Zero was walking in a dark void, her hands stained with blood. Her walk was the walk of a body devoid of a soul. The look in her eyes suggested shock and coldness, empty as the vacuum of space.


    Zero raised her head to see a wooden door in front of her, with an eye staring at her. Without knowing why, she started running towards it, as if a beast was rushing towards its prey.


    When she opened it, she began to float in that void, to find closed eyes around her, which opened one after the other, with images of her memories, from her awakening, to her last memory with Otto.


    Zero looked around her, and the emptiness of her eyes began to disappear.


    "Here...these...are my memories...all of them," she said as she looked at her picture with her parents.


    Suddenly, the picture shattered as if it were glass, those shards scattered around Zero evaporating, and shock overwhelmed Zero''s body, "What...no...what''s happening."


    Suddenly, those pictures began to break one after the other, Zero looked around her, and she said: "No...stop...stop...stop...no...I don''t want any more...stop...", she said this screaming and aching, and the headache had started to kill her.


    She turned slowly towards her picture with the doctor and the person who found her in the forest, Zero rushed towards those pictures.


    "Please...not this one...stop," she said as this picture finally broke


    Do you want to know what was written on that paper?, the doctor''s voice.


    Yes...yes....


    It was written....


    *******


    Suddenly, Zero woke up with worry evident on her face. She turned to find Alice in pain clothes and treating her wounds.


    "Hey...Zero...you''re awake..."


    "What...? Where are we?" Zero said this as she looked around in panic.


    It was a place like a large and spacious room, with pale paint and a worn wooden floor.


    "We''re still in the same place...Zero...luckily, Pain kept these bandages in her clothes," she said as she cleaned Zero''s wound on her chest.


    "I''m done now..." Alice got up from her place, and she helped Zero to stand up and put on her clothes.


    "Ah...thank you."


    "Zero..."


    "What...is there something...Alice."


    "Thank you...for saving me...before Pain took my body...I thank you...and I''m sorry...for putting you in danger..."


    "(Sigh)....It''s okay...Alice...we''re friends...and we promised to help each other...always." Zero said as she patted Alice''s shoulder.


    "Hey...this is strange..." Alice in confusion.


    "Hey...what''s strange, Alice," Zero with hidden anxiety.


    "Zero...I don''t deny your help...but...do we know each other," Alice in confusion.


    "I mean...I''ve never seen you before...but you know who I am...and you even know my name...despite my forgetting it...I never remember myself...and what happened to me in the past...Zero...who are you." Alice in confusion and worry.


    "''Maybe you don''t know who I am...because of my new body...my body in the real world is different...it''s okay'' Alice...maybe you don''t know who I am...but we were friends in the past...my name wasn''t Zero...but it was.-"


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    "Zero...and this will remain your name here," this voice was coming from behind Zero, so she turned to see the Fairy Man, and he was approaching them.


    Zero advanced while protecting Alice.


    "Hey...it can''t be...the owner of the dangling faces...how did he get in? Isn''t it just Alnm...who controls this place?" Alice in fear.If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. Please report it.


    "Maybe her death...allowed the Fairy Man to enter."


    "How will we escape now," Zero turned around looking for an exit, suddenly she felt a strange feeling in her hand, so she spread it to find the drawing that fell from Pain''s forehead, at that moment, she was overwhelmed by fear and astonishment.


    ''By God...what''s going on...'' Suddenly, her hand began to move on its own, pointing behind them, her hand was pointing to a deformed wooden door made of mold and it was moving and flowing.


    "Here''s the exit," Alice in fear.


    "Run...I''ll hinder his movement," at that moment, the Fairy Man rushed towards Zero, so she grabbed her necklace pointing towards him.


    The necklace glowed weakening the Fairy Man. And quickly, Zero started running towards the exit.


    And after only a few seconds, the Fairy Man rushed towards her.


    Alice was reaching out to grab Zero before the exit closed, and quickly she grabbed her, pulling her, so the door closed.


    The two girls fell on the platform from exhaustion and anxiety, and they were sweating cold sweat.


    "I didn''t expect us to survive...your necklace is amazing...and even your strange powers."


    "Yes...although it''s not mine," Zero said this as she looked at her hand.


    The two girls got up from their place, to find themselves in the world of mirrors.


    Zero''s hand began to move again, pointing in a certain direction.


    "It seems we''ve found the exit...Alice...I hope you''re agile."


    "In fact...I''m not used to moving...it seems I haven''t moved for a while," Alice said this and her limbs were trembling.


    ''Heh...a whole month or more...'' Zero in surprise.


    "Well...you''re not heavy in the end...I''ll carry you." Zero said this as she carried Alice on her back.


    Alice began to feel anxious and trembling.


    "A..Alice...what''s wrong with you?" Zero in strangeness.


    "I''m not used to being carried by someone...it seems embarrassing and worrying." Alice said this in pieces


    "Enough, Alice...I carried you several times...and now...hold me tight...because I can''t control my hand."


