“Since you’ve been such a good boy for us, I’ll be merciful and tell you~~~
It was that little ‘family tracking beacon‘ your parents bonded you with at the welcome–home dinner.”
Chapter 1
11:34
I began to tremble uncontrollably. A cold, desolate sorrow washed over me. I had never imagined that my cries for help to my family would be the
very thing that led to my betrayal. They were my blood, my kin, yet they treated me like an enemy.
Even the one exception, my sister…
[Warning! Protagonist Noah’s life signs are critically low! The world is at risk of collapse!]
The System’s alarm blared in
my mind.
A tiny spark of hope flickered within me. Surely, she wouldn’t drag the entire world down with her just to save Julian?
My sister’s voice came, firm and cold. “Shut up, System. There’s only one part left, the castration. Then it will all be over.”
“How can we stop at such a critical moment?”
“If we stop now, Julian will have to endure it, and it will kill him! Our family won’t be whole anymore… All my efforts will have been for nothing. I
absolutely will not allow that!”
The mechanical voice sounded shocked. [Enough! What does Julian’s fate have to do with him?】
How long has he even been
back
- in.
this family? And you’ve already flayed him alive!]
[If anyone owes a debt here, it is all of you who owe it to him! Why are you torturing the victim?)
My sister’s voice cracked with anguish, her words becoming a hysterical, distorted scream.
“You think I don’t know that?!”
“But he’s the only one who can survive a
Main–death scenario!”
“We’ve come this far! Better for him to be broken than for Julian to die! And Noah is the protagonist! He won’t die!”
“I am preserving the integrity of my family, don’t you understand?!”
She finished her tirade and wiped her face, her voice returning to a chilling calm.
“Don’t worry. I won’t let him die.”
“After he has taken Julian’s place, I’ll have someone call an ambulance. Even if he needs a catheter for the rest of his life, even if he’s a broken
man, I will take care of him.“–
But would a life like that even be living?
My heart was a frozen wasteland.
I closed my eyes, shutting out the world, shutting out the pain they were inflicting on my body.
It’s no use. No one cares about me.
It wouldn’t be a loss if I died.
I relinquished my will to live, letting my soul plummet into the abyss.
Chapter 2
[Damn it! Go save him! He’s not breathing!] The Systern was frantic now, screaming in my head.
I couldn’t hear my sister’s voice anymore. It was as if I had blocked her out completely–the one who had promised to love me, the one who had
hurt me the most.
【Enough, stop! Why won’t you let him go? His body?!]
[You’re all insane! Insane!]
【Stop it! Stop!]
[Noah, Noah, you can’t die… you can’t!]
The hoise was a chaotic storm in my head. With the last ounce of my strength, I forced my eyes open.
Chapter 2
The noise was a chaotic storm in my
head. With the last ounce of my strength, I forced my eyes open.
11:34
My body was a mangled ruin. The “people” in the room were still laughing, and at some point, they had brought in hyenas.
I watched them play.
A profound, desolate sadness washed over me
It was only then that my sister finally arrived, bursting through the door with her own men.
Her face was ashen.
She flew to my
side.
“Noah, don’t be afraid… big sister is here! Please, you have to live…”
When I woke up, I was in a hospital.
3
An oxygen mask covered my face, tubes snaked in and out of my body. The only part of me I could move was my eyelids.
My teachers and classmates, people I hadn’t seen in months, came to visit with flowers and fruit. They saw the golden boy, the object of everyo-
he’s envy,
now reduced
to
a broken thing in a bed, waiting to die. They looked on with pity and sorrow.
“This is just too tragic. He can’t speak, he can’t write… how is he going to live?”
“Noah was the top scholar in the state! Now none of the elite universities will even mention his name…”
“And today was supposed to be his moment of glory.”
“…Celeste, you can’t let those monsters get away with this!”
A complex, pained expression flickered in Celeste’s eyes. She turned to the room and made a solemn promise. “Don’t worry. I will make those
damned devils pay for what they’ve done.”
Her words were a trigger, plunging me back into the nightmare. My body began to shake uncontrollably.
“Beep! Beep! Beep! Alert! Alert!”
The nurse rushed in. “I told you, the patient needs quiet! Why are you agitating him?” She silenced the blaring alarm of the heart monitor.
My sister looked at me, confused, and tried to explain. “Noah is my dearest brother. Why would I ever upset him? When he was being stalked by
that psychopath before, my voice was the only thing that could calm him down. He would only fall asleep if he was resting his head in my lap while
I massaged his temples…”