Chapter 57 - Chapter 55: Episode 54 - Loss
Yu-rin forced herself to suppress her excitement.
She stopped her hand from reaching out to Seon-ah, realizing that simply violating him wouldn't make his heart return to her.
Instead, she went to the drawer to retrieve the items she had prepared.
Inside were plenty of the "adult items" that she and Seon-ah had used to enjoy themselves during the month leading up to their wedding.
She laid them all out on the bed and turned on the computer again.
While Seon-ah and Miel were unconscious, Yu-rin had moved the 100-inch monitor from the living room into her bedroom.
It was a "surprise gift" she'd prepared to help him relive his memories with her.
Back when she hadn't been home from the Demon World for very long, she had nearly faced a disaster when that camcorder went missing.
She knew that Min-ah and Yu-ra had found the video after beating her, but fortunately, she had backed it up on her computer and the cloud, allowing her to protect her memories with Seon-ah.
Now, she wanted to show Seon-ah those shared memories and help him recall the happy moments that had sunk to the bottom of his mind.
She split the 100-inch monitor into 16 sections and played a different video in each.
There were 54 videos in total, but she had selected the 16 where Seon-ah's reactions were best and played them simultaneously.
Then, she turned the monitor directly toward him.
Seon-ah felt a flicker of relief when he saw that the crazy bitch who had imprisoned him—and Miel, who had been acting like she was about to pounce—had turned their attention to the drawer on the other side of the room.
Perhaps she didn't intend to violate him immediately after all.
It seemed her focus had shifted.
However, his hope was short-lived.
What that crazy bitch pulled out...
was an item he had never seen before, yet the moment his eyes landed on it, his head began to throb.
It felt as if his brain were burning.
Even though it wasn't in his conscious memory, he knew exactly what it was.
It was as if he had suffered because of those items somewhere deep in his subconscious.
His legs shook uncontrollably.
Along with the burning sensation in his brain, a wave of anxiety wrapped around his entire body.
Without realizing it, he began shaking his head rapidly from side to side.
The crazy bitch glanced at him once, then scanned his body from top to bottom.
It was a look that seemed to ask, "Which of these items should I use first?"
Then, as if remembering something, she turned back to the computer.
After a few clicks of the mouse, moans began to leak through the speakers.
It was a voice he had heard many times.
The monitor was facing the crazy bitch, so he couldn't see the screen, but he knew whose voice it was.
The sounds of a man and a woman screaming like mad.
To be precise, the man wasn't moaning—he was just screaming.
The crazy bitch looked at his face once more, and with an expectant expression, she slowly turned the monitor toward him.
For some reason, he felt he shouldn't look.
He had a gut feeling that if he looked, he wouldn't be able to stay sane.
It felt like dredging up the most terrifying thing from the deep abyss of his heart.
As the video, split into a dozen parts, entered his field of vision, the burning in his brain intensified.
In every single video, a man was being raped while crying out in desperate, agonizing pain.
It was an act of malicious violence that went far beyond mere sex—the kind of cruelty no human could endure.
When he looked closely at the man and woman in the footage, he recognized them.
It was his face...
and that crazy bitch's face.
Yu-rin showed him the mementos they had built up and the videos she'd filmed as evidence, hoping Seon-ah's memory would return.
She thought it would be the best-case scenario if he regained his memory immediately upon seeing them.
Seon-ah flinched, staring intently at the items and videos before suddenly shaking his head rapidly.
The sight of him clutching his head, shedding tears, and shaking back and forth...
It looked as if his memory were returning.
Since he was even scratching at the door as if trying to escape, just as he had before, she was certain of it.
Her heart ached to see his beautiful fingernails tearing off and blood pooling, but she told herself that once the pain subsided, Seon-ah would return to normal.
Yu-rin decided to wait a little longer for him.
Miel began to feel fearful now that she couldn't see Seon-ah.
If he were violated by Yu-rin like that, his trauma would be triggered, and his mind would collapse.
Miel began to regret some of her actions.
She had made his trauma regarding Yu-rin dozens of times stronger so that he wouldn't even think of her.
It was something she'd done because she hadn't been satisfied with just locking away his memories.
Human subconsciousness naturally avoids trauma, so she had amplified that stimulus dozens of times; even if the locked memories were released, he wouldn't be able to recall them. That was Seon-ah's current state.
