Chapter 1: The beginning of twenty years of hell

Chapter 1: The Beginning of Twenty Years of Hell

 

It was the year 2024. Date: 31 December. Twenty minutes before twenty years of hell began for humanity. 

 

Is this world equal? Like everyone can live peacefully and where there will be no difference between rich and poor? Is this world fair? Where everyone gets the opportunity to do whatever they want? Is this world free of poverty? Where nobody would have to live in poverty and die of hunger? Is this world a safe place where nobody is killed or forced to fight in war? That's what I was thinking as I went upstairs towards the rooftop to see the city scenery and chat with a certain person. Blood dripped from my clothes, giving a red paint job to the stairs. 

 

"It's a new year already. Hey, you there?" I asked with a sigh as I opened my drink, took a sip, and watched the city scenery. The blood in my hand covered the juice can.

 

A voice came from the dark. "You're late today. Something happened?" 

 

"You know the usual thing." I said.

 

"Let me guess that's not your blood is it?" Said Unknown.

 

"It's a mix. Some of the old wounds opened up again and got some new ones also." I replied. 

 

Unknown chuckled and said, "Aren't you the great 'Red Night'." Unknown was baiting me in. 

 

"Cut out with jokes." I said annoyed.

 

"How much cleaning is left?"

 

"Still a whole lotta left, mate. What's more of a pain in the ass is that new gangs are rising with great speed."

 

"Yeah I saw. Some of them are inspired from the 'Red Night'. I also heard that some emergency organisations are made just to eliminate you."

 

"It's been a mess. Everyone going wild with their shits. To think now I have to-" cough cough. I covered my mouth with my hand. My palm got covered with fresh blood. I coughed blood. 

 

"I see you're coughing more and more blood now. Now that doctor is dead there's no one you can go to treat your wounds."

 

"Yeah.. I don't know how much longer I'll survive. Well I got nothing else to do except kill. It's a matter of time before I drop life myself or someone gets me." I said. Unknown clearly sensed sadness in my words.

 

"So it's only you huh. Been a rough year for you especially. It was hard for everyone else too but you did the most killing and took on the most dangerous jobs. It's always been fun, amusing and interesting for me seeing you dancing in these dangerous missions." Unknown said with amusement in his words.

 

"Is it fun? What's the catch, mate?." I said. My words sounded empty. Like I gave up on life. But I didn't give up on life. I just got too sick of it. I again said,"These all started when you appeared. Nah, rather things got too intense this year and finally reached its limits. Something had to be done to cool it off. But then thanks to you I was finally able to make the decision. And you made a kid a killer because of that which is me. Well.. Even if you weren't here, sooner or later I would start killing anyway. But by then it might have been too late. So, thanks again for the hell you gave." My words sounded empty with no motivation in it. 

 

"Oh my. You're thanking me for turning you into a killer?" Unknown sounded surprised. Yes, I call him Unknown since I don't know his name and don't bother knowing, and he doesn't bother telling me anyway. I always come here as a nightly routine to spend the night watching the city scenery and just spend the night doing so. But then a year ago, when I was drinking and watching, a voice came from the dark. But the voice didn't belong to a human. I didn't know if it was a he or she, so I guessed that the owner of the voice was a he. He asked me about different things. I asked him questions in return, and then we talked the whole night. But I wasn't scared or anything. Every night from then on, we would ask each other questions, and at some point it just became part of my routine to talk with him after killing. I had never seen his body or face, but it just didn't seem to bother me.

 

"Well thanking you now seems useless when I lost everything that I was able to gain because of you." I said with somewhat irritation. Unknown understood my mood clearly that I was sad and angry at the same time. But then Unknown sounds unusual today.

 

"It seems you noticed my unusual behavior." Unknown said as if he read my mind. Unknown again said, "What? Are you scared? You seem like you will lose yet another thing." 

 

I took off my hoodie which was drenched in blood and threw it on the ground. Blood spread around on the ground from my hoodie. I sighed and said," So you already know what I'll ask. For a year I avoided asking questions about you."

 

"Sheesh! Shouldn't you treat your wounds first? You weren't joking when you said you had some new wounds. Those are some big cuts. You're bleeding a lot from those." 

 

"I get the feeling that you won't be here tomorrow, so will you?" I said ignoring Unknown's concern as I looked in the direction from where Unknown's voice was coming. And as usual it was pitch black. I couldn't see anything.

 

"What makes you think that I won't be here tomorrow?" Unknown said as if he was enjoying it.

 

"Just a hunch." I can only find him here after 11:20 p.m.; he's never here in the morning or afternoon, he's only here from 11:20 p.m. to dawn. I've never seen his body, mainly because it didn't seem he wanted me to see it; he always stayed in the darkness. I thought if I tried to know his identity or things about him he won't come or be here anymore. And I didn't want that since he was a nice talking partner. But now it was different. I got the feeling he wouldn’t be here anymore, and I wanted to know about him and his reason for coming to me before he left.

 

"You don't usually ask me questions about myself, but you did investigate me from time to time, didn't you?" Unknown asked as he chuckled. 

