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Warnings: Reference to chapter 19 of chu (spoilers)

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Locked in a Cage
05
(You're In My Brain)

He could hear it. Jin was sure of it; there, just in the corner of his mind, where it would not leave him. No matter what he tried, it always seemed to be there.

Never, never… always… forever there…

Why… I wonder why…

A surge of memories. They didn't belong to him, they didn't. But at the same time, there was something familiar about them – Jin just couldn't place as to why, though. He didn't know if he wanted to; it seemed too much for him to take, to understand.

Yet as he got older, the idol had been able to rein control over the strange pieces of his life that he did not recognise as his own, and had lived on with what he knew to be true. It wasn't long before he had formed a career that had people falling at his feet in admiration, as well as a promising future.

Then there were the dreams.

A girl – a goddess more like – began to materialise, and Jin began to feel the urge to find her; even if it meant moving from school and doing everything he could to locate the one person, he knew he could do it.

Jin did find her, in the end: a girl named Hanazono Karin. His 'goddess', in his mind and dreams, and perhaps the one to save him (From what, though? He didn't know).

Time passed; the memories seemed to cease. Yes, Jin was content, more than anything else.

But it changed at an instant.

A ring. All it took was a ring to shatter what he knew of his life.

The voices, the memories, everything… they overwhelmed him easily. And he could nothing about it. Jin was weak, after all – he knew he put too much faith in others.

Perhaps, in the end, this was his punishment.