Madness

"I am sorry."

Tang Nuan was the first to speak. As she looked around at the messy house. She was sad for Ai Lim as she had her mind degraded to this degree.

"No worries."

He said as he shrugged his shoulders and stops his pressure.

"She will wake up in a couple of minutes."

And wake up she did by thrashing around in some chains of ice while Tang Nuan hurriedly calmed her down and explained their situaiton.

While explaining, Tang Nuan observed Ai Lim, twitching her body every so often, her disorderly breathing, her intent bursting out of her like a dam on the brink of collapse and most importantly the skill that embodied the Law System, The Eye Of Law flickered intensively. It was like she was having a seizure.

Though from the perspective of the man, he was keeping silent to himself as he was losing patients on why Tang Nuan was just glaring at Ai Lim.

In the mind of Ai Lim

A slow song was playing on a old gramophone. One of soothing and simple tunes.

AI Lim was sitting on a coach. Reading a thin book, titled 'Society'. It was like a children's picture book.

Surrounding her were four transperant walls same with the rooftop and the ground. From the outside, many of these same boxes were present. Floating around aimlessly.

In this world, she is happy and content. Though, she has no friends. No one to talk to, she will always have company and anything she wants from the big eyed Kraken of the sky.

Ai Lim looked at the sky, the big dark eyelids opened revealing a chaotic face swimming around it's white sclera.

Ai Lim went back to reading the book, the pictures showing a girl identical to Ai Lim, she had a luxurious life.

She woke up at a reasonable hour, she ate healthy, she exercised and she worked hard, harder than anyone else. Though, that is what she likes to think.

She was the CEO of a company leading in technology. As Ai Lim flips to the next page, it reveals the girl with chains attached to every limb being strung to hands like a puppet and above those chains were a single word "Society".

Even when chained, she kept moving forward as if her life was unimportant for the advancement of this company.

Ai Lim hummed with the soft music, as she once again flipped while reminiscing in nostalgia. This time the girl was on a fleet of stairs going up with the same chains still on her body.

For once the girl smiled and spoke,

"One more step."

In front of her, was a bright figure, he was the fruition of all her efforts, he was her ticket to escape the loop of society.

And when the final page had arrived, she was dead, with no limbs, with no friends just a severed head. Held up by the bright figure.

Ai Lim closed the book as she started laughing, she was happy to escape society, she never had felt this free, she could go mad and relax all she wanted.

As she started to burn, she kept laughing and the Kraken above was also happy as it released, all of its tentacles.

There were 8 tentacles in total, each with humongous proportions. They had faces of Ai Lim swimming in its skin.

As Ai Lim burned away, deep down she was angry and sad, she wanted burn that creature down, she was maddened by this deep feeling of helplessness. She needed to be stronger, she needed to kill this tormentor, this monster that had been eating at her since her previous life.

She needed peace or this monster may have already broken her.

As her laughter disappears, the book on her hand fell to the ground revealing a poem behind the book.

All our life we climb a stairway,

We won't know where it will end,

But we will know one thing,

That society is with us,

That everyone in society wants to rest,

Ending our eternal struggle to being the best,

So the only thing that we can do is,

Rest and accept.

Alas, she was added to her long line of dead personalities. From nowhere another box appears, repeating the process.

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