sou: "Perhaps, more like, a sex game... I want to have sex with you, Shin. I've always wanted to."

• Sou said, for the first time, his voice sounding more human, more... different.