Miss Witch, Please Return My Body to Me!

Steam gears chew through the dusk, and the stench of alchemical potions fills the air. In this world cursed by the "law of decay", the souls of the poor are imprisoned in carrion after death, and become fuel and bricks controlled by the church. When embalming apprentice Roy discovered a shocking secret and was stabbed in the back by his mentor, he woke up in a coffin. The chest was hollowed out and Alchemy's heart was missing! The ear-piercing countdown to corruption roared in his mind. When corruption spikes, whispers corrode sanity. ———— On the night of his escape, he bumped into the witch who pried open the coffin. The opponent's gun barrel was engraved with the Book of Atonement, and the gold teeth that had just been harvested from the noble's corpse were still stuck to the gun's muzzle: "Cooperation?" The witch raised her red lips and pointed the barrel of her gun at his empty chest, "I'll help you find your 'heart', and you can help me overturn the church's crematorium." ……… Embalming reveals the weaknesses of corpses. The alchemical carving knife strangles the living corpse. When the desperado encounters the crazy witch, the living dead whose heart has been ripped out collects the body crystal with his left hand and grabs the church's alchemy pump with his right hand, vowing to take back his body from the hands of the superior church and nobles! "Before the soul completely rots..." Roy looked at the 18% alienation value on the panel, blood dripping from his throat, "At least take back my body!"