As if the ancient building deliberately held onto the cold, storing it in every pore of its bricks and every crack in its wooden floors, to torment its inhabitants who had never truly been wanted by anyone.1234 copyright protection14ＰＥＮＡＮＡJXYML0YyjF 尼The central heater in the corner of the room, a rusted metal box that hissed softly all night long, produced only a shallow warmth. not enough to drive away the cold that crept from the wooden floor into the bones of the feet.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg9OBTbCArB
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Voltase Watt lay on his back on a bed far too large for his body.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDT9t9JYHtz
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Far too large like a bed prepared for an adult but occupied by a small child who never grew.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Xq5S7rDU1
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His body was that of a twelve year old boy whose growth seemed to have stopped when he turned nine, when something inside him decided there was no point in getting bigger because no one would notice anyway.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQDBS63mrMP
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His shoulders were narrow. so narrow that the blue-and-white striped flannel pajamas he wore kept slipping off his left shoulder.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcI1awSKk4c
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His arms were thin, with faint blue veins visible beneath pale skin that rarely saw sunlight.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnBZyrp8lV6
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His short legs could never reach the end of the bed, and every night he felt the tips of his cold toes touching the empty air beneath the blanket.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfT3gc6dpvf
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He had bought those pajamas three years ago, and even then they had been too big.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbljE6L02uH
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He never grew, and he never knew why.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQHsr9VK4qt
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Sometimes he thought that perhaps his body simply couldn't find a reason to grow. because growing required attention, nutrition, love and he had never had enough of any of those.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOE16KpV9n5
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No one will notice whether you're here or not, he thought.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡADmDZ3vIG9
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The thought felt ordinary in his head. not a piercing sadness, but a fact he had accepted long ago, ever since he was old enough to understand that he was a burden moved from one place to another.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWSdLEEh1wI
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Things don't grow.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTSUIZEllo3
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He never knew his biological parents.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf9p7C6Vcl4
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He was a baby found on the doorstep of an orphanage in South London one cold winter morning, wrapped in a faded blue blanket with a piece of paper bearing his name and birthdate.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIE9oz0eSN8
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Nothing else.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuycPP0485y
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No letter, no message, no clue about who had left him there or why they had gone.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ579Y7FgyFh
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He grew up in that orphanage for five years, changing caretakers and beds and faces that came and went.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxeCO05zrB4
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Then a family came and chose him. a polite, well dressed couple who said the right things in front of the social worker.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ6q7yK0v7Q
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They took him to their home in the suburbs, gave him his own room, food, clothes.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1f3ROnfd4o
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But they never truly wanted him.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWl2ijEINwX
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He knew it from the way they looked at him. not with hatred, but with indifference.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡekINg6wZCt
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As if he were an obligation, a task to be completed.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU2nr2qoJ9Y
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When he turned ten, they sent him to this boarding school.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBntnULNppq
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An elegant, polite way to get rid of a burden without appearing cruel.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ202wNMNcXX
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They paid his school fees.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkz9rIUzHxE
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They sent birthday cards. store bought cards with printed text identical for everyone.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgq83OI8bBC
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But they never visited.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKZUcbwmGWC
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They never called.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrN3HjQFAAV
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Voltase was a receipt already paid in full, an obligation fulfilled.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZdbG34oxN2
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Now he was left here, in this cold room, in a country that was supposedly his birthplace but never felt like his own.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHOMUpks0Wy
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You have no one, he thought, and he said it with lips that didn't move, only inside his head.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjYN6WQOt2Y
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You've never had anyone.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm2gTr7chbd
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And you'll never have anyone.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIsJ6xFru83
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The ceiling of the room was made of old wood painted a faded white, with hairline cracks spreading from the corner near the simple hanging lamp. a frosted glass globe dangling from a yellowed cord.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN4wrVVIm28
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Voltase had counted those cracks every night for two years since he first arrived in this room.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK9GQVh5NfB
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The number of main branches was always twenty three.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ9jPjpaCwP
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Never changing.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUHysie3q1F
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The small branches varied, depending on the humidity of the night air, the temperature, whether the rain fell harder than usual.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4q3xQbWwNR
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Tonight he counted forty-three small branches, counting with his small right index finger, tracing the crack patterns in the air without actually touching the wood.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ99dVAHKSso
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If he touched it, he would feel the cold of the plaster and remember that he was still here.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd4j5NuuCB2
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In the distance, the bells of St. Mary's church at the end of the street began to ring.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb5Wk5TNAjy
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The sound was old and heavy, with a slightly off-key tone from age and dampness.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQn5By88wv9
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Voltase counted along with each chime because there was nothing else he could do.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGWJW0NlEo5
