All Chapters of The Gambler's Isekai: A spin of fate into another world: Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
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Chapter 11: After the Dust Settles
Smoke lay over the clearing like a wounded sky. The stench of charred wood, burned leather, and goblin blood saturated the clearing. Flames still gnawed at the shattered tents, but even their crackling seemed small against the sound rising from the trees.A roar.Low and deep, so deep that it crawled under Yukio's skin and set every muscle on edge.Then came the footsteps.Thud.The earth shuddered.Thud.Dust rained from the splintered beams around them.Yukio's heart climbed into his throat before he could stop it.Beside him, Michibiki was all focus, without a trace of her usual smug grin. She knelt and pressed her palms against his chest. A soft green glow flared between her fingers, seeping into his skin."Light of Nature: Heal,"She murmured.Warmth spread through his ribs, knitting bone and easing the ache that had crushed the air out of him minutes before. Each breath came more easily now, though it still burned. He blinked against the brightness, flexing his fingers as streng
Chapter 12: Echoes of Home, A Final Embrace
The world went black.The last thing Yukio felt was the cool, gritty press of dirt against his cheek, the metallic tang of blood on his tongue, and that faint, stubborn thrum of triumph in his chest.He didn't lose. He didn't lose.That half delirious, half defiant thought alone held him fixed to existence till all was lost.---Then came silence. Not peaceful, but just absolute, so deep it seemed to swallow even the idea of sound. The dark bled into gray, then blossomed into blinding white.When Yukio opened his eyes, he was no longer on the battlefield. The fire, the blood, the pain. all gone.No ground, no sky, no smell.Just light. Suffocatingly endless light.He stood or so he thought, in a void so vast it hurt to look at: no up, no down, only weightless stillness.He raised a trembling hand to his chest.No pain, no scars, not even the faintest trace of fatigue.Whole again."…Did I die again?"He muttered; his voice was startlingly loud in the nothingness."Well, that's not fai