A Crystal in the Void

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'Freedom'~

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That's what I think I am feeling right now. I don't have any other word to describe it.

It's like from the day I was born I had metaphysical chains wrapped around my very being, and right now, it suddenly just ...disappeared... The burden that have been with me all my life gone, just like that..

As i was contemplating those philosophical questions in a trance, I was slowly beginning to wake up from that state.

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My first sensation after waking up from that strange dream made my mind blank for a moment. I am unable to feel anything... Like my sense got cut off from the rest of the world...

'...What happened to me?!' I panicked while trying to recall what happened.

My memories are in jumbled mess, but its slowly returning bit by bit, but not everything. There are several huge blank areas. Its like they are forcefully erased from my consciousness.

Ok, let's just try to see what i can still remember!

My name was Aaron, surname .....I...f-forgot ...? I cant remember my parents face, nor any friends. From my memories with them, they are now faceless peoples. I am able to recall what I did with them and I can even feel the emotion connected to them, but it feels very old, like it happened many decades or even centuries ago...

Other than that, my knowledge about science, arts, and other subjects still somewhat remained with me, but they are mostly basic things. However my knowledge about Anime, manga, LN and fan fiction are in a perfect state( they don't have any blank areas).

'So its not accidental, mhn!'

Well whoever or whatever did this to me can probably snap me out of existence, so no use thinking if I can't do anything about it..

Come to think of it, ....where the hell am I?

I can't see anything here nor I can hear or touch anything ...

...its like my five senses are Null here ...

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But ...

somehow, I can somewhat feel my current surroundings ...

It's something similar to those magic sense or spiritual sense that I have read about in fictional novels. Well, its better than nothing I guess.

So I begin to look around for any clue that would tell me where am I.

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...[ Void ]...that's the best description I can give to this place. Total emptiness...thats what this place is...

This nothingness is dyed in abyssal black.

Is this the place that those fan-fiction talking about, where the mc wake up after they die?

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So, ...am I ....dead ..?

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How? When?!

But if I am still thinking, can it really be called death ..?

Maybe this is some sort off waiting area before the judge of soul decide whether to send you to haven, hell or even a chance of reincarnating in a different world!?

With the prospect of reincarnating in a fantasy world of supernatural, I was beginning to get excited.

However the thought of living my life without my phone, Internet or any other convenient tools of current time and unable to read manga, light novels or play games drown the excitement in a cold water of realisation.

....Ok, maybe it not all good and sunshine like I previously thought.

'Heh! what am I complaining about, I can't have everything already given to me in a silver plate. I have to work for something.'

Plus, I am not even sure if my previous theory about soul judge is true, so why not just chill and look around here for something while waiting to the suppose 'Judge' or some higher entity..

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Well, where was I before the whole 'theory of afterlife' thing happened? Oh yeah! I was talking about the Void..

Ah! about that... I can't tell directions here, hell I'm not even sure I'm in the third dimension anymore, there's no ground to stand on, nor any other object or platform. It's as if this place seemingly stretched to infinity. I cant tell if time and space exist here or not, but if it exist then it's too chaotic for me to properly know.

Sometimes I feel like I have teleported from my previous position, while some other time I am thinking for days to years. Its confusing really.

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Oh well, whatever!

I will just continue going in the same direction (what direction I think is the right ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ) for now.

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Time skip~10years later( from my perspective)//

...What was I expecting!

Ten years of going in going in same direction and everything is still abyssal black of emptiness ...

Did the Gods forget about me?

..if anybody can hear my thought can you send someone here to keep me company? Maybe that giant faceless ROB or the blond jade-skin milf goddess or even that blue haired useless one ..?

.....No? ....

*sigh*

...Alright! ...it not like I need someone. I preferred to be alone in this void. I came to like the quietness of this place ...

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*yawn*~

Unn~ ...I am feeling quite sleepy now. Maybe I should take a quick nap ...

...yeah! I'll do that ...good night~

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Time skip~ Unknown years later//

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*-nn....*

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Nn...?

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*-Oonnn....*

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....Unm!?...what was that?

There's something at the edge of my perception. Though i can't distinguish what it is..

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*ooOOonnn...*

'There it is' I thought while looking at the thing from the corner of my imaginary eyes.

It's a giant glowing blackish-purple crystal floating unmoving in the void, while occasionally transparent energy pulsing outwards while bending the surrounding empty space with it.

'Should I go near that thing?...or will I pretend to saw nothing(It can be something dangerous)...?' i thought while looking at the crystal.

If someone think I am acting cowardly, then yeah! I am...Its called survival instinct. And I have read enough fictions to know that, the crystal thing is a core of some kind, I am 80% sure of that..

So the question is, ' What am I going to do?'

heh! what am I even hesitating for? I have been here waiting for something like this to happen for who knows how many years..

And now that an opportunity to leave this place presented itself I am hesitating?

I love the quietness of this place, but after this many years wondering here while nothing to do, it's slowly getting boring...

'So I will take the chance.' with my mind made up, I slowly move towards the Crystal...

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'Beautiful'

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That's the only thought in my mind, after looking at the hovering crystal some distance away from me.

From the previous distance I haven't been able to tell but now on closer look, there seems to be a second chibi crystal hovering right beneath the big one..

Also the presence it giving of feels familiar. Like I have felt this before, a very long time ago. 'But I can't remember... where...'

Its also making me feel like I am standing in front of my mother...but not the one from my incomplete memory of previous life..

'..It feels more older.... Ancient even..!'

I don't know what's going on anymore, but i have this unbearable urge to touch the smaller crystal.

When I think about touching the big one,...it feels wrong! ... also extremely dangerous, like I am not ready for it yet...

My curiosity is reaching it limit. I want to know

What's going on? ...

What is the crystal? ...

And why it felt so familiar? ...

so with some cautions, I reach for the chibi crystal with my imaginary hands.

*hum*~

'Wha-' as soon my imaginary hand touch it, it hum with power. The hum continue to echo in my consciousness for few moment like its searching of something, then before I knew it my mind went blank...