ռɛʋɛʀ taҡɛ a sʊքʀɛʍɛ ʟɛaɖɛʀ's աօʀɖ (Light V3 Spoilers)

Silence.

More and more silence

Complete and utter silence

In a dark room only illuminated a single lightbulb formed a faint perfect circle with its light. In the middle of it was a short purple haired boy sitting in a cheap looking chair. His fave was completely voided from emotion as he had a straight poker face. He didn't move even one muscle and didn't seem affected by the ambiance at all. Not even his eyes dared to move. If it wasn't for his chest moving from breathing, he could've easily been taken as a mannequin.

Silence

Time ed, seconds transformed into minutes and minutes turned into hours

Yet, still silence

It was possible to make out a single face in the darkness where the faint light didn't get from the boy's seat. The face seemed to never to take off his eyes from the illuminated figure. His face was equally voided from emotion but unlike him, the face seemed to occasionally cough or move his arms to better adjust themselves. It was clear that the face belonged to a male in his mid thirties.

Silence, silence, silence...

Without any warning, the boy sitting on the chair shut his eyes close as if he was sleeping and broke the silence with quite loud snore.

"...zzz...nishi..shi..nishi...zzz..shishi..zzz..."

This was however silenced by a loud noise coming from the other male's side as he slammed his hand onto a table that lied right in front of him that camouflaged itself with the darkness that it surrounded.

"I said you would get absolutely nothing until you confessed, Ouma!"

The boy "woke" up from the loud noise as his mouthed formed a smile and started moving his hands finding their way to the back of Ouma's head. His expression seemed legit as he truly seemed innocent to the situation.

"Ah sorry I just got bored of our little staring contest after three hours or so~"

Not pleased with the teenager's foolish response, the man stood up showing off his intimidating stature as his voice filled itself with annoyance and superiority.

"Ouma Kokichi, I'm not here to hear your jokes. You know exactly why you're here. You have been reportedly caught to be related to "The dice". You won't get out of here until we reach a conclusion."

The innocent expression remained still as he tilted his head over to his side letting out a confused sound before scratching his mouth.

"Ehhh? Dice? But I never got into gambling, I think you got the wrong guy over here."

His voice got substantially louder and angrier as he drew closer and closer to Ouma. His loud footsteps announced the large body structure of the man that was now mere feet away from him.

"I told you to stop acting all smart. I won't repeat myself. There is zero tolerance to anyone associated with such a vile group. I will ask one last time. What do you know about them, how are you related to them?"

Squealing back in fear, the teenager's eyes got watery as result of the man's ultimatum. He soon started to quietly sob as he tried to explain himself

"B-But I don't know anything about them! I-I... You have to trust me! Please stop..."

The man lost his composure as he slapped Ouma across his face. The impact loudly echoed throughout the almost empty dark room.

"Don't play with me! You are going to speak one way or other!"

The teenager almost fell off his chair due to the impact as he looked down while slowly getting back to his original position, remaining silent for a solid minute or two before abruptly getting his head up and looking at the man with a look of superiority and uninterested as he raised his hand started playing with his fingers

"My, my. I see that someone over here is trying to play tough."

Widening his eyes, the male didn't expect the drastic change of behavior so suddenly but kept his cool and continued with his ultimatums

"It won't stop here if you don't spill everything you know."

"Do you really want to play this game? I know what keeps you up at night. It doesn't take me too long before I stop playing nice."

"You can't hurt me. I've dealt with scum more intimidating than you. You can't scare me."

Ouma's innocent expression was now long gone as a malicious smile formed on his face while gesticulating with his right, almost inviting him to get even closer. His tone of voice didn't really change which made for a disturbing act as his voice and facial expression didn't quite match

"Eh? Really? Maybe your three year old son won't feel the same if he mysteriously disappeared or if your wife got into a car crash. I wonder how you would feel if your lover dropped dead and don't worry, I won't also forget wife's nasty lover maybe he could lose his legs or something. Eh, you can help me choose. Nishishi~"

Words couldn't even describe how the inspector felt. His heart just dropped not only because of how the younger male knew so much about his life, maybe even /too/ much, but also due to the revelation he just witnessed that left him utterly speechless.

