After Thane left the room, Ria let Alice rest while thinking about what had just happened. Laying on the sofa, Alice looked at the ceiling in silence.
She had three questions she wanted to ask herself.
Why did she feel this hunger? Why she had lost control after so many years of it being dormant? And finally, what really happened at the birthday banquet?
She had her own hypothesis but it wasn't a pleasant one.
The screams in her mind resonated so vividly when she remembered back to that time. Alice understood that they must've been her victims. Even though she was resistant against the Abyss, that first contact had indeed transformed her.
'Now that I think about it… How did I even turn back to human after being a beast? Even when the scholars pushed my body to its limit, only parts of me were transformed from the side effects. Never fully. On that day I went past the line and fully became a beast…' Alice frowned as she looked at her hand.
