My Heart Hates Me

Chapter 28 Make Me Stronger

Kirito sat beside Vivian's body, holding her hand into his. He looked at her face as he squeezed her rough fingers. Vivian's soul and Lucus sat in front of him, staring at him. Kirito's face was expressionless.

"Kirito, let's go home now. It's almost morning." Mrs. Hiomi said.
"Vivian is normal now. She'll wake up in a day or so" Mrs. Garnette said.
Kirito just looked at Vivian.

"Brother?" Aoi looked at Kirito. He slowly got up and walked out of the room. Vivian ran after him barefoot as Lucus just stared at her. Suddenly, the book had a clock drawn on it and it began shining with the ringing sound of huge church bells. He looked into it and disappeared into black clouds.

The next moment, he was in the middle of a terrace, somewhere in Beijing, where a teen girl was ready to jump down. He sat beside her and the girl took a deep breath. He imitated her and finally she jumped.

"Some people beg me for life while some are wasting it like its no big deal. Mortals!" He stood up and looked at dead body of the girl.

"I seriously hate people who hate you." He disappeared into some clouds and appeared again at the bottom. He opened the book.
"Get up. Let's go home," The girl's soul came out of her body and stood before Lucus.

"Oh! I'm still alive?! But I jumped down from such a height!" She said in Chinese.
"Don't worry. You're totally dead, no doubt" Lucus said in Chinese as he wrote the date and time of her death into the book.

Then, the girl looked at her dead body laying behind her.
"Lee Min Wong, Age; 16 years, Cause of death; neck fracture and internal bleeding, died on 18th day of October, 20XX"

"Who are you?" She asked.
"I'm Lucus, the angel of death" Lucus said with a smile "Shall we go?" He asked as he brought his hand forward.

"Where?"
"On a journry to meet our creator" The girl held his hand and huge, white stairs appeared in front of them that vanished into the clouds with a golden gate guarding them. The girl moved back and Lucus turned towards her "Don't be afraid for you're already dead. I shall protect all who die."

They both walked on the stairs together as she looked at him. He looked back at her and asked "Is something wrong?"
"Are you really an angel?" She asked.
"Yes. Don't I look like one?"

"No, you're pretty. You do look like one. You must be popular among other angels"
"Well, it is true, in a way"
"So, why did you-- what do mortals call it-- Kill yourself?"

"I'm-- Rather, I was being blackmailed to do things I didn't wanted to by a twenty five-year-old man."
"You should've kicked him in the balls!" She started laughing.

"I'm serious!" He said.
"You are an angel! Act like one!"
"I can't believe a mortal is telling me how to act like an angel" He laughed.

"It's been a while since I laughed so hard-- That was so unexpected! Oh my God!"
"You wasted life" Lucus mumbled.
"What?"
"So, where do you wanna go? Heaven or hell?"

"Definitely heaven! I deserve some peace of mind!" She said and Lucus started laughing.
"What?" She asked.
"No, I just thought--Everyone wants to go to heaven but no one wants to die." She looked at him and slowly, they heard a pretty sound from a distance. Whispers and beautiful singing.

"Wow. It's so beautiful. What is this sound?" She asked. The stairs turned light blue from that point and Lucus stopped.
"This is as far as I accompany you." He said as he stepped on the final white stair.
"You won't come with me?" She asked as she turned towards him.