Magic Sword and Magic Staff

Time seemed to have passed for a long while, yet it also seemed to have passed in an instant.

In any case, Evie felt that her perception of the outside world had become confused, and she had no idea how long she had lost consciousness for.

In her memories, the last thing she saw had been a flash of blade light.

A flash of blade light capable of distorting space and severing space itself.

It was that breathtaking blade light that had cut through her Physical Shield and ended her life.

Evie had not even felt any pain before losing consciousness.

And her final thought had been very simple.

Am I... going to die?

That had to be the case, right?

After all, she had been split in two by a single slash, cut apart from head to toe, her body cleanly divided into left and right halves. If she did not die from that, then she would not be human, but a monster.

Therefore, Evie had been certain that she was dead, that her consciousness had completely vanished.

Yet, at some unknown point, her consciousness began to return through a hazy fog. Evie felt as though she had sunk into an invisible ocean, falling continuously toward its bottomless depths.

Until a hand reached into that Sea of Souls, intending to pull her out of it.

"..."

At that moment, Evie hesitated.

She had a feeling that if she took that hand, she could return to her original world, to where she had been, and come back to life.

But an irritating presence came from that hand. It felt as though this very hand had been the one to push her into this ocean, making Evie instinctively resist it.

Yet if she did not take that hand, she would not