Arena

TL note: Please excuse all the swearing. That was part of the text.


When I came to my senses I was in a blank empty world.

What nonsense was I talking about?

Its just as I say. A empty blank world.

Even gra.s.s, trees, and color did not exist. Both the ground and sky was completely white. A seemingly never ending horizon was filled with nothing but empty void s.p.a.ce.

It was a frightening scenery.

I felt pressure from being in this s.p.a.ce. It felt like this room will also make my mind void and empty.

"What is this f.u.c.king place?"

How can it be possible for nothing to exist here? Its almost as if all the color was watered out!

Fl.u.s.tered, I started looking around.

I never knew how frightening it is to have nothing to look at.

"Its a dream."

That"s what I concluded.

This was a situation that couldn"t be explained if its not a dream.

"Its been a while since I had a lucid dream. But why does my dream also have to be f.u.c.ked up."

It wasn"t a good dream so I decided to wake up fast as possible.

There are methods for waking up from dreams.

I put my hands on the white ground and did a hand stand.

"f.u.c.k!"

Koong!

"aaahhhh!"

I headb.u.t.ted with the barren ground. I grabbed my forehead and rolled around from the pain. It hurt so much that my head felt like it will break into two pieces.

"Why is this ground so hard."

The white ground was hard as marble. At the very least it was harder than my head. I was sure of that.

It was then...

"Nice to meet you candidate Kim Hyunho.

"What?!"

An abrupt and energetic voice of a young child started to spread out in the white s.p.a.ce.

I was startled.

When looking around I couldn"t find the owner of the voice.

"Could it be a ghost?"

I felt a chill because of thinking of the possibly be having nightmare due to a ghost. I abruptly shouted because of the frightening feeling that was creeping upon me.

"Whose there? Come out!"

"I"m right here."

The voice could be hear from the top. I lifted my head and looked at the sky.

My mind became blank.

"An angel?"

There was no other way of putting it.

It was a baby angel that seemed to have come out of a Michael Angelo"s painting.

It bothered me that his thing was hanging around as he wasn"t wearing any clothing.

"Are you a real angel?"

"Yes."

The baby angel came down fluttering wings like a bird.

I couldn"t believe it. An angel comes out in a dream?

Just in case I asked

"Tell me the winning lottery number."

"I don"t want to."

The naked angel cut me off right away.

Even though he was young and a angel he was quite conceited.

I stopped myself from hitting him in the a.s.s for punishment.

"Okay, Okay, I understand so let me wake up from this dream."

"This isn"t a dream."

"What."

"You just confirmed it after kissing with the ground."

I flinched at those words.

"You ... saw?"

"Yes."

The baby angel covered his mouth and laughed.

"You felt that it was wasn"t a dream from your two split heads."

I felt fl.u.s.tered.This is so embarra.s.sing. He saw such a shameful act!

"Candidate Kim Hyunho when you abused your own head if you were dreaming you should have felt a pain that undoubtedly would have woke you up.

I really wanted to hit this smirking worm.

The baby angel spoke.

"If not do you want to take the test again?"

"How."

"You said earlier about a lottery right?"

"You"re going tell me?"

"No."

He once again tests my patience.

"Instead I will let you experience the next best thing."

"What is it? Pension lottery?"

"Really, you say things that reveal your financial circ.u.mstances so eloquently."

Boiling, boiling anger.

"..... Then what is it?"

"Would you like to be hit by lightning?."

Blank .......

I felt a sense of absurdity.

What did this worm just tell me? When he didn"t even give me the lottery number, but on top of that he asks me if I want to hit by lightning?

"Its not enough to die from it, but it will hurt a bit. Okay then here I go ~ !"

"Wait?! I"m not..... !"

Static noise!

"Aaahhhh!"

From the white sky a lightning fell down. I felt that my entire body was being fried and due to shock and yelled for help. Is this the feeling of the chicken being fried by mom!

"Okay, how do you feel?"

How do I feel?!

"I thought you said it wasn"t strong enough to die from?!"

I yelled in anger from the pain I never felt in my life before. This was 100 times more painful than the anesthesia injection I got for the circ.u.mcision surgery!

