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 fake

said these words, but I didn't say anything

began to

"Oh?"

brow raised at the sudden

way, you're not that different from him. You can say that you bear striking resemblances to this demeanor at

head and slowly lifted

about you disappear and let the real you take over?

spoke in a gentle manner, every word he spoke thundered in

Even though it pained me to be reminded that I was a fraud, I was gradually accepting this fact. The fact that I

with a slow

"I'm good."

"You're good?"

looked at me with

"Ha."

he let out one single burst of

for long, as his complexion crumbled

you have

enveloped the room as he snapped his head to gaze

"Khurk!"

on both

I slowly raised my head to look at

Tap. Tap. Tap.

slow and rhythmical footsteps echoed throughout the room before they paused in

the pressure bearing down on the

"Khuak!"

reflexively gagged and a

hands on the ground, I began to heavily gasp for air while a single string of saliva dripped to the

"…My bad."

heard Jezebeth's voice echo

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

Jezebeth placed both

say, and even though you might not be him,

finger, my

"How should we start?"

and pondering for a

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

his head,

you have much time till he takes over. I'll say a couple of

the other toward

a whiff of death lingering in

takes over? There have been several instances when he's brought me quite a bit

like many whispers, resembling the

kill you right now, a lot of my problems

spoke, the stronger the hissing sound in my head became, sending me into this weird phase that made it hard for me to

I think I've got

the palm of his hand away from me that the hissing sound stopped and he appeared in my vision once more. He kept the same smile as before on his

he

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

a complete enigma

made

you must be wondering why

I was jolted

smile on his face, he slowly

in circles. The sound of his soft footsteps echoed through my

are weakening. No, the Akashic records are already

words, I swallowed

started

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

isn't cheap 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

Jezebeth turned his

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

my heart

His words…

experience a sudden feeling of dread as I began

of the previous regressions within my mind with each new regression that

hand, a white glow enveloped Jezebeth's hand and his face

"This power…it's so addicting."

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

his attention toward me, the glow on Jezebeth's

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

grew more intense with each word he said,

to why

loudly inside of my head, and my view of the surroundings started to

I tried my best

to say. I wanted to know why he wasn't

I don't need to kill

my eyes blinked several times, unable to comprehend his

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

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

Jezebeth halted himself mid-sentence.

hand over his mouth, he

you can kill yourself just yet. Not

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

my direction, his smile became even

this might be even

time, I knew he was looking at me, not

to live don't

suddenly asked while he looked straight into my eyes. Before I could even respond he

you wants to die, while