On top of that, because she had toyed with his mind every day, he was in an unstable state where a rapid Gestalt collapse could occur if the stimulation became too severe.
She didn't know if they had started mating yet, as the pleasure and pain that should have been transmitted to her through the Yin Mark weren't coming through.
However, that thought lasted only a moment.
A strange sound drifted from beyond the door.
It sounded like several people having messy sex.
But it was different.
She heard several men's voices, but they were all unmistakably Seon-ah's.
The woman's voice was likely Yu-rin's.
She didn't know exactly what had happened, but...
Suddenly, tremendous pain surged into her head through the Yin Mark.
Miel had felt this often before.
It was the pain she always felt after "having fun" through Seon-ah.
It was a pain that couldn't be stopped unless she did it herself.
It was the headache one felt when Seon-ah's mind began to collapse.
The intensity of it was not ordinary.
It was aching at a faster rate than when she had deceived him by returning his memories.
If left like this, Seon-ah's mind would be completely shattered, and he would either become an idiot or die.
Miel screamed and went frantic, knowing she had to take action immediately.
"No! You crazy bitch! What did you do! If you leave him like this, Seon-ah will die! Open the door! Quickly! No!"
She made a loud noise, hitting the bathroom wall until her hands and feet broke, but there was no response.
A strange energy began to circulate throughout Miel's body.
Yu-rin had been watching Seon-ah's struggling figure for a long time.
It looked like his memory was definitely returning, but he had been struggling for too long.
The sight was agonizing.
Yu-rin began to peel the packaging off the drugs Seon-ah used to enjoy and forced them into his mouth, hoping his memory would return faster.
She thought he would calm down after taking the drugs she'd fed him during their time together.
As soon as Seon-ah took the drug, his struggling subsided.
However, Yu-rin didn't notice that the light in his pupils was fading.
Seon-ah closed his eyes as if he had lost consciousness and collapsed with a pale expression.
Yu-rin hadn't noticed his abnormality yet, but...
Suddenly, a nosebleed started gushing out of Seon-ah's nose like crazy, and she felt that something had gone horribly wrong.
Seon-ah rolled his eyes back, and the bleeding wouldn't stop.
Sensing the danger, Yu-rin broke the collar on Seon-ah's neck with both hands and ran to the bathroom to take him to Miel.
Miel must have done something to him.
Thinking that, she entered the bathroom and found Miel, who was also bleeding from the nose.
Miel spoke with slurred, unfocused eyes.
"You... cra...zy... bi...tch.... what... did... you... do......"
It wasn't a lie that she shared pain with Seon-ah; Miel didn't look to be in good condition either.
Miel asked Yu-rin a question instead, as if she hadn't been the one responsible.
Knowing that if left like this, the problem with Seon-ah would grow even worse, she answered Miel obediently.
"I just fed him the drug he had been taking before, but suddenly Seon-ah collapsed and turned like this!"
"You... made... his... min...d... in...to... mush...."
"What am I supposed to do now?"
"Bri...ng... him... he...re... quic...kly....."
Miel was waving her hands urgently with a dying expression, telling her to bring Seon-ah over.
It might have been a lie.
During the 98 days of hell, the Miel she had seen was a bitch who loved deceiving and tricking people more than anything else, so she couldn't easily believe her.
Because she felt sorry for Seon-ah being brainwashed by that bitch again, Yu-rin held onto him tightly, agonizing over the decision.
Even while she hesitated, Seon-ah's nosebleed wouldn't stop.
Miel gestured even faster, as if she were desperate.
"No... way... Seon-ah... is... dying.... quick... ly.... quick... ly......"
Her heart softened at that urgent cry, and Yu-rin had no choice but to hand Seon-ah over to Miel.
As Yu-rin laid him down, Miel placed her hands on Seon-ah's head and began to prevent his mental collapse.
She was locking away trauma-related memories and connecting broken fragments, but too many had been ground away.
They weren't just shattered; they had been ground into powder.
Even if she prevented the collapse and restored his mind, it was clear that a large part of Seon-ah's memories would be lost.
Miel connected his memories with all her might, hoping that the ones with her would not disappear.
Even though her own brain was mush, she exerted tremendous concentration to restore Seon-ah's mind as much as possible.
And when that work was finished...
Miel seemed to have exhausted her mental strength and collapsed, fainting.