    Suddenly, Zero''s hand moved in that direction, and a rope of mold came out of it, and it stuck to one of the platforms.


    "Great...like Spider-Man...how did you do that?" Alice in amazement.


    "I assure you that I have nothing to do with this," Suddenly, Zero was pulled towards that platform very quickly.


    "What...happened...just now?", Zero in surprise and shock.


    "Do it again..?" Alice playfully.


    "Alice...I can''t control it," suddenly, the hand repeated the ball over and over, and they were moving from one platform to another.


    "Hold on tight." Zero with worry.


    "This is fun...I''ve never had so much fun." Alice said this with joy and laughter.


    ''(Sigh).....She''s Alice after all.''


    The hand stopped moving, and the two girls found themselves on a platform with a strange door.


    Zero looked at it curiously and said, "Strange...this door is unfamiliar...what about you?...A...Alice," Zero turned to Alice, to find her looking at it in a strange way.


    Alice went down towards the door.


    "This door...familiar..."


    ''Familiar?...I''ve never seen this door in my life,'' Zero in surprise.


    "Bedroom...yes...my old bedroom...I remember it...hey...Zero...I started...remembering...the orphanage...and my friends...some of them...Emma...Alex...Kate...Leo...Anna and Adam...I started to regain my memories..."


    "Ah...are these...your friends?"


    Alice turned to Zero: "There are many...I started to remember...I feel happy...I can finally call myself...Alice...that''s what they called me...this is my name...literally...I remembered who I am...I''m no longer called Pain...I''m back...it''s like I''ve come back to life."


    "Alice." Zero in surprise.


    "Zero...thank you...you helped me...but you didn''t answer me...you know my name...who are you...?"


    "Alice...I am." Suddenly, Alice spotted a monster heading towards them.


    "....The Fairy Man." Alice in shock.


    "Impossible...Hurry and open the door." Zero turned away.


    "Okay." Alice rushed towards the door, jumped and grabbed the handle, and opened the door.


    "What are you doing...come on...come." Alice in worry.


    Zero grabbed her necklace and said, "Don''t worry...''I''ll paralyze him...'' when I signal you, close the door...lock the door...or run."


    "What?" Alice in surprise.


    At that moment, as the Fairy Man approached, the necklace lit up, weakening him.


    Zero rushed towards the door, and when she crossed it, suddenly, her hand was stuck in the air, Zero turned to see it fixed in place.


    "What''s going on?" Zero in surprise.


    She spread her hand to find that seal on her hand, that eye, with the broken pupil.


    She pulled it and Alice, but to no avail. At that moment, the Fairy Man regained his strength, and rushed with all his might to grab Zero, Zero was helpless, she found no solution.


    ''What should I do...I''m stuck...I''m easy prey...there''s no solution...''


    At that moment, the knife fell from her pocket, so Zero found a solution.


    ''This is it.'' She said this and took the knife.


    "Zero...no."


    And quickly, Zero cut that hand, Zero screamed loudly from the pain, and said: "Now."


    And quickly, Alice closed the door at the last moment.


    Alice turned to Zero, to find her hand cut off, she rushed towards her.


    "What did you do...your hand..." Alice in fear.


    "Don''t worry...I''ll be...ah...fine," she said this with a groan, and blood was flowing on the ground, in a pool of it.


    "I...am the reason." Alice said this crying.


    "Don''t say that..."


    "Zero...I should have taken that seal quickly."


    "Alice...if I had taken it...you would have remained captive."


    "I don''t care...if my salvation is at the expense of others...then my death is better," she said this and she was crying.


    Zero''s heart trembled, and her tears began to fall.


    "Alice...I am...like you...I...too...was the reason for your entry into this hell."


    Alice raised her head: "Don''t be silly...I''m the one who wanted to enter."


    "I am also the reason...whoever I befriend...they disappear...we were friends...and you disappeared...and also...I made friends with another girl...and on that day...she disappeared..."


    "You''re foolish...no one can make another disappear by befriending them...that''s illogical."


    "It''s my feeling, the instinctual one..."


    "What?" Alice said this and calmed down.


    "Alice...I''ve made sure...I''m just a doll...this is my destiny...Pain said it...she told me who I was...I don''t know my past...I''ve lost my memories...that I''m part of the Fairy Man in the end."


    "Zero...you''re like us...Pain...she''s lying...you''re not part of anyone...you''re free...you''re deceiving yourself...just because your friend and I...were taken to this world...because we believed you...it''s our desire...so...don''t blame yourself...and don''t put all this heavy burden on your shoulders...I''m with you...Zero...you''re not part of the Fairy Man...this is just an excuse...to torture yourself...tell me...say...who are you?"


    "Alice...we are friends...I...am unfamiliar to you...because this is not my body...Alice...my name is......wait." At that moment, Zero stopped talking, and shock was on her face.


    "Zero...why did you stop?...say..."


    Zero turned slowly and said, "Alice...I''ve...forgotten my name."


    At that moment, Zero realized that she had forgotten some of her memories.


    "Impossible." Alice in fear.