Rainn then knew that his life is over. At the time when the last rubble fell to his head and buried him alive down this unknown cave chamber.
'Is this how it's going?' Rainn thought as his chest get heavy from the lack of oxygen.
'It's so dark in here,' Rainn keeps going. The sadness filled him.
In his life--that would soon be over--Rainn had never felt any sort of happiness before. And now, that life is finally gonna come to an end.
He will die alone, full of sadness and hatred. Where did all the fighting he'd done all this time lead him? To a miserable death that is.
Rainn remembers when he saw everybody running to the outside without looking back to him once. They left him even when he screamed for help. Nobody listens.
Rainn hates them all. And promise to himself that he will pay them back with something much worse.
But he can't. He is gonna die now. So, Rainn thinks that maybe his grudge will hit them as a curse.
'Well, that's good enough I think,'
Rainn can't ask for more. The pain in his body was unbearable. Air leaving his lungs. Rainn drew one last breath before going to the afterlife.
But suddenly he sees a light emerge from his left hand. It's dim light. Glowing white inside the darkness under the rubble that buried him alive.
With his blurred vision, Rainn sees that light glow brighter. And then covering all of his body and his eyes.
Rainn feels like his body is being dragged into the light by an unknown force.
Rainn thought this is the time when death actually happen.
~~~
"Did you hear that?" Ask a long-haired man with a gaunt face. Looking at his friend, a man who is taller than him with a bald head.
"Yeah, I heard that," answer the bald man. But he looked indifferent. Not like his long-haired friend who is looking like he was panicking.
"Is it okay?"
"What do you mean?" The bald man asked like he was genuinely confused.
"We let him die when he is asking for help," said the long-haired man.
The bald one sighed, "Listen Corm, everybody died every time. Especially when you are a supernatural hunter. You know the rule."
Yeah, that rule. Crom knew it well. But that rule only applies to the people who can't be saved anymore. But that man--Corm didn't know his name--he still can be saved. If they want to.
Corm kept silent about that. There's nothing he can do now anyway. Even when he felt guilt enveloping him, he can't save that man now. Corm hopes there's somebody who would claim his body.
The party gets on the truck and they start moving. The rain starts pouring. A lightning strike in the distance.
Whatever happened back there was just considered to be one of the misfortunes of the mission. Nothing special to talk about. At least for the part-time hunter.
Bryna looked at the window beside her head that now started to get foggy. She saw her own reflection in there. Not saying a single word.
"What are you thinking about?" Ask Artren.
Bryna didn't answer immediately, "Nothing."
"You sure?" Artren looked at her with concern.
"Yeah, don't worry."
Artren still looking with unsureness. But, in the end, he just lets Bryna with her thoughts.
Bryna doesn't think about anything special, besides a voice that cries for help before she finally made it out of that cave chamber.
She didn't know who that is. Maybe just some part-time hunter who dying struck down by the rubble.
It's never made her used to it. She knew everybody gonna die at some point in the middle of a hunting mission and worrying too much would not make any difference.
But Bryna still thought about that when the mission is over.
Sighing, finally, Bryna decided to let it go. Even when something still feels wedge in her feeling.
~~~
Rainn feels like he is drowning. He remembers this feeling. Back there when he was a child Rainn had a chance to swim in a lake that he doesn't remember the location of now. And then drowned when he realizes he can't even swim.
This is almost the same feeling. He can't feel the weight of his body. But he can still breathe. Or, some kind of feeling that is similar to breathing.
"Open your eyes."
'What is this?' Rainn asks himself. The voice is somehow weird. Not man, not women, not a child or an old person. It's the voice that merges it all.
But, Rainn still opened his eyes.
What he sees is white light. Covering all over the place. Nothing but just white light.
His body flew in the middle of it all.
"What the fuck?" Ask Rainn. Even though he didn't know to whom he ask this question.
"You have taken the power of Systema," the strange voice answered.
"Huh?"
"You will now be able to use this power at will," the voice said again.
"Who are you? Am I not die?"
"You almost died. But, the power of Systema brings you back to life. And I am something that came with the Systema."
Rainn curved his eyebrows, 'So I'm not dead? Well, that's good. But how? And what is this 'Systema' thing?'
"What is Systema?" Rainn asked.
"It's a power," the voice answered simply. Like is just a matter of fact.
Rainn sighed, "Yes, but what kind of power. Just answer the damn question like I'm some kind of idiot."
"You will know. But I can tell you one thing, this power came from a different world."
That answer is not what Rainn hope he got. Instead, he got more questions than answers.
"Well, whatever." Rainn decided to ignore that for now. "If this power prevents me from dead. Why am I here now?"
"Your body is destroyed. Need time to make your new body."
Rainn blinked quickly, "My body is destroyed? Then how am I still alive?"
"Like I said before. It's because of the power of Systema." The voice said. "You really are an idiot."
"Hey!" Rainn shouted.
"Your soul is extracted. And will be inserted into your new body. When it's finished."
"Okay, when it will be finished?" Ask Rainn.
The voice didn't answer immediately. After a few seconds, it answered again.
"It's finished now."
"Hmm, kinda fast. I was hoping like a few months or something."
And then just like before. Rainn's body is dragged with so much power he can't even say anything. The white light place is gone. And he came back alive.
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