Hell (Part 2)

"Good morning Arche, did you sleep well?" said Ryvolin while carrying some documents in his hand.

"I'll check your body now Arche."

After that he casually held my whole body, checked my pulse and shined a flashlight in my eyes and checked my mouth, then finally he took some of my blood to check.

"Hmmm everything is normal, the vicious cancer cells that I injected yesterday have completely disappeared, now your blood is completely clean Arche! You're so amazing!"

Really? So what I felt was cancer huh, I'm sure I really died once because of that.

The blood flowing from this bed is getting more and more moist because of that, the bugs are getting more numerous as well as this room is getting more and more smelly.

"So, we'll do another test today Arche, get yourself ready," he said.

"Today you're going to take a bath, cheer up!" he continued.

A bath?

After that he pushed my bed into another room that had a lot of bottles filled with strange liquids, and a lot of tools for chemistry practice complete with heaters inside.

And in the middle of the room was a bathtub filled with a rainbow-colored liquid that gave off bubbles.

"Welcome to the chemistry room! Come now into this bathtub Arche!" He said.

"But I'm still tied up," I retorted.

"Ah, that's right."

If he opens this lock I'm going to run away and say goodbye to this place as soon as possible.

"Don't think about running away, Arche I'll open this lock now," he continued while opening the lock on my bed.

*clack*

I was finally free, as soon as he released the lock that bound my body to the bed, I jumped up and ran as fast as I could towards the door where I entered earlier.

And when I broke down the door, there were already 2 large guys in hazmat suits complete with gas masks, weren't they the ones who brought me to this underground room?

As I tried to escape, suddenly one of them held my body and the other hit me in the stomach.

"Guh!"

With the body of a child who can't use magic like this, I'm completely helpless, I'm so weak right now.

They carried my limp body back to that jerk Ryvolin.

"I told you not to even think about running away from here, our research isn't finished yet, Arche." he said while stroking my head.

"Because you've been a naughty boy, you're going to get punished," he continued.

He then lifted my body and threw me into the bathtub filled with the strange liquid.

Suddenly my skin peeled off, and my flesh swelled up all over, my blood coming out of the lumps all over my body.

"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!"

"HYAHAHAHAHAHA! This is it! Go on! This is your punishment for being a naughty boy!"

I saw Ryvolin laughing so much seeing me in pain, when I wanted to get out of this bathtub, he immediately pierced the lump on the surface of my skin then the lump exploded and blood came out from the hole of the lump.

This hurts so much, I'm really suffering, how long do I have to be here? Isn't this enough?

"This is a mixed acidic substance that can dissolve aluminum in just a few drops, but it seems that your body fights the acidic substance by regenerating continuously until it defeats the effect of the acidic substance, it seems that I got new knowledge today."

"Even this kind of acid can't kill you, right? I'm getting excited!" he continued.

"PLEASE, GET ME OUT OF HERE GYAAAAAAAHHHHH!" I shouted at Ryvolin.

My whole body was numb, every exploding lump was extremely painful, this happened continuously, should I call this regeneration ability a blessing or a curse?

After 7 hours I soaked in this bathtub, and the water was already a deep red color because it was filled with my blood.

The acidic substance that originally filled this bathtub is now less painful, probably because a lot of it has been washed away and filled with the blood that melted from my body.

Now that no lumps have grown and no more of my skin is peeling off, I'm getting used to this pain and my throat that was injured from shouting too much also seems to have healed.

But, I still couldn't forget the sensation of that lump, the feeling of it not being able to escape from my skin even though it had completely healed.

After that I went back to unconsciousness because I was so tired that for 7 hours I endured the pain and kept screaming non-stop.

I hope this all ends soon.

Ah, it's true that this must all be a dream, I'm sure of it.

Right now I must be sleeping soundly in my bed waiting for tomorrow to go register for junior high school with Celia, Fenris and Enigma.

Then we'll go to school again as usual, play games and I'll teach Fenris some new magic.

That's right, this must all be a nightmare! This isn't reality.

***

I hope so...

Day after day since that day I continued to be tortured with various methods, I already couldn't feel the pain from sharp weapons, the blood flowing out of my body was like a normal thing for me.

It seemed like I was getting used to this, or was it just a form of desperation?

Then once again I woke up in the same place and under the same conditions as usual, bound to the patient's bed.

This isn't a dream, it's reality.

It's surprising that I didn't lose my sanity until now, how many days have passed? I don't really remember the recent events.

Then for a moment my gaze fell on the body of someone lying beside my bed, I knew that body very well, because it was my own body.

What was going on?

Suddenly I felt nauseous and something came out of my mouth then I spit it out, when I saw the vomit my body immediately shivered with fear as well as I was disgusted to see it.

It was an eye, more precisely my own eye.

Why did I eat my own eye? I can't remember.

My head hurt and, at the same time I felt very refreshed.

"Ah, you're awake Arche, it took you a while to regenerate," said Ryvolin who walked over to me from his desk.

"What happened?" I retorted.

"You don't remember?" he replied.