 

"So you know? Nah, rather, you saw it all didn't you." I said with an intense look on my face. 

 

"Sharp eyes as always. Crazy way of thinking and full of crazy ideas. That's why I always have fun talking to you." Unknown said as if he was truly enjoying it. 

 

I took my knife from my pocket and held it in my hand. And then I said," So where are you? Show yourself." 

 

"I wonder about that. Hahahaha" Unknown said as he laughed with carelessness. As if my knife doesn't mean anything to him.

 

"Well then you asked for it. Here goes nothing." I said as I threw my knife in the direction of Unknown's voice. The knife flew and hit the wall on the other side of the rooftop.

 

Did I miss it? Or did he dodge it? Or there was nothing there to begin with? I took out my phone from my pocket and turned on the flashlight on it. Then I pointed my phone where Unknown's voice was coming. There was nothing. 

 

"Ooh… Interesting. H-Hahahaha!" I said as I laughed.

 

"Interesting indeed." Unknown said in amusement.

 

I saw nothing there, but his voice was still coming from that direction. I walked that way to see if there was anything I couldn't see, thinking maybe I could touch him. I said as I held in my laugh, "Hey, you won't kill me or anything, right?" 

 

"If I wanted to do that, I would have done it already."

 

I walked and swung my hands here and there. But I couldn't feel anything. Then I said, "Whoa. Damn! where are you? Hahaha!" I couldn't held in my laughter.

 

"I'm right here, but I guess you can't see me."

 

"Yeah, I can't see you."

 

"What do people call it? Oh yeah—a ghost right?"

 

"Yeah, you do seem like a ghost. A very funny ghost, in fact, who talks with people."

 

Unnknown laughed and said, " Yeah your correct." 

 

"So I'm guessing you're always here then, but you can only appear from 11:20 p.m. to dawn?" 

 

"Yup, you're correct. Like I said, I am some sort of ghost."

 

"Aren't ghosts supposed to curse or kill people? You're a very funny ghost, aren't ya?" 

 

"Hahaha. You could say that I am a special type of ghost who doesn't do bad things." Unknown said as he was enjoying it. 

 

"Nah… I am wrong. You ain't a ghost. More like a soul that is trapped in this place or something isn't it?”

 

Silence.

 

I could sense from his silence that all the fun he was having was gone instantly. 

 

"No need to answer,” I said as I sighed. “I got what I wanted. To be honest, I don't care if you're a ghost or not."

 

"Ahh,” he laughed. “You saw through me again."

 

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I drank the rest of my drink in silence. Blood kept dripping from my wounds. Then again, after a bit more silence, he asked me a question. 

 

"Can I ask you a question?" 

 

"It's unusual for you to ask me about something." I was the one who always talked about different stuff and he would just listen. 

 

"What do you think of this world?" 

 

"This world, huh? I was just thinking about it while coming here. To be honest, this world is just shit. Its full of bad stuff like war, poverty, murder, unfairness, inequality, etc. I am sick of this shit. And besides, this world is too boring. And I'm a killer. I killed lots and lots of people just this year. Not that I enjoy killing. Nowhere will be peaceful for a killer like me. I wanted to live a normal peaceful life. But I guess life won't let that happen. I'm too sick of this world honestly." I said with disgust.

 

"Boring? From my point of view it seems like you're enjoying your life. Living a carefree life except for the killing part."

 

"Enjoying life? Living a carefree life? Hahahaha! Stop with stupid jokes. You know very well what I've been through." 

 

"Didn't your parents leave you great wealth? Why don't leave this place and go somewhere else. Start a life."

 

I never saw my parents and they died when I was little. An old guy was taking care of me. He was genuinely a good dude. He didn't try to steal my parents' wealth that they had left for me. But he died when I was 8. I was old enough to manage the money and I did understand things. Lots of shitty people tried to steal the wealth but they couldn't. 

 

"You think I never thought of that? If I could do that I would have done it way ago. The whole world is shit. It doesn't matter where you go. It's the same shit anyways." 

 

"You won't know for sure if you won't see it for yourself. Start a new life as a normal kid. Going to school, making friends and doing all the things that a normal kid would do." 

 

"Nope! It's the same shit anyways. This world is full of shits. Going to school? Making friends? I already lost everything including money. All of them are gone. So even if I wanted to, I can't go anywhere. And the moment I started killing my ideal normal life was gone." I said. My words were filled with sadness and regrets. 

 

"Ahh, I see. So what do you wanna do? Change the world? So that you can live peacefully." 

 

"Change the world? I ain't no exception. I am just another human being and it's no use changing shit." I ain’t a big hotshot or anything. I can't do anything to change the world. And I don't plan to do so.” 

 

"Then what do you wish for? A peaceful world? A world free of bad stuff?" 

 

"If possible, I would like to be in a new world. A new fresh world filled with unknown things would be exciting.” 

 

"New world? That's unusual from a guy like you. You want to escape this world?"

 

"Yeah, a new world. I don't want to live in this rotten world anymore."

 

"Ooh, What kind of world do you want? A peaceful world, where you could live the rest of your life just enjoying it?" 

 

"Who said I wanted to live in a peaceful world?" 

