Chapter 96: Alice Hates Alice

My breath stops, and my vision darkens.

A tremor beginning in the hand covering my mouth spreads throughout my body, and before long I can no longer remain standing, barely managing to brace myself against the wall.

[...$리@스]

Even Momo's voice beside me fails to reach me, as though coming from underwater.

...So this is what it means for fear to be etched into you.

Memories etched into the body itself, fear etched into the soul itself, paralyze reason and bring instinct to the surface.

An instinct that places escape from that thing above even the instinct for survival, insisting I must get away from it even if it means dying, rouses my body from deep within.

It was only natural to expect that if another seizure struck in the Abyss, where I had no medication, I would not end up in a good state.

-Crack...

"Hh... Hnn..."...