This is a multimedia webnovel with giant city-crushing monsters, a valiant man who dares to fight them, a hero who loses himself on a righteous path, and a darkness which conceives a profound love. But I suck at descriptions, so I strongly encourage...
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"Where is this? What is this? I don't want to be here," asked the voice of a scared girl.
Hatasuko answered, "You are locked in an endless tempest of lost souls. The voices you hear are the agonized screams of the victims lost to the Interfecti."
"I don't understand why I can hear them. I thought I was taken by the shadows. Death was supposed to be a promised end to the pain," she whispered.
"You hear the screaming souls because you are a screaming soul. I don't know how long you've been dead, but you must have somehow pieced yourself together inside the tempest. You reassembled your memories and your soul. That is why you can speak to me now."
"But I don't want to be here. I don't want to be reassembled; I just want to fade away like I was always promised. I never meant to find you. I don't even know who you are," she said.
"My name is Hatasuko, and I am the one cursed to carry the weight of this tempest."
The scared voice of the girl in the tempest asked, "Are you alive? Are you a human? Are you even real? I know your name is in the style as the Collobos people."
"I am cursed, but I am alive. I am indeed a man from the Collobos Mountains."
"Does that mean you survived the attack from a few years ago? I knew from the moment I saw the Interfectus that it would be my end. I knew that it would be the bloody end to a life I never asked for in the first place," she said.
Hatasuko answered, "My body itself survived the Interfectus, but everything else was taken away. I lost my mother, my home, my city, my people, my sanity, and the freedom to live without the urge to strike away all anguish in the world. I never even bothered to search for my friends in the wreckage because my life as I knew it was over. I wonder if you and I once knew each other."
"I doubt it. My name was Adishina, and I rarely socialized or even left the house. I was born with deformed legs, so I never really had the opportunity to explore on my own. I was nothing more than a burden to my parents. He tried not to show it, but I knew that my father was disappointed that his kid couldn't even help with the farm. I was just a drain on their lives, and they made it silently obvious. Everyone knew it. In a way, I'm happy that the Interfectus freed them from me so they could just get on with their lives. I hated being deadweight, but I had no other choice," Adishina explained with a breaking voice.
"Your parents survived the Interfectus attack? That's good. They must have been working on the farm or somewhere else in the city, right?" Hatasuko asked.
Adishina fell silent for several seconds. In this silence, Hatasuko could feel the chorus of crying souls writhing around deep inside his head, but they sounded quieter than usual. Since Adishina had just assembled herself in the tempest, Hatasuko hypothesized that the tempest itself was low on energy.
