Fault Line (Joe Tazuna x GN!Reader)

Let's Hold a Vote!

You sat against the wall, twirling the blue card between your fingers as Sue Miley rambled about rules for the Main Game, whatever that meant.

"Each of the cards you hold has a unique role. There are four roles in total. The first role is the Sacrifice." Not your card, you noted. "The Sacrifice will only survive if they're chosen by majority vote. In that case, everyone else will die. However, the Sacrifice and one other person of their choice will live and get to leave! Isn't that wonderful?" Miley giggled. "If the Sacrifice does not win the majority vote, they will die alongside whoever does get majority voted into hell."

"Then, there's the Keymaster. If they are chosen as the victim, then they will die, along with everybody else, so be smart about who you're voting for!"

"Thirdly, there's the Sage. By Holy Divination, the Sage knows who the Keymaster is. An important role! The person who possesses this card is a very lucky person."

Miley huffed out a breath, tired of talking so much. "The final role is the Commoner." That was you. "Commoners have no power at all. If either the Sage or a Commoner is chosen as the victim, they will die with the Sacrifice. There is one Keymaster, Sage, and Sacrifice. Everyone else is a Commoner. Now, please wait for the Main Game to start." You heard a clicking noise come from the monitor, and the screen went dark. Not too long after, you heard a loud thud. You flinched at the weight of it. You assumed someone collapsed. You hoped they were okay.

You didn't know what this Main Game was, even after the doll had explained it. Voting to kill each other? This was like the Presidential Election.

Maybe you knew what it was, but you didn't understand. You weren't sure why this was happening. You weren't sure why this was happening to you specifically.

"Please make your way to the Main Game grounds." You heard Miley say. A door opened up which led to a brightly lit room. It hurt your eyes to adjust from the dark room to the blinding lights.

You put the card back in your pocket and did as told. You could see your allies walking out of their own rooms, disoriented and confused. The first you saw was Sara. She looked paler than usual. You walked over to her.

"Sara, are you alright?"

She stared at you for a moment, a look of pity on her face. "I will be eventually. Where... where's Joe?"

"Sara!" You heard Joe shout. He ran up to the two of you. "And Y/N. Oh my god. I don't understand what's happening."

"In the sense that you're slow, or scared like everyone else?" Sara tried to joke, but her voice cracked.

Joe looked at Sara, concerned. "Sara, you look pale. You almost look... green. Are you alright?"

"God, everyone's always asking me if I'm alright!" She raised her voice slightly. "As if I'm... in my pint or something."

Joe didn't seem to understand. "Sara, what? You're just... unnaturally pale. You should sit down or something. I don't want you to pass out and harm yourself."

"I can't waste my life sitting down, Tazuna!" You could see that she was almost struggling to breathe. "I can't... just..." She looked at you, then back at Joe. She did not finish her sentence, she just gave him a bitter smile, then walked away.

The room had a large circle of standing desks set up. Everyone else was making their way to those desks, now including Sara. You glanced at her before suggesting to Joe that you make your way over to your own desks.

You stood to the left of Sara, and to the right of Joe. You could feel the tension, but it wasn't tension between two high school friends going through a catty quarrel. No, everyone was worried. It was completely silent other than the sound of Miley's heels clicking against the ceramic tile of the floor. She stopped at her own desk which was a few levels higher than everyone else's, and she stared at your group with a grin while you stood there, silent with nervous anticipation.