"You dumb bitch I've already won."
Somewhere at the end of the world, a girl opened a book with one word on the cover.
"Cappy"
The floor disappears from below me, making me fall into an infinite city space of buildings. The system opens up, saying.
[Festival of champions has started item (memory) has been removed. Rules: If you die the festival will end. And most importantly if you defeat the queen of the sin of lust you win.]
I land on a circular space with walls. I dropped in front of a sign saying.
[lust]
There are signs with every other deadly sin, also 2 saying.
[Cappy]
[Quinn]
Eventually, 8 people who all look the same, they are all 156 centimeters with white hair, all looking the age of 13. Also, drop in front of the signs. They all jump back in shock and start saying brain rot as I just sit there holding the sides of my head in my hands, wondering what's happening and why I can't remember anything.
As they argue, the one with the Cappy sign screams at me.
"Hey, lust what the fucks going on!"
"I can't remember anything. Why can't I remember anything? Who am I?"
Not wanting to deal with whatever's going on with me mentally, he just ignores me from now on. Eventually, the system sends a message to all of us saying.
[The selection will proceed soon: rules: be alive at the end and you pass. The only one exempt from this round is the one in front of the (lust) sign]
I look at the system, still wondering what the fuck is going on. As the others walk up to me and start asking me questions like. "What's going on?" "Why are you exempt?" "Why do you smell like blood?" And "why are you lust?" I just say "I don't know" to all of them.
The floor under them opens like trapdoors. As they fall into the city streets below. As I stay in this circular space. The system sends another message.
[jesus your sad here I'll give you the memories of how to use the system and what you have]
Now, having the ability to access the only thing that might let me leave alive. I mutter.
"Thanks."
[Alright now watch how the others you fight]
The system turns into a screen showing me who I think is the one in front of the Cappy sign being thrown back while saying.
"Guh?"
He gets hit to the side by what looks like a wolf girl as he hits the floor, a cloud of smoke surrounds him, and when the smoke clears, he says
"You look like you watch American adult comedy."
The girl Cappy was spoke to recoils in surprise that such a accusation would be thrown at her.
Before she can actually do anything, Cappy swings his sword and cuts her in half. He then points behind himself and says.
"Your next fucker."
The screen cuts to who I think is the one with the Quinn sign. He is currently beating someone who's already dead into a pulp with a bat.
[Jesus Christ what the fuck is wrong with him]
I stare in astonishment, seeing what Quinn was doing.
[I'm changing the version of you we're watching this one is too brutal]
It takes me a second to realize what the message says. And when I do it horrifies me.
"Wait, they are a version of me?! What do you mean?! I look the same as them?!"
[Oh yeah you don't remember what you look like yeah they are you but different in small ways]
I just sit there for a few seconds trying to fully comprehend what this means. But apparently, the system doesn't care.
[Alright onto the next one]
The screen shows the person who was standing in front of the Envy sign. He is banging his head against the wall. After a while, he stops and mutters.
"I won't lose you this time, Grimm."
Seeing this horrifying scene in front of me, I ask weakly.
"Please stop it."
[Fine I won't make your already shitty mental state worse]
Seeing this, I breathe a sigh of relief. Now I just had to wait until this "selection" was over.
After 2 hours of waiting, the system made an announcement in the sky for all to see.
[If you are still alive congratulations you go on to the true festival of champions. You will be teleported to the queen of lust palace and in it. You will play the game werewolf. The rules are as follow. There wi-… never mind you'll have to find out the rules on your own… good luck]
A few seconds after I finish reading, the world disappears, and when light re-enters my eyes, I'm in what looks like the bottom of a large staircase that stretches on for what could be thousands of meters.
I stand up and start walking up the stairs from the side. My expression looks like a confident smile, but from the front, you can see that it's actually a badly disguised grimace.
All I could hear was my labored breathing and my steps. The silence was horrifying. But there was nothing I could do about it except walk up the stairs and hope that there were friendly people there.
Eventually, I reach the top, and when I do, I sit to the side of the door trying to calm my tired legs. After I fully recover, I open the door and walk in.
It's a rather large room cut into fourths by doorways.
There are 3 people inside, but the only similarities were that they were female, taller than me, had large personalities and that they were all extremely beautiful.
One was 216 centimeters with half-indigo half white hair. She was wearing a tank top that showed off her extremely big muscles.
The other was 187 centimeters with matte black hair. She was wearing a regular suit for some reason.
The third one was 156 centimeters and had bright red hair. She was wearing pieces of cloth that were technically clothes.
As they watched me walk, they all eyed me suspiciously for a bit before asking me a simple question.
"Hi, who are you?"
I pause for a second before saying a meme I somehow remember.
"Uhm Etta Etta bleh."
The three girls look at me in astonishment before the tallest asks.
"Do you not know your name?"
I point towards my face with my left hand and exclaim.
"Correct, I don't remember anything!"
Their faces that once wore an expression of questioning were now filled with pity.
