Chapter 1100: Voices
"Kill, kill, kill!"
Mara was lying on the floor while blankly staring at the ceiling. She was inside a plain white room where the passage of time couldn’t be felt. There was nothing that indicated that a day had passed.
Her body condition was a mess. Bruises covered all over her body, and blood came out of her lips and nose.
’How many times is this already? Every time I’m staring at the ceiling like this, I can’t help but hear a voice... The voice is similar to mine, but it’s slightly deeper. Is this my future voice?’
"I kill people because that’s the only thing I’ve done in my life. That’s why please kill me."
Mara closed her eyes. She had been in this facility all this time. The last time she remembered, she was seven years old.
The training was rigorous. She didn’t even know who her parents were. The only thing she knew was that she was being trained by scary instructors alongside other kids in this facility.
She had caused a bit of a mess earlier, so she was beaten up and thrown into this room where she wouldn’t know how long she had been here.
She could be here for a month and she wouldn’t even notice if they told her it was just a week.
To her surprise, the moment she closed her eyes, another voice echoed in her brain.
"The more reason I can’t kill you. If the only thing you know is to kill, then come with me. I’ll teach you a lot of other things. Swinging your glaive to protect, watching over lives being born, and pursuing your own happiness."
Mara opened her eyes wide when she heard that voice. The voice sounded like a man’s, younger than the woman’s voice.
Whose voice did she hear this time?
She couldn’t get that answer because the moment she opened her eyes, the woman replied.
"I’m not going to follow you, but you never listen."
The voice that used to have no emotion suddenly had a trace of emotion. There was longing, warmth, and happiness.
Even though it sounded like she was embarrassed, it didn’t seem like she ran away from that answer.
There was one thing that she could imagine from this woman’s words. She would end up following the guy as he asked.
Every day, she would stare at the ceiling. The things she heard changed sometimes every seven days, sometimes every day.
But it changed. She could hear various conversations.
"Thank you for always helping me," the man said.
"It’s not a problem. Thanks to you, a lot of people can smile again."
"I don’t know about that. The longer I fight, the more I realize that this is a losing battle. How long can I last?"
"I don’t know how long you will last, but I know I will die before you. I won’t allow myself to let you die before me."
"Don’t say that. You are crushing my hopes. My hope has been crushed once already, when my ability can’t be used."
"The rare mutation in humans. I am able to utilize my killing intent into something that goes beyond human limits, while you..."
"Hehehe. Now that the civilization has collapsed, there’s no way for me to cultivate this power or even use it."
"You created this place so that you could activate your power, but when there was no currency, no, it was the exchange of currency..."
"Yeah. I could create as much currency as I wanted, but without acknowledgment from other places, the currency was worthless. In such an era, I couldn’t do anything even though I believed my power could make the difference we need."
"Don’t say that. Even without that ability, you are still the strongest. You are our leader. I follow you willingly, so don’t you give up."
"I won’t give up even if despair consumes me. Besides, this is not the time for despair yet. The girls are planning something."
"So I’ve heard. I’ve also suggested something."
"What is that?"
"A secret. This is a payback for not listening to me a month ago."
"Hahahaha. To think that you can now hold a grudge. At this rate, I have to be careful."
"You have to be careful. It’s not the time yet, but maybe... there will come a day I’m teaching emotions to..."
"You girls are surprising me all the time. Without all of you, I wouldn’t be able to stand where I am today. I wish I’m able to give you what you want right now, but if I do that, this place will collapse... I’m sorry... to you... to everyone..."
"Don’t apologize. You did nothing wrong. We do this because we love you, my dear."
"!!!" Mara was startled. The more conversations she listened to, the more she realized what kind of place existed beyond this world.
It might be a horrible place where this simulation world would look like a paradise.
She couldn’t help but wonder if the woman’s voice was her own. In that case, who was the man?
Did she have a husband outside this world?
The conversation wasn’t the only thing that she heard. There were a lot of intrusive thoughts coming from the killing intent.
"Aargghhh!" Mara remembered herself clutching her head many times, having a hard time withstanding the killing intent.
This killing intent kept trying to drive her mad. The desire to kill people continues to rise, showing no sign of stopping.
She didn’t remember how many times she lost control and banged her head on the floor or on the wall until she passed out.
This madness made people fear her and kept throwing her into this white room. At the same time, it also allowed her to recover the next day, stopping her from dying.
It ultimately changed when she reached 17 years old, when she received the awakening liquid.
She had never told anyone about it, but when she awakened, two things happened to her.
The killing intent, which had been uncontrollable all this time, suddenly became easier to control. And the second thing was the suspicious-looking screen that only she could see.
[Player 00003 - Online]