-Chapter7-

-John Doe's Pov-

Time passed, and with each round that begins and ends, 1x4 got less and less sick.

It made him happy to finally see 1x4 not so sick anymore.

He smiled, realizing that this round would have two killers, himself and 1x4. Although he did not like the round a lot.

As he thought of it as he was teleported into the round unexpectedly.

The Spectre kept him sane when he was not in the rounds however, when he was in the rounds was completely different.

His mind slowly turned blurry, thoughts flooded into each other as his consciousness was drained, replaced by the feral instincts of 'kill'.

𝔄𝔰 𝔥𝔢 𝔩𝔬𝔰𝔱 𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔡 𝔬𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔦𝔫𝔰𝔦𝔡𝔢, 𝔞 𝔫𝔢𝔴 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔠𝔞𝔪𝔢 𝔦𝔫𝔱𝔬 𝔦𝔱, 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔠𝔲𝔯𝔯𝔲𝔭𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫.

ℍ𝓲𝖘 mⅰ𝑛𝗱 ᴦ𝒂𝒄ҽᑯ 𝕒𝙨 ꮪ੦𝒎𝕖𝔱հ𝒾𝑛ᶃ 𝚝𝕙𝙖𝖙 ԝ𝐚𝙨 𝗻𝗼ｔ 𝕙i𝒎 с𝒐𝕟𝚝ᴦဝꓲ۱𝝔𝔡 𝚑𝔦m, 𝒔ｔ𝑎𝐢𝘯i𝓃𝙜 𝖍ⅰ𝒔 ⅴ𝘪ꮪ𝕚𝔬𝓷 𝑎 𝓫𝝞൦𝗈ⅾγ 𝕣𝟈𝕕 𝚊ꜱ Ꮒ𝚎 𝓾𝚜𝗲𝒅 𝔼ｒ𝓻ჿᴦ ᏎՕᏎ, 𝚜ρ𝙤𝓉𝘁𝗂𝚗𝚐 𝗌ｅ𝒗𝚎ⲅ𝖺I σ𝙛 𝘁𝕙ｅ 𝔰𝓾𝙧𝕧𝒾ν၀𝚛𝐬.

Ⲏ𝚎 𝗋𝜶𝐧 𝓽𝖔𝑤𝖺𝐫ꓒ𝚜 𝙩ℎ𝛠m, 𐑈𝗽𝓲𝑘𝒆ѕ 𝓻𝙞ѕ𝕚𝖓ց ẝ𝙧𝖔𝒎 𝕥𝔥𝛠 𝐠𝐫০𝗎𝓃ꓒ 𝙩𝔬 𝗖ℎα𝙣ϲ𝜚, ｗ𝔥০ 𝓰𐐬𝓉  𝖍𝓲𝘁 α𝙣𝚍 ⅆ𝘪𝛠𝒹  𝒊ռѕ𝔱𝑎𝖓𝔱𝗹𝔂  𝛼𝔰 𝙝ҽ 𝙩𝓊ꭈ𝙣ϱⅾ 𝒕𝑜 𝕗𝖆ϲ𝖊 〇Ｏ𝟽𝐧𝟳.

𝔉𝔯𝔬𝔪 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔫 𝔬𝔫, 𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔡 𝔴𝔞𝔰 𝔟𝔩𝔲𝔯𝔯𝔶, 𝔪𝔢𝔪𝔬𝔯𝔦𝔢𝔰 𝔭𝔯𝔞𝔠𝔱𝔦𝔠𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔶 𝔤𝔬𝔫𝔢 𝔬𝔣 𝔴𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔥𝔞𝔭𝔭𝔢𝔫𝔢𝔡 𝔦𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔯𝔬𝔲𝔫𝔡 𝔞𝔰 𝔥𝔢 𝔯𝔢𝔰𝔭𝔞𝔴𝔫𝔢𝔡.

Back inside his cabin, he felt a lot better not having the curruption taken over him.

John Doe put his hand over his head, as it hurt like it did at the end of every round.

He exited his cabin to see how 1x4 was doing, to see them cleaning their sword outside of their cabin with a rag.

The green sword was covered with blood and gore from the round.

John Doe: 1x.

John Doe walked over to 1x4 and sat down next to them.

1x4: John doe.

John Doe: What happened during the round?..

1x4: A lot. Two Time and Guest just would not leave each other's side and had a really 'emotional' conversation.

John Doe: Huh..

He decided to not ask further.

John Doe: About... The rest of the round?

1x4: Chance died first, followed by Shedletsky and BuilderMan and blah blah blah.Other than BuilderMan and Shedletsky dieing so early, nothing different.

John Doe: That's odd.

1x4: I know, right?

John Doe: Usually they... Are the last ones to survive...

When John Doe first came here, Shedletsky and BuilderMan were one if the first survivors who he saw.

1x4: I wonder if they finally gave up..

John Doe: I doubt it... Why would they give up now after all of this time?

1x4 sighed, placing their sword down onto the ground gently, putting the now bloodied rag next to the sword.

1x4: I suppose your right..I gotta put the Daemonshank in the cabin, in case you know who gets a hold of it.

John Doe nodded.

John Doe: I... Did promise to help Azure with their flowers.

1x4 stood up, grabbing the sword in one hand and the rag in the other as John Doe also stood up.

1x4: Talk to you later?

John Doe: Yup.

1x4 may seem scary at first, but once you get to know them they are pretty nice and talk a lot more than they usually do.

Some of the killer's never ever dare to talk to them in fear of something happening, which John Doe felt was not fair.

John Doe waved goodbye to 1x4, walking towards Azure's cabin, knocking on the door.

Azure opened the door, smiling slightly for John Doe suggesting that he could help him with his nightshades.

Azure: You seem happier.

John Doe: I do?..

Azure: Definitely. What were you doing before you came to help Mr?

John Doe: Just talking... To 1x.

Azure nodded slowly.

Azure: I see... Anyways, about the nightshades, they are growing by 1x's cabin, and he isn't happy about it.All I need help with is getting rid of the ones by 1x's cabin.

John Doe nodded.

If he was being honest, he did not really blame 1x4 for it - with 1x4 being the creation of hatred and all.

Azure: Follow me.

He said, John Doe following close behind him, soon seeing a lot of nightshades.

Azure: Aren't they beautiful? If I didn't obsess over these, then I'd obsess over cats.Then I'd name two cats Night and Shade.

He smiled, very clearly lost in thought.

This was one part that John Doe loved about helping the other killers, they trusted him a lot more, he had picked up on that a while ago.

It was as if they felt more comfortable around him in under 50 rounds, unlike 1x4, who was just starting to warm up to him after so long.

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Listened to Astral Travel by Kikuo while making this😎😎😎Then the Dance Of Corpses right after, also by Kikuo

There's a hint to a future story of mine in here! Can you spot it?