Winter Rabbit in Wonderland

There was a story she knew about the elephant and the stump. Circuses would raise baby elephants tied to a stump with a rope. The baby elephant would try to attempt to escape, but not yet being strong enough, it would continuously fail. And when this baby elephant grew and became stronger, it would automatically think that there was no hope of escaping and so it would not even attempt to try to escape the confines of the rope. When she heard this story during her lecture, SoYoon had only felt sympathy for the poor elephant.

But, what if…

SoYoon clenched her teeth. If, by some chance, the elephant could escape its entrapment, then what would happen? It didn’t matter what that situation was. The stake could have been pulled out by accident, or maybe that day, the stump had looked smaller than normal, or some passerby had kicked it to knock it loose.

If the elephant could look out to the world beyond that stump even once, there was no way that stump could hold it back any longer.

SoYoon’s brown eyes flashed menacingly. She was glaring at the second surveillance camera when she threw out her fist.

It was easy enough to destroy any of the surveillance cameras that came into view. If the wall blocked her, she could break it apart, and if a person was blocked her, she could kill him. If they attacked using magic… After thinking this far, SoYoon snorted. “I’ll figure it out then.” When had she ever been so cautious that she needed to worry about a potential magical attack?

In reality, these things that were complicated and detailed were weak against brute strength. SoYoon thought this to herself as she smashed the third surveillance camera.

After walking for some time, she reached the end of the hallway. As she was turning the corner, the magic trap that was hung between the ceiling and the pillars in a triangle activated.

All the water in the air condensed to form a small tornado. When SoYoon realized what had happened, it was already forming into a deadly sharp blade. She hurriedly hid her body behind a pillar.

Clang! The water and metal hit and the sound reverberated through the surroundings. The force shook the pillar but she didn’t pay much attention to it, instead sharpening her focus on her hearing. She could sense four tornadoes. And now, all four were charging towards the pillar. Water droplets trailed behind them, causing the surroundings to get wet. Then, SoYoon heard a tiny sound she was barely able to pick up on. It was like the sound that an electronic device makes right before it breaks down…The moment she thought this, she moved away from her position, but it was already too late. Another magic trap shot out like a wildcat and attacked her. She clenched her teeth hard.

“We got her!”

Someone was watching her. The researchers were observing the situation through the surveillance cameras and when they saw the electric magic trap shoot out towards her, they cheered.

Even if she was considered a successfully reengineered experiment, she was nothing but skin and bones. Soon, she would be nothing but a corpse. The thought that they had to capture her alive had long left their minds as they had witnessed SoYoon’s violent streak through their screens.

The bluish-white electricity filled the screen with light. The researchers who were watching the screen in interest closed their eyes for an instant.

When they opened their eyes again, there was nothing there but white smoke floating before them. They waited expectantly for the smoke to disappear.

One of the researchers pointed to something. “Huh? Over there, there’s something..!”

When the smoke cleared, another white something was standing there. Unlike the smoke, this had a solid form. More importantly, it was the experiment that should have died. Their eyes all grew wide as they watched the smoke move strangely in front of SoYoon. Only after the smoke completely cleared did they realize what had happened.

“A barrier spell?”

An almost colorless translucent barrier was protecting SoYoon.

“It can’t be..!”

The researchers were not the only ones who were surprised. SoYoon looked with wide eyes at the scene laid out in front of her.

When the electricity had charged toward her, she’d predicted how large and powerful the effect would be. She had undergone tests to see how much electric shock could take and she knew that this would, at the very least, cause 2nd-degree burns. She had been predicting what would happen to her if she got hit full-on with it.

However, the thing she had been anticipating had not happened. The magic spell swept past her and filtered out and away from her. That was when she’d found the barrier set up in front of her. There was only one person that could do this for her. 𝘧r𝘦𝗲w𝘦𝚋𝐧o𝘷𝘦𝙡.co𝑚

“…Mad Hatter?”

