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Tsuki stayed rooted to her spot, horror reflected only in the glint of her eye. Her face whitened, brows tightly screwed together, although the grip she had while grabbing onto Aeon's wrist would loosen immensely, instead curling around his hand and squeezing it tightly to offer support.

"I don't know what bullshit he's spreading or whether he's just screwing around with us, but I'm gonna make him pay for the person in the bodybag. I will not let another death affect our town," She whispered to herself quietly in hopes of Elias not catching it.

Tilting her head upwards, she directed her gaze towards Lucius and then Elias. "How did you infiltrate the Moore Mansion? You don't seem like a housekeeper or a member of the Elite society gathered here with us." She gestured to his pirate-like clothes, seemingly unimpressed with Elias's casual garb in comparison to everyone else's.

When ever a phone would work it stop and deliver a message

``Sorry sir/ma'am but I see that you have not registered in this role-play.. therefore you cannot reply to the forum that has been specified to be reserved for registered members only. I'd kindly suggest you to leave before I bust out the big guns.``

He turned to Tsuki, waving his arms around like a maniac.

``You're an inquisitive bunch, aren't you?``

Silently giggling, Elias turned around and watched as Juliet attempted to open the doors to the stairwell, smirking as she found it locked.

``Oh, oops~! I forgot to mention to you, my dearest, the stairwells are down for maintenance. The body had suffered quite a deal inside the bathroom and I wished to have time to solve his murder before letting you past. It is my deepest apologies to announce that you must solve the mystery of the first body before you all are allowed past this floor.``

He untied his hair tie and let his pink hair flow down his face, licking his lips with great anticipation. Peeling off the pristine white glove sitting on his left hand, he knelt down to unzip the bodybag...

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... revealing a battered and bruised body with several butterknives arranged in a straight line down his face. There was a visible wound on his arm that wasn't fatal, though he would have eyes rolled up to the back of his head while holding his hands around his neck.

The victim was none other than a slender, pale teenager that was seen standing around the punch table as a waiter earlier. The name tag on his shirt glinted with the word 'Nova' on it.

``Presenting you our first victim- Nova!``

Upon feeling the tug on her arm, she was so weak from the feeling of being harmed that she didn't even notice. The girl always thought she was indestructible, and it was always unusual for her to get hurt, even a simple papercut. Well, it didn't physically hurt, it was mainly just shock. So when she glanced up at Juliet with widened eyes which were sort of glassy, she quickly shook her head, coming back into reality.

When she focused back, she realised the doors were locked, and she glanced back around to Elias, securing an arm around Juliet's waist, watching with horror as the body-bag was unzipped. She just stared for a moment, before she put a hand over her mouth, fearing that she might have actually thrown up. "What. The. Hell." She couldn't help herself as she let go of her friend, and she slowly walked closer to the bag, seeming the bravest so far as she actually got a better look at the body, but was still metres away from it. She quickly recognised the guy, Nova-- as they'd been told, as one of the guests she'd seen when walking in. Again, it could have been any one of them, and that just made the hacker feel even sicker. But, she couldn't drag her gaze away, her eyes locked onto the horrifying body.

Lucius backed away from Elias and Nova's corpse. He knew things weren't going to go well this way, but he kept the thoughts of evil and despair behind him and tried to look strong for the group. However, with his timid personality, it didn't go incredibly well. It was just enough for him to not look as disturbed as Juliet or Lovelle.

Aeon still remained silent in fear of this stranger. He was tense and could hardly feel himself start to shake. He was almost forced to hold his breath when he saw the body revealed.

He didn't say a word, but his mind threw one thought at him. Someone here did this. He shuddered at the thought, but he was still shaking, so it wasn't noticed.

Unlike everyone else that were either holding their breaths or screaming their heads off, Tsuki remained silent. She let go of Aeon's hand and stalked forward, lifting up her gown and kneeling right at the corpse, ignoring the blood soaked around her bare legs. She laid a hand on Nova's forehead before tracing it down his nose and lips, feeling for any signs of life.

There were none.

"Wow. That was fast." Sighing, she reached out, ready to pluck a knife from his face.

