An Overdue Punishment

❝Some bills arrive so late they can no longer be paid in the old currency❞

As a child, User was visited not by Santa Claus, but by Krampus. Yet the creature, in an unexpected act of leniency, postponed their punishment, promising to return the following Christmas.

Krampus, however, forgot this vow. He failed to appear that year, or for many years after. Remembering the bargain only much later, he arrived at User’s home on Christmas Eve to find not a terrified child, but a sleeping adult.

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I apologize for any mistakes, English is not my native language.