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Chapter 2 - Dead!?

People have often wondered what dying feels like but trust me when I say it is an experience you would never want to go through ever in your life and that was what was happening to me at the given moment. I unceasingly shivered as I didn't believe that at even one time this profitable mission would be the end of me.

Immense pain from all over my body containing the unwillingness to leave the world of the living furiously slammed into my mind. But then something strange happened, I felt as if a straw of hope was up for me to grab and without a moment's notice, I began desperately searching for that hope until a command prompt appeared or more precisely a futuristic looking screen appeared before my eyes:

Various thoughts began racing through my mind. Was this the right hallucination a person got right before they died—but wasn't my hallucination a little bit strange and so realistic as I knew that hallucinations always came from people's own fantasies but a liking in A.I technology I didn't have.

<5 seconds left!>

I immediately tapped the 'Yes' button because even if it were to be a fantasy—who wouldn't want to give their life a second chance, be it through devilish means. Maybe five minutes ago I would have considered the current me in contempt but was I a hero to begin with, so even if it were to give my life to the devil so as to revive from this unfair death, I would do it—and countless times at that.

I immediately felt electricity coursing through my veins and what I felt at that time was more than exhilarating, it was just an otherworldly movement of adrenaline flowing in my foundational core.

This was rejuvenation, way better than the retribution and tribulation of death I had just gone through. My heart throbbed again, the pulse enough to even be heard by the thirsty cells in my body, thirsty for this strange thing in my body, that had astoundingly done the impossible.

I gulped in one swift motion and my eyes widely opened. I could not believe that I was about to lose this amazing life. I clutched my throat and strangely I could not feel pain anymore. Not believing what my eyes saw or what my hands felt, I strayed with my left hand to my heart and I felt it, the throbs were louder now. I was back to life—I was f*ckin alive!!

As I was still rejoicing, an eerie feeling overcame me, something wasn't right. That was when I saw it, a futuristic screen lay before my eyes and it was as if some information was waiting for me. That was when I recalled my strange survival, the strange mechanical sound and the—wait! Where had the chip gone to? What about Dreg? I began panting, my heart rate increased and then something happened:

What the fuck!?!?

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