If you get hit my a real lighting you will die before you feel the pain. It"s because its not enough to kill you that"s why it hurts.

Spouting some bulls.h.i.t, the baby angel fluttered his wings and came closer to me.

Leaning his hateful ugly face closer he spoke.

"If this was a dream could it hurt this much?"

".........!"

A sentence that pierces deeply in my heart.

 From the uneasy feeling, my heart shook. If this is not a dream then where exactly is this place?

"Candidate Kim Hyunho."

Wait .....

From before that b.a.s.t.a.r.d was calling me a candidate right? What does it mean to be a candidate?

"Candidate Kim Hyunho was chosen to be a candidate thanks to the commandments."

"Commandments?"

Humans call it many things but basically it is the rules of the universe.

What nonsense is he spouting?

Seeing as I was not understanding, feeling frustrated he spoke again.

It"s basically G.o.d. Its called commandments to help with understanding.

"In one word it basically means G.o.d, absolute being, right?"

"Yes."

"Anyway, that commandment? That person, no that existence what does he want with me? Candidate. Is he going to give me some test or something?"

"Yes."

"What kind of test?"

"The test is an extremely hard fight. Its a mission that you could die doing."

"It"s so dangerous that you could die?"

"Yes."

"No, I"m not doing it."

I said firmly.

Are these people crazy? G.o.d? Angle? Is that everything?

Do they think I"m going to do arduous and hard work when I was perfectly living fine?

The baby angel spoke with a troubled expression.

"You must do it ......."

"Why are you making me do this? Do it himself. Since he is this absolute being it should be easy."

"I can"t tell you reason for the test. Anyway candidate Kim Hyunho you must do it."

"Anyway, I don"t want to."

What"s he going to do when the person who needs to do it doesn"t want too? With this kind of thinking he showed his shallow guts.

"Do you really not want to do it?"

"Yes, you worm b.a.s.t.a.r.d."

"Really?"

"Really."

"You don"t want to do more than being hit by the lightning again?"

From the word lightning I flinched. Are you threatening me? A feeling of not wanting to back down surged within me.

"Yes, you b.a.s.t.a.r.d. Even if my precious thing become small as yours I don"t want to do it!"

"Whoa, that means you don"t want to do it even if you die."

"Finally you understand my true feelings."

I looked at the baby angel as if I was proud of him for understanding. The baby angel faced turned into a face filled with worry.

"We are not forcing you, just giving you the opportunity.... The choice is up to you candidate Kim Hyunho.

"Yes, Thank you for giving me chance to die after fighting hard. No thank you."

"Okay, I guess there no other way but to send you to the after life....."

"After life?"

I was shocked.

"You, what is going on! Are you threatening me? I thought you weren"t pressuring me!"

"Of course we are not threatening or pressuring you. Since you said you did not want to take the test we are going to send you to the after life as planned.

"Don"t send me to the after life! Send me back to the living world!

The baby angel looked at me with an expression of absurdity.

"Candidate Kim Hyunho ...... I was questioning whether it was true or not, but you still don"t know?"

"What?"

"You died. We only bring people who died to this place."

"..... huh?"

"Do you think we will just bring someone who is perfectly normal person and threaten them? Just as you see me I am an angel not a devil.

A feeling of absurdity rushed through me.

The feeling of suspicion of this being a dog s.h.i.t dream rushed over me again.

"Candidate Kim Hyunho"s cause of death is heart diseases. It happened during sleep so you died just like that.

He speaks so nicely like an angel.

"Do you expect me to believe that?"

"You were already deep asleep and did not realize it."

"Except for being hit by lightning, there was no incident in my life that I could have died from. How can I just die like that in my sleep without even experiencing any symptoms? Does that make sense?
And at my age how can I have a heart disease?"

"Before going to sleep you should have felt stuffy pressure in you heart....."

"..........?!"

I was startled.

I remembered.

For sure, I felt a stuffy in my chest before going to bed.

"It"s genetic. Candidate Kim Hyunho"s father also pa.s.sed away due to heart disease right?