"..."

Not waiting for the man to respond as he was taking so long to form words, Ouma kept on with his merciless speech, not really giving him much room to breathe as he was enjoying the show.

"Oh? Is that fear that I smell? Also, either Ouma or supreme ruler, choose one."

In all his years of career, he had never been cornered like this. No matter how much he forced himself to try and talk to get back the control of the conversation, words just kept disappearing from his mind as other thoughts started inhabiting it.

"..."

"It's no fun if you don't play along with me. I'll say that I'm the leader of that organization. "The Dice" s with more than 100,000 and it's a secret evil organization that s for blackmailing, torturing, killing,destroying, stealing- a lot of stuff that ends with ing. Is that good enough for you?"

He had heard what he wanted, yet... It didn't satisfy him? You would think it would if you had been staring at him for almost 5 hours and had been chasing him for almost over a year. Everything he wished for was just dropped in one single sentence. Yet... He still wasn't satisfied?

"Is that... Is everything true?"

"Eh, who knows, I'm a liar after all and you know what liars do best. Nishishi~"

A single phrase. A single phrase spoken by Ouma completely changed the man. This specific phrase possibly invalidated all his hard work, but it made him regain hope that it would invalidate everything else too.

"Which... About which part were you lying?

The supreme ruler, as would be expected, crushed the man's hopes by keeping his childish and innocent tone of voice and cruelly replying.

"I won't tell you, that would ruin the fun of it. Are we done here yet? If I were you I would be smart and say yes and let me go free and I'll forget about that happened here~"

At this point, there was nothing more to it. He sat on his chair behind the desk, looked down and answered emotionlessly.

"... Go"

"Not so fast, big boy. You see, I have something else in mind that I want."

Lifting his head just enough so that he could face Ouma, he quietly asked.

"What is it?"

Dropped his innocent voice one more time, his expression grew arrogant once more as he brought his hand next to his face and started playing with his fingers just like he had done previously

"There is this one school that I'm interested in, Hope's Peak, and would appreciate a little more help in getting there. A well known inspector would surely help me achieve my goal."

Puzzled, the man, skeptic about the offer, folded his arms in an failed attempt to try and regain the edge over the conversation.

"Why do you even want to get there?"

Without hesitating, the supreme leader answered within seconds after the man finished his sentence, using, once again, his more childish and innocent side

"Secret~."

This wouldn't work out, he knew it. If he tried to do it, he will get himself in a lot of trouble. He didn't want to risk his secure ordinary life like this.

"I don't know, that seems to risky..."

Not even giving the man time to breathe, Ouma replied to the man's resistance and doubt over the situation, tilting his head to the side.

"Ohhh, last time I checked, I didn't ask for your opinion did I? Do I have to remind you of our little conversation?"

Lost in complete thought and not responding for a solid minute or two. His voice started shaking as he asked him one last question.

"... You said you were a liar... Why should I even trust you?"

Ouma opened his arms and proudly announced as if he was looking down on the once intimidating man, how the rolls have been swapped.

"Well a liar sooner or later has to tell the truth, right? You can take the risk if you want, no one is going to stop you, it's up to you if it's worth doing it. Nishishi~"

This was it. He had hit the hard bottom. There was nothing else he could do but agree with the short leader.

"I'll see what I can do..."

In a rather condescending way, Ouma approaches the older man and pats his back as he happily yet cruelly added.

"Good boy~. If you ever want to have fun or try something new, you know who to call, I hope I can welcome you really soon. Bye bye big guy~

And with that Ouma closed the door behind him, leaving a now broken man to himself in a cold dark room.

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Al's final words

This is a REAAAAAAALLY old audition I wrote for a rp community that is getting deleted. I poured in like 2 hours to this? And I really want to preserve it exactly as it was and maybe inspire people to write more stuff like this. It high key sucks, but hey, we have to start somewhere, right?

The art in my TPL was made by this person!