"..." I wake up and look around, surprised to find myself in an uncomfortable white bed. I see a window and a door, which provides an escape route, indicating that I’m not imprisoned.
The room has a strange, unpleasant sll that reminds of a hospital filled with strong dications. I notice a vase of flowers next to on a small table, along with so cut-up fruit, but no knife to cut more.
There’s also a chair in the far corner, and the windows in the door and the wall are covered with blinds, blocking the view. I quickly throw off the sheet and confirm that I’m not restrained.
’Seems...like a modern world.’ The stark white room imdiately makes think of a modern setting. I’ll try to get up, but soone enters the room, and I see a very beautiful girl.
She has pink eyes and long black hair that reaches her waist, with a seductive smile but a sharp gaze. Her dium-sized breasts display a red cross symbol, and her cap imdiately gives the impression of a nurse.
"You’re awake, Shizune? Good, you’re up early today," she says, glancing at a watch on her wrist as she approaches .
"Who...are you?" I ask uncertainly, having no mory, but feeling a strange sensation.
"Have you already forgotten ? That really hurts my feelings," she says, dramatically placing the back of her hand on her forehead as if she’s about to faint.
"Well, please try not to forget again, okay? I’m Maya Veil," she says, as if my forgetting were a recurring thing. At least I know she knows .
"Now it’s ti for you to eat your little candies," she says, taking a jar from the drawer of the side table. The jar is full of colorful little balls, but the vibrant colors seem to hurt my eyes.
"Candies?"
"Yes, Shizune, it’s ti for your candies, you know?" she says seriously, looking at intently.
"How are your eyes?" she asks, seeing how I’m straining to look at the candies.
"...It hurts," I say, the vibrant colors of the candies seeming to burn my eyes. As soon as I say my eyes hurt, she grabs a green "candy."
"Okay, anything else?" she asks with a smile.
"Other colors...seem muted, and there’s a buzzing sound..." I say, as if this were a routine my body has followed for a long ti. Hearing this, she grabs a yellow "candy" and a blue "candy."
"Okay, eat these three candies," she says, handing them to . I look at her, then at the candies.
[Hey, don’t do that!!] I hear a neutral voice and look at the dication.
[Don’t even think about eating !!] My hand trembles as I hear the green "candy" speaking to . I look at the nurse with strangeness and a certain fear.
’W-What the hell?’ I look at the candies as if they’re the strangest thing I’ve ever seen in my life.
"Any problem, Shizune?" she asks as I swallow hard.
[Answer quickly or this annoying woman won’t stop asking] The yellow candy says in a monotone voice.
[Just deny having any problems] The blue candy says, and I’m completely shocked.
’Am I...hearing voices coming from this? Why?’
"Shizune...why don’t you take your d...I an, candies? If you don’t rember, let explain. These little candies are good for you, you need to take them every day, and I can assure you they’re delicious," she says, looking at pleadingly, as if urging to try them.
"Hey...what is this?" I ask nervously, staring at the supposed candies, but not ntioning that I heard the candies talking.
"They’re just candies, Shizune...look at the ti, we can’t be too late, so could you please eat them? Just chew and savor the flavor, then swallow," she says with a smile.
’Nurse...colorful candies...strange symptoms and hearing voices from inanimate objects...am I crazy?’ I stare at the "candies" that now, upon closer inspection, seem more like dications.
She asked about my condition before choosing what to grab, as if she was seeing what I needed at the mont.
"Hey...are these really candies?" I ask, and she smiles and nods.
[Hey, hey, hey!!! Don’t even think about eating us!! Stop now!!!] The candies speak to as I bring my hand to my mouth, trying to ignore the voices. I just put them in my mouth and bite, feeling a slight sweet taste of strawberry and orange as I chew and swallow.
"Very good, Shizune," she says as I think about how to test if the candies are indeed dications.
"Can I have another? They’re quite tasty," It’s not a lie, the flavor is good, but if they’re dications, she’ll likely deny it, since dications are not ant to be eaten, and taking multiple is dangerous.
