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Chapter 2 - Clairvoyant

Hypnos and his twin brother Thanatos were primordial deities in Greek mythology. Thanatos ruled over death while Hypnos ruled over the land of sleep. Some people associate Thanatos as the skeletal figure of the grim reaper but to the Greeks, the twins are handsome winged gods, bringers of eternal peace and relief.

Kayoko believed in the Shinigami that carries a scythe and would travel across the world to redeem lost souls. The entity visited Kayoko several times for her attempt at ending her own life, but the last time he visited, he realized that the woman has more purpose this time than in the past, as if the gods have chosen her making him reject her lost soul.

Lights surrounding Kayoko's room wildly flickers igniting the flame in the soldiers' hearts. Three began to march, encompassing the door of her room, worrying about the things that she could do if something goes wrong. In their fear and panic due to distress, they began to point their guns at the door even though the young woman is bedridden and doesn't have a fight.

"There's one running amok in Tokyo. They said that he is a man with a strength of ten." one soldier said to another, adding up to their anxiety.

"Many have died in Niigata Prefecture as somebody with the ability to control the water caused a tsunami."

Kayoko hears everything but cannot wake up until a sudden burst of light pierced her sleeping sight. She opened her eyes slowly allowing them time to adjust to the blinding light while beginning to hear deteriorated voices as if they are fading away.

She began to feel goosebumps, fear, and happiness at the same moment. She can neither explain nor interpret what is going on but she knew that there was something wrong with her.

Like riding a roller coaster, her surroundings started to move as she felt floating but heavy at the same time. Gradually, her vision started to be lucid, she began to see someone watching them from afar.

In Kayoko's vision, there is a skinny woman with quite narrow eyes, tawny skin, and pure black hair extending up to her shoulders, playing with a black cat that somehow gazes directly at her eyes as if it knows she is watching

A sudden blackout followed by a blinding light struck Kayoko's eyes changing the vision that she is seeing.

"Eloisa!" another female figure shouted at the young woman as she fell to the ground. "Help! Somebody, help!"

Another blackout happened in Kayoko's consciousness and then there's chaos after her sight. Burning buildings, fallen monuments, and running men all in the face of destruction. A crest keeps flashing in her vision like there is a message behind it. A crest that is embedded on the flags of the revolutionists. The crest is the eye of Ra.

Kayoko, at this point, is confused. What in the world is her connection to the gods of Egypt? What is this vision of hers? Who is the young woman that made her feel teary and weary? She asked herself, "What is happening?"

Another flash then she saw the answers. She watched the world fall into the darkness up until Eloisa came. The same young woman with vaguely visualized comrades has been fighting alongside each other. She saw them as heroes trying to stop the end of humanity and finally gave her answers.

She was there. She was one of the people who will save the earth. She saw.

Decayed voices shouting with different levels of loudness, "We will find and kill you," members of the eye looked at Kayoko as if they know she is watching.

It suddenly went black and Kayoko lost her consciousness.

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"Kayoko, wake up," said a female voice inside her head.

She woke up and she knew that she was still in the hospital, in bed, but there was a voice inside her mind that was constantly calling her name.

Puzzled and anxious, Kayoko sat and observed every inch of the room while the voice inside her head continued.

"I am Lara. I will tell you what is happening but first, we need to share your visions with my old friend in the Philippines. You are a clairvoyant," she said. Kayoko still cannot apprehend what, how, and why she could understand Mandarin but she was willing to listen.

"The woman in your vision will end the chaos on this planet. She will unite all of us in the future but you saw, in your vision that there will be an organization named the Eye of Ra that will try to eradicate potential nuisance to their destruction," she continued.

"Eloisa will die tomorrow for unknown reasons and we need to extract her from where she was hospitalized. And yes, she is like us," Lara emphasized.

Kayoko, still in shock, thinking that those were only her dreams but it looks like they were not mere dreams, they were visions of the future and they are to be stopped from happening.

She decided to help Lara, Eloisa, and humanity. She thought that, at last, she will be having her purpose in life, "I will do it."

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