Rin tried to turn around but he realized that he couldn't control his body, every move he did seven days ago he is doing it again.
Rin couldn't scream anymore.
Not because he had grown used to the pain,but because he didn't even control his mouth anymore.
When he first woke up, he had believed the seven-day torment was a nightmare. A fluke. A mistake.
But it repeated.
Again.
And again.
Time lost meaning.
He would blink, and he was back at the gate beside Valen. He would flinch, hesitate, feel the same confusion, the same terror… and then he would be back in the void. The soul chamber. Ripped apart. Torn down.
Valen never tired.
He spoke the same words. Smiled the same way. Asked the same questions.
But Rin could no longer answer. His body was no longer his own. His mouth moved without will. His hands walked through motions he didn't guide. He was a prisoner inside himself.
And the pain. Oh god, the pain.
His soul was peeled again and again like a fruit. Nerves were dragged out like thread. He screamed silently in his mind.
As time went by he can control his body for a few seconds.
He tried killing himself. Once, he forced his own body to leap off a cliff in the simulation. Once, he held a blade to his throat.
But it didn't work. The system wouldn't allow it. Or maybe Valen wouldn't allow it.
One year?
Ten?
A hundred?
Time meant nothing now. Rin floated in that void, watching himself perform, watching himself suffer, over and over.
Once, he collapsed. His soul couldn't move. It simply hovered.
He remembered crying. He remembered begging for anyone,anything,to help him.
No one came.
Nothing changed.
No mercy.
Just Valen.
Always Valen.
Then, one day… something changed.
The void trembled.
Rin felt a chill,not of pain, but of something new.
Valen appeared, not smirking now, but satisfied.
He stepped forward, expression unreadable.
"Finally," he said. "I can see it."
Rin blinked,or thought he did.
"My access is almost complete," Valen said, raising his hand, and with a gesture, Rin's soul convulsed.
"You sure wasted my fucking time , little insect. But now, I will know what you are."
Rin whimpered.
His gaze darkened.
"I changed my mind."
The void twisted again.
Rin suddenly stood on the surface of a barren moon, stars spread wide across the black sky. In the distance, the blue marble of the planet they had just been on floated peacefully.
Valen hovered in the air .
"You are too weird I have to be careful "
"I was going to scatter your soul in the dimension. Let it rot for eternity."
He paused. "But that would be too kind."
Rin tried to speak. No words came.
Valen raised his hand. A black orb appeared above it, pulsing with strange energy.
"I will split your soul. One half... I'll cast into the deepest part of space. The other... I'll bury in the soul-chambers beneath my planet."
His voice was calm. Cold.
"You will never wake again. No reborn. No possessing. Nothing. No hope."
Rin's soul shivered.
"True death," Valen whispered.