The Author's POV

Fear.

An unpleasant and inescapable emotion caused by the threat of danger, pain, or harm.

It begins with your hair standing up. Next, your palms begin to sweat, and your body experiences a wave of nausea, making it difficult for you to comprehend what lies before you.

The world feels foggy. Everything that seemed so clear the previous moment becomes blurry, and in an instant, your entire body begins to tremble, and your heart beats so loudly inside of your head that it feels suffocating.

Fear starts off as an instinctive and primitive response designed to help us avoid dangerous situations.

…But what would happen when you're in a situation where you can't avoid this so called danger?

Helplessness.

That was what they would feel.

A wave of helplessness would wash over the individual as they find themselves in a situation where they could do nothing.

"Don't tell me you're planning on leaving right as I arrived?"

Jezebeth's words echoed inside of my ears, while the hair at the back of my neck stood up.

Fear was slowly starting to permeate my body.

"Haaa…haa…"

Unknowingly, my breathing became heavier.

As I slowly lifted my head up, my eyes met Jezebeth's, and my heart stopped for a moment.

'S..shit.'

I was overcome with a wave of helplessness as his presence completely enveloped my body, stopping me from moving at all.

"Hm?"

In the midst of my struggle, Jezebeth frowned.

Coming a little closer to me, he tilted his head a little.

"You…"

He pointed his slender finger in my direction, as his glaring red eyes scrutinized my body up and down.

My body felt completely naked as his eyes scanned it. It was as if he knew every secret inside my body.

Gradually, as he continued to stare at me, his eyes dropped and his head shook.

"…You're not him, again."

There were hints of disappointment in his voice as he turned his head to look away from me.

Right as he turned, I was able to hear his soft whisper.

"He would never make such an expression…"

Taking a step away from me, he looked around the room and continued to whisper to himself.

"This is strange…I'm sure I detected his presence before coming here. I don't think I'm wrong."

For the next couple of seconds, he didn't say anything and just quietly walked around the room with a pensive look on his face.

Coming to a sudden stop, he turned around to look at me.

Once again scanning my body, his brows jumped and a thin smile formed on his face.

"I see…"

Tap.

Taking a step closer to me, it didn't take long for him to arrive before me.

Extending his hand, my vision darkened as his plan covered my face.

I tried with all my might, staring at the hand that was snatching at my face, but it was all in vain; he stopped me without any effort on his part.

"Don't move. I'm trying to check something."

His voice loudly echoed inside of my ears.

As soon as his words vanished, I experienced an electric shock throughout my body. My body began to tense up in response to what he did, and my eyes rolled to the back of my head.

I wanted to scream, but it was all futile effort on my end as my mouth was sealed shut. No matter how much I struggled, I couldn't say anything.

"Mhh! Mhhhhh!"

The only thing that came out of my mouth were low muffled shouts.

"Ah, it makes sense now."

Taking his hand away from my head, Jezebeth once again turned away from me.

He had a satisfied look on his face.

"It's just like I predicted. You were the ones that resulted in Magnus's death, and it doesn't look like an accident either. As expected of you…"

Turning his body around, our eyes met. This time, his smile faded a little.

must be his

my mouth stop once he said these words, but I

I began to

"Oh?"

raised at the sudden

not that different from him. You can say that you bear striking resemblances to this demeanor

lifted his head. His face slowly

served your purpose. How about you disappear and let the real you take over? I have no interest

every

that I was a fraud, I was gradually accepting this fact. The fact that I was just

with a

"I'm good."

"You're good?"

looked at me with a strange look

"Ha."

his face with his hand, he let out one single burst of dry

his complexion crumbled and his voice became

actually think you

he snapped his head to gaze at me, and a dreadful pressure

"Khurk!"

on both knees to

both hands, I slowly raised my

Tap. Tap. Tap.

slow and rhythmical footsteps echoed throughout the room before

that moment that the

"Khuak!"

disappeared, my body reflexively gagged and a wave of vertigo

I began to heavily gasp for air while a single string of saliva dripped to

"…My bad."

then, I heard Jezebeth's

you are at the moment. For a moment, I thought that you were

the ground, Jezebeth placed both of his hands on

to say, and even though you might not be him, he should still be able to hear every single one of the

my head

"How should we start?"

and pondering for a bit, Jezebeth tapped his head

having a hard time remembering certain things. Don't mind me if I remember some things

raising his head, Jezebeth looked at

till he takes over. I'll say a couple of years.

with one hand while extending the other toward me until his palm was directly in

that moment, I caught a whiff of

before he takes over? There

echoed in my thoughts like many whispers, resembling the

kill you right now, a lot of my problems would

became, sending me into this weird phase that made it hard

I think I've

hand away from me that the hissing sound stopped and he appeared in my vision once more. He kept the

did he

thought to myself as I looked at Jezebeth before me. Although his looks were similar to that of a human, and the way he acted was also similar to how a human acted, I couldn't read his expression nor understand what

a complete enigma in

made him especially scary to

the confused look on your face, you must be wondering why

my thoughts, I was jolted

his face, he slowly stood

walk around me in circles. The sound of his soft footsteps echoed

records are weakening. No, the

swallowed a

body started to tremble as a

may not know this since you don't have the power of the Akashic laws, but with every regression,

case, unlike me and you, the records don't use that much energy to reset the universe. Every reset is just a fraction of their power and thus the

Jezebeth turned his head to

so many times that the records slowly start to lose their powers like a fighter running out of stamina, and what if they get so desperate that they start to use even more of their powers to help the one they chose to kill me?

could feel my heart beating loudly as he

His words…

to experience a sudden feeling of dread as I began to

as regressions took place, I became aware of the previous regressions within my mind with each new regression that happened. The records could no longer expend

white glow enveloped Jezebeth's

"This power…it's so addicting."

in a low whisper, his words reverberated so powerfully inside the room that it felt as if the room itself

me, the glow on

guessed it. This is the last loop. Once 'he' dies, the loop will no longer

with each word he said, and my face began to twist

to why I kept

loudly inside of my head, and my view

I tried my best to keep myself from passing

hear what he wanted to say. I wanted to know why he wasn't killing

because I don't need to

blanked, and my eyes blinked several times, unable to

his two glaring red eyes stared at me. No, he was staring at

loops. You want the suffering you've experienced to end, right? Then carry it out. Kill yourself right now. Put an end to your

Jezebeth halted himself mid-sentence.

placing his hand over his mouth, he

like you can kill yourself just yet. Not unless

he was pondering, it didn't take long for his brows to relax. The smile

in my direction, his smile became even more

be

looking

to live don't

straight into my eyes. Before I could even

of you wants to die, while another