23678th time

"M-mom!!!!" Someone called her out and needless to say the voice was familiar.

It was indeed Shikome Sizu who ran towards us for her only mother whom my dad was lifting choking in mid air.My dad looked at Shikome and gave a huge sigh, My dad threw Shikome's mother who fell on her back and Shikome went to pull her mother. Shikome looked at us with frowned anger and anger gritting her teeth. I wasn't able to say her anything. Yes after Izaki's death she showed her tranum and we stopped talking to each other despite being a good friend before.

"..." She started at as like a stray cat holding her mother.

[BUZZ, BUZZ…] notifications could be audible sometimes, but not mines, when someone dies, the notification rings it. I had thrown my phone somewhere since it was distracting me. The two monsters are outside of the field enjoying the killing game where sun was setting making the sky red, along with it even the field was getting filled with red wett grass. Even if the world was fake created by them, everything felt real, the weather, how night changed to day and even sun felt real, the heat, humidity everything was just as normal as we had seen so it was easy to mistake that the world we living on currently is fake, created by some fake gods. The dawn was set and it was getting dark, The field lights turned on visualising the field with the light itself.

[H-HELP HE IS STRANGLING GUFF- WITH HIS TIE]

[DIE BITCH, DIE FOR US, I WILL SURVIVE NO MATTER WHAT]...

Ryuuji makes a huge sigh. "This is hilarious how I don't even feel anything looking it, but looking at everyone's expression I think it's sad?"

I never knew my dad as this rare disease until now. I remember when my mother was hit by a car four years ago, he was smiling like everything was ok. I always thought he was actually acting cheerful so we don't make fuss of it being positive. But I still don't know how my dad feels about everything and that time when he tried to kill my mother.

I gulped staying on guard. The sight was really horrifying. I was holding my knife inside my blazer as self defence since everyone was killing eachother in the school field.

Out of nowhere Shikome jumped on me grabbing my hair from behind and I fell on my back. I couldn't ask help to my dad because even he was cornered by a guy, he was trying to protect my mother so he payed no attention. But why...Why is Shikome attacking me.

"If only you...had... stopped Izaki..."

Huh? So you are telling me Izaki died because of me? What about your dad whom you saw killing himself on monitor? Is that my fault too? I can't think all these rationally. I couldn't blurt my words out. The fact Shikome was still stuck on Izaki even after she saw her own father's death pissed me off.

"Shikome, so you really want to kill me it seems like you want to loose humanity?"

"Hahahahahahahaha!!!! did you forget during the ritual process that fucker manipulated us to kill each other? I was right there I killed a person with my own hands why would I even feel sad at killing you after seeing so many deaths...Even my dad died...? A TRAITOR! who couldn't even stop Izaki."

The girl who was ignoring me and was not even making a small talk suddenly brust into laughter. I looked at right hoping my dad would give a hand but instead saw him punching a women, he kept punching even after she passed out, my mother was trying to stop him, but that was not to focus my mind right now.It's my right to look after my own life right now. Shikome is willing to kill me. The girl I loved, The first person I fell in love with is looking at me with bloodlust.

Shikome grabbed by my hair while she was sitting on my back.

"Hoh, finally got my hands on it."

Yes I was staying on guard but never came in my mind that the person behind me, Shikome would actually try to target me. The fact my dad was targetted by someone else, she took that as a chance and came out for me on instant she got an opening. And she wasn't only just targetting on me. She was here for my knife.

"Ahhhhn~ Izaki....Izaki once...held it...[Lick,Lick,Lick] Izaki's taste...Izaki's smell. AHHH THIS IS IT! IZAKI IS WITH ME GAHAHAHA!"

She was liking and smelling the knife like a crazy person. She was out of her mind too. Ofcourse hellish situation like this can even make a quiet person boiled up because of internal hormones and self adaptation.

[STAB]

And without any waste of time she stabbed. She stabbed me is what I thought but she was the one who was stabbed right In her eye with a knife and she got stabbed again at the other. The who was standing behind was Asami Kerei holding a knife.

"Ah this knife you are looking at Ryuuta?"

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<5 minutes earlier.>

"Hmm~ they are punching and choking, this is no fun...less blood..."

The man in blazer looked at her and [CLAP,CLAP,CLAP] why not create some weapons abstracting the world's rule, something like `knife`?

"Well it's not like we will be living at this dimension for more days so we can just tun/manipulate this world's objects as we wish." Added the women who was curling with her smirk.

They had power to change the world, but not end, Since the world was made by the spirit energy of the dead, and reincarnation of thier soul was easier too. But the fact is they can't destroy the world until the spiritual energy came down, that means until the spirits/ humanoids died in this world the world would keep on living because of their spirit energy. Spirit energy could be manipulated by the world creators, just like that they would manipulate the objects like dusters, erasers to knife, something equivalent such as we see in alchemy. The humans here were all spiritual form but If one wins he would receive everyone who died in this world's spiritual energy to himself forming a new power in him. Needless to say he would regain his main body in real world too.

