Monsters?

Chapter 3: Caught?

Kei's POV...

It's not that my emotions are playing with me. Rather, the feeling of death has been conquering my mind.

Yes. The umpteenth times I have died in the same operating table. The day that I got caught, these people brought dangerous weaponry and certain objects that you've never thought to be deadly. They use spoons to gouged out my eyes. They use a fan to forced my fingers in. They use nails to pierce my body with. I mentally bared the pain but it all ended up with a muffled scream. How..how long will I endure this pain? How long will I stay in this hell hole?

The bandage covering my eyes isn't helping, shredding what little eye sight I could to describe where I was put in. I stare at the corner. A man with a operating mask covering his mouth, was holding an electric wires. Expecting to see if I would react to it. My eyes went horribly pale and grit my teeth in fear.

These people. Do they really not care whether I feel the pain or die countless times?! Could it be because I'm an Ajin? To them only, but I was just like them. They just don't see my part of the pain..!

As soon as the electric circuit was plugged inside of me, a surging heating shock consumed me. I gagged a muffle from the jolt. It hurts and I'm crying deep down. So many questions yet so little answers. My heart rate dropped and my brain shut down. My whole body turned hot, that I could no longer breath and so, with my eyes closed, I was met with death yet again.

I always thought that whenever I close my eyes, I can finally rest in peace and never wake up again. But I always wonder what would it be like to die normally? Will my soul be carried away up to Heaven? Be reincarnated? And forget all of this that happened to me up till now? Although sadly, that isn't the case, I am unable to die like an ordinary human should.

..Is this what my end will be? Stuck in the same operating table and gladly make them experiment me till I died and revive again? This is pure torture. What did I do wrong to deserve this hell..??!

It all came to a sense of routine. I was awoken from the death and only to be killed yet again. In the most brutality of torture I have come to know now. Letting me experienced the stretch of infinite pain, bounded on a table, unable to escape or call for help. Letting them use my body for their hellish experiment. To kill me and do outrageous stuffs at me. Then it goes on in a cycle. I look up at the ever still light above me, blinding me in a haze of pain, awaiting for something to come down. It was the only thing I was sick of looking.

"All right, break "
"That was a lot of work huh?"

My eyes went terribly wide. Hearing human languages for the first time. So this people only sees me as nothing but a piece of work..? Was I never a human in front of them...??

Cruel...why is this... happening to me?

"Then, I leave the rest to you"
"Yeah"

..I just wanted...to become a good person, thats all. But this......its too much...

I closed my eyes and awoke subconsciously in a dim lit room. Out in the light, I saw Tanaka, looking at me, with a pity smirk.

"Whats this? I thought you didn't want to become like me? Back then, weren't you looking at me with disdain?"

Scattered shards of moments passed through me like an invisible gale. The first time I saw Tanaka. How interesting Satou-san was. The voices of my own words that time began to echo.