CHAPTER 224: BLOODY AURA

I’ve been thinking for the next two or three hours and trying to ignore the objects talking to me, it’s weird and I didn’t like it at all, plus there’s no magic or anything like that.

It seems to be just some craziness in my head, and they just keep talking even though I’m trying to ignore them or telling them to be quiet, so at some point I decided to just not think about it, not respond, and not pay attention.

"Shizune, it’s time for your meal!!" I hear Maya’s voice as she enters the room with a tray. Inside the tray, I see rice, shredded fish without bones, and some veggies that are extremely discolored, turning whitish.

’Plastic spoon and colorless food...’ Another sign of mental issues on my part, it seems I’m really someone with some kind of head problem in this world.

"You need help eating?" She asks, placing the tray on my lap, watching closely as if I’m a danger to myself.

"Nah, I can eat on my own," I say, grabbing the plastic spoon and taking a bit of the rice with the fish. As soon as I put it in my mouth, I feel a very weak taste of the fish and the rice is completely unsalted.

’No strong flavors...’ I notice her picking up the fruits and hiding them, so that I won’t have to look at the vibrant colors of the fruit. It seems what I can do depends on how I’m feeling at the moment.

And considering her questions, I don’t always show the same symptoms, or else these fruits wouldn’t even be placed here for me.

’Now would be a good time for me to see the color of her aura...’ I decide to see if she’s a Yandere, after all, if she is a Yandere, what guarantees that she’s not the cause of this problem I’m having?

’Let’s see...’

"A-Ah..."

"Anything wrong, Shizune?" She says, noticing my body trembling. I avert my gaze to the food, with my hand shaking, I put the spoon in my mouth, almost spilling the food just to avoid answering.

"..." Blood red, an extremely dense and dark blood red like a gooey substance that flows through the entire room, it’s as if her aura is thrashing around the room like a living being.

Soaking the whole environment with the purest insanity, I start hyperventilating, feeling her aura clinging to my body dangerously. She’s dangerous, very, very dangerous.

"Shizune?" She speaks as I try to calm down, stopping my erratic breathing.

It’s the darkest aura I’ve seen so far, not even Yeom came close to an aura so horrifying. The worst part is how Maya looks at me as if it’s nothing, just concern and kindness in her eyes.

As if she’s not hiding how terrible she is on the inside. Of course, it’s hard to judge someone solely by their aura. Yeom had an extremely dangerous aura, but she wasn’t bad towards me.

However, Maya’s aura is not only dense and dangerous, it’s sticky and disgusting, like blood oozing through the entire room. This makes me wonder, if Yeom, who had the title of Celestial Demon and killed many during her life, had a more acceptable aura than Maya.

What kind of sins has Maya committed for her aura to be so dark and disgusting? How horrible is she for her aura to be a reflection of death and horror in this way? And how crazy is her love for me for her aura to cover the entire room like a prison?

’Am I really sick? Or is she the one making me sick?’ This question gains strength. Do I really have problems? Or is she the cause of the problems I’m having now?

I have no way of knowing, I can only deduce, but without a doubt, Maya is too dangerous for me, one of the most dangerous I’ve seen so far, probably only Nyarlisse surpasses Maya in dangerousness.

’Shizune, are you okay? You’re sweating and shaking,’ She says, approaching and touching my forehead.

"I-I’m fine... I just don’t have an appetite..." I say, pushing the tray away while looking at her. She gives me a gentle smile, but I don’t know if she believed my lame excuse.

"Shizune, you need to eat. It’s important for you," She says, picking up a spoonful of food and bringing it to my mouth with a smile. I end up opening my mouth in fear of refusing.

"Shizune, why the sour face? Is the food bad? If it is, I can try to improve it," She says empathetically, if it weren’t for her aura, she would just seem kind.

"N-No need... I’m just not hungry, really... and that walk after lunch, is it still... going to happen?" I say, trying not to show the terror I feel towards her.