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One.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbLV2Og5rJE
Two... Three.... Four18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmM5rwLxRzB
Five.... Six..18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4NyrNKSP1W
Seven.... Eight... Nine18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjLEzQXuzVi
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The bells stopped, and silence returned, filled only by the patter of rain that never stopped here.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4HvUBtahnd
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Voltase reached his right hand toward the small table beside his bed.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD8G6KVBcMA
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The table was made of cheap wood, chipped in places, its surface covered with scratches from pens and pencils of children who had been here before him.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtRXQcTrSSN
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On it lay the cheap phone given by his foster family when he left for boarding school. a symbolic gesture so they could still

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and a small desk lamp he never turned on.1234 copyright protection14ＰＥＮＡＮＡiemWatCMg9 尼His short, somewhat chubby fingers, still holding the roundness of childhood, groped across the table's surface until they touched the phone.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmMPBtNyPMU
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The screen lit up.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7jdKrqSs4F
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Pale blue light illuminated his face for a few seconds.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs0ZVV3KNcj
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The time showed 21:49 AM18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRjO8Jk5DES
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He opened the running game.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtQErID8GbU
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The app was colorful and bright, with the main character's icon smiling widely. a boy with black hair and oversized onyx eyes, with a smile that never faded.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzGYIT7KvDp
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Voltase almost hated that smile.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRaG2jRTNEO
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That character never got tired, never got sad, never felt alone.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlxmK0fSgE6
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He just ran, collected coins, dodged trains, and smiled the whole time.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYdjW64u3lK
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His right thumb swiped the screen, and the game began.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTpxCzBllqm
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Cheerful electronic music flowed from the phone's speaker, trying to drown out the sound of rain, while the character started moving along the railway tracks with a synthetic sunset sky full of orange and purple gradients stretching behind him.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9YWShKKBcr
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Golden coins sparkled in the air, and every time the character collected them there was a satisfying ding sound.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBwk7agkLqP
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Voltase played mechanically.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDAC4LNSYuq
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His thumb swiped left, jumped, swiped right, ducked.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdz3eiMoqRt
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The score in the upper right corner climbed

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He didn't care about the score and character.1234 copyright protection14ＰＥＮＡＮＡSdsqWh3AXe 尼The only he needed it's sound.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmJf2cAloQQ
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The music was a thin curtain separating him from the silence of the room, from the patter of rain, from the awareness that he was truly alone in this world and no one would come to save him.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjnq0KDCJNN
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On the right side of the screen, a second character appeared. a grown man in a white long-sleeved shirt with a faded blue jacket and a farmer's hat tilted back, and beside him a digital sheepdog ran at the same speed, its tongue lolling in a repeating animation.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeSpB6ct7CL
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The three of them ran together.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTmEmCFQuWN
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A fake family in a fake world.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTV722O8g9V
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They're not real

Voltase thought.1234 copyright protection14ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4UuhC51IfT 尼just code, never can't feel anything.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1FRvchnhu1
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They're never alone because they never existed.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNbDpp6w994
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At 1,230 points, the obstacles increased.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqf6QN1bwf9
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Train cars came faster and denser from both directions.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzPv1pdY158
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Voltase's small fingers began to sweat, making the touchscreen feel slippery and sticky.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpQcNfQzUUq
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His main character stumbled a repeated falling animation, got up, stumbled again, while the score stopped climbing and the music shifted into anxious, stretching notes.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsJCSH7DWwO
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A giant steel train car passed right in front of the character.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2C0h63Mywg
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Bam.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzphnidhnsG
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The screen turned blurry red, with a crimson gradient encircling the edges.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSIyu8Lai3O
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Thick black ink pooled in the corners.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj8JmbWDLE2
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White bold text appeared in the center.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡptpgu9yzhY
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GAME OVER.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKxTEJmGkPK
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Voltase let out a breath.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWsXaSJGf4i
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The breath left his small chest as a faint, almost inaudible sigh, like wind slipping through a crack in a door that didn't close properly.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQoo5CQjHOg
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He pressed the home button, and the phone screen dimmed to black, reflecting his own face. the face of a thin child with weary onyx eyes, cheekbones beginning to protrude, and messy black hair.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMjdc7n4Qlw
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He put the phone on the table with a slow, reluctant movement, as if letting go of the phone meant letting go of the only thing distracting him from the silence.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPUa3pH2107
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Silence returned.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjoek6mSo57
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Rain returned.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcVJivtsbod
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He was still here.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbEgSdp3yWc
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Still small and alone.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhfVHRJiOC9
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Voltase closed his eyes.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3e1TlUpypv
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In the darkness behind his eyelids, he imagined another place.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR2mTw4PWfC
