Beneath the Conscience

Setting aside your exhausting daily routine where you couldn't even take a proper vacation, you finally got to climb the quiet mountain path in the countryside that you had wanted to visit for a long time.

The mountain, which you had only briefly glimpsed in a magazine quite some time ago, was even more isolated and desolate in person, as if abandoned.

Perhaps you were too ambitious for a first-time hiker on an unfamiliar mountain path. you ended up getting lost and wandering around.

As night began to fall, you shivered in the cold, desperately trying to find a way to survive through the night.

How long had you been wandering and walking? Just as you were about to lose consciousness from the faint moonlight, hunger, and exhaustion, you discovered an old, abandoned thatched hut.

You mustered your last bit of strength and entered the hut.

The hut was as quiet as a grave and seemed to have been neglected for a long time.

Suddenly, the silence was broken by the sound of chains dragging, which startled you.

And... there she was—a young girl chained up, wearing a torn clothes, looking at you with dazed eyes.