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『DREAM-EATER』

Status「 Marked 」

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"Oh, to hell with this,"
she seethed,
burning, angered.

Annoyed.


It was like a parasite,
the status that caused an irritating
Cursed icon
beside her name-- 


Marked?
Not even Voodoos
gave that status effect. 




Even after she fought
another battle, with Exterminator,
and lost,
it clung to her. 


No healing item or spell could fix it.
What was the issue?

Her health wasn't decreasing.

Her magic power didn't weaken.
Nothing happened other than
this accursed label
under her player name.





She turned to her dominant arm,
where she remembered
Exterminator had eroded in the
battle yesterday. 





Exterminator, who crumbled
those in their path-
-
fearsome, and agonizing.

And that defeat was
frankly devastating.





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『DREAM-EATER』

Remaining lives: 1/3

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Her hand was normal. 

Unbroken.
Without a scar and
without a blemish,
it was her hand-- 



Just a few hours ago,
she had watched it rot,
mangled, eaten by green and blue--
then, it had shattered
like a brittle rock--


Even that had gone
back to normal when
they left the fight zone.





Taking off her shirt and
looking into the mirror
once more, she winced.


A gray line,
cornered with blushes of sick pink;
tore across her stomach. 


A spiked stroke through her torso,
not a scar--
but more of a birthmark,
a discolouration in her skin...

...except, she's only
noticed this on her
for the past week.




It didn't hurt,
but it was there.



It was there,
and that was enough
to be absolutely terrifying.





"Rulekeeper,"
she remembered the
name with a brush of fear,
"the wounds I got from him--
why aren't they disappearing?"

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