[GK] Restless in Peace

Note: 🎵i will not explain or apologize💀

Ogata was falling.

His mind flickered with reflections on his short, sad joke of a life. Brief moments shuffled by quickly, like someone flipping through the pages of a book they hadn't even bothered to read.

Unappreciated, no matter how hard he'd tried. He'd hurt so many, all in the name of making something of himself. For what, exactly? If anything, he was even more hated by now, and not ended up in the winner's position to say it was all worth it.

Then came the impact—the sickening crunch of bones giving in to gravity. He lay there, impatiently waiting for the pain to stop, half-expecting it to drag on forever. His thoughts drifted to the kind of twisted, evil soul that might drag him to hell. According to the old folk tales, they were supposed to look like malformed beasts. Honestly, he felt lucky he was too blind to see their faces.

But then, something shifted. The gooey, blurry mess in his eyes cleared, and suddenly he could see the sky—cloudless, an early spring blue, warm and strangely vivid.

Before he could process it, a hand reached out, grabbed him, and yanked him upright. Meanwhile his body remained in the same position, not getting up with him.

That's when it hit him: he was really dead. And there he was, standing somewhere outside his body. He looked down at his hands—still there, but faintly translucent, like smoke caught in a beam of light. He tried to touch his face, but his fingers passed through, leaving a faint, cold tingling where they should've met skin.

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