[Kanata]

HP: [173/5020]

[Condition: Burned]

"Kanata!" Shun shouted, running to my side. Arya did the same and quickly placed and hand over my wounded side.

"[Heal]," She said. My HP rose slightly before dropping again.

HP: [174/5020]

HP: [132/5020]

"[Heal], dammit!" She shouted. It was unusual for her to swear. My HP kept dropping. There was no way she'd be able to heal me.

"Here, let me," Juden said, casting a healing spell. "[Greater Heal]." The rise in HP was negligible compared to how fast it was dropping.

HP: [68/5020]

"It's no use," I said through the pain.

"Don't talk like that!" Shun said to me. "I'm not going to accept that you're gonna die!"

HP: [22/5020]

"Go and fuck that dragon up for me, will you?" I asked.

HP: [3/5020]

"I will," Shun said, tears dripping down his face.

HP: [1/5020]

"Goodbye," Arya said, crying.

HP: [0/5050]

Blackness engulfed my vision. If this is what death looked like, it was incredibly boring.

And then glowing white letters pierced the void.

The words then faded away. The black empty void subtly changed into the darkness of seeing faint light through closed eyes. I tried to open my eyes, but my body refused to listen.

Then I heard a faint electric crackling. What felt like an electric current ran through me. No. it was an electric current. Power coursed through my body.

Then everything went pure white. A thunderclap of sound echoed in my ears, jolting my eyes open. I looked down at myself to see that the shirt and pants I had been wearing my crumbling away to ash. Underneath was a tight-fitting black shirt and matching black shorts.

I realized that a bolt of lightning had just struck me. My skin looked oddly purple, which caused me to realize I had shifted into my alternate form. A diamond pattern of darker purple ran along my arms, legs, and tails.

My hair, however, didn't have the tentacle-like appearance they had the last time I had seen this form. It looked like my regular hair, just purple instead of red. My mind felt oddly fuzzy.

"Kanata?" Someone asked. I turned my head to see a blue-haired boy in a fancy shirt and pants. A part of my mind saw him and recognized him as my friend, Shun. But the other part, the one that was moving my body, the Darksoul part, saw him as just another human.

I had two personalities. There was the normal me, the mind that had lived on earth, had died and become a girl. Then there was the Darksoul me, the creature that was born from the anger of another, the one that was technically the true me.

I didn't like that. In fact, I hated it. I didn't want to lose myself each time I turned into this part of me.

"You have gained the Ability [Personality Fusion I]," The system said.

A flash of dizziness hit me. I stumbled, my mind feeling like it had been altered in some way. I looked up again and saw Shun, Arya, Fei, and the others looking at me in a combination of awe and confusion.

Wait, I thought. I thought of them as who they were, not just as other people. The skill I had just gained seemed to have combined my two personalities. Now, in this form, I had all the same memories. I could tell my mind still felt like some kind of creature, but it was closer to my normal self.

"Hey," I said. "You fuck that dragon yet?" My voice had a different tone to it. A slight accent, or pitch change, or something different.

"How are you. . ?" Arya said, confusion on her face.

"Alive?" I asked. "No clue. I know it has something to do with something called True Soul."

"True Soul?" Juden said incredulously. "No fucking way."

"You awakened?" Shun asked.

"Yep!" I said. "And my stats are, frankly, insane."

"I can't see anything about your stats," Nexus said. "Only your name."

"Do you wish to reveal your Stats to the members of your party?" The system asked.

Yes, I thought. Then everyone gasped.

"You're only [Level 1]!?" Fei shouted. "Yet your HP is fifty thousand and both your MP and SP are twenty thousand! Wait why are you [Level 1] now?"

"You other stats are also insane," Shun said. "I mean, 90 Spd, 900 Str, 150 in Atk, Mag Atk, and Def."

"I think my level was reset because I awakened," I said.

"You're about double my speed," Arya said. "And I'm faster than most people already."

"How fast are you then?" Nexus asked Arya.

"44," Arya said.

"Anyways," I said. "Are we going to try to take down the dragon now, or what?"

"Sure," Shun said. "How?"

"[Skill List]," I said. White letters appeared in front of me, showing my new abilities and skills.

I smiled to myself, seeing the skills. "I have the perfect skill to use," I said. With a single thought, my True Soul activated. My hair stood on end as my eyes glowed an electric blue. "How much HP does the dragon have left?"

"Around 10,440," Arya said.

"Perfect," I said. I used [Falling Thunder]. Dark clouds formed above the dragon's head before dropping a bolt of lightning upon the dragon. It did 450 damage.

[Sallymtimous]

HP: [9,990/15,600]

"And now for the finisher!" I shouted. I focused on the dragon and used [Final discharge]. Electrical energy swirled around me before condensing into a ball. The ball hovered in front of my chest, vibrating with energy. I pointed myself at the dragon.

"No way. . ." Shun said in awe.

The ball shot forward into a beam. It blasted a hole right in the dragon's chest. The beam dissipated. Suddenly, I felt incredibly dizzy.

I collapsed to the ground.