Revenge After Death



Joel followed Carol into her room, looking visibly upset.

He said, "Have you forgotten what you promised me? Aren't we supposed to focus on fighting Genome Society now? What's the point of provoking Steven and Stephanie?"

She snorted as she sat on the couch. "I'm just playing with them."

Joel scoffed.

"Men are all the same to me." Carol narrowed her eyes in contempt. "But he's just different. People are drawn to things that are different because they're rare, aren't they?*

She wanted Steven because he was a rare gem-and she would destroy him if she couldn't have him.

"You're truly mad!" Joel found Carol crazy, but in reality, her madness had long shown its signs.

Back when they first arrived at the orphanage, she wasn't 'crazy' just yet. She was only introverted and preferred to keep to herself. As she was easy to push around, the children in the orphanage took her as an easy target and bullied her.From NôvelDrama.Org.

Simeon couldn't protect Carol as he was still very young back then. As the older sibling, she had to do everything she could to protect him despite also being a child herself.

The wickedness of human nature was fully on display in that sinful orphanage.

Steven hadn't arrived in the orphanage yet that year. It was also the darkest year for both Carol and Simeon.

"I have some cake with me, Carol. I'm not letting the naughty kids have it-only you."

That seemingly kind director lured her into a room and opened the door to a basement that had never been seen before.

Carol was still a young girl who knew nothing back then.

She only knew that after enduring the director's bullying, she got to eat yummy cakes and even bring some back for Simeon.

From that day onward, both of them received "special treatment" from the director. He would give her extra food, let them have the nicer clothes first, and even give her snacks. The special treatment they received invoked jealousy from the other children from the orphanage.

How mean could children be? Their cruelty was something unimaginable to adults. They had no ethical boundaries-only pure malice.

They would strip Carol of her new clothes and burn her body with hot water. They would prick her back with needles, take away her snacks, and destroy her toys.

They would even force Simeon to eat disgusting things just to provoke her.

Gradually, Carol went "mad" from their torments. She pretended to be crazy just to survive.

Her craziness became a laughingstock to others, but at the same time, the others lost interest just because she no longer had any reaction to all her bullying. Carol was just a mentally disabled dimwit to others.

When the director saw that she had become mentally disabled, he started to bully and violate her even more recklessly. That was because he believed that a mentally disabled person like her wouldn't rat him out.

All of them thought that nothing would happen if they bullied a dimwit, but they were all wrong. Simeon found himself a guardian angel the very year Steven showed up. While Carol taught him to endure in order to survive, Steven taught him to fight back.

Steven badly beat up a boy who had bullied him that same year. From then on, everyone feared the coldness in his eyes.

Simeon saw hope in Steven. He realized that only by becoming strong himself could he rise above others.

Everyone had thought that it was the orphanage's tradition for a newcomer to be bullied. But Simeon knew well that Carol was the one pulling the strings.

No one even suspected her as she secretly stirred the pot in the background, manipulating those arrogant bullies

That was because no one would notice a mentally impacted person like her was actually the manipulator behind the bullying.