Ep 1

Where am I? Am I still alive? or am I dead already? I don't know, There's pain earlier but now my body feels numb.

I passed out not long after.

I wake up again, antiseptic smell taking over my nostrils. I tried opening my eyes but my vision are all blurry. Suddenly, I felt intense pain in my chest. It's so hard to breath that as if a boulder is all over my chest. And then I heard several footsteps running in but it's too late. I'm running out of breath.

I passed out again.

suddenly a blinding light piercing my vision. my eyes quickly trying to adjust to the light and soon after I see.

Thousands upon thousands of human lining up all wearing different kind of outfit with the same color, black. Where is this? Did I died already? Is this the afterlife? Or am I dreaming?

I didn't know what to do so I just stand in the line, move if someone move, day after day like an ant colony. I don't know how many time had pass but I realize I'm at the front of the line right now. In front of me is a wide counter, behind it stand a woman wearing the same kind of outfits.

"Are you new here?" She ask. I just nod, doesn't really know what she had meant. She handed me an orb liked object. "Go through that door right there, see it?" She pointed to a big wooden door, I nodded. "When you've arrived at the other side, break that thing and it would give you all kind of information you would need" She says again, I just nodded. "Okay then, go. Others are waiting behind you." I go through the door and does all as I instructed...

"That's it." I said, finishing the old story and take a quick sip of the warm tea.

"That's it? really?" The girl asked. I just nodded. "You don't tell how you reap their soul out when people died tho..."

"Death information can't be disclosed to the living plus as I said earlier, I'm just a guide, I'm not death itself." I answered her question. She just nodded like a child. Sophea, my latest task, I didn't know it would be this troublesome. Somehow she said she can see and suspect me for a robber when I came in earlier. But now she treated me as if I'm someone close to her.

"Anyway, how can you see me? I haven't heard of a case where the living can see Reapers." I asked. Sophea just shrugged indicated that she also doesn't know.

This is a problem, us Reapers actually can form a physical body but we can't tell who we are for obvious reasons but this girl can only not see me without my physical form but also already know what I am.

"Anyway I come for you, did you know that." I see shock written on her face. Ah, I probably shouldn't have said that.

"Oh me? Oh okay." What? what kind of response is that?

"I'm coming for you that means you'd be dead in a few days. You get it?" Her face just shown confusion.

"Uhhh yeah I get it already. So what? I'm gonna die sooner or later anyway." Welp I seriously didn't expect that kind of response. I take another sip of the tea. Ah, it finished already.

"Oh you wanted some more tea? Wait a minute." "Ah no thanks" Aaaand she'd left. a couple of moments later she come back with another cup of tea. "There ya go." She said as she handed me the cup. "Ah yes thanks."

"So you'd want to continue your story?" She asked. I take a sip "Fine."

I ended up telling her about 15 of the soul that I had fetched until she's fallen asleep beside me. I wanna report this to the Underworld Bureau but my head is still spinning by being hit with a frying pan. Damn this girl got some exercise with her... I wonder what her cause of death.

-To Be Continued-

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