I Have 10,000 SSS Rank Villains In My System Space - Chapter 405: Totally Breakdown?

Chapter 405: Totally Breakdown?

“Fine? No… no, no, no… don’t please don’t say that.” Maria’s head began shaking almost frantically the moment the word left Razeal’s mouth. Her reaction was immediate and violent, as if the mere suggestion that things were fine had struck something deep inside her. She took a step backward, the movement instinctive, almost like she had physically recoiled from the calm indifference in his voice.

“You don’t understand,” she continued, her breathing uneven, her words breaking apart as they fought their way through sobs. “Nothing is fine… it’s not.” Her head kept moving side to side in rejection, strands of her long hair swaying with the motion while tears continued streaming down her cheeks. The emotional shock she was experiencing was written plainly across her face her wide eyes, trembling lips, and the barely controlled tremor running through her body made it obvious that whatever storm was raging inside her had gone far beyond the point of ordinary guilt or regret. It looked like a complete emotional collapse, something too intense for a human mind to process calmly.

She looked almost horrified by the reality she had just discovered, as if the truth itself had shattered something fundamental inside her understanding of the world. In truth, even Maria herself didn’t fully understand why she had begun slapping herself like that. The act had not come from careful thought or conscious reasoning. It had simply happened, driven by an overwhelming wave of emotion she could not contain. Her mind had been struck by a realization so devastating that it had triggered a desperate instinctive response an attempt to punish herself, to channel the unbearable weight of guilt into physical pain.

In psychology, this kind of behavior often appears in moments of extreme moral guilt or traumatic realization. When someone suddenly recognizes that they have committed a grave moral wrong especially against someone they care about the mind sometimes attempts to restore a sense of moral balance by directing anger inward. Instead of attacking the situation or the world around them, they turn their frustration and condemnation upon themselves.

And that was exactly what Maria was doing now. Her mind was trying to process a truth that felt morally catastrophic to her, and the only outlet her overwhelmed emotions could find was self-directed punishment. The shock she felt was immense not just because she had learned the truth, but because of the scale of the mistake she believed she had made. In her mind, this was not a simple misunderstanding anymore. It was a moral collapse.

The realization that she had spent years believing something false about someone who had once been deeply important to her had shattered the image she had built of herself as a righteous person. Her identity.. her belief that she had been morally strong, that she had stood against wrongdoing had suddenly flipped upside down.

“This?” Pah! Her palm struck her cheek again with another loud slap that echoed through the room. “This is nothing!” she cried, her voice shaking as tears spilled from her eyes. “I deserve this!” Her breathing came in short, uneven bursts as she continued shaking her head violently. “You don’t need to worry about this,” she insisted through sobs, forcing the words out as if trying to convince not only Razeal but herself as well.

“I’m just a selfish piece of shit… who is still being selfish right now… trying to let my emotions out like this.” Her voice cracked again. “So don’t worry about it. I deserve it.. Yeah… I deserve it.” The conviction in her voice sounded terrifyingly genuine.

“MARIA!” Sofia’s voice suddenly exploded across the room, loud and sharp enough to cut through the emotional chaos like a blade.

“Alright, this is enough!” Sofia rushed forward immediately, grabbing both of Maria’s wrists before she could strike herself again. Her grip was firm but not aggressive, her expression filled with alarm. It was clear that the situation had crossed a line. What had started as guilt and regret was quickly spiraling into something much more dangerous. Maria’s emotional state had become so unstable that Sofia could no longer stand by and watch silently.

But Maria immediately began struggling against her grip.

“No! Let me go!” she shouted, twisting her wrists forcefully until Sofia’s hold slipped free. The moment she was released, she stumbled back slightly, breathing hard as she looked at Sofia with wild, desperate eyes.

“You don’t understand what’s going on!” Maria cried. Her voice rose louder and louder with each word. Then, without warning, she pushed Sofia back a step.

“I did something wrong!” she shouted, her voice breaking with raw emotion. “I am a terrible… And disgusting person!” Her chest heaved as she struggled to control the surge of feelings overwhelming her. “You wouldn’t understand!” she continued, her voice now almost hysterical. “I hurt someone who once did so much for me! I betrayed the person who is literally the fucking solee reason I’m even Fucking alive today!” The words burst from her mouth like a dam breaking.

“What would you know?!” she screamed, her voice echoing through the room. “You don’t know anything! So please don’t come into this!”

