The Mimic 2: Enzukai's Awakening

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On one rainy night, Isamu goes to the office to check on the corpse of his brother, Senzai, in the autopsy room. He mourns about his brother's loss and desperately wants to know what happened to him in Aogashima Island where Senzai was last seen before his death.

Isamu immediately sets off to Aogashima Island on his speedboat, commenting on how things don't seem right. Upon almost arriving at the island, his boat suddenly turns off by itself. Before he could process things any further, an inky-black creature with a pair of glowing white eyes appears in front of his boat. He immediately knew something was strange and that the creature does not look friendly at all. The creature raises one of it's arm and slams Isamu 's boat, knocking him out in the process. Isamu faintly regains consciousness at one point and saw that someone was dragging him somewhere, before blacking out again.

Isamu wakes up in a room of an unknown Minka. He sees a candle and picks it up while questioning what happened beforehand. At the same time, he is still grateful that he is still alive at some point.

As he walks around for a bit, he stumbles upon a room with broken pieces of a vase, rows of dolls, and a book on a table in the middle of the room. Isamu proceeded to read what was written on the book. The book tells about two sisters named Rin and Mio who lived in poverty and starved themselves. One day, Mio came home overfilled with joy that made her sister skeptical. Rin came to a final thought that Mio had been eating without her. Eventually, as jealousy took over her, she cannibalized her own sister. She immediately got crushed by extreme guilt of what she did after she found out Mio had been saving money for the both of them. Leading up to that, a mouth appears at the back of Rin, the mouth of her sister who will wail and persecute Rin if she is not fed well.

After reading the book, Isamu is tasked to find 7 rats and poison it in the well for Mio to consume them as said by a bloody writing on the wall. He starts to find them while being hunted by Rin. Isamu searched all over the Minka while avoiding Rin and eventually found all 3 rats. He poisoned them and offered one by one as he rang the bell in a room. As he tries to escape, Rin realizes that she was being tricked and told him he made Mio upset. Mio then chases Isamu through hallways full of obstacles and luckily escapes her Minka.

After Isamu escapes the terrifying Mio, he ends up in a hallway of heads. Each of the floating heads were staring at him as he was walks through, two of the heads even screaming at him. Nearing the end of the hallway, the exit opens up to a grassy landscape covered in bio-luminescent fungi, lightning bolts flashing in the seemingly endless abyss and tall rocks surrounding the area, covering it from any outsiders like a fantasy world full of horror. All of this, along lit up by lanterns dotted across the lush area, was straight out of a fantasy turned into a nightmare to Isamu, as the area is calm, yet eerie.

As he was exploring, he spots a staircase attached onto the hillside and decides to climb up the long staircase. As he finally reaches the top, the ground suddenly shakes below his feet and a giant, snake-like creature rises up from the decrepit waters below and instantly starts searching for the person who’d dared to cross her path. As all this was happening, Isamu ducked inside the grass, trying to avoid the snake's line of sight. After a few seconds of searching, the demonic entity dives back down into the waters below, giving Isamu free time to cross the moss-covered log. As Isamu reaches the other side of the log, the demonic snake feels the footsteps of Isamu and rises back up from the waters and tries to look for him again, the process repeats itself until he manages to arrive at the bridge.

He crosses the poorly constructed bridge made of bones and arrives at a luscious cave surrounded by random boulders and white stems. As he walks through the cave, the demonic creature spots him and decides to slither behind him. As the ground below Isamu shook once again, he looked behind him and there it was, the snake-like creature chasing him through the cave. Isamu ran as fast as he could and barely makes it out alive, the cave leading him to a mysterious village.

Following his escape from the demonic snake, Isamu lands up in an unknown village. After wandering around, he spots someone in the distance, standing outside a minka. He walks up to the mysterious looking boy, then asks the boy about escaping. The boy comments about how he has never seen his kind before and advises him to look and speak with an old man residing near a river.

After finding old man Keneo, Isamu speaks to Keneo, who says that he reeks of human scent and the he hasn't seen a human in ages. Keneo also wonders how a "weak brat" like Isamu managed to escape The Great Nure. Switching back to his topic, Keneo talks with Isamu for a while before bringing up an offer to the young lad. He instructs the man to steal a Seishin Orb that is guarded by the "Blind witch" and although he would steal it by himself, he first mentions the Kiiroibara Cult to be always watching and somewhat ruthless. In exchange for this, he would bring Isamu to a boat.

Isamu returns to the rest of the town and finds the house Keneo requested him to retrieve the orb from. Inside, the lady Keneo spoke of hunts him down as he attempts to find the five correct paintings. Though there are many paintings, only �five paintings’ candles can be lit up. Isamu solves the puzzle after he realizes that he only needs to light the paintings he has seen throughout the minkas in the surrounding area.

Upon hiding from Tsukiya and moving strategically, Isamu successfully summons the orb and steals it before she spots him. He brings the orb to Keneo and is brought to a boat, albeit broken down and rusted, as if it was a sunken ship. Later on, a Betobeto-San called Kodama informs Isamu that Keneo's task was a trick and mocks him for falling for it.

After talking to Kodama, Isamu continues his path and comes across a sunken cruise ship, the ship's body already rusting. He goes in and appears in the cabin floor. He realizes that the air in the ship is diluted and that he must replenish his oxygen before he suffocates. He walked further to see an elevator guarded by a slime monster with many eyes, Hyakume. He successfully avoids Hyakume and proceeds into another side of the floor. He found a set of candles with a moving eye on the wall next to it. He lights the candles and took the elevator to the upper floor. The upper floor was a sort of fancy dining place guarded by a Three-Eyed Monster.

