There was a girl on the floor. This floor was made of a really cold material, and so the girl felt as if she was in the middle of the snow. She wasn’t in the wild, but inside a house. She didn’t feel the sun but it wasn’t night.

“Did you wake up?” The girl heard a voice.

She could see a figure in her eyes, but it was too blurry to actually know who he was.

“Huh?... w-what?” The girl was finally returning to reality.

She managed to see a boy in dirty robes.

“You’re alive. That’s great. Tell me, what’s your name?” The boy asked.

“… Re-Rena…” The girl answered.

“Oh… that’s good. My name is Kotla. Seriously, it’s crazy what happened to you out there, I found you with a strange person and rescued you from him. What kind of trouble do you have with him? He looked very terrific” Asked Kotla.

Rena stood up from the ground and realized her stomach was hurting a lot.

“Oh, are you damaged there? Sorry, didn’t check” The boy noticed.

“You… guh… do you know my language?” Asked Rena.

“Why of course. I know English, Spanish and Arabian, is that strange?” Answered Kotla.

The girl took a glance to the room in which she was at the moment.

Kotla opened a door in the room. The moment he opened it, a light passed through it and the room was lit.

The boy finally opened the windows and now the room was fully lit.

“Do you want to get out? It’s not good to always be in closed places” Kotla proposed.

But the girl was worried about something else. Her stomach, what was that pain? It wasn’t too much, but it was enough to make her growl in pain when she tried to walk. Anyways, Rena started to walk towards the door, little by little… but…

Rena cried a scream of terror after seeing the reality of the place where she was. The light wasn’t a sun, but a simple light.

There were many tables, and on the tables there were culinary tools. But the thing that made the girl most terrified wasn’t the knives. At the very least, not the fact that there were multiple knives, but the fact that they were stained in a red color. The same was with every other tool.

It was obvious to Rena that this red color was nothing else than the liquid inside the human body. Blood.

One would think this was pure speculation though, there were many tables, but this didn’t mean that this young boy would eat humans, would it? This speculation was confirmed after he saw human organs on one of the tables.

The boy behind her started doing strange noises with its mouth. When Rena wanted to see what was going on, a human heart was in Kotla’s hand. “Do you know this? Normally, a person wouldn’t be able to swallow a whole human heart in one go. He would probably die”

Rena cried at this voice that pierced through her ears. She immediately tried to reach Kotla’s face with her hand’s palm and hit him.

“That hurts so much, you know?” While Kotla was caressing his cheek because of the hit.

Another slap was Rena’s answer to this. The woman didn’t know what was going to happen to her if she didn’t stop doing this. She was only answering with her instincts in a situation of great danger.

This slap made Kotla flinch and this made a way for Rena to escape. Now, she could see that there was another door, and this time, this door was her way out.

Rena started running towards the door, and with a slam it opened. She could finally see the sun, but she didn’t have time for that… instead, Rena started running from Kotla.

***

After thirty minutes, Rena couldn’t see the boy anymore, but she couldn’t see any city or village neither, it was just sand, desert… this is the Desert of Sahara after all.

She was breathing heavily, and was very exhausted. So much that she couldn’t run anymore. “Did… did I lose him?”

“As if” She heard a voice near her.

Rena cried and turned around, but she didn’t see anyone.

“You don’t understand, do you?” She heard it again.

Rena turned and turned and turned around, but even so, she couldn’t see the boy. Kotla was there with her, but she couldn’t see him.

“Right now, most people would consider you as good as dead” Rena became terrified at these words.

Her stomach became much more painful and unsupportable by the time. Rena couldn’t move anymore, so she fell on that place.

“Tell me, do you want to live, or die? Depending on the answer, it’s possible that I’ll let you die now, let you die later, or let you actually live” Asked the boy.

Rena could see the boy far away… so far away she couldn’t even recognize him, but she knew that figure was Kotla.

And so, her mouth opened and she let out words from it…

“I… I want to live” That was her answer, while she cried.

The pain in her stomach was so much that she couldn’t talk anymore. It’s like this pain was acting according to the situation she was in.

A minute of silence is what abandoned her in this desert. Rena finally thought she was free of him, but…

“I see. If that’s your wish, I’ll let you live. I never said I wouldn’t hurt you though, did I?” Rena couldn’t scream, she couldn’t answer anymore, she couldn’t move and her eyes were almost empty, she couldn’t even feel, but somehow she was alive.