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A place where he had a big, strong body that didn't need to be afraid of other children mocking him in the school hallways.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Jve4yqgSG
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A place where he could become something. become someone meaningful, someone who couldn't be ignored.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZrerTfM3cZ
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But the image was vague, like smoke vanishing before he could grasp it.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaGDMdPbYHt
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He didn't know what a big body looked like.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7OhmXVQfeZ
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He had never had one.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAAfyx04k79
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He only knew that he wanted it. something more than this small, weak, useless body.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Ztqfk1G0s
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Slowly, exhaustion consumed him.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1GOlyfeZvx
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His small body curled up in the middle of the too-large bed, knees drawn to his chest, arms hugging a pillow that had become dull and smelled of dormitory laundry soap sharp and chemical.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0YUrOwin5f
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The rain kept tapping the window.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡra0rA5I4li
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The wind moaned among the old oak trees in the schoolyard.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0UtIxjTWGl
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His consciousness began to blur, sinking into a dark, warm abyss.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmfIjWsrJxj
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The clock showed 21:52 AM.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGAyoPG0naU
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Three minutes since he turned off the phone.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBlA6Y6bV3j
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Voltase Watt, a twelve year old boy who didn't know who his parents were, who had no home to return to, who had never been loved by anyone, began to fall into a dream.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa8b7n4y5uL
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The first thing that registered was the smell.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUaackZYqDA
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Not the musty, dusty smell of the dormitory room.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm0JTpVhiNZ
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This was a completely different smell. one he had never smelled before, yet somehow felt old, as if he had smelled it in another life, in a memory that wasn't his.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt9lekoAbwU
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The smell entered his nostrils like thick, heavy smoke.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWmRmaEc1Ht
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It crept into his sinuses.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUTvE4MfJ1Z
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Stabbed the back of his throat like swallowed glass shards.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Z5QxwZ4Yd
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Settled on the roof of his mouth, leaving a residue that felt like a layer of copper on his tongue. salty, metallic, and with a faint sweetness that was nauseating.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsQIEoEwqQU
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Beneath it lay another layer: a sharp, fishy stench like fish left too long in the sun, and the smell of wet earth mixed with something darker, thicker.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXQZFsPPaWz
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Blood, he thought, and the thought rose from the depths of an instinct he hadn't known he possessed.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMUpiytH53O
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The smell of blood.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTF99aOcWkQ
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A lot of blood and flesh.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnZcjfANtAk
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Rotting flesh.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYf3kJenMlJ
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Voltase opened his eyes.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ACm2TPwtu
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The darkness he saw wasn't the darkness of his dormitory room.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS8pZNaQcvT
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Not the darkness tinged with orange from the streetlights and the silhouette of the fogged window.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVFt8ZMJBRj
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This was total darkness, darkness that rejected light, darkness that felt solid like wet velvet pressed against his face.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO3ED6P3mY0
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His eyes blinked, adjusting, but the adjustment was slow, as if his pupils had to relearn how to catch light.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0PrweymQPF
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Slowly, silhouettes began to emerge.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZi5lEiyU4X
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He saw a shape above him, very close, only inches from his own nose.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡai38ycBk9p
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A face.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpPm0ywAPqx
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But not the face of a living human.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡObMhOzuGGO
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The skin of that face was ashen-green, pale like dried clay beginning to crack.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn9aaH7oJaT
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On its left cheek was a large tear exposing the tissue beneath. a layer of dark red that had begun to blacken at the edges, like beef left too long in the refrigerator, its fibers drying and shriveling.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb8z1gN3S7f
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On its chin was thin brown stubble, with flakes of dry earth clinging between the hair strands.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKM9xqMGa0I
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Its eyes, or what remained of them, were two dark hollows.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXt3C9QkN9U
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No eyeballs.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSgzfpA3Ura
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Just black holes filled with small, writhing movements.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjr7bplaZQW
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Voltase saw them clearly, maggots.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKwlQxMJMze
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Dozens, maybe hundreds of small pale yellowish bodies, segmented, with darker heads, writhing inside those eye sockets.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpcObkXVBb4
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They rose and fell like tiny waves that never stopped, eating the remaining tissue still clinging to the orbital bone.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡafSXCzzoP4
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Some were larger than others, fatter and whiter, perhaps because they had been there longer and had eaten more.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYc53eZFbZr
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One of them crawled out of the left eye socket, across the corpse's cheekbone, and fell right onto Voltase's cheek.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡunW73nER7t
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He felt it.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD3UfpweF9B

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That small soft body clung to his skin for a second, then began to crawl slowly downward toward his jaw.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfCK33BLLLz