Sofia, who had been pushed back slightly, stood frozen where she was. Her expression had shifted from frustration to deep concern.

Maria’s reaction had gone far beyond normal emotional distress. This was the behavior of someone experiencing a severe emotional breakdown. She looked like she was on the verge of losing control completely. Yet Sofia also paused at the meaning of Maria’s words. The reason I’m alive today? The phrase echoed in her mind. “Reason… for you to be alive?” Sofia murmured quietly to herself, confused. Her eyes instinctively shifted toward Razeal.

But Razeal looked just as puzzled as she did. Saved her life? He searched through his memory for anything resembling that situation, but nothing surfaced. Then a faint realization flickered in his mind. The missing memories. The ones his mother had erased from him. If something like that had happened, it would explain why he couldn’t remember it.

Understanding slowly began forming in his thoughts. So that’s why she’s reacting like this… If he had maybe done something that significant enough to save her life, then discovering that she had spent years believing a lie about him could easily shatter her emotionally.

Even so, Razeal remained silent, simply watching her. Meanwhile, Maria was still trapped in the storm of her own thoughts, barely aware of the people around her anymore. Her mind had gone completely into overdrive.

“For years,” she continued, her voice trembling, “I believed he had done something terrible. I believed I was morally right to reject him.” Her eyes burned with emotion as she spoke. “I thought what I was doing was the right thing.” Her hands lifted slightly as if trying to physically express the chaos inside her mind.

“I insulted him.. I humiliated him.” Her voice cracked again. “And I believed I was morally strong for doing it.” Her breathing became uneven again as she continued shouting, the words spilling out uncontrollably.

“Can you beleive it?? I believed I was protecting justice!” she cried. “I even acted morally superior!” Her voice echoed through the room as she looked between Sofia and Razeal, her hands spread out in a desperate gesture as if trying to make them understand her tone even kind of sarcistic..

“I thought I had the right… the right to judge him! To decide whether I would forgive him or not!” Her entire body trembled as the weight of that realization crushed down on her.

And that was actually true

When before Maria had learned about the accusation, everything in her mind had once felt clear and morally simple. She had believed she was the one standing on the right side of justice. She had believed she was the stronger person in the situation the one with the moral authority to look at Razeal and decide whether he deserved forgiveness or not.

Back then, in her mind, the world had been divided cleanly into right and wrong, guilt and innocence, victim and offender. She had placed herself firmly on the righteous side of that line.

And just some time ago now.

She had believed the same.. that time when she told him, “I forgive you,” it was an act of compassion, an act of strength. In fact, she had even been proud of that moment. Proud that despite believing he had committed something terrible, she had still chosen to stand beside him. Proud that even when the entire world had begun abandoning him, she had convinced herself that she was the one person still willing to support him. In her mind, it had felt like proof of her love. Proof that her feelings were powerful enough to overlook something unforgivable.

She had believed that while others including even his own mother could not accept him after all that.. she had been able to stay. She had told herself that this proved how much she cared about him, how much deeper her love was than anyone else’s. That belief had once filled her with quiet satisfaction, even pride, as if she had been doing something noble.. As the same reason why she felt such hurt and pain when he rejected her.. Saying sofia beleived in him.. When literally she forgave him.. Because she loves him as how can she not see it..

But now that same memory had become something horrifying. Because now she understood the truth behind it. She had been forgiving an innocent person.

And that realization shattered the entire foundation of how she had once viewed that moment. What she had believed was compassion had actually been arrogance.

What she had believed was moral strength had been ignorance. Psychologically, the shift was devastating. The moment she understood that Razeal had been innocent all along, her entire moral position collapsed. Before, she had believed she had the right to judge him, the authority to decide whether to forgive him. Now that authority was gone. Completely gone. The dynamic had flipped entirely. She had once judged him. Now she felt judged by her own conscience. And that judgment was far harsher than anything anyone else could have given her.

“But I was the wrong one,” Maria cried, her voice cracking under the weight of her realization. “I believed a fucking lie!” Her hands trembled violently as she spoke, her entire body shaking from the emotional strain. “That means when he needed someone the most… I turned away!” Her breathing grew erratic, her chest rising and falling rapidly as if the air itself had become difficult to draw into her lungs.

