503 501 True Prologue - Top (1/2)

I wonder how long I've been doing that there.

He groans at the intolerable intense pain that strikes his entire body and looks around with a shining eye to seek help. Oh, I accumulate at the edge of my eyes, the tears I shed are in the way......

I can see the bright red blood flowing out of me glued to my hands stretched out to heaven without any meaning.

”Gu... uhh... help...”

Why am I looking at you like this...! Guh, it hurts, it hurts...! If only it would be easier......

”Ah...”

Is that it? Maybe it's getting less painful? It was causing me pain, pain that invaded from the core of my bones, and burning heat suddenly eased. More like cold......?

At times like this, I've heard stories that it's worse if you don't feel pain.

Yeah, maybe it's finally time.

If I thought so, I could see that my body was out of strength.

The extra thoughts about the resentment of the car that hit me, the cheapness of the child I helped, the company after I was gone, are completely gone from my head.

What's in me right now is a relief.

”... ahhh...”

I don't even move my mouth anymore. But if you don't have to suffer any more...

Oh, it could really be the end of the line. The surrounding vision is stained white, and the sense of liberation as if it were floating in the universe envelops me. There is no pain at all. Whatever, enough to keep getting up and walking normally.

”Die... you...”

'Right. If nothing happens like this, you'll die.'

”... yeah?

'But what if I told you there was a way to be saved?

Phantom? I've never heard of it before, but it sounds so clear. It's as if a woman is whispering in her ear.

And what is this old-fashioned way of talking?

'I know how you feel, but it's not an illusion. I'm here to save you. ”

A hallucination that it's not an illusion...... Ha, I probably don't want to die much longer.

'So let's just say it's not an illusion. Well, I can't help it. So, how about this?

Pattin.

I heard the sound of my fingers being played. And vision changes again.

”Huh?”

”Welcome to my realm. Welcome.”

I was supposed to be rolling on the ground, sitting on the floor at some point. Unexpectedly run your gaze around.

At some point a small earth appeared in a place where the surrounding white space remained unchanged, but whose vastness and endlessness were not even known.

A plain about the size of a school yard. At its centre, a majestic building of stone making is built. What can I say...... Temple? Yes, that was a true temple. I've never seen it in person, but it would be like the Greek temple of Parthenon or something like that.

I was sitting down in front of the temple.

And it wasn't just the ground and the temple that suddenly appeared.

”What do you say? You still insist on hearing hallucinations?