darling | alice in borderland

chapter 13

just as you were thinking, you felt the presence of another person behind you, you whipped around and made eye contact with them, it was… banda sunato

“what are you doing here?” you asked

“i could ask you the same thing, everyone else is in the cafeteria, but you’re here instead, why?”

“i just wanted to be alone, it’s kinda hard to get privacy in a place like this”

“especially with him around, huh? his name was chishiya, right? he follows you around like a guard dog, it’s been very hard to try and get you alone” he walked closer to you and you unconsciously took a step back

“are you scared of me?” he asked, with every step forward he took, you took one back

your back landed on the wall as he came closer than before

he whispered in your ear “lie to one of them, either of them will do, i don’t care what you tell them, being in a group where you are either being guarded or having to comfort someone is annoying, isn’t it? if you get rid of them, you can come with us instead, won’t it be fun?”

you couldn’t respond, he was so close to you, you could feel his breath on your neck when he leaned down, but the intercom announced five minutes were left inside the round

“what is your answer?” he moved away, you let out a breath you didn’t know you were holding, you gulped and nodded, he smirked and walked away

that was…wow

obviously, you didn’t lie to chishiya or ippei, but ippei was killed anyway

chishiya walked pass the room ippei had gone in, seeing his lifeless body through the door

“you were too kind for this world, ippei” chishiya actually let out a sigh, ippei was a really trustworthy person, he truly was too kind for the world he was forced into

“i guess that makes it just you and me, huh?” chihsiya looked to you and you looked down

“i want you to pretend like you don’t trust me” chishiya raised his eyebrow

“why?”

“someone told me to lie to one of you, and now they’re going to think i actually did, i want you to pretend like you don’t trust me, because of his death, i will still tell you your suit, but we will split up, and i will act like ill join them”

everyone else had gotten out of their stalls, ippei was the only one dying this round

you and chishiya made eye contact before he walked away, listening to your plan, you faked sadness as he walked away, biting your lip and looking down, catching the way enji and banda looked at you out of the corner of your eye

you grabbed a bag of gummies and lemon flavored oishi tea from the cafeteria and left, passing by enji on the way out, chishiya was inside aswell, you already told him his suit, but he would lie and pretend like he had no idea

you made eye contact with enji and he gave you a slight smile which you returned before going to a blank expression, going into the main hall

chishiya watched as enji grabbed a packet of some sort of snack, this time he grabbed the white one

“these ones taste better” enji looked at him and didn’t speak “would you mind telling me what my suit is?” enji said nothing and went to walk past him

“you know, that guy you hang out with, you should know that he’s a murderer” enji turned at this “what?”

“his name is sunato banda, it was in the newspaper, murdered four women which makes him a serial killer, and you know, thats punishable by death”