Conflicted Feelings

Chaos, sounds gradually fading into the distance, sensations

also slowly disappearing...

Until this moment, what echoed in my mind was...

Ah~ Looks like I really am going to die. Hah... Drowning is so painful. What a pity, I never got to be a hero...

All my senses were fading away. I...

Drifted in a daze, bobbing up and down. I had no idea how much time had passed.

I suddenly opened my eyes.

All around me was pitch-black.

What... had happened to me?

I...

Why were my fingers covered in mud and sand?

I...

Wait, why did everything around me feel so cold? It was like... I was submerged in water?

Right!

Hadn't I drowned?

I instinctively looked to either side, but in the pitch-black water, even with my eyesight, I could only make out a little.

What? I wasn't dead?

But I couldn't swim!

And I didn't have gills... Wait, I wasn't breathing at all?

I touched my mouth. Sure enough, I wasn't breathing. No, rather than not breathing, I couldn't feel my chest moving at all.

What was going on?

I slowly stood up, my head still a little dizzy. I braced myself against the muddy sand, then suddenly felt something hard beneath my hand. I instinctively looked over and saw a... half-meter-long

river prawn right in front of me, greedily devouring something human-shaped...

That was... Right, it was that "octopus."

It had been electrocuted by me, and then I drowned... So how had I gotten back up?

I raised my arm and looked it over. There wasn't a single sign of decay on my body. I touched myself and could still feel warmth. I felt no different from when I was alive.

Emmm... Was I dead or not?

If I could still understand what was going on,