The ntion of Jade's na caused the Demon King's expression to grow cold.
Ty, with whatever remained of his heart, felt a sinking pain, resulting in the flas on his back intensifying, forcing him to drop to one knee and grip his skeletal shoulder as he buckled in pain.
Elithira chuckled and remarked, "How can you even be in pain? You're literally just bones. You have no tendons, muscles, or veins that should be reporting pain. For all intended purposes, you should just be an emotionless skeleton."
Ty slowly picked himself up as the flas receded, and the pain subsided. He admitted with a shaky voice, "Yeah, I don't get it either. That sounds more fun than this."
The Demon King, not losing his composure, explained, "You can thank for that pain to your spirit itself that is imitating the fibers of a real body through your spiritual energy of Reiesencia. While it can allow you to use different abilities, it also acts as your vessel, amplifying your pain even more. But that doesn't matter right now."
"Before I send you to Alexira, I want to update you on what's been happening in the Mortal Realm."
Noticing Elithira's playful deanor, Ty shifted once the Demon King ntioned Alexira. Ty, naturally curious, asked, "Who is Alexira?"
Elithira responded with her head hung, "It's a place, not a person," as she just walked back to the table and took a seat.
Ty tried to speak out another sentence but the Demon King interrupted, placing a crystal-like orb on the table. He then pressed his index finger on the center crystal, causing an array of images to manifest in front of them, forming a giant, single glass-like picture.
"What is all of this?" Ty's jaw nearly dropped as the Demon King proclaid, "I have eyes and ears in every dinsion that exists, as unhappy as that makes the Angelic Race. There isn't anything that doesn't hurt them, right?"
"However, the point is, I had so personal drones watching the New York City area before and after your death in the hands of Erebos," he continued, clicking a button and highlighting the fateful park where Ty was killed.
Ty burst out, proclaiming, "I knew it all along!"
Ty's sudden outburst caught the Demon King off guard, and he couldn't help but ask, "What do you an by that?"
"Those 'Drones' that you call them. Those are birds, right?"
"Yes. And?" The Demon King nodded as if stating a matter of fact.
"I always thought it was abnormal with their number and how they would always be watching everything. During the football season back in college, my friends and I always thought that these birds were just drones to help the governnt keep tabs on us all," Ty began to laugh, stating, "If only I could go back and show them we were right all along."
The Demon King seed a bit perplexed at this sudden outburst, raised his brows and inford, "Sorry, your governnt doesn't use the birds, actually, it's too hard to maintain them. Instead, they simply train people to walk around all day. But that doesn't matter."
"This matter concerns your girlfriend, Jade, who just so happened to go looking for you the night you were dying," as he said that, the Demon King pressed another button on his crystal, showing the night of Ty's death and the scene when Jade was holding his dead body, crying and screaming, "I will find who did this to you!"
Ty, not finding anything odd, responded, "Yeah, and so what? I rembered a bit of that before everything faded away."
The Demon King then continued, "Do you rember this?"
As he said that, the scene in the hologram changed, while Jade was crying with tears in her eyes, a woman with long pink hair erged from the outskirts of the park, bowing down and with tears in her eyes put a hand over Jade.
Just watching the event unfold, Ty muttered, "No-no, I can't say I do."
"Everything after that was simply dark until I got here. Who is that, and why should I care?"
The Demon King responded, "You should care, because this woman is known as Ashaiki Tonistone, soone whom I've been watching for the last 15 or so years with enjoynt."
"You see, Ty, not everyone loves the Angelic Race, however, I don't just hate them because of our troubled past. Given your very situation, you should know very well as to how sloppy they are at their jobs."
"Ashaiki has a strong-willed group of five other unique individuals and also has the support of a handful of big-na companies who are helping her in funding her endeavors. The fact that she went out and t Jade could be a sign that she is looking to utilize your lover's pain and suffering to achieve her goal."
"Lastly, before you head out on your mission for the 'Ocular Veil,' I have a small gift for you." Saying that the Demon King retrieved a small shard from his pocket and approached Ty.
"You'll only have about 10 minutes before its effects wear off, so do make the most of it, okay?"
With utter confusion in his mind, Ty simply responded, "What?" before the Demon King placed the shard in his palm.
Within the blink of an eye, Ty found himself back in the mortal realm in front of his and Jade's apartnt.
Shocked and confused, he looked down at his hands and saw a tir on his palm counting down from 10 minutes. Glancing back up at the rusty door in shock, he saw the number "232" and tried to open the door but his effort turned out to be futile as his hand simply phased through the door handle.
"I guess that makes a spirit, huh?" Ty mumbled, walking through the door, quickly realizing that he might as well just be so spirit they see in ani. He walked into their apartnt, which didn't seem to have changed since the last ti he had been there. Looking at the clock, which showed 5:30 a.m. on October 10th, Ty was shocked as this would an that only a day had passed since his death.
Walking through the apartnt, he found Jade lying asleep on the couch with a half dozen empty boxes of tissue, while the tissues, used and crumbled up were all lying on the floor after her endless hours of crying.
Ty muttered, feeling slightly pained, "She must've cried herself to sleep many tis," trying to grip his shirt in agony and guilt for his death, he went down on his knee and tried to wipe a tear from her face, and to his astonishnt, it moved for only a slight mont before the tir on his hand spoke out, "5 more minutes."
Before Ty could curse or complain, he blinked and found himself in a golden space with Jade, who asked as she sniffled, "Ty, what are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be dead?"
Looking back down at his hand that read "4:45 seconds left," he pulled her closer to him, giving her a tight hug, before saying, "I guess I was able to visit you in your dreams, huh? I guess I will count myself lucky."
"Listen, Jade, I don't want to see you crying anymore, okay? I promise I will co back. It's just going to take a bit of ti for that."
With tears still flowing down her warm, red cheeks, Jade uttered in confusion, "How is that even possible? I saw you dead and held you in my arms."
Ty explained, "Well, let's just say I've made so powerful friends who will help do what it takes to help get back to you, no matter what the price might be."
Wiping her tears, Jade started to laugh, "That's just like you, isn't it? Making friends was always an easy task for you, huh?"
"You sure this isn't just so dream?" she asked with a pained look on her face.
Showing her his hand as the tir ticked down, showing, "1:24 seconds left," Ty replied, "It's all real. I was given this ti to co back to you for just a mont and let you know to take care of yourself."
"And while I wasn't given too much information on this Ashaiki chick, my friend makes it sound like she is pretty strong to so degree. So be cautious about whom you trust, but if your gut says to trust her, then do so!"
"I have had complete faith in your decision-making skills since the day I t you, so do your best until I make it back, okay?"
Wiping the tears away, Jade nodded with determination, "I'll do whatever I can from here. And I promise, I won't give up,"
As she gave a big smile, and the tir let out a beep before saying, "TIS UP,'" zipping Ty away as Jade shook herself up, grabbing her cheek, feeling the warm touch of a finger that parted the last of her tears.
Ty's green eyes returned to a full set of green as a tear appeared from his concave skull, as he uttered, "Thank you. I'm ready for whatever cos next."
The Demon King, grinning with excitent, said, "Good. You're gonna need it!"
"Now, let's discuss the broken world of Alexira and what you need to do to obtain the item that we need."
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