Kyoko's Secret Plan for Josh? - The Film Student, #43
🕑 Added 2024-06-24 06:25:27 +0000 UTCBack in Tokyo, Josh was Kyoko's slave again but in a decidedly less sexual way. Kyoko made him edit the footage--all nine hours of it from the car and cabin--into a narrative-driven film.
Kyoko had provided Josh with an outline and a rough breakdown of scenes.
"Make it a loose combination of Misery and Silence of the Lambs, but make the boy--that's you, of course!--display the fear Shigeharu felt in the home invasion scene of Audition," Kyoko told him.
Josh worked deep into the night in his dorm room. It was a long, boring process. For much of the video, nothing was happening, but Josh had to go through and find every action scene that could possibly be cut into the final product. Then, he had to choose what scenes to feature. Out of hours of recordings, much of which were repetitive, it was not easy to find the scenes that fit together into a narrative and cut it down to thirty minutes, as the project required.
Kyoko came by a couple of times to check his progress, but she mostly left him by himself. Josh knew Kyoko had access to his room since she had admitted to breaking in during her torture of him in the cabin. She would retain access to his room. She could come at any time now or in the future. He was her slave, after all.
It was well past 1 am when Josh thought he was finally done with a workable first draft. Josh saved everything and was just about ready to shut down his computer when the door opened and Kyoko burst in again.
"Wa! You startled me, Kyoko. I thought you'd be asleep."
"Me? Asleep? This early?"
Kyoko was carrying a large stack of papers. She tossed them atop Josh's desk, cluttering the space he had just cleared.
"Read through these," she said. "I just rewrote the plot. Implement these changes in the film."
"Wait, what?"
Josh looked through the papers in a state of desperation.
"This is completely different from what you told me to do!" he complained.
"Slightly different. I just had revelations on how the film should be, and I needed to write it out."
"Can I do it tomorrow?"
"No, Josh. You know you need to get the first draft done tonight so that we can edit it tomorrow."
"I won't sleep! I'll have to redo everything!"
"Guess you'll have to get started working now. I'll go get a rest. Have a good night!" she said as she walked out and closed the door.
Josh sorted through the papers. There was a detailed outline, a scene-by-scene chart, character descriptions, and more. There were also some papers on math and science and other classes unrelated to the film project. Kyoko must have had her homework and notes from all her courses mixed together.
One was an academic paper on how to amputate infected human arms and legs. Kyoko was taking classes in the medical school, too. Hiroshi was right that she was kind of strange.
Josh took the plot outlines off the top and threw all the papers onto his bed. He'd give them back to Kyoko the next day. As he moved them, one paper fluttered out from the bottom of the stack and landed on the floor. The moment Josh saw its contents, he froze in terror.
On the paper was a diagram of a human body lacking arms and legs. The body seemed to have been sewn or attached into some kind of furniture. The person in that body seemed to still be alive. There was a fearful expression on his face--an expression that looked like the expression on the boy's face on his computer screen--that is, an expression that looked like his expression while he had been in the possession of Kyoko.
What else is Kyoko planning?
Josh pulled at the papers in the pile on his bed. He tried to find as much information as he could about what deranged ideas Kyoko might have in store for him. He pulled at the papers at the bottom of the pile. There were more diagrams of men with all of their arms and legs removed. The diagrams showed the torso and head combination from many different angles.
Then it showed a woman sitting down on the face of the thing. Suddenly, Josh was filled with an unfathomable combination of panic--and of arousal.
