2 Dying

If you ask me about life after death, unfortunately, I have no answer to give you. My poor soul, sigh, never had a chance to rest in peace. To be honest, I don't know if my soul would belong to hell or heaven if I had accepted my death instead of making a deal with the female demon.

I wasn't exactly a sinner in the first part of my life that I lived as a human, but I did not hesitate to lie and cheat when necessary. Anyway, nobody is that perfect, right? If we are going to judge my present state... heh. You can judge for yourself as the story goes by.

I still remember how the warmth leaving my body with my flowing blood felt. It was cold, I had never been this cold before. But what was cold was not outside, it was inside of my body.

I couldn't hear anything but humming, and even if I could see something, I couldn't understand what I was seeing. The pain and hatred were gone, all that remained was cold. If you ask what it feels like to die, I'd say cold enough to burn.

If it weren't for the gift I received from the female demon minutes ago, this would be the last moments of my mortal life. But of course, this is not how I died. How would I tell you my story if I did die like that?

Inside my paralyzed body, there was a fire as if it is a piece of sun, mocking at all the cold I felt, at the where my lower belly is. It filled me with heat again after the heat I needed to stay alive blew off with my blood.

It started to spread slowly from my belly. It reached up to my fingertips and toes while I am reclaiming my senses where it passed. It filled every particle of my body and made my heart beat again.

As we are used to our heart beating, we normally cannot hear and feel it. If you listen carefully enough, you can hear it while you meditate at somewhere quiet. But the stopped heart beating again... it was an inexplicable feeling.

At first, I thought it was an earthquake, then realized it was my body that was shaking. It took me seconds to realize that the shaking was my heartbeat.

I don't know how much time had passed when I started seeing, hearing, and thinking again. The good news was I wasn't bleeding anymore and feeling no pain. The bad news was that I was lying on the ground in my own blood with nothing on me but the nightgown sucked my blood and I was in a forest full of demonic creatures.

The news that I didn't know whether it was good or bad was that the female demon wasn't here. When I was free from the fear of death, I noticed something in a corner of my mind that wasn't mine.

It was a notification from 'The Web', and I was sure that I made myself unreachable so that no one could track me down, so the notification had to be from the system itself. I didn't receive notification from the Web since that man, which I couldn't stop myself from sighing when I thought about him, crippled me.

Without hesitating even a second, I visualized the window to check it. I don't know what I was expecting to see, but I didn't expect that. It wasn't like I used to see. At that moment, there was nothing I am able to do but viewing a single window.

{CONGRATULATIONS!

Your breed successfully started to change from

[Neutral], Angelic, Demonic into

Neutral, Angelic, [Demonic].

Please carry out the following instructions in less than three hours in order to not be faded.}

I took a deep breath and decided to focus on the time limit before thinking about other things. I wasn't sure what would happen if I got faded, but I had a feeling telling me that I wouldn't choose to be.

{A breed-changing quest named [Blood Bath] has been defined by the Web for the user whose information is given below.

Name: ??? (Not named yet)

Breed: Changing (to demonic, succubus), Level 0

Skills: Desires of Heart

Time Remaining: 02:56

Quest: Find a source of life energy to refill before you run out of energy. For your change to begin fully, you need a life to replace the life you lost. If you can't sacrifice a life in given time, you'll be faded. To make a sacrifice...}

I felt my lips curled. Was only that enough? I heard my own voice bursting into laughter. The part of my brain that always offered rational suggestions, which I usually didn't listen to, said I was still in shock.

Well, if it will help me survive I'd rather be in shock than in a nervous breakdown. I could have had a nervous breakdown three hours later, when I didn't have to worry about my life.

Now, where should I look for someone I can sacrifice?