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Chapter 6 - Prelude to Ends

"Hnn ..." I felt a light behind my closed eyes.

"What is this feeling?" Slowly I opened my eyes, trying to remember what had happened to me.

"Why am I here? What on earth happened?" With a sad feeling, I try to understand my situation now. When I opened my eyes, all I saw was a white expanse of nothing but only a floor like water that stretched as long as the eye could see. I feel like I'm walking on water, every time I step, the water sounds like drops of water from a water tap into a tub of water, amid the silence of the night.

"Where am I?"

"Why is my body like this?" I did not understand what was happening, when I checked my body and observed starting from my hands that I could easily see, my hands were white, and immediately I realized that my body was all white in flames, there was no visible curve of my face, which I felt I became a form of a light posture of an adult human.

"Am I dead? Like I'm not a child too with this form."

Suddenly there was a sound like a computer notification that I heard from my mother's laptop.

*Ding ...*

"The system has been uploaded, and is starting to extract into the soul system of Humans and other races."

"Extraction is complete, run the program procedure."

I was just astonished to see an appearance like I used to see on my mother's laptop screen. I didn't even know what it really was, because I was young at the time and didn't understand things like that.

Suddenly a screen with a message with foreign letters appeared in front of me, for some reason I could understand the meaning of the writing. The message window was half the height of my current form, and was a few meters away from my sight and floating in the air, so I had to raise my gaze 15 degrees. I could only be silent watching everything happen, until then.

"Welcome, I'm the administrator." Suddenly the screen made a sound as if it could communicate with me.

"My job is to provide information about the current situation."

"I will confirm some data to *Your Name* of race *Humans*."

"When I ask, you answer."

"When I'm done, you can ask anything."

"Yes." Then a notification appears and there is only one answer, which is yes. It seems like I have to follow everything it asks.

In a low voice, I answered "Yes .."

"What's your name? While looking at something like a cursor blinking at the end of the writing after a voice came out asking questions, I answered every question from the administrator.

"Yuji"

"Do you still want to live?"

"Of course there is ...!" I'm not done with my words but then the voice replied immediately.

"Understood."

*

Suddenly my body sank into something like water under me. I wanted to scream but my voice could not come out nor could I avoid my body disengaging.

"Arrrgghhh ..." I shouted inside my head. Could not do anything, so I just gave up.

"Eh ?? Didn't I sink before," I murmured.

It was really strange! I felt like I'm sinking, but now I feel like being lifted from the bottom of the ocean to the surface, like a bubble that bounces back to the surface after being thrown into the water, but at a slow pace. I also don't feel short of breath at all, so deep curiosity makes me even more curious, moreover, I'm just a 4-year-old kid but I feel like someone else with this form.

The land that was visible over the curtain that I had just passed was astonished that my mind could not reveal. Millions, maybe even hundreds of millions or even billions of forms like me gather in an infinite place no matter how far I try to see.

"Hey! Where are we ?!" I was about to reach another form like me and ask something, but not a single word came out of my mouth, my body seemed to be locked. I can only see, hear, and feel, can not do anything else. But strangely I felt calm, there was not the slightest worry.

The world that we are in right now suddenly bends, curls up and seems to position our position towards only one corner. Then the same thing as before appeared, the Administrator!.

"Welcome to Astral Space, O' the creations of my Lord."

"This place is the Altar at the very end of the entrance to heaven. Your body is currently on earth, we are covering your body with a highest-level Ultimate Spell, the time-stopping cloud that you humans call *Lamuk*."

"All of you here now is the manifestation of your soul, and you have made it past the first obstacle and made it to the second level."

"All beings who decided to not live will be not included in the next stages and also dies in their original world. And those of you who make it here will be blessed, congratulations!"