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Darkness clouded my vision. I had been shot and am dead.
…I can feel it.
'So this is what death feels like. So cold. So lonely. '
There is no heaven but this does feel a bit like hell.
It is not uncomfortable nor is it comfortable but I guess this is it.
…Time passed.
And it kept on passing.
Minutes turned into hours and the very hours felt like seconds and seconds felt like hours.
I had grown older.
I had grown younger.
I did not know anything.
I recalled everything.
Before long my consciousness drifted.
I recalled things I did not experienced yet experienced.
Times when I was a mixed martial artist. My time at earth and more memories surfaced. I was judged for all yet this life I had escaped the cycle.
My soul kept on reincarnating yet I was cleansed.
I had passed through a bridge that judged.
I had merged with Tao.
I was in Barzakh.
I was judged.
But I had still not merged.
My consciousness diverged turning into energy and my soul kept on reincarnating.
Yet I was cleansed.
Nothing remained except the feeling of completion.
And time passed faster.
My soul moved onto another body and this one I could remember a bit better.
Red hair...Pirate...Emperor...Dead.
Shanks.
That was my name and it was the same as my initial life.
And more time passed.
And my soul reincarnated once more..
"Shanks Clive."
I heard my name once more.