บท 72: Former skills

"Tom! Tom!" A distant voice called, filled with grief and anxiety.

"Just let me sleep," Tom thought, feeling the overwhelming weakness of his body reaching all the way to the deepest point of his soul where his mind took refuge to enter a slumber.

"Wake up! Please!" The voice continued, introducing a new feeling to Tom's mind, who finally found a way to relax.

'Never a moment of peace, huh?' Tom thought, shaking his head a bit... But then, he shook his head harder. And harder. And by the time he felt the tendons in his neck snapping, he finally managed to shake himself awake. 

"Ah!" Tom shouted as soon as his consciousness returned. But the pain of his neck that was behind the shout disappeared as soon as the young man opened his eyes. 

"Tom!" Once again, the voice spoke. With vision slowly reaching his mind, Tom saw a wet face of Claudia, filled with tears.