2026-05-26 01:11:35Cold.
That was the first thing Logan felt when his body slammed into the surface of the river.
The black water immediately swallowed him into darkness. The sound of rain above slowly faded away, replaced by a suffocating silence.
Logan’s body sank deeper and deeper.
The black suit he was wearing felt heavy. His breath slowly ran out. His chest burned as the last bit of air disappeared from his lungs.
But strangely… he wasn’t scared.
For the first time in a long while, his mind actually felt calm.
No bills to think about. No job. No pressure. No disappointment.
All the pain slowly disappeared along with his body sinking deeper into the river.
Dark. Silent.
And the deeper Logan sank… the more he felt like something was waiting for him down there.
Until finally… something moved.
His body suddenly felt hot. Extremely hot.
The heat spread from his chest through his entire body like thousands of needles stabbing into his bones and muscles at the same time.
Logan instantly opened his mouth to scream. But water rushed into his lungs instead.
Pain. He couldn’t even hear his own heartbeat anymore.
His body violently convulsed.
And right before his consciousness faded—a strange voice echoed inside his head.
‘Wake up.’
‘Stop yelling at him, Reyn. It’s useless. He’s already dead.’
‘Are you sure?’
‘His heart already stopped beating. Just look at him. His body’s pale and bruised.’
‘We should call the police, Alexa.’
Brak!
Logan suddenly jolted awake, coughing violently. Water burst out of his mouth as his body lay sprawled on the muddy riverbank.
He gasped for air. His eyes widened in panic. Logan immediately grabbed his chest, breathing hard as if his lungs had just been crushed from the inside. Meanwhile, his skin slowly regained the color of a living person.
“Holy shit! He came back to life!”
The voice of a stranger made Logan instantly turn his head.
Two people stood not far from him.
A guy wearing a black hoodie with messy hair stumbled back in shock while holding a fishing rod. Beside him, a girl in a dark jacket stared at Logan expressionlessly.
Logan froze for a few seconds.
“What?”
“We were about to ask the same thing,” the guy said quickly. “Bro, you were literally dead a second ago. Your body was already pale and bruised.”
Logan frowned in confusion.
His body was still shaking. His head hurt. But strangely… he could hear every sound around the river clearly.
The raindrops. The river current. The ticking watch on the guy’s wrist. Even the buzzing electricity from a pole hundreds of meters away.
“What the hell…” Logan muttered softly.
He tried to stand up.
But the ground beneath his hand suddenly trembled slightly. Pebbles shifted. The river water rippled.
And when Logan lifted his hand… an empty can near the riverbank suddenly floated into the air on its own.
Everyone immediately went silent.
Even Logan froze in place.
The can trembled in midair for a few seconds before violently flying toward a tree trunk.
BANG!
The hoodie guy’s eyes widened.
“Okay…” he slowly stepped back. “Yeah, that’s terrifying.”
Logan stared at his own hand, his breathing uneven.
“What… did I just do?” he whispered so quietly it was almost inaudible.
The girl beside the guy finally stepped closer. Her sharp eyes carefully studied Logan from head to toe.
“Do you hear something?”
Logan looked confused. “What do you mean?”
“Frequencies.”
Logan went silent.
Because somehow… he actually did hear them.
Strange sounds. Buzzing. Even whispers. As if something inside the dark river was still calling out to him.
The girl slowly narrowed her eyes. And for the first time, her expression changed.
She looked shocked.
“Impossible,” the girl muttered.
“What is it, Alexa?” the hoodie guy asked.
Without taking her eyes off Logan, Alexa answered, “Reyn… he’s like us.”
Silence instantly filled the area around the river. The cold night wind blew softly nearby while Logan was still trying to process the one thing repeating endlessly inside his head.
‘I was supposed to die.’
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The meeting room on the top floor stayed silent even after they had made their decision. There was no background music, no city noise slipping through the thick glass windows, only the faint hum of the air conditioning system, like the only reminder that the outside world was still moving normally.Logan sat with his back slightly straight, his eyes still fixed on the black folder in front of him. It was already open now, as if it had just turned from a simple stack of paper into something heavier than the decision he had just made about his own life.Reyn had already started reading through the document with an unreadable expression. He flipped pages quickly at times, then stopped too long on certain sections, clicking his tongue softly like he had found something he didn’t like, though he never actually explained what he was thinking.Alexa, on the other hand, read more calmly. Her eyes moved slowly from paragraph to paragraph, as if she was trying to memorize every word without mis
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Logan barely slept that night.He had been sitting by the apartment window since the rain was still pouring heavily, all the way until the sky started turning pale near morning. The street below looked empty, but that feeling of being watched never really went away.Every time Logan closed his eyes, he saw the river again.Black water. That strange sound inside his head. And the cold that was supposed to be the end of his life.But now, everything felt like the beginning of something much worse.Logan let out a long breath.‘Now… I’m starting to regret jumping into that damn river,’ he muttered to himself.“If you keep staring outside like that, you’re going to look even more suspicious.”Reyn’s voice made Logan turn his head slightly.The man had just come out of the kitchen carrying two cups of coffee. His hair was still messy, and his black hoodie looked wrinkled as usual.Reyn handed one of the cups to Logan.“Thanks.”Reyn only nodded before sitting down on the sofa.A few second
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The apartment suddenly felt a lot quieter.Logan was still standing near the window, staring at the black sedan below. The car sat under the dim glow of the streetlight, like a dark shadow that was deliberately waiting.And for some reason… Logan could feel something was wrong.“Are you sure you didn’t hear it wrong?” Alexa asked softly without taking her eyes off the outside.Logan gave a small nod.“I’m very sure. They really said the target has been found.”Reyn immediately stood up from the sofa. His expression, which had been relaxed a moment ago, turned serious.“Damn it.”He quickly walked toward a small table near the kitchen and opened the bottom drawer. Logan briefly thought the man was reaching for a weapon.But Reyn instead pulled out several old phones, a small hard drive, and a black laptop.“What are you going to do?” Logan asked.“Just in case.”“From who?”Reyn looked at him for a moment. “If I knew the answer, our lives would’ve been a lot easier a long time ago.”Al
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Logan still couldn’t process what had just happened.A few minutes ago, he jumped into the river to end his life. Now he was walking through the night with two strangers claiming they had gone through the same thing.His body was still cold and soaked. His head still felt heavy.But the thing bothering him the most was how clear every sound around him had become.The sound of cars from the main road. Someone’s footsteps in the alley nearby. Even the sound of a television from an apartment far away.Everything sounded painfully clear in his ears.Logan rubbed his temple slowly.“You okay?” Alexa asked.Logan gave a small nod.“I still don’t understand,” he said quietly. “How am I alive again… and why am I different now?”Reyn shoved both hands into his hoodie pocket.“That’s the same question I asked back then.”Logan quickly turned toward him. “So you guys died too?”“Yeah,” Reyn answered. “Then woke up different.”Logan fell silent.“What exactly happened to us?” he asked.“We still
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