Shadotoriko

I just bought the new Japanese game, The Last Guardian. I only saw the gameplay with Jacksepticeye and it just looked so much fun, so I decided to buy it from GameStop. Since the game was only for the PS4 (which I have), I plopped it in and played it. As I played, I felt like having Trico by my side, really made me feel like I was having a mythical creature as a pet. But as we got to were my Trico was fighting another creature similar, things got a little strange. As the armored Trico snarled at the boy I'm playing as, I noticed that it's mouth moved up and down, as if talking.
 I didn't notice this until I realized that it was actually talking, but it wasn't talking like a normal person, but it was lip syncing while it growled at the player, me. I defeated the boss and went on to beat the game. After a while, I turned the game off and realized that while I was beating the "Evil Trico" boss, I got a text on my phone. It was just a wall of random numbers, similar to a binary code. And in one of those texts, there was a hidden message that says one simple phrase, "RUN".
I was weirded out by this, who would want to give me a binary code with the word 'run'? Better yet, who gave me the code? I asked my friends, who were fans of The Last Guardian, about the code. They said they have never seen the code before, but it might be something that can give me some sort of clue.
I typed in the code on my laptop, and what came up, was a Japanese article about a famous Japanese game developer that died in 2015 from a tumor in his bile duct. His name was, Satoru Iwata. He worked on Nintendo for years before he died. I already know that Satoru Iwata died of a tumor. Why did someone show me something I already know? I think someone is trying to troll me or something. I live in Tokyo Japan, so we already know first till you Americans did. Might as well be getting a head start.
I spent most of my time playing the game, but I swore to Christ that during my gameplay, I felt like... something was watching me play. I thought it must of been me being home alone, but something occurred during my time on the PS4. I thought about the article, and the time I fought the Armored Trico on the bridge. I thought I must of spent too much time on the game and needed a break, but I felt like I was being summoned by something I couldn't see, but it can see me. I'd try to repress it, but it keeps coming back. I don't know if anybody can feel how I feel, or why Satoru's death has anything to do with this game. But I had tried to solve this mystery as soon as possible.
And trust me when I say, it didn't have good results.
I texted my friend, Kai, who had been the son of a man who had an experience with an Oni (Demon or Ogre) when he was eleven, and told him everything. And he replied back with this,
"Wa watashi wa anata no hanashi ga nandearu ka shitte iru to omoimasu. Ningyo ya terebi no yona yori kimyona mono no naka ni seishin ga makikoma reta toki, shinda hito to issho ni ko no yona koto ga okorimasu.
Watashi wa satoshi no yurei ga watashi no mottomo akarui rironde wanaku anata no gemu o motte ita to omou ga, watashi wa tada suisoku shite iru. Watashinotosan wa o bachan to issho ni asobi ni isho o kite iru hito ga inai to wa omoimasen."
(I think I know what your talking about, these kind of things happen with a deceased person when their spirit winds up inside a more bizarre object, like a doll or a television set. I think the specter of Satoru had possessed your game, not my brightest theory, but I'm just guessing. I mean, my dad had a run-in with an Ogre, it's not like he saw a guy in a Halloween costume or something.)
I just sat there, thinking to myself, pondering about what he meant by, 'Possessing an animate object'. Is it possible? Could it? I just had to know more about this paranormal occurrence, so I asked him more about it, and he said,
"Ma, watashi wa ga toshokan de kore o rikai suru koto ga saisen no sakuda to omou. Watashi wa kon'ya watashinotosan to yurei o kenkyu shimasu. Soshite watashi wa shigotoba de anata o mirudeshou."
(Well, I think it's for the best that you go figure this out at the library. I'll go ghost hunting with my dad tonight, you go study on ghosts. And I'll see you at work.)
After my job at the buffet as a chef, I went home and played the game again. And I thought and thought more about what Kai told me in those texts. I was so desperate and tired from multiple sleepless nights, that I thought I was becoming paranoid and wanted to isolate myself from humanity. But thank Buddha that I wasn't. And yes, I'm a Buddhist, thank you for asking. I began to wonder if I could ever solve this riddle, I read every article about ghosts, how they work, how they are able to haunt houses or others, anything. But I turned up with nothing. How is it that this answer remains unanswered, how is it that I'm not loosing it? And how is it that I can't figure out if there is a ghost in my game or not?!
It didn't take long for me to have my endless questions, answered...
I got a text from an anonymous person, saying,
"Watashi wa tani no masuta ni tsurete kita. Soshite kare wa watashi no gisei o ukeireta..."
(I had been brought to The Master of The Valley. And he accepted my sacrifice...)
W-what sacrifice? What is this crazy person talking about?! Anyway, I asked him or her what is this all meant, and he or she showed me a picture of what seems to be... Jesus christ... a skeleton... of a young boy... or what remained of him after what happened after he was cooked though. It was like the most bloodiest Thanksgiving dinner I have ever seen, it was like something out of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre! I choked back vomit, I could see bits of flesh still attached to some limbs, I even saw a finger on a eaten plate full of beans, and blood covered the entire table and formed puddles. It didn't look fake, it was real. I sent the photo to police, and they said they'll find out who had eaten the boy, who is eleven and had been reported missing.
I had stopped playing that game, for I then knew the truth. Kai visited my home one night and we looked up YouTube videos of the gameplay were the player fights the Armored Trico on the bridge. Then Kai told me something that will haunt me for the rest of my life.
He said that the Armored Trico WAS talking (but it looked as if snarling), to the players... it said... "There's... No hope... For you... In Heaven..."
I had chills go down my back when that happened. I had been able to beat the game though, I cried when I had to say goodbye to my loyal companion. I bet you Americans did the same thing too, I saw the gameplays on YouTube. And I saw you guys ball your eyes out when you saw Trico fly away, never to be seen again. But that didn't help the fear I was going through. I went to bed and had a dream were I was being eaten feet first by a shadowy beast similar to Trico in my own room. I kicked and screamed as loud as I could, but no one could hear me. Not even the neighbors. I could see the creature's eyes and horns, instead of lavender or turquoise, it was a disgusting blood red. And it's eyes looked human.
 And when I woke up with a yelp, I saw, under the moonlight through my window, just inches of the foot of my bed... a dark, naked man, standing there... staring at me... His face, even though human... resembled Trico's. He puts his finger against his wide lips, and said,
"Shhhhhhh......."
Before vanishing, into thin air.
Category:Video Games
Category:Ghosts
Category:Nightmare
Category:Cryptic Message
Category:Dismemberment
Category:Death