SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

The rules are simple— guess what symbol is on the back of your collar. It was either spades, clubs, diamonds, or hearts. Additionally, your symbol changes every round. After a certain amount of time, you'd have to enter your assigned prison cell and say your answer. If your guess was wrong, or you ran out of time to answer, the collar would explode. Of course, you'd die if that happened, but you could just ask other people what your symbol was. That's what everyone else was doing.

There was a twist to this game, though, it seemed. One of the 20 players was the 'Jack of hearts', and to clear this game, someone would need to lie to the Jack in order to make their collar explode. There was no time limit for the game, meaning they'd be stuck in here forever if the Jack didn't die.

As the game went on, people started to distrust each other. Thus, leading them to lying and suspecting each other of being the Jack. Urumi, however, was killing people from her group left and right the second she thought that they were thinking of betraying her. She had been manipulating people to lie, leading to many deaths.

Urumi watched as her teammates stared at her in horror. It was ironic how she was the one who suggested that they work in a group so that nobody could lie, yet she ended up doing that very thing.

|🍭| "Hm? What's wrong? Don't look at me like that."

Urumi smiled, unbothered. She looked at one of her teammates, who had their back turned away from her. Tilting her head to the side, she inspected their collar before speaking.

"Looks like your symbol is club. Okay, now tell me mine!"

She turned around, moving her hair out of the way so that they could see the back of her collar. It was a heart.

     URUMI AKAMAKI 
     赤巻 潤美