Only Red

Chapter Nineteen

Sorry I updated later in the day then usual I got caught up in watching The Promised Neverland! My friend recommended it to me and I think it's super good so if you haven't seen it I would check it out!!! 

"First it alters your appearance to something you fear, since most times that's something along the lines of 'ugly' or 'fat'. This is the first step to destroying the potential love between you and your soulmate.

"The next step is more tricky however, and this is where those 'options' come in."

I lean forward in anticipation as she continues.

She held up a finger. "You can either kill your soulmate," She held up a second finger. "Or you can leave them alone and slowly lose the will to live-" Aizawa looks stunned and cuts in.

"And you kill yourself?" The woman looks at Aizawa and shakes her head sadly.

"And you become immortal. No matter how many cuts you make in your wrist, no matter how much medicine goes down your throat, no matter how many bullets end up in your head... you never die."

Aizawa looks even more repulsed if possible.

"Some people, afraid of being alone, kill their soulmate and end up living a life of loneliness. Some people, seeking immortality, never kill another soul just in case it's their fated love, and live forever.

"It's not all it's cracked up to be though." She says sadly. "Once my sister found out about my quirk it was all she wanted, so as a birthday present, knowing how scared my 10 year old sister was of dieing, I used it on her.

"It's not the immortality of living like a king, or never having to be afraid in epidemics. It's lying in a cold cell all alone, with everyone you know dead, never able to join them and never able to feel any emotion but sadness and pain."

I felt all the blood drain from my face.

Oh good

life-long suffering,

my favorite thing.