"No, Shizune, you know the rule, only 3 candies at a ti, at the proper tis. Have you forgotten that too? Hmm...maybe later it’ll be ti for the pink candy," she murmurs the last part.
’...’
"Where am I?" I ask, and she seems surprised.
"You don’t even rember that?..." She asks, and I shake my head no.
"You’re...in a really nice place, here I’ll take care of you, and we can play together and do all sorts of other fun things, you know?" She says, and I look around the room, noting that the flower vase is plastic.
And that there are no dical equipnt or dangerous things, nothing tal or glass that could cut.
"Can I leave?"
"Of course you can, but we have schedules for that, so you can’t leave the room right now, okay? We can go out together after lunch," she says, and I look at the door.
[Hey, are you really going to believe her?] The door suddenly speaks, making shiver.
[Isn’t she suspicious? Isn’t this woman strange? Is it safe to consu the suspicious things she’s giving you?] The door raises questions that stir my paranoia, but I try to control myself.
As far as I know, doors don’t talk, and Maya doesn’t seem to notice the objects talking to , so I feel like the problem is .
’Am I crazy in this world? Do I have so strange illness?’ First the vibrant colors hurting my eyes, and now objects talking to .
"Shizune?" Maya waves her hand in front of my eyes, bringing back to focus.
"S-Sorry, I just got distracted..." I say, still staring at the door that spoke to .
"I understand. Would you like to read you a little story?" Maya asks sweetly.
"No...I...just want to be alone..."
"...Shizune, are you feeling anything strange that you don’t want to tell , aside from what you’ve already said? You know I’m here to help, right? If you see, hear, or feel anything strange, you can tell and I’ll fix it," she says, as if she knows sothing more.
"...It’s nothing..."
[I believe the lady in white is suspiciously suspicious, and acts in a most dubious manner] The table next to speaks strangely, and my gaze goes to the table.
"Hey... Maya, this place...where am I really?" Why doesn’t she say this is a hospital?
"Well, I’ve already told you it’s a nice place, but it’s also ant to help you overco so problems, but don’t worry about that, let’s just focus on what makes you happy," she says, and I analyze my body.
Thin, not malnourished or anything, just thin, as if I’ve been bedridden for a long ti, and my body hasn’t been able to fully recover. This makes my heart ache.
"Shizune, do you feel unwell?" She says as I put my hand on my rapidly beating heart.
"I-I’m not feeling good...can I...be alone?" I say, and she seems to ponder.
"Of course...but I’ll be right outside, I’ll co in if you need help, and if anything strange happens, just press that button on the wall and I’ll co help you..." She says as she goes to the door.
"...And I’ll take the candies with , if you don’t rember the rules, it’s better you don’t have them nearby, so you don’t...get greedy and try to take more secretly," She says in a sweeter, more contained way, changing how she was going to say it.
’...Candies...what a joke.’ I’m not stupid enough not to notice that this is dication. Now the question is... does this dication help , or hinder ? I didn’t even have ti to look and see if Maya is a yandere.
Seeing things talk has shaken a bit, I have to admit. The world is modern, so I never would have expected sothing like this.
[Was expelling the lady in white truly the correct choice?] The table asks.
[Good thing she’s gone, she could have done bad things] The door adds, and I look at them confusedly.
’If this is just in my head...then this is how I see her...but why in this way?’ I wish Nyzz would show up and explain, because all this is starting to feel like a bad joke.
[Do not worry, Bedridden Maiden, I believe you are safe for now] The table calls Bedridden Maiden, quite different from how Maya called the "lady in white."
’...’ I try not to think about what the objects are telling . I get up and go to the window, opening the blinds. Imdiately, my eyes burn, and I feel like my head is going to explode, so I quickly close the blinds again.
"Ow..." I saw a ss of colors green, white, gray, and sothing like sand color. It seed to have the sa effect as when I looked at the "candy" jar, but much worse.
’Looks like I can’t look at very colorful things...just like I hear voices...’ I throw myself back on the bed.
"Great...reborn as a crazy person in a hospital bed who has to take lots of dications every day..." At least I’m not tied to the bed or in a straitjacket, so I at least don’t seem to be considered dangerous.
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