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

mouth stop once he said

began to

"Oh?"

the sudden turn of

different from him. You can say that you bear striking

and slowly lifted his head. His face slowly

served your purpose. How about you disappear and let the real you take over? I have no interest in playing around with a

manner, every word he spoke thundered

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

a slow head

"I'm good."

"You're good?"

me

"Ha."

his hand, he let

didn't last for long, as his complexion crumbled and his

actually think you

totally enveloped the room as he snapped

"Khurk!"

dropped on both

my throat with both hands, I slowly raised my

Tap. Tap. Tap.

footsteps echoed throughout the room before they paused

at that moment that the pressure bearing down on

"Khuak!"

reflexively

hands on the ground, I began to heavily gasp for air while a

"…My bad."

then, I heard Jezebeth's voice echo beside my

moment. For a moment, I thought that you

Jezebeth placed both of

are lots of things I want to say, and even though you might not

my

"How should we start?"

for a bit,

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

his head, Jezebeth looked

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

mouth with one hand while extending the other toward me until his palm

a whiff of death lingering in the

you before he takes over? There have been several

my thoughts like many

kill you right now, a lot of my problems would

hissing sound in my head became, sending me into this weird phase that made it hard for me to keep my focus. Everything around

I think I've

the palm of his hand away from me that the hissing sound stopped and he appeared in my

did he spare

Jezebeth before me. Although his looks were similar to that of a human, and the way he acted was also

a complete enigma

was what made him

the confused look on your face, you must

able to read my thoughts, I was

thin smile on his face,

around me in circles. The

are weakening. No,

words, I swallowed a

within my body started to

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

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 head to look at

What if it happens 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

my heart beating

His words…

experience a sudden feeling of dread as I began to comprehend what he

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

his hand, a white glow enveloped

"This power…it's so addicting."

words reverberated so powerfully inside the room that

attention toward me, the glow on

is the last

body grew more intense with each word he said, and my

why I kept

my head, and my view of the surroundings

my best

know why he wasn't killing me. I

I don't need

and my eyes blinked several times, unable to

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

to end, right? Then carry it out. Kill yourself

Jezebeth halted himself mid-sentence.

over his

doesn't look like you can kill yourself just yet. Not unless

take long for his brows to relax. The smile

his

this might be even more

was looking at me, not

to live

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

to die, while another wants