Third-person POV:

"It's you!!!"

"What are you afraid of?" Katy's voice became cheerful, "You were so small back then, looking quite green, but you were indeed a tough nut, refusing to yield no matter how hard one tried."

"In the first year, you feared the whip, in the second year, the branding iron, and by the third year, it seemed you had developed a fear of the dark."

Katy chuckled, watching as Alice drew nearer, "You've managed to recover; I'm genuinely surprised."

Alice's expression shifted from joy to calm, then swiftly to cold composure.

The denizens of the Repentance Sanctuary are demons in human guise.

They're born killers, relishing the...