I'm on the Ark, and I started as a succubus.

"That's...what is that...Kal'tsit?"

The doctor snapped out of his daze and murmured through his full lips, "What was that?"

"demon."

Kal'tsit dragged the Doctor along as they continued running through the streets. "Don't look! You can't look directly at a demon. Looking directly at a demon will corrupt you, even if it's just for a second."

"Mon3tr!"

Kal'tsit repositioned Mon3tr, directing it to face the twisted, bizarre enemies emerging from the streets on either side.

"Kal'tsit, do you recognize these things?"

"Doctor. Adjust your breathing, follow me, run with me."

Hearing Kal'tsit's voice, a look of confusion appeared on the Doctor's face. She found it hard to believe, and even harder to imagine, that Kal'tsit's voice would tremble.

It's even more unimaginable that Kal'tsit was afraid.

"Kal'tsit, you recognize these things. Tell me, tell me what they are?"

The Doctor struggled to keep up with Kal'tsit's pace, her breathing becoming increasingly rapid. She couldn't believe that her body could withstand such an intense escape.

"Don't ask, Doctor... don't ask..."

Kal'tsit bit her cherry lips. "Please, don't ask."

With Mon3tr's help, Kal'tsit and the Doctor once again escaped a distance.

Kal'tsit's face showed a pained expression as she said to the Doctor again, "Don't ask, Doctor... I... I don't know what they are either."

She shook her head at the doctor and uttered an ancient word without warning: "Tikaz".

"what?"

The Doctor turned to look at Kal'tsit, but Kal'tsit remained silent, biting her cherry lips. She simply quickened her pace and pulled the Doctor along, running even faster.

Something big is coming!

She could clearly sense that something big was about to happen!

Although she didn't know what it was, she could feel something chasing her.

We absolutely cannot let them catch up!

absolute……

Kal'tsit abruptly stopped in her tracks.

"Kal'tsit? What..."

Before the doctor could finish speaking, she realized that something had happened without warning.

The surrounding scenery changed; the streets were bizarre and strange, and the sky was filled with indescribable mottled colors... All the strange and distorted scenes disappeared.

The sky was still a dark color, but starlight could be faintly seen; the ground no longer had that sticky, wriggling feel underfoot, but was a path paved with pebbles; every so often along the path, a pair of lamps emitted a warm orange glow.

In addition, there were piles of candy and pumpkin heads carved into ghost faces with candles lit inside, scattered along the path.

The scattered lights spread along the grove and outwards, and even now, the city is brightly lit in the distance, and you can faintly feel the festive atmosphere. A magnificent and beautiful castle, which cannot be described in words, stands at the northern end of the city.

Those castles were like an emperor's enormous and luxurious harem.

The doctor withdrew his gaze from the distance and focused his attention on the candy and the pumpkin head.

Halloween?

She murmured in disbelief.

"Haha, oh yeah~ Halloween, Doctor!"

The strange creature shrouded in pink mist that we had seen earlier slowly emerged from the nearby grove of trees.

With her appearance, the strange and twisted enemies that the Doctor and Kal'tsit had encountered along the way all emerged from the forest.

They were all laughing, seemingly covering their mouths and letting out soft, whimpering laughs as if they had successfully pulled off a prank.

"Doctor, I never thought you'd be scared too~ Hahaha, oh dear, I can't take it anymore."

The doctor's gaze fell on the twisted, bizarre six-armed, six-legged monster he had seen before, and found that all those terrifying things had disappeared. Now, pointing at her and laughing incessantly, was a hot-bodied, silver-haired, red-eyed Sarkaz.

"You know..."

The doctor looked at W, slightly furrowed his brows, and murmured softly, "W."

"Ooh hoo~"

W stopped laughing, her smile becoming even more malicious. "Oh, the Doctor recognizes me. Hmm, that's even better. That way, I won't have any psychological burden when I'm disciplining the Doctor later."

A hint of ruthlessness flickered in her red eyes. "You'll definitely leave a deep impression on the Doctor~"

"W...W, what's going on?"

"Doctor, are you referring to what we just talked about?"

W tilted her delicate neck, her slender, peach-shaped devil tail swaying incessantly. "A little Halloween scaring spell, huh? Haha, I didn't expect you to be scared sometimes~ Hey, some of us Sarkaz can even split our faces into several pieces and then put them back together. You've seen that before, no need to be so scared and surprised, right? It really makes one believe that even our Doctor has a day like this~"

Just as the Doctor was about to say something, he noticed that Kal'tsit had collapsed to the ground, becoming unusually silent, and her expression had become even more frightened.

