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.

be his fake

the restriction in my mouth stop once he said these words,

I began to

"Oh?"

brow raised at the

him. You can say that you bear

shook his head and slowly lifted his head. His face slowly

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

in a gentle manner, every word he spoke thundered in

it pained me to be reminded that I

with a slow head

"I'm good."

"You're good?"

mumbled while he looked at me with a strange look

"Ha."

with his hand, he let out one single

for long, as his complexion crumbled

you have an

the room as he snapped his head

"Khurk!"

dropped on both

hands, I slowly raised my head to look

Tap. Tap. Tap.

rhythmical footsteps echoed throughout the room before they paused

right at that moment that the

"Khuak!"

my body reflexively gagged and a wave of vertigo hit

heavily gasp for air while a

"…My bad."

then, I heard Jezebeth's voice echo beside my

pathetically weak you are at the moment. For a moment, I thought that you were going to

crossed legged on the ground, Jezebeth placed both of his hands on the ends of

talk? There are lots of things I want to say, and even though you might not be

finger, my head

"How should we start?"

and pondering for a bit, Jezebeth tapped his head

still aren't intact you see, so I'm having a hard time remembering certain

head, Jezebeth looked at

time till he takes over. I'll say a couple of years. Mhh, that sounds

toward me until his palm was directly in front

a whiff of death lingering in

Should I just kill you before he takes over? There have been several instances when he's brought me quite a bit of

echoed in my thoughts like many whispers, resembling the hissing sound that

now, a lot of my problems would

spoke, the stronger the hissing sound in my head became, sending me into this weird

I think I've

hand away from me that the hissing sound stopped and he appeared in

he spare

were similar to that of a human, and the way he acted was also similar to how

complete enigma in my

what made him especially scary to

on your face, you must be wondering why

read my thoughts, I was

on his face,

in circles. The sound of his soft footsteps echoed through

Akashic records are weakening. No, the

swallowed

my body started to tremble as

have the power of the Akashic laws,

regardless of what type of entity you are. Be it me, you...or the records, meddling with time doesn't come cheaply. Whatever the 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 burden

his footsteps, Jezebeth turned his head to

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? The one who

feel my

His words…

sudden feeling of dread as

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

glow enveloped Jezebeth's hand and his face

"This power…it's so addicting."

his words reverberated so powerfully inside the room that it felt as if the

toward me, the glow on Jezebeth's

you've already guessed it. This is the last loop. Once 'he' dies, the loop will

grew more intense with each word

to why

of my head, and my view of the

best to

wanted to hear what he wanted to say. I wanted to know why he wasn't killing me. I wanted to know what was going inside of

because I don't need to

and my eyes blinked several times, unable to comprehend

face as his two glaring red eyes stared

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

Jezebeth halted himself mid-sentence.

over his

yourself just yet. Not unless you

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

in my direction, his smile became

this might be even more

knew he was looking at

to live

he looked straight into my eyes. Before I

of you wants to die, while another