Nomanalive

How long can one ignore the voices in their head?

Nine years. To Mark, that was the limit. 

For the majority of his life, Mark White has been fighting a constant battle for his sanity. The voices in his head pushed him toward madness one whisper at a time, and the music he used to ward against them was gradually losing its effects. 
As his mental state slowly deteriorated, Mark spent more of his time working on a game he had been developing and lamenting his lack of romantic experience. 

One night, the voices dealt him a powerful blow, bringing their battle to an end. To his surprise, Mark won the battle, but that came at a great cost.

The voices might have disappeared, but a visual hallucination arrived to replace them, taking the form of a character from his game: Maids VS Apocalypse. Little did he know that the real apocalypse was already coming for him.

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Maids VS Apocalypse

Once a Fallen reaches the Demon Rank, they tend to develop the concept referred to as a Domain. By using a unique set of Abilities they transform their surroundings into a terrain that grants them an advantage in battle.

King Scorpion's domain was the toxic swamp it created around the category B Dimensional Rift it came out of. Though it only proved to be a mild inconvenience at first, the members of Squad Four soon learned that it dealt them more damage than they had anticipated.

The truck Natalie lent Mark and the one originally belonging to the squad were melted away. It should've been obvious that something similar would happen yet no one noticed until the battle was over.

Mark hunched over with his hands on a wall. His gas mask was on the ground and right beside it was the half-digested breakfast he had that morning.

You tell me.