After that he told me what happened to me before I died, when I heard the story I vomited several times and what came out was only blood that I seemed to have drunk.

According to his explanation, I had just died because he tried to split my body into two parts, he wanted to see which part regenerated if my body was separated, and the result was that when he cut horizontally through my chest, the lower part regenerated while the upper part did not.

So a new head grew from the lower part of my body, which is why I saw my other body lying on the floor.

He had tried to cut me open twice, and the result was that he was certain that my body regenerated from the largest part, and there was no core.

This meant that my body could regenerate from any part as long as it was the largest part of my body that was separated.

Then after my body regenerated perfectly, I suddenly went crazy and ate my dead body parts and drank the blood of my own corpse, is it because I haven't eaten since I was brought here?

"That's it Arche, we're making progress again today!" he said excitedly.

"How many days has it been now?" I asked.

"It's been almost two weeks, you can think of this as your home Arche."

Two weeks yes, what hard days, I'm getting used to the smell of this room and the condition of my bed which is getting more and more moist with blood.

After that the days went on with torture, and today was when I was to be burned alive, or so Ryvolin reported.

After drowning me by tying me up with weighted stones in a 2 kilometers deep pool for one week, and making me die hundreds of times in there.

It almost drove me crazy because my body felt like it was being squeezed to shreds so many times, and I had to hold my breath for a whole week, my whole body was swollen all over when it was lifted to the surface, and it traumatized me to see water.

So now he wants to burn me alive? Maybe after this I'll really lose my mind.

"Let's begin Arche," he said as he lit a fire under my feet.

"GYAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH"

"IT'S HOT, IT'S SO HOT HELP ME!"

"STOP IT PLEASE!"

I saw my feet starting to burn up to my upper body, my body was roasting and giving off a very pungent odor, the smoke from this firewood was suffocating my breath, I couldn't breathe here, it looked like I was going to die again.

Again my vision blackened, I can't see anything, but now I start to see many stars in the sky, is this the afterlife? Or is it my subconscious? I can't bear this anymore.

Oh my God, someone help me please.

What have I done that I have to suffer like this?

If I have indeed done something bad, I am truly sorry.

I swear I won't do anything bad again.

So, please stop all this torture.

I've reached my limit, I can't take it anymore.

Anybody, please help me.

Father, mother, sister, Echo, Fenris, Enigma, Celia...

Anyone...

I beg you...

....

"Alright, I'll take your place, you just need to hide, I'll take care of the rest for you," said a kid who suddenly appeared in front of me.

He was the same height as me, I could even say we were very similar, but his smile was so horrible, I couldn't see his eyes but that smile, he was more like grinning at me.

But, at the same time I feel warmth from him, he is similar to me he should also feel the same, it seems that I can entrust the rest with this kid.

***

"HYAA HAAA! HAHAHAHAHA!"

"Why are you laughing, Arche?" said Ryvolin in surprise.

"HAHAHAHAHA," I continued laughing.

I don't know why I feel so tingly in my stomach, after dying so many times from being roasted here, I've started to get used to the fire.

I want to keep getting burned!

It's not bad either.

"Has he lost his sanity?"

You're wrong Ryvolin, I'm not losing my sanity at all, it's just getting more interesting the more I think about it.

It's been about 3 days that I've been burned non-stop, my roasted leg has already broken off and grown a new one, a lot of my meat that looks very delicious is lying on the floor, I want to eat it, after all I'm very hungry now.

"Alright, the burning test will be stopped today, you may return to your room," he said.

After he walked out of this room, the iron handcuffs holding my body were released and I was finally free, I had been waiting for this moment for a long time.

I'm very hungry now, these roasted meats look very delicious.

*munch* *munch*

The taste of my right leg isn't bad either, but it feels a bit burnt, is there no salt here? I want a flavor variant of my flesh.

Who would have thought that the first thing I ate after being locked up in that room for so long would be my own flesh that was roasted from torture.

Then the part of my arm that was severed was the best because it was a bit far from the source of the fire, so it didn't burn too much and I voraciously ate it to the end, I thought it was okay because I was already very hungry.

I can't wait for my next death, I hope I'll be burned again so I can eat grilled meat again.

But raw meat doesn't taste too bad either, well I don't care as long as it can make my hunger disappear, why not?

***

*Third person point of view*

"Haah, it's been almost a month since this research started, but I still can't kill that kid," said Ryvolin.

"Everything will be fine prof, we still have plenty of time and the research subjects don't seem to be rebelling anymore," Violet replied.

"Violet is always the optimist, but it's true that we have plenty of time."

They then looked at a monitor screen displayed in the control room, there was a naked child lying in the middle of a room full of dirt, blood and flesh scattered everywhere, there were also several human heads that seemed to be the child's head.

Sometimes he laughed or even cried, but not infrequently the child also talked to himself in that empty room, it seemed like he was talking to his own head corpse, when he did that Ryvolin and Violet who watched him became a little scared, especially when the child began to sinisterly grinning with a face full of blood towards the camera, everyone who saw in the control room must have had goosebumps.

And realized that this child was no longer human.

