" Bury. " With a single word, the ground in the training room heaves up and engulfs the bodies of the two girls, pulling them down into a permanent resting place. Lora wipes away a tear, but Silvia stares stonily. Silvia, I’ve noticed in the short time since I met her, never emotes in the…
"Swing at me. I’ll deflect it." I hold my sword up, and Lora watches nervously as she raises her weapon. She takes a step forward and then pauses, and I groan in response. "Come on, Lora. If you’re too afraid to use your weapon, you’ll be useless in battle. Do you want me to get…
What? Where did you go? Hero? Hero! You can’t just run away! What does ‘rewind’ do?! What does that even mean?! Come back and face me! How dare you let them die and then flee for your life! Get your ass back here! You’re not a hero after all… you’re just a coward! Goddamn you!…
A pile of broken dummies sits crumpled in the corner, all of them hacked to pieces one by one. It’s too much trouble for me to bother repairing them, so instead I’ve learned just to copy a functional one each time Lora destroys one. Takes less energy and time, too. Sweat pours down every inch…
Lice. Lora has lice. The most disgusting thing that I could imagine, and it infests her head. I found this out only a few minutes ago when one of the little vermin was crawling on my shirt. Upon a quick inspection, I discovered the culprit was the woman walking beside me, helping me map out…
The humans up ahead, or ‘Golden Commandos’, as Beelzebub calls them, chatter silently to each other inside their helmets. I wouldn’t know what they were saying at all, if it weren’t for my telepathy. I quickly realize telepathy is a two-way street. I send a thought to Beelzebub. Are you able to hear my words?…
Lora knows this inner sanctum well. Everyone here acts as if they have a built-in homing beacon to wherever their destination is. As we take lefts and rights, the hallways turn into a blur, every black tiled wall looking the same as the next one. What are the walls even made of? Why does Yama…
It’s not that what I’m reading is too horrifying to comprehend, I simply just don’t know how to react to the words on the page. Accounts of humans capturing demons, butchering them in brutal, vile ways, and even performing barbaric chimeric surgeries before releasing demons back into the demon’s realm to traumatize them… the journal…
The hallway is quite dark, despite the five torches on each side of the wall extending down the hall, but to eyes that were just in an unnatural darkness unlike any other, it’s as if I’m staring directly into the sun. The walls themselves are tiled, and appear to be made of an onyx-like black…
I’M AWAKE! My eyes flip open, and my arms jerk forward involuntarily, only to smack into an invisible wall. A few seconds later, I finally register the feeling of pain and wince. That hurt. It’s pitch black all around me, but as I begin to wake up and shift my body, I become acutely aware…
