*After an amount of unknown time*
Grace has regained her consciousness, still a bit hazy but is able to notice her surroundings.
Grace (Bed is soft but, light too bright… Am I in the infirmary? What happened?)
The room she is staying in has other empty beds.
After a few more seconds, Grace finally fully regained her consciousness and jumped off the bed, landing her feet into a pair of slippers.
Grace (Quite comfy.)
Walking toward the only door inside of the room, Grace slowly felt that her body was getting heavier… She slammed her shoulder against the door, her hand holding on the door handle, feeling all tired after only taking a few steps.
Her face pressed against the glass panel in the door, her eyes fixed on the door handle while her hand tried to open it but it wouldn't budge. Her eyes shifted over to the glass panel to see what was outside and all she saw was nothing.
The whole place was dark, even the light inside of the room she was staying in couldn't outline anything from the outside. After using so much of her strength, the door wouldn't budge.
Suddenly out of nowhere, a pair of eyes appeared in front of the glass panel. Despite the darkness, the pair of eyes were clear as day.
Grace (What the f-) thought was interrupted when the door suddenly opened in her face, knocking her back and onto the ground.
Grace: Bordel de merde! Tu ne peux pas voir!
Unfamiliar voice: It seems so.
The pair of eyes float into the room and morph into a young female wearing a black cloak. Her eyes fixed on Grace then she spoke up.
Unfamiliar Female: Not dead yet?
Grace: Of course, I'm not. Who the hell are you?
Unfamiliar Female: It seems we will be meeting more often than not.
The black cloak female changes her appearance into her male counterpart.
Unfamiliar Male: I am Death, like the Grimm Reaper. But Death for short.
Grace pushed herself away from the unfamiliar person: Are you here to take my life? I-I-I only fainted, you can't count that as a death.
Death M: You don't question my identity but question how you die.
Grace: Of course, I don't care who you are, I have a future with someone I like and I won't let Death or anyone interfere with it.
Death M switched to Death F: Oh, how naïve you are. I can't wait to see you be the person who interferes with that beloved future of yours.
Grace: And I can't wait to see you be wrong. On my deathbed, introduced him to you for the first time.
Death F: You have quite the sharp tongue. I expected you to be more vulgar after insulting that dream of yours.
Grace: haa, if you are Death or not. I ain't giving you any leverage to pull your string.
Death F: Aww, such a smart girl. Want to hear a secret?
*pull out a book with black cover and the word DEATH engrave on it*
"Death only kills 1% of the people in this book, the rest are the souls I collected. Your name was about to be in this book, but things happen and now your name is not in here."
Grace: Then why are you still here?
Death M: You don't get to meet people that die and are reborn that frequently. And you have a pretty fun future to be looking out for, well for me at least.
*Toss a small ring box at her*
Grace: heh, what is the meaning of this? You switched gender just to propose.
Death M: Another fact about this book. It's also keeping track of fate, we'll surely meet again during that moment of your life, but for now just the usual death check-up.
Death then disappears in front of Grace's eyes.
Still lying on the floor and doesn't know what to do, her body doesn't have the strength to pull herself up, but have enough strength to open the ring box, which contains a golden ring inside.
Grace took the golden ring out of the box to do some inspection but when she just touched it, the golden ring immediately inserted itself into her ring finger.
Annoyed by what just happened, Grace's body fully regained its strength to pull the golden ring out of her finger.
Grace: You fuck… how dare you violate my privacy like that… Agggh why won't you budge? Get out of my hand – Agh!
*panting*panting*
(Finally, why was it so hard.)
Suddenly a loud sound of metal hitting the ground shocked Grace out of her thoughts.
Grace: What was that?!
Grace hastily looked at her surroundings and she saw that she was sitting on the bed and not on the floor. The metal sound was the IV stand falling to the floor.
Grace (Wait? Was all that a dream and now I'm back in reality?) then hears a familiar voice.
Familiar voice: Are you ok Grace?
Grace looked to where the voice was and saw that it was Jihu lifting the IV stand off the ground.
"Umm, I guess. Why am I here? Did I faint somewhere?"
Jihu: You did. Before you ask any more questions, I need to ask you some questions and do some assessment.
Grace: Is it really necessary? This happened all the time, I trained too hard then fainted and when I woke up, it was like nothing happened.
Jihu: It'll be necessary if you don't want your fainting to continue interrupting your training.
Grace: Good point. So, do what you need to do.
Jihu: Do you remember what you were doing before fainting?
Grace: Me and Sunz were training against a butler named Archibald for some hours, and then everything shut down for me.
Jihu: Ok, right now do you feel anything strange, any discomfort, headache, numbness in your arms or legs?
Grace: No, nothing at all. I am… completely fine, except for this part on my arm that just bleeds a bit and still stinging. But I think that was where the IV was.
Jihu: And you say it's normal for you to faint while training and wake up like nothing happened.
Grace: Yeah… well not normal like it happens all the time, it only happens when I strain myself with training.
Jihu: Were you dreaming when you pulled the IV cannula out of your arm? Your eyes were closed during that.
Grace: IV cannula?
Jihu: The needle thing that was stabbed into your arm.
Grace: I was dreaming for sure but I didn't know that I pull the needle thing… WAIT! You were watching me sleep!... wait why did I worry about that? You are the person who knows if his patient is dead or alive.
Jihu: ok… do you remember what happened in the dream that forced you to pull out the cannula?
Grace: I was visited by Death, she-he I mean they gave me a golden ring that automatically attached itself onto my ring finger. When I was pulling it out, I think my real-life body was pulling on the cannula.
Jihu:… Is your obsession over Sunz getting out of hand? The Death you mention. Is it symbolic of you and him dying of old age?
Grace: Yeah probably. (His logic seems to make sense, maybe that is not really Death)
Jihu: That is all of the question. Now, can you get out of the bed?
Grace jumps off the bed with ease, landing on the floor with her bare feet.
Jihu: hmm, nothing wrong. Now can you summon your ice rapier and perform some swing for me?
Grace: One rapier or two rapier.
Jihu: Two if you can but one is good enough.
Grace summoned two ice rapiers each in her hand then performed some of her attack in front of Jihu. All of her movements seem to be normal, her body has no strange reaction.
Jihu: You don't feel anything strange right?
Grace: Nothing… well a bit tired after waking up and quite hungry.
Jihu: Well, you are good to go then. You can leave whenever you like.
Grace vanished her ice rapiers: Hey, do you where Sunz is right now?
Jihu: Oh, he just sitting in that corner over there sleeping, tired from his training.
Grace (how did I not notice?): How long has he been here?
Jihu: About an hour or two. I did have to fix him up a bit, there were bruises all over him. He also said that he was sorry for not staying longer.
Grace: Oh, that's moron there is no need to be sorry for not staying longer. If it was because of me that he lost his final round, I would have beat him up.
Jihu: Well then, I'll leave you two alone. See you again.
Grace: Yeah, see you.
Jihu walked out of the door and closed it behind him. Then he pulled out his notebook and noted something down.
'Dead aura still appears as Dead after the patient has recovered. It seems to be acting like normal aura but appears as Dead.'
Jihu: This aura study is more complicated than I thought.