Chapter 38- Dancing With Death (Part 2)
*Swish*
With a swipe of her claw-like nails, Rin's head was closer than ever to ending up flying off his shoulders. At that exact moment, time seemed to stop as Rin watched the end of his life approaching him. For some reason, no matter how much he tried to move or dodge he couldn't do that at all.
His mind screamed for him to try and dodge or he would die, yet all he could do was watch how everything was about to end.
{Host!} The system shouted in his head.
But, even that didn't make him budge at all. Somehow, Rin sensed himself enter a dazed state he had never felt before. Everything around him moved in a very slow manner while his body was the only thing unaffected.
'Why is that?' He asked himself.
[You aren't meant to fear anything, Rin.] A deep voice spoke in his head out of nowhere. But, even though Rin should've been surprised by it, he didn't question it. It was as if it was the natural course of things in this situation.