Captain's Dominion (Raiden Mei X Fem Reader)

Chapter 24: One's Sacrifice

[Y/n's PoV]

In the darkness, the only thing that I could hear was my own breath. I was trapped inside this emptiness that had no clear end in sight...

Why am I here? I wonder...

All that I could sense in the darkness was the beating of my own heart as I slowly began to realize that my vision was shrouded by a thick black fog that surrounded me. All I could see, hear, and smell was only a blank black void.

Everything is so empty... So cold...

The void started to reach their way into every sense of my being until my very existence is becoming consumed by the all-enveloping blackness of it that I was caught in.

This darkness had an effect similar to that produced by the Honkai itself making my mind feel as if it was slowly falling apart...

What's wrong with me...?

How did everything come to this?

The loneliness that I felt was almost unimaginable to be honest. It makes it feel like I was losing my sense of purpose, direction, and even my identity.

Then I remembered— this was the true nature of the Honkai... to engulf everything in absolute corruption and darkness.

I started to recall about my life, but something felt off about it, as though it had all started to become a blurry and hazy memory. I felt as if something was missing yet couldn't point what exactly...

Although despite the ominous feeling, the darkness somehow gave comfort. Have I been here for so long to embrace it..?

"So is this what becoming one with the void feels like...? Is this true peace..?"

All my life that was full of hardships and sacrifices... just to be embraced by the darkness in the end...

Despite being unsure of how long I was here for, my heart continued to beat, as if I was still alive. However, it was not until I saw a faint outline of a light in the distance. It was the first time in ages that I was finally able to see any glimpse of light again.

I continued to stare at it which was ever so slightly approaching towards me. I suddenly remembered. There was something familiar about that light. Something that made me feel a strange sense of warmth in my chest when I looked at it.

This feeling... Why is it so familiar..?

When I reached my hand towards the light, I frowned.

Why is it so far away..?

Perhaps it was impossible...

I just turned my back and decided to walk towards the opposite direction towards the darkness instead that was inviting me in. I could almost see it, the pure darkness surrounding me as the light in the distance continued to shrink.

However...

"Captain..!"

I suddenly stopped for a brief moment... as I heard a faint voice calling my title. One that was very much familiar to me...

Yet, I still couldn't bring myself to look back, and my footsteps continued to take me further away into the pure darkness...

It was a feeling of temptation in which I wished to follow... even if it meant that I would forget everything else.

"Y/n..."

"...."

When the voice was still calling for me... I stopped again. This time, it was something that I would definitely recognize as the person was now standing behind me.