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Chapter 7 - start of hell ll

Cut after cut. Slice after slice.

From her toes to her fingertips—nothing was spared. Her skin, her muscles, even her organs—they were taken apart, piece by piece. Her eyes. Her ears. Even her fingers.

Everything was removed.

She wanted to scream. She wanted to cry. But she couldn't.

She wasn't allowed to.

The drugs kept her paralyzed, her voice locked away inside her throat. Her only escape was in her mind—and even that was slipping.

"I want it to end," she thought again and again. "Please… someone… anyone…"

But no one came.

She didn't know how long the experiments had gone on. Days? Weeks? Maybe more. The people changed—new faces replacing the old—but the pain remained the same. Her body healed itself, over and over, regenerating no matter what they did to her.

A perfect test subject. A perfect curse.

Time lost meaning. The days blurred into one endless nightmare. Her thoughts were fading, her mind breaking, piece by piece. They didn't see her as a person.

Just a body.

Just a monster.

Just an experiment.

Just a think for them to use and break as they want 

"Let's stop here," one of the scientists said casually, as he plucked out one of her eyes with the careless ease of someone flipping a page in a book. He knew she would heal from any mistake they made to her body. And he was right.

The pain was blinding—it still hurt—but her regeneration kicked in almost immediately, rebuilding what was lost before the blood could even fully dry.

But Rize barely noticed anymore.

From the moment they had begun, she'd lost all sense of time. Her eyes, her nails, her fingers—organs taken and regrown again and again. It never ended. Her thoughts were slipping now, too. Logic—fractured. Memory—twisting, warping.

There was no "before" anymore.

Only now.

Only pain.

Only one thing echoed in her mind, louder than the rest:

Eat.

Flesh.

Blood.

She could almost taste it—warm and alive, dripping over her tongue.

She wasn't sure how much time had passed. A week? More? They hadn't given her food or water in days. " impressive without nourishment this is what she an do", one scientist noted with an impressed click of his tongue.

"…And her regeneration hasn't slowed at all."

They were fascinated.

She was starving

One of the scientists waved his hand, signaling toward the door. It hissed open.

She wasn't on the operating table anymore now she sat upright in a white, sterile room. Still bound to a chair Still being watched. In side of her there were table of tools that had been use on her which were cover in blood.

A lower-ranking staffer entered, cautiously carrying a tray with food and a bottle of water—setting it down just a few feet in front of Rize, almost like feeding a dangerous animal at the zoo.

Her eyes snapped toward him, glowing with an unnatural rage. The pitch-black sclera and crimson-red irises—eyes no longer human.

A slow, guttural growl rumbled from her throat as another technician reached forward and removed the gag strapped around her mouth.

The moment it was off, she let out a feral noise—somewhere between a scream and a snarl, an inhuman stretch of her jaw following.

"I… I will… will kill… kill you all… a-a-all!" she hissed, her voice layered with distortion more monstrous than human, like something echoing out of a broken speaker.

The room went still. Even the guards stiffened, uneasy.

Because whatever was chained to that chair…

…wasn't just Rize anymore.

"Ha," one of the scientists scoffed, clearly unimpressed. He flicked a switch on the console, and another jolt of electricity surged through Rize's body.

Her limbs jerked—but this time, she didn't scream.

She gritted her teeth. Endured.

The scientist's eyes narrowed, a flicker of surprise crossing his face. He turned the dial, increasing the voltage. Sparks danced across her restraints.

Rize trembled violently. The pain was unbearable burning, searing through her nerves like fire but she held on. Somewhere inside, a voice screamed at her to survive, to endure just a little longer.

Just a little longer… maybe… maybe then I can—

The thought never finished.

Darkness swallowed her vision as her head fell back against the cold metal.

The pain had won again, and she lost to it.

And Rize slipped, once again, into the void.

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"Subject 1007 is becoming more mentally unstable. Almost... animal like, wouldn't you say?" one doctor remarked, arms folded as he looked through the one-way mirror.

"Yes," another replied, watching the guards unchain her from the chair and place her unconscious body back onto the floor before locking another chine to her leg . "She's breaking down—just like we predicted."

The second scientist grimaced, watching through the glass as she put the eat the food Infront of her as she had again awaken .Rize clutched her stomach and doubled over, her body rejecting the food with violently .

"Looks like it," he muttered. "Her system's adapted… or mutated. Regular food doesn't register anymore. She only craves—"

"Flesh," the first one finished, almost reverently. "Living, human matter. Fascinating."

"Disgusting," the other replied, adjusting his glasses. "But potentially... effective. A weapon that feeds off the battlefield. Self-sustaining."

