The Author's POV

Chapter 257

Small disclaimer : Some parts of this may be disturbing for some. I'm warning you in advance. (well, although I say this, I'm not really sure how disturbing it is. But I'll put this just in case.)

Bam'”!

"khhh"

"Take your food and eat it."

Throwing the tray filled with food on the floor, Mark looked at subject 876 with disgust. Exactly two days had passed since he started to be in charge of subject 876, and although he always ate his food, he never showed any reactions to his abuse and beatings.

This annoyed Mark quite a bit. There was simply no fun in abusing someone that showed no reaction.

Even though this was supposed to be something to treat his stress, it was starting to annoy him more than actually helping him.

"Tsk, how boring."

Kicking, subject 876 on the foot, Mark decided to call it quits for today. Stepping out of the room, he smashed the door behind him.

Clank'”!

*

An hour passed since then.

"Huuu..."

Opening my eyes, I exhaled. At this point, the effects of Monarch's indifference had worn off and my mana was completely depleted.

Holding onto the wall, I weakly stood up. Making my way towards the toilet, I sat down. With my whole body shaking, I bit my tongue and patiently waited for my body to do its business.

'Please let this be the one...'

I repeatedly muttered inside of my head.

Plop'”!

Eventually, a splashing sound reached my ears. My eyes lit up as a result of the sound.

"khhh..."

Gritting my teeth, standing up slightly, I reached my hand downwards. Towards the bottom of the toilet. This was the third time that I had done this. The previous three trials had all ended up in failure.

Feeling a slightly mushy feeling in my hand, my stomach churned in disgust. Even so, I was not discouraged. Moving my hand around the toilet, I tried to feel anything hard.

"'”'”!"

After searching for a minute, I finally felt something hard. My eyes lit up.

Splash'”!

Removing my hand from the toilet, a black bracelet appeared in my hands.

'F-finally...'

Staring at the bracelet in my hands, I was almost unable to hold back my emotions. But, I couldn't help it.

The light had finally shone in the dark tunnel that I could see no end of. I could now hope. I could now hope for a tomorrow in this hellish place.

"Khhh.."

Biting my lowering lip, tears had started to gather in the corner of my eyes.

Monolith. Desperate, whilst channeling mana inside of the Monolith ring, I put my bracelet inside of my

was my last hope. Thankfully it

Splash'”!

on and washed the bracelet. After thoroughly washing the bracelet, waiting ten minutes, and channeling the last bit of mana in me,

Gulp'”! Gulp'”!

them. Instantly, my mind which was slowing down with

"H-hello?"

I tried to say something. Though groggy, my voice finally came out. Biting

"I-I can f-finally speak."

I spent three days like this that I realized that I had taken too many things for granted

my voice for granted. Only after losing it for the past three days did I

"huuu..."

a deep breath, I tried to calm my erratic emotions. Now was not the time for me to get emotional.

'five hours...'

time I had

with the food. Thinking of the guard, my teeth

I'll definitely make sure to

through these past few days, I was definitely going to make him pay. Just the thought of him caused my blood to

course, that wasn't anywhere near the rage I felt for

Aaron.

Krrrr. Krrrr.

teeth grinding together echoed

was going through was because of him. If not for him,

I swear on my life, that I'll

I was intending

"Haaa...haaa..."

down my rage. I needed to keep my feelings bottled up for

other thoughts

took out an energy bar from my bracelet and quickly

to focus on keeping my mind sane right after each dose, my food always ended up being cold. Furthermore, because

'”Fwau.

glass container appeared in my hand. Inside of

"Mother's kiss..."

poison that upon ingestion could even cause rank creatures to die. It was something that I had found back

"huuu."

escaped from my lips. What I was about to do next was going to

'”Fwau.

another feature of the mother kiss poison. It could be used to scar someone's face. To the point where only an incredibly expensive potion

dangerous upon ingestion. If not ingested, it would seep into the

the point where only an incredibly expensive potion or lotion could

last three days thinking about how to get out of this

this place, I neeed to make thorough preparations. For that I needed time. I estimated

them to finally recognize

allow

Therefore.

from my pocket, I directly shoved them in

"khhuuu..."

of the pain killers kick in, with shaking hands,

"khhuuuua!"

Despite my attempts at

wanna die..I wanna

my face with the knife, I repeated those words inside of my mind. The pain was unbearable. It felt as though I had millions of needles puncturing my face at

doing this whilst my face was still burnt was because no one would notice anything if I did it now.

Drip'”! Drip'”!

I bit them as hard as I could. Many times I almost passed

needed to pay to get out of this place and reunited with the ones I was

"khhuuuua!"

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