Shin could barely see through his hazy eyes, but above himself, he saw a young girl in maid outfit. He could clearly see that the maid had long white hair, Shin thought that she looked familiar, but couldn’t remember from where he had seen her from.

The next thing Shin saw was his mother; Aria swinging her sword towards the maid, cutting her maid outfit in two and pushing her body over one hundred meters away.

“I’ll kill you!”

Aria roared as she pounced towards Sher once more.

The quiet one; Kali, had already thousands of needles surrounding Sher. Kali’s eyes were golden and rotated faster than ever, the scythe in her hands were grabbed all the force she could muster.

Before Kali started raining needles on Sher, the heavens trembled as a portal appeared out of nowhere.

A man wearing a white suit with black hair and completely black eyes. Kali and Aria could remember him and the maid. They didn’t get to know the name of the maid, but they remember the man’s name, it was; Raizel Ve Vizania.

“You…! I should have killed you when I first met you!”

Kali bellowed in a deep voice as she glared at Raizel with hatred.

Raizel ignored Kali and Aria’s hate filled gaze. Raizel’s gazed fell upon Shin’s body on the ground and Sher.

“Haah…”

A sigh escaped Raizel’s mouth.

Shin was barely managing to breathe, his eyes were slowly closing, but he wished to watch the ‘stars’ a little longer. Shin stared at two figures in the sky, he couldn’t see them clearly, but he knew that they were his ‘stars’, Kali and Aria…

After coughing up blood, Shin’s expression changed as he sensed something.

Deep inside of Shin

Shin stood in the darkness once again with his sculpture. Shin sighed as he saw his own sculpture who was already in a very bad state, crumbling.

Both arms were missing, one leg was evaporated into dust and the chest had full of holes.

“Am I going to die?”

Shin didn’t know why, but he wasn’t afraid any longer.

“Muir is dead. That God is also dead.”

“Mother, Kali, Old man, Mekina and everyone can live peacefully after this, right?”

Shin smiled, but slowly, tears started running down his face.

I, I don’t want to die!

Shin shook his head, his eyes were shining brightly, Shin could feel gratitude and joy when he was thinking about all of his memories with his Guardians, family and friends…

I got my question answered.

I got my wish fulfilled.

I got way more than what I had ever hoped for.

Shin gazed at the sculpture, with tears running down his face, Shin managed to see the sculpture was falling.

“Thank you…”

Shin muttered as he gazed at the sculpture crashing on the ground, splitting into thousands of pieces before evaporating…

Outside of Shin

Before anyone could do anything, a silver light erupted from Shin’s body and it shone brighter than any stars!

“Finally…”

Anaj muttered as he gazed at Shin’s body with a smile.

Aria and Kali swiftly moved towards Shin, the silver light didn’t hinder them at all.

No one felt anything from the silver light.

Haah, is it going to happen?

Raizel sighed deeply as he gazed at Shin’s body and the silver light.

“Master!”

Sher hurried over to Raizel with a bright smile.

“You see, I killed that child for you!”

Raizel was flabbergasted, he felt a headache when he gazed at Sher.

Maybe I was wrong in having her as my maid…

Raizel didn’t even bother about replying Sher, because he knew that when Shin opens his eyes, everything would change.

Kali dropped down from the air and held Shin’s body in her arms. Tears were welling up in her eyes as they fell on Shin’s face.

“Shin…”

“Please don’t die, it was all my fault, it was because I was too weak…!”

Kali muttered, but her voice was filled with self-reproach and guilt. Kali’s heart stopped briefly when she saw Shin falling from the air, her heart was now beating so hard that she could feel every beat throughout her whole body.

Aria held one of Shin’s limp hand, she couldn’t breathe, no tears ran down her face, Aria could not figure out what was going on.

Why, why isn’t Shin reacting?

Why isn’t he moving?

Slowly but surely, Aria’s mind was telling her what really happened. Cold sweat ran down her back and Aria felt like the whole world collapsing…

“Why are you guys so crestfallen?”

Anaj voiced out his doubts, loud enough so that everyone could hear.

“You…!”

