"Eh?"
Juan was stunned, then when he realize what those words means. He was suddenly overjoyed!
"I'm not dead?"
He had to asked it this time to really confirm what he had just heard.
'What if? It was just my hallucinations? I'm just hearing things I wanna hear and it wasn't actually true? I need confirmation!'
The shadow person open his arms and then looked at him in contempt.
"If not? Would we still be talking here right now? If not because I want to survive, I won't be resorting to this now. Ahhh! I really want to kill you!"
Hearing this and looking at the shadow person's face, Juan was overjoyed. He can't help but I'm laughed immediately.
"Hahaha, I'm alive! I won't have to die! Great! Great! Great! But....why are you not dead? Can you please die for me. I will surely appreciate it."
After laughing for a while, he immediately thought of a problem. Since he wasn't dead, and this shadow monster now a shadow person is also alive.
"What's going on? I'm clearly dead after all those injuries and damages I got. And you told me I'm still alive? Tell me what's going on."
There are many things Juan wanted to asked but he had to start with this for now.
The shadow person also calmed down a bit after a while after venting out his anger to Juan he can't reached.
"You want me to tell you? Hehe, scram! What about it? Angry now? Hahaha, I learned this from you!"
Hearing the mocking shouts in front of him, Juan's face turn black. In the face of this monster, Juan can show clearly what he wants to express in his face.
"I read your memories a while ago while your asleep by the way, no need to thank me. I didn't expect you to actually came in another land."
The shadow monster head shake left and right as he let out a 'tsk, tsk, tsk' sound. However, Juan's face was getting darker and darker.
That was his greatest secret, no one should know about this. Even a monster doesn't have any authority to know that.
Juan's expression has now turn cold from the initial sloppy attitude just now. If he was dead, this would not be important anymore.
But now that he knew he was still alive together with this monster. That means, he won't be able to eat and sleep if he let this monster go.
'I must kill this monster at all cost! A secret can only remain a secret if only known to myself. This must not go out of this place.'
Juan didn't want to pay attention to the shadow person anymore who was blurting out mocking words he was familiar with.
"What now ant? Trash? Can't say anything? Hahahaha! Foolish human! This great me is in front of you! Hehehe, you can't do anything ~"
"If you want me to tell you then start begging on your knees immediately. Who knew I might just tell you? I actually have some pity on you, you know~"
However Juan wasn't listening to him anymore, instead he noticed something in hia surroundings.
'I haven't gotten a clear look just now because of this blabbering shadow but this place sure look all white. I can feel I'm floating and wasn't standing on a hard ground.'
After a while, the shadow person finally notice Juan's mind and eyes seems elsewhere and this immediately made him angry.
"Hey! Hey! Hey! You trash! Where are you looking at? I'm talking here in front of you and your mind's not here?!! Do you think I'm happy with your attitude like that?!"
The whole place defy gravity yet they were standing fixed in mid-air. There's no ground nor any hard thing he can stepped to stand.
He could feel he was breathing but he didn't know if what he was inhaling was even an oxygen. The whole place feels like they're boundless yet also a constricted place.
"Shut up."
Juan looked on coldly at the shadow person and decided to forget about communicating with a monster.
'A monster won't be able to understand nor feel pity on us humans. A species different from us is bound to think differently. I need to find out what's goin on first.'
Even when the shadow monster was yelling in front of him nonstop. Shouting he would tell him what he wants to know. However, Juan's heart wasn't moved.
'I can find the answer all by myself. I never even trusted another human, how could I trust you, a monster's words?'
Just like that, Juan observed and felt everything that can be done around him. At the same time, Juan nervous heart also calmed down a lot.
'This is the first time I experienced this kind of fantasy place. It's amazing, wonderful, indescribable. How did this kind of place come to be?'
Juan felt curious. And he didn't hide it.
'Dead or alive, I don't know what's true or not. Since that's the case, I'll just follow what the heart wants.'
Explore!
Since ancient times, people are all innate curious creatures. They fear what can't be seen. They dared what they can't understand.
Finally, after who how much time had passed. Juan finally gleaned upon something he had almost overlooked just now.
'I didn't expect this. I'm actually a little transparent? Just like some kind of ghost body, meaning I'm currently just a soul?'
'But I could clearly hear my heartbeat, I could touch myself. Feel myself, smell myself, and even taste the skin of my hand.'
'Could it be, this is how being a soul works? Am I really dead? Is this shadow monster got somehow glued with me after death?'
If what he was thinking and guessing were facts, Juan won't be feeling happy at all.
'If I really died. I feel sorry for my wife. We had just started and the next day, it suddenly ended. Married yesterday, widow today.'
Looking at the white sky, thinking of Ceth's reserved and somewhat bookwormish personality.
Juan couldn't help but let out a smile on his face. Then, knowing that he had irresponsibly left her. The smile disappeared.
'I need to find a way to leave this place. To do that, this monster must disappear. If I really died, then it's also not bad to disappear, and forget everything.'
After thinking for a while, Juan didn't pay his surroundings anymore attention.
Instead, his gaze returned back to the shadow person who at this time was still fuming in anger.
The moment the shadow monster saw Juan was once again looking at him. Immediately, it red circle eyes lit up as it once again started talking and blabbering.
Juan didn't bother to hear what he was talking. Instead, he was observing every inches, every part of his enemy.
'How can I reach and deal a blow on this monster? I have no torch in hand, nor did I have a javelin oozing hot unto it's blade to throw.'
Just when he was thinking of those objects, his heart suddenly shudder as he realize something in his hand.
Looking down stiffly, his gaze turn down and followed what was on his hand. Immediately, his mind shook and felt shock in his heart.
'This is...a torch? I clearly wasn't holding one before this and now....hmm?!'
On his other hand, he immediately saw a javelin with purplish red hot spear head. Juan didn't mouth opened into an 'O' shaped.
'A torch and a javelin. Before this, I was just thinking of them. Then suddenly, they appeared like magic....hmmm.'
Juan's eyes suddenly curves as though he understands something incredible. His heart thumped and he could feel the excitement his blood flowing in his veins.
'Ehehehe.'
In the next moment, Juan eyes moved, rolled as it found his target.
"...you know when those juniors of mine were still but a toddler, although I hated them. They are still my children so I cannot forgive you for killing them—!!"
Suddenly, the shadow person who had been too engrossed in his own world suddenly shudder as he could feel himself being targeted by something dangerous!
"Danger! But that is impossible! Where could the danger in this place appea—"
Before the shadow monster could react and fully see where was the danger came from.
A purplish red glow suddenly appeared in his line of sight that rapidly grow larger and larger, in the next instant consumed his whole eyes.
Pah!
Without suspense, the javelin pierced through it's head and made it burst like how a watermelon would explode when shot by a bullet.
"All that remains is the body. Tell me, can survive without your head?"
Although Juan's voice resounded out. Another javelin was thrown once again, piercing the left shoulder of the shadow person.
Once again, another javelin flown out and pierce through the other side. Another, another, another.
Juan didn't stopped till he pierced through the whole shadow person into a tattered smoke.
"Forget about resurrection, however do reincarnate to become a good person next time."
As a cautious person, how could Juan believe this shadow person to be fully dead? Who knew if it had some backup in hand and can still recover?
Immediately, a balloon full of gasoline appeared in his hand. Juan immediately throw ten of them towards the shadow.
When they hit reach the shadow's place. They burst out one by one, immediately a torch was sent flying and arrived in the center.
Bang!
Everything was sent ablaze. Even the shadow couldn't escape it's fate to become ashes and return to dust.