Chapitre 236: Volume IV - Chapter 81: The Partial Story of an Old Man

"S- stop it!"

I gritted my teeth when I realized that my consciousness was slipping, slowly shutting down.

"Kari, o- okay enough...!"

The pressure that caused me to kneel down, to shake my whole body like crazy, and to support myself with my hands in order not to fall to the ground slowly began to disappear.

My lungs, which were struggling to get air into them, suddenly relaxed, and the sweat drops suddenly drained off me as I took deep breaths.

I tried to stand up, to at least lean against the wall and drag myself to the nearest seat, but it was futile. My muscles insisted on not listening to me.

'Hmm, you lasted twenty-three seconds this time. Well fucking done, you're making progress.'

"T- twenty... three seconds...?"

It was hard trying to talk while I was out of breath, yet what felt like minutes to me was only twenty-three seconds...