“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!”

  The man immediately screams as loudly and as painfully as possible.

  “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!”

  He immediately takes a step back and bumps into the counter behind. He puts his right hand on his right eye socket. There is so much blood flowing out of his right eye socket, dripping to the floor.

  “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGHHHHHH!!!”

  “PTHEW!!”

  I spat out his eyeball from my mouth, and it fell to the floor.

  I feel the taste of blood in my mouth, and it is disgusting to my core. Normally, I would’ve puked right there and then, but currently, I’m feeling so high on tension and satisfaction that I feel fine having blood inside my mouth. Some of the blood also flows out of both edges of my mouth. I smirked and stared with hatred towards him.

  “THAT’S WHAT YOU GET, YOU SICK FUCK!! YOU SHOULD’VE RELEASED MY MOTHER BEFORE YOU HURT HER!!”

  *!!!*

  *SSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHH*

  But something out of my wildest imagination happened right before my eyes. There was smoke coming from his eye socket. The wound on his right eye socket is closing in properly and quickly, and his right eye also regenerates completely within seconds.

  “AAAAAHHHH!! THERE WE GO!! GOOD AS NEW!! HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!”

  The man laughs in full arrogance after showing me how futile my action was. His face is still dripping with blood, but the wound has completely closed perfectly.

  “BET YOU HAVE NO IDEA THAT I AM A BELIEVER MYSELF, RIGHT? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! SERVES YOU RIGHT!! YOU SHOULD’VE SEEN YOUR OWN DISBELIEF FACE RIGHT NOW!! IT’S HILARIOUS!! HAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAA!!”

  I was completely caught off guard. I have no idea what to think of him now. It seems like whatever is going to happen now, I have no choice but to let him do whatever he wants.

  “My Faith power is called Perfect Healing! A Special type! No matter what kinda wounds I suffered, I can heal myself perfectly back to normal! My healing is so perfect, it leaves no scars at all! It is thanks to this Faith power that I became the smartest doctor in the whole world! At least when it comes to the human anatomy and biology! I DID ALL KINDS OF EXPERIMENTS AND SURGERIES ON MY OWN BODY!! WITH ANESTHESIA, I CUT OPEN MY OWN BODIES AND START STUDYING EVERYTHING INSIDE THE HUMAN BODY!! I WAS AHEAD OF EVERYONE IN THIS FIELD. NOBODY COULD CONTEST ME!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!”

  But then the man suddenly stops screaming after shouting with such excitement.

  “Oh well, going back to the topic!”

  The man wears his goggles and mask again and walks towards my mother. This time, he picks something up from the floor that I couldn’t see from where I was bound.

  *!*

  It was a wood-cutting chainsaw, and it was big. What does he need that big of a chainsaw for?

  *WRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR*

  He turns on the chainsaw and points it at my mother’s left leg.

  “SHALL WE CONTINUE THE EXPERIMENT, DUDE?”

  *!!*

  “STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!”

  I scream as loud as I possibly can with blood still inside my mouth.

  *ZRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSHHHHHHH*

  “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGHHHHHHHH!!!”

  He starts cutting my mother’s left leg on her thigh.

  “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGHHHHHH!!!”

  My mother starts screaming again in agonizing pain as loudly as possible. Her body is shaking violently and erratically.

  “STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPPPP!!! MOTHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRR!!”

  Seeing my mother squirming in pain like this breaks my heart and makes me shed tears. The most important person in my life is making sounds that I have never heard in my life before. I cannot take this anymore.

  Please stop!

  Someone please stop this madman!

  The man never slowed down, and he steadily pushes down the chainsaw deeper into my mother’s left thigh.

  “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGGHHH!!!”

  My mother somehow screams even louder. The man is currently cutting her leg bone directly.

  “STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPP!!! WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS? WHAT DID WE EVER DO TO YOU TO DESERVE THIS?”

  *WRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR*

  *ZRRRRRRASSSSSHHH*

  “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!”

  The man has successfully cut my mother’s right leg in two.

  *WRRRRRRRRRRR*

  *THUMP*

  He turns off his chainsaw and drops it to the floor.

  *!!*

  I suddenly remember my mother’s Faith power. Now that she wakes up, she should’ve used it to escape.

  . . . . .

  But wait, why didn’t she use it earlier?

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  Was it because she was harmed from the moment she woke up that she was too busy absorbing the pain?

  “MOTHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRR!! I KNOW IT IS PAINFUL, BUT PLEASE USE YOUR FAITH POWER TO ESCAPE FROM YOUR BINDINGS, MOTHER!!! JUST LEAVE ME BEHIND AND CALL THE COPS LATER MOTHEEEERRRR!!”

