「21」Weird Confession (Part 2)

SIDAPA

EVENING came. I finished just in time. A few died today, but most of them ended in the afterlife.

“Did I make it?!” I almost fell off my tree when Libulan popped out of nowhere, haggard and a little disoriented.

“Libulan? What happened to you?” I asked in awe, and came down by jumping directly to the ground. It created a loud thud, and small animals nearby ran in fear and hid somewhere safe when they saw me.

[Even animals can sense the danger in me. So why can’t Libulan?] I wondered as I looked at the clueless Moon Deity.

I didn’t become the God of Death just to deliver some cringe nonsense to be laughed at. In this physical world, I was the symbol of fear and the epitome of death. My looks weren’t just for show. I was meant to look hideous so I could bring out the negative sides of mortals. A human heart’s desire was the most fragile thing to deal with. If you inflicted it with the tiniest bit of fear, they could transform into something unimaginable.

But fear could also