Hi everybody, no, this is not a new chapter, but chapter one of part III is up and chapter two will be following soon. You can find the link to part three on my profile page! Here's an excerpt though;

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Chapter 63- "Mr. God, Bring Me A Dream"

The pain is everywhere. It aches, it burns, it spreads. It's in her veins, under her skin, a vile kind of poison in her blood. It burns and throbs and her head pounds with a buzz like static that feels like it could split the world. It's death. Gumi screams. It's death. And she's not done yet.

Not know, not ever. She's not done yet.

This kind of a life, it wasn't good enough. She can't die here, she won't die here. This pain… the vile stinging, the burning, the aching, the throbbing, the blood in her lungs… her limbs won't move anymore and the buzzing is like a siren beckoning her to the end of the world. Calling her to oblivion, the buzzing pulls and pulls and she fights a battle like she never has before.

She's not done yet. Not know, not ever.

Gumi opens her mouth to scream and then- the pain releases her.

The buzzing fades to a soft ringing in the back of her mind. She opens her eyes. Dismayed but only momentarily to discover she's naked and hears footsteps, she starts to move forward. The space is white and also black and everything in between. There isn't a floor and yet she walks.

There are footsteps that aren't hers approaching. They sound like heavy shoes, clacking against the cold and hard and unseen ground beneath her. Gumi spins around. She can't see anyone approaching, there isn't anything. There's nothing.

"Hello?" She calls out loudly.

Nothing echoes back to her with its chilling voice. The footsteps continue. Frantic now, but a lulled kind of worry she's never experienced, Gumi starts to hyper ventilate. The ringing is so annoying. At least the pain is gone.

"Hello!" She shouts into the void before her.

The footsteps stop.

Suddenly, behind her, there is a tall boy. He's maybe a foot taller than Gumi herself with chin length choppy pale hair, nearly white. His eyes are a purple so deep, so piercingly deep Gumi feels as if he's looking into her soul itself. He's dressed like a dealer at a casino, in a black, fancy vest and, as she thought, has heavy black dress shoes. He also has two earrings, one shaped like a silver cube and the other like a diamond. Gumi suddenly can't breathe.

"Hi, Gumi," the boy says.

"Hi."

"That was… exiting to watch, to say the least. I especially love how well you function on the battle field, you have grace to the likes I've never seen. Bravo. The ending was a little anti-climactic though, huh?" Gumi raises an eyebrow as the boy begins to pace. "Such a shame you're dead."

"What," Gumi deadpans harshly. "I am not dead."

The boy chuckles. It's emotionless, yet musical. "Yes, dear, you are."

"So, what're you supposed to be? God?" Gumi crosses her arms and huffs.

The boy laughs. This time it's full of humor. "I rather loved your performance tonight and well… everything you've done so far. Such a shame you had to die in combat… the roof just simply couldn't hold after all those explosives your buddies triggered. Wouldn't it be grand if you could… reset?"

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~Tiruneko ;3