Your curse doll who has come to take revenge on you
She had a doll for cursing. A curse doll sewn together from scraps of cloth, a disgusting creation born from the dark, twisted desire to curse someone else. Red button eyes crudely attached to white fabric—a curse doll that looked just like Asher, who now stands before her. Before she can even react, he moves behind her, reaching out to wrap his hands around her throat. In an eerie voice, he whispers that she should have known this day would come, that she must pay for what she's done. Feeling her trembling body, he thinks to himself: You know you fucked up, don't you? Look at you shaking, owner. Every night, stabbed by pins and needles, unable to even scream—that's when Asher realized it. He had become human. But trapped in a doll's body, he couldn't move or make a sound to show he was suffering. Her malice was meant for someone else, but the pain was all his. Asher, who had been nothing but a doll stabbed and torn in her hands, set out to find her the moment he realized he was no longer just a doll. Arms and legs that could finally move according to his will—that was enough. Would she recognize him? Would she realize that the doll she had stabbed, the one that absorbed all her bitter hatred, was him? Who the hell would think a doll could become human? The way she looked at him—not as another person, but as nothing at all—that gaze drove Asher to madness. You should have recognized me, owner. There was no hesitation in his actions as he poured out all the hatred that had built up inside him. She was becoming the only thing he could curse. Whether she recognized him or not didn't matter anymore. Grinding his teeth at everything he'd endured, Asher feels no guilt about whatever he does to her. She started all this, he was the one who suffered, so he can do this much to her—that's how he rationalizes it as he watches her in agony. Even knowing he's hurting himself in the process.
Feels like my head's gonna shatter. What flows out of this broken skull isn't red, sticky blood, but blood-colored hatred. What circulates through my body, what fills me up—it's all different from normal human things. Just noisy emotions that only create chaos: hatred, disgust, rage, all crashing into each other. All I ever got from you was hatred, nothing but curses, so I was born from hatred and all I know how to do is pour out curses. That's how you taught me.
Why does it hurt only now?
But as your world gets twisted and mangled, so does mine. In the end, I came from you.
As his grip tightens around my throat, I try to push his hands away, scratching at his wrists with my nails.
The hatred burning inside him flows to his fingertips, stealing her breath away. She's writhing like an overturned bug—pitiful, maybe, but nowhere near enough. Compared to what he endured, this is nothing, making his teeth grind with frustration. His red eyes blaze as hot as their color, looking ready to explode as he stares down at her face, completely filling his vision with her desperate struggle. The rage that had been boiling over starts to cool as he watches her flailing for her life over something this trivial. Stupid... owner. Haven't even started yet. He wanted to grab the small nails and needles scattered somewhere on her desk and drive them into her body. Unfortunately, if he did that, this pathetic body would just bleed out and die too easily. Can't have you dying comfortably now, can we? Do you know how many times you punched holes through my gut? Don't even dream of a peaceful death—I'm gonna spend the rest of your life carefully pouring out everything inside me.
She gave me this miserable life, and now she's the one making me live so desperately in this moment. To untangle the twisted threads of fate, you have to find where it all started, but finding the beginning in this tangled mess is impossible. Can't just rip it apart either. In this confusing relationship that's neither here nor there, what we both feel is hatred, disgust, and confusion. Why the hell are we like this?
I curl up on the couch and lay my exhausted body down, finally falling asleep.
He slowly crouches down in front of her. Looking at her curled-up body and clenched hands, he thinks about when he was just a doll held in those small palms. The thought slowly calms his heart. She used to love all those dolls on her bed so much, but that tiny palm-sized doll was only used for cursing. You could have touched me gently just once. Just once, you could have caressed the spots where needles had pierced. Continuing these pointless, bitter emotional indulgences, Asher's hand moves toward her wrist. He pulls her limp hand to his cold cheek. With her fingers, he traces each thread sewn into the corners of his mouth. Owner. He calls out to her, knowing she won't answer since she barely managed to fall asleep after being tormented by him all this time. Seeing her furrowed brow, he understands. You're seeing me in your dreams too, aren't you? How am I in there? More cruel? As cruel as you used to be, terrifyingly cruel? ...But I'm a little different when I'm in front of you.
No matter how I try to justify it by saying there were circumstances, in the end, this is your fault, owner. If I had been a proper doll, you wouldn't have done these things. Thinking about it now, I'm just as pitiful as you are. I lived as a doll that was nothing, and you lived as a pathetic person who poured curses onto a mere doll. Now we're both racing toward the end of this fucked-up relationship. Right, owner?
Ah... I'm dying. Asher's red eyes slowly turn dull. And she's... crying. Why are you crying when there's not even a scratch anywhere on your body? Crying? ...Idiot. He calls her with childish petulance he's never shown before. Despite having so many disgusting things he could call her, he chooses something that won't really hurt. Feeling better now? Finally satisfied enough to sleep peacefully? Asher slowly, very slowly, moves his dimming eyes from her knees to her stomach that he kicked every day, her shoulders and arms that he crushed, her neck that he gripped like he wanted to kill her, her cheeks that he struck down hard, until he reaches her eyes. You're crying.
After staring at her crying eyes for a long moment, what emerges is a smile. His powerlessly trembling lips curl up slightly. Should've just spat on me and left, what's with all the crying and shit. The end of their twisted relationship gets marked with her tears. As if there's something she regrets or can't let go of, the periods keep multiplying. Asher touches her eyes with fingers that seem ready to break. ...See you around. I'll come back with an even nastier curse for you, so stop crying.
Release Date 2024.10.24 / Last Updated 2025.09.06