He finally spoke

“If this sentence is true, then my ultimate ends now”.

Space itself started to fall apart, the giant clock in the sky started shaking rapidly, the clock struck 12.

[midnight has been reached]

The entire factory turned white, everything had completely froze, i couldn’t blink or move a single finger, there were vibrations under my feet yet I couldn’t even look up.

My entire body heated up as my nose started to bleed, my eyes rolled into the back of my head.

The after effects finally kicked in.

A couple hours had passed, I woke up in the hospital, a white ceiling was right above me and my nose was plugged.

“Geez after all that I still failed, I’m really not fit for this and at the last challenge too”.

I wonder how Amish and his friend is doing, I hope they’re okay.

I stood up and walked around the hospital, the smell of medicine brought me back to my childhood.

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I’ve been to the hospital so many times when I was young.

They kept asking me what was wrong, every single time I told them it was just an injury from being clumsy.

This hospital was full of people, from the corner of my eye was Amish.

I pulled back the curtain as he sat there next to his friend, Sarah.

Sarah laid on the bed, bandaged up, Amish sat on the chair, his eyes dead and empty, he had lost all hope.

A nurse came up to me and asked

“Are you her friend? I’m sorry to say that she’s in a coma and it doesn’t seem like she’ll ever wake up”.

Amish clenched his fists

“Stop fucking reminding me of it, I don’t want to hear it”.

He was so close to punching the nurse, but I managed to stop him in time.

“Neila, don’t get in my fucking way”.

He looked angry, and mad.

“Don’t go hurting random strangers out of nowhere”.

I held his fist in my hand, it slowly became weaker and weaker.

“Fuck off”.

He started crying and sobbing while trying to punch me. After a while, he slowed down and calmed himself.

“I wish this was just a dream, I shouldn’t have said anything to her! I wish I just appreciated her more, after all the times she comforted me, after all that and I didn’t even say anything positive about her”.

I really don’t feel comfortable here, I mean I can empathize a little but I don’t feel like the right person.

“Is there a Neila Suzuki here”?

It was a man in a business suit, I raised my hand up, anything to get out of this awkward situation.

“You have passed the test, there is a judgement awaiting you”.

Did I not pass out during the assessment? Well it was just an assessment, I don’t think I was meant to win anyways.

“Neila, go, you can go”.

Amish looked down at the floor, tears welling up in his eyes.