•Your survival isn't my priority•

•chapter 3•

I slowly opened my eyes, blinking a few times to see if what I was seeing was in fact correct. In front of me stood 9 people impatiently waiting for me to wake up they were all spread out around me in a semi circle.

A man with just above , shoulder length hair stood directly in front of me smirking. He was wearing sunglasses and a beach themed, bikini cover-up cardigan. He had summer-themed shorts on with awfully hairy legs. I grimaced at the sight.

"Wellcome to the beach" the man yells enthusiastically. I look at him furrowing my eyebrows , looking down and noticing the same blue wristband I'd seen a few others have in game.

I tried to speak but then realised my mouth had been taped shut . I looked at the man in front of me dead in the eyes and then looked down trying to hint for him to take the tape of from my mouth.

"Oh yes An, go and take the tape off of her mouth, leave the rest in case she tries to run" I didn't fully understand what he said but looked into the direction he was speaking. He was talking to a lady with short jet-black hair , and a white button up with black shorts. She was gorgeous.

The lady who was supposedly called An began to walk over to me after nodding at the man standing in the front. "Oh hatter she wouldn't even stand a chance if she tried to escape. She's be shot dead" the familiar voice says from behind me.

An removed the tape from my mouth and as she walks back away to the place she was standing before, I turn my head around to look at who just spoke. it took me a moment to realise who it was that I was looking at.

'the black top with the white coral-like lines , many piercings , black hair placed into a miniature bun at the back of his head and a gun half of the size of him..' My eyes slowly widen as i recognise him as the man from the 7/11 , the one who was chasing me around the shop with that muscular guy.

I turn my head back around feeling uneasy now focusing my attention back onto the man at the front.

He pulls on the Handle that was placed on the side of the wall , he revealed a another wall which had a massive set of cards all placed on the wall in sections, hearts , diamonds , spades , clubs and the face cards. Spread out, many of the cards had an X covering them it took me a second to realise something was missing though..

The joker

I stare at the cards for a second zoning out slightly before being getting awoken back into reality from hearing a voice speak up.

"The cards with a cross are the ones we have collected. You see, we have found many but I am still missing a few!" I look at him confused, understanding absolutely none of what he said except 'missing'.

I sit there silently whilst he stares at
Me intently waiting for me to speak up. After a good awkward 10 seconds I decide to finally say something .

"I understood completely nothing of what you said" he raises an eyebrow at me whilst looking around at the people in the room in hopes for a translation.

"Hatter, she said that she understood nothing of what you said, she's not fluent in Japanese" an awfully familiar voice says. I turn my head to see where it came from, and I was right it was familiar .

It was the white haired boy I'd seen at that game a few days ago. He was there when I met arisu and karube. 'I miss karube so much , hopefully him and the rest of my friends make it out of the next game and I'm able to get out off this'.

I turn back around to now be facing so so called 'hatter' . " ah I see , chishiya you will be her personal translator then" . I again turn back at him and his face didn't look too pleased but he was good at showing that he didn't care.

"Mm, ok that's fine but I hope you aren't expecting me to have her at my side 24/7?" He crosses his arms waiting for a response.

"Yea I expect that from you chishiya, your a good member of the executives and maybe this will make me reconsider your rank and put you higher" he reply's , chishiya nods and begins to un-tie me smiling ever so sweetly once done so.

I stretch my arms behind my back yawning slightly. Hatter walks up to chishiya and whispers something in his ear. I could hear something about rules I'm not sure tho.

Chishiya grabs my hand and walks me out, he pretty much was dragging me. I wave hatter good bye and he waves back smiling.