 

"Isn't that what people normally want? To live in a peaceful world in joy and happiness. Getting a family, or being the king of a country or something." Unknown said with confusion. 

 

"Nah, that will be too boring, and besides, I don't want to leave this world so easily after everything I lost everything because of it." 

 

"Didn't you just tell me you wanted to be in a new world?" Unknown was confused. Nah rather he was pretending to be confused. He knew everything.

 

"Yeah I want to be in a new world but I won't leave this world behind. I will take this whole world with me and beat the crap out of it!" 

 

"You want to take the whole world with you to a new world? Why not just do it in this world then?" Unknown said being surprised.

 

"Nope. This world has become rotten, and it's no fun playing with rotten or broken things." 

 

"That's unusual." Unknown said as he saw it coming. I noticed that. It felt like it was already planned way before. Well it doesn't matter. I'll just go with the flow and see what he does.

 

"Haha, seems like a child's fantasy dream, doesn't it?" 

 

"You never cease to amuse me. Always full of crazy ideas." Unknown said as he was interested.

 

"Am I?" 

 

"Want a change of pace? Want to live in an exciting world?" 

 

"Interesting, you say that like you can do that." 

 

"Wanna bet?" 

 

"I'll trust ya If you can do that is. Well, sure, why not, New year, new life. Starting a new life is better than just spending the rest of the days doing nothing. And besides, you won't be here anymore. It will feel boring without you anyways." Well he's not a human to begin with. That's why I wanted to see what he does.

 

"This is goodbye then. Five minutes left till midnight. It was a fun year for me listening to your stories and seeing you dancing in fire

Good luck on your journey in the new world. I will be watching what you do." 

 

"Good grief,” I sighed. “Goodbyes sure do hurt. Seeya then, Unknown dude." After that, he was no longer there.

 

The young man stood there watching the city scenery. And then suddenly he disappeared from the rooftop.

 

"Ahhhh! What the hell?! What's going on? Where am I? Hey, Unknown, are you doing this? What the hell is this?" I screamed. Suddenly my head started to ache. It was like several voices telling me something. Someone was putting lots of information in my brain at once."What hell!?!” I screamed again. “Someone help me! My head will explode!" I couldn't handle the pain suddenly. 

Then the headache and the voices slowly decreased, and I started to understand things.

 

"Ahh… ahh… Time train?" I stood up and looked around. It was pitch black.

 

"Is this a train?" It sounded like a train, and it felt like a train.. I took my phone from my pocket and turned on the flashlight. "Yeah this is a train." I looked here and there with my phone, and then I looked outside the window. It was pitch black outside. I looked below and saw there it was pitch black too. The train was flying or something. 

 

"Ah, I see what I have to do. I don't have much time." Unknown should have told me what will happen or what I'll have to do. But it doesn't matter for now. I'll have to think of something real quick. 

 

***

 

One minute was left before the year 2025 started, and everyone was eagerly waiting to celebrate the new year. At the moment the clock struck midnight, the sky filled with fireworks… and ten seconds later, there was a massive, colourful explosion in the sky that the whole world could see. And before anyone realized what had happened, everyone was transferred to a new world. They all started panicking. A train came out of the explosion and was flying across the sky! And then there was a sound from that train which was flying in the sky. Everyone could hear the voice clearly. 

 

"Yo, I can see right now everyone is panicking. No need to panic; everyone is now in a new world. New year, new world—seems like a fantasy dream, doesn't it? Well, unfortunately it will be hell for you guys. But before telling you the rest of the things, let me show you what I can do. Enjoy the loop, Hell loop everyone!" The owner of the voice said like he was enjoying it.

 

No one could understand what it was about. But suddenly everyone caught on fire, several swords pierced their bodies, giant and small insects started eating their bodies, their limbs began falling off, and then the world exploded. And before anyone realized it, they were back. Everyone started questioning why they didn't die… And then it all happened again.. And again they were back, but this time everyone started screaming and running, unable to understand anything about what was going on. Again the voice came. 

 

"Enjoy the Hell loop, everyone? That's what I can do. I can set a Hell loop like the one everyone just experienced forever. Seems like hell to me. After five to seven time loops, none of you will still be human; you will go crazy and no longer have consciousness. And also every time the pain will be different, so that none of you can get used to the pain! Y'all are still confused, aren’t you? Well then, let me get to the point. I am NITE, and y'all have twenty years to find and kill me. If you can't kill me in these twenty years, I will set a Hell loop like that forever!" 

 

Suddenly a massive twenty-year countdown timer showed up in the sky, able to be seen from everywhere. 

 

"See the timer? That's the countdown. When that timer reaches zero, the time loop will begin and continue forever. But If anyone can kill me before that, the timer will disappear, and everyone can live a normal life. Let the twenty years of hell begin! Hahahaha."

 

The young man declared the twenty years of hell. The train continued flying across the sky, and the giant timer started ticking backwards from twenty years. And thus twenty years of hell began for humanity. Humanity has twenty years to kill him or else they will face hell. Will they be able to kill him? Or will Stage One perish?

 

Time remaining: 19 years, 364 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds.

 

 

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