'I'm so sorry, Azure!'

'I'm so sorry I can't be with you anymore.'

'Please, forgive me!'

These were all the things Mortis was thinking.

He was planning to end his life to end the suffering.

He didn't know how long he had already survived, but it didn't matter anymore.

He only wanted to end it.

'I can't live like this.'

'I'm sorry!'

Mortis continued thinking these thoughts.

He continued repeating them.

Again.

And again.

And again.

Yet, for some reason, he never actually went through with it.

Something inside of him was telling him to hang on just a bit longer.

He only had to hang on a bit longer.

Just a little bit.

Azure's face shot through Mortis' mind.

He imagined her crying after realizing that she wouldn't see him again.

He imagined her choosing death over a lonely life.

He imagined the kids he could have in the future.

And whenever these images shot through his head, Mortis hung on just a bit more.

All of these instances only bought him seconds, but they kept on coming without end.

Just one more second.

Just a bit more.

Mortis had said his goodbyes a million times by now, but he actually never did it.

Mortis didn't realize it, but he was essentially venting his fear.

He knew that he could end his suffering, and that gave him hope.

Mortis knew that he wasn't forced to go through all this suffering.

He could always just end it.

Then, it would end.

This thought gave him solace.

There was a way out.

Mortis was like a mortal on the bottom of their life. Every single day was agony, and that person had a noose hanging in their attic, which they would watch in the evenings after the day was over.

Sometimes, that mortal would stand in front of the noose.

would just look

through it and play around with the chair under their

So close.

Salvation was so close.

Only one last step.

spend a couple of minutes in hollow suffering, just

Just a bit more.

now, everything would

after just some minutes, the mortal would step away from the rope and go to sleep in their

could always come back

even more, they had a final

didn't feel like

like

so close to ending it all. It only needed a thought, and Mortis' life would

every second, minute, or hour, Mortis would say his

then, he would

and the process

end

that it had

was an end in

had to

of trying to end it, Mortis eventually gritted his teeth and gave up

motivation hit Mortis, and his eyes

years, he fought

'I will not die!'

'I will not die!'

'I will not die!'

agony

It continued and continued.

It never ended.

lost his motivation

'Why fight?'

'Why do this?'

is all just

want to

only want to-

that's when the

bite

Silence.

Absolute silence.

lay on the ground, looking at

He didn't feel pain.

He didn't feel dread.

He only felt nothing.

in shock and

ended?'

believe that it

truly was

10,000 years had passed.

side as he

with fear over, and he

did it," Gravis said slowly. "You

with shock

survived?" he repeated with

of it

Sin

gone in a couple

before the

had plenty

Realm had already

and his

destroyed by Orthar, and

as Gravis,

only thing keeping both Mortis and Gravis from the Heaven

now truly on the

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