“I wasn’t there for him!” she shouted, her voice echoing across the room with raw desperation. “And I… I can’t accept that! I can’t! I just don’t want to!” Her hands suddenly rose to her head as if she were trying to physically stop the storm of thoughts crashing through her mind. She struck the sides of her head with her palms repeatedly.. not hard enough to injure herself, but enough to express the frustration boiling inside her.

“My head is filled with these thoughts!” she cried. “The loneliness he must have felt… the pain… the suffering he went through…” Her voice broke again as tears streamed down her face. “Now I understand why he doesn’t care about me anymore… why he doesn’t want to listen to me… why he doesn’t love me… And why he doesnt even want mee..” She laughed weakly through her tears, though the sound held no humor at all.

“Of course he wouldn’t,” she whispered bitterly. “Why would he?” Her eyes turned toward Razeal again, filled with unbearable regret.

“When he needed me… I wasn’t there.” Her voice trembled harder. “He must have had expectations for me too… right?” The thought cut deeply into her heart. “After everything he once did for me…” Her lips trembled violently as she continued speaking. “And I… stupid fucking me… I wasn’t there.” She shook her head repeatedly, unable to escape the memory of how she had acted before.

“I stood there silently and let it happen.” Her hands clenched into fists at her sides. “And when he finally came back… instead of apologizing… instead of explaining… instead of even giving him the apology he deserved…” Her voice rose again, anger now mixing with despair.

“I stood there acting like I was right!” she shouted. “Like I was the one with moral superiority! Like he was the one who had to prove himself!” Tears continued pouring down her cheeks as her breathing became heavier and heavier. “And now I learn he never did it!” she cried. Her hands spread outward in a desperate gesture as she looked toward Sofia, almost demanding an answer from the universe itself.

“Tell me!” she shouted through her sobs. “Tell me how would you feel?” Her voice cracked completely as she asked the question, the emotional strain tearing through her throat. Her beautiful face once calm and radiant.. was now completely soaked in tears, her expression twisted by guilt and heartbreak as she shouted into the room.

“And that’s not even the worst part,” she whispered hoarsely, her voice suddenly dropping as another realization struck her even harder. Her body trembled again as the thought surfaced.

“The worst part…” She paused, her chest heaving as she struggled to say the words. “…is realizing my support might have changed everything.” The room fell silent. The only sound now was Maria’s trembling voice.

“If only I had stood beside him back then…” she continued weakly. “If only I had believed him… instead of being that arrogant piece of shit who thought justice had to be served…” Her voice began to shake more violently.

“Maybe he wouldn’t have had to go through all of that in first placeee…” The silence inside the room became suffocating. Every word she spoke seemed to tear at her throat as if the act of speaking itself was painful. Her voice sounded raw now, strained from the intensity of her crying.

“I could have helped him…” she whispered. The sentence seemed to crush something inside her chest. “But I didn’t.” Her lips trembled. “I… didn’t.” Her breathing became uneven again. “I didn’t…” The final repetition broke her completely. The weight of that realization was too much for her to bear. She lifted her face upward toward the ceiling as a broken cry escaped from her throat.

“I fucking didn’t do anything!” she screamed. “Ahhhhhhhhhhh!” Her voice collapsed into uncontrollable sobbing as she cried openly, no longer able to contain the flood of emotion bursting out of her. Tears poured down her face as she cried, her entire body shaking violently with grief and guilt.

A few steps away, Sofia watched the entire breakdown unfold with deep concern.

“Maria…” she whispered softly, sighing under her breath. Part of her desperately wanted to step forward, to grab Maria’s shoulders and force her to calm down before she hurt herself even more emotionally. But the moment she had tried to intervene earlier, Maria had reacted violently.

And now Sofia hesitated.

Perhaps trying to stop her again would only make things worse. Perhaps Maria needed to release all of this pain before she could begin to recover from it. Even so, watching her like this was painful. Sofia’s chest tightened as she looked at Maria sobbing in the middle of the room.

“This is… too sad,” she thought quietly. She honestly wanted to stop it.. to interrupt the emotional spiral before it grew even worse.

Because she could clearly see that if this continued unchecked, the situation might truly become dangerous. But for now… she remained where she was, watching silently, unsure whether stepping in would help or only push Maria further into despair.

And then Maria slowly lowered her head again, her breathing uneven and broken as tears continued streaming down her face without pause. Her eyes were red and swollen now, the whites streaked with irritation from crying so much, and when she finally lifted her gaze again toward Sofia there was something frightening in her expression. It wasn’t just sadness anymore. It was something more extreme.. something raw and unrestrained.

