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Deranged Martyrs

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Zick couldn’t bear the weight of living by other people’s rules. Sally couldn’t contain the storm burning inside her. Two lives marked by judgment, pressure, and despair ended in tragedy... until a light covered everything. Thirty days before their deaths, Zick and Sally wake up confused in a world that seems the same but has started to shift. The memories of what they did and what they endured begin to return little by little. As their traumas resurface and their emotions drag them to the edge, they start to notice something is wrong. Small changes, different choices, events that shouldn’t happen will reveal that the light didn’t just bring them back it altered something deep within the fabric of the world. Over those thirty days, the truth will come to light. And nothing will ever be the same. Cover design: José Mimbela https://www.instagram.com/xpmimau/
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Chapter 1 - Day 0: Lucis

Unknown Man: Please, don't cry.Unknown Woman: Let me help you.Unknown Man: Don't worry about me. Focus on protecting them — they'll need your support, more than you know — he said in a quiet voice.Unknown Woman: Why are you saying that? —she asked, concerned.Unknown Man: Now I understand the reason behind so many things. And I know I have to take care of something... something I still don't fully comprehend —he said with sadness.

I woke up with that vision again.Though it surprises me, it always comes right when I'm about to end this suffering as if it's trying to stop me.But honestly, I don't hate those visions. Maybe they bring sadness or nostalgia…Yet above all, they leave me with a calm I've rarely felt in this short span of life.

Because the loneliness, the rejection, the isolation… all of it overwhelms me.Sometimes I feel like this world is corrupted.There is no God here.

Zick steps onto the edge of a building.He jumps.As he falls, he can only think about those he couldn't help.He felt his life hadn't been worth it unable to forge a path of his own.

When his body hits the pavement, it shatters.The people around barely react. They only stop to record, to take pictures.Yet another display of this world's indifference.

Then, a light covers everything.And Zick… wakes up.