Chapter 39 (1/2)

Chapter 39

t/n: okay, i’ize in advance _)

i’ve been wrestling with this for the past 10 chapters or so, but i belatedly realized that using third-person pov for the entire novel just doesn’t work, even if it looks better on the page our FL is dealing with a lot of body/identity dys to her as ‘rosetta’ during her personal moments—especially in this chapter

that’s why i’ll be going back to switching between first-person pov and third-person pov, just as the author has intended when the pov shi+fts happen, there will be section breaks to indicate the changes in perspective so you don’t have to worry—it won’t be as confusing as it sounds sorry for the inconvenience and i hope you guys understand!

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I opened my eyes

Everywhere I looked, it was dark

In a world where I knew not whether it was night or day, I let out a cloudy breath What was certain was that, here, I was drearation Rita

Hus I clenched my throat with a weak hand I felt suffocated and I didn’t knohy

My lips quivered and, without e, they were drawn into a crescent arc

Several streams of hot tears flowed out of my eyes

Those droplets brushed my cheeks and wet

I cried I laughed

My tears flowed against o crazy if I didn’t let it out

“Ha… ha, ha…”

In the air, a broken voice rang

In this dark space, my voice echoed

In this endless silence, ether

My lips were now closed, trying to suppress this laughter

Was this a cry close to laughter? Was this a laugh close to crying?

As I lay down for a long tih I was a crazed lunatic, I heard the creaking sound of a door opening

I sedthis, the skin over rew tense

A prickling sensation swept throughout my entire body

It was terribly realistic

Ah, seriously… how terribly realistic

Fa these footsteps was the sound of soed across the floor

I closedether, but I couldn’t stop

Ta-dak, ta-dak, ta-dak

At the sound of the steady footsteps approaching, the sound of radually turned to a crescendo

Ba-dump, ba-dump, ba-dump

To the extent that I wish my ears would just be deafened by this loud noise

However, these harsh footsteps did not stop

They only became clearer

With the hand that wasn’t on ers and nails brushed sh the terribly soft carpet

Soon, at some point, those footsteps stopped

Thud, splash

So splashed

Then, a horrendous stench

A dreadfully fa stench

At the unbearable nausea that came to me, I opened my heavy eyelids

In this dark space, there was the illu the void

The shadows created by that candle danced dangerously

And the shadow of a person reflected on the as like an enor to break free from a bout of sleep paralysis, I sat up at once,up

“Uuurk”

And the nausea I had been pushi+ng down eventually let loose

Scorching gastric fluids passed through us, reached my uvula

It felt likeas these gastric fluids soaked the floor

While throwing up only these gastric fluids for a long time, that person made not one noise

I know for sure—he will pull asped audibly This terrible hell When will I be able to wake up?

I do not wish to look up, forever

Just, I wish to live with my face down on the floor So that I will not have to raise my head and face reality

Just, forever Rather, forever

My head hit the ground with nothing Seeing nothing, hearing nothing Nothing at all…

It was at that moment

“Ri… ta…”

With a pained moan, so for a ht that maybe my heart had even stopped

I shut my eyes, and slowly opened them once more

The two hands that supported my body scratched the floor, and as expected, only soft fur brushed past ertips

“Haa…”

The breath that was lodged at h it was vomit

Slowly, I raised h tiradually began to see fae of my vieas stained red

Wet

One character’s body writhed on the floor

Perhaps even the smallest of hed out roughly

The breaths that were spat out, scratching his neck, were broken

Bright, vivid, red liquid tainted his pale lips

And next to the character as on the floor, there was a pair of shoes that another character wore

Red marks remained as stains on those white shoes

Soon, one white shoe went under the chin of the h playing with athe man’s broken jaw

“Ah… ah…”

I let out what sounded like a dullard’s groans

Crawling on the ground on both hands and feet,the carpet