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CHAPTER 208 DIRECT SPOILERS!!! this is a major turning point in the canon track. if you have not read up to that point this is your warning ;3
Summary of previous part: N/A
Notes: braun
CW: director cheongdallae, brief Braun mention, ch208, brief gore/body horror, angst
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‘It… hurts.’
“As it is, you’ll soon necrotize,” the emotionless voice of Director Cheongdallae declared.
‘Excruciating… pain.’
I didn’t say anything.
I didn’t know if she was right. I couldn’t think much at all.
My thoughts were growing foggy with agony.
Only primitive thoughts remained.
“If you don’t like that, there is another way.”
Hope.
The sound of paper shuffling.
“A contract.”
The hope snuffed out, leaving behind a bitter resignation.
Desire burnt hot.
‘I want to go home. I want to go home. I want to…’
I chanted that in my head.
"All you have to do is sign.”
Convincing words from an experienced liar in the workplace, but I knew it was my only choice.
Already, I was growing so weak, so formless, that I couldn’t even lift my head.
‘Huu…’
It would be great if there was another choice.
A third option. Anything would be better than this.
“I promise very humane treatment. It will be a satisfactory employment... in the security team, that is."
I wanted to laugh. I knew what this assignment meant.
It was the furthest you can get from being humane.
"Here."
…
"Choose."
Holding it out to me, playing the role of a savior.
His script fit that role, in a twisted way, I had no other solution, no other path forward.
‘Haa…’
I was melting… blood and organs mixing and sloshing in the constricting suit.
I felt like vomiting, but I didn’t even know where my stomach was among all this mess.
I managed to lift a shaking arm, a drowned man clinging to the last piece of floatwood, despite knowing that it was poisoned.
‘This is the end of Kim Soleum.’
On the offered contract, I signed with the mess of blood that had seeped through the suit.
“Good.”
As soon as the last stroke was set in place, my body immediately felt comfortable.
It wasn’t restoration, but it was containment.
Fitting.
‘I am an entity from the Darkness. Darknesses are contained.’
Distinctively, I felt restrictions placed around me.
I knew, from experience and by instinct, that trying to bypass them would only cause me unnecessary pain.
Though, perhaps it was an illusion born out of desperation, but…
Even as my consciousness began to fade, I could sense her, closing in with long, oppressive strides.
Someone etched into painful memory… A Good Friend.
‘My only hope.’
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