ONE YEAR LATER.

Somewhere in this world, there lies a giant hole in the world. An abyss said to have been created by the Sun Goddess’s spear piercing her sister. People from all walks of life come to this hole in pilgrimage to cast away any worldly possessions they had come here with. It was an act to release them their greed. Most of the time it was mere garbage.

Once they casted it aside they would clap their hands twice and offered a wish to their Sun Goddess.

Because of this the abyss was called the Wishing Well.

It wasn’t just trash people cast in this abyss. Criminals as well were cast into the Well. At the edge of the hole was a processing center and an elevator that descended to the bottom of this abyss. Anyone unfortunate to have been sent here will never come back.

The elevator would descend and ascend once per day. Once to drop the prisoners, and the other to bring back the empty elevator.

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It is a death sentence. There are rumors of monsters that feasted upon these prisoners once they touch the bottom. No one knows for sure if this is true. Many of the guards stationed at this center questioned whether it were true or not.

They also wondered why the criminals would even get out. The captain of this facility gave the new guard a clasp to the shoulder and a smile.

"Because they have no choice but to get off.”

The guard that asked this would have his answer a few days later when the elevator had reached its ascendance to their facility.

In that empty elevator, was half a body, cleaved in two. The face of a criminal that had murdered a family of four. His eyes wide and his mouth agape in shock.

When hearing this from the new guard, the captain chuckled.

“You’re quite lucky. It’s only been a few days since you started and already you got one to toss back in the abyss.” His smile widened as he leaned in, his eyes so intense, it made the new guard shirk. “Make sure to make a wish when you do.”

The guard kicked the body into the abyss and made his wish.

He wished that he would never see something like that again.

His wish came true when he slipped and struck his head the next week.