I quickly headed for the other exit of the library and Paul headed in the opposite direction. He turned around and waved to before turning the corner, then we parted ways.
As I always do, after leaving school, I only walked half an hour and reached ho.
It was an ordinary day, except that I was really tired... both physically and ntally. So, as soon as I changed my clothes, I went to bed. My mind went back to what I had seen before I woke up this morning, and my eye twitched for a mont.
"I don't understand..."
I raised my hand and held it up to the light, looking at the rays of the lamp's light shining through my fingers.
The more I try to figure things out, the more aningless things erge... The more I try to let things go, the more things insert themselves into my life.
I took a deep breath, lowered my hand and closed my eyes, turning off the light in the room.
I really need to sleep... At least let sleep properly today.
Seconds passed, minutes, without moving a bit and without making a sound. Finally, my eyes slowly opened, once again... and I sighed, looking at the ceiling in the dark room.
I went to the kitchen, poured cold water from the fridge over my head. Then I sat in the chair in front of the table and waited again.
I can't sleep... I just can't.
I put my hands under my eyes, they were slightly puffy. So I opened my watch and looked at myself in the cara app.
My eyes were red, the swelling I had just felt under my eyes was even more visible on the cara. The image made realize how little sleep I had gotten in the last few days.
I turned off the cara and focused on the silence in the room, I tried to think but I wasn't sure what to think about.
Well... what do I know that I can even think about, in the beginning...
With this thought, everything suddenly seed aningless.
What am I doing? I'm not looking at my watch or anything... I'm just waiting in silence.
Why is that?
If I talk to my brother, will he give so advice?
Oh, he was away sowhere... right. And he told not to text him for two weeks. So, I can't do sothing like that.
Still... I hope he's okay.
I leaned back in the chair, closed my eyes again. I tried to concentrate, tried to focus on the tiredness that was over .
I feel so tired... then why can't I sleep?
I opened my eyes again, and this ti I didn't just stand there or get up.
Instead, when I opened my eyes, what I saw made my eyes widen and I froze in place.
There was sothing blue in front of . Sothing I was used to seeing, but different from anything I had ever seen.
What the hell is this?
Is this... what they call system? B- but I'm not seventeen yet... W- what's going on?
I jumped up quickly, reaching for this strange notification in front of , but my hand went right through it. Yet the holographic screen and the ssage on it remained intact, not even slightly changed when I withdrew my hand.
As if it had been waiting for this mont, the notification suddenly disappeared, and then another one appeared in front of .
What...?
First my vision blurred slightly, then my world spun wildly. I felt sothing strange swirling inside , sothing slowly spreading through my whole body... Then I heard voices, as if... thousands of different notifications were surrounding all at once.
More blue-colored system notifications kept coming out, more than I could count, and I covered my ears. The sounds were loud enough to make my ears ring, maybe even burst my eardrums. It was also frightening, my head was spinning like crazy and I could feel the heat coming from my nose.
Yet in the midst of all this chaos, all this aninglessness, suddenly sothing else caught my attention.
A sound, a sound different from the sound of hundreds of notifications popping up. A... cracking, breaking sound.
Then another and another and another.
When I opened my eyes, I found myself not in my room, but in the nothingness where I had been last ti in my dream... in front of the gray sphere with cracks all over it.
The cracks on it had widened and spread. On top of that, the darkness visible through the cracks... was now more pronounced, more frightening.
I reflexively put my hand on the sphere, just like last ti, but this ti sothing different happened. I felt sothing being pulled out of my body, sothing I had felt before in the atmosphere, in my surroundings, but could never use...
Mana.
My mana flowed from my body into the sphere, so of the runes that surrounded it with dark cracks faded. They vanished into thin air, though not all of it was gone. Only about a quarter of it was erased. Nevertheless, the cracks on the sphere trembled. It was as if the sphere was trying to contain the darkness it hid behind it.
Yet, it failed.
As so of the writing supporting the cracks disappeared, darkness began to seep through them. Like smoke, like fog, it covered the whole place.
And then a notification appeared in front of again.
The notifications did not stop here.
The darkness that was seeping through the cracks at the ti this notification ca out suddenly paused, stopped spreading and suddenly surrounded my whole body.
I stepped back in fear, trying to escape the intense darkness, but I couldn't. The darkness entered my body, literally absorbed by it.
At the sa ti, an intense pain suddenly enveloped my whole body, I could not make any sound as my vocal cords refused to work because of the pain. My vision went completely black, and then my world went silent.
Still, I did not find peace. It hurt, I felt like I was lting as if the blood was being removed from my body and replaced with new one. The fla that burned in my heart was always there. It never stopped.
I woke up, I suffered, I fainted.
I woke up, I suffered, I fainted.
Again and again, without stopping.
I scraped my fingernails on the floor, I struggled, but nothing worked. My screams echoed inside myself, I couldn't see anything because of the tears in my eyes.
Minutes passed, maybe hours. I tried to crawl toward the bathroom, hoping that going under the water would ease the pain a little. Just then the pain began to recede slowly, not as suddenly as it had co... Slowly, as if trying to leave a mark on .
I paused, finally able to focus my thoughts on sothing other than the pain.
The first thing that crossed my mind was sothing simple.
Why?
My whole body trembled violently, the pain continued to diminish slowly, but it was still so intense that I couldn't stop struggling.
Why is this happening?
I banged my head on the floor, trying to pass out so I wouldn't wake up.
It too didn't work.
I did everything I could to faint, I even bit my tongue, but nothing was working.
Stop it already...
After a while, the pain finally subsided to a level I could bear. Still, I didn't get up, I just closed my eyes, which had dried up, but I didn't lose consciousness, and another series of notifications fell in front of .
Notifications did not stop.
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