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Voltase felt every movement of that body. every small muscle contraction pushing it forward, every segment rubbing against his skin.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaK9RqxtxEy
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At that moment, panic exploded inside him.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ23I85ys8aA
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Pure, primal panic that recognized no logic or reason.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5T4TABa7om
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He wanted to scream, but his voice was caught in his throat.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtrGbCHckOP
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He wanted to push, but his hands felt foreign and heavy.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8qxOM1H9kg
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Because he realized: his body was different.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWwHthMJlfJ
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His hands pushing the corpse away felt longer and heavier.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcB03kAQpbg
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His fingers were no longer short and chubby.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡouIizwTu4s
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He felt protruding knuckles, long and sturdy finger joints, a wide palm with blue veins clearly visible on the back.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzJpnZY1tXd
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When he pushed the corpse away, the muscles in his arms. muscles he had never possessed in the real world, contracted with surprising strength.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFGrRbi1wp7
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He felt the stretch of muscle fibers, pressure in his shoulders, and the weight of the body he pushed felt lighter than it should have.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbKoEVOzSce
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The corpse rolled to the side with a wet, heavy plop, like a bag of wet meat falling onto mud.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhSecJ3Uam3
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Its head hit something hard. maybe a rock, another skull with a dull crack.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbWMItqTcy7
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Voltase coughed, choked, and sat up straight with a jolting movement.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiIE4i8c0aa
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He sat up, no need to crawl or roll. Just bent his body upward, and the body obeyed.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc6FgYuHZ3l
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His chest felt heavy, broad, and wide. Back felt solid.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPPtmKZesdx
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Shoulders were now thick and muscular.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPctSAjz3Xl
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He looked down and saw his own body.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGPIBY2kEZE
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A uniform.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNq4Q50Sqqw
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A long-sleeved shirt in faded blue, made of thick wool fabric that was coarse and slightly damp from dew or blood.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJQb4MIc0WI
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Small metal buttons lined up down the center of his chest. some were undone, and beneath the undone buttons he saw an undershirt in wet gray.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ9AAyj5cVT
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On his left shoulder was a patch bearing an emblem he didn't recognize: an eagle with spread wings, or perhaps a raven, its claws grasping something that looked like a branch or snake.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRwzHmWgnlX
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The patch was faded, its edges torn.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBFHj2OzuvK
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Blue trousers tucked into tall dark brown boots that felt heavy on his feet.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGLTwkjDWaS
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The boots were made of thick leather with hard soles. he felt small studs on the soles when he moved his feet over the ground.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXD4wkqyU4J
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Loose metal buckles on the tops of the boots swung gently as he moved.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡraKA7bT9Gu
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Voltase raised his right hand in front of his face.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWkwMd7jtl1
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The hand trembled violently.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEH6jZPZvJ2
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He could see it clearly, and it wasn't his hand.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ73uGye5IWu
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The hand was long, thin but muscular, with blue veins prominent on the back.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaegizKylJk
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The fingers were slender with prominent knuckles and short nails dirty with black earth drying beneath them.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPHbM7e2VUw
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There was a small wound on his middle knuckle, a scrape still wet with fresh blood. perhaps from a fight that happened before he woke up.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU9MgeTjAbG
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His palm was wide with deep, clear lifelines.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBPPZajbvRz
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At the base of his thumb was a thick callus formed from years of holding something—maybe a weapon, maybe a tool, he didn't know.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP1zVlqFOej
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This was an adult man's hand.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAJwEpL7MLU
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A strong hand.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyhFjz3oKBS
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A hand that could never belong to a weak, thin twelve-year-old boy.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeOSsSvrn57
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He pressed his palm to his chest.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNCZm9Xrpwh
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Beneath the thick wool fabric, he felt the contour of hard chest muscles—broad pectorals with wide ribs beneath them.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYLFb1fAzbv
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And beneath those muscles, he felt a heartbeat.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡheG67vIecU
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Thump, thump.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDGYeaV2erZ
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Thump, thump.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMwpLmRLRDb
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A deeper, stronger, heavier heart.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIizyLbz62v
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Each beat felt like a hammer striking the wall of his chest from inside.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkqPlfFPJ0e
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This isn't my body, he thought, and the thought sounded foreign in his head, deeper, heavier, with the resonance of an adult man he didn't recognize.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCfuokSFW0h
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This body isn't mine.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEp7u8OdMry
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I'm inside someone else's body.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt2aawhQSqL
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I'm trapped inside someone else's flesh.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3OMNLJKM6A
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How can this be?18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡILLebBBN1y
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He wanted to scream, to call someone, to ask what was happening, but his voice only came out as a hoarse breath caught in his throat. 

