Dead Again?

'Hmm… Where am I?' Calle thought as he felt his body floating freely in an empty space. It was a familiar feeling that he had felt before.

'Yes, this is the same feeling just like after the truck hit my body…' Calle then tried to remember what got him into his current situation and finally remembered the last thing that happened to him before he felt his body floating once again.

'Ahh… I remember now.'

The last thing that he felt before he was put into his current situation was a simple and plain feeling that could be described with one word.

It was pain.

The pain he felt when the insides of his mouth were being melted down by the slime's corrosive body, the pain of not knowing what would happen to him now, and the pain of losing his second chance and not being able to meet his sister and the little cute friend that he just met a while ago.

'Wait, what would happen to him if I'm dead? Since he is my familiar, then will he also die if I die??' Calle thought, jerking his eyes open. But since there was nothing but darkness around him, it didn't make any difference whether he closed or opened his eyes.

'I hope not… That guy is not even a day old… I wish he could do a lot of things and enjoy his life first before following me here…'

Calle might not have thought too much about it, but the thought that Edric was basically his child had crossed his mind before. The little dragon was created from his blood and mana, it wouldn't be a stretch to call the little dragon Calle's magical child.

And when he saw the little dragon's adorable behavior, always getting excited when he was excited and Edric's complete trust in whatever he was doing, Calle couldn't help but be fond of the little dragon even though they had only met each other for a few hours.

'But if that was the case… Then I'm sorry buddy… I will definitely play with you a lot and make up for the lost chances today if we ever meet again for the second time…'

Right after saying that, Calle closed his eyes once again as he embraced the feeling of nothingness around him. It was the second time he felt it, but somehow, the first time and the second time felt very different to him.

The first time he felt his body floating in the nothingness, Calle felt peace as if he finally got the chance to rest and just let the things around him flow. But this time, instead of feeling peace and serenity, Calle felt a sense of denial and anger filling up his heart.

It was as if every fiber of his being had refused to let themselves be carried away by the feeling of emptiness and the surging feeling of wanting to go against the current of his fate emerged from his body. And that was the exact moment that Calle felt his body was being pulled away somewhere else before he felt his body falling down onto the ground.

The feeling of being dropped down to the floor jerked him up from his stupor, but the main reason Calle finally opened his eyes was due to something else.

"Calle! Calle! Wake up, Calle!"

Calle heard a familiar voice, calling his name again and again. And a heavy feeling in his chest as if something was pressing down on his chest, added with a slightly wet sensation that he felt on his chest, Calle finally decided to open his eyes.

When he finally opened up his eyes, he saw he was back inside the circular room earlier before he entered the slime dungeon. And when he looked down to see what was actually on his chest, he could see a small creature with a long neck, two wings on its back, with pure white scales covering all parts of its body sitting on top of his chest.

And when he looked for the creature's head, he could finally see a little dragon's head was crying on his chest, hence the wet sensation that he felt earlier.

He didn't know what had happened to him and why he suddenly appeared back inside the circular room. But he knew that he needed to do something first right now.

"Hey, Edric. It might be nice if you are not pressing down my chest. I kinda need to breathe right now," He said while patting the dragon's head.

The little dragon jerked his head up when he suddenly heard Calle's voice and when his eyes met with Calle's eyes, he jerked his limp body up from Calle's chest as he stood on his four limbs.

"Calle! You woke up!" He shouted with his eyes shining brightly.

"Yes, Edric, I woke up. But my chest, I can't breathe properly…"

"Ah!" He exclaimed before flapping his wings to bring himself up and landing beside Calle.

With the weight having been lifted off of his chest, Calle then took several deep breaths before sitting up.

He then moved his limbs around, checking every part of his body, including his handsome face to see whether there was some damage to his body after he had magically returned back to the circular room after being killed by the green slime.

And after making sure that he didn't lose anything on his body other than maybe a few strands of hair, Calle then heaved a sigh of relief as he muttered,

"I'm not dead yet… I'm really back alive…"

[Of course, Calle. The sole purpose of the dungeon is to train and prepare the dungeon sovereign, why would you die inside it?] The system's voice suddenly appeared inside his head.

'Why don't you tell me about that first before I enter the dungeon? It was quite traumatizing for me to think that I was dead again, you know?'

[Heh, there's no need for me to do that. You also got a nice unforgettable lesson from it, right? So it's a win for me who wants you to be the strongest existence ever.]

'Can't argue with that…'

Although the death wasn't real, the pain and despair that he felt when the slime almost severed both of his hands and when its corrosive body entered his body from his mouth, Calle could feel all of that vividly until his brain was finally melted by the slime and he was sent towards the space of nothingness, finally relieved from his pain.

He would never forget those feelings as they were ingrained in his memory. Every time he remembered the green slime, these feelings would surface in his body, reminding him how it felt, but instead of feeling fear and traumatized, Calle felt the urge to go back right into the slime dungeon and defeat the green slime with his own two hands, his very being refused to be defeated, just like before when his body refused to continue floating in the empty space.

'I will definitely get the green slime back for this and kill him slowly… I hope it could respawn in the dungeon so that I can spawn kill it again and again…' Calle thought as he remembered the shape and color of the green slime.

Feeling the ominous thoughts on his master's mind, Edric poked Calle's hand with his claws and asked, "Calle… Are you okay?"

Hearing the baby dragon's voice that was very similar to a little kid's voice, Calle was finally woken up from his fervent hatred of the green slime and he was able to clear his mind a little.

"I'm okay Edric, how about you? Why are you crying?" He asked the little dragon.

"I'm also okay, Calle. I was afraid that you wouldn't wake up for a long time earlier…"

"Well, you could feel my chest moving up and down, right? You must know that I'm still breathing. You don't need to cry over it, silly." He said, stroking the little dragon's head.

"I know you are still breathing, Calle. But I looked through your memories to see why you aren't waking up and I saw that there was the same case where someone would sleep for a long time, it was what you call it… a coma? I was afraid you would be in a coma so I called your name over and over again to wake you up."

"I don't want you to go into a coma for a long time and then forget me when you wake up!"

"You… Where did you learn about that?" Calle turned his head towards the little dragon.

"I think it's from something you call a… K-Drama?" He said while looking at Calle with a worried face.

"Haaah…" Calle released a huge sigh.

"Next time if you learn something from an anime or K-Drama or anything from the shows in my memories, ask me about it first before applying it to anything in real life, okay?"

Edric didn't understand the reason why Calle said it, but nonetheless, he said, "Okay!"

'He better not look through those H anime with weird plots and messed up logic… I should tell the system to block it off right now…'