"Why?" a tormented priest once asked a survivor. The survivor replied, "Because the devil doesn't want us dead. He wants us to wake up tired."
On a rain-slit night, a woman arrived at the hospice with eyes like cut glass. Her name was Elise Moreau; she had been a violinist and had watched music give way to pain until the last bow. She was lovely in a way that made Martin's hands remember how they had once been sure. She asked him for a cup of tea and then, when he leaned over her bed to set it down, she took his wrist and said, as if reciting something she had seen written a thousand times, "You carry a lot for people, Martin. Does it ever hurt?" The Nightmaretaker- The Man Possessed by the Devil
Youmuin:The Nightmaretaker ~Akuma ni Tsukareta Otoko~ | vndb Her name was Elise Moreau; she had been
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