Chapter 2: An Ominous Presence

In the empty space filled with endless darkness, Kyte found Himself drifting aimlessly as his body was slowly shutting down due to the treacherous temperatures of the vacuum of space. There was no atmosphere for him to breathe but somehow that did not bother him.

His mind was in turmoil, filled with confusion and a lot of unanswered questions.

'My plan to revive my sister did not succeed. Does this mean I have lost her forever?'

Under the circumstances he was in, any average person would have already lost their sanity but Kyte endured.

'What am I going to do?'

He lamented the death of his sister and his inability to revive her.

'That Shadow, who was it? What was it about its true form? I did not get a chance to ask for its name. My body is freezing and judging from this darkness and the countless lights around me, it's safe to say I'm in space. I can't breathe but I'm not suffocating. Could I be experiencing death for a second time?'

He kept thinking to himself as his body was shutting down. Perhaps his life was nearing its end.

'It's so quiet. I can't feel anything, looks like my eyes are no longer working. Ah... So this is how I die? All alone in this cold and empty space filled with darkness. How did I get here anyway?'

His life signs had ceased and at this moment, the human known as Kyte Tokito had reached the end of his life.

'How long will it be now before my soul is taken to the afterlife? Does it even exist? Will I be reunited with my sister if I end up there?'

In Kyte's world, there was a belief that the souls of the dead would be taken by supernatural entities to a different world called the afterlife. No one knew if this belief held any truth but...

'Rena must be waiting for me; I must not keep her waiting.'

Kyte tried to rely on the little shimmer of hope that he would see his sister again.

'This warmth, what a beautiful place.'

Kyte opened his eyes and what he saw was a beautiful place filled with brilliant colors similar to those of the northern lights.

'Is this the afterlife? So it does exist.'

He muttered in amazement. In his mind, the ephemeral place he was now in was the afterlife; but little did he know that such a place did not exist. In his world, a person's soul would disappear moments after a person's death.

After his body had stopped functioning due to being frozen solid, he passed through the gap that separated the universe from its parallel counterpart. His body broke apart and turned into light particles the moment it came into contact with the barrier that was at the edge of the universe.

The souls and his body were absorbed into the barrier. His soul passed through and due to being exposed to large amounts of a dense energy called ORO essence, a new body began to form around his soul.

He looked around and noticed that there were no living beings around, just an empty space.

'There's no one here. I have to look for Rena, where should I...'

As he kept drifting in the empty space wondering about the whereabouts of his sister, his mind became blank as it was filled with nothing but fear for his life. His body began to tremble as he could not move a muscle.

'What's going on? I have to get away from here, but how do I do that? What am I even running from?'

It was somehow similar to the moment that shadow appeared.

'Wait, this feeling. Could it be the shadow? No, the shadow was somehow suppressing its presence. From that shadow my body wasn't just afraid, it felt like I was dominated. Could this be a similar entity?'

He felt like prey under the gaze of an apex predator. His instincts were screaming at him to flee but his body wouldn't budge due to being petrified with fear. In the next moment, he felt an ominous presence closing in on him. No matter how hard he tried to escape, his body wouldn't let him.

His body was infiltrated by the mysterious entity.

'What's this, get out of my body...Ahhhhhh'

'...'

His entire body was filled with unbearable pain as he was slowly losing consciousness.

'Ahhhhhhhhhhh! What are you? What d-do you want from me?'

Kyte shuddered as he tried his best to fend off the invader.

'Do not resist, this will be over soon.'

The entity spoke with a calm yet menacing voice.

If Kyte were to describe what he had been going through since the morning of Aurora 3rd, he would definitely call it a horror. He was shot and shortly after that his sister died and shortly after that he met an entity that would be best described as the embodiment of fear itself. He left behind a city of corpses in a failed attempt to resurrect his sister. He froze to death in space and now in a space he thought was the afterlife, a mysterious being was trying to take over his body.

'Why is all this happening to me? Could this be my punishment for all those innocent lives I ended?'

The day of the year that he hated the most had taken away everything from him and now he was about to be consumed by an opportunistic parasite.

'Do not resist, this will be over soon.'

'Be quiet.'

Kyte declared quietly.

'Do not resist, this will be over soon.'

The entity repeated those words over and over again.

'Be quieeeeeet!'

Kyte's fear had turned into anger. He was no longer afraid. His heart was filled with rage. He had lost everything but was unwilling to let himself be taken over.

'Your efforts are meaningless. Accept your impending fate.'

'Be gone!'

With those words, Kyte regained full control of his body. Before he could expel the mysterious entity from his body it fused itself with his soul. He tried with all of his might and succeeded in suppressing it.

'Another shadowy figure huh, where do they even come from?'

Kyte thought to himself before losing consciousness due to fatigue.

After losing consciousness, Kyte kept drifting in the empty space for hours before vanishing into thin air.

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