Endless

cHaPtEr TwEnTy NiNe

Ahh, I remember this place...

I found myself lying on a pile of rubble from above, and I seemed to be a on a lower floor. I was in great pain but, for some reason, it seemed to be gradually disappearing...

I managed to get up on my own without any assistance somehow. I looked at my wounds and they seemed to be going away one by one.

I couldn't stop asking myself: how the hell was I still alive? Surely that huge fall would have broken my skull or something. What gives?

Once I finally managed to stand, at first I had trouble maintaining balance due to the shock I felt from that horrifying experience, but eventually I managed to stand on my own two feet.  

"How...how am I alive?" I asked myself.

"Trust me, I wonder the same thing sometimes," Alyssa suddenly intervened.

"I guess you'll be joining me then?" I asked, already knowing what her answer will be.

"Oh please. I'm just the observer. Do you really think I know how the plot will go? Anything could happen~"

"Seriously, stop breaking the fourth wall for a moment. Can you tell me where we are?"

"Underneath the mansion."

"Is there anyway I can take us to the surface?"

Alyssa just shrugged.

"I don't know."

"But you're like...the ruler of this place. How can you not know?"

"Well...my powers don't work down here. All I can do is appear and dissappear."

I couldn't help but smirk as I thought that maybe I could use this place as a safe haven...sadly I wouldn't be able to access it without people knowing. Not to mention that my mother would definitely be suspicious if I kept asking to go to that secret place where we hit the corpse.

And even if Alyssa couldn't use her powers, she could still appear and dissappear here. Dammit.

"Why not?" I asked.

"Shut up."

"Great answer."

Speaking of the corpse...where was it? Alyssa couldn't have done anything with it if she had no powers here...

Alyssa, as if she could read my mind, answered my question.

"I think the corpse left."

"Wait, how could a corpse...leave?"

Alyssa just facepalmed at my question.

"Zombies, Owen."

"Ah, right."

The fragments of the past, cannot be repaired...

The mysterious voice resonated across the cave, which I then realised wasn't even a cave. It was the inside some kind of castle with walls that had the same mysterious markings as those books in the library...

"W-who's there?" I asked rather stupidly.

But a new future can be made...

It was then that a part of the wall began to turn to dust. When I saw what the cause was, I was definitely shocked.

It was a corpse. A walking corpse.
He was probably the one who made the wall dissappear...

Oh well, I've been through worse than this, this shouldn't be hard at all. All I needed was some kind of magical weapon and I could win easily.