"hhhhhaaaaaa," exhale Akechi and inhale deeply, "hhhhaaaaaa."

She ran off-trail into the woods, her eyes adjusting to the darkness and moving her head side to side.

-WACK-

"SSSsssssssshhhhhhiiii," Akechi inhaled the words and massaged her throbbing forehead. Damn this tree! Akechi thought. She sees trees twisted with long branches with long thicknesses.

-Tiiithph-

Akechi's hands shook. She slowly lifted her cellphone to her face, turned on her cellphone, pressed the flashlight icon, and flashed the light onto her right side—a playing queen card tips into the tree. Akechi's eyes widen.

-Tiiithph-

"AAaaaahhhh!" Akechi screamed, the cellphone collided into the palm of her hand, pinned deeply by a playing king card, and blood oozed out from the wound. Her shaking freehand moves to the playing king card and pulls at the edge of the card.

-Whoosh-

Four cards flew at Akechi. One card slice the throat, another card pin into the freehand, and the two cards slices her inner thighs. Her body flung backward, head hitting the tree, then slung down to the dirt.

….

Darkness. Then light.

Akechi opens her eyes. She lay uncomfortably on the right side of her body with her two legs slightly bent upward to the tree, her left hand with the pinned cellphone lay on her stomach, and her other hand lay on the soft green patch of grasses. She moves her hands towards the open cut-throat, tapping her fingers into the wound and lifting one hand to her eyes. Red blood stained her fingertips and dry blood on the wrist towards the elbow.

"I'm not dead," Said Akechi, and her hand fell to the ground. She shuts her eyes and scream, "AAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUHHHH!" Then blood chokes on the vocal cord.

"Aaaahhheeemmmmmh," Akechi turns to the side and fist into her chest. The blood slowly gushes out of her throat.

-Rustle rustle-

Akechi pushes herself halfway up into a sitting position, and a black-haired man with plain black pants and a collared shirt stands in front of her. His cold stare dwell in Akechi's hazy film hazelnut eyes. He smiles at her.

"A zombie," Byue said.

Akechi mouthed, what?

"A strong spirit that clings onto the living world," said a demonic being that emerges from Byue's right shoulder, "Impressive, you can control your body after death." Akechi's body shook with fear.

"I'm not dead," said Akechi.

"It's not good for the dead to cling onto their life that is already gone," replied Byue, then he kneeled to her eye level, "If you want I can send you to the afterlife,"