Did you know the sound of the sky cracking?

It wasn't like breaking glass. When glass breaks, it makes a sound, and then it's silent. It was the opposite. At first it was silent, the silence so deep that it crushed your eardrums. Then that silence cracked and exploded.

I was standing on the railing of the roof at that time. Will I jump or not, I can't think.

My name is Aryan. Old hope Three days ago, the hostelers poured water on me in the bathroom with Estelle. The video. The caption was "Dog's bath". Views 12 thousand.

So it was heard on the roof too. Odhikartola. When you look at the water, the pitchermata laughs.

Then the sky cracked.

We were wrong, wrong. 3 am, no sleep for three days, hallucinations could occur. But no. The whole city stopped. The victims of the madman became. "No network" appeared on my phone screen, the user's wifi was full.

A black spot in the middle of the sky. The spot is right. The dark night sky. There is nothing through the cracks. No stars, no moon, no light. Just emptiness. The emptiness is also towards you.

I left the railing and took two steps back. The desire to jump is dead. People want to die to escape the pain. But when the pain itself is screaming in the sky, they don't have the courage to die.

That's when the sound in my head sounded.

*[Chain protocol is being performed...]*

No sound. Someone in my brain wants to speak. Quiet, mechanical, emotionless.

**[Soul scan completed. Trauma level: Dangerous.]*

**[Desire to be on the bench: 8%]*

*[Ironic. Appropriate.]*

*[Chain part: Iron part]*

*[Ability unlocked: Shadow-slavery]*

*[Explanation: You can bind the shadow of what you lose. Price: Their pain is yours.]*

I fell to my knees. I was vomiting. Separate red letters were floating, the hood of a game. But this is not a game. Because playing does not hurt.

The first thing that fell from the crack in the sky.

It looked like a melted human. No mistake, just black slippery flesh. A hole for a mouth, and inside the hole. Countless prayers, trembling without a jaw.

It looked at me. It looked through the hole.

**[Detect emptiness]*

**[Expanded: iron]*

*[Name: Remorse-devouring]*

*[Birth: From the last moment of a student who committed suicide after failing an exam]*

I understood what it was. Someone like me. Who jumped. But even after death, there is no peace.

The shadow was crawling towards me. I asked for the road. I couldn't. Not out of fear. New writing was floating inside my head.

**[Fight. Or be chained.]*

**[Honesty: To use Shadow Slavery, you must defeat your opponent. Current chance of winning: 2%]*

2% My story is the story of my life.

The shadow grabbed my leg. Like a blizzard. With a scream in my head. A boy said, "Mom, I'm sorry, I can't do it anymore." The memory is not mine. Oh. The shadow's.

My hand moved on its own. There was a lump on the roof. Three days ago I gave it to him... Hold on.

I lifted the rod. I looked into the shadow's hole-mouth. That boy is still in the estate inside me, he still remembers.

"Sorry, brother," I whispered, "I can't either."

Then the rod slammed into our hole.

*[Opponent defeated]*

**[Activate Shadow Slavery? Yes/No]*

*[Value: The death-pain of the Remorse-Eater will go into your nerves permanently]*

I have been wanting to die for three days now. Death is near me, but the system says "fight".

"Yes," I said.

The pain shot up my spine like this. I screamed. A boy floated free, tying a rope to the fan. His mother was pushing. His last thought: "Will mother forgive me?"

Then all was darkness.

When he turned, the shadow was gone. In its place was a small black coil on the floor. Moving. It was facing me.

*[Shadow-slave obtained: Remorse-Eater]*

**[Number: Iron Fragment]*

*[Power: Find target by smelling regret]*

*[Master status: 1 way from crazy]*

I smiled. For the first time, in three years. My first friend in life is my son's shadow.

Got hundreds more things from the crack in the sky. The city situation is screaming. The world is ending.

And I, Aryan, with low chains, wanted to live for the first time.

Because now I have something to lose.

*To be continued...*

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