TBATE-REDEMPTION

Chapter 18

'Now it's rest time, baby!!' I told myself inwardly as I slipped into sleep.

...

'Huh........where am I?'

As soon as I slept, a white light overwhelmed me, and the next second, when I opened my eyes, I found myself staring at... all white?

The place I was in was completely white. I squinted my eyes to see if I could see anything in the proximity, but it was a futile effort.

'Just what the heck is happ-'

A sudden memory arose in my brain; this was eerily similar to the domain where Caera and I trained with Grandma Sylvia. There, I could bend the place as I wished just by thinking of what I wanted.

'Maybe I can do the same here?'

I tried to think of a water bottle, then a wooden sword, and many other things. All my efforts were futile. I even tried to call for Grandma, thinking it could be her last memory left to me, but that idea soon got trashed.

I then tried to call for Regis, Caera, Sylv, Chloe. But it seemed that I had lost all connection to them.

Just as I was pondering things over, I noticed something... something with my body...

'Why didn't I notice it before?!'

My body was now fully grown, just as it was before I regressed back in time.

A frown appeared on my face.

'Just where the heck am I? And what's happening to me-'

"Ughhkk-"

As I was pondering, a huge pain caused me to groan. The pain was too intense; it felt just like when my body had been destroyed and then reconstructed by Sylvie's sacrificial aether art. It felt like millions of bombs had just exploded inside my abdomen, specifically where my cores were located.

Holding my abdomen in pain, I lay down from where I was standing, and unintentionally, saliva mixed with blood flooded out of my mouth.

'Guess this concludes that I ain't dreaming.'

I wanted to check what exactly had happened to my cores, but due to the intense pain, I couldn't even try.

Just when I thought the pain was only near the area where my cores were, another jolt of extreme pain came running from my head.

Due to the sudden and intense pain in my brain, I found myself losing consciousness.

'Is this how I am going to die... again?'

Just before my eyes closed, I saw a pair of feet wearing black boots walking toward where I was lying.

"....etic" is all I could hear before the darkness swallowed me.

.....

-...nk

-..ank

-clank

-woosh

-thud

I was woken up by the sound of metals clashing.

'W-what's happening....' I slowly woke up, holding my head, which still hurt a bit, and sat up.

As I opened my eyes, I was met with the scene of two men fighting in a very familiar arena that I knew all too well.

After all, it was the arena where King's duels were held... and also the place where I had defeated many of my opponents in my past life.

'But wh-what am I doing here all of a sudden?'