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“Really, who thought you would be alive after that? If devouring your whole stomach wasn’t enough to make you die, I wonder what will. Or… actually, I think I actually didn’t let you die because I wanted this to happen” A laugh started resonating. A laugh that came from a boy that was completely out of his mind.

***

Rena was in the same room as before. She passed out in the middle of the desert when Kotla found her and came back with her, she now had ropes clinging her to a wall.

“Hehehe… isn’t this just great” Kotla kicked Rena’s face. She felt pain, but couldn’t move. “Hey, do you know what Kotla sounds like? It’s not my real name, but that actually does sound like saying “assassin” in Arabic. Isn’t that just a great nickname? People don’t know me by that name now though, but someday they will” Kotla said.

The boy went to the same room as before, the room with the lights and the culinary tools. For Rena, that room was a nightmare.

But for Kotla, it’s possible that his whole life turned around that room and the things he does inside of it.

When Kotla came out, he brought a pair of giant pincers in his hand. It looked like it would really hurt if something was to be pulled out with those…

“Do you know what these work for?” Kotla lifted his hand with the pincers in it, and then slammed one claw with the other, making a huge noise that scared Rena. “They work for this!” While in the other hand, he had a full jaw from one of his victims, surely he used this tool for that.

Usually, the paralysis that Rena was in wouldn’t go away, but the great fear Rena had dominated her body and so she finally managed to talk. But this didn’t help her at all, all she did was scream.

“You’re really noisy, don’t you think? I wonder now… would you shut up if I took out your vocal cords with this? If I do that, I’ll need to protect you from the bleeding and yeah, yeah. But who gives a damn? After all, you were the one who wanted to be alive” The pincers were getting closer and closer to Rena’s face. She cried so much that this started to annoy Kotla. “Shut up, you bitch!” The giant pincers impacted Rena’s mouth and a great creaking sound could be heard.

Rena stopped trying to scream, because now, every time she tried to do so, pain would come to her jaw.

“You’ve stopped talking at all. I wonder what happened” Suddenly, Kotla started to laugh. “Oh my god, just look at your face! You look just like an idiot, did I seriously do that to you? What a work of art!” Then, the boy stopped laughing and apparently had a great idea. “You remember what I said about those vocal cords? That was a joke, but thinking about it… it may be good enough” Kotla suggested.

Even with the pain, Rena still cried of fear from this.

“Pff… hahahah! Isn’t this just incredible!” Kotla started laughing very loud. “Well now, I should stop playing around… and little by little, start to screw up your mouth, to destroy from where the sound you’re doing comes from” Said Kotla.

The pincers started to come closer to Rena’s mouth, but she covered the entrance with her teeth.

“That’s going to make it worse!” The pincers impacted every teeth that Rena had. The pain was enough to make Rena writhe around. Her own reality was being destroyed, she was going to go insane at this, and didn’t want to live anymore.

“Why did I want to live” Was what Rena thought that very moment.

The pincer soon entered Rena’s throat.

“Here it goes!” Kotla said, and then a great struggle started on Rena’s throat.

The pain was intense, cruel. The feeling of her own vocal cords being pulled out of her own throat was like if her throat was burning on fire inside. Right now, she was feeling that kind of pain.

The pain soon made her stop reacting at all. She stopped writhing, and her sanity finally disappeared. She was still alive, but even so, Rena couldn’t emit any noise from her mouth, her teeth were all destroyed, and her jaw was completely broken.

Instead of thinking about her life, Rena thought “I want to die, to die, I want to die. Die, die, die, I want them to kill me. Kill me now, end this suffering. Why did I wish to live?” That was everything that kept going on in her mind.

***

Two days… or maybe three? Four? It didn’t matter to Rena anymore. She was still clinging to the wall like always.

The door was opened by a slam and Kotla appeared with a huge smile in his face. Not only that, he was also carrying a dead body. Like every day, Rena wasn’t scared of dying, she wanted exactly that… and so, she was filled with happiness when Kotla saw her and his face became sad.

“You’re not as funny as before. I’ve realized that already. I guess it’s time to screw you and let you rot with all those corpses on the sand there” Said Kotla, with a knife in his hand.