So, I'm a witch, so what?

How long has it been since I got here? It's been so long I don't remember anymore. Since I'm naturally rebellious and hard to sell, I keep being sent back into this hole. I wished only to be released, but now it seems like they want me to die inside this hole.

It's no coincidence that I got sick the day after I returned. Such coincidences could only mean one thing: they're trying to get rid of me by killing me. Yet, I have to ask, why don't they simply stab me and finish me quickly? Why must they deliberately extend my death by several weeks of starvation and sickness?

It's been around a month since I began getting sick, and every day, my food rations diminish in size and quality to the point I'm basically eating the bread crumbs from the food that bitch eats. If I want food, I must get to my knees and lick the floor. Fair to say it hasn't helped much to cure me.

Today, I got something else, though: a new cellmate arrived. They have a cute name and one of the most innocent reasons to be here, but that's how the world is. I've seen my fair share of shit out there, but now I can hardly even talk.

This new girl is a reincarnation, which gave me a bit of hope until she said she was a "darkness" user. I had never heard of such a thing, so I lost all confidence in ever getting out, and I genuinely found all her screaming and wasted speech annoying, to say the least.

Yoimiya was conjuring fire-type spells, which would never work for her, even if she could somehow circumvent the magical system. At least until I heard a spell, I had heard only once before the dryad level spells. But she couldn't activate them, could she? Those required you to be at least level 50.

I quietly observed her last attempt, which stunned me when a light appeared from her hands. How was it possible? She didn't even know what magic was and could simply try combinations of spells she had heard before?! What? I felt emotional, thinking we could get out, until Yoimiya dropped to the floor, flopping like a fish from a collar shock.

I wanted to scream or say something, but I lacked to strength for that, so I simply watched as she got punished by that bitch. Nora was the annoying type of person who took their job way too seriously.

I soon tried to plug my ears with my hands, knowing what was about to happen to the new girl, but I could still hear the gut-wrenching screams of pain from her. Yoimiya soon began to scream for hours on end. I couldn't imagine what Nora was doing to her, but it had to be gross and awful.

I had already gone through her torture multiple times, so I knew what she was capable of. Worse, she is a healer witch, which means all the damage she inflicts is merely for intimidation. I've had my fingers severed. Ears ripped, nipples pierced and pulled until they rip apart.

Nora has even gone as far as to burn and cut my tongue several times. Yet her favorite method of torture is to pull your eyes out and eat them before you just to heal you minutes after back to normal and do it all over again. It got to the point where I gained a new skill.

"Pain nullification level 10" I have achieved the max level for this skill, thanks to Nora, which is why I eventually grew resilient to her methods. Still, her constant screaming proves fresh meat like Yoimiya wouldn't have such luxury.

"AHHHHHHHH!! NAGGAAHHHGGG!! {Undescribable sobbing followed by loud slashing noises}."

God, I hated hearing those screams. It made my stomach sick just thinking about what Nora was doing to Yoimiya; it sounded even worse than when I was in there, and judging by the intense cutting and slashing sounds followed by blood slowly sipping beneath the door, I could tell Nora was having a field, day with the new recruit.

The screaming continued for several hours, and I eventually went to sleep. Only hours later, when I finally woke up, the screaming finished. I didn't know the time of day, so I could roughly assume it had at least been six hours. I was glad at least it had all stopped, but then the door to the chamber opened.

I watched in disbelief as Nora carried out a dead-looking Yoimiya. The sparkle of hope was no longer in her eyes, and she didn't even squeak as she was dragged by the beast. Nora didn't care, of course, so she simply threw my friend back into her cell once she was done with her, but I worried.

"Yoimiya, are you okay?" I asked as I tried to get closer to the other side of the wall, waiting for an answer, but she never responded. Just what did Nora do to them? Sure, I had gone through it all, but I never lost hope until now.

"Yoimiya?" I asked again, but there was no response. All I could hear were strange-sounding words that I couldn't understand.

"Ich werde sie töten. Ich werde sie töten. Ich werde sie töten. Töte sie. Töte sie" Yoimiya repeated the same sentence non-stop, completely ignoring me. While I couldn't understand what she said, I could feel an ominous aura from them, almost like they were on the brink of causing a disaster.

"Yoimiya, you've got to snap out of it. Hate is not the solution. It will destroy your mind!" Yoimiya finally stopped talking to herself and went quiet again until she finally chose to speak.

"Shut up! All of you shut up! I'm not taking the help of the devil!" There she went again, talking about a devil as if there were voices around us I couldn't hear. I had to bring her back to her senses, so I called her out again.

"YOIMIYA! {Cough} You need to snap out of it. It's not real! Whatever you're seeing and hearing, it isn't real!" I used my last bit of strength to try and help her, and it seemed to work as she slowly recovered her everyday speech.

"Vera? Is that you?"

"Yes. It's me, not the devil."

"Is it over?"

"Yes."