'How did it come to this...'

Standing naked in front of a piece of glass, I could see I was indeed a girl.

"God, I'm sorry for everything I've ever done and said, but please... not even hell can be this painful."

"kuku, don't you know? God is never listening. If you want to be saved, tough luck. You help yourself, or you die."

I turned and put back on the rags that the little girl had been wearing before I-

'Nothing you do will bring her back.'

I shivered, not used to having a body totally devoid of heat. In fact, the cold was starting to seem more natural than warmth...

Once I had covered the important parts, I turned to the old man and tapped him on the shoulder.

"kuku, what do you want?"

"What was the name of this girl who's body I'm taking?"

He wore a fake thoughtful expression, then grinned with less teeth than a worm and shrugged.

"No idea! I forgot."

'This bastard, if I ever get the chance..."

"kuku, this hut you are in is where we house the kidnapped breeders."

The urge to puke was overwhelming. I didn't resist.

...

I wiped my mouth, and looked at the soggy pedo, who was almost steaming with anger.

"ku, you, you...!"

"So, now that you've trapped me in a body, what're you going to do with me?"

Still growling, he pulled out a piece of paper with a bunch of words on it.

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"Sign this."

I briefly looked through it, then shook my head.

"No. Way. Get lost, pedophile."

"wa-pedo-I'm not! Look, if you don't sign it, I'll vaporize you, got it?"

"Why? It says here, "In agreement with the above terms and conditions, I, ____, hereby sign my soul away to the shaman who captured me"."

"...I don't see what's wrong with it."

"hah, listen, I've got no reason to live- no friends, no family, no loved ones. So, if you were to give me something worth signing my soul away to you, I might-and I say might,-consider it.

For some reason he started tapping the side of his nose...

"kuku, I tell you what. If, at the end of the month you have not disobeyed me, I will let you pick any one soul."

'heh heh heh, I've got you now-

"except for mine."

"..."

"kuku, you think this is my first time dealing with spirits?"

"...damit..."

'well, what the hell. I've got nothing else to do, and if I don't I'll be vaporized...'

I sign and initial the agreement, and shake hands with the pedo. It seems I'll be working closely with this old man. Maybe this time I'll have better luck.

Oh, who am I kidding? This old man, and everything close to him, will crumble to dust before his eyes, now that I am here.

An omen of disaster-

that is what I have always been.