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He straightened his body.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡylKKnIKfmA
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knees wobbled at first, the long, strong leg muscles feeling strange, unused to supporting this much weight, but he forced himself to stand.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcnK9ebS7Qg
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Eye level was now above the piles of corpses around him.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhKJp43pK2N
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He could see far across the field, farther than he had ever seen in his short, narrow life.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5OdtIzi2Jm
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The body was now tall a hundred and eighty centimeters or more.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2DgDXMozPm
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When he looked down, he saw the long distance between his chest and the ground, a distance he had never experienced before.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNCzCWaXftC
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His long, sturdy legs felt foreign, like poles newly attached beneath his body.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT3yEHIwEOL
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Every step felt like walking on an unstable stage.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjFrvIcKCBc
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He felt his body's weight differently.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMK4Lvwv1PR
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Gravity felt lighter on his bones. perhaps because his bones were now larger and stronger. but his muscles felt heavier and denser.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwmX3pF8LTx
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There was strength there, potential for movement he had never explored.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpPjHuN9ioP
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He felt that this body could run faster, punch harder, endure longer than his small, weak body.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUFOo5sMDQP
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But that strength didn't make him brave.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwlVcWXHaTV
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Instead, he felt Strange.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnc1zQ3FU68
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Like a thief who had stolen something precious and didn't know how to use it. uninvited guest in a house that wasn't his, where every movement felt like a violation.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2M0FvjjB2J
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Who owned this body?18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIPQYnliBvP
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the question repeated in his head like a mantra.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu99UmsCip7
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Where is he?18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfSZJ8o7A19
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Is he dead?18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ulamebZzs
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Did I take his body?18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnM9XR5khB6
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Did I kill him?18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTj4X80keHt
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He looked around.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5see4gv2og
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The sky above him wasn't the cloudy gray English sky always ready to rain.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp8CdVEV5Nr
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The sky here was pitch black, blacker than the hollows in the corpse's eye sockets.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡemtZIo0OrG
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No stars, moon and glowing clouds.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0zd4AG5AFW
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Just a black canvas stretching endlessly, as if someone had covered the entire world with thick velvet and forgotten it there, leaving it hanging without end.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhh2W2C2En3
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But beneath that gloomy sky, there was enough light.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO6UkzVeMzl
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Perhaps from reflections off puddles of liquid on the ground that cast a dim gleam.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGBZ9ppBIpf
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Perhaps from remnants of fires long dead in the distance, still emitting thin smoke and red sparks beneath the ash.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaq3q99oyLo
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Perhaps from twilight light that refused to leave completely, even though it was late at night.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡom8attR9DX
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The source of the light was unclear, but it was enough for Voltase to see the sight that would sear itself onto his retina forever. burned there like a photograph exposed to sunlight.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWwTCvZpPUz
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Around him, as far as he could see, there were only bodies.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOTIJQpWO9L
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Hundreds, maybe thousands, impossible to count.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQECQm0MZF7
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They lay in chaotic piles like rag dolls thrown by an angry giant and then forgotten.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZDvzEVbci5
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Some were stacked on top of each other, forming small hills reaching up to an adult's waist.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc5Xco3Zucs
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Some piles were higher, reaching chest height.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQda9TFdyqN
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Voltase noticed that the piles moved.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO63dkjfxlT
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Not moving like living things, but moving because of the maggots and flies writhing inside them, creating small waves on the surface of the flesh.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUlA4skcim9
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Some bodies lay alone, separated from the piles, with arms bent at impossible angles.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPoY8vHaatv
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Elbows twisted the wrong way.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXaERFsmgkB
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Fingers clutching empty earth as if they were still trying to crawl in death, still trying to escape something that had caught them.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeD1qGcJQLI
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Some had intact faces with wide-open eyes staring at the black sky, expressions of fear frozen forever in the rigid muscles of their faces.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnKWWg3fX4H
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Some had no faces at all.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyq6RqzdXo5
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Just red, glistening hollows inhabited by maggots and flies, with remnants of flesh clinging to skull bones like unraveling threads.