"That sucks, kid."
I nod and am about to say something else, but before I can, another group of people walks in. This group has 4 other me's. I sigh, not wanting to explain this to the girls, and I walk back towards the staircase and stand at the edge.
I feel a hand push me from behind. The air whooshes past me as I try to see who pushed me but I can't. The fall takes forever before I feel my back touch the floor.
I see the three girls in front of me again, their faces wearing an expression of pity. I move my hand from pointing to my face to over my mouth as I squat down. While thinking.
"What happened? I should be dead. Was it a vision? Did I imagine that? What's going on?"
I hear the shortest girl's voice ring out in concern.
"Are you okay?"
I put my right hand up, giving them a thumbs up.
"Sorry, I just got really nauseous randomly."
I stand up slowly just as the group of 4 of me arrive.
I leave again, this time not standing right in front of a large pit. I decide to sit to the side of the doors.
For some reason, everyone decided to walk out with me and all sit beside me like I'm their leader. It was weird.
As they talk to each other, I space out, trying to think of a reason why I could remember falling down the stairs so vividly. I come up blank as I decide to walk back through the doors.
I feel something cold jam into my neck, and then an unbearable heat spreads throughout my neck. I fall to my knees and start coughing out blood. I touch my neck and feel the metal of a blade in my neck. I wasn't feeling heat; it was so much pain that my body thought it was heat. I feel my consciousness slowly fade.
I see the 3 girls pity written all over their faces. I grab my face and start puking. While thinking.
"The first one could be played off as a vivid daydream, but not that one; it was real. Which leaves one question. Why am I alive? I had a knife in my throat, and I definitely died. So why am I alive?"
None of it made sense. Death was supposed to be permanent.
The girls are all asking me.
"Are you okay?"
"Why are you puking?"
After I finish puking, I stand up and run away, going through the door to the right. I don't look at my surroundings, I just run.
I feel my feet sway to the left. I had tripped on something wet. I hit my head on the ground hard enough to open my skull. Blood is pouring out of my head, but I see the reason for the wetness.
A man looking about 23 with matte black hair had his throat slit. I slipped on his blood. I can't hold in a scream.
"A-AAAAGH WHAT-WHAT THE FUCK?!"
Unfortunately for me, I could feel my consciousness fade. I had lost too much blood.
I wake up back in front of the 3 girls. With my finger pointing at my face again. I look around and then pass out.
I feel something strangely comfortable under my head as I wake up. I open my eyes and stand up When I stand up, I realize my head has been on the tallest girl's lap. And she asks.
"Kid, are you okay?! Why did you pass out?!"
I just stared at her blankly for a few seconds before standing up and walking towards the staircase. I walk to the edge of the staircase and take another step, falling off. I fall, feeling the ground touch my head.
I wake up back in front of the 3 girls.
I fall onto my back and start crying. The girls run towards me, asking me if I'm okay. But I don't answer even after the 4 other me's get here, I'm still crying. I can't help but think.
"Why me?! Why does it have to be me?! Why do I have to go through this?! Why not someone else?! Why do I have to experience this hell?!"
I continue crying for a while I only stop crying after I pass out.
I wake up a while later back on the tall girl's lap. I pull my knees into the fetal position, trying to feel warmer. I remember that I had a blanket in my inventory, so I summoned it. I wish I had things that were useful for this situation.
After a bit, I stand up and walk forward, ignoring their questions. I open the doors, and what I see makes me instantly regret it.
A humanoid being with half its face that had limbs that were too big and a face that was too uncanny to be called human, it was scratching its own face. Revealing whatever was trapped beneath. And it saw me.
I close the doors and run back. Needing to warn the others, I scream.
"Get away from the doors!"
When I'm a quarter away from the door to the staircase, I hear the doors behind me explode. I start thinking.
"Fuck fuck fuck! I might not be able to die but I don't want to die to that! I need to think of a way to live… THE STAIRCASE!"
It was a horrible idea, but it was the only one I had. With the abomination a few meters behind me, it was now or never.
I run past the doors to the staircase and then jump to the right. I watch as the thing isn't able to turn in time and falls down the staircase.
I start breathing very hard. It takes a while before my breathing calms down.
Once my breathing calms down, I stand up and walk into the middle of the room and look back towards the group.
I had so much I needed to do kill the queen of the sin of lust, figure out who's the killer, and make sure the most amount of people survive.
After thinking for a bit, I say to the group. A sudden rush of confidence fills me.
"Follow me, and I promise you we will make it out."
They all looked at me weirdly because of my weird mood swing. One second, I was crying; the next, I was confidently telling them to follow me. It must be weird for them.
To my surprise, they all say.
"Ugh, sure, I guess."
Hearing that they accepted, I turn around and start walking towards the door, facing the door to the staircase, and say.
"Then follow me."
I walk through the door that held the monstrosity, and this time I can actually look at it.
