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“I’m getting out of here,” Kirishima said as he stuck the key in his pocket and ran back down the hallway he came from, making it to the locked door and got it unlocked and getting inside “Whoa… this place is bigger than I thought,” he said while looking around the room as he glanced over at a sign “Beware the edges? What does that even mean?” he asked as he walked down a short hallway, running as hands shot out of the wall at him “The museum is alive?” Kirishima questioned groaning as one hand hit him while a petal from the rose fell on the ground “this rose is my life I’m guessing? I better be careful then…” He said as he kept walking around, approaching a small ant wandering around on the ground as the ant looked up at Kirishima and started talking, which was surprising “did you see my painting? It’s cool! I’d like to see it again, but it’s kind of far away...” He said as Kirishima remembered seeing the painting on the other wall, “Maybe I can bring it to him?” Kiri thought as he turned and collected the painting off the other wall, avoiding the hands this time.
Kirishima kneeled to the ant, showing him the painting “Okay, That’s my painting. It’s just as cool as I remember it.” The ant said while staring at it deeply. Kirishima laughed a bit as he stood up and walked through the door as he saw a crack on the floor. “How will I get across that?” He wondered as he examined the painting in his hand, “Maybe I can use this as a bridge?” Kiri said curiously as he laid the painting across the crack in the floor, “Now I have a bridge!” He said smiling as he stepped across the painting and exiting through the other door, seeing a key on the floor and a mannequin at the end of the hall. “Okay… Just grab the key and go… I would say the mannequin can’t hurt me. But after those hands in the wall, it probably could…” Kiri said as he kneeled and picked the key up as he saw the mannequin move forward a bit “Oh man…” he said turning and quickly running back to where he came from as the mannequin followed him. Kirishima quickly ran across the painting as it ripped, trapping the mannequin on the other side “Thank goodness…” Kirishima said while walking to the door and using the key to unlock the door, entering a cat-shaped room with a fish-shaped hole in the wall “I might need fish pieces to make a key?” Kirishima asked himself while walking down the left hallway to examine the room.
Once Kirishima entered the room, his eyes glanced over to the wall as he saw a little stick figure with glowing red eyes staring at him. “Weird” Kirishima said as he took a step past the stick figure not paying attention until he heard a splatter sound “What was that?” he questioned as he stepped back to where the stick figure was as he leaned in reading what was written on the wall. “Play hide and seek?” he asked as the figure dis-appeared to hide “Guess I’m playing hide and seek then… maybe he will give me the piece I need if I play” Kirishima muttered before he turned and walked over to where a few pillars were that had curtains draped over them “Let’s see… I’m going to pick this one” Kirishima said as he stepped in front of the third pillar, noticing a button on the wall before pressing it, seeing the curtain open as it revealed the stick figure as more words appeared on the wall “Found me. You get a prize” Kirishima read as a part of the fish key fell out from the frame. “Hey, that was pretty easy! Now just to find the other half” Kirishima said as he placed the fish head in his pocket and turned, leaving the room, heading across to the other room on the right.
Soon as Kirishima entered the room, he started feeling uneasy seeing the room was full of boxes, statue heads, and mannequins. Not to mention the lights kept flashing on and off “I hate this… I want to go home” He said with a sigh before walking further into the room, seeing yellow paint dripping down the wall. “Just going to ignore it… I just need the fishtail” he whispered as he opened a box, examining it “Man, that’s a lot of dirty palettes. Should clean them or something” he said with a slight nervous laugh be-fore he turned around and saw one of the statue heads moving towards him quickly and hitting him, causing one petal from his rose to fall on the ground. “Ow... that hurt,” Kirishima said quietly as he moved to the side as the statue’s head fell over and shattered, revealing the fishtail inside it.
“There it is!” Kirishima said quickly as he kneeled down and picked the fishtail up as he dug the fish head out of his pocket and combined it with the tail, making a full fish key. “Now I have a key for that slot beneath the cat head” he said to himself as he quickly left the room just in case one mannequin decided to follow him. “One step closer to leaving this place,” Kirishima said with a soft frown as he placed the whole fish key into the slot underneath the cat, jumping back as the cat’s eyes changed while loud meows were heard as a path opened up to allow Kirishima a passage through to the other side. “Okay... let’s go,” Kirishima said quickly as he walked through the passage to the other side as he saw a painting that seemed more like a kid’s drawing of a smiling face with a tongue that kept moving back and forth quickly before spitting a light amount of blue paint at Kirishima’s feet. “That’s gross” he muttered as he stepped over the paint on the floor, going to examine the other paintings.