  *sobs sobs*

  My mother is crying and is trying to endure the pain in her right leg. She did not respond to my shouting at all.

  “MOOOOOTHHHEEEEEEEEEERRRRRR!! USE YOUR FAITH POWER AND ESCAPE! WITH YOUR FAITH POWER IT SHOULD BE A BREEZE TO LEAVE!! PLEASE JUST SAVE YOURSELF MOTHEEERRRR!!”

  *sobs sobs*

  She still did not answer me. She is still enduring the agonizing pain that she just suffered.

  “MOTHEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRR!!”

  “Oh, would you please pipe it down already? Your mother isn’t going to leave you behind, and you know that!” said the man as he walked closer to me.

  “MOTHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRR!!”

  I continue to scream, ignoring his empty words.

  “Hey! Would you please look up to the ceiling?” said the man.

  I instinctively look above as soon as he warns me.

  *!*

  I saw something like a mounted gun on the ceiling with its muzzle pointed at me.

  “So, you see, I’ve already taken precautions regarding that! Your mother laid out in detail how her Faith power works after all, thanks to that form she filled out earlier!”

  “. . .”

  “I whispered something to your mother earlier, and I believe you saw that! ‘There is a camera right above you in the ceiling! If the camera detects that you are no longer in frame, meaning you use your Faith power to escape, at that very same instant, a mounted gun that is aiming at your son’s head right now, is going to shoot him and kill him!’ is what I said to her!”

  “. . .”

  “Then I continue whispering to your mother, ‘You don’t need to see the gun! Just find out for yourselves when it’s all too late, as you held your son’s corpse in regret!’ and then she immediately understood the situation! What a clever mother she is! You must’ve been happy to have such a smart parent! Hey! Not a lot of people have the luxury like you! Be grateful!”

  “. . .”

  I couldn’t believe my ears. This guy really has planned everything from the start. He has us dancing in his palms! It seems like no matter what I do, I cannot escape him. He thought of everything.

  DAMMIT!!

  “Where was I again?”

  The man stops and thinks to himself.

  “AH! Right! You see, the goal of my experiment is not just to recreate and control the Relic Faith Power phenomenon, but to see if I can prevent it from becoming an Armament type altogether, keeping the original type of the Faith power being transferred!”

  The man walks closer to me again in excitement.

  “If this works. . . IF THIS WORKS!! IF THIS WORKS!! AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH!! YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND A THING!! YOU CANNOT EVEN BEGIN TO COMPREHEND THE FUTURE POSSIBILITIES ONCE WE CAN SUCCESSFULLY RECREATE THAT PHENOMENON IN THIS LAB ONCE!! I’LL CONTINUE TO PURSUE THIS RESEARCH AND TEST OUT A LOT OF FACTORS THAT MIGHT AFFECT THIS PROCESS!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!”

  He suddenly stops and calms himself down.

  “So anyway! I’ve been carrying out a lot of different experiment in almost a year now. Nothing has been successful yet, but I AM NOT GONNA GIVE UP!!”

  “LISTEN HERE FUCKFACE!! I DON’T CARE ABOUT YOUR JOY AT ALL!! FREE MY MOTHER THIS INSTANT!! YOU DON’T HAVE TO FREE ME, BUT JUST LET MY MOTHER GO, AND I’LL LET YOU DO YOUR STUPID EXPERIMENTS ON ME WILLFULLY!!”

  “Hm? Desperate much? AHAHAHAHAHAHHA!! NO CAN’T DO! I NEED YOU BOTH FOR THIS EXPERIMENT TO SUCCEED!”

  “What?”

  “You see, since this phenomenon happens when the Believer is dying, I can’t do this experiment on myself. Because then, how am I going to observe anything? I am gonna have to put your mother in a near-death state! I’ll continue to chop her body parts until then!!”

  *!!!*

  “DON’T TOUCH MY MOTHER ANY MORE YOU ASSHOLE!!”

  “And then I am going to transplant one of her body parts into yours! This current experiment is to answer a question I had in mind: Is faith power affected by biology? Will your mother’s Faith power be transferred if she dies when you have one of her body parts still functioning properly? HAHAHHAHAHHAHAAHAA!!! AREN’T YOU EXCITED, YOUNG MAN?”

  *GRRRNGGG GRRRNGGG GRRRNGGG GRRRNGGG GRRRNGGG GRRRNGGG*

  I shake my body even more violently than previously. Hearing him talk like this about my mother puts me into yet another blind rage now, even though I perfectly realize just how pointless my struggle is.

