Semua Bab Island From Hell: Tamed by a False System: Bab 1 - Bab 9

I, Elmer Cox, strained to lift my head and met a pair of familiar eyes filled with panic.It was Edith, who was supposed to be dead.The person I had yearned for day and night for three years and dreamed of seeing again appeared before me without any warning.Her eyes reddened with urgency as she fought to keep the panicked fury out of her voice, "I thought I told you to just scare him a little? How did he end up like this?"As she spoke, she bent down and carefully helped me up. Then, she deliberately softened her voice and said, "Elmer, don't be afraid. It's all right now. I'm here."I stared blankly at that familiar face as the words I'd just heard surged back into my mind.So, what those people said was all true.Edith and Lucille had gone to all this trouble just to get back at me for Trenton.Exhaustion and despair swallowed me whole in an instant.I gave a bitter smile, and more blood instantly gushed from my mouth.Everyone in the room was terrified, and the scene des

But no one answered.I woke up alone in the pitch-black bedroom, while the room next door was bright and buzzing with activity. Everyone was gathered around Trenton, who was threatening to run away from home."Edith, the moment Elmer comes back, he's overdosing on pills and slitting his wrists. Isn't he just trying to put me in my place? I honestly can't understand it—after all these years, why does he still refuse to accept me?"Lucille, maybe I'd better stay away from you. Go on, go take care of Elmer. The way I see it, I might as well just leave this family for good!"Edith hastily stopped him, her voice tight with barely restrained anger."Trenton, I know you've been wronged. But don't worry, I will deal with this properly. I can't believe that after three years of us trying everything we could think of to teach him to back down and admit his mistakes, he hasn't changed one bit."If anything, he's gotten even worse. And now he's pulling stunts like threatening to off himself

"H-How did this happen?" Edith asked, her voice shaking so badly that it nearly cracked.She was being held up by a maid, her legs so weak she could barely stand.Her gaze swept over the torn clothes on the floor, then shot up to land on my scar-covered body. Her face, always so composed, was now deathly pale.I stood there numbly, staring at the stunned faces around me. My ears were ringing, and my vision swam, making it hard to make out the people around me.Lucille snapped out of it faster than Edith. She instinctively stepped forward and reached out to touch me.But just as her fingertips were about to make contact, Edith suddenly screamed with bloodshot eyes, "Don't touch him! Lucille, you're about to marry Trenton, so don't you dare touch Elmer!"Lucille froze in place, as if those words had nailed her to the spot.She opened her mouth, but no sound came out. She simply stared in a daze at the gruesome injuries on my body, her face slowly turning ashen.While they were lo

The doctor's expression was extremely grave. He looked up at Edith with a complicated gaze."The patient is in extremely poor shape. He has sustained severe trauma to multiple areas of the body. These burn marks are from repeated electric shocks, and the abdominal cavity shows evidence of multiple organ extractions."He's undergone forced organ harvesting at least three times. The most recent was no more than three days ago." He paused, then sighed. "But the most troubling issue is his mental state."The patient appears to have been trapped in some kind of extremely traumatic, fear-inducing memory for a prolonged period. His cognitive faculties are showing signs of dissociation.""Forced organ harvesting?" Edith repeated numbly, as if the words refused to make sense. She shook her head vigorously, her voice suddenly rising. "That's impossible! Doctor, you must have made a mistake. How could Elmer possibly—"She stopped mid-sentence and lunged toward the bed, wrapping her arms arou

The police moved fast. In just three days, every detail of an entire black market operation had been unearthed. The scale of the network and the brutality of its methods shocked all of Capburg."Trenton Cox!" Edith growled, her eyes bloodshot.Lucille said nothing. Only the violent rise and fall of her chest betrayed her emotions.The evidence was irrefutable, and every participant was sentenced to death.Trenton was intercepted by police cars on his way to the airport. The moment he heard the car door open, he let out a terrified shriek. He tried to jump out and run, but Edith yanked him right back."I was wrong! I truly know I was wrong now!" he cried out hoarsely and crawled to Edith, desperate to wrap his arms around her leg.But she evaded him.He collapsed to the ground in a heap. After a long moment, he came back to his senses and turned to Lucille."Lucille, save me," he begged with tears and snot streaming down his face. "I love you so much. We almost got married! Plea