The monsters created 6 weapons out of turning stuff like dusters, markers into knifes and threw it infront of the crowd ball where everyone was killing eachother at the ground. Those who noticed the knifes equipped it.

"Well one knife will be dropped around here....and got it....hm now time to save Ryuuta."

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<Present Time : Unknown | School Field>

[BLURGE] [BLURGE]

"Huh? Why is suddenly everything pitch black.." Shikome couldn't understand what just happened while he was trying to stab Ryuuta Yanagi.

"UWAHHH." I screamed and pushed her away with my strength crawling backwards.

"GHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA MY EYES HURTSSSSS."

"Shut up this is the 13563th time I had to hear your scream just be happy I don't kill you like always."

"13563...Asami what are you talking about. Why do you talk like that sometimes like you know everything." I asked hesitantly getting chills and Deja Vu.

Asami is always almost emotionless but I noticed she always smiles while talking to me. She smiled and...

"Yes, this is the 10350th time I saved you and you saved me 13238th times in my total loop, so on this loop I saved you and this world is on 23678 th loop."

"T-This world is on loop?"

That makes sense even during classroom she knew what would happen. I don't want to believe her but she had proved enough...but still it's unbelievable for someone who knows what might happen in future like she can read books to time loop.

"T-THEN WHY YOU DIDN'T TELL US BEFORE? WE WOULD HAVE WORKED OUT ON SOMETHING TOGETHER !!"

"Calm down I did tell everyone on my 1046th loop, but the monsters blast of my head and the loop started over."

"Loop...?....started over...does that means you are the only ones who is e-experiencing loop?"

"Like always you are stupid Ryuuta."

She looked like she lost her temper but she calms down again and started explaining.

"Whenever I die the loop starts over, from the day we were were transferred to this world...from the time we were in real life... whenever I tried to kill those god's I was always the first one to die, The man in suit would manipulate the class to kill myself.I never got manipulated to kill myself but someone else would kill me everytime, the fate didn't change to end up in this world. What I mean to say is I am the one who created this loop and Creatures like us can't use this <magic>, <power> or <esper> whatever on a fellow creature like us. I used my power loop just before the new homeroom teacher enters the class, so whenever I die, I just restart from the 9th of March."

She stared for long at me waiting for my response that I got her words.

What I understood is the loop she is facing is her own power. And she tried to stop ritual but she died everytime in her loops, no matter how many times she tried with new routes she failed. And she is the reason this is on loop and we are caught in her power of loop in this hellbound world, and another fact that I am unable to believe that she is also a god, creature like that sensei and the serial killer. She can't use her own powers on fellow creatures. She knew what will happen exactly at what time, and that's how she even won rock paper scissors smoothly.

"Guessing by your expression I think you got it. So I am going to continue, I know what will happen next and that's how I went this far, and this is the first loop where the factory game got fast paced and their game got cancelled. Otherwise this hell game continues for 2 months in this world."

She spent so much time in this world, she did say 23678th loop, no matter how you say even one week of loop would make a single person go crazy, how the hell she end up doing 23678th loop and still keep her composure. 71034 days...that means how many years...I can't even count it ..She has been suffering for this whole time? But she is a creature like them too why isn't she teamed up with them. She is the real monster who could withstand this hell for this many loops, just thinking about this making my head hurt. It feels like Deja Vu even though it's unrealistic, why do I even trust her words that she is looping.

"Why aren't you one of them like the gods and trying to save me...is what you will ask me next I know, so yes first thing I loved you always..." A needle piercing like pain stuck in my heart after I heard that, she kept continuing..."and I was once who won a hellbound earth like this before and got this loop power, the condition is when I am able to peruse what I want to change the loop will end. But everytime I tried to win, I died, but few times you saved me and I am sure you are the one who won this game...b-but because of my loop power WE CONTINUE THIS FUCKING WORLD AGAIN GAHAHAHAHAHA! IT'S MY FAULT THIS GAME DOESN'T END!!!!"

"W-what do you mean...you were stuck like this before...and does that means out of 23678th loops there were none of the time you were able to win...and if you win this loop will end?"

She nods emotionless. Looks like she calms down and smiles.

"But this time, I will win, but I have to kill you and that person behind you before, who is standing behind you." She pointed.

I turned my head slowly to see the crowd making no more noise, everyone died except Asahi, The sensei who was smirking in joy, The serial killer who is looking at us blankly and last of all my dad who was smiling with blood all over his body where the only living beings on this red blood filled battle field, on this fake world.

To Be Continued....