Malfunction?

I was stunned, they expected me to torture someone for what exactly? I barely killed a person now they wanted me to skin someone while he was still alive.

There wasn't any blindfold on him so they weren't even worried about him seeing what was going on.

The fear in his eyes made my stomach drop, his eyes reminded me of mine when I was helpless.

He wanted to speak but he couldn't then the Chinese man walked up beside me.

"I bet you're thinking about fun ways to mess him up, aren't you?" He asked.

"I have no idea how someone so young could be as fucked up as you, Minsuk. If I'm being honest, you scare the living shit out of me," He said but that took me off guard.

Did I scare him? Fuck all of that, right now I needed to find a way to move past this hurdle.

"Do it, Minsuk," Jigsaw commanded, I could by his voice that he had grown suspicious of me.

It was almost like he wished to confirm something and I couldn't falter.

I could hear the muffled cries of the man but I couldn't save him, it wasn't in my place to.

Rather, I had to hurt him and I prayed that the gods would give me a task that intervened with this.

But there was nothing, this meant that it was a choice that was left entirely up to me.

It would have to live on my conscience for life, I could cope with the earlier killings because not only did the gods command it but they were about to kill me.

This was an innocent man, everything was different and I knew I wouldn't recover from this if I took his life.

I couldn't cross this line or I would become everything I hated and revived to avenge.

There was no way out of this but the man could see the hesitation in my eyes.

He could tell I didn't want to do it but for some reason, this kept him quiet.

His mouth clamped shut as he looked over at Jigsaw before giving him a nod.

"Would you look at that? It looks like our friend wishes to talk," The Chinese man exclaimed, he showed a lot more emotions than Jigsaw, it was safe to say that they were opposites.

I walked in his direction to remove the gag from his mouth but the moment I did, he just smirked.

"You were right Jigsaw, that ain't Minsuk," The man responded and I immediately knew that I had been had.

Whoever this was, he was good, very good to have fooled me the way he did. A Grammy-worthy performance as he got up to his feet and took off the fake disguise he had on.

Before I could even explain myself, my world went black, someone had knocked me out.

-

"Here again?" I thought to myself, that this familiar place and feeling; was a dream.

There was no way that this could be real life because I was floating above a black void.

A void that was calling to me, I was drawn to it but at the same time, I don't know how but my body knew that if it got swallowed up by whatever that was, I would cease to exist.

This was just a bad dream, all I needed to do was wake up but that was the thing with lucid dreaming.

You know you're dreaming but there is nothing that you can do about it.

For some reason, there was nothing else, I felt at peace just floating, there was no ground, there was no wall, there was nothing but the big black ball that looked very much like a black hole.

But I saw something soon after, a hand escaping the void but there was no flesh; just bones.

No, it looked like the skin had been stripped off the bones and this was a rather grotesque sight.

I didn't know what it was but neither could I move; my instincts told me that if that thing should get close to me then that could potentially result in my end.

I knew no one was listening to me, I understood that this was a dream so there was no way for any harm to come to me.

This was my dream and everything within this space was within my control, all I needed to do was calm down.

"Is that what you think?" A voice echoed, this was a space that swallowed up sound so why could I hear a voice?

And it was coming from the creature originating from the void and what I thought was a human was something a lot worse as five additional limbs sprouted out.

This threw me off as I had initially assumed that it was a person but no one had that many limbs.

And out it came with multiple limbs connected to its torso but it had no head so how was it talking to me?

"This isn't your dream…" The creature said.

"It is MINE!" As it charged towards me but only then did I jolt awake with my heart pounding like crazy.

However, I found myself bound and gagged with cold water dripping down my face, this must have been what woke me up and boy, was I thankful as I didn't know what awaited me in that dream.

I found myself in a dire situation though as there was a bag over my head so I couldn't even make out my surroundings.

But I knew I had switched places with the man I had failed to torture but did I have the willpower to withstand this?

I couldn't even think about the torture I was about to endure but I knew it wouldn't be close to the bullying I had endured so far.

No gods had popped up yet to inform me that I was doing something either right or wrong.

I knew I had to make a decision here but I couldn't even talk.

I could hear voices but they were distant before something cold overcame my body.

I began to struggle, trying my best to remove my binds but a blow rocked my jaw that shook my brain.

I don't know how I remained conscious because the strength of that punch was unlike anything I had experienced.

"He is awake," I heard a voice say within the room, the distant voices I heard earlier got closer and closer as the bag was taken off my head.

Jigsaw stood there with a phone in hand, I looked to my left and saw the Chinese man standing right beside me but he had taken off his shirt and had on an apron like he was about to whip up some delicious dish using me as the ingredients.

"I hold nothing against you but I need to know who you are…" Jigsaw questioned, the coldness of his voice frightened me more than what they planned to do with me.

I knew for a fact that they couldn't kill me if my background held up, all I needed to do was stall as this could be a scare tactic.

[[Error 404!!]]

[[Malfunction detected!]]

[[A new message from ???: Do you need my help? Y/N]]

It asked and I was stunned by this, what the fuck kind of question was this!? Of course, I needed help!

"Yes!" I responded but even I couldn't have predicted what happened next.