"Where am I?" I asked myself. "What happened to me? " I asked myself again, but no answer came. I tried to move my body, but my attempts were in vain, for I could not feel my body.
I tried to at least look around, but again I could see nothing but impenetrable darkness. "It's strange that I can think calmly at all in such a situation and I'm not even scared... Ah, I remembered," painful memories began to crash into my consciousness and I was in great pain. "Ahhhh, I'm so scared, Mom, Dad, your daughter is in so much pain that you died! I'm sorry, really sorry! I'm sorry! " I screamed in my mind to keep my sanity toned down.
But I was getting worse by the second in this state, and keeping my sanity was unbearably difficult. "Am I dead? If so, why can't I remember how? " I asked myself question after question in order to keep myself sane. The more I was in this state, the more I wanted to get away from it. "This bottomless emptiness is so corrosive, but then why do my thoughts remain so fluid? Am I losing my mind? I'm scared, I pray I want to feel something!" and in answer to my prayer I could vaguely feel something below my waist.
"My leg! I can feel it, what a delight to feel something! Maybe I'm not dead, but just unconscious? It's quite possible I just fainted and then woke up in the hospital " hope began to build up in me that I would soon wake up from such a nightmare. The next thing I could feel were my eyes. I immediately opened them and was fucked by the sight before my eyes.
I saw space, or something like it. The many bright lights that danced in sync in that dark space mesmerized me with it. That I even forgot for a second that I was in the middle of nowhere. "So beautiful, I wish I could touch them, but they're too far away from me, too far away" I thought frustratedly and looked away from the lights. Then I had to focus on what I seemed to be approaching.
I was approaching a giant castle. The first thing that caught my eye was its gates. They were so tall that they could reach up to those lights. It seemed that this gate was made of a solid piece of white marble, as it reflected the light of all the lights. "I can feel my body now and I should check it out" I thought and looked at the body.
"Whatooooooo?! Why am I transparent?! Isn't it faint, don't tell me I died when I fainted" yes my body was completely transparent and I was also completely naked! As I pondered, my surroundings suddenly changed and I found myself on the same marble bridge as the gate I had seen earlier.
But I was not alone, and that both frightened and pleased me. There was a tall but slightly hunched man standing in front of me, and he was also unclothed, and behind me...
I WAS MET BY A MONSTER! It was a human body, but with a twist. I could see his skull and bits of flesh hanging from it. I had a sudden urge to show this man what I ate for breakfast today. But I couldn't do it because I heard a voice.
- We welcome you wandering souls, you have arrived instead of the distribution of souls that will allow you to "cleanse" and become a new life, but not all of you are worthy of this honor and for that there is us, the keepers *******. And the place you are in is called Imajino. - said a voice distorted at least a hundred times. From so many repetitions I could repeat his words or hers to you. Besides, it wasn't clear who the voice belonged to. "But I couldn't figure out what they were.
But then something crazy happened. Even though I wasn't looking ahead, I knew I was standing in line. So what I'm getting at now is that all the human and non-human souls started screaming, too! No, they weren't saying words, they were just mooing or growling, generally acting like wild animals. " Ah, the line moved a little? Looks like this is my last road before my new life... Wait, why is my body red?! I have a horrible feeling that my body is red for a reason.
Soon the crowd of souls calmed down and returned to their usual sepulchral silence, and I was only more afraid for that color. "Maybe it means I'm special and they'll give me some kind of privilege, since I'm still conscious. Will they send me to another world with my memories or bring me back to life, I wish that was it! " I thought, and decided to finally look at the keeper.
This is... This is just disgusting. "I thought it would be a handsome guardian, not the bogeyman from horror movies, but how wrong I was" I thought, and I was shaking with fear of the powerful creature.
It was a huge open mouth with many eyes that were countless. They constantly watch over every soul on this bridge, and they seemed to notice me. I was immediately paralyzed by their gaze as I sensed that there were many of these guards. "I don't want to go to them! They are too obscure and strange! Why are they shaped like that? You couldn't pick a handsome guy to be pleasant to look at, and with his help you can arrange torture" I panicked in my thoughts, but continued to stride across the bridge.
After a long time, I found myself right in front of a gate into something I didn't know. And as soon as I tried to look up, a dozen non-human guards' eyes immediately stared at me. There were only a couple of people standing in front of me, and out of the corner of my eye I noticed a man with the same body color, whom I must not have seen because of the panic. I thought to myself, "I have to follow this man and see what will happen to him", and began to follow him closely, but because of the tall man I could not see the whole body of the soul.
- Sinner, you do not deserve to be purified, your punishment will be to go to hell to work out your sin" said the guard, this time he was not distorted. At first I thought he was just like the others, but he had a mind like mine.
- N-no wait, Mr. Guardian, I beg you to give me a chance to atone for my sin, it was her own fault for being so provocatively dressed, so I couldn't help myself! - but before the soul could speak, a circle was formed underneath it, in the center of which a closed eye was drawn, but after a moment the eye opened and the man immediately disappeared. "Shit, shit, shit! What the fuck just happened! Is this going to happen to me too? Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!" screamed in my mind, but then I was drawn to the next words of the guard .
- Sinner, this is your redemption as an inferior creature in the demon world - said the guard coldly. "I'm a sinner, too, and this will happen to me, too! But I don't want that!?" panicked me, but the line came up for me and I had no choice but to walk to the gate next to where the guard was hovering.
With every step I took, it became harder and harder to walk forward, my body felt heavy, as if lead had been poured into it. "But I don't want to atone for my sin like that! Anything but that," and as if in response to my thoughts, I heard a voice that I will never forget in my life.
~ Okay, honey, you owe me one ~ the voice said, and a huge puddle of black sludge formed under my feet and hands came out and dragged me off in some unknown direction.