anger is born

In the afternoon, a man known as the leader of a criminal group was walking through the most dangerous areas of the slums. Known in the area for taking advantage of the weak and fleeing from the strong, although they had previously been defeated by an S-rank ranker named 'Raina,' they were fortunate enough to seek revenge when the player in charge of Raina had a personal goal of seeing to what extent they could bring down a successful person.

And so, thanks to the choices the player selected for Raina to carry out, degrading her own dignity and trampling her pride, it was how the criminals were able to do whatever they wanted with the famous Raina, recognized for being 'unmatched.'

Soon, the news that Raina was resigning from her S-rank position while becoming a prostitute who had sex with anyone at a low cost became public. And seizing the opportunity, they proclaimed themselves responsible for the downfall of the unmatched Raina to the whole world.

At first, people doubted, dismissing it as an invention, but the affirmation of witnesses who observed the shocking scene of Raina having sexual relations with the criminals for days until she was unrecognizable was confirmed.

This gave them great infamy and recognition in the slums.

"Tch... What damn problem is happening now?"

Originally, the boss was happy with the power and recognition he had gained after taking credit for the unexpected 'madness' that Raina had shown them, unaware of the true reason behind her behavior.

But that happy mood vanished due to the mysterious reports from his subordinates, who recounted how a 'little girl' was doing whatever she wanted in their territory. This was humiliating for his newly improved reputation, especially given the strange and striking behaviors of the mysterious 'little girl,' such as talking to her doll as if it were alive or communicating with insects.

These behaviors would be understandable if she had some ability related to such things; however, the things she did went beyond all normal logic. The 'little girl' burned things for no reason, hit others just because, while painting and singing as she pleased as if the place were her home. And every member of the criminal gang who tried to stop her died, attacked by a mysterious monster that came out of nowhere.

So, with no other option, he had to go out with a group of his best men to deal with this 'little girl' personally.

"Boss, there she is!! It's her!!"

(Šišu)

"But what the hell...?"

But what he found was a scene stranger than what he had heard. Before him was a macabre image of a large bonfire in which several members of his gang were still burning alive, their mouths sewn shut as they slowly burned while chained.

"Lady Alice♪ Would you like more tea?"

And the alleged culprit of this terrifying scene sat drinking tea next to a doll in total tranquility.

"Damn it!! What the hell are you doing?!"

With total indignation and fury, he confronted the 'little girl' in front of him while his subordinates prepared their weapons, ready to attack.

"Huh? Isn't it obvious? I'm having tea, silly♪"

"What?!"

However, the 'little girl's' response was completely natural, as if she were stating the obvious, but the most terrifying thing about her were her unusually colored eyes, which, despite the inhuman actions she was committing, showed no malice, coldness, or cruelty reflected in them.

They only reflected a pure and ruthless childlike innocence.

"Everyone attack! This thing isn't human!!"

"Rude!!"

But despite giving the order to attack, there was no response, as an eerie silence took over the surroundings.

"What are you wait..."

(Chirping sounds)

When he turned around, what he found was not his group of trusted subordinates waiting for him; instead, what looked back at him was a gigantic ant devouring the heads of several of his men with its pincers.

"W-what the h-hell is this?!"

(Sound of a pan hitting something hard!!)

"Ugh...!"

Just as he was going into shock from the surreal scenes in succession, he felt a thud on his head, only to fall seeing before him the doll with which the 'thing' in the form of a little girl had been drinking tea moments ago, holding a frying pan.

"Ah... Alice, you shouldn't do that."

("?")

Disoriented and still not understanding what was happening, he decided to flee, taking advantage of the momentary distraction to get out of there.

"Haa... Haa... Haa...! What the hell was that?!"

Having narrowly escaped that incomprehensible situation, he accidentally sought refuge in a brothel.

"AAAARRGGHHH!!!"

"UUUUGGHHH!!"

"MAKE IT STOP, MAKE IT STOP!!!"

Only to find an even worse scene than before, with men and women alike screaming inexplicably in agony as they hurt themselves in every imaginable way possible, from tearing off limbs to breaking bones or stabbing themselves with sharp objects.

However, even stranger than that was how everyone, upon trying to commit suicide or end their inexplicable suffering, would suddenly stop abruptly, while their expression filled with despair at failing.

"Why is this happening to me?! Ugh!!"

But before he could even rant or try to escape, he understood why everyone was acting this way as he was suddenly invaded by a hatred, fury, and pain unlike anything he had ever experienced. So great that it suppressed his survival instinct and made him want to end his misery. Taking his knife, he prepared to end all that pain.

"uuuuggkh!!"

Only to be stopped by a mysterious invisible force at the last moment that prevented him from stabbing himself.

Had he been able to calm down, he would have realized the nature of that mysterious force as telekinetic power that was halting his movements. But the intense agony of such unbridled rage with nothing to channel it into drove him mad, leaving him unable to think of anything other than ending his misery.

(Clap, clap, clap)

"Well, well, well, this is an unexpected surprise, isn't it?"

"aahh, ahhahh!!"

Turning around at the unexpected sound of slow and deliberate applause, while using what little reasoning he had left, he was able to notice a woman he knew quite well, having visited her for pleasure lately. The former S-rank who held the title of "unmatched," now known as the best "prostitute," Raina.

Thanks to all the negative emotions that Raina had suppressed after having her future ruined, her friendships lost, and everything she once valued destroyed by someone else's selfish decisions, it was how her terrifying talent as the strongest psychic exploded. And under the choice of revenge, optimizing her own body to fulfill the objective by resonating with the fury she had finally let out, a new and horrifying ability was born.

Known as Emotional Rupture: it allows her to manipulate the emotions of others in a wide, indeterminate area, being able to amplify them, such as fear, causing people to kill each other or simply die from an excess of terror (emotional overload, in other words).

But that wasn't all it did. By directing her own unbridled negative emotions and combining them with those of everyone else in a restricted area, she was able to amplify the effect within a controllable range using her telekinesis to prevent deaths from cardiac arrest or suicides, thus extending the suffering of her victims without an end in sight while driving them to madness.

"It's truly true what they say, that revenge is a dish best served cold."

"aaaahhhhhaHhhhhhhhaah!!!"

While Raina displayed a terrifying smile of inhuman amusement at the cruel scene before her, in which the guilty and innocent of her suffering suffered equally, losing their sanity before her.

"kujujujukukuju!!! Ahahaha!!"

What was there was no longer the same woman who selflessly helped others; in her place, a twisted monster with her appearance had been born, delighting in making others suffer her same pain.

This was the moment in which it could be said that the first member of a group that would be known in the near future as "the seven demon lords of sin" was born.

It was in this way that the demon lord representing wrath, "Raina," was born.