Revenge Fantasy

#20 - Sensory Phenomenon

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Wait... what?

As the gun fires, as the gunfire echoes and rings out, Chouko falls backwards at this sound. Facing her death head on, the sound- just makes her eyes go wide as she falls backwards, as she falls away from the gun. In that moment, her death should have come.

She should be dead, deceased, lifeless right about now with a bullet through her brain. No further sensation, no further thought.

And yet, she isn't dead.

Chouko isn't dead.

Still living, somehow, Chouko... Chouko just... just looked... absolutely bewildered. Why is she not dead? After the gun loudly fires, she watches the bullet come out of the gun... and stares as it just completely goes through her head. Not in the physical bullet sense. Rather... the same way as a mere ghost passing through her body, incapable of directly pushing or touching physical human flesh.

It is merely a completely painless, a completely sensationless sight of a bullet coming out of the gun and passing through her head. As if it were intangible, as if it simply flew through her mind like air. Chouko just sees and hears a bullet pass through, furthermore. Nothing about feeling it, nothing about actually being hurt by it... she only saw and heard it.

Chouko realizes she's completely unharmed by the bullet, that it did absolutely nothing to her.

For some reason... she's still alive. Chouko's eyes flutter as she feels herself- as she still feels alive. As she's still alive after that.

Chouko is completely, utterly bewildered by this, confused about why the bullet simply just passed through her head, staring forward with complete and utter confusion. Her eyes completely wide as her vision grew completely hazy and distorted. Part of her questioned if this was just her mind experiencing death for the very first time, if this is just how death works, but..

... but Chouko... Chouko stared forward to see her own dead body right before her eyes.

Staring at a vision of what should have happened to her, seeing a limp and dead body that had a bullet cleanly go through her forehead and gush out blood, immediately deceased and bleeding out her remaining life. That's what should have happened, and Chouko's watching what should have happened, experiencing an out of body experience at this.

Out of body, because she still felt like she was lying against the ground while seeing this. Her eyes looking about as her dead body remains in her sight, moving along with her wandering eyes as she- aimlessly- looked around the cubicle.

Chouko is completely, completely confused and bewildered by this. A disorienting feeling clouds her mind as she simultaneously felt alive and dead, a fluttering feeling spreading throughout her veins, something inexplicable happening right before her eyes.

The girl is simultaneously unharmed on the ground... and watching her body from high up.

Chouko's eyes remaining wide and in shock at this most disorienting, this most confusing of sensations. The only question in her mind as she feels completely alive yet watches the view of her own dead body:

What?

It didn't make sense. Chouko couldn't make sense of this, being alive yet seeing herself dead. It made no sense.

That is- until that vision of her, lying dead... it moves away from her. It completely stands up and backs away, leading to a sight of the revolver getting in front of the vision.