Their uniforms varied.1234 copyright protection14ＰＥＮＡＮＡsNHUSS1cfZ 尼Most wore faded blue, like Voltase.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr6qkP2FVzR
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Many wore pale green. The color of dead moss, a faded, dull green-gray like leaves already rotting in an autumn that lasted too long.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQq3pi4zqsA
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Some others, fewer in number, wore ash, the color of gunpowder dust, or ash left after fire dies.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt0jBye7KZe
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Those three colors mixed in this pile of death without pattern, without meaning, just chaotic horror.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvrsuxov7eN
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Often he saw blue bodies lying on top of green bodies, or gray bodies wedged between two blue bodies.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaRDwPnvSER
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Nothing was ordered.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1erDw2RSet
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Nothing was intentional.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSDmHbb4kfE
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They died where they fell, and they fell where they died.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyZl2yXkAL2
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The ground beneath Voltase's feet felt soft. not like the hard earth of the school garden, not like the wooden floor of his room.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCb05GkFUI9
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He looked down and saw his boots sinking several centimeters into a brown-black surface.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeh9mbK98vT
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It was mud, but not ordinary mud.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRNp4LnRg1l
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This mud was mixed with something darker, thicker, denser.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZxIppvILNS
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Blood.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI41Arz81yg
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This ground wasn't earth.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRWaGWrlFEg
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It was a layer of flesh and bodily fluids that had soaked into the soil, mixed with mud, forming a new, horrific layer.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMnqYG5dCDF
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When he moved his boots, there was a wet squelch. the sound of liquid squeezed out from the pores of the earth like water from an oversaturated sponge.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHrdZVR6UX5
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He saw small white fragments among the black mud.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMWlb58ufGO
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Bone fragments.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQqmfqGa22L
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Broken rib pieces with sharp ends.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn4pIfhZ4Fo
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Severed finger joints still bearing remnants of flesh at the joints.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCGO6WdjFm9
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Shattered skull fragments with pinkish inner surfaces from residual brain tissue.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGWmtOhzYLG
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There were also torn fabric pieces, dull glinting metal buttons scattered among the mud, and undone shoelaces uncoiled like dead snakes.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX9SBAsPiX6
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The stench here wasn't uniform.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8alTZ0WT2e
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It came in waves.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCmJDPwma2H
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Sometimes sharp and stinging like ammonia burning the nose.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJmNfE8yPTL
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Sometimes sweet and nauseating like overripe flowers beginning to rot.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnhBIWRiZLl
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Sometimes like old iron scraped across the tongue, leaving a metallic taste he couldn't get rid of.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA9gq5OxF4y
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Every time the wind blew. cold, damp night wind,the smell changed, shifted, found new ways to torment his senses.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡotfVqEkvJf
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Voltase covered his nose with the back of his new, long hand, but the smell entered through his mouth, through his skin, through every pore of his now-large but still vulnerable body.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJs9zPIsilx
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He felt it behind his eyes, in his sinuses, at the back of his throat.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡihOKa5ddyA
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The smell became part of the air he breathed. He couldn't separate himself from it.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4yeUKKLAzV
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In the distance, he heard something.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfPlSAPVclP
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Not the sound of rain, the sound was a crack, like a twig snapping.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdxIoy2VgCm
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Maybe footsteps.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXe428Lps9h
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Voltase froze.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡprwXOmg95b
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He held his breath. That deep, heavy breath from this adult man's lungs and tried to listen more carefully.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiRTWaODFoR
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But his own heartbeat was too loud, too thunderous.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3h9XFp79yd
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Thump, thump.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLIiKNoskSB
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Thump, thump.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgQuh3j71mE
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This heart was like a war drum inside his broad chest, and he couldn't stop it.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKwDAiUg2QT
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Then, he saw movement.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡST8UkwslHq
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Among the pile of corpses to his left, about ten meters away, the pile shook.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO9eYzZPiCZ
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Not from the wind, the wind wouldn't move a pile of flesh that heavy.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmvCWTDm4mW
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Something inside it was moving.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIvDvLp8y6i
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An arm emerged.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbomyBcN0P6
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An arm that still had intact skin. pale but not rotting, with muscles still tense beneath the skin's surface.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ11nJ4lazG0
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The fingers of that hand grasped the air, then pulled, pushed the bodies above them.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ87LyMSvMcs
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Those bodies shifted, rolled, fell aside with wet sounds.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUaNh9roDT8
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From that pile, a man's figure emerged.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡca6XP9Wu8f
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He rose with stiff, mechanical movements, like a wooden puppet whose strings were pulled by an invisible hand.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC6q7FCil8S
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He brushed dust and dried flesh scraps from his uniform. pale green, the same green worn by many corpses around him.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXBN1XJoRIL
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The fabric was torn in several places, and on his right shoulder was the same patch, eagle or raven, but the colors were more faded, more worn, with threads beginning to unravel at the edges.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1zw6BeVBNh
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On his left arm was a large tear exposing the skin beneath, pale skin with an old, dried wound.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU5EUAckIdm
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The man was tall, almost as tall as Voltase.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNVcJJplYq2
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His face was gaunt, with a firm jaw and prominent cheekbones.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3MYi2KULs5
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His hair was dirty blond, short and unkempt, with sideburns slightly elongated beside his ears.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAn5gzvI6hv
