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REQUIEM SYSTEM: Death Is My Guide

Prologue - The Question in the Glass

Prologue - The Question in the Glass

Jul 26, 2025


Witness Foundation Scientist Report – Log Entry (Confidential)

File No: ARG-004-2113
Date: [Redacted]
Subject: Anomaly Containment and Analysis
Location: Site-17, Argus Foundation Research Facility
Lead Scientist: [Redacted]
Classification: Top Secret – Level 5 Clearance Required




Begin doctor's log...

What was housed a boy was now a girl in his place.

We don't know when the change happened.
Maybe it never did.
Maybe we were wrong from the start, about the shape of the threat.
About who—or what—we had buried.

All I know is this:

I was there when the chamber broke.

They told us it was dormant. That whatever was sealed inside had gone too deep to move.
That it wasn't conscious. That it wasn't dreaming.

They lied.
Or maybe they just didn't understand what they'd buried.

The first sign wasn't an alarm. It was silence, a drop in pressure so sudden it felt like the building itself forgot how to breathe.
The lights didn't flicker. They dimmed, like they were bracing for something they could not stop.

I reached the viewing hall alone. The others turned back.
I didn't.

Maybe I should've—
I should've waited for recontainment. I should've trusted their fears instead of doubting it. I should've turned around when the hallway went cold.

But I had to see.

The glass was glowing, veined with threads of darkness that pulsed like arteries.
The containment gel inside had started to ripple.

And then it happened. . .



Not an explosion. A surrender.
The chamber didn't break. It... yielded.
Unfolding like it had lost the will to contain her.

The glass bowed, almost gently.

And she stepped out.

The subject—

The Girl.



Dripping. Pale. The hairs on her head hanging in strands like shadows.
Her eyes were open and impossibly odd. Not blinking. Not... afraid.

She looked small. Fragile, even.
But there was nothing soft about the way she moved.
There was no confusion. No pain.
Only the terrible calm of someone who remembered the end.

She didn't stumble.
Didn't hesitate.
She walked forward like gravity had given her permission.

I didn't have a sword with me.
I was trained with a scalpel.

We weren't warriors. We were precision.
Where they cut wide, the warriors, we made incisions that were quick and clean. We didn't just study anomalies. We dissected them.

My hand reached for the hilt on instinct.
But something deep in me… froze.
Not from fear. From reverence.

Whatever force lived in me...

It knelt.



She didn't look at me.
Didn't acknowledge the alarms, the chaos, the bodies hiding behind locked doors.
She didn't need to.
She walked past as if the world was nothing more than a curtain being drawn aside.

She wasn't a monster.

Not a god.

Monsters can be fought.
Gods can be worshipped.

No.
She was the threshold.



She was a decision.



A question.

And all of us—the world itself—were the answer she had come to measure. 💀

 End doctor's log.



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Kingsley Ezeh

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Hey there, fellow reader!

Welcome to Requiem System: Death Is My Guide — a story about second chances, deadly choices, and a world where death isn’t the end, but the beginning of something much bigger.

This is a journey filled with danger, power, mystery, and survival. If you like stories with action, emotion, and a touch of darkness, then you’re in for a ride.

I truly hope you enjoy what’s ahead. If you do, please support the story or by adding it to your library. It really helps and keeps me motivated to keep writing more!

Thanks for giving this story a shot. Let’s dive in together.

With gratitude,
— Kingsley.

#thriller #horror #Fantasy #supernatural #Action #mystery #adventure #system #Reincarnation #anime

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Justin Carbunkle
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I like the description of the glass "yielding". Slightly intrigued where this is going.

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