"I know what it is. But it's a long explaining, and you most likely won't even believe me." Akira replied bleakly, avoiding her gaze. It wasn't a subject he'd be too open about. Only his parents, sister, and two of his friends actually knew what it was... And he avoided talking about it as much as possible.<br/><br/>"When I was 19 and started college, I was a young idiot. I got taken on a trip to Thailand with my friends. We were playing a kind of... Extreme version of truth or dare. Me an one of us three - Ryu, the guy that appeared in the video chat once - had to follow a touristic path through one of the forests at night. I guess you would have figured out that it was a party too wild for us to be sober if we played something so stupid, and we... Simply lost each other. I fell into some kind of river or what and tried to get back to the path, but I couldn't find it. Then I heard something behind me, and there was this huge animal with bright red eyes. It creeped the hell out of me and I ran, but it was faster. About as big as a tiger, and it had the same shape, too. It jumped at me from the back, I kicked it. I remember the rest only vaguely, I was too stressed out, but it took a bite of me... Then I think I broke its neck, because it suddenly collapsed. But when I woke up in the morning on the same spot, there was nothing, I was just laying in a pile of ashes. It was scary. Honestly scary. Then, this started happening." he explained, instinctively grabbing his hands.