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His dark eyes, dark like Voltase's eyes in the real world, stared straight at him.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡERhYT5LiYr
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The stare was unfriendly.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMzVGQDXi8W
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Full of suspicion, confusion, and beneath it, a layer of fear trying to hide behind a tightening jaw and pursed lips.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRvC4iPOrK1
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They faced each other.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZdKED1QyPT
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Two adult figures in the middle of a sea of death.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbGzF4WSrOF
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Cold night wind blew between them, carrying the stench of rot and old gunpowder smoke.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMXfhmPK1UL
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Voltase felt the wind hit his face, carrying his long, dirty hair dancing around his eyes.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpVtieT0HTJ
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The man didn't speak.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvEieAFkrk9
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He just stared, eyes narrowing, measuring whether Voltase was a threat or just another survivor.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4VTprvG9oe
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He examined Voltase's faded blue uniform, then examined his face.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpd8lwxSrBu
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Perhaps searching for recognition.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxZ86fnkQlU
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Trying to remember if he had ever seen this face before.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2TrCvWfQoi
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But there was no recognition in his eyes.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQLHoOJ2U2W
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Only deepening suspicion.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqxEHz9o3kO
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Slowly, he bent down.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe3wdNZEsxE
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His dirty fingers, crusted with dried blood beneath the nails, groped among the pile of corpses.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKO5XRpi4Vy
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He pushed some bodies aside, shifted others, and finally pulled something from beneath the pile.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡccLXqAH7rT
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A long object.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0qhMtVRBWI
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Voltase recognized the shape even though he had never seen one directly outside the history books in the school library.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ00BsE8lvMp
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An old wooden stock, darkened by oil and sweat from hands before his, covered with scratches and deep grooves from their grips.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz7hcj7dq2r
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The wood was worn, its fibers peeling in places but still solid, he could see that the stock had been used for years, perhaps decades, by people he would never know.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvZqsvESBcP
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A long, slender barrel of dark metal, gleaming dully under the dim light, with grooves along its surface to reduce weight.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡurAkOFaR12
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Beneath it, just in front of the curved trigger made of the same metal with a finger groove, a small box magazine jutted out like a second jaw, loaded with ready-to-fire bullets.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAHDfBKbLY6
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And at the end of the barrel, he saw a locking mechanism small grooves and metal protrusions, designed to attach a bayonet.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ260uWwt6ui
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It was a heavy, ancient, deadly rifle.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqNT6rJUHgn
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A rifle that had killed more people than he could imagine.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡimefx7WAGZ
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The man aimed the muzzle at Voltase's chest.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB1PU4S2Ea3
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Voltase's reflexes acted before his thoughts could formulate a strategy.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6L1VUD6Il1
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Both his hands the long, sturdy hands of an adult man rose up, palms open wide, in the universal gesture of surrender.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoBV06fkWNs
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He felt the unfamiliar but real weight of his arms.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡta2aeEUWfH
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His heart pounded in this new chest, and he felt its beat at his temples and at the tips of his trembling fingers.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPvvo6a4Wed
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"Wait,"18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuF4SjABTXp
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he said, and his voice came out as a deep, hoarse baritone.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡntmrR1DLwD
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a voice he had never heard before, a voice emerging from a chest broader than his own.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQNVJ8J3Fif
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"I don't know where this is."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo7BASvqV97
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"don't know what's happening."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ50qfdih1sC
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"I just woke up."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqq6VfccVp8
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The man didn't answer.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfvKy4QTJHY
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His eyes narrowed further, examining Voltase's faded blue uniform, then his face, watching Voltase's lips move, hearing his words.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcjR9868OKs
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But there was no response.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSQiVabtrz1
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Perhaps he didn't believe him.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNrWnPcoviy
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Perhaps he had seen too many tricks in this place to trust anyone.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsFBPRVqr4h
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The man began to step forward.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4cPKgrRiaN
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One step.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrb1ihBWMxs
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Two steps.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbiykAZ9Ofb
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The muzzle stayed aimed exactly at Voltase's chest.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcaCDqaCO3y
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Each step the man took was torture.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4xQSCKVq4I
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Voltase heard the squeak of the man's boots on the bloody mud.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHYDGRmrrh9
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He saw every scratch on the rifle's wooden stock, every peeling fiber, every deep groove.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDJc0aHavE7
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He saw the man's finger on the trigger a steady finger that didn't tremble, a finger accustomed to the weight and pressure of pulling.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbVWMi9FGeT
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The voice in his head whispered.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV2pWC3lWvU
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If you don't move, you die.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJf07P1rphd
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You die here, in this place.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZGwgPkHu9d
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And you'll never return to your dormitory room.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHCP5wjMBk9
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No one will come looking for you.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpLLnBr2emH
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No one will care.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRl2raMnaKk
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You'll just be another corpse in this pile.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD9LaXLPyYM
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The thought of the world's indifference. about foster parents who never called, about teachers who didn't know his name.

