The world after death is white, like a vast expanse of snow.
Nothing, nothing to think about, just silence, only silence, only nothingness.
Death... if it's just like this, it's okay.
He felt, immersed, and kept sinking...
However, just when he thought he would fall into the eternal white like this, he heard a voice.
"Light… "
"Kotaro...it's you..."
"Wake up...you can..."
The name called by the voice felt strange and familiar to him, as if in a long dream, that was how people called him.
I'm... Kotaro
yes, i am...
Who is calling me
"It's me... Yuanye..."
Wilderness... Hearing this name, he thought of some things. The messy pictures, sounds, and feelings were scattered like falling snowflakes, making him feel cold and warm at the same time.
I'm alive
Kotaro slowly opened his eyes.
Seeing a handsome face in front of him, looking down at him.
"Welcome back." Seiji smiled gently.
"Yurano..." Kotaro blinked, "I... haven't already..."
"You did disappear at that time, and I thought you were dead, but..." Qingshi paused, "Anyway, you should get up first... Can you get up?"
The charcoal seller took the other's outstretched hand, stood up, and then noticed the scene around him.
"Here... what is it?"
The impenetrable dense fog and colorful floating light clusters made him stunned.
"This is the soul room, a special space that can preserve spirit bodies. Those light clusters you see are remnants of souls, fragments of human souls." Seiji explained, "You were like that before I woke you up just now."
"Remnant souls... soul fragments..." Kotaro showed a confused look, "I don't understand..."
"Actually, I don't know exactly what's going on, but judging from your situation... there may be people you know, or even your relatives among those remnant souls." Seiji said cautiously.
"Dear..." Kotaro murmured, and then remembered more things, "Sister... Mom... Brother... is there!?"
"It's just possible, and I'm not sure." Seiji reiterated, "You can try to contact and call them, but be careful, remnant souls are very fragile."
Kotaro nodded, then approached a ball of light, and cautiously reached out to touch it.
"Fuyumi... Mom... Jiro..." I tried to call, but there was no response.
So he withdrew his hand in disappointment, and continued to touch the next light ball.
Seeing him try again and again, Seiji felt emotional in his heart.
"Is this okay?" A voice sounded from the side.
It's summer night.
Seiji knew what she was asking.
Is it really appropriate to wake up a dead person, a "person" who is not human
"I don't know." Seiji said frankly, "I can't judge whether this is good or not. When I found out that he might wake up, I couldn't help but do it."
If Kotaro was a real human, it would be a good thing to bring him back to life, but he is not.
The town where he used to live has disappeared, and this is the only place he can stay. Even if there is a way to take him out of the world in the future, it will be difficult for him to live like an ordinary person.
He thought he was a human being, but he was not a human being. This kind of "resurrection from the dead" was better than letting him die as a human being... Seiji couldn't decide.
It's just that the previous ending was too sad, as long as this kind charcoal seller can be saved, he will do so!
Let's think about the next thing.
Kotaro tried for a while, but failed to find his relatives. Instead, he started to have a headache, feeling a little messy in his head, and occasionally messy images and sounds flashed.
Immediately afterwards, there was a sudden sharp pain, and a clearer scene appeared in his mind, which made him scream!
"What's wrong!?" Seeing this, Seiji immediately rushed to his side.
"Ah, it hurts... Help..." Kotaro fell to the ground, writhing in pain, and red mist came out of his body!
"I'm here, I'll help you!" Although he didn't know if it would be effective, Seiji tentatively cast a healing spell on him.
After a while, the charcoal seller calmed down, covered his head, panted, the mist from his body faded, and then stopped.
"What's wrong with you, Kotaro?"
"I... saw a very scary ghost..."
"What kind of ghost?"
"White... very huge... long... head... weird..." Kotaro frowned, as if he didn't know how to describe what he saw.
"Is it a white dragon?" Seiji asked.
"Dragon... I seem to have heard someone call it that..." Kotaro murmured, "What the hell is that?"
Seiji was silent for a moment.
"That could be what really kills you."
"Well?"
"Listen to me, Kotaro..." Seiji looked at him.
"Maybe it's hard for you to accept, but what I'm going to say next is the truth."
"Actually, you are already dead..."
…
After hearing Harano's explanation, Kotaro was completely stunned.
It was difficult for him to accept what the other party said, and he resisted in his heart to understand, but the other party's sincere attitude and gentle words made him feel that everything the other party said was true.
The two conflicted in their hearts, and couldn't help falling into a long silence.
Suddenly my head hurts again.
Kotaro yelled, rolled on the ground again, saw more mess... and then he suddenly understood.
These are memories.
Memories of my real life!
What Yuan Ye said... is indeed true! !
"Wuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
Who am I... exactly
Who the hell am I!
Sister... Mom... Brother... Are they all fake!
Relatives are fake! The town is fake! ! Is everything fake! ! ?
"No... don't ah ah—"
Kotaro yelled frantically, red mist came out of his body again, and then it turned into crimson, and then into black red, wrapping around him... No! It was his whole body that began to melt into black mist! !
"Calm down! Kotarou!!" Seiji yelled.
He felt the danger, and had to prepare for battle, as did Xia Ye, who had been watching silently.
Just when the collapsed charcoal seller seemed to be turning into some kind of monster, the thick fog around him suddenly surged up, turning into a gray streamer that covered the black fog if there was any substance, enveloping it heavily!
At the same time, a system prompt popped up in front of Seiji: "There is a spirit body rampaging inside the Soul Room, the suppression function is activated, and the inner crystals in the warehouse will be consumed first."
Having an auto suppress function... nice, but not so good to consume crystals.
Seiji and Xia Ye saw the gray streamer completely envelop the black mist, and then compressed it, gradually turning into a ball.
During the period, the shape of the streamer kept changing, as if the black mist was struggling violently inside, trying to break free from the confinement, but in the end it was no match for the system's suppression.
When the streamer completely turned into a big ball, the system indicated that the suppression was complete, and displayed the number of consumed crystals.
Seiji felt a little heartbroken about this unexpected consumption.
"Brother System, let me do it myself next time."
(end of this chapter)