Death is only the Beginning Part 2

[ The World of Living. ]

[ Earth ]

[ Easterion, the East part of the Neo Earth. ]

[ Ryuuen Region, Great Dump Graveyard. ]

Shiro is looking at his family's photos at the time as he suddenly remembers the past, remembering the word that was spoken by his grandfather at the time about living.

" Shiro, our lives need to be pure without any taint or any sin. "

" In order to reach the Heavens, we must first abandon our humane needs and direct ourselves to prepare our lives after the world of the living. "

" Really, grandad? " little Shiro asks.

" Yes, Shiro!!! "

" Don't be like your mother, father, aunt, and uncles who threw themselves into the battlefield willingly and even dared to discard the good teachings that will definitely bring us to the Heavens... "

" We musn't hate, we musn't fear, we musn't envy, we musn't have any negative emotions, negative plans, negative actions or even inflict those negativity to people, animals, nature, or even monsters. "

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As Shiro remembers that, he was then disrupted as he hears the people's voices who came from the outside as he then puts the photo on his table.

" The path that will reach the Heavens, grandfather...? " he says while picking up his Sharpen Shovel.

" What a joke... " Shiro says as he remembers that the reason he is also hated like this is because of his grandfather's priest preachings that often angered those with military power as he constantly protested about the war against the monsters as he without thinking just stated for people to stop sacrificing themselves and instead just pray to the gods for help only which is immediately angered the people who had the stimulus to kill the monsters and avenge their dead ones.

Not just the people, but even the leaders of the region wherever his grandfather speaks about his holy pacifism are immediately angered by this statement and branded him the 'Mad Priest' that the leaders of the Region themselves had to punish him by punishing him into isolation for objecting the war against the Waves of Monsters. In the isolation, his grandfather still finds a way to preach even using pigeons to spread his preaching, thus making him get the penalty of death just some years ago, leaving Shiro left behind despite it being his grandfather's duty to keep him safe after his parents died.

As Shiro recounts it, he then picks up his necklace as it looked like a white circle, he picks up the mysterious technological-looking orb that his grandfather gave him for no reason and also prepares his mask as he had no choice but to face the people that waited to end him for so long.

"( So this is the time, huh? ) " Shiro says.

"( My execution time? ) " Shiro says as he knows that when he becomes 13 years old, the people around his place agreed to execute him since back then his execution was suspended for being the Mad Preacher's Grandson thanks to him being 4 years old. Now, after waiting for 9 years, the people that still remember Shiro's birthday then decide that right after he turned thirteen, then his judgment will be made.

As Shiro then gets outside with his Shovel, the people then surround him as they bring their weapons to execute the boy of the graves for good for whatever the hell reasons.

" Yes, come out Graveboy!!! "

" This time you'll be good as dead!!! " the people say as they all surround him and burns his house in order for him to be executed in front of the people.

As the people do that, Shiro who had enough of this then holds his Sharpen Shovel tight as one of the people begins his attacks.

" Die Graveboy!!!!!!!!!"

" Go join your grandfa-!!! " Shiro slashes the man with his shovel as he slashed his neck, making his blood splatter all over the ground and definitely ending the man's words for good as his Shovel blade was so sharp that it makes him easily frees someone's head from the neck.

Seeing that, the people then reacted as they attack Shiro at once, using everything they have for hours while Shiro manages to at least slash some of them, six wounded and seven dead. He is still overpowered by the people that use many internal or external powers to support them in beating Shiro at the time.

" DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE!!!! "

" DIE GRAVEBOY!!! "

The people curse Shiro while beating him, as they didn't show him mercy for his defiance. On the ground, Shiro lies there as his visions go blurry, the hard and super beatings from those people who had powers really hurt him but slowly, it doesn't hurt anymore, as if his motoric sensors don't even respond to the pain anymore.

"( I can't feel it anymore... )"

"( What is going on...? ) " Shiro says for his body is constantly getting hit each time and each time he gets punched, his body slowly breaks as his blood splatters everywhere.

During that time, Shiro begins into the state where one will hallucinate before his death. At that very time, Shiro sees some strange creatures, flying above him and the people who beat him as they looked at him happily.

" Are those ... flying things, came with the people here? " he wondered as he didn't know that he is almost dead and can almost sense the Astral Spirits that now gathered to welcome him after he ends.

As the flying astral spirits see Shiro, they then smirk as they then talked to each other about Shiro who is not in a good shape at the time.

" The child, I wonder what kind of an Astral he will be after finally breathing his last breath. "

" A Soul or a Spirit? "

" A Dark Soul maybe, since he died so tragically. "

" Or maybe he will become a Minor Spirit? "

The Astral Spirit says that they also didn't know that Shiro can hear them saying things about him.

" Souls... Spirits.... " Shiro suddenly says as the people were shocked that he can speak including the Astral Spirits that heard him say that.

" What does he say? " both people in the living and in the astral realm present ask as they heard it. The Spirits were shocked as they ask what happened, but the humans, become more pissed as they become more believed that Shiro is cursed and that he now had the ability to communicate with dead spirits after they beat Shiro, Shiro just went silent as he was now switched off and disconnected with the world of the living.

During that time, Shiro's mysterious orb that his grandfather gave him activated.

[ Astral Player had now been disconnected from the world of the living. ]

[ Astral Player will be transformed into an Astral. ]

[ LOADING LOADING ]

[ Assembling the Player's Astral Core ]

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[ Player will become an Astral Being in 3... 2.... 1.... ]

[ Astral Player's Astral Form has now been created. ]