about the empty room with only the cracks in the ceiling, gave Voltase a strange strength.1234 copyright protection14ＰＥＮＡＮＡRRAnJatGBd 尼He had nothing to lose in the real world.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiYHTVdR2p2
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No one would mourn him if he died.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1zJI1Sohpe
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But here, in this strong body, he might survive.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGgxYGhow6j
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He might become something.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd0ZWUWabhl
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And he moved.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡch5UfWumOy
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His tall, powerful body shot forward, faster than he had imagined.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1UDs3g61h2
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The muscles in his legs. muscles he had never possessed contracted with surprising strength, propelling him forward in an instant.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7iVDngJEbj
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His long hand grabbed the end of the rifle's barrel before the man could react.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdmI030brm3
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The metal was cold, very cold, like ice burning his skin.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpO909nPyip
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He felt the texture of the metal beneath his fingers smooth in some places, rough in others from rust and he gripped it tightly.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjzFfXlsFU1
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He twisted the barrel aside, away from his chest.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡckJPqABJXf
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His other hand formed a fist and swung it at the man's face.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwjGMDDbm6t
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The punch landed.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo28Uei4n1x
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His knuckles struck the man's cheekbone with a dull thud.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAixthLovHY
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Voltase felt the hard impact in his hand, pain spreading like waves from his knuckles to his wrist.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd3shqrU38m
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But there was a primal satisfaction that his punch had connected.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrnsdlHPXyz
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This was the first time in his life. both in the real world and here he had ever hit someone with full force.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfShI1jxcjA
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The man stumbled back, his arm bending, but he didn't fall.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfTGHsF1Tl3
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His head snapped to the side, and from the corner of his mouth, a drop of blood began to flow.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMsxo1fP8Gu
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He raised his hand to his face, touched his lip, looked at the blood on his fingertip.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZncGBIdiTG
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Then he looked at Voltase with changed eyes.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAovFKskfn5
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Suspicion transformed into burning anger.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvByFzepQbD
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With reflexes faster than they looked, he blocked Voltase's attack with his forearm.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs8Ablf1OsY
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His other hand grabbed Voltase's collar and pulled him forward.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ14LdBkITX3
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At the same time, he bent his right knee and kicked forward.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDuJjCUhxjQ
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The knee struck Voltase's stomach, and the pain exploded in his solar plexus like a bomb.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe3dWi0Aobv
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All the air in his lungs. the large lungs of this adult man, was forced out in one gasping exhale that sounded like a long, deep groan.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlcZWCsuVbj
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Saliva and bitter bile from his empty stomach spurted from his open mouth, wetting his chin and dripping onto the faded blue uniform.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsAWdfeLN83
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For a moment, the world around him spun wildly. black sky, corpses, and the man's face all mixed into a nauseating vortex.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ58AixLzG5C
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He tasted metal on his tongue because he had bitten his own tongue from the impact.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ35V2zOsSP7
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Fresh blood began to flow in his mouth, mixing with the bile.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqg6M88K0h8
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But Voltase didn't fall.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNZTs9yY0YJ
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Unlike in the real world, where he always fell when pushed by other children at school, this body was stronger, heavier.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfDNO5yrjSw
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His long legs planted in the bloody soil as he held his ground.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ36TwzqkzoA
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His abdominal muscles hard, trained muscles absorbed part of the kick's impact.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJAT2PRSn9S
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Despite the overwhelming pain, he was still standing.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt90qx3wbmc
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With clenched teeth, enduring the pain gnawing at his stomach like burning fire, he launched a counterattack.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2fDaJw54oh
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His foot with the heavy boot and hard sole swung toward the man's shin.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa0z1iNpsGW
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He swung his leg with all his strength.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0kmnzGe8ah
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The kick landed with a harder thud than before.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp5tk8SKfWh
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The man stumbled, losing balance.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI0ZyRyF9D6
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His kicked leg buckled, and for a moment he seemed about to fall, grimacing in pain, his teeth clenched, his breath coming in a long hiss.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBxq4PFManU
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Voltase seized the moment.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6cLCNejBHo
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He twisted his body, pulling the rifle barrel with all his strength.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQNeBMlxKSf
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The wood and metal an object weighing nearly four kilograms tore from the man's grip.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3hhQaQzDAC
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It flew, rolled across the pile of corpses, and fell among the rotting bodies on the other side, sinking beneath the pile of flesh.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0z3L5qc1O1
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Now, without weapons, they faced each other equally.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOZ5IRkJEVi
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The man swung a punch at Voltase's jaw, but Voltase ducked, feeling the wind of the fist brushing his long, dirty hair.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyCDIlLsrrf
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He answered with a punch at the man's chin, but the man tilted his head with agile movement despite his large body.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFGkV6hiLZu
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They fought wildly punches, kicks, elbows, and knees in the middle of the sea of corpses.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWDwPp8St5y
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Dust and dried flesh scraps flew around them every time they stepped on or fell into the piles of bodies.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF40yHmeSJH
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Voltase felt blood. both the corpses' blood and his own covering his face.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGbYS3QPEMf
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His lower lip was split, and he tasted his own salty, metallic blood on his tongue, mixing with the copper taste from the air around him.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHO0IC3zMbo
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This isn't me, he thought between punches, but his thoughts were fragmented by pain and exhaustion.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVTg9dzapX1
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