Sacrifice: Time of Mine
Chapter 10: Death Experience

There was a blade piercing through Avion's heart as he felt pain now rather than just heat before he saw this.

"You're a problem for the Haliviana. Please die."

Avion's face paled and as he gasped in terror, he held his chest and even wounding his finger when he touched the blade.

It was real. the blade was through his chest, specifically, his heart. Blood then flowed from his mouth. He wanted to cough but moving increases the pain since the sharp blade will further slice the tissue's in his heart.

Every heartbeat was making Avion wanting to twist in pain.

"Ughhh...." he further gasped as his heart began beating slower and slower.

At the last moment of his life, he saw his memories back in his old world. All those repetitive days of nothingness and loneliness felt like a moment compared to the time he spent on this world which felt like his whole life. Conversing with others, feeling new emotions, unknown things appearing, unique thoughts popping in his head, and happiness that overwhelms him.

Tears came sliding down his cheeks, 'I don't want to die...'

His memories about back in his old world that is worth all his life flashed so quickly but the memories he just gained this half a day was still playing in his head.

'I don't want to die yet!'

'GO BACK!'

For Edora, only a moment had passed since she stabbed Avion's back without him even noticing. With calm eyes, she saw how Avion's arms fell lifelessly before cold-bloodedly taking out the sword sheathed from his body.

"You're so mysterious but you only worth so much..." slowly, Edora turned around and closed the opened door.

"Still, I can't believe that you act so mighty but in front of a mere Rank Dih Elementalist and you're dead. You should thank me. If the King of Karan knows about this, which he eventually will, you're going to be tortured every single moment until you lose your life while my head will roll. But that wouldn't happen if I present your head to him first." she then sighed, "What kind of ability do you even have?" she crouched down in front of the corpse observing his lifeless face and eyes, staring into the empty space, "Light Element? If that's your Element then I wouldn't be surprised you blinking everywhere... amateur..."

While she was observing his body, she noticed something as she immediately looked at his face, the dead's eyes staring at her eyes.

When she made eye-contact to the dead, no, to Avion's eyes, Edora gulped,

"Did I talk to myself too much again? I didn't even notice his eyes, I thought he was looking... there..." she exhaled deeply before some light appeared at the perimeter of her eyes. In warry, she jumped suddenly jumped back with a speed comparable to the speed she caught Avion by surprise and looked at him.

What she saw made her knowledge about anything at all useless as she could only stare wide-eyed, not knowing if that something in front of her was dangerous or not. All she can was stare at the light that seemingly traveled as if it was water vapor coming from Avion's dead body.

"Purple...? What Element is purple...?" Edora panicked as she thought but she stopped thinking when as of that moment, she saw something she was confident was out of this world.

The light that acted like a water vapor coalesced into a shape something like of an hourglass; its container having intricate carvings while its the sand within unmoving as if stuck. But it was an impossible object as every sand in it was minuscule but none of them was falling.

Edora just gazed at it, admiring the view while her eyes reflect the light of purple. She only woke up when she saw the hourglass immediately turned around and everything turned black and white.....

Avion, a few moments later- no, a few moments back, woke up in the lobby room which was black and white. When his eyes were filled with life again, he gasped as if there was no air while he held his chest.

"Haa-! Ha-! Haaa...-!" he wheezed while he profusely sweated. But when he held his chest, there was no longer the pain he felt earlier and only heat. However, that was what he felt earlier too, nothing but heat until he realized he was stabbed, the pain only then tortured him.

Having traumatized by the pain he suffered earlier, it was hard for him to look at his chest. But thinking that the sword may not be there, mysteriously, he finally gained the courage to look and saw his chest... normal. His heart beating crazily was the only thing abnormal there.

There was no blade nor blood so Avion began to calm down and his crazing heartbeat slowed.

Only after a moment after taking deep breaths, did he notice the black and white that surrounded him. He looked around and realized that the time was stopped again.

"....." Avion began to doubt what happened but when he turned his head and saw the open door, his heartbeat picked up the speed again as his head slowly panned to his back and there was Edora, holding her sword high as she was about to stab his back with a cold-blooded expression.

"Ah... ah..." this frightened Avion as he dropped on the ground and slowly got farther by kicking the ground.

Looking from a distance, it was spine-shivering to see that he was under a blade that was about to pierce down. Anybody in his position would react the same, or worse. after they experienced "death" from what they were looking at. Especially, Avion who had never have any problem with getting hurt since he was a child.

Spoiled by the world, giving him everything he needed but then suddenly, he experienced a painful and torturous "death" Who wouldn't get traumatized by that?

Remembering the pain from earlier, Avion felt anger rising inside him. Knowing that the time was stopped, he stood up with less fear and stood beside Edora who was once "killed" him. With burning rage, he pulled his fist away and gave all his strength onto a punch.

Thud*

"Aw!"

Avion felt he just punched a statue as he overdramatizes the pain on his fist.