Beauty and the Beast

Sunny was drowning in a sea of pain. His mind, what little of it was left, had become faint and fragile, ready to collapse at any moment. 

But it had not collapsed yet. 

Actually, there was a piece of good news, too. The fact that he was capable of feeling pain meant that he was still alive. The fact that he was still alive… meant that the Azure Serpent was dead. 

Otherwise, it would have finished Sunny off already. 

'I… won…'

It was a small consolation. The pain was so unbearable that he almost wished for death. However, Sunny was too attached to life to throw it away — if there was the tiniest chance to survive, he was going to desperately cling to it with everything he had. Before, he would have done it simply out of spite… but now, there were things he cherished and goals he wished to achieve.

He really wanted to live. 

'What… the hell… is happening?'