Chapter 1 - PROLOGUE 1: DEATH (1/2)
What comes after death? Is it the judgment or just nothingness?
I always asked myself this. This question seems so distant in a normal case, but when death came knocking it can take your entire thoughts from day tonight.
I was never a healthy man. When children were wrestling or riding their bicycles, I had to go to the hospital to do my regular check-up. This situation of mine becomes bleaker as time passed.
Now, I am only 18 years old but I must stay in my personal wards because going out would kill me. It's the fault of a congenital disease of unknown origin that made my body become weaker as time passed. My parents cared for me at first, but as time passed and my situation worsened, they came less and less. They even had a new child eight years ago, so I can say that they basically gave up on me.
I take a look at my scrawny body. There's really nothing to look at. My skin and bone are practically fused together. Taking two steps would make me breathe so hard my heart might stop, I couldn't even see more than a few meters ahead of me without glasses. In short, my body sucked and my life sucked. No wonder they gave up on me. I didn't even dare to look at myself in a mirror. My gaunt face could be used to scare children. I sighed as I looked at the smartphone in my hand.
In this boring life of mine, I have only two hobbies. The first one being trading. I am very talented at it. I can easily understand the situation of the market just by seeing the candle on my screen. The feeling of making money is so good that it the only thing that allows me to support the pain of all my operations. I even used my own money to pay for my stay and the VIP ward where I live.
But this isn't enough. In this world there many people who are suffering more than me. So generally apart from the money I'm saving for my little brother study's and the one I use for myself, I always donate all the rest to diverse medical organizations.
My second hobby is watching anime and reading manga, more particularly Shonen like Boku no Hero Academia, Black Clover, Kimetsu No Yaiba, Hachimaruden, and Enen No Shouboutai . I also like seinen like Tokyo ghoul and Shingeki no Kyojin. I never missed a chapter of those seven. What is the common ground between all those Manga?
Each main character of those mangas try to become a hero in his own way and for his own goal. Watching them fight and struggle for their ideal always make my heart beat so fast that I have to call the nurses and do a check-up. I love their fighting spirit that never crumbles. I love their beautiful hearts ready to give their life away to protect those close to them or the world. They are everything I dream to be but will never be able to.
The only thing I can do is give money. Many would think that it's enough, but it's not. Even when I give billions, I can never be sure if millions would be used for the goal they preach. That made me create diverse charity organizations, but even then I can never be sure at 100% that all the money I give is used for the right thing.
Oh well, it doesn't matter anymore, does it? The doctor clearly said that after today, each day I survive will be basically a miracle. My time is already up. So why care?
At least the money I gave should have helped some people, even if all of it wasn't used the way I would have hoped. What more, I gave permission to use my body for training purposes. If those interns can become better doctors by studying my body, I will die happy.
Ah... I have difficulty breathing, my vision is swaying. Seem like my time is up. Weirdly I am not sad. I have no one to care and no one care for me. I gave my last bit of money some minutes ago and I already my will and gave it to my lawyer. I can say without doubts that few people of my age would as prepared fro death like me.
Ah... My vision becomes dark. My senses are dulling, I feel like I'm falling. So that's death. I must say, it's pretty warm. I wonder, does an afterlife exist?
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”18h00, patient 85 Death is confirmed, let give a smile prayer to a kind soul”
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I am lying on something hard. I feel like everything around me is warm and calm. The smell of flowers enters my nose and the wind blow on my face.
Wait a minute, how is it possible? I'm supposed to be dead.
I open my eyes and what I saw made me take a sharp breath. I was in a flower field with a large tree in it. I tried to stand up as I look around me astounded.
”Is this heaven?”
”Not exactly, it's my personal domain.” A voice answered me from behind.
I did a complete turn in surprise and was face to face with something that my mind stops. In front of me was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. It wasn't her face. I couldn't explain her features, she sometimes looked young, sometimes old, sometimes slim, sometimes plump. She was ever-changing, but in my heart, I could still feel that her beauty was outside of this world. A smile formed on her face as she said
”Thanks for the compliments”