There was nobody there. Then maybe… She used her tongue to sweep across the magic insignia inside her mouth. She remembered the extremely tired face of Mad Hatter after he had placed his insignia onto her.

“Ah…”

A smile unfitting for her current situation flashed across her face for a moment. At the same time, she unknowingly realized that she had regained the confidence she had once lost. She no longer saw the research facility as a hellhole prison with no exit.

All it was now was a grey wall. It was a surprising revelation.

Finally, when the thick smoke subsided, SoYoon destroyed the surveillance camera that had been watching her and left the spot.

Not long afterward, she was attacked again. This time, they were the same type of experiments as her. Realizing magic wouldn’t work, they had decided to attack by sheer physical force. Maneuvering around a sword that was swung at her with enough force that it could have cut her in half, she kicked hard at her opponent’s stomach.

Immediately afterward, a second enemy attacked. She jumped up lightly and wrapped her legs around his head, squeezing with all her might. His skull collapsed and he dropped with the smell of blood rising in the air.

The moment SoYoon landed, she charged at her enemies. She may have been randomly numbered as 137, but she was a dimension jumper, and thus a rarity. Due to this trait, the researchers had spent a lot of time on her body. There was no way the regular experiments would be a match for her.

With the continuous onslaught of experiments as her enemy, SoYoon’s body was soon covered in injuries and blood. In the short moment she took to wipe away the line of blood that was hindering her view, they started to attack again. A large, muscular man trapped SoYoon in a bear hug and squeezed. The immense pressure was crushing her body. On top of that, another man was coming toward her with a knife in his hand.

SoYoon moved her arm, grabbed the man’s wrist, and put strength into her fingers. As she did, his skin was pulled off by the tips of her fingers. The man screamed and released her. She grabbed his arm and twisted her body. Crack. With a spine-tingling sound, the man’s arm separated from his body.

The white body of a girl covered with blood, holding an arm that she had physically ripped off. Even though a lot of time had passed, there was not much change in her demeanor, and the man who had been charging at her started to hesitate. He could still see the ruthless way SoYoon murdered any man or child at the drop of a command.

He looked back as he trembled in fear. The hallway behind her was filled with several splayed out corpses. Most were almost unrecognizable as humans.

“Monster…” the man muttered in absolute fear. The current state in the research facility was one of a fleshy massacre. 𝐟𝐫𝗲𝙚ｗ𝚎𝐛𝙣𝐨𝙫𝘦𝗹.c૦m

She tossed away the arm that she had been holding and turned her attention to the man. The next moment, she was standing right in front of the man’s nose. She hooked her fingers into his eye sockets and broke through his skull, squashing his brain. The man fell like a rag doll.

If the experiments had been more efficient with their attacking strategy, there would have been fewer victims and they may have been able to stop SoYoon. However, they were in a narrow hallway, and her strength was so much greater than theirs that there wasn’t much they could do to stop her.

And so, the bloody massacre ensued.

The last one standing, SoYoon, gathered the many weapons and stomped forward.

She walked for a long time, then found the person she was looking for and stopped. That room was also locked by magic. She chose the ax that she brought with her and started hacking at the wall.

Thud! Thud! Thud! The rhythmic sound continued. She soon created a hole in the wall and was able to go inside.

That place was also an experimentation room. SoYoon walked over to the experimentation table.

On top of the table, a naked Alice was lying there. Already subjected to experimentation, her arm was strangely swollen and her leg had a growth on it. SoYoon looked at Alice’s pretty face, swollen with tears, and smiled.

SoYoon broke apart the chains around Alice’s wrists and dragged her off the experimentation table. Not really caring about Alice’s well being, Alice fell to the floor.

Not even a minute had passed before the fainting and sedative spell was lifted and Alice opened her eyes. She blinked several times until she realized that SoYoon was staring at her, inches away from her nose, and she jumped up in surprise.

“You…!”

“Come out.”

SoYoon ignored whatever Alice was about to say to her with those vicious eyes and exited the room. Alice yelled at her, fuming.

“Why do I have to listen to you?”

“Then just live there.”