There was only one other painting on the wall and it was just a white painting according to the sign “Again, I don’t understand art” Kirishima said as he looked closer man-aging to see a small number in the center “9” he said to himself as he kept a note in the back of his mind to remember the number just in case he needed it later. He then turned to walk over to the right as he saw a plaque laying on the floor “What’s this?” he asked before kneeling down and picking the plaque up, reading it “Just when you’ve forgotten…. Forgotten what?” Kirishima asked as he laid the plaque back down on the ground before walking over to the right as he noticed more paint on the wall “Beware of lips” Kirishima read confused as he walked over, noticing a pair of lips on the wall “Hungry…. Give food….” He heard the lips saying over and over be-fore they reached out and bit into his rose, taking a petal from it as Kirishima quickly backed away from the lips as he clutched his rose close. “I need to be more careful,” He said as he slowly became more frightened of this place.
“A vase... need to get my petals back before this place kills me,” Kirishima said as he started walking down the middle hallway, jumping to the side as he avoided a hand shooting out of the wall “That was a close one,” He said with a frown as he saw dolls hanging down from the ceiling by red ropes “They aren’t real… it’s just dolls” Kirishima whispered to himself as he walked along underneath the hanging dolls, trying to shut them out. That didn’t work out as he walked further along. One doll fell from the ceiling next to him. “Damn... I hate this” Kirishima said as he noticed a number on the doll’s clothes “18… okay, 9 and 18…” He whispered to himself over and over to re-member the numbers before coming to a door and letting out a sigh seeing it needed a passcode “X times X + X=? Seems I’ll need a third number then” He said before turning around and heading back through the hanging dolls down to the door at the other side of the room.
“The liar’s room?” Kirishima questioned as he walked inside the room, seeing six different paintings on the wall with words painted on the wall underneath them. He walked over to the painting of a lady in a yellow top as he read was written, “The one in white speaks the truth? What does that mean?” He asked before walking over to the painting of the lady in white as he read what was written underneath “Stand in front of the statue. Go east two steps, then south two steps. That’s the answer!” Kirishima read before looking at the door and walking over to it and going inside the room as he saw a statue standing in the middle of the room. “Okay… I guess we are giving this a try.” He said as he stood in front of the statue, then went east two steps and south two steps as he kneeled down and pulled up the loose tile as he coughed as smoke blew up into his face “Well, I see why they call it the liar’s room… white was definitely a liar,” Kirishima said with a soft sigh as he turned and went back outside the door to a different painting. This time, the painting was of a lady in a brown dress “Stand in front of the statue, go east four steps, then north two steps” He read before nodding with a soft sigh. “This one better work… I’m running out of petals” He murmured before going back inside the room and stood in front of the statue and took a deep breath before going east four steps and north two steps as he kneeled down and pulled up the loose tile with a bit of nervousness.
Kirishima lifted the tile and let out a soft sigh of relief as he saw the number four on the back of the tile “Finally… now I can get inside that room” He said as he quickly left the room and looked shocked seeing red paint splattered over each of the paintings as the one of the lady in the brown dress appeared to be slashed up while red paint dripped down it and onto the floor as the other paintings were heard calling her a liar. “This is just one bad dream…” Kirishima muttered to himself over and over as he left that room behind and walked over to the locked door with the math problem as he started running the numbers in his head before attempting to answer the problem. “Is it 166?” Kirishima pondered as he punched the number in and then quickly stood back in case something bad happened. Kirishima then let out a soft sigh of relief as he heard an unlocking sound from the door. ‘Thank goodness” He said as he walked inside, seeing trees in the room along with an apple resting on top of the tree in the middle.
“Can I take this?” Kirishima asked himself as he reached up and took the wooden apple from the tree. “I bet I can feed this to those lips I saw in the other room and it’ll leave my flower alone,” He said quickly before running back to where the lips were on the wall where he heard the lips saying it was hungry and to give them the wooden apple that Kirishima had in his possession. “Here…” Kirishima said scared a little as he held the apple out to the lips as the lips ate the apple happily “This tasty, I let you pass now… go through my mouth…” The lips say as Kirishima looked frightened for a moment before he took a deep breath and stepped through the mouth.