[You have acquired 1 soul fragment.]
[You have acquired 1 soul fragment.]
'Two chimes.'
He knew that sound. That beautiful, annoying, absolutely wonderful sound that only meant one thing.
'I'm alive?'
The realization hit him slowly. Like his brain had to restart itself before it could process something as basic as being alive.
'I'm not dead.'
Then faster.
'I'm NOT dead.'
Then all at once.
'Death—zero. Shiro—four. And it's not even close, you overrated, overhyped, bony-handed fraud.'
Joy flooded through him—the feral, unearned, completely irrational kind.
But something was wrong.
His lungs felt strange. His stomach too. Like both of them were being inflated from the inside. Air was being forced into him. Pumped in. Like someone was trying very hard to make sure he kept breathing whether he wanted to or not.
"What the hell—"
His eyes snapped open.
