There's darkness. Darkness on one side. Darkness of perpetual robbery. Bottomless darkness.
It sinks into darkness. That feeling goes on forever.
A consciousness that sinks into darkness and is thought to have returned to nothing awakens to the pretense.
The first thing I saw was a dazzling light. With more than the sun in sight, Theodore was looking directly at the light.
Though it was a tremendous amount of light, he wondered that he could look directly into it, but when he was already in a state unrelated to physical pain, Theodore realized.
"This is no place for you to come. Don't come yet."
After a few seconds, I heard voices. The voice of a woman who often passes.
I didn't feel uncomfortable listening to my voice. There is no hostility to them. Theodore thinks I'm purely warning you. Is it the keeper of the spiritual world or something?
"I'm not going that way."
Theodore tells.
"There are people who want to help. You've been nice to me. You've been my best friend. I'm losing my life as a result. So I want to help. So... through here..."
I know Theodore when I'm running a dialogue full of contradictions myself. I'm not going that way, but he's asking me to go that way.
"Nothing strange about that feeling. I know your situation. [M] That's a lot of people."
A voice sounds as if pity for the painful Theodore.
"Now your soul is in your flesh, but it's peeking into the post-mortem world. I am not at the boundary of this world's Depression and the Everlasting Ones. We are in a narrow space between the boundaries of this world and eternity and this world. And it exists simultaneously in two dimensions. If the ghosts that appear in this world are walking between doors, you are in close proximity to the call water. The door that connects the room to the room exists in both, and it could be both, right? And the thing that connects to the door. You're in a very dangerous state."
"I don't know how dangerous it is."
"A spirit drifting along the border between this world and eternity - a spirit that appears in this world - which means it will be a calling water for spirits who cannot form Buddha. A vast amount of spirits arrive at the door. I mean, I'll possess you all at once. [M] You can also summon the spirits of someone you want to help, but you mix them with spirits that can't even form a Buddha, and you and that person become floating spirits, drifting between this world and eternity - possibly."
To the answer returned, Theodore takes his breath.
"I know how you feel, but what you're trying to do is conceive of the possibility of worse outcomes. And even if you help him, you have no substitute for being a spiritual caller, so the spiritual body is likely to be stripped from the flesh and become a floating spirit or a ground-bound spirit. It's a very cruel and hard fate."
"Don't you have to?
Theodore asks with anticipation.
"Some people see it as absolutely impossible. I see the possibility of being helpful. I don't know which is right. There are not many cases of attempts to bring the world between this world and the world of eternity into this world."
"I mean, it's not even my first time..."
"There have been a few people in the past who had hopes like Isaac Friedman. The post-mortem world can be seen, but it's not a world called the underworld, it's just one boundary ahead of it. And it's not impossible to get into that realm alive, but it's very likely to bring tragedy. An act that steps into the boundary between death and life, even if it is acceptable to do so while living, is not recommended. By analogy, if a child wants to look inside the machine and disassemble it, even if they can look inside the machine, the machine has been broken, or they are in danger of getting hurt while disassembling it."
Listen to me, Theodore receives that Friedman is probably the curious child who wants to peek into the contents of the machine.
"Isaac Friedman used your feelings to make you work as a dependent child. But, you know, even if Friedman doesn't urge you to do so, you kids will either try to be the call water, like you are now, because of some trigger. So... before I was exposed to a harder fate than death, I tried to save it by resetting it."
"People in the spiritual world know everything..."
"We want to support the people of this world as much as we can. That's why we put a guardian spirit on every human being. It's just that we're not omnipotent, and there are a lot of things going on. I can't even tell you what's going on. Besides, we didn't know anything, and we couldn't do anything, so we tried to save you by killing you. I didn't even know there was another way to save him. But if there's any other way to save him, I wanted to bet on you and let him get away with it once. As Jiro Yukioka insisted, if Junko Yukioka could deactivate his function as the child you were called upon to serve."
"I mean... you want to appeal to us"
Listen to me, Theodore smiles sarcastically.
"When you come to eternity, your values become different from what they are in this world. I know how it feels to be told that while you try to kill me, you can't believe it. We were originally your residents."
Sounds a little lonely, and a sorry voice returns.
"Well... now we were slowing down the flow of time and talking, but it's time to limit ourselves. Depending on your choice, you can interrupt your role as a child and return to your original state."
"Take your time... can you do that too..."
"It was just me and you, to be precise, that made my physical sensory velocity extremely fast - I guess. If we keep this up, it's gonna be a very bad bet, okay? The reason is just like I said. Instead of helping, it could be an extra bad development. That will lead to further tragedies through you at the earliest opportunity. Still okay?"
"Ugh..."
In his voice inquiry, Theodore mumbles.
"Now Mario is reunited with his deceased family. Death is not over. You won't be unhappy if you die like this."
To the facts told, Theodore felt like he had been stabbed in the chest with an ice blade.
Though Theodore's heart is even shaken by the awareness that if he does anything extra, he will also tear apart his reunion with his family.
"Death is not the end." Reset it? But if someone dies, I can't see that person anymore. If someone lives, they can spend the same amount of time as that person and enjoy another '
Just now, I remember what I said.
That, from the values of the dead, may only be the ego of the living. Still, though, I think Theodore strongly wants to stick to raw as long as he's alive.
"I don't care what happens if my choices are right or wrong or what happens. I want Mario back here. I don't want you to die for me. Mario's not dead yet, and I guess there's a way to help? Then I want to use that method to help."
Theodore looks at the light with a strong determination and says it clearly.
"I get it. Good luck with that."
Shortly after a soft voice, Theodore's time moves normally.
"Ahhhhhhh!
A miserable runoff struck Theodore, and a scream burst through Theodore's throat.
Something massive arrives in me. It's information, it's knowledge, it's emotions, it's ideas, it's different. Not just good stuff, not necessarily bad stuff. However, because the quantity is so immense and Theodore, who is still a living person, has a brain, all that information will hit the brain directly, resulting in a strong load on the brain.
If it were a complete spirit, at least the story would have been different, but Theodore wars that his head would literally be flat as it is.
I can clearly see that my existence becomes the door left open and that the post-mortem world is connected to the living world. Beyond physical distance, massive amounts of spirits have been summoned and even remnants of mind-bodies that are not even spirits have poured into them in large numbers.
(Oh... no this... Very impossible...... Shouldn't have done it......)
The earlier determination also blew somewhere, and Theodore was lightly regretting and desperate.