#20: Evanescence

When you're defeated,

embrace it.

And rise again to claim victory.

-My friend, who wants to be a novelist

That was my friend says to me when I loss against him in a chess game.

Now that I think about it, that guy isn't an Exorcist. Morover, that guy flunked a year isn't it?

If I had another chance, I want a rematch!

But, it seems He can't do it.

Why?

He died. Killed by Impurity.

When you're defeated, embrace it, and rise again... yup, I agree. But that only plausible if you're alive, or not in any deathmatch.

Once you die, can you had a second chance?

No. Nope. Totally impossible.

Except you had an amazing device to make yourself immortal, or technique to prolong your life.

Or If you're a GOD.

Then why not run away?

I can't, I doesn't want to.

Why?

Because... Oh no! I just start talking to myself! Haha, silly me.

Oh yeah! My friend... what's his name again?

That is what Ren's thinking, laying bloody and beaten in the middle of a barren wasteland, surrounded by ruins.

The air here is hot like you were boiled alive, and the stench is like smelling decompose corpses.

His eyes gaze at the dirty and polluted sky, like it was painted with piss and excrement.

Pains run through his body, "It's... not over yet!" Say Ren, clenching his right fist.

Even wounded, he still tries to rise and fight.

Because not far from him, a very strong opponent is approaching to kill him.

Persistent as he is, he manage to rise again.

And so, his fight continue.

Arc 2: Nero Festive

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