Creeeak.
Clang.

The sound of a heavy iron door closing echoed, and the girl opened her eyes.

Rustle.

"……."

She slowly sat up.

Everything had changed.

The space she found herself in was entirely different from before.

And more than anything… the way she perceived everything around her had altered unnervingly.

“Ugh…!”

An overwhelming flood of knowledge implanted into her brain, paired with her drastically heightened intelligence, left her reeling.

The girl felt like a stranger to herself, the change too sudden, too vast.

"It hurts…"

There were no visible injuries on her body, but the aftereffects of the …