Aria wanted to say something, but before she could do so, Anaj raised his hand.

“Who said that Shin was dead?”

Anaj smiled casually as he stated something shocking.

“No way, I stabbed him…!”

Sher’s face turned pale as she stared at Shin’s body which was barely breathing.

“He is right, who said that the child is dead?”

Raizel nodded, from the beginning to now, he knew that he could kill Shin, but he never did so. He had his own reasons for not doing so, after smiling bitterly, Raizel glanced at everyone who surrounded Shin’s body.

It seems like no one will be able to harm you, your family or your friends ever again.

What our race did was unsightly. The universe disliked what we did, the karma the universe sent was you. And, now you have gotten the ones you lost.

I am envious, but I can’t help but feel a little glad seeing this.

Aria was dumbstruck, she swiftly grabbed Shin from Kali’s arms and shook his body.

“Shin, Shin, wake up, come on Shin, wake up…!”

Shin’s eyelids trembled slightly before slowly opening them, the first thing Shin saw was his mother’s face and Kali’s face.

“Mother!”

Shin cried out as he hugged Aria with all his might. Shin was truly afraid, he was afraid that he would never be able to meet his mother once again. Not only his mother, Shin wanted to meet Kali, Peutoa, Azane, his Guardians, Eline and he couldn’t forget the promise he had with Lola either.

“Shin…!”

Aria caressed Shin’s hair as she held him tightly in her embrace.

“Right, do you want to talk now?”

Anaj interrupted the joy everyone felt. Even Eline’s eyes twitched as she would want to punch Anaj.

Shin thought that Anaj’s voice was very familiar, he stood up from Aria’s embrace without any difficulties. After having stood up, Shin put his gaze on Anaj, Shin’s eyebrows furrowed slightly as he said in a conflicted tone.

“Why do I feel like that I have met you before?”

Anaj smile turned brighter when he heard Shin say that.

“Because we have met before, in the Void.”

“Void?”

Shin tilted his head as he stared at Anaj.

Anaj shook his head slightly before speaking.

“Even I don’t know what the Void actually is. You can call me a spokesman of the Void, and the thing I needed to do was to see that you had gotten our gift as we promised.”

Shin nodded, but he didn’t really understand what Anaj was saying.

“You can take care of them first. We can sit down later and speak more if you want to do that.”

Anaj had a casual smile on his face as he slowly pointed towards Sher and Raizel.

Shin didn’t respond, but his body vanished and appeared right in front of Raizel and Sher.

Sher got frightened and tried to step back, but she couldn’t move a single muscle.

Raizel stood still and watched Shin carefully, there were no expressions on Raizel’s face and Raizel felt absolutely no regrets.

“I do remember a little of who you are.”

Shin said in a low voice as he put his eyes on Raizel.

Raizel nodded, he had already known what was going to happen.

Shin scratched his cheeks when he stared at Raizel, Shin didn’t know why, but his movements froze when Raizel wasn’t resisting.

“You are wondering why I won’t resist?”

Raizel saw right through Shin’s thoughts.

“That is because I and my race deserved this punishment. I have lived for way too long, truthfully, death may be my freedom of my sins.”

“Sins…?”

Shin lowered his head slightly while thinking about it carefully. After ten seconds, Shin raised his head and stared at Raizel.

“What is your wish?”

Raizel was flabbergasted, he didn’t know what to say, but his mouth opened by itself and answered Shin.

“I want to watch the world with the remaining life I have left.”

Shin nodded, he could clearly see that Raizel’s life force was slowly fading away. The life force Raizel had left, could support him to live a few million years, but not any longer.

A smile appeared on Shin’s face as he slowly spoke with a warm tone.

“There are no reason for me to kill you.”

The smile on Shin’s face vanished as he put his eyes on Sher.

“Uh, no!”

Sher knew what this meant. Shin would let Raizel go, but there would be no way for her to escape.

Before Shin did anything, Raizel moved in front of Sher.

“This maid of mine have been with me for a very long time…”

Even when Raizel knew that the chances were small, he didn’t want to let the one person who understood him, to die.