The flashlight lower by the darkness.

We stumbled by two plastic greenhouses looming eerily within the darkness. The partitions surrounding the academy stretched on behind them. One space was out of vary of the safety cameras, however that was mounted after the women’ escape.

I doubt all areas have been being monitored in actual time. Footage was saved, although. Why did these ladies danger going on the market once more?

Psychological chains have been what fettered these college students. The academy was the one place for the women. Even when they escaped, solely a worse therapy awaited them. But they violated the principles as soon as extra.

They broke by the invisible cage and flew outdoors.

Why go to Saori now?

“I don’t keep in mind the way to get there,” Shizuki stated. “We bought misplaced, so…” Her breath caught.

The bottom was dotted with pink.

It was as if somebody had wounded their arm, leaving a path of blood.

Pink flowers bloomed within the darkness. Their petals appeared to be emitting a faint mild.

Shizuki began operating alongside the eerie path created by the flowers. I shortly picked up Mayuzumi.

“Ah, you learn my thoughts. Spectacular,” she stated, holding the flashlight to her chest.

“I’ve recognized you lengthy sufficient. Maintain on tight.”

The leaf-strewn path made for poor footing. Operating with Mayuzumi in my arms, I nearly tripped a number of instances. Little by little, the pink flowers elevated in quantity. The additional we went, the thicker they grew, till finally we arrived at an space full of flowers.

Blended in with the mushy perfume was the scent of iron. It dawned on me.

The faint scent that crammed the academy. The candy, disagreeable scent was coming from right here.

Rustle.

Pink flowers have been crushed beneath leather-based footwear. A candy scent drifted within the air, and the scent of iron crammed my nostril. Flowers had fully blanketed the realm, masking Shizuki’s ankles. When crimson crammed her imaginative and prescient, she abruptly stopped.

A sea of bright-red flowers cascaded down the slope like a waterfall.

It was like a river of blood flowing down.

Besides it wasn’t blood, however a whole bunch and hundreds of flowers.

We stopped. Two individuals have been standing earlier than the slope.

Kotori and Ruiko have been huddled collectively, staring on the backside of the incline.

“Kotori… Ruiko…?” Shizuki known as.

The ladies circled. Their faces have been ashen. Ruiko was momentarily startled on the sight of us, then she shot us a glare. Kotori, nonetheless, confirmed no indicators of being stunned; as a substitute she raised a trembling finger.

Her gaze darted round as she pointed on the backside of the slope.

“Over… there…”

I set Mayuzumi down and scurried to the slope. I studied the realm carefully, my knees buried deep within the sea of flowers.

The air was full of the stench of rotting flesh.

On the backside of the slope was a pink sea. Flowers have been huddled collectively like a pack of beasts, filling the bottom, numerous petals piled on prime of the opposite. Deep pink was etched into my retinas.

A unique colour typically combined in with the crimson.

White rolling over the pink earlier than vanishing.

The flowers have been spitting out flesh, one after one other.

Petals expanded to the purpose of bursting, and mucus and white flesh fell from inside. The shaking flowers dropped at thoughts a fucked-up type of childbirth. The spawned flesh slid down between the petals and fell to the bottom. The bottom was most likely full of all of the flesh that had been spewed out thus far. It smelled of putrefaction. Feeding on the fallen flesh, the flowers continued rising.

And the flowers continued spitting out flesh.

Giving beginning to the corpse buried beneath.

The flowers spat out intestines. The organs, dripping with mucus, flailed as they fell on the grime. The corpse ought to have decomposed already, however the flowers replicated the grotesque innards fully.

“Ugh…”

Kotori, snapping out of it, lined her mouth and threw up. Proper then, I lastly got here to my senses. A pale pink coronary heart was rolling among the many flowers.

It was an exceedingly disturbing sight.

Kotori groaned, cradling her head. I grabbed her shoulders and pulled her again. Nobody ought to be taking a look at this. We must always have left as quickly as attainable.

Kotori retreated a number of steps and plopped down on the bottom. However Ruiko remained standing. She clenched her fists as she stared down on the backside of the slope.

There was anger in her eyes.

Not worry, disgust, or insanity.

Pure rage.

“What is that this… How lengthy do it’s important to preserve mocking us?!”

She bit her lip, and blood trickled down her chin. Her darkish eyes have been ablaze.

“Ruiko-san!” I known as. “Get away from there! You shouldn’t be taking a look at it!”

“Shut the hell up!” she roared, turning round.

Her black hair billowed and fell over her cheeks. She glowered at Shizuki, then shifted her gaze to Kotori. I moved away from Kotori and stood up.

“Don’t contact me!” Ruiko snarled. “Come nearer, and I’ll bounce off. You don’t perceive… You’ll by no means perceive…!”

