#ginjiroudeath

( tw: vehicular homicide )

As instructed you look down at your bracelet and see that a video has indeed started playing on it. From what you can make out the video appears to show Ginjirou standing in a busy subway station with several passengers moving around. Though the other occupants of the underground railway all seem to be moving in a rather unnatural way. Rather than walking they appear to just float across the floor without their feet touching the ground. As they pass by Ginjirou you watch as he effortlessly pushes the floating humanoids into a train cart that had just arrived at the station.

Their lifeless bodies float towards the entrance to the cart as he pushes them forward but when they reach the door instead of floating on into the cart the seem to just launch themselves in. Their bodies fly forward into the cart and sprawl out onto the floor or seat that they land in like a puppet with its strings cut. Wait, it seems like these people might actually be just that! On further inspection they all seem to be mannequins, not real people. And the reason why they're all floating is that they all seem to be pulled along by a string connected to the ceiling of the underground tunnel. When they reach the cart they become disconnected from the strings holding them up and fall lifelessly to the ground in their cart.

After Ginjirou finishes pushing several dozen mannequins into the various carts on the train currently stationed in the tunnel the vehicle begins to take off. Apparently it had finally reached full occupancy, although he was used to being able to fill these types of trains with significantly more bodies. Regardless as the train takes off he becomes left alone in the tunnel as more mannequins continue to enter. There's not too much he can do while he waits for the next train to arrive and while he stands there waiting he is pushed back and forth as several of the mannequins slam into him at a quick pace. One such mannequin nearly topples him over into the tracks of the railway, but luckily he manages to catch his balance before that can happen.

Finally the next train pulls into the station and he is quickly able to relieve some of the congestion in the station by stuffing the carts of the train with the excess mannequins. In no time he is able to cut down the total occupancy of the station by well over half before the train closes its doors and takes off to wherever it might be heading.

As time goes on more trains arrive at the station and he continues to pile more and more of the lifeless bodies into them before shipping them off. However a growing problem becomes more and more apparent. The amount of mannequins continuously entering the station seem to greatly surpass that amount that he is able to clear from the station with each train that shows up. At first it becomes just a little crowded but after a while it becomes difficult to even move around with all of the mannequins floating around. It's almost like being stuck in a theme park on opening day.

Eventually the amount of mannequins becomes too much for him to control and despite his best efforts they forcefully rush him off of the platform straight down onto the train tracks below. Dozens upon dozens of the mannequins follow him on his descent down, their wires snapping as they move past the platform. As he hits the ground several of the mannequins come crashing down on top of him, pinning him down to the ground. But he refuses to let this stop him. Painfully he claws his way out from underneath the pile of lifeless body and eventually is able to pull himself free.

Once he no longer has the dead weight of several mannequins resting upon him it becomes easier for him to stand up and prepare to climb up and on out from the train tracks. Except when he finally looks up the platform seems to be much higher up than it had been before. Were the train tracks really this deep the whole time? Well, no. Unbeknownst to him the platform had actually been lifted up almost like some sort of elevator contraption while he had been stuck underneath all of the mannequins. With how high it had been raised there's no real way for him to climb out, even if he used the piles of mannequins as a staircase. To make matters even worse he hears the distant rumbling and whirring of the next train preparing to pull into the station.

Then suddenly it happens. A spotlight appears from the ceiling, calling attention to a lever that he had never noticed before planted in the ground next to the tracks. In fact, he wasn't sure if it even had been there the whole time. His bracelet begins to vibrate as a short animated GIF begins to play depicting a diagram of a train heading down a path towards a pixel art version of his face. Next to his pixel is what appears to be a lever. Suddenly the pixelated lever is turned and the train suddenly switches course down another tunnel which appears to have several pixel art people tied down to the tracks. At this point it becomes clear, either he lets the train continue down the path towards himself, or direct it onto a group of innocent strangers.

He hesitates for a moment before rushing over to the lever and pulling it. After all the GIF never specified who the people tied to the rails were. For all he knows they could just be more mannequins and it's not like a few more of those getting roughed up would cost him any sleep.

Just as promised the rumbling of the train seems to subside as it sounds like it switches onto a new course. It seems like he had actually managed to save his skin and possibly avoided his execution after all. Maybe this had all just been some kind of messed up text.

But then he hears it. The rumbling returns, but this time from a different direction. He quickly spins around to see the train rushing in from the opposite end of the tunnel straight towards him.

The tunnel was a loop the whole time.