"Yesterday I submerged him in lava but his body just melted there and then quickly regenerated again, so he just looked like he was swimming in a pool of mud, and that didn't kill him at all."

"Then I've also dropped him into a 200-meter-deep hole, his body shattered into pieces and then grew back quickly, and he's still not dead," he continued.

"Did you take blood and bone samples, prof?" Violet asked.

"I have, it's still in the research stage, so it'll probably be finished soon," Ryvolin replied nonchalantly.

"Then I'll freeze the boy first and see how his body reacts," he continued.

After that Ryvolin went to the room where Arche was being held.

As usual, the smell was strong and there were maggots everywhere, bits of flesh and blood splattered in every corner of the room, and in the center of the room sat a boy who was eating his own legs that had separated from his body, and when Ryvolin came he happily greeted him.

"Daddyy, have I been a good boy?" said Arche while hugging Ryvolin.

" That's it, now let's continue the test again, come with me," Ryvolin replied.

"Hehe, I'm going to die again, this is so much fun."

No one knows about Arche's personality shift now, his emotion is very unstable, when he is sad suddenly he can laugh loudly and then back again sad, Ryvolin who is not a psychological therapist is very confused by this change in behavior but he doesn't care as long as this research continues.

"Now you go into that empty pool Arche."

"Okaaay dad."

After Arche entered the small 2x2 pool, Ryvolin then filled the pool with water to the brim and closed the pool hole from above, making Arche trapped inside die of suffocation, once in a while he came back to life and beat the wall of the pool, until in the end he was frozen.

But strangely he was grinning as he froze, not in pain like he was enjoying it all.

"Look at his pupils still moving even though he's frozen in that pool, it's terrifying," Ryvolin said as he looked at the monitor in his office.

"But he looks really happy about it, prof," Violet replied.

"Isn't that nice?"

"Haa, that's right."

After that Ryvolin continued to torture Arche day after day and with a variety of different killing methods.

There were times when Ryvolin ground Arche's body to a pulp but he could still regenerate and come back to life afterwards, separated him into pieces and then locked the pieces in a small box, but the box was immediately destroyed due to the pressure of Arche's body's powerful regeneration.

Then, there was the time when Ryvolin tried various poisons from ordinary to extremely deadly, but still even the poison that could kill whales had no effect on Arche's body, he only died once and then lived again.

Ryvolin also regularly put various types of drugs and illegal drugs into Arche's body and made him overdose to death, then because of too much drug consumption Arche went crazy, but he returned to normal when he came back to life.

Various methods have been tried by Ryvolin but the result is that there is still no method that can kill Arche, it seems that he is indeed an immortal being with very fast regeneration and endless lives.

The number of Arche's deaths could not even be counted by Ryvolin, because it had passed the data in his documents, Ryvolin stopped counting Arche's deaths at the 1000th count.

Until finally, Ryvolin threw Arche in a cage filled with many beasts and fed the beasts with Arche's flesh, and ended with the death of all his beasts due to being poisoned when eating Arche's flesh.

***

The time went by so fast and now it's been more than 3 months since Arche's research started, he had completely lost his sanity and now could only limp helplessly with his eyes and mouth open, he couldn't even speak anymore.

One clear result of this research is that mental wounds cannot regenerate.

And now this child's mental state has been completely destroyed.

Seeing Arche's condition, Ryvolin then took the initiative to continue his research to another laboratory, namely Firmament Medical Care, the largest hospital center and research laboratory in the Aurelius Kingdom and located in the capital of the Aurelius Kingdom.

"Alright, we will go tonight to the capital, my car will be escorted by 2 other cars containing members of the military division," Ryvolin said before leaving to the capital.

" Yes sir!" replied the mercenaries.

Then unfortunately shortly after they left the headquarters, their convoy was surrounded by men in pitch black armor with pointed headgear and skull masks who were chanting Dark Magic.

"Damn it! They're wizards! Don't use firearms!" One of the soldiers shouted.

"Gyaaaaah! This is that group's unique curse magic!"

"Why are they here! Aaaaaahh."

The mercenaries escorting Ryvolin's car were quickly slaughtered by them like they were nothing.

"Aren't they a demon-worshipping cult? Damn it, I wasn't paying attention to our path, looks like we got into the wrong place!" shouted Ryvolin in panic.

Ryvolin quickly got out of his car and ran away from the battlefield, several attackers in black armor were killed, but they were still able to eliminate all the remaining mercenaries.

Remote areas such as the border between the Kingdom of Aurelius and the Republic of Cestisia were places where there were usually many bandits, thieves or even demon cultists.

A remote place like this had many cases of theft and murder, Ryvolin did not think that he would be the target of theft by Demon Cults in the middle of the night like this.

It was probably just bad luck.

Then when the men in black wanted to retrieve the loot, how surprised they were to see the body of a child in a frozen coffin lying stiff in the trunk of the car.

"Is this a corpse?" someone said.

"This child is still alive."

"Come on, let's take him!"

"All right."

Then the group of people in black disappeared into the dark night into the depths of the forest carrying the coffin containing an immortal child who could not die.

***