'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.

they would just look

would put their head through it and play around with the chair under

So close.

Salvation was so close.

Only one last step.

in

Just a bit more.

now, everything would be

the mortal would step away from the rope and

didn't improve, they could always come back to

even more, they

it didn't feel like it

like

was so close to ending it all. It

would say his goodbyes to everyone he loved, fully intent

he would

and the process would

an end to this agony at

had to

was an end in

only had to

of trying to end it, Mortis eventually gritted his

last push of motivation hit Mortis, and his eyes reddened

he fought against

'I will not die!'

'I will not die!'

'I will not die!'

agony continued without

It continued and continued.

It never ended.

lost his

'Why fight?'

'Why do this?'

is all

want to

only want

when the

next bite didn't

Silence.

Absolute silence.

lay on the ground, looking at the

He didn't feel pain.

He didn't feel dread.

He only felt nothing.

in

it ended?' Mortis

believe

truly was

10,000 years had passed.

body jerked to the side

looked with fear over, and he saw Gravis look at him with

it," Gravis said slowly.

only looked with

survived?" he repeated with a

huge parts of it had been eaten by the Sin

been planning to let the Sin Monster just consume him

gone in a couple of

the agony had ended before the Sin Monster could fully

had plenty of Life

had

was in the second level of the Star God Realm, and his Will-Aura had fallen to the

by Orthar, and he only looked at Mortis

as Gravis, both in

and Gravis from

were now truly

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