Grian walked in the office room, as usual. The atmosphere was the same as yesterday, but this time it somehow felt worse.

"Grian, there you are."

"Oh, Iskall." Grian was a bit surprised by the greeting, but didn;t say it out loud. "Did something happen again?"

"Yes, something did indeed happen." Iskall replied, seeming eager to tell him whatever happened. "You won't believe this: someone else high up in the company got assassinated."

Grian was surprised at the news, but remembering what happened last night, sort of expected it. "Really-? Who died? Bdubs?"

"xB, the head of our division." Iskall sighed. "It was pretty shocking news."

"xB died-?" Grian repeated in a sort of whisper as he walked to his desk. "So now 2 high officials have died in two days in a row-?"

"I know, mostly everyone is in a bit of a panic." Iskall whispered back. "Especially... Hypno."

"Oh right. Speaking of which, I don't see him in this room."

"He's in the infirmary right now. He was the closest to xB, them being friends before even joining the company, so he's understandably in a lot of grief right now."

"True..." Grian sat in his chair and turned on the computer. "By the way, who assassinated him?"

"It was rumored 'Hydden' did." Iskall said. "He was caught on one of the security cams, but that was it. Oh, and don't even try finding a news article about it."

"Why?" Grian was about to hit enter and go on the news page, but stopped.

"The CEO made a gag order." Iskall explained. "We're only allowed to discuss it among the other co-workers, but we're not allowed to discuss it in public."

"Why did he do that?" The other asked, confused. "Why is he trying to conceal xB's death, but didn't even make an attempt to cover up Cub's."

"Don't know, not sure." Iskall shrugged. "Anyways, I need to go now before Stress yells at me again, see ya later Gri!"

+---+---+

It was lunch break. And everyone was heading to the cafeteria, well, everyone except Hypno, that is.

Hypno sat inside the infirmary by himself, the room was empty. He was feeling a mix of a bunch of negative emotions, his head was just straight up dizzy. 

He was holding a picture of his now deceased best friend. He was just blankly staring at it. Time went on, but he just didn't care. 

Without realizing, he started tearing up.

"I'm so sorry..." He mumbled to nobody. Tears began falling from his eyes, and he didn't even bother to wipe them off. He just kept clutching onto the photo, talking as if xB could hear him. "...I had to do it... I'm sorry... I really am- I-"

Guilt

Grief

Sorrow

Lonely

That was all he felt. He just kept staring at the photo like it was his fault.

Like he was the one that took his best friend's own life.

And now you suffer from your findings