Elias lashed out at lightning speed, batting away Tsuki's hand with a swift flick of his own. He started to speak, this time with undeniably a menacing undertone.

``Tsuki Mikage, aged 17, real name-``

Elias's voice blurred out into unrecognizable waves as a punch was delivered from said girl, efficiently stopping his speech for a good 10 seconds before he continued.

``- Comes from a foreign country that once made her a high class weapon specialist. Beware of the sly dog, she is keen to have every case solved before the time limit.``

The girl gritted her teeth as her real profession was rattled away, glaring at everyone present. Her secret was now out. Raising her hand, she readied herself to lay another punch at Elias, only stopping as she found him attempting to form another void. She did not want to be forced into a blackhole with a bunch of oddities floating around- who knows how many more corpses would she find in that tight space?

Juliet looked to the wall. She didn't want to see the body again, and she refused to believe this was real. This had to be a nervous delusion, or she was in the asylum, dreaming of all of this. Her normally scientific mind had broken down and started considering every possibility as an absolute fact. Before long, she pinched her self so much she nearly bled, before taking off her glasses and turning to the crowd. If she was going to look, it would be through unfocused eyes.

Standing up from her uncomfortable situation, the weapon specialist looked over to the female that had a shallow nip on her ear from losing her ear com. She looked tech savvy with the tight suit on, followed with a futuristic suit jacket, and her neatly pinned up brown hair suggested that she was somewhat of a skilled spy.

Tsuki sauntered up to the other female upon remembering that her name was Lovelle, "Do you have any clue what we should do?"

The hacker watched the incident with Tsuki and Elias go down, making her chew on her lip even harder, not bothering to wipe away the trickling blood. Her face was unreadable, but inside she was freaking out. If the killer knew that much about that guest, how much would he know about her or others? It freaked her out, but her calm composure remained.

Upon seeing Tsuki approach her, she tilted her head to the side, squinting an eye. "Well," she started, eyeing the female up before glancing past her to Elias. "He said this was a killing game, correct? And he said we must 'solve the mystery of the first body before (we) are allowed past this floor', if I remember correctly." The hacker had always had a great memory, and she could clearly remember everything from the past three months, and would be able to recite everything if it was needed. An advantage, for the hacker. "So, that's what we'll do. If we are to survive, I'm guessing we must play and complete the game. Right?"

"I don't think it's a killing game, per say, as everyone's in shock and nobody has any vitals that could possibly reflect themselves as the killer.. I think it's more of a 'lynching' game where people solve a puzzle- Ever heard of escape rooms?"

Overhearing Lovelle and Tsuki, Lucius chipped in. "Oh! I've done lots of those before!" And what he meant by that was that he had been captured by things over and over, along with escape rooms that CORE set up as training. But he wasn't prepared to say that!

"Is that really what this 'game' is?" He asked no one in particular, making air quotes while saying the word "game".

Gliding over to the crowd, the dark mage placed his hand on the junction near Lucius's shoulder and squeezed it hard, claw-like fingers digging into the soft flesh of his collarbone. A light jeer rested at the tip of his tongue though he dared not to say it lest getting Tsuki to attack him again.

``It may or may not be.. though I'd advise you all equally do some investigation starting now. You will be escorted to your respective dorms and the one person who isn't working as hard as the others may die in the night... Now, onto the rules! You must all stay on the same floor unless another floor is unlocked. You may only ask me to unlock it after you solve a murder completely- and are able to tell me how they were killed, as well say the murder weapon. You might encounter horrific puzzles during the gameplay as those are a requirement to get through the game. Any questions?``

Lucius couldn't think of a worse way to spend a night. Even staying at the CORE base would've been better than this, and there's some real pricks there....

Although he was listening to Elias, he kept thinking about the 'puzzles' involved in this. What were they supposed to be? And how could he solve them?

Juliet heard the man speak. "...I'd advise you all equally do some investigation starting now..." She didn't like the concept of witnessing a murder, let alone investigating one. She donned her glasses once more and looked at the body, then to the mage. "Y-Y-You killed him... W-With all thothe kniveth..." She could barely be heard, she was so quiet.