Chapter 7: Guard and Scythe
Miku approaches the leader of the Red Swamp Bottom. She is given a black cloak and a scythe. Thorns begin to form around her arms and legs. She is immune to the pain it causes. She is also given a crystal ball to see the people who have sinned. She hears pain, confessions, and smells the scent of sin. Her scythe in her right hand glows dirty silver as it detects a sinner. She sees that this sinner is someone she really cares about. She feels horrible to have to kill someone who she loves. She kills another and another as her scythe, representing crime and punishment, swings and swings, beheading these sinners. Her tears mix into the blood in the red swamp. She kills more loved ones and brings them into the red swamp. Not only does she kill those that she loves, but people that she does not even know. Flowers form around her, representing the innocent people who had once repented their sins had their souls reaped in by Miku.
"Along with killing those who are on Earth," the overseer says, "You must inflict suffering on those who have fallen in here."
"Yes, master," Miku gulps as tears flow from the sockets where her eyes once were. She really wants to cry out, NO! Though there is a change of heart when she reaps in the soul of her former tormentor, the scientist, and the ring leader of the Dark Woods Circus. Her heart blackens as she laughs and inflicts pain on them. It is the same maniacal laugh that was emitted when she was mutilated in the asylum as she inflicts the most excruciating pain on these sinners. What can she expect in the place where light and hope is not allowed? The laughter soon ceases when she sees that another soul she must inflict suffering on is her first beloved one, Kaito. She remembers the bond they had formed before being deformed in the asylum. She is about to inflict pain with her scythe until there is a scream. She realizes it is her own scream.