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I scramble into the med bay, no one is there thankfully, I turn the place into a wreck looking for it. There it is! Dimethyltryptamine, In all its glory. I grab all of it I can until there's none left. It's mine... all mine. I grab a few syringes too, using the same syringe would kill me before I could get out of here. I walk out there. Turning my left and right: There's no one thankfully. I go back to my room and prepare the syringe.
“Here we go…”
*****
I enter the Medbay and… what the hell? It’s been completely ransacked with bottles of drugs broken on the floor. The closet is wide open one row of something. It’s… Dimethyltryptamine. Ruka. I hear footsteps are coming, I turn around and it’s Denden. She’s just as shocked at the state of the Medbay as I am. “D-doctor! What happened here?” I sigh. “I think Ruka came in here. Looking for Dimethyltryptamine.”
“What’s Dimethyltryptamine?” She asks.
“It’s a psychedelic drug, known for producing hallucinations if taken.”
"OH! That explains it."
"Explains what?"
"When you told me to check on her, I peeked in the door, and she was on the floor hugging herself and mumbling something about Ouno!"
Ouno? I've heard her talking about her before, but I didn't think it'd get to a point where she would hallucinate her. I sigh once again and begin speaking up:
"I want you to try and relieve her of those. They surely can't be good for her."
"Y-yes doctor!"
Even after what she's done I still want to try and show some concern for her, we're stuck in this together and I hope we can just get through this week. Denden heads off while I begin cleaning up the med bay.
I regret being too hard on her when I first found out, she deserved some punishment for what she did, but she was going through something and all I did was scream at her, maybe If I had tried to understand her motive for it... No time to regret it anyway. I can only hope she gets the help she deserves.
*****
"NANAE!"
"Ruka!"
I hug her immediately, she's back she's back she's back!
"I did what you asked! I took shishikura's medication!"
“You did?”
“Yes! I did! Will you forgive me now please?!?”
“Oh Ruka..”
“Did I do it Nanae?!! DID I DO IT?!!”
She presses me further into the hug.
“Ruka you did well… very well.”
“But can you forgive me though?”
“…..”
“Nanae?”
“There’s still a few more things I’d like you to do. A lot more.”
“What is it? I’d do anything for you Nanae.”
“Well I would like you too..”
KNOCK KNOCK.
“Uh hey Ruka… it’s me Tei.”
Tei? I haven’t interacted with him much besides a few times, he thinks we have sort of family dynamic because we took care of Ikeda together, I couldn’t really care for him even though he’s one of the only people who can tolerate me being around. His obsession with Ikeda is abnormal. I look back to Nanae and she’s… gone.
I walk over to the door, I open it slightly. “What do you want?” Tei looks just as tired as I am.
“I want to meet you in the calm room real quick, I have something to talk about and show you.”
I roll my eyes but he doesn’t seem to care. “Fine.” I don’t know what he has to show me or tell me, but he’s been one of the only people who treats me human.
“G-good. Good. Follow me.”
I open the door fully as he begins walking off, I quickly follow after him. We soon reach the calm room. He turns on the lights and stands in the middle of the room not facing me.
“Tei?”
“I’m sorry Ruka.”
He kicks me in the shins and draws a knife.
*****
I have to see him, this is the only way. I need her eyes. He meant so much to me and now he’s dead, not just dead, but he killed someone, skinned them, ripped his nails off and pretended to be them. Why, WHY WOULD HE DO THAT??!
But the past is in the past, the past is in the past, the past is in the past, the past is in the past, the past is in the past, the past is in the past. The past is in the
*****
He immediately pins me the ground, before raising his knife to my eye.
“T-TEI! STOP YOUR’E HURTING ME!”
He screams and stabs me in the gut, I look down and I’m bleeding. Bleeding really bad. Everything’s going dark… Ouno… help.
*****
I’m heading back with shishikura, we couldn’t find Yokoi anywhere when I hear a loud scream, it’s coming from the calm room!
“Do you hear that Maekawa?”
“It sounded like Tei. Cmon let’s go Snowball.”
We immediately rush in there and Oh god. HE’S RIPPING HER FUCKING EYEBALL OUT! With his bare fucking hands! There’s a bloody knife besides him. I rush over to him and grab him, his apron is covered in blood, I look down at Yokoi and… wow she’s not doing well. For starters her eye has been ripped out and she’s bleeding heavily.
“HIROSE!” Shishikura calls out. “PLEASE… HELP!”
He comes running in with Denden by his side, I’m still restraining Tei as he struggles with me.
Hirose is just as shocked as we are. “WHAT THE HELL? DENDEN, GET HER TO THE MED BAY NOW!”
Denden nods and immediately gets to work, they get her on a gurney.
*****
Fuck fuck fuck fuck! I try my best to staunch her bleeding, she’s gonna need some surgery, and stat. Her right eye is completely gone.
We wheel her into the still wrecked med bay, I’ve cleaned it up to the best of my ability. I put on some gloves and surgical mask.
“Denden, I suggest you leave the room.”
“Yes doctor.” She walks off and closes the
Med bay door, I get a scalpel and some bandages, she’s already unconscious and I don’t have any anesthesia. I take a deep breath and mutter a prayer to whatever god out there that she manages to pull through.