Amon stood underneath a lightpole at night.
The town was eerie silent and dark, with the street only partly illuminated by the soft light of the pole.
Amon sighed, a white puff coming out of his mouth.
It was bone chilling cold.
He was waiting for Alya as she had yet to arrive.
Amon's mind wandered off to what happened few hours ago.
He took several deep breaths as he rembered the scene to remain calm.
Just one second was enough to make him shiver uncontrollably.
After the girl's body fell to the ground, everyone were unable to hold in their screams.
They dispersed in fear and chaos broke out at the Southern Unit.
The only ones who remained at their spots were Alya, Elizabeth, Amon and a few other nobles.
But even Amon was unable to control his shivering.
That eting of their eyes.
It sent fear sparking through his body.
He felt as if every pain that girl inflicted on herself was being sent to him as well.
His knees buckled and he had barely kept himself standing.
The girl was quickly taken to the infirmary and the one she smiled at was taken for interrogation.
Minutes after, it was confird that the girl was dead.
Rebecca Stetson, soone he never knew but was soone's life and joy, was dead. Just like that.
This was the first death in their batch since the start.
And for so reason, Amon wasn't affected by it that much.
It was sothing he didn't expect as well.
Maybe because he knew in the back of his mind that this was just the starting.
A starting to an endless amount of deaths.
But there was sothing else that made Amon's heart drop.
After a person's death, their limbs and muscles would relax after so minutes.
However, that didn't happen for the girl.
Her eyes...
They never closed.
They remained open and hollow.
Her harrowing smile...
It never faded.
It remained rigid as ever.
No matter how much they tried to let it settle down.
The report had been quickly sent to Athena who would further take care of the matter.
It was a pretty big matter...
The death of a student.
Fortunately, Rebecca was from a normal family and not a noble one.
So the Academy wouldn't face much uproar or backlash.
Especially so when the Academy didn't even have much to do with the trip anyways.
It wasn't like the death had happened inside the academy.
In any case, the trip still wasn't canceled and it would proceed like it was supposed to.
There was no visible cause to Rebecca's death or any proof that it was the trip that caused that death.
Because of that, the students cald down a little and they were told to go rest now and take this off their heads.
In any case, Amon's trip to the library was quickly ruined because of this.
He basically had no idea what it was and why it was happening.
The Harrowing Smile, he thought.
That was the only clue he had till now.
Before he could think further, he heard the subtle sound of footsteps from the side.
His body imdiately tensed, his senses alard.
Amon's head cocked to the respective direction slightly, waiting for the person to co out.
And then, they did...
He breathed a sigh of relief as he saw a streak of blonde hair.
It was only Alya.
But then his expression morphed into fear as she fully ca into view.
She...
Had a wide smile on her face.
***
Darkness.
Pure eternal darkness.
That was all that Zephyra could see at the start.
After Amon seriously injured herself, she panicked.
Panicked because she couldn't afford to lose him.
She couldn't afford to lose her Heral-
No.
She was being unhonest to herself.
It wasn't because she couldn't afford to lose her herald.
No.
Even though that was a part of the matter, no.
It was because she couldn't afford to lose Amon.
That was the honest truth.
She panicked not because she was going to lose her Herald of Nothingness. No.
It was because she didn't want to lose Amon.
Amon as an actual person and friend rather than her Herald.
From the mont of her birth, all that repeated inside her head was to kill the Herald of Sun.
That was literally the only thing that system kept screaming at her.
She knew who the system was.
The One Who Must Not Be Nad.
The one who birthed her 24 years ago.
Aside from the main reason, this was the only reason she existed.
Did she want to kill the Herald of Sun?
No.
Why would she want to kill the herald of her twin brother?
But did she have to?
Yes.
Why did she have to?
She herself didn't know. The One Who Defies Almighty had many secrets.
She wasn't supposed to ask him anything.
Of course, she couldn't kill the herald herself.
Higher Beings aren't allowed to interact with Lower Beings.
There was a grave punishnt for doing so.
Because of that, she had to choose a herald.
A herald to eliminate to kill the Herald of Sun, sothing she didn't want to do.
Was Amon the first herald?
No. He wasn't.
There were 3 other Heralds before him.
What happened to them?
Dead.
Dead from injuries.
Dead from madness.
Dead from insanity.
They couldn't handle [Void].
It never happened.
And then, he ca in...
The third herald died from insanity and did suicide.
And the fourth one arrived in her boring life.
She had grown used to it by now.
They were all the sa. Her life would go like always.
Even if she wanted them to not kill, they'd either kill at the end or die before it, not listening
to her.
It was basically an endless loop for her by now.
A world of gray and hollow. A Void.
But from the mont he arrived, sothing sparked within her.
He was different. Different from everyone.
His choices were different. He treated her like an actual person.
She learnt sothing from the ti that passed with him.
She learnt to feel sothing as her gray world was covered in colors.
Everyday was a laugh with him as she learnt emotions in her life. That rapid beating of her heart when he chose her...
It was sothing new. Her body was doing everything on its own.
She didn't even know as it was completely foreign to her.
And so gradually, she started to beco 'friends' with him.
She liked him. He was the reason why she was enjoying it so much.
So that's why she couldn't afford to lose him.
He was important to her.
And also...
Maybe...
Just maybe...
He could do it.
This is chapter from yesterday.
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