The world had once been normal.

Then factory waste poisoned the DNA of every animal, fish, and bird. Mutations turned them into bloodthirsty monsters. Chaos erupted. Men, seen as the stronger fighters, were hunted relentlessly. Their numbers plummeted toward extinction. Eventually, most of the unstable monsters died off from their own defective mutations, but the damage was permanent.

In the aftermath, the surviving men turned their rage on the women.

They blamed them for hiding in shelters instead of fighting beside them. What followed was swift and brutal. Women were stripped of all rights and reduced to slaves. Those who disobeyed were thrown into a massive underground cell known as “The Pit.” No food. Only the rotting, poisonous remains of dead monsters. Within a month, every woman inside broke completely. They begged to be taken back as slaves. They offered their bodies eagerly. Some even begged the guards to pee on them just to drink something.

The Pit eventually became a free slave market. Men looking for workers, personal slaves, or live bait for remaining monsters would walk in. Desperate women would throw themselves forward — crawling, spreading their legs, licking boots, and begging to be chosen.

Among them was Lira.

Her father had been abusive even before the chaos. Her mother had protected her with her own body and soul — always stepping forward when their master demanded a woman, always taking the worst of the punishments, always shielding her daughter. Lira begged her mother to let her help, to share the burden so she could rest, but her mother refused.

Overworked, starved, and broken, her mother eventually died.

With no one left to protect her, Lira was thrown into The Pit. For an entire week she had barely eaten — surviving only on the urine of other prisoners and scraps from the corpses of dead women. She was thin, dirty, and hollow-eyed, yet still clung to a fragile will to live.