I feel like tonight is long for me or maybe the sun can no longer shine on this damned place. Before I set foot to enter the forest again, I made sure that my body was really alive. I bit my own hand until the blood dripped from my finger and there I could feel the pain, the pulse, to the taste of the blood that I licked myself from my finger.

On the other hand I feel a lot of fear but I try to stay positive there is still hope. Cautiously I began to enter the dark forest again and hoped that I would not meet the woman who killed me. Passing the same path and tree, I headed to the place where I was killed to investigate what happened. As the smell of blood began to waft, my heart started beating fast with cold sweat dripping down my face.

With trembling hands softly, I peeked out from behind the darkness of the bushes to look around. Unexpectedly, I saw a corpse that I saw before I died and the corpse had now been devoured by a horde of monsters such as large mushrooms with sharp teeth tearing the fresh flesh from the corpse's carcass. Now all I can do is stay silent watching the monsters eat the corpses leaving a few bones still covered in blood.

A few minutes later the monsters were gone and leaving only the smell and blood soaking the grass. Seemingly safe for me to come out of hiding, I finally approached the remains of the corpses that were no longer in shape. I just hoped to find a clue even if it was a little, by groping the pooled blood and holding back the stench I finally found something in the form of an object.

It was a sword with a piece of paper tied to the sword's belt. With curiosity I opened the paper and it turned out that the paper was a map that pointed to a small house on a hill. Not long after that I heard another scream not far from where I was.

“AAA!!!!”

Without thinking, I finally brought the sword and finally I followed the instructions from the map I brought. With as fast as possible I ran towards a dark tree behind, but unfortunately I stumbled by tree roots that blocked my way. I didn't realize that my arm was injured from hitting a rock and my blood was now starting to wet my arm.

Afraid that my blood would provoke the monsters in this dark forest, I immediately continued my journey by covering the wound on my arm. Fear and anxiety began to appear in my heart, step by step I passed through the darkness of the bushes by looking around me to avoid the monsters that were ready to prey on me. The more I climbed this hill the thicker the fog that blocked my view.

Before long I saw a river flowing slowly behind the white mist at the end of the river. There were no monsters to be seen in the river area and it was finally my chance to clean the blood from the wound on my arm. At that moment I saw my blood being carried away by the flowing river which slowly disappeared and when I turned to the opposite direction, I saw a female corpse floating along the slow flow of the river.

The corpse looked pale all over, had no legs with a floating face facing upwards. Because I have a bad feeling then I plan to stay away from this river. Just as I stepped back from the river I saw many of the same corpses and began to emerge from behind the growing fog. Fear began to seep into my soul as if I knew death would come to me again.

I carefully glanced behind me to make sure my escape path, unexpectedly there were many large mushrooms blocking my way to escape. Yes, those mushrooms are the scavengers or corpse-eating monsters I've ever seen and I didn't think they could follow me this fast or maybe they could chase after me because of the drops of my blood along the way.

As the mushrooms slowly opened their mouths full of sharp teeth and a terrible stench, there I felt cornered with what little courage I had left I confidently gripped a sword to protect me. When I turned my gaze to the river, suddenly all the faces of the corpses floating on the river were already facing me with their white eyes wide open staring at me with blank stares like death stares.

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“AAAAAA!!!”

Suddenly all the corpses screamed at me and started flying at me with their sharp nails, but when I tried to stab the corpse with my sword it didn't work because the corpse could pierce my sword and I realized the corpse was a ghost. On the other hand, the mushrooms behind me began to emit poison fumes and made me experience shortness of breath until all my muscles began to weaken.

At that moment the ghosts managed to grab my legs and body with their sharp nails to drag me towards the river but on the other hand the mushroom monsters managed to bite half of my body and drag me in the opposite direction. Here I can only scream in fear and pain as loud as I can even though my breath is already very tight like dying.

"HURT!! STOP IT!!!”

This feeling continues to torment me until my hope is gone with a blank stare and resigned to the death that I will experience. Not long after that half of my body was cut off with the contents of my stomach that were scattered out of the way due to the monsters and ghosts that kept pulling me.

CRACK!!

I heard the sound of my bones breaking with a torrent of blood rushing out of my body. I can't scream anymore it seems like my voice has been cut off because I screamed too loud, now I can only see part of my body being pulled into the river from inside the mouth of the monster that is ready to swallow me before I close my eyes.

“…”

Am I going to repeat this death over and over again? What will happen if I can't reach my goal? Now I'm starting to hate this world but what can I do that doesn't know how to survive in this world. If I am destined to go through this endless suffering, then I will kill to survive!When I opened my eyes, I was now back in the same place above the nameless grave.

By drawing a sword that I didn't think I was still carrying, this is a sign that I really have to kill to survive. With a feeling of anger, I shouted running through the dark forest that I was no longer afraid of. I attacked every mushroom monster that got in my way even though the monster attacked me with its poison and hit me, I still forced my body to keep moving to attack the monster until it died.

"DEAD! DEAD!"

I continued to stab my sword at the monster many times even though I knew the monster was dead. This satisfaction continues to flow into my soul, I can finally feel the revenge that is so delicious. But soon the effects of the poison that hit me have now flowed through the muscles of my body and made me fall limp. That's when the other monsters came and started tearing my body apart until I died again smiling.

When I came back to life, I repeated the same thing I did by killing the monsters one by one and I died again in the same way torn apart until I could see the pieces of my own body being eaten by other monsters. How many times have I died? I didn't think about it anymore because I was fed up with this death, until in the end I managed to kill all the monsters that got in my way.

Before I could breathe to calm myself down, a woman suddenly appeared from behind the shadows of the trees that were so shady and dark. Yes, that figure is the crying woman who killed me the first time I rose from the dead. Her pale hands covered her sad crying face with a low moan as if she wanted to ask for help.

“Sob… Sob.”

Her cry will not be able to deceive me a second time, on the other hand I already realized that the woman is a ghost. Therefore my sword will not be able to hurt her at all, I finally decided to keep my sword and try to talk to her because there must be a reason behind her sad face.

"Why are you crying?" I asked.

Not expecting her to answer my question, taking a step back I tried to prepare to dodge her attack if she really wasn't a person to talk to. But I didn't expect her to answer my question in her low voice with a tone like someone holding back anger.

"I.. hate men!"

She was able to quickly strangle me even though I was prepared to dodge her ambush, her stranglehold was so strong she could even lift my body up with her. She shouted loudly at me to frighten me like the first time I was killed by her hands but now I can resist her efforts with all my remaining strength.

If she's a ghost then I can touch her because from the start I was a ghost. With both my hands, I screamed trying to release the strangulation which was so strong with all my might.

"AAAAH!!!”

Feeling a little reproach I finally banged my head against her forehead so hard it bled and that's where I seemed to see pieces of her past. I saw she was a beautiful woman with wavy black hair that flowed in the wind and she had a gentle smile until everything turned black. Why can I see those memories? As if I had made memories with her, I fell to the ground with my head bleeding making my vision blur.

"Looks like I'm going to die again." I thought.

But unexpectedly the ghost was just silent as if realizing something and in a low voice he said "M-My hero?" then disappeared into the mist accompanied by a light as if morning was coming. I didn't realize I passed out and I felt like I saw a small creature coming towards me.