Isamu discovers 3 sets of candles. At the bottom floor was the boiler room guarded by Kyogi. On the boiler floor was 5 sets of candles. A total of 9 sets of candles. There were 3 phases, and Isamu was tasked to light a specific amount of candles every phase. As he passes a phase, the candles immediately light out and the required number of the candles he needs to light up for the next phase increases.

Isamu frantically kept refilling his oxygen via conveniently placed tanks around the ship as he lit the needed candles and was chased by the three monsters. However, he, as expected, accomplishes the task and moves onward to a vent located on the bottom floor.

After encountering Enzukai in Chapter I, Isamu wakes up in a black nightmare. He encounters a figure, who says his name. Isamu runs towards the figure, but wakes up inside the deep ocean. He avoids several Umibozus that try to attack him and manages to escape, but a mysterious hand grabs him from a giant door and knocks him out.

Isamu wakes up in a mysterious palace, where he encounters several Jikininki. He wonders if his brother had come here before, remembering his brothers' stories about an alternate world. He concludes his conversation with himself by deciding that he should look for the man in his dream. Isamu realizes that the Jikininki are too distracted to notice him as long as he stays quiet and doesn’t step on any glass. Isamu must traverse lightly through the palace, careful to not step on shards of glass, before reaching a bridge. The bridge takes Isamu to a glowing blue portal. Inside it is the entrance to the Meat Restaurant.

After escaping the flesh eaters, he encounters a creature called Nuppeppo. Nuppeppo says to him, "What an ugly creature you are," and says that Isamu is in luck because it has recently became a vegetarian. It requests that Isamu collects multiple meat pieces in an abandoned restaurant (The number of meat submitted to Nuppeppo will vary depending on the number of players). Isamu does so, but finds a giant blob-shaped monster, known as Kuishinbo, searching the same restaurant for him. After giving Nuppeppo all the meat, it opens a door for Isamu to escape.

After reaching the door, Isamu walks down a hallway, where he falls through the floor, back into the restaurant. Then, several skeletons appear and chase Isamu out of the restaurant. After escaping, Isamu thinks that he is losing his mind and tries to calm himself down.

Soon after calming down, Isamu arrives at an underwater city with Bakekujiras and glowing fish. He is tasked to find multiple levers to open a gate door that leads him into a strange cavern.

Upon arriving, Isamu notices a huge Enzukai statue as he goes down a flight of rock stairs, arriving upon a foggy cavern with more Jikininki and an equation puzzle at the end. Isamu works with the numbers that he can use to solve the equation puzzle, this making his escape.

After escaping, Nuppeppo appears again and tells Isamu that if he wants to live, he has to cook food for a bull-like monster, named Zuboshi.

Nuppeppo exclaims that Isamu 's cooking is horrible, saying that Isamu is now on his own. Isamu is confused, but runs for his life as the enraged bull monster chases him through a long chase sequence, which has boulders and pillars attempting to stop him. He eventually reaches the end of the cavern and just as all hope seems lost, rocks fall and block Zuboshi from killing Isamu. It is unknown if he was crushed or just blocked by the rocks.

Isamu escapes, but finds himself in yet again another area, with a monster (also known as Teiryu) that requires Isamu to play red light, green light in order to escape. Isamu carefully moves across the floor, eyeing the monster carefully and waiting for it to raise its hand to start moving, and when it puts down its hand again to stop moving. As soon as Isamu reaches the ladder at the end, he runs towards a tower.

Isamu encounters a tower where he has to solve multiple memory based puzzles while avoiding a deadly monster (Ryoshi) that will kill him if he doesn't hide in time. As Isamu goes further and further up, the puzzles get more tedious and more harder to remember in order to trick him, but Isamu escapes swiftly into yet another new area.

Isamu stumbles into another place, which then he encounters Chihiro, a small child-like monster girl inside a playground. Mistaking Isamu for a friend, Chihiro tells him that she wants to play hide and seek with him. She tells him if he wins, she will help him escape. She warns Isamu to find her before her "Mother" finds him. Isamu plays a couple of rounds with Chihiro, and escapes via a gate inside the playground. Although, he ends up in the same area but with an extreme thick fog and darkness, where he is forced to collect certain amount of notes while avoiding Chihiro's Mother, Kurayami at the same time. After completion, Chihiro appears once more and lets Isamu ride her pet, PonPon. PonPon guides Isamu out of the water, throwing him onto a nearby pirate ship.

Isamu then encounters Nagisa in the water, out for Isamu’s blood. Isamu has no other choice but to battle and kill Nagisa using cannons on the ship, having to avoid several deadly attacks towards the boat and prevent it from sinking into the ocean. After numerous amount of cannonballs shot at Nagisa, she lets out one last wail of pain before collapsing into the water. However, she emerged once more and opened her mouth wide. Revealing another small snake in her mouth, looking much more disgusting and hideous in her new form. Now Isamu must dodge her attacks again and use a katana to destroy Nagisa. After using the katana many times, the hideous snake fell into the sea once again.

After defeating Nagisa, the mysterious figure from Isamu’s dream in the start of the chapter turns Isamu around and punches him in the face, knocking him out. Isamu wakes up in front of the figure gasping for air, who is revealed to be Senzai. Senzai asks his brother if he thought that he was the real hero of the story. He threatens Isamu not to make him laugh. He laughs at Isamu playing detective to avenge him. He tells Isamu to stop caring about him, calling him "pathetic", and that he is not the Senzai from the past; the brother that Isamu once knew is gone. He tells Isamu that he is fulfilling his destiny. He then welcomes Isamu to his world and summons his god, Enzukai.

Enzukai pulls Isamu towards itself, rips his heart out, and crushes it as Isamu falls died.... THE END.