Episode 1: Kill me... please.

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## Synopsis

A young girl named Rachel awakens at the bottom basement level of a closed-up building. She's lost her memories and has no idea why she's here.

## Summary

Rachel's counselor Danny asks what Rachel saw. Suddenly, Rachel is in a different moonlit room and now wants to see her mother and father. She exits the room but does not recognize where she is, previously being in a hospital. Cameras loom above as Rachel walks to a wall and reads the written text:

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> *Who really are you?
> You should ask yourself.
> Who am I?
> The real myself or the one I believe to be?
> An angel? Or a sacrifice?
> Know yourself and new doors will open.*
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Rachel enters a room with a typewriter that asks multiple questions about why she is here. After Rachel has answered some, which includes seeing people killed being the reason she is at the hospital, doors open to an elevator. It is announced in the elevator that "the girl on the bottom level has been selected as a sacrifice" and for the guardians to "begin preparations on each floor."

This puzzles Rachel as she travels to the area where beyond it is the "play area." Rachel grows anxious as the atmosphere and sounds surround her as she finds an exit. Rachel encounters an injured bird in a position an unknown terror is roaming toward. Zack debuts with a bang through a wall. Zack begins a countdown from three to give a horrified Rachel a chance to run away.

Zack gives chase to Rachel who enters a room of potential hiding spots. Rachel hides in a box Zack suspects she is in. Zack swings his axe at the box but could not hit the frozen Rachel. Zack walks away assuming Rachel is somewhere else. Rachel exits the box and attempts to escape. She encounters the bird that was killed, or so it appeared until Rachel saw it was not the same bird. She stitched the bird together to not look "pitiful".

During this time, Zack saw Rachel's hair cut off by one of his swings and realizes he missed his chance. Zack finds Rachel approaching an elevator passage and attempts to kill her. Rachel makes it to the elevator in time and travels to the hospital floor where she encounters Danny.

Danny reassures Rachel he is real and that Zack will not come to the current floor. Rachel and Danny set out to find an exit. Rachel asks why Danny did not run away, and Danny answers he knew Rachel would make it to this floor, which Rachel finds strange. The two encounter a glass wall that is too thick to break. Danny concludes they are trapped and will have to stay together forever, which distresses Rachel further. The two enter a room where Rachel reads the written text:

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> *Do you know what you really want?
> Desire, do you know what it is?
> There is no reason to fight against it, if it is your true desire.
> There is no reason for you to be here too.
> But remember, don't break the rules.
> For each wish, there is a price: that's the rule.*
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Rachel asks what these "rules" are and what "desire" is. Danny answers the latter with his desire to have perfect eyes like Rachel's, as one of his does not work well. When Rachel goes to wipe the dust off some illegible text (quoted in the manga), Danny grabs her arm to prevent dust from entering her eyes.

Danny takes an anxious Rachel to the operating room and asks her to let him have a good look at her eyes. Danny praises and obsesses over Rachel's eyes, commenting on how they are like his mothers when Rachel is not terrified and how he wants to live his life next to Rachel's eyes. Danny asks Rachel to check the back room for "something important", which intends to help Rachel remember something.

Rachel enters the room to find false eyes, which Danny takes one of to replace his dysfunctional eye. Danny instructs Rachel not to run away. However, Rachel is convinced that is not the Danny she knows and attempts to escape, using a crowbar to open the locked door. Danny catches Rachel, looks monstrous, and attempts to take her now non-ideal eyes.

Danny pins a pleading Rachel to the operating table, the former continuing to obsess over her eyes and memory of why things are happening. Danny's attempts do not work, however, and Rachel asks to go home to her parents, who are "in Hell" to Danny. His comment triggers a flashback for Rachel, resulting in her paralysis. Danny marvels at Rachel's eyes becoming beautiful again until Zack appears and slashes him down. Zack goes to kill Rachel, but her paralyzed state forces Zack to think about how boring her death would be.

An announcement says Zack has now become a sacrifice, prompting him to run away. Rachel comments on the flashback convinced she should be dead. Rachel reacts to the banging noises by Zack, who is attempting to escape. Rachel walks up to him and asks him a favor:

> *"Kill me... please."*
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## Character Appearances

* Rachel Gardner
* Zack
* Danny