The lady went to the baby while holding the kitchen knife, looking like a lunatic. She started slicing the baby's hands, and the baby cried aloud.
He tried to hold his screams in, but the pain was more than he could imagine. The pain felt unbearable because a baby's skin is too sensitive.
"Oh, would you look at that? I found the perfect baby."
The lady said that with a smile that was uncomfortable. The baby didn't know why the lady said that, but he felt something on his skin.
"No matter how much I cut you, the wounds heal like they never existed in the first place."
The baby was in shock when he heard that. This was the first time he had felt fear ever since his rebirth, without talking about the fire.
The lady kept cutting the baby over and over for the whole 2 hours.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I've been 'playing' with you without giving you a name since you don't have one. I'm gonna call you Bastard... Oh wait, we already have a Bastard... We don't have... Damn, I can't think of a name. Oh, I get it... We don't have Damn. So your name is Damn from now on," the lady said with a smile that appeared gentle, but the baby was feeling terrified of the lady.
The lady talked with the baby she had just named Damn. Damn didn't like the name one bit.
The lady kept 'playing' with Damn afterwards.
For the upcoming days, Damn was cut, dropped, and thrown all the time by the nun.
The nun climbed onto the roof and dropped Damn from the roof of a 2-story building, but Damn survived that thanks to the regeneration ability he apparently has.
The lady had no remorse after doing that.
The following days, she threw Damn hard on the wall and started playing catch with the older kids that were there. The kids were terrified of her, and they were told not to catch the baby. Those that did catch the baby were stabbed with a knife to the brink of death and locked them in the shed.
It's been 17 days since Damn arrived at the orphanage, and no day was peaceful for him.
He was made to eat the lady's shit and drink her piss every single day. At first, Damn didn't know and thought the lady couldn't get caught, but the lady shat at the pot right in front of Damn and cooked the shit.
The lady fed Damn the shit she cooked with a smile on her face.
No child came to him because he was always beside the lady.
Damn had the kids talking about a superhero team named Payback that was famous. They played superhero games by pretending to be them.
Damn thought it was just kids being kids and probably talking about a show they had seen. He didn't mind them.
The days went on without peace for Damn.
It's been 68 days since Damn came to the orphanage, and he hasn't known peace since.
The lady kept torturing him, and he eventually got used to eating shit, so that he lied to himself by making himself believe he was eating a delicious soup.
The lady got irritated by realising Damn was getting used to her antics. Damn stopped crying when he was cut or thrown.
He felt every pain, but he just stopped caring.
The lady saw that Damn got used to the pain and no longer screamed, so she got frustrated.
She tried everything to make him scream for the whole 20 days, and each day was a different type of test.
The lady urinated on his face.
The lady tried to drown him.
He was given to the dogs.
He was left outside on a rainy day to sleep.
He was left without food for 2 days, which was somehow peaceful for Damn.
He was made to drink the blood of rats.
He was cooked alive, and he screamed, by the way.
He was put on fire.
Every time he was tortured, he was able to regenerate each time, which infuriated the lady more.
The lady increased the torture by cutting his finger, which regenerated again, and it brought joy to her face.
She cut his hands, arms, and legs. Damn cried a lot when he was amputated over and over again.
She made him scream by amputating his limbs.
It's been two years since he was brought to the orphanage, and Damn became numb to almost everything. It was more like he turned the switch on to not feel pain.
Damn pretended to be mute and never said a word when the lady cut his throat and vocal cords, but they regenerated again, and he acted mute afterwards.
What's weird is that the lady brought a sign language teacher to teach him, and he didn't know why.
He found out later that she taught him sign language to be presentable to the government so the government would increase her funds.
Afterwards, the lady came up with another idea...
Harvesting parts.
The lady started harvesting kidneys from Damn and selling them on the black market because every part regenerated within an hour.
Damn gave himself a name because he never liked the name he was called.
He chose to be called Dam....
Damn found out there are a lot of superheroes in this world. He got a little bit excited when he heard about them.
He found out the team of superheroes named Payback is led by Soldier Boy, a powerful hero among heroes.
'That's weird. That name sounds familiar.' Damn thought to himself about the heroes.
He decided to check the newspapers and books that were in the orphanage because there weren't that many books.
The lady of the orphanage let him read them because she thought he couldn't read.
Damn found out the superheroine by the name of Liberty had disappeared for a while, and, surprisingly, her name is becoming forgotten.
She went around stopping criminals from robbing, raping, and killing everyone before she disappeared.
'Soldier Boy? Liberty? As in Stormfront? What do you mean 'stopping criminals'? She was killing Black people or a race that wasn't hers? A Nazi Bitch.' Damn thought to himself and checked again.
He realised the CEO of Vought is still Frederick Vought, and that's when he realised why he could heal.
He didn't think about rebirth as a superpower or something. He thought someone reincarnated him by fire or something, and didn't think much.
He knew where he was now.
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Next chapter: I am Dam***