Her lips trembled as her chest rose and fell rapidly, and then, without warning, she raised her hands again.

Pahh!~

The sound of her palm striking her own cheek echoed sharply through the room. Her head snapped slightly to the side from the force, but she didn’t stop.

“I deserve pain,” she said hoarsely through clenched teeth.

Pahh!

Another slap followed almost immediately.

“I should suffer like he suffered.”

Pahh!

Again..

Her body shook as the words came out. “I should punish myself.”

Pahh! Pahh! Pahh!

The slaps continued in quick succession, the sound growing more frantic and uncontrolled with each hit as if she was trying to erase something inside her mind through physical pain.

“Alright, this is enough! Don’t be this stupid now!” Sofia’s voice suddenly cut through the chaos with sharp authority. In the next instant she moved forward rapidly and appeared directly behind Maria. This time she didn’t hesitate. Her arms shot out and she grabbed both of Maria’s wrists from behind, locking them tightly so Maria could no longer raise her hands.

Earlier she had tried to be gentle, careful not to force Maria or overpower her while she was already emotionally fragile. But this had gone too far. Now Sofia used her strength without holding back. Maria struggled immediately, twisting her arms and trying to pull them free, but her body was still extremely weak after the transformations she had undergone. Compared to Sofia’s steady strength she had no chance of breaking free. She writhed slightly in Sofia’s grip, trying again and again to move her arms, but Sofia held firm. Her hold was tight and unwavering now.

Sofia’s expression had turned serious. She understood exactly how dangerous this situation could become. Maria’s condition at this moment was extremely delicate. She wasn’t thinking clearly anymore she was reacting purely through overwhelming emotion. The storm raging inside her mind was simply too much for one person to process all at once. Guilt. Shame. Grief. Love. Regret. Empathy for Razeal’s suffering. All of those emotions were colliding violently inside her consciousness, each one demanding attention at the same time. And when the brain was forced to process that many powerful emotions simultaneously, it could easily trigger something even worse an impulsive emotional collapse. Actions taken in that state weren’t guided by reason anymore, but by raw feeling.

And Sofia knew that if this continued unchecked Maria might end up doing something far more harmful than just slapping herself. That was why she tightened her grip and held her firmly in place.

“Calm down… calm down… it’s fine, Maria… it’s fine,” Sofia whispered gently near her ear, trying to keep her voice soft and reassuring despite the tension in her own body. Maria was still struggling weakly in her arms, but Sofia kept speaking steadily.

“Look… Razeal is here.. He understands your situation.. Hell listen to what you have to say..” she continued, trying to guide Maria’s thoughts away from self-punishment.

“But if you keep doing this, it will only make things worse. So try to calm down.” Her tone remained careful and patient, the kind used to soothe someone in panic.

“Look at Razeal. I think he understands everything now. How about this… I’ll help you explain everything to him. He’ll forgive you for this, okay? Don’t be scared. You don’t need to punish yourself for it.” She paused slightly before continuing, deliberately choosing her next words.

“Razeal wouldn’t want this. What happened was bad, yes… but it wasn’t your fault… It’s okay. Everything is fine.” Even as she said those words Sofia knew she was bending the truth. Some of what she was saying wasn’t entirely accurate. But right now that didn’t matter. Her only priority was calming Maria down before the situation spiraled further out of control. If that required comforting lies or soft reassurances, then so be it. She briefly lifted her eyes toward Razeal and blinked deliberately, trying to signal him silently. The message was clear. Play along. Whether the words were completely honest didn’t matter at the moment. What mattered was bringing Maria out of this dangerous emotional state before she hurt herself.. or worse. Sofia intended to explain everything properly later when things had settled down. But first the storm had to pass.

Razeal noticed the small gesture immediately. Sofia’s blinking signal and the tone of her words made her intention obvious. He looked at Maria again, watching her struggling weakly in Sofia’s grip while crying uncontrollably. Then he sighed quietly. To him the entire situation felt unnecessarily dramatic and exhausting. He didn’t enjoy it at all. If anything, it was just tiresome. Emotional scenes like this always made him uncomfortable. But if saying a few simple words could make the whole thing end faster, then he was willing to do it.

