Chapter 3: raised from the abyss
I cried and cried. I didn't know how much. Time wasn't passing for me. I was stuck in absolute darkness. Couldn't hear anything, couldn't see anything, and couldn't touch anything; all my senses were paralyzed. All I knew was that I was crying and feeling remorseful. I didn't know why I was crying and why I regretted it. I didn't know why this was happening and... and even who I was anymore.
Suddenly my ears started hearing again.I heard whispers that I couldn't comprehend.
I continued crying until suddenly the voices became clear to me.I didn't understand how but unconsciously opened my eyes.Bright light entered my eyes causing me to close them due to the pain.But this pain didn't matter to me.I could only feel happiness from leaving the infinite void that had covered me.I opened my eyes with even more excitement.Everything was still too bright for my eyes but it wasn't as bothersome as before.
The voices were clear to me. But honestly, I couldn't understand anything from their language. It felt like I was stuck among a bunch of foreigners. But the tone of one of their voices made me mesmerized and captivated by the source of the sound. Her bright eyes locked onto mine and she spoke to me with her beautiful voice. After seeing her, I remembered all the memories that I had forgotten during these hardships. Suddenly, I cried loudly,
'Arina! My beautiful Arina!'
Upon seeing my tears, she herself, along with a woman and a boy who were next to her, became concerned and started talking to me in their incomprehensible language. I wanted to speak to them in my own language but instead, I made an unintelligible sound that surprised me and stopped my tears. I wanted to get up but it felt like my head had become heavy and wouldn't move at all. In the meantime, as I struggled, my gaze fell on my hands and feet, and I opened my mouth as much as possible.
'WHAT THE HECK IS THIS?'
My hands and feet were small and round. There was no sign of any wounds on them and they were as white as snow. I don't know what happened but at that moment when my mouth was wide open, a soft piece of plastic-like thing went into my mouth. I was afraid that I might choke, I wanted to spit it out but instead unconsciously, I started chewing on it. Looking closely at it, I realized it was a pacifier.
'Why the hell do you give a pacifier to my old a#s? What do you think I am a baby girl?'
I looked at Ariana who had put the pacifier in my mouth. 'Sis, what is all of this? These kinds of relationships are probably not allowed in webnovel, you know.'
Now that I looked closely at her, it seemed like Ariana also had become much younger. She looked like a 6-year-old girl.
'Wait, does this mean...?'
I looked at my body terrified . My body was chubby and small, dressed in a pink childlike fantasy costume. I touched my face with my hands. I had gained a big chunk of cheeks and my nose and lips were smaller than those of an adult human. I grabbed onto my cheeks out of fear and looked at those three adult humans who appeared like giants in front of me.
'HAVE I TURNED INTO A BABY?'
Let's think more logically. Arina has become a child too and her appearance has changed a lot, as if she is a different person. I don't know how, but from her voice and vibes I was getting from her, I was a hundred percent sure it was her.
'Us? Have we been reborn?' I don't know what this means, is it possible? Did I seriously just isekied? Could it be that I am dreaming? But wait, how can I dream when I'm dead.
'Maybe I have survived and now I'm in a coma...Does this mean that all these dreams are just illusions that I see because of the grief of losing my sister?'
With a gentle touch on my head, I snapped out of my thoughts and stared at the owner of the hand. Arina smiled at me playfully and spoke to me with that strange language. Seeing her filled my heart with indescribable warmth. There were no wounds on her neck anymore and her eyes were not cloudy. And that smile...
"I don't know if this is a hallucination or reality, but this time I will protect you."
I don't know if it was because of the pacifier or Arina's touch, but I was extremely sleepy. Excessive thinking had somehow exhausted my brain. But on the other hand, I was afraid to fall asleep.
'What if this is really a dream and I wake up after closing my eyes?'
Eventually, my eyelids couldn't bear it anymore and involuntarily took me into sleep. That sleep was the best sleep of my life.