Hug your arms around your chest and close your eyes
From Create Your Own Story
As you're closing your eyes, the coldness seizes you. You panic as you hear glass shattering and you feel your skinny body falling through the darkness.
"Hello once again, Shugu..." you hear as the tight branch of the purple-lit glowing tree catches your fall, literally squeezing life energy out of you. You scream as the gripping plant painfully tightens around your frail little body. "Shugu." You already know what's coming. You were supposed to kill a few men and bring home soul energy, soul energy to feed this starving tree which has power over you.
"You know that with no soulpower, you die with me. Am I correct?"
"Yes, master," you answer as you groan and struggle in the grip of the bark, panting in response.
"Now, Shugu, what are you planning to do?" the tree asks you.
It's freezing down here and it's very dark.
"I am dying," you say "And I know you are, too, master, but I don't know any takers."
"No excuses," the tree says. "There are many humans in this world. If you don't know any takers, then take strangers."
You cry out as a sharp thorn digs into your back.
"I'm giving you three days," the tree says. "On the third if you do not bring me what I want, this spike will break and you will die painfully, my dear."
"I understand," you respond, shivering in anger, yet powerless at the same time.
"Yet also be wary," the tree says. "There is a demon who lurks among the humans who may seek to kill you for bearing my curse. Kill this demon if you can."
"Yes, master," you say.
The audience ends and you are sprawled on the floor of your kitchen. You throw yourself into your bed and sleep. The next morning, you spot Hikaru in the hallway at school, hanging with his boys by his locker.
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| Health | wasted# | Equipment:
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| MP | higher# | |
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