Darkness, only darkness.

How did this happen again? Oh yeah.. that bastard demon king.

Damn it! I wish I didn't train like I did, I wish I wasn't chosen to fight the demon king! Damn it!

I cursed to myself for a while, for what seemed like an eternity to me. It took a while for me to calm down..

I sighed.. is sighing even possible in the afterlife? Who cares, it doesn't matter anymore, I'm just a corpse laying on the battlefield. A fuckin' awesome battlefield might I add, that Demon King might've been an evil bastard, but he sure as hell put up a fun fight. It was exhilarating, I've never been pushed to my limits like that before! Well.. I guess I'll never be pushed to my limits again huh?

I try to move my arm, no luck. I guess I really am dead, not blinded or anything, straight up dead. Damn.. I had so much stuff I needed to do, so much training to get done, all gone in an instant. Damn demons..

Why the heck did they start that stupid war anyways? I mean, my friends always said I had muscles for brains, an addiction to fighting, (which I won't deny) but couldn't we just coexist? It's not that hard..

Well, getting pissed about it's not gonna do anything, and neither is talking to myself.

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I wonder if I'll get reincarnated, like from one of those novels Boris always talks about. (Boris is our tank by the way, built like a brick wall protectin' a marshmallow. In other words, a real softy.)

Yeah, maybe I'll get to be something cool, like a dragon!

Pssh, no, dragons are overdone. What's the point of being super powerful when you're destined to get your ass beat by a human. No thanks.

An elf maybe? Ugh, no I'll pass on that one. Every elf I've ever met was a snobbish up 'em self twat. They think because they sooo beautiful and they eat leaves n' shi-.. I'll just stop, if Elise had heard me there I'd have a few new holes in my face.

A dwarf would be interesting, always wanted to build robots n' stuff, it's uh, a real shame I wasn't born so blessed in the brain department I have no shame to admit. And there's always that damn cookie jar on the top shelf thing, poor guys.

Then there's the high humans. God if there were a more uptight race than the elves it'd be the goddamn high humans. Even though there are only like, ten thousand of em left in the world, I'd sooner fight an orc with my bare hands then be reincarnated as one of them.

Orcs huh, geez it doesn't get any uglier than those guys. Arms like tree trunks and a face only a mother could love. If that mother was a bloody troll-pig abomination herself.

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Last of all the demons, these tenacious freaks of nature always ruining people's days. They come in all shapes and sizes, some huge and powerful, others weak and frail at the lowest of the freakish food chain.

I sigh again, why was I listing these races off in my head again? Maybe it's God telling me all the races I can pick from for reincarnation! Or then again, maybe it's some author's lazy way of world building..

My mind continues to wander, I don't know for how long I've spent in this pitch black afterlife, waiting for God to come.

I thought about everything I had done up til' this point, all the adventures I'd been on, all the friends I'd made, all gone in a single battle. I'm not gonna cry.. I swear..

Elise, our one and only ranger, girl could shoot a fly between the eyes at a hundred yards..

Boris, our tank. I swear I saw him throw a truck at a troll in the midst of a heated battle, but he denied it, a humble guy for sure.

Nadia, our mage, one of the top students at our academy actually. Beautiful and a gifted fire mage, she was the cause of most of our turn in items being heavily scorched when we brought them in.

And Bob, yes our badass, silent assassin's name was Bob. Not that there's anything wrong with the name Bob though, it's just one of those names, ya know?

I cried out, I wanted to seem them again so badly, it hurt my heart just thinking about what they were going through at this moment. I'm so sorry guys, I'm so sorry I died..

Ahem.. if anyone's out there.. you never heard that..

At least that demon bastard is dead though, no amount of dark magic is gonna bring him back from the wounds I gave him, not from my holy sword of justice! Ah, is this chuunibyou? This darkness is driving me insane, when will it end?!

"Goddamn it God, just show up already!" I shouted out into the darkness at the top of my lungs.

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Wait a minute..

I can talk..?

I have lungs..?

Maybe.. I thought for a moment..

No.. it couldn't be...

I opened my eyes only to be greeted by a dazzling light. The sky, the beautiful blue sky. I was alive!

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Shit! I had an existential crisis for no reason!

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Author's Stuff: Jeez, I've got a new found respect for authors now, this stuff is tiring. Doesn't help that I'm writing in the middle of the night though.. Please make sure to point out any errors, it'd really help a lot! ^^ Anyways, my next chapters should be a bit longer, maybe continually extending every chapter. Hope you enjoy.

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