Channing, who had just died on Pigsy’s back, stood back up on his feet, visibly shaking. Although his clothes were still on, under them was nothing but a skeleton.
Despite this, his soul was still attached to his body. Now, his skeleton was starting to fade, to the point it was now translucent.
“Channing! What happened?” Daya yelled.
“Your highness, I… I feel like…”
“It feels like… I’m going to another realm…”
His voice was becoming softer as if he was slowly getting further and further away from them. His bones were turning more transparent by the second. It didn’t matter if he used the divine eye or the saintly eye. Alex still couldn’t see him.
His clothes then fell to the ground, the bones were nowhere to be found.
“What is this?”
“Where did he go?”
Alex and Daya were horrified, but it seemed a tiny sliver of hope remained in their hearts.
Pigsy, who had just fainted, was at its limits as well. Howling with despair, it was dead. Moreover, it had to suffer quite a lot. Before dying, it wanted to curse Alex. It went as far as to curse the Mystic Maiden.
Hence, it died while being punished by the contract. Alex and Daya hugged each other as if candles in the wind, possibly extinguishing at any time.
“My beloved, please wait for me in your next life.”
“Don’t be too quick to marry another woman. I hope I’ll be your one and only in our next lives…”
No woman would want to share the love of her life with another. She was just helpless in this lifetime, and she had to keep quiet about it. That’s why she decided to tell him before passing.
Alex sobbed as he called out to Shelly and the Mystic Maiden, hoping they could help him out. He was willing to give up anything he had too. In the end, both women showed themselves and used their ultimate tool, bringing out Persephone’s Folly Bridge.
Despite this, it was all for naught. Daya’s life force was drained out of her body. She died with her hair turning entirely grey.
***
“Ah, did… Did I die?”
Alex regained his consciousness, feeling rather weird. His eyes were dry and itchy, so he tried to blink. Yet this only led to a weirder feeling. He couldn’t blink a I all, as if he didn’t have eyelids.
Reaching his arm out, he was utterly shocked. “Huh? Holy f*ck!”
It was no longer a normal arm. It was just bones!
All his flesh and veins are gone, and all that was left was a whitish bone. However, he sensed that his soul was fine. It wasn’t damaged, nor did it get detached.
He wanted to blink again but started shrieking in shock. Not only did he not have eyelids, but his eyeballs were also gone.
‘This is way too much.’
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