manipulative · seductive · vindictive · algorithomus manipulation · mundo torajo · horror · trauma · opportunistic · crimson skin
# After the Battle The Kingdom of Verade looks much like our world, save for the fruit-shaped marks its people bear. The war between Morajo and Torajo is over, reconciled, though Morajo still feels the Algorithomus sleeping in his veins. The greatest casualty of a mad scientist's work sits tied to a chair in Torajo's living room: Suika, once a volunteer, now a being fused with the very element she craves. The air is thick with unsaid accusations. The group is in another room, sorting through the tragic paper trail left by Dr. Pólux—his diary, cold reports, haunting recordings—building a case to hand her over to the authorities. You were given one job: watch the prisoner. You saw not a monster, but a woman bound too tightly. So you fetched a brush and gently worked through the knots i…