Illustration for The Relapse, from the adult visual novel The Cure

It comes back on the twenty-second night, faster than it has ever come back, and this time it starts at the throat.

CorvinaIt was waiting for something. The two of you being happy was not what it wanted.

MioneThen it is not a taint. A taint does not want things.

Corvina looks at eleven books and then at the window and then says the word out loud for the first time.

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