They stood in silence for a moment, watching her writhe, her eyes dull like she was living for one reason and one reason alone. Her mouth opened slightly, blood dripping from between her lips as she quietly muttered to herself.

"…Eat… blood… give… give me…"

"Subject 1007 is not just regenerating," the first one murmured. "She's evolving. The mind may be fragmenting, but the body... it's becoming something more."

 Her body twitched, her black nails scraping weakly against the sterile floor. Still too weak to fight. But inside, something was waking up.

Some part of her that was no longer fully human.

Rize stared blankly ahead, her breath hitching as she look Infront of a single red spider lily, vivid against the sterile white of the lab it was out of place it didn't belong here but It was here and it was impossibly beautiful, like it was alive. 

"Huh…" she muttered, her voice broken and strange. Her head tilted to the side as if the weight of her own thoughts was too much to carry.

A smile crept across her face, twitching at the corner, until it reached her eyes. And for the first time since her capture—

She started giggling.

Soft at first, almost sweet. Then rising, bubbling up like a fever—like something unhinged had cracked open deep inside.

"Heh… haha… ha—"

The scientists watching from behind the glass stilled.

"What the hell is she laughing at?" one of them asked, unsettled.

"I'm already dead, aren't I?, Tell me tell me I am died aren't I Mr flower "

"I don't know," another whispered. "There's nothing in that room. Just her."

"She's fully delusional," the head scientist noted. "This might be a sign of full psychological break. "

But Rize saw it. Felt it.

He trailed off as Rize touched the spot where the flower lay only to smear her fingers through a puddle of blood.

The petals swayed without wind. The spider lily bloomed brighter, redder, like it was soaking in her madness.

And Rize?

Rize didn't feel pain anymore.

Didn't feel fear.

She only felt free.

"I get it now…"

A soft giggle escaped her lips, broken and childlike.

"The world's a joke… and I'm the punchline…"Her voice dropped into a hush, eyes locking onto the ghostly image of the red spider lily blooming just inches from her vision. It shimmered, then pulsed like it answered not it had answered .

Her fingers twitched against the cold ground.

"…Am I not, Mr. Flower?"

Silence.

Then she laughed again. A laugh that cracked at the edges, too wide, too hollow. It echoed through the observation chamber like a siren's wail from a broken music box.

Behind the mirror, one of the scientists slowly backed away.

"…Is she talking to a imaginer flower?"

The chill in the observation room deepened as her voice echoed softly through the speakers.

"Yes…" one of the younger scientists muttered again, throat dry, watching her like she might lunge through the glass at any second. "Looks like it."

Inside the containment cell, Rize swayed back and forth, her arms wrapped around her knees. Her hair clung to her face, matted with dried blood and sweat, but her smile never wavered. It was wide. Loving. Deranged.

"Don't worry…" she whispered, her voice lilting like a lullaby, one hand stroking the empty space in front of her with the tenderness of a mother cradling her child."yes I m' not alone anymore. I have you now, Mr. Flower… forever… forever… till death do us apart, right? Right?"

She tilted her head again, giggling at the silence as if she'd just heard the perfect response.

"You always understand me."

One of the guards shifted uncomfortably near the door."She's completely gone…" he muttered under his breath.

"Yes—" the lead scientist began, eyes narrowing as he leaned closer to the glass."But this is what we expec—"

He didn't finish.

A violent hum pulsed through the floor, and every light in the room flickered. Then, a deafening alarm blared throughout the facility.

A deafening siren blared through the facility, red emergency lights flashing across every wall as the intercom crackled to life:

"We are under attack! Repeat—we are under attack from the outside! THIS IS NOT A DRILL. REPEAT—THIS IS NOT A DRILL!"

Chaos erupted.

Scientists dropped clipboards and scrambled for safety. Guards shouted over the alarms, weapons drawn as they rushed toward their posts. The entire lab, once cold and composed, turned into a panicked hive of movement.

Inside the containment room, Rize didn't flinch.

She smiled wider.

"Do you hear that, Mr. Flower?" she whispered, her head cocked to the side like she was listening to music no one else could hear."They're coming. Someone's finally coming. they must be food right "

She stood slowly, chains dragging behind her, blood still dried across her skin like war paint.

"Or maybe…" she breathed, voice soft and eerie as her pupils dilated,"Maybe the joke's not over yet."

The walls rattled as an explosion shook the east wing of the building. Dust fell from the ceiling. Screams echoed.

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i hope you enjoy this care to guess who has come ? or not come ?

 rize is a reliable narrator or is she not ?

hope you enjoy 

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