1 The Farewell
Where.... Am I....? i woke up in a very bright room with nothing but a giant white door.
My head feels heavy all of sudden as i remember what happened
10:35pm GMT +8 I was doing my last mission as the special force. The mission's instructions was simple. we just need to take the stolen briefcase from the terrorists that showed up a few days prior back to the laboratory. As for what it contains, that is not in the intel. As far as i can remember, we successfully took the briefcase and safely secured it. Well at least i thought I did.
While i was trying to figure out what happened after that, a tall slender figure came out of the door in front of me, he looked pale, exhausted, and concerned..?
"Hello" he said"Where am i?" i asked the figure
"I am not entirely sure on how to explain this to you" he answered with a rather sad voice.
"Excuse me but may i ask what is this place?" i asked the figure again because of pure curiosity.
With a rather hoarse voice he said, "This is the Afterlife, And YOU aren't supposed to be here"
Confused, i asked the figure "What do you mean I'm not supposed to be here??" The figure then hurriedly explained everything that happened.
Apparently the briefcase that i was supposed to secure in my last mission contains a mineral that is not from my home planet. The appearance is a bluish crystal shaped like a crescent moon with red tips which was named "Lunar" by the researchers who found the stone several weeks ago. The crystal holds the power to grant any wish, scaling from reviving the dead, to destroy the world in mere seconds. Well it seems i have actually managed to secure the briefcase. But the head of operation, He took the briefcase from us. He used to stone to make it seem as if it's some kind of an accident. and left us stranded on the island we retrieved the Crystal.
"I- i don't understand, why would he leave me....?" appaled, i questioned the figure again. Unable to grasp the things that I've just heard
"That, is a question that can only be answered by your killer" the tall figure answered
"I need to go back, NOW! Take me back!" I urged him to return me to my home
"I can't" it said,
"Your spirit may be here, but your body. is still in the real world" with relief i said "Well then that's great! now i just need to go back to my own body"
"No, you don't understand! Your spirit, consciousness, soul, your very existence is here. With all of the things that make you as you are here. You, are considered as 'dead' in your home world. As your body is now nothing, but a hollow empty husk of flesh that's used to be a human"
Shocked, utterly unable to react to what he said, i fell to the ground.
"Ahhhhh, i get it, you're playing tricks on me!" i laughed for i am still in disbelief of what i just heard.
The figure just looked down to the ground in pity of meTears are running down from my eyes, my voice are all shaky. The sound of laughter from before quickly turns into sounds of anguish, pain, grief and sadness.
"So what happens to me now...?" i asked
The figure responded to the question by showing me 2 options in front of me. Two scenery popped up in front of my face
The first scenery is an urban city, sky high buildings, traffic jams, this is home, My home.The second is a scene of a house, a bit dull, but it's a place you can call home.
"You now have 2 choices to choose from, Either you hang around as a bodiless soul in your old world, immortal, invisible, invincible, to anything and everything. But this also comes with a price of seeing all your loved ones suffer because of your absence
or
You can enter a new world, start a new life. You start as a baby, grow up to be whatever you want, marry whomever you met, die in ways you actually want to die. You may not take this choice as you might be thinking 'Why should I?'. The catch is that the Crystal came from this exact same world. There's a huge chance those who sent the crystal to your world, you can get those crystals back and wish all of this never happened."
Contemplating to choose which, i sat down on the floor.
"Doesn't matter what i choose, but I won't be seeing my family again amn't i?"
"That's..... correct...." He answered
I know hanging around as ghosts sounds fun, but i can't bear seeing my family die in front of my eyes. Being reborned as a resident in another world doesn't sound bad, but what about my old family...?
"Can i at least write a letter to them for the last time...?" i asked the figure
"Are you not... sad? You can't be in contact with your family anymore for the rest of your life. Do you not love them?" The figure asked worryingly.
"I knew this day would came, And that is exactly why i am not sad. I work as a millitary officer, I know the risk this line of job have." i opened up to the figure
"Alright then, i will then consider this as your last wish before being transfered to another world."
The figure then sent a letter i wrote to my family, i wrote all i have to in there, it's a proper goodbye for me. That's the least i could do
"𝑀𝒶𝓇𝓎, 𝓂𝓎 𝓌𝒾𝒻𝑒, 𝒷𝑒𝒶𝓊𝓉𝒾𝒻𝓊𝓁 𝒶𝓈 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇; 𝐼'𝓂 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝒶𝒷𝓁𝑒 𝓉𝑜
𝓉𝑜𝓊𝒸𝒽 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓃𝑜𝓌 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝒾 𝓂𝒾𝓈𝓈𝑒𝒹 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓉𝑜𝓊𝒸𝒽 𝓈𝑜 𝓂𝓊𝒸𝒽, 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓈𝑜𝒻𝓉 𝒽𝒶𝓃𝒹𝓈, 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝒶𝓇𝓂 𝒽𝓊𝑔𝓈. 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝒸𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝑜𝒻 𝒹𝒶𝒾𝓈𝒾𝑒𝓈 𝑜𝓃 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝒽𝒶𝒾𝓇. 𝒟𝑜𝓃'𝓉 𝓈𝓂𝓊𝒹𝑔𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓈𝑒 𝒷𝑒𝒶𝓊𝓉𝒾𝒻𝓊𝓁 𝑒𝓎𝑒𝓈 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓉𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓈, 𝐼𝓉'𝓈 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝓁𝒾𝓀𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓉𝑜 𝒸𝓇𝓎
𝒥𝑜𝓈𝒽, 𝓂𝓎 𝑜𝓁𝒹𝑒𝓈𝓉 𝓈𝑜𝓃; 𝐼 𝒶𝓂 𝓈𝑜𝓇𝓇𝓎 𝒷𝓊𝒹. 𝓌𝒾𝓈𝒽𝑒𝒹 𝓌𝑒 𝒸𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝓈𝓅𝑒𝓃𝒹 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒 𝓉𝑜𝑔𝑒𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇. 𝒫𝓁𝒶𝓎 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝒸𝒶𝓉𝒸𝒽, 𝒷𝒶𝓈𝑒𝒷𝒶𝓁𝓁, 𝒶𝓃𝓎𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓂𝒶𝓉𝑒, 𝒾 𝓌𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹'𝓋𝑒 𝒹𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝒾𝓉 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓎𝑜𝓊.
𝒥𝑜𝒶𝓃𝓃𝒶, 𝓂𝓎 𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝑜𝓃𝓁𝓎 𝒹𝒶𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉𝑒𝓇. 𝓂𝓎 𝓈𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓉 𝓁𝒾𝓉𝓉𝓁𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝑔𝑒𝓁. 𝐼 𝒶𝓂 𝓈𝑜𝓇𝓇𝓎 𝒾𝒻 𝒾 𝓌𝒶𝓈𝓃'𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓈𝒽𝑜𝓌. 𝐼 𝓌𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹'𝓋𝑒 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝓈𝑒𝑒 𝒾𝓉. 𝐵𝓊𝓉 𝒾 𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝒸𝒶𝓃'𝓉 𝒷𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒. 𝐼'𝓂 𝓈𝑜𝓇𝓇𝓎....."
"Are you ready now?" The figure asked me
"I am now" i responded with a heavy feeling in my heart
I walked towards the big door that's in the center of the room, as i saw my old memories pass through me. All the pain, suffering, also all the good memories i have made with my loved ones. I am not willing to leave them behind but i think this is for the best. With tears rolling down my eyes, i smiled knowing i have done my job properly.
"What's that noise.....?"
𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒆𝒅.....
