"Stop it stop it please! It hurts it hurts" loud echoes of wailing can be heard under a castle, in the dungeon. A young petite woman can be seen in a white bloodied ripped dress with several woman in dresses lashing at her face and body with a horse whip.
"Oh my you can still speak?" Giggles the woman with the horse whip." In that case why don't I whip some more hm?" The woman know as Aria Vandestine continues whipping the wailing woman with a crazed diabolical smile on her face. The screams and wails of the woman reverberates in the castle as it quiets down over time. Eventually the cries stop and the women get bored and leave.
The wailing woman is Imogen Vandestine and she is not known because her father had meant it to be that way for her entire life. Her mother was a maid that had drugged the duke Vandestine and had her. For the sake of not having his reputation crumbled and be known as the man who kills pregnant women he lets her live.(rumors can be spread)
But he didn't pamper her he made her over work herself and this has caused her to faint and almost lose her child. Fortunately her child was ok. The maid crystella(peasants don't have last names) finally gave birth to a not so healthy baby girl. If crystella had at least given birth to a baby boy the duke would've given her a proper burial and at least give the boy resources but she gave birth to a girl. This had cause the loath in his heart to leap by bounds.
After birth he had his men kill her. He left the baby girl with a wet nurse that didn't even properly take care of her. Years went by and imogen's mistreatment didn't get any better. And now because of her beautiful appearance her sisters were jealous. They hired men to take her and throw her into the dungeon.
Of course the duke knew, but the duke just shrugged it off and let them do as they please. Imogen was tortured on the daily. Her cries and woes can even be heard in the servant chambers. It had even caused the servants nightmares even if they knew what transpired down in the dungeon.(they knew of the women tortured but not that the woman was illegitimate daughter of the duke.)
Finally on the fifth day when the women came back for another session of whipping. The young lady's body had already gone cold. "Are you serious!? I hadn't even gotten my daily fun yet" Arian pouts and the other women agree.
On November 25, 1043 imogen passed away. She didn't even receive a proper burial and was just left in the wilderness to feed the savage beats there. Her body was even ravished by the guards and wild beasts even after death.
In a dark and empty space
'Wh-where am I' I think to myself. This doesn't look like the dungeon. I look around and I only see black. Black everywhere. It doesn't scare me as I've been in the dungeon for my last days. Thinking back to how I was tortured only out of jealousy and disdain made my blood boil.
"Hello child" a gentle voice says snapping me out of my thoughts.
"Who-where..who are you?" I ask looking around to find the source of the voice."I am the koten God, the God of life and Death" a figure appeared in front of me.
"Life and death? Are you here to-" before I could even finish I was interrupted by the Koten God. "Yes now I will take out you soul" "NO! I want to go back" I say resolutely."Koten looks at me with surprise but quickly shakes their head. "I like your determination child but I apologize"
I feel a tugging on my soul and I forcibly withstand it. The process lasts 7 minutes before the Koten God finally loses their patience and tug on my soul with even greater forced than before(they went easy on her because a lot of souls are fragile but clearly hers is not) of course with the greater force pulling imogen finally breaks down and her soul is take away. The Koten good which previously had a good view of her now had completely disdain her for making the process that was suppose to be 5 secs to be 7 minutes long
The pounding of a soul inside a glass echoes all around the dark abyss.
The Koten god puts her soul to sleep and finally they've found peace in the quietness of the soul.
2 minutes later
Imogen wakes up and finds herself in a confined space. She finds herself walking up stairs with other people surrounding her. Her unwillingness to just let go seemed to conjure an entity.
"Hello imogen, do you want revenge?" A screen like thing pops up and shows me two choices; accept or close"
"Who are you?" I ask as my soul is moving closer and closer to the very top of the stairs.
"I am system Æ and i have chosen you as my host" the entity called 'system Æ' responds to me.
"Why me system?" It's weird that out of possibly over a billion people on this earth(this is a different earth guys) it choses me.
"It's your unwillingness and determination that made us choose you. That and your killing intent that first poured out of your body. . So what do you say? Do You accept?"
Remembering all the torture and humiliation I've received my entire life. There is finally an opportunity that grants me a chance at revenge, I'll be a fool to not take the deal. "Yes accept"
The system then goes straight into me and I feel myself falling down. I look down and see grass but there I'm teleported somewhere else. Strangely it's..warm. I like this feeling. I close my eyes and let the tiredness take over.
9months later
I wake up to the feeling of someone pushing me out. My legs are exposed to the cold air and now it's my torso, then it's my whole face. The warmth is gone. I feel myself tearing up before suppressing it. I try opening my eyes and to my surprise I can't! It's tightly shut! What is going on!?
I feel warm soft hand wrap around my body and go to sleep but not before hearing,"Bertov why is she not crying!?" This voice seems worried but I don't think much of it and let myself sink in sleepiness.