Her gaze went to the ocean of flowers, then rested on Shizuki, who was down on the bottom, crying.

“You have been proper, Shizuki,” she stated. “It’s a miracle that nobody has discovered this till now. Inform me, what is that this?”

She was staring on the flowers vacantly. However the subsequent second, anger crammed her eyes as soon as extra.

“We have been cursed. I knew. I knew all alongside! However I made up my thoughts. I informed myself that I’d bear it. If that is my punishment, I’ll settle for it. So why are there so a lot of these damned flowers? How way more of this do we now have to take earlier than she’s happy?!”

Ruiko trampled the flowers at her toes. Time and again she raised her foot and crushed them. She screamed like a mad girl. She pretended to be calm, however deep inside her was a weak thoughts.

“Why don’t you fucking say one thing?! Say one thing, Saori!”

“How may she say something?”

Snap.

A cool voice interrupted her shrieks, adopted by the sound of somebody biting chocolate.

Ruiko raised her stiff face. Mayuzumi was wanting down on the sea of flowers with bored eyes. She nonchalantly bit into her chocolate as she watched the twisted scene.

A pink flower fluttered up within the air. Mayuzumi smiled as she put the petals on her cheeks.

“She’s lifeless,” she stated. “She will’t communicate. Therefore the flowers blooming.”

The lifeless can’t utter their grievances.

So that they curse others as a substitute.

Speechless, Ruiko’s mouth flapped open and shut. She shook her head repeatedly.

Whereas she had let her guard down, I dashed towards her and grabbed her.

Rolling on the bottom, I pulled Ruiko away from the ocean of flowers. I moved away from the slope, crushing the flowers beneath, and let loose the breath I’d been holding. Ruiko bit down on my arm as she flailed about.

“Let me go! Let me go! I stated let me go, you bastard!” she screamed.

Her enamel sank into my flesh. However I wasn’t going to let her go.

I couldn’t let her see any extra of that. No matter was taking place with the pots was additionally taking place in that sea of pink, solely on a bigger scale. One thing was clearly totally different, nonetheless.

The oddity that merely spat out flesh bore unfathomable spite.

None ought to ever peer inside it.

“I don’t care what you say!” I snapped again. “You want to go away now! We’ll hearken to what it’s important to say later, however proper now it’s essential settle down!”

Ruiko growled in response. Her enamel on my pores and skin, she burst into tears.

Her physique relaxed. She shook her head like a toddler lamenting her helplessness.

“…Ruiko.”

Shizuki crawled as much as her, nestling shut. She held Ruiko’s hand, and with out saying a phrase, they began crying. I breathed a sigh of aid and seemed to the sky.

Ache jolted by my palm. I shortly seemed down. I couldn’t consider my eyes for a second.

A knife had pierced by my fingers.

Ruiko was taking a look at me with vast, pink eyes. There have been no extra tears in them. Her mouth opened like a mechanical doll.

“Don’t contact me,” she growled.

Ruiko slipped out of my arms. I grabbed the knife and pulled the blade out of my flesh. Biting again the disgusting feeling, I tossed the knife away.

I reached out to seize Ruiko’s arm.

I couldn’t let go of her. Not now. By no means.

The pink sea appeared earlier than my eyes. The fox’s lips curled up in a smile.

I touched her shoulder to eliminate the picture.

“Odagiri-san!” Shizuki cried, pulling my arm.

A knife grazed my cheek. Ruiko had one other knife. She ran, swinging the knife round. In her eyes was a pink sea. She returned to the slope and took one thing out of her chest pocket.

A matchbox fell into her hand.

“Goodbye,” she muttered as she struck a match. “Fall asleep, Saori. Good night time.”

An orange fireplace lit up her face.

Ruiko was crying like a bit of little one.

With trembling fingers, she tried to toss the flame, discard the match within the pink sea.

A flower shook at her toes. Its petals swelled up like a pregnant girl’s stomach, and one thing slipped out of it.

The pink flower spat out a finger.

It touched Ruiko’s ankle. Mucus dripped down her pores and skin, and lifeless flesh brushed her toes.

She let loose a yelp. As she lifted her foot, she misplaced her steadiness.

That was all.

That was all it took.

The flame went out.

A slender determine fell into the pink flowers.

Oddly sufficient, I heard no screams. Ruiko’s physique disappeared and not using a sound.

After which there was none.

The flower stirred. Its bud silently drooped and closed.

Petals closed one after one other. I seemed away from the darkening sea of flowers.

Even with out wanting, I knew.

“Haha… Hahahahaha!”

Kotori burst out laughing like a madwoman. Shizuki wrapped her arms round her head and cried.

Mayuzumi pulled out a chunk of chocolate, and bit into it.

The flowers, now mere buds, swayed quietly.

Unaware that an individual died.