She had been staying in the courtyard for longer and longer, and gradually, she also began to change, not wanting to speak or care for others.
The boy who was called "The Ugly Freak" was no longer bullied, yet he still chose to sleep beside Big Black, never returning to his room to sleep.
She had seen the boy kill, but she did not find it repulsive. He was different from the other children in the courtyard; sometimes, she felt he resembled her brother.
Time passed quickly, and she almost forgot what her brother looked like until one day, an old man in the courtyard told her that medical skills could not only save people but also kill them.
The old man gave her a book that recorded many cruel methods of torture, detailing how to inflict the most torment on a person without killing them, breaking their will and driving them into agonizing madness.
Upon seeing the contents, she was eager to learn because she wanted to use those methods on that person.
