Sean's lips spurted blood, his gaze turning downward, to see a small earth spike embedded in his stomach.
At the last second, Malek had used an earth spike to impale himself, which jutted out of his back, and pierced deep into Sean's tummy.
Sean's arms released around Malek's neck, dropping the corpse to hang off the spike, while he coughed another mouthful of blood.
For some reason, his death sense was unresponsive, and even he himself felt dull... It was as though all sounds had vanished from the background, and the world had simply been confined to just him, the spike, and the corpse before him.
He coughed again, blood trickling down his lips, now with a mixture of his saliva.
He didn't need his death sense to tell him... He knew what was happening. He was dying.
'Is this it?'
The thought suddenly appeared in his head, and for some seconds that stretched till infinity, he felt solace and comfort in just that thought.
After all, he had tried hadn't he?
