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{Chapter 2}
Wake up...
"…!"
I suddenly sprang up, sweat soaked my body and—
"H-Huh?" I looked down. I was in a white nightgown and in a white bed. In fact, as I looked up, everything that was in the room was colored white.
"…" Though, my pale skin was quite noticeable as it was the only thing that wasn't white.
Gathering my thoughts, I tightly clutched the blankets that covered my lower body. I was pretty sure I had been killed.
But here I was, sitting on some white bed and not soaked in the crimson of blood. In fact, I was completely fine. There weren't any scratches, bruises or injuries on me as far as I knew.
Eventually, I pulled the covers off of me and stepped onto the white floor. Apparently, I wasn't wearing any shoes or socks, so my bare feet were exposed.
*HSHH!*
"…!" The second my feet touched the floor, everything around me shattered, as if it had all been an illusion. However, I still wore the white nightgown. Looking around now, all that surrounded me was a black void.
Wherever I was, it was definitely a weird place.
"Ah, so I see you're awake..."
Turning around, I found myself face to face with a man wearing a pair of blue jeans and black boots.
He looked pretty normal actually, like a normal, everyday bystander. Though, there was one thing that was off about him. Slightly covered by his brown hair was a pair of black eyes. They seemed calm. From the way he stared at me and his words earlier, he had seemed to have been expecting me.
"You must be confused as to what's going on..." He said. "Well, how about we take a seat?"
At the snap of his fingers, the tiny shards from earlier seemed to come together once again and form a room around us. Now, it was a well-furnished room lit by a fireplace.
I found myself sitting in one of the armchairs directly across from the man. He still wore his calm and composed expression.
"This is a better environment to talk in..." The man nodded as he examined the created room. His attention turned to me. "Now, why don't we get to talking? You must have a lot of questions on your mind right now."
I nodded. As I spoke, my voice cracked. "Y-Yeah..."
He seemed to pay no attention though. "Then do start asking. I'm sure I'll be able to provide a satisfying answer."
"…" For some reason, I was now drawing a blank. I couldn't even think of the most obvious questions that I wanted to ask.
He seemed to notice this. "Well, if this is all too much for you, I'll share some information with you then. This place that we're in is known as the Void, a place where I exist and nobody can come into without my permission. I rule this place."
"…" I gulped. "T-Then, why am I here? I thought I was killed..."
"You're here because I brought you here," he answered. "I wanted to have a talk with you?"
"B-But... I'm dead, aren't I?" This was the main thing that I was concerned about.
"Technically, yes," he started. "But you're not. That's because I brought you here, into the Void."
"But why?" Now all the questions were starting to fill my head. "Why'd you bring me here? Why didn't you just let me die?"
Staring into his eyes, he answered. "Because this is a nightmare. A nightmare that you believe that you can't wake up from. But that's not the case at all. This is all just one bad dream that you can wake yourself up from if you destroy the cause of the nightmare."
Nightmare? Bad dream? Cause? Wait, was the dying part also a dream!?
"All that I'm saying to you is that you have died," he confirmed. "The only reason you survived was because I brought you to this plane, the Void. And I'm here to offer you something."
I sorted my thoughts the best that I could and took a deep breath. "Alright, what's this offer?"
A hint of a smile crossed the man's face. "I'll bring life back to you so that you can kill the person who had done the same to you. However, you'll become mute."
"Mute?" I repeated the words. "That doesn't seem like a bad deal for getting my life back..."
"There's more," he quickly said. "You will also submit what information you have to me. Meaning, if you let me study your brain, I'll grant you with powers you didn't even know you had..."
"…" Now I went quiet. "Why do you want to study my brain?"
"Don't you know the saying?" He asked. "Knowledge is power..."
"…" What he said was true and I couldn't deny it. But the deal still wasn't bad. "Alright, I'll agree to your terms. If I can get my life back and kill that man, then I'll do it."
*HSHH!*
The room shattered and I found myself standing in the black Void again. He walked up to me, taking a hold of my head. "Then, let's begin..."
"…! A-AGHHHHHH!"
Emotions, pain and a heavy feeling exploded into my skull. Slowly, I felt myself losing consciousness.
Everything went numb and my energy sapped from me as my heavy eyes blurred. Eventually, I lost consciousness and collapsed.
Get as much sleep as you can... You'll need it...
Those last words echoed in my head as all senses and consciousness left me...
