Name: Axton Abanish
Oddity: Ouroboros Rebirth
Sedary Oddities: Death Sense
"These look..." Ax muttered to himself as he raised his right hand, wing immediately.
"Shit, my arm—it's still broken," he reminded himself.
"Ouroboros... Rebirth... Oddity?" Ax read the text under his name. He raised his left hand and tapped the text. Another, smaller windoeared in front of his eyes.
"Is this some cheap webtoon or video game? What is this?" Ax pio himself at how ridiculous this looks.
Oddities: mutations and piven to and unlocked by some current and potential 'summit seekers.". Supernatural powers that give the users an edge in bat and/or quality of life.
Sedary Oddities—Sedary supernatural powers awakened in moments of great stress, emotional distress, and/or very near-death experiences. Always reted to Primary Oddity, it merely adds to the usefulness and bat potential of base oddity.
"So... my oddity is... this thing?" Ax tialking to himself as he read the texts.
Oddity: Ouroboros Rebirth.
Descriptioh for most is the end. For you, however, death is merely a checkpoint. e back to life immediately after each death; all damage other than poison is reversed. No matter how severe.
"All damage other than poison is reversed..." Ax read to himself.
"I had my suspis, but..." Ax looked at his gun once more, then at his arm.
Ax sighed deeply once more as he raised his gun to his head. His heart rag, beating profusely, sweat mixed with blood dripped down his temple.
Shatter
Ax woke up, his body lying dead with its brain and blood painting the grass red. Ax's new body is untouched, undamaged... uninjured. Ax was desensitized to his death, having seen much... much worse happen to himself.
The bck s vanished. "Where did it..." The bck s appeared once again. It seems the s followed the same principle as the doors.
Ax's eyes drifted to his 'Sedary Oddity,' his curiosity making him tap it.
Sedary Oddity: Death Sense
Description: A sedary awakening; you seh absolute certainty how close someone is to true death.
"That... expins why I could tell Ace didn't die... I hope he's bae," Ax tinued, his voice low with .
Ax looked back down at where Ace was resting, a pool of blood where he was sitting, glistening with red. Ax crouched down and touched it.
"Cold," he muttered to himself.
Ax put pressure on the painted grass with his palm, painting it red. Ax then stood up and marked the tree with his red handprint. Grabbed his dagger and carved the words, 'Presence Was Here.'.
The red handprint reag for the sky was their band's logo.
Ax summohe blue door to him. Reached out for the knob and-
"It turned..." Ax turhe knob... he could finally go back to Nexus... but without Ace, it felt empty; they had been w on it together for over a month.
Ax summohe bck door instead a bae. A red mark was left on the doorknob. Ax took a deep breath as he was bae.
He was relieved... But—
"I need a shower..." Before Ax went to his shower, he noticed something odd. Ace's ptop, his clothes, and even the books he bought weren't there anymore.
"Did he... leave?" Ax asked himself, w if he left early or not, still having doubts on if he's alive or not.
***
Ax took a long and deep shower, ing himself, and now he was tired. Hungry but tired, too tired to eat even.
"I'll just eat ter," he dismissed his hunger and crashed onto his bed once more. Sleeping it off.
Ax slept till the afternoon, abruptly woken up by the doorbell. Ax jolted up, "Wuhu—uh?!" He mumbled to himself, his eyes widened. Ax jumped off of the bed and ran to the door, slipping a few times on the way there.
Ax stopped right before the door and ope as fast as he could; in the door frame stood Ace... holding a bag of books.
"Yo, what's up?", Ace asked Ax casually, who's mouth was left agape.
"You good? Good m, I guess... You look like you've just seen a ghost," Ace said sarcastically, but his voice showed a tinge of .
"Oh, uh. Nothing, e in." Ax snapped back, asking Ae in; he wao ask him some questions.
"Speaking of ghosts... and supernatural apparitions... I brought the books you asked me to buy," Ace casually mentioned.
"Asked... You?" Ax was fused; he didn't remember ever asking him to buy anything for him.
"Also, want to py some video games? I brought my troller this time, since your spare troller has a shitty battery." Ace added
"Uh, you have to run that by me one more time. What?" Ax asked, genuinely fused as to what the hell Ace was even saying.
"Dude, I know marathoning video games is not good for your health, but—" Ace tio talk, and Ax tio be more and more fused.
"Huh?"
Ace was talking as if he didn't remember anything.
***
After a long talk with Ace, Ace kept talking about the games they pyed and generally the excuses the both of them gave their friends when they were fighting monsters.
Ax avoided talking about Nexus and everything else reted to it.
"So? Are we finally going to get back to pying?" Ace asked once more. Eager to spend time with his best friend.
"You know what, yeah." Ax caved in.
He booted up his dusty sole.
The both of them spent the entire day pying video games, something that Ax had missed.