It's an extremely large room that has a large staircase at the end. I would walk to it, but I feel the cold air of death in that staircase.
I decide to go through the doorway to the right. Walking through the doorway, I decide to look around this time.
The room is pretty large with three doors, which are labeled.
One is labeled with sewage, another is the main bedroom, and the third is labeled hallway.
"Other me's go to the hallways, girls go to the sewage, I'll go to the main bedroom."
They all nod and go to their respective doors.
As I get near the main bedroom doorway, I hear a sound… it sounds like group laughter, it was… weird, even though I know it's a bad idea, I open the door.
I see a single bedroom, and in it is a woman I've never seen before, with a man I've also never seen before playing Monopoly.
"Please just let me pass by."
They don't seem to acknowledge me, so I walk through. Halfway through, I hear a distorted voice say.
"Don't leave us."
I look behind myself and see the man now turned into a husk. The girl stands up and says.
"Hey there, little guy, want to play Monopoly?"
I ignore her and walk back to the door. I feel something pull my left hand and chin up. It's the lady.
"Oh, come on, it's rude to ignore someone, especially when she's being so nice."
She leans into my ear and whispers to me
"Trust me Monopoly is such a fun game."
"Please just let me pass."
She touches her lip like she's in thought. And then she shrugs and sighs.
"Okay, you can go."
I gently pull my hand from hers and walk towards the door. I feel a sharp pain engulfing my stomach. I look down and see a hand holding my heart. The girl's voice rings out.
"Not."
She pulls her hand back through the hole she created.
I slouch my shoulders and have my hand hover a bit over the hole as I turn around to look at her.
"Why?"
I'm somehow able to let a single word out, and she just says.
"Next time a nice young lady gives you such a handsome offer, say yes."
I can feel my consciousness fade. I fall onto my back. It hurts so much.
I'm back in front of the three girls now. I look down and touch my stomach to confirm that the hole is gone, and it is. I look up at them and then pass out again.
I wake up on the tallest one's lap again. This time, I lay there for a bit just staring at the door with the thing that scratched its skin off behind it.
Eventually, I decide to stand up. And walk through the same doors as last time, going back into the main bedroom.
I see the same scene as before, a man and a woman playing Monopoly. I walked up to them, my head held low.
I summon a single item, the regular knife. I stab the man in the head and stab the woman in the stomach again and again until she stops moving, until the tallest one grabs my arms to stop me.
I yank my arm out of her grip and leave the room. I decide to walk through the sewage this time.
I open the door and see a sewage system. I don't know what I expected, but there's a half-destroyed warning sign on the wall.
[warning experimental g##es #ay c#u#e insa##ty pro###d ##th c#u#ion]
I don't even try to read the sign and just walk through the sewage, hoping that I can escape through it. We walked through it for a while without saying a single thing until one of the middle height talked.
"Why are we here? This is useless, there's no reason to be here."
I look back at her.
"I-I don't know okay?! I just want to get the fuck out of here! Is that okay with you, your highness?!"
The tall one chimes in.
"What do you mean, your highness?! That's rude to her, you know!? Speak to people older than you with respect!"
"Respect?! Do you see where we are?! We are in hell! This is no place for respect! As long as we live, who cares about respect!"
The shortest one chimes in, too.
"Oh come on, we're all older than you treat us li-"
I can't handle this. I stab her through the chin, the blade extends to her brain. While the one with medium height is shocked by my action, I stab her in the eye, somehow killing her.
The tall one is able to grab the knife from me, but before she can react, I kick her feet, making her fall onto her. I get on top of her and start choking her, not letting go until I squeeze her head hard enough that her neck starts to bleed due to pressure.
I let go of her neck and stand up in shock at what I've just done. I stumble back and put my hand on one of the walls to support me while I puke.
After I finish puking, I look back at the three girls. I walk past them and go through the door, seeing the 4 other me's.
I ignore them and walk through the floor that has the sign saying hallway. I open the door to see a large hallway. I take a step through, then another step. Then I feel the coldness of a blade against my throat.
I fell over laughing; it hurt so much, it was just so funny. I slowly felt myself lose consciousness. It was just all too funny.
I wake up in front of the 3 girls again. I fall to my knees, crying in regret. I start scratching and wiping my eyes. I can't help but think
"Why did I do that? Suck it up. Why did I kill them? Suck it up. Am I a horrible person? Suck it up."
I started laughing; it was just so funny. I've been trying, but I've gotten nowhere. It was all useless. I was useless.
My eyelids were now bleeding due to my scratching but I didn't stop it just felt so relaxing. I start to breathe faster, my heart is beating faster than it should be possible.
My laughter now deafening, and my eyes were now scratched through it was all so stupid, why was I the one here? Due to the amount of blood lost, my consciousness started to fade. I felt death again.
I wake up in front of the three girls. My only thoughts were
"Why me, why me, why me. Why did it have to be me?"
The funny thing is, this whole time I just wanted two things and two things only. I wanted to either leave or die .