I will always love you

"So, do you understand why this was all necessary?" the female psychiatrist asked the young male patient, who had just taken a proper shower for the first time in days. His splotchy, faded teal hair hung loosely around his face, dripping water on his sunken cheeks.

Natsuo nodded faintly. He fully understood why he had to be tied to the bed or sedated with strong medication. He fully understood that he had been having hallucinations and delusions which made him believe that he was being stalked and harmed. He fully understood that he had gone through psychosis.

He felt like he had lived in another world, where he was just a spectator, watching things unfold around him, unable to do anything but observe. It was like he was a prisoner in his own mind, powerless to control his body.

But now his memories were coming back to him, fragmented and distant, but he remembered what had brought him there - especially the horrible act he had committed.