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All Shouta can see are hands and the bright light above him. Hands point at his limbs while others grab them holding him down. He wants to move but his entire body feels heavy. He can feel someone grazing their hands across his body like a scientist would touch a specimen they are preparing for dissection. Maybe that’s what they plan to do to him.
He tries to move again, opens his mouth to say something only for someone to immediately pry his mouth open and poor a liquid down it. He wants to spit it out but the rough hands are holding his mouth closed and he’s forced to swallow. The hands are inspecting and he can sense the eyes staring him down. No part of his body is his own. He wants to cry but even his tears have been stolen from him.
One of the scientists above him holds a scalpel in front of him. He can see his reflection in the metal. His eyes are red and his lips are blue. He realizes how cold the room is- how cold he feels on the inside. The cold feeling grows until he freezing. He can see the blue of his lips spreading until his skin grows pale and his eyes glaze over.
He looks dead.
Suddenly the room shakes and a buzzing noise fills the room. The hands disappear and there is nothing but the buzzing. With no one holding him down, he topples off the table as the room shakes.
It shakes and shakes. It won’t stop and he can’t get up and-
Shouta wakes up with a start. His breathing heavy and heart racing.
After a few agonizing seconds, he registers the buzzing sound of his phone ringing. He slips out of his sleeping bag and looks at the caller ID.
Tsukauchi
Tsukauchi never calls without reason. He picks up the phone and answers.
“Safe. One. Ten. Break.”
Tsukauchi hangs up.
Their phones are tapped and Tsukauchi’s was in danger but is now safe. He needs to be at their first safe house in ten minutes.
Shouta immediately crushes his phone underneath his foot and grabs his sleeping bag.
Time for another mission.