So he nodded slightly and looked directly at Maria. “It’s alright,” he said calmly, meeting her tear-filled eyes. “I forgive it.. It’s all fine. I really don’t mind it.” His voice carried little emotion, but he said the words clearly enough that she could hear them. They were the words he assumed she wanted.

Unexpectedly, Maria immediately shook her head violently while still crying in Sofia’s grip. “No… no… no…” she whispered hoarsely.

Razeal frowned slightly. At first he thought she simply didn’t believe him. Maybe she thought he was just saying it without meaning it. So he tried again, forcing his tone to sound gentler even though the effort felt unnatural to him. “Alright… alright,” he repeated. “I forgive you. I forgive you.. Fr Fr..”

“There, you see?” Sofia murmured softly near Maria’s ear, sounding relieved that Razeal had played along. “He forgave you. Now calm down.” She exhaled quietly in relief, glad that he had cooperated. She had already decided she would apologize to him later for interfering in something that technically wasn’t her place. Originally she had promised herself not to involve herself in their personal matters.

But the situation had become too dangerous to ignore. Right now, stabilizing Maria had been more important than respecting those boundaries. Once everything settled down, she would explain herself to both of them. For now, though, all that mattered was helping Maria step away from the edge she had nearly fallen over.

Maria was still shaking in Sofia’s grip, her breathing ragged, tears continuing to fall uncontrollably down her face. Her eyes were locked on Razeal as if she were desperately searching his expression for something.. anything that might make sense or understanding of the chaos raging inside her chest.

And then something inside her seemed to snap completely. Her body suddenly stiffened, and her breathing halted for a fraction of a second.

Then her eyes changed.

The soft sky-blue color of her eyes suddenly flared into a deep, burning crimson. The transformation lasted only an instant, but it was violent enough that even the air around her seemed to tense. The crimson glow in her eyes pulsed like a surge of power erupting from somewhere deep inside her soul. At the same moment, the weakness that had been clinging to her body vanished. A wave of raw strength flooded through her limbs like a sudden explosion of energy.

“You all are NOT getting it!” Maria screamed, her voice suddenly powerful and sharp, no longer the broken whisper it had been seconds earlier.

With that cry she violently threw both of her arms outward. The sudden burst of strength completely overwhelmed Sofia’s hold. The force of the movement slammed into Sofia like a shockwave.

Sofia didn’t even have time to react.

She was thrown backward instantly.

Her body flew across the room and crashed hard into one of the wooden racks lining the shop wall. The shelves splintered under the impact, jars and tools scattering across the floor as the rack collapsed with a loud crash.

“Arghhh!” Sofia grunted painfully as the force knocked the air from her lungs.

“Heyy!” Razeal shouted instinctively as the scene unfolded before him so suddenly that even his reflexes lagged behind the moment. The entire shift in the situation had happened in the span of a single second.

Before he could even step forward, Maria had already turned toward him.

She was still crying.

Her entire body trembled violently, but her eyes were blazing with that strange crimson glow.

“WHY is no one getting me?!” she cried, her voice cracking as desperation poured out of her. “This isn’t what you’re thinking! I don’t want forgiveness! I’m not even thinking about that!”

Her breathing became uneven again as she forced the words out between sobs.

“I just know I’m the worst kind of person there is! I’m superficial! Selfish! Prejudiced!.. Worst bad or whatever is worser then thattt.. Kind of person…” she shouted, the words ripping themselves from her throat.

Her chest rose and fell violently as if every breath hurt.

“It hurts so much I can’t even breathe,” she gasped, clutching at the front of her chest as if something inside was physically crushing her lungs. “I don’t even know what I’m supposed to do anymore!”

Her words were messy, broken, spilling out in a frantic rush that barely formed coherent sentences.

“But I know one fucking thing,” she continued hoarsely. “I don’t want forgiveness.”

Her voice dropped into a bitter whisper filled with absolute conviction.

“Because I don’t deserve it.”

The words trembled in the air like a final judgment.

“I don’t deserve forgiveness. I don’t deserve compassion. I don’t deserve anything.. from you… from anyone… not even from fucking myself.”

“And I know that feeling is right!”

Her breath caught again, and her gaze flicked briefly toward Sofia, who was struggling to push herself up from the wrecked rack behind her.

“She doesn’t understand.. I get that,” Maria said, pointing weakly in Sofia’s direction. Then she looked back at Razeal with those burning crimson eyes.

