“Let me go with you!” Jeanne pulled Mykel in with her sweaty hands. “I don’t want to be here if you’re not here. I have been following you, following your orders, and this time let me do what I want, and what I want is just to be with you,” Jeanne said.

Mykel silently stared at Jeanne for a moment, and then said, “I have nothing in my world. You have seen it, how I lived before I came here. Do you think I can give you anything with the things that I have?” “You have everything you want here, and you can be anything you want. Why would you waste it all just to be with me?” Mykel asked with his eyebrows furrowed.

“I could ask you the same thing, and my reason is that I want to be with you no matter what happened. I don’t care if I would lose everything as long as I’m with you,” Jeanne answered with determination.

Aurea suddenly walked toward Jeanne and gently lifted her up which surprised Jeanne. Aurea slowly removed Jeanne’s hands from Mykel’s arm as she comforted her. She knew that Jeanne wouldn’t stop begging that was why she decided to stop her and calm her down.

The moment Jeanne was brought to the side, Elena flew in and hugged Mykel so tightly. She felt what Mykel felt, and it made her cry, and didn’t want to let go of Mykle, just like Jeanne. It wasn’t for the same reason as Jeanne, but because she felt the pain in Mykel’s chest and the sadness he felt of leaving everyone behind.

Elena already knew that Mykel would leave one day, and they both had talked about this for a very long time. Elena had accepted it, but feeling how sad she and Mykel was, it made her reluctant to let him go.

“You’re an adult now, are you seriously going to cry? You promised you won’t cry,” Mykel said as he stroked Elena’s head.

“Shut up…” Elena replied as she hugged Mykel so tightly.

“Can you do me a favor, Elena?” Mykel whispered into Elena’s ears.

Elena was frozen still after she listened to Mykel’s request, and realized the time had been stopped. She slowly leaned her head back and looked at Mykel with a shocked expression as Mykel gently smiled at her.

“Do you think you can do it in my stead?” Mykel asked. “I believe you’re more befitting for this,” Mykel pointed out as he put his hands on her shoulders.

Elena slowly removed her hands from Mykel’s body and took a few steps back. Bhatmelec put her hand on Elena’s left shoulder and watched Mykel take a deep breath and exhale deeply.

“Goodbye, sweetheart,” Mykel said with a gentle smile then disappeared.

Time started moving again, and everyone could feel Mykel’s presence had disappeared. Jeanne screamed her lungs out and pushed Aurea away from her as she spread her wings. Luciel and Aurea stopped her from doing whatever she was trying to do, but they could feel the divine power inside her body was about to burst and might kill everyone around her.

“Let go of me! I’ll go and find Mykel even if it means death!” Jeanne said as she pushed Aurea and Luciel away from her.

“If you want to die that badly, go ahead,” Elena said as she looked at Jeanne with a serious expression. “But you won’t be able to meet father that way,” Elena continued.

Jeanne looked at Elena with a confused look as she folded her wings.

(On Earth)

“Hey! Wake up! How long are you going to sleep here?” The officer said as he shook Mykel on the shoulder.

Mykel opened his eyes and looked at his surroundings. He scoffed and chuckled which made the officer look at him with weird look. It was the same cell before he got teleported to Earth in his novel.

“Hurry up and leave, and don’t forget to take your belongings,” The officer said as he walked away.

“Status… system…” Mykel mumbled to himself, but nothing happened. “That’s worth the shot,” Mykel chuckled as he stood up.

Mykel’s inmate stared at him with his eyebrows furrowed and looked at him weirdly. He was as big as Gunnar and he had tattoos all over his body.

“What? Do you have a business with me?” Mykel asked with his eyebrow raised.

The inmate stood up and approached Mykel as he cracked his neck. He was about to punch Mykel, but the officer came back since Mykel hadn’t come out of the cell. The officer looked at the inmate and warned him that they would fine him. Mykel then smirked and left the cell with the officer.

“Is this all your belongings?” The officer asked as he pointed at the silver plate filled with a wallet, a pack of cigarettes, a lighter, a pair of keys, a smartphone, and a ring.

“Yeah, thanks,” Mykel answered as he nodded his head and put on his blazer.

Mykel grabbed his stuff and left the police station as he put a cigarette in his mouth. He made sure that he was in his world when he looked around, and this time he was in his real world with the same street he knew.

He checked his wallet and the $22 he got from that guy he had beaten up was still there and he couldn’t help but smile, “Better than nothing.” “Now that I think about it. The ring didn’t get brought to that world,” Mykel looked at the 18k gold ring on his left ring finger.

The gold ring was his engagement ring with Sasha, and he wondered why he didn’t remember anything about the ring. He then went to the cemetery to pay her a visit for one last time even though he had never visited since her burial.

When he stood in front of Sasha’s gravestone, he looked at the ring in his hand. He was silently reminiscing about the past and wondered why he had gone through all that dream. Why it felt so real and yet he couldn’t accept it no matter how hard he tried after he reached his goal.

“I’m always thinking that everything that happened, it all happened because of you. From when I met you, be with you, and until now, I feel like you have something to do with all this,” Mykel said as he sighed and put the ring in his blazer pocket. “I wonder if you were the one who sent me there…” Mykel sat down and lit his cigarette as he stared at Sasha’s name on the gravestone and pulled out a bottle of cheap vodka.

“I never thought this day would come,” A woman’s voice could be heard from Mykel’s right side. Mykel glanced at the woman and realized it was Sasha’s mother. “I want you to leave. I don’t want to see your sinful face in front of my daughter’s grave,” she continued.

Mykel ignored her words, took a big shot, and then walked away, ignoring the woman’s existence. When he walked past the woman, she asked, “Are you finally feeling guilty for what happened to my daughter?”

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Mykel left the cemetery and went straight to the pawn shop to sell his gold ring. He got $1000 for selling the ring, and he went back to his apartment and decided to start a new life with the money he got.

(Six months later)

Mykel was sitting in the park with a cigarette in his mouth on Sunday morning. He was working as a construction laborer during the day and during the night time, he worked as a bartender or a male escort. Although he lost everything, his look helped him get an easy job.

“The end is near!” A group of people chanted the same words over and over. “God is angry at us! Repent!” They kept chanting on the street.

“They really have nothing else to do, huh?” Mykel sighed as he stood up and looked at the crowds.

Mykel had enough of it and decided to walk toward them because they ruined his Sunday morning. He looked at the banners those people held, and when he was about to tell them to stop, dark clouds formed in the sky. They all looked up and the chanting stopped because of the weird phenomenon that had happened.

Small dots could be seen coming out of the clouds and slowly falling down. They were curious about what it was until they realized the dots grew bigger and it was a creature like a bat. They were wondering what it was until those creatures landed on the ground.

“God, please have mercy on our souls,” A man said with a trembling voice as he looked at a gargoyle that landed right in front of him.