... What was my fault until all this happened to me?

I... Just love him, right? But why... Why did he do that to me?

Is it... Is it wrong to love him?

Is it wrong for me to happy when I am with him?

Is it wrong if I am always smiling every time I am with him?

Our relationship is indeed only limited to childhood friends who grew up and lived in the same village. However, I don't think the bond we have is this fragile... Until even you can easily kill me like this.

I just...

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"What do you want, little girl?"

A voice asked Vency that as her consciousness plunged into darkness.

(... Eh? What? There is someone? But...)

Vency opened her eyes when she heard the voice. She tried to find the owner of the voice, yet the only thing she could find was the pitch darkness that stretched as if infinitely around her, and the wet and cold sensation of something enveloping her body.

-It was a strange place.

(... I can't move my body?) Vency tried to stand up, but she couldn't move her body - or rather, she couldn't feel her lower body anymore. She has also lost the feeling of her hands.

And, in the moment when she forced her neck to move and stare towards her own body, Vency widened her eyes, (H-huh?!)

There, she could only see a pale, bloodied body that had lost the waist down. Some of her ribs even visible coming out and piercing some of her remaining skin and flesh.

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(Wh-what... W-what, what is this?!) Vency cried as she saw that. Or at least, she felt like she wanted to cry. Her chest felt tight, she felt difficult to breathe. However, she didn't cry, she couldn't.

"... Little girl, what do you want?"

At a moment when Vency was confused and frightened at the terrible situation that was going on for her at this time, the voice again asked Vency the same thing.

Thanks to that voice, though, Vency finally managed to get her little composure back.

(... W-who are you?) Because she could only make a strange sound from her mouth, Vency tried to reply to the question of the voice in her head.

But...

"... What do you want?"

... The voice kept repeating the same question.

(I want to know what has happened to me.) In the end, Vency gave up talking to the voice and answering the voice's questions.

After being silent for a while, the voice replied, "You've been killed and mutilated by your own childhood friend, and then made a sacrifice to the Devil so he can gain the power of a hero."

(H-huh...? Wh-what do you mean by that, S-sacrifice? D-devil?)

The voice did not answer. However, Vency soon understood everything that had happened to her after various memories suddenly began to enter her head.

Those memories start from the moment Vency entered her childhood friend's house, got stabbed in the back, torn apart, mutilated, to even... Molested, before her childhood friend begins to form a strange symbol on the floor using her blood to sacrifice Vency's body to the Devil. The memory that had a third-person perspective kept being repeated many times inside Vency's head.

Vency's mind was blank when she was finally confronted by that reality. She couldn't think of anything anymore, she didn't want to. It was all too painful for her.

She didn't understand, didn't understand about all of it. Many questions without answers began to pop up inside her head, and it felt very torturous to her.

"Now, what do you want?"

When Vency was in such a state, the voice again asked about it.

At first Vency was irritated by the voice, the desire to shout at the voice began to fill Vency. However, of course, she couldn't.

In the end, Vency just replied with the thing she wanted most right now, (I want to die.)

However, the voice stopped being heard again by Vency from then on.

(Well, whatever.) Feeling that she didn't care about anything anymore, Vency closed her eyes.

But...

[Requirements have been met]

[You earned the title 'Tortured princess']

[Requirements have been met]

[You successfully evolved into 'Zombie lvl.1]

[Requirements have been met]

[You have successfully obtained Skill: 'Regeneration°l']

[Requirements have been met]

[You successfully obtained Unique Skills: 'Immortality', and 'Bone production']

[Resetting the status of an individual named 'Vency'...]

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Something was going on in Vency's subconscious while she was trying to stop thinking - or rather, trying to die.

And, as Vency tried to open her eyes again, an impossible fitting greeted her, "Eh?"

... There, Vency was lying in the middle of the woods.