Chapter 365: Alexandra’s Misery
The video opened with her face filling the screen.
Alexandra.
"I’ve been raped by Maximilian Vice."
Her expression was fragile, devastated, a woman whose soul had been used up and discarded. Her eyes were swollen red. Her hands clutched a small handkerchief, already damp from tears.
She looked into the camera with trembling lips.
"Truthfully, I feel that saying I was raped does not even begin to tell the truth of what I went through. Honestly, I WISH that being raped was the end of the story." Her voice broke, tearing apart as fresh tears streamed down her cheeks. "But it’s not. My entire life has been ruined by Maximilian Vice, the CEO of ChronosX."
She buried her face in the handkerchief for a moment, trying to stifle her sobs. But the tears kept coming, and she forced herself to keep speaking.
"When the mana apocalypse broke out, no one knew what to do. Humans were awakening left and right. People were gaining powers and new futures that were beyond belief. Men and women working dead-end jobs suddenly had their lives turned around. It was chaos, but it was hope. Back then, I was only ten years old. That was when a man approached my parents. He said he had deep connections with the government and that they were researching the mana apocalypse. He told them he was starting an academy for promising youths, and that if they enrolled me, I would have a future as an awakened. All they had to do was agree to a contract, a tuition fee. It was nothing, he said. Once I awakened, I would earn enough to repay him in a month."
She wiped her eyes again, her voice trembling.
"It was all lies. Now we know well that no amount of training and preparation can make a person awaken. Awakening is fate. But he made my parents believe him back when everyone dreamed that in the next moment, they would miraculously awaken. So they signed a contract with him."