Erin | Vincent Churchwell He will also assist in the card fixing if Robert’s opting to as well!
Robert McCay “Oh, thank you, if y’don’t mind…” Robert extracts as much of the torn-up cards as he can from the trash can and starts piecing them together on the table with Vincent…
The pair begin trying to put together the baseball cards. It takes a few minutes, with how small and irregular some of the pieces are, but they eventually manage it.
It's as if the air suddenly changes in the store. It becomes stifling, the air thick and heavy, like it's clogging your lungs. You can at the very least, make out the faces and names of those who are on these cards.
One is a brunette teenager, he bears… a slight resemblance to Bow-Wow if you squint, he's wearing a baseball jersey. The name under his photo is 'JORDAN MARSH'. There's a torn-up price sticker in the corner listing the value as $1500.
The second card is a raven-haired teenager. He looks like a fairly standard high-schooler, but he isn't wearing a baseball jersey. His name is listed as 'ELIJAH WILCOX', and the value stamped on the price label is $1000.
Why would cards so valuable be in the trash?
Well, the answer may be coming sooner than they may expect. The lights in the room shut off, and almost-glowing red words begin to appear around the room. 'LIAR, TRAITOR, THIEF', written over and over, on the walls, on the table, all over the glass of the display cabinets.
They hear a shuddering gasp from Bow-Wow's direction, before he hurries out of the store, slamming the door behind him. Rage bubbles up in both Robert and Vincent, and they get a feeling they need to dispose of these cards. To destroy them.
Kaoru Naito Ugh, these projections feel like lists of chores. He figures whatever is over there is important, so he’ll just step up to the machine to take the coin with him for now, in case they need it, and go to the store to watch what they’re doing fully.
Meanwhile, In Kaoru Kingdom…
Kaoru approaches the ride, reaching toward the coin, but...
As soon as his feet hit the footprints in front of the car…
He's gone.
The coin clatters to the ground, there's a loud, sickening crunch, and Kaoru is ejected forcefully from the projection.
The front of the car now has a severe amount of blood smeared across it.