  The man runs to my mother again in joy. He picks up his small surgical saw and turns it on.

  *WRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR*

  “LET’S GET THIS SHOW GOING, SHALL WE?”

  *ZRAAASSSSSHHH*

  “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHH!!!”

  My mother screams again as loudly as possible. This time, the man cuts her right middle finger with the chainsaw.

  “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGHHHHHH!!!”

  “MOTHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRR!!!”

  He has cut my mother’s middle finger completely, and it just lies on the side of the bed. Blood is flowing out of the stump of her middle finger onto the bed.

  “STOP THIS YOU FUCKFACE!! STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!”

  “HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHA!!! LET’S CONTINUE!!”

  *ZRAASSH ZRASSSH ZRAASSHH*

  “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGHHHHH!!!”

  The man continues to cut my mother’s other fingers one by one. She is crying and screaming so much that her voice has started to crack.

  “STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!”

  “Hmm. . . NOPE!! STILL NOT IN A NEAR-DEATH STATE YET!! CONTINUE!!”

  The man walks to the other side of the bed, to my mother's left side. He puts down the small surgical saw on the counter and picks up the big chainsaw on the floor.

  *WRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR*

  *ZRAAAAAASSSSHHHH*

  “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!”

  Now, he is cutting my mother’s left shoulder violently. He pushes down the chainsaw forcefully, cutting her entire arm from her torso within ten seconds. Blood quickly flows rapidly to the bed, and some even splashes onto the man’s lab coat, his mask, and his goggles.

  “Hmm, MORE!!”

  The man moves his chainsaw again. This time, he aims it towards her left waist.

  “STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!”

  *ZRAAAAAASSSHHH*

  “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!”

  He cut open my mother’s left side, and some of her intestines and kidney came out and fell to the side of the bed.

  “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!”

  She screams in agony again, and I cannot stand hearing how agonizing her voice is. I cried yet again as I kept calling out to her, reassuring her that I am still here, albeit not doing anything meaningful.

  *THUD*

  “ALRIGHT!! IT’S TIME!!”

  The man turns off and drops the chainsaw to the floor behind him. He hastily grabs two scalpels and immediately runs towards my mother’s left side again.

  “HERE WE GO, YOUNG MAN!! ARE YOU READY? I AM GOING TO START TRANSPLANTING HER EYES NOW!!”

  *!!*

  “STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!”

  I shouted as hard as I possibly can but that madman is still ignoring me.

  *ZRSH*

  *!!!*

  “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!”

  My mom screams again, and this time, somehow, even louder than her previous ones.

  “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!”

  The man cuts a circle around her eyeball. He carefully plucks out my mother’s eyeball from its socket. My mother is squirming even more violently this time, that the bed she’s lying on almost fell to the side, but the man held it firmly to prevent the bed from falling.

  “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!”

  “YES!! I DID IT!! NOW!! PREPARE YOURSELF, YOUNG MAN!!”

  He runs towards me as he carries my mother’s eyeball in his left hand and a scalpel in his right hand.

  “The eyeball has started to degrade, BUT WITH MY FAITH POWER, ALL IS GOOD!! IT WILL BE AS NEW ONCE I PLANT IT INTO YOU!! HAHAHHAHAHAHHA!” shouts the man, excited.

  The man finally reaches me, and he immediately puts his scalpel on the counter behind him and takes a kitchen knife from the same counter.

  *!!*

  He suddenly swings the knife towards my left eye.

  *ZRAASSHHH ZRAASSHHH*

  “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGHHHHHHHH!!!”

  He cuts my left eye twice across the same spot, creating an X-shaped wound.

  “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!”

  I immediately lost my left eyesight. I became blinded one-sidedly.

  *ZRAASSSHHH*

  *!!!*

  “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGGGHHH!!”

  Suddenly, the man thrusts his right hand into my left eye and grabs it violently without a care in the world. It immediately sends every sense of pain in my entire body to scream. I have never experienced this kind of pain before in my life.

  “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRGGGHHHH!!!”

  *ZRAAASSSHHHH*

  He plucks out my left eyeball violently as well, and I can feel some nerves and veins that were connected to my eyeball snap from the pull. The pain was so intense that I felt like I was going to pass out anytime soon. My whole body also shakes uncontrollably from the intense, sharp pain.

  “AND NOOOOWWWW!!”

  *ZRRRSSHHH*

  The man shoves my mother’s eyeball into my left eye socket, violently as well, without giving me rest.

  “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGGGHHHHH!!”

  And I, once again, continue to scream from excruciating pain.