“But how can YOU not understand?”

Her voice rose again, filled with unbearable anguish.

“I hurt the person I literally owe my entire life to!” she screamed. “Do you really think forgiveness is what I want from you?!”

“NO!”

“IT’S NOT!”

The force of her voice echoed across the room.

Razeal stood there frozen, staring at her. For the first time since this entire confrontation had begun, the sincerity in her breakdown actually reached him.

This wasn’t manipulation.

This wasn’t pity.

This wasn’t someone trying to make him feel something.

Maria was simply breaking apart.

And thats when he finally understood that its kinda serious so he should do something about it.. Sighingly he slowly lifted his hand, instinctively stepping forward to try to maybe calm her down?

“Heyyy..” he started quietly, intending to calm her down.

But before he could finish the word..

Maria suddenly shook her head violently.

“No… no… I can’t…”

Her voice became fragile again.

“I owe this life to you.”

Her gaze locked onto his face with an intensity that felt almost desperate.

“Just know that… I’m sorry.” Her lips trembled as the words came out. “I wasn’t there when you needed me the most… when I should have been…” She swallowed hard, her voice nearly disappearing. “I’m sorry.”

Tears continued to pour down her cheeks.

“And sorry… I failed you when you needed it.” she said, her voice trembling.

She inhaled shakily.

“So it doesn’t mean anything now.”

Her crimson eyes softened slightly as she stared at him, almost like she was trying to memorize every detail of his face.

“You should take it back.”

The words sounded strange, And before Razeal could even question what she meant..

Maria moved.

Her right arm blurred forward with lightning speed.

And before anyone could even process the meaning of those words, Maria suddenly moved.

Her right hand flashed upward with terrifying speed.

And then

CRACK~

Her arm drove straight through her own throat from the front, piercing completely through the back of her neck.

The movement happened so fast it was almost impossible to follow with the eye.

Blood exploded outward instantly.

For a fraction of a second the entire world seemed to freeze.

Razeal’s mind simply stopped.

His hand remained extended in mid-air, unmoving.

Maria stood there with her own arm buried through her neck, blood already pouring down her body and splattering across the wooden floor beneath her. A wet choking sound escaped her throat as blood filled her mouth.

“Argh…” A stream of red spilled past her lips and dripped onto the ground.

Yet even in that moment

She looked directly at him.

Her eyes were already dimming.

Her lips moving Weakly for last time…

“S… s… sorry…”

The final word barely escaped her mouth.

And then the light vanished from her eyes.

As her body went limp.

Her arm slipped free from her neck as gravity took hold.

And Maria collapsed backward onto the wooden floor with a dull thud.

And….. Razeal did not move.

For several seconds he simply stood there.

His mind could not catch up with what had just happened.

His hand was still raised halfway in the air where he had tried to calm her down.

Slowly, almost mechanically, he lowered it.

He looked down at Maria’s motionless body on the floor.

Blankly…?

“What… just happened…?” The thought barely formed in his mind.

Everything had taken less than a second.

“What the hell?!” Sofia’s voice suddenly broke the frozen silence. She had already pushed herself up from the broken rack and rushed toward Maria.

Her hands quickly grabbed Maria’s arm and pulled it out of the hole in her neck.

Blood continued to pour onto the floor.

“Hey.. it’s not healing?!” Sofia shouted in disbelief as she stared at the wound. “What the fuck?!”

She looked back at Razeal with panic in her eyes.

“Shouldn’t she heal?!”

“She’s a vampire or whatever you saidd? You said theyy can automatically heal right??! She literally just evolved! Gods can’t die like this, right?!” Her voice shook with disbelief as she turned back to Maria again.

Still shocked by what just happened?

Blood pooled around Maria’s neck as her lifeless body lay still on the wooden floor.

“Hey! Wake up, you idiot!” Sofia shouted slapping Maria lightly on the cheek.

“Heal yourself!”

She tried to sense her condition again, desperately searching for any sign of life.

But there was nothing.

No pulse..

No movement.

No breath.

And that was when Razeal finally spoke.

“She’s dead.”

His voice was flat emotionless.. and bland..

The words fell into the room like a stone dropping into deep water.

Sofia slowly lifted her head toward him her face filled with horror.

“What…?”

But Razeal didn’t move.

He just stood there.

Looking down at Maria’s body.

Still unable to fully process what reality had just become and why??

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