Have you ever felt empty? Like nothing around you ever felt important for you? Almost as if the life you live is absolutely meaningless?
Well, some have. And to tell you what it meant, it meant that the world around them wasn't up to their standards, to their expectation, as everything began to void.
Even people they once knew, only pass by their thoughts like a speck of dust in the middle of the universe.
Loved ones they thought would've been enough, was never really filled the void in their hearts.
Friends they first saw as companions, vanish alongside every other person they've ever known.
Things and hobbies they used to spend all their time with, began to fade into weightless tasks.
As they themselves drifted off into the abyss.
The same abyss Kayn was in.
He had expected the world to repay his favor of how he did things. His standards that meant righteousness for everyone. And the rest of his courageous goals.
But no. His co-workers were never the same people he believed in, only worthy enough to be considered a nuisance for him.
Former people he once loved back into the far past still made him reconsider, but it mattered not anymore.
A few friends he used to tag along with became shadows behind his.
And even his act of being friendly, of being someone who would light up the atmosphere around him, was nothing.
He felt that nothing across his entire being.
Being surrounded by nothing.
And yet, this nothing was all he ever had anymore.
Floating up within his subconscious, he was in an empty abyss that held no bounds of darkness whatsoever.
The feeling of floating up towards any or no direction at all was beginning to get to him.
Death, huh?
The end of one's life at the edge of every experience. Every existence.
The nothingness that followed after death was severely theorized and conceptualized.
But no one knew enough to tell the story.
Because no one ever comes back.
Amidst the darkness, the emptiness of the abyss, Kayn's consciousness began to incorporate itself back to him.
The feeling of the abyss gave him goosebumps that sprawled within his being.
Still in a state of half-consciousness, everything felt like a dream.
Memories of what had happened at his office came abruptly into his mind.
As nauseating as it was, Kayn was too lucid in the place where he was now.
"Where.. am I?"
A question that seemed to echo and dissipate in the space of the abyss. Completely dark in his sights.
"No answer, huh?"
Unsurprisingly disappointed by that, he tried to feel his body in the uncertainty of his situation.
But he felt nothing. It wasn't like he was numb, but he had no sense of touch at all.
The same goes for the rest of his senses, all seemingly gone without a trace.
He couldn't feel anything around him.
He couldn't hear anything around him.
The worst part? He couldn't even do anything about it.
And yet, his consciousness remained intact with him.
He could still think, thinking about the life he had led up to this point.
"What a waste."
From where he was before, he lived a life that was purely idealistic. Nothing about it was ever something of value.
He despised everyone he knew who went behind his back, gritting his teeth if he had any.
But, what use is any of that now? And now, he's ended up in an abyss that held no refuge for someone like him.
Or did it?
At the back of his mind, he endlessly thought about a lot of things.
And the world was one of them.
He knew someone like him who was still righteous like that, held obvious value for the world.
It was the world that said otherwise.
Society becomes questionable when it comes to things that people have different perspectives of.
But that doesn't mean he ever deserved something like this.
And slowly, he came to see that the world as he knew it had a major fault, an inconsistency within it that makes these things happen.
Kayn already said it himself. The world needed new judgement.
Not only criminals, but people who do wrong morally and socially that today's society seems to overlook.
Broken hearts and dignities fill the world with negativity, and people still continue to think it's fine.
It's because of their pride, arrogance, and selfishness that justice always seems to just not make it enough to cover.
Leaving these poor people who wanted the best, but only ever get the worst.
Worst of all? Kayn wasn't able to do anything during his time of living to fix this. Standing idly by, so clueless to the chaos of the world.
But now? He was given a chance. Enlightened by his voice towards another world. Something much beyond his comprehension, but with no other choice, he accepted.
He grew himself a new perspective, a new outlook in life and in the way he saw things.
Determined to set things right and never repeat the same mistake he once made and regretted.
After all this thinking and reconsidering, he set his mind straight and was ready to move on with that mindset.
But.. he was stuck.
The boundless void that surrounded them felt unending, and he had no such concept of moving.
He remembered his death, following the voice. And then ended up here.
He knew this place was neither heaven nor hell, a weird in-between place that had no solace of anything.
This dark abyss was him.
His voice knew him better than anyone else would ever.
And it wanted him to take a good look of what kind of person he truly became.
Kayn waited. Waited for something to happen, so that he could finally get out of his abyss.
It felt like an eternity within his abyss, each moment lasting a second longer than what it felt like.
Until he began to fall.
He fell like he came from a skydiving helicopter. His body immediately tensed up.
He could still see nothing but the abyss, but he knew this feeling of reality was no joke.
Despite never skydiving, he was calm.
Calm enough to know that he wasn't in any danger.
Amidst his fall, the feeling of the void and abyss around him distorted into something else he couldn't describe.
Whispers began to fill the air at that fall, almost like there were murmurs of people he knew.
Ignoring that, he looked ahead of himself, seeing the abyss but also a light.
After what felt like another eternity, he finally hit something. Or more so, tore through something.
The fabric of his reality separated him from the rest of his origin as he entered a new one.
Before he knew it, he hit the ground.
It wasn't so much of an impact than it was him being absorbed into it.
Finally gotten somewhere, Kayn was almost relieved.
That abyss was taking too long, and he couldn't bear to see himself all alone. Again.
Above anything else, he wanted to open his eyes, see the world of a new reality once and for all.
And yet, he couldn't properly see.
Almost as if reality hadn't accepted his existence yet, making him feel out of place.
As Kayn was now within a new reality, he could only wonder what would happen next.
Keep in mind that, even in another reality, people still tend to stay the same no matter the normality.
But the difference? Kayn had changed.