"Am I… Dead?"
The thought came slowly, as if his mind was fading away, but Elias fought against this sensation of death and dying because, in many ways, this sort of thing was alien to him.
Even when his body began to decay and rot, his mind always remained sharp; it was the one thing that a broken body could never take away from him.
"No! I cannot fall… Not like this, not after I can finally hold my destiny in my hands. I refuse… I REFUSE!"
He could feel the darkness closing in on him, and it reminded him of the time not too long ago when he gained his Lumina and saw himself in that white void. Now, he knew that he had been about to die at that moment, but gaining his Status screen had saved him.
However, he could not reawaken twice, and the Status Screen could not save him again; he had to save himself.