180 Kal'tsit was actually already finished a long time ago~

The Doctor looked at Kal'tsit, who was slumped on the ground, lifeless and limp, and couldn't help but call out softly.

Kal'tsit?

Kal'tsit shook her head repeatedly, a look of fear and even terror slowly appearing on her usually stern and indifferent face, and even her emerald eyes slowly welled up with tears.

No...no...why is this happening?

She remembered, she remembered everything.

On the way to escape with the Doctor, what she feared was not W and the others, nor was it those so-called twisted and strange enemies that she desperately wanted to get rid of.

It frightened her, terrified her, and made her desperately want to escape...the thing that kept chasing her—

—It is memory.

The evil god he once provoked.

A purgatory at the very top, seemingly an endless end.

Wave after wave, growing more and more intense, so intense that it was a sensory experience that made it almost impossible to think or breathe, as if even the soul was melting away.

"Don't...don't..."

Kal'tsit's face was filled with fear, but a hint of intense desire also appeared in her eyes.

Compared to dishonest words, dishonest thoughts... her body was now strongly protesting, telling her that she should be more honest instead of spending her days telling riddles.

A agonizing heat, a tormenting feeling, was spreading through her. Kal'tsit sensed that something that had been dormant deep within her soul had awakened once more and was hysterically protesting against her.

It is calling out, it is roaring, it is yearning.

Kal'tsit lowered her gaze and looked at her abdomen, which she had been gently stroking with her hand at some point.

A dark, wicked, and decadent purple-pink fluorescent light seeped from her dress and was continuously escaping from between her fingers.

A beautiful, enchanting, intricate, and exquisitely detailed imprint.

"No... Why, why is this happening... It hasn't reacted for almost ten thousand years."

Kal'tsit could not accept that the evil and corrupting mark had reappeared on her body.

She remembered everything, all of it.

She made an evil deal with an evil god, experienced the powerful and terrifying power of the Pearl Fall Elegy, and then completely fell into the Pearl Fall.

Kal'tsit turned her head tremblingly, her gaze fixed on the Doctor's face, and finally, as if she could no longer control her emotions, she choked and sobbed.

She knew why the Doctor had chosen to 'betray' Princess Theresa in Kazdel.

Doctor, Doctor... Doctor, she has completely fallen into depravity too.

For happiness, for enjoyment, for rewards, the doctor was willing to do anything and give anything.

Doctor, Doctor... the Doctor is still the beautiful girl she dragged into the abyss with her own hands—

—In order to receive a reward.

Princess Theresa is not dead, and she will never die. Under the power of the evil god, Princess Theresa will not suffer any harm.

Princess Theresa also lost her pearl.

Under the scheme of the Bead Fall plan devised by her and the Doctor, Theresa became their companion, and with a strong yearning for joy, pleasure and happiness, she joined the great Bead Fall Elegy with tears in her eyes.

"No, no..."

Kal'tsit's usually stern face was now covered in tears, her expression full of sorrow and tenderness.

She still couldn't accept what was happening before her eyes.

It's all in the past now.

She should have already gotten rid of the god who was so malicious towards beautiful girls.

Why is this happening?

why!

She had clearly broken free from the evil god, clearly returned to a normal life. Why, why, why does she still feel an intense longing and yearning for joy and happiness whenever she thinks about it?

"What...what's wrong with me?"

Kal'tsit choked back tears and sobbed.

No, I really can't do it at all. I haven't forgotten the joy, pleasure, and happiness that those things brought me.

Having experienced the power and beauty of the Tears of Elegy, other decks, those so weak they made one want to vomit, simply... simply couldn't satisfy her yearning for joy, pleasure, and happiness!

It's impossible to get what I want!

Ugh... Tears of sorrow, fallen pearls of grief, I wish I could use the Tears of Sorrow deck to launch another attack during my opponent's turn!

I really, really want to experience the joy, happiness, and bliss of Zhudu again!

It's broken, it's really breaking down. I can't think straight, I can't stay rational, my brain is really going to break down!

She's willing to give anything and do anything, as long as she can experience the joy that the Tears of Elegy deck brings!