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"Hey - Where're you going, kiddo!?" A female voice taunted behind him. Her voice sounded a bit distorted, as if it was run through a microphone despite the human appearance.
"Come baaaaaack!"
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Nearly all his attention were on the walls as he walked. His eyes landed from one piece of bright, bizarre, and ostentatious decor to the next. None of their shapes and forms resembled a door, or if it came to it, a window he could shatter with the chair he touted. Something about this confined domain seemed to mess with him. None of the furniture seemed familiar, but despite their strange designs, he couldn't recall if he had just laid eyes on it before upon a second or third scan of the room. He was caught between memory and perception, and all he was conscious of was the vague feeling that something was off - but just like how he suddenly found himself in this place, he couldn't access his memory though it all felt seamless.
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Giichi grit his teeth at the thought of being drugged. Just as the volatile feelings of anger, betrayal, and violation boiled up inside of him from the presumption, something obvious appeared in front of his darting eyes.
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Was it a door? Did he overlook it? Understandably, the walls appeared cluttered at times. Or maybe it only seemed that way with all the colors and patterns. Positive and negative space seemed to be hard to discern, or maybe that was just his mind again. Maybe that was the intoxication.
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Drugged. They must've drugged me. I swear, I swear it.
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He restrained himself from turning around to face the others and berating them to reserve some sort of integrity. While he thought a number of them looked and acted unassuming, if they were all against him or in on this cult together and decided to bumrush him, it'd end up a struggle. Especially with the yellow-eyed woman at the helm. What if she already had some control over them? What if they were all just sleepers?
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Similar harrowing thoughts raced through his head as he raised a hand and tried the handle. It didn't budge.
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...Please," he muttered.
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He tried it again with more strength and more urgency as he tried to keep his expression blank and unreadable. When it was to no avail, he took a step back, lifted up his leg and smashed the heel of his shoe against the handle, thinking to bust up the handle and splint the frame. He kept his mouth firmly shut and caught his grunts in his throat as he kept at it a few more times. Breath streamed out his nose and strands of his long bleach-blond hair flew out of place with with each violent stomp. When it was evident this was to no avail, his face started to burn from embarrassment and trepidation. He had just made a fool of himself in front of the others, he realized. He had just proven himself vulnerable.
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It was as if his arm raised the chair itself as he was about switch out into impulse, when he heard another voice raise. Turning his head around and peering intensely through his loose and wild hair at the speaker, Giichi saw it was the guy who introduced himself as... He couldn't remember. At least that was the fault of his sudden apprehension in the beginning and not any drug. This guy will just be the boy with the glasses.
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The boy with the glasses addressed everyone, trying to keep an even tone. He plainly stated what Giichi feared: he was trapped. But acting as the voice of reason took a darker turn as the boy suggested Giichi instead direct his improvised weapon at the hostess. Flicking his eyes over to the loudly purple maid, he saw both of her hands covered her mouth and her yellow eyes were wide. Her shoulders were shuddering. Was she afraid? Or was she laughing?
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Regardless, Giichi couldn't strike a woman. He was raised better. He averted his gaze for a second, looking back over his shoulder to the decorated wall. Did he walk all the way over here when there was no trace of a door? He had no time to try and remember. He lowered his brandished chair, instead pointing it directly at Glasses Boy.
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"And what are you supposed to be?" Giichi spat. He had a hard tone as his free hand started to flex in and out of a tight fist. "You talk like some kind of authority. You know more about this 'love clinic' than we do? You some kind of Recruiter? Mediator? 'Reliable dog,' yes, good answer to a disgustingly childish question - I really trust you now." He took a bold step forward, asserting he wasn't afraid if this guy truly was in cahoots. "I don't know what kind of perverted set your kind are trying to push here, but guess what? I'm not some kind of - of
prostitute," he commanded, the female-gendered word
gijo mistakenly slipping out of his mouth. "I know I've been drugged. I'll still defend myself to the end."