"Of course... but only if you eat everything. It’s important for your health to have 3 meals a day, every day at the exact times," She says, glancing at the watch on her wrist.

"Now open up, look, it’s an airplane!" She says, moving the spoon with food towards my mouth. I end up just accepting, it’s better not to upset her since I don’t know what she might do to me if she gets angry.

"Very good, Shizune," She says, picking up another spoon while I chew and swallow the food without interest. I’m not even hungry, I’m just eating out of fear.

’It’s the scariest aura I’ve ever seen in my life... am I really in a hospital?’ Where I really am is a true doubt, looking out the window, the mess of colors didn’t let me know what was outside.

"One more, Shizune," She says, moving the spoon to my mouth as I accept it automatically. The food, almost without flavor, is really bad now that I know how dangerous Maya is.

"M-Maya..."

"Tell me, anything wrong, Shizune?" She asks with a smile, pulling the spoon of food away from my mouth.

"Why is there no... actually, it’s nothing, can we go outside without having to finish this food?" I was going to ask why the rice has no salt, but I gave up, for some reason it seemed like a problematic question.

"No! You need to eat all your food to get strong and healthy. We don’t want the same thing that happened in the past to happen again, right? Remember how you used to complain about just staying in bed because you couldn’t move?" She talks about something I don’t remember.

"Plus, you always get tired when you don’t eat well, that’s not good for you," She speaks energetically, but to me, that energetic tone is not pleasant.

"No... I don’t remember that..." I say as she seems to be thinking of something. She takes the tray, placing it on the table, and takes from her clothes a bottle of "sweets", but it’s a smaller and more compact version.

"Tell me, are you hearing strange things?" She says, and I decide to tell the truth that yes, I’m hearing voices. Lying now could cause my downfall, it’s better to be honest.

"The furniture... is talking to me," It’s better to be cooperative for now.

"Hmm... anything else?"

"When I looked out the window... it was a mess of colors," I say as she looks at the bottle of "sweets".

"Okay, so problems with memory, voices, and with colors... anything else you want to tell me?" She says, and I shake my head, for now, those two were the only problems.

"Thank you for your trust, Shizune. Here are your little candies," She says, taking a pink sweet, a red sweet, and a black sweet, handing them to me while I hold them with my trembling hand.

’This... can really be medicine to help me... but it can also be drugs affecting my brain... 50/50... a 50% chance for each,’ It’s complicated. If I drink this, I don’t know what will happen to me.

"..." I put them in my mouth and chew, swallowing them right away. They taste like strawberry, they all have the same taste, which for a candy doesn’t make sense. I can no longer deceive myself into thinking these are candies.

"Shizune, I think we can go out. Normally I would only accept if you had finished your lunch, but I think some fresh air might help you," She says with a smile.

"You want a wheelchair? It might be hard to walk," She says, while I think about how it was to walk to the window. It wasn’t exactly easy, as if my muscles were abandoning me.

Probably from spending too much time in bed, my muscles are no longer that good.

"I want a wheelchair..." It’s better not to waste energy, all energy is necessary if she decides to attack me out of nowhere. At least with a wheelchair, I have an extra thing to use the power of misfortune and try to beat her.

"Okay, Shizune, wait a moment, I’ll take the dishes and come back with a wheelchair so we can go for a walk," She says as I nod in agreement. She picks up the plate and goes to the door, her steps are seductive in a way.

Not that it excites me, considering what I saw in her aura, but it’s strange how she’s giving me a chance to go out.

’Is she a Yandere who hasn’t shown her evil yet?’ Similar to Himari, the first Yandere I saw, she also maintained a basic performance that only fell apart when I went after knowing too much about her.

’In that case... pretending ignorance and acting as she wants is the best...’ I don’t trust her, she’s too dangerous to deserve trust. I need to first see if she’s not trying to do bad things to me.