1 Death

"Haa...So, my time has come..."

My breathing was slowly becoming more and more difficult and painful. My vision was fuzzy and I feel my heart weakening. I don't even know how I can feel it but I just do. And it's scary when it's clear that I can't do anything about it. My heart is like a flame without fuel, slowly dying out and leaving everything in coldness and darkness.

I know I was dying. I know I was going to die one day but I didn't think it would be so soon. My sight was becoming even mistier and I could feel hot tears flowing down my face. I feel a little pathetic. After the neverending pain, I had to go through every day since my early childhood I still can't keep my tears in and cry here like a small child even though I am already twenty. I was born in a filthy rich family and that with my loving and caring mum may be the only good thing in my as it looks like a rather short life.

If my father right now saw my crying self, he would say that I a disgrace to Green's family name. My father is quiet that only cares about his image.

I was lying on a hospital al bed in my VIP room in the best hospital in the city. My father may be an unfeeling stone-faced jerk but he provided me with the best medical care he could. And for that will be forever grateful to him. Despite that I know he did it only because my mum begged him.

'Mum, I am sorry that I am leaving you so soon.' I am feeling a lot worse now when I think about the pain that mum had to and will have to endure because of me.

"Aahhh!!!" I suddenly screamed from the pain. It felt like every part of my body was pierced with freezing needless. It is worse than what I had to suffer normally from this damn illness.' I thought with helplessness.

Everything started when I was ten years old. I was always rather physically weak but fortunately, I never caught any illnesses like flu, colds, and headaches so it was not that bad. But when something can go wrong it will always go wrong. That's just the truth in this world.

It started slowly. Piercing pain all over my body that could be ignored when I thought about anything else. Then came a feeling like my body was under constant pressure. From that point, my state was only worse and worse. The pain then became almost unbearable and I was unable to normally function without outside help. And as a cherry on the top, all my body hair grayed out. Fortunately, I didn't become bald.

My family was doing everything possible to find what was the wrong whit my body. If I had some chronic disease or something and how to cure me. But no one could find what was wrong with my body. And trust me, my body was examined by really a real lot of different doctors and experts. I don't even know what all was done to my body and what all was put in and out of me. 'Ugh, that sounded seriously wrong.'

My condition even became a sensation in medical circles for some time and a few scientific articles have been written about it. Till now I am a celebrity in the medical world.

My condition was named Darian's syndrome. My body was from some unknown cause destroying and regenerating again and again in some perpetual circle. But the problem came that the destruction of my body was slightly faster than the regeneration. Another peculiarity was that every cell of my body behaved as if my body was under faint pressure from every direction. So I de facto felt like a sea diver but all the time.

Right now it is more than ten years since my hospitalization but still, nothing new is known about my strange condition. None no information and no possible cure. Nothing.

That's however alright I accepted my situation a long time ago. Maybe when I was fourteen? I know that keeping hope for some miracle that will never come is hopeless. And painful.

But I continue to behave that there is still hope. Mainly for my beloved mother and little for myself. Hoping that there is still a chance for me to live a long and normal life.

Sometime after my diagnosis and my eventual hospitalization, I fell into depression and closed off myself to others. I lost my friends and avoided contracts with people to not make new bonds. I only talked a little with my family and my doctor and later even with some nurses.

My escape from reality became movies, books, anime, and manga. I especially fall for anime. I basically became a NEET. Later I even started reading a lot of different fan fiction and I was fascinated by the thought of possible reincarceration in a world of fiction, interacting with my favorite characters, and becoming a wizard, hero, or villain.

Well, everyone can dreams even if they know it is impossible from the start. Now I hope my afterlife would be better than my life.

Good thing that I wouldn't die as a virgin. Mum bought me a very controversial and unique gift for my eighteenth birthday. I felt like I did something wrong thereafter but it would be a lie if I told you that I hadn't enjoyed it despite that I couldn't be very proactive because of my condition. Truth be told I was only laying and she did everything else.

Now my body was numb from pain and my heart almost stopped. My breath was so faint that it wouldn't move even a feather. The coldness was slowly creeping over my weak and skinny body. Death was coming and welcomed me in its cold and serene embrace.

'Farewell mum I loved you. Farwell's father, despite your numerous faults I loved you too. Hopefully, we will meet again in the afterlife. I Will be leaving first. Goodbye.'

I closed my eyes and calmly waited for my inevitable death. Suddenly the atmosphere changed. Absolute silence descended and came with a mysterious and unearthly feeling in the air. I don't know how else to describe it. I snapped my eyes open and I was dumbfounded. The world was monochrome and over me in the air were hovering purple flames that were forming into words.

[A new candidate detected]

[Measuring the power of the candidate's soul]

[Measuring...]

[Measurement successful]

[Candidate's soul rank: S-]

[Measuring the compatibility of the candidate's soul with the Demon Seed]

[Measuring...]

[Measurement successful]

[Compatibility: 96%]

[Judging the candidate's result]

[Judgment completed]

[The candidate was found worthy]

[Do you wish to join the MULTIVERSE DEMON AGENCY?]

[Yes] [No]

[The candidate has 30 seconds for the answer]

[30]

[29]

[28]

'A what?'

'Is this for real? Or is this only my hallucination.' I was confused and a little scared but most of all excited. If this is my chance for a better life or a new start then for me there is only one answer. There is no need for hesitation and lengthy decisions. I don't even have time for it.

"Yes," I spoke resolutely. But nothing happened after I had uttered my answer. The countdown continued unit it hit zero. I was panicking that something went wrong or I was maybe really only hallucinating.

Then my world becomes dark.