Extra's Death: I Am the Son of Hades novel Chapter 35

Dover Hotel, World of Living

Amelia stared at the ceiling with a tired gaze.

She rolled in the bed again.

No matter how much she tried, she couldn't sleep.

Turning around, she stared at Neo.

"Hey, are you asleep?"

…He was sleeping like a log.

She raised her head and stared at him with a frown.

Honestly, she didn't want to think this way but she was suspicious of Neo.

In terms of appearance, Amelia was cut above the rest, she was as the same age as Neo, and they were sleeping next to each other.

How could a boy in his prime youth sleepy soundly next to her like him?

"He might swing that way."

Amelia blinked.

Her face brightened.

She became surer of her thoughts.

Her mother's advances were bound to fail!

The thoughts she harboured against Neo dissipated. She did not need to take precautions anymore.

Looking again, Neo's sleeping face seemed a bit cute.

She gently touched his cheek with her finger and giggled.

He was sleeping so soundly that he didn't wake up when she pinched his cheeks.

His posture remained the same.

Not even his chest moved.

Almost as if he was dead.

"…"

Amelia suddenly froze.

…As if he was dead?

"No… that's not possible."

She pressed her palm against his chest swiftly and….

"There is no heartbeat."

Neo did not have a pulse either.

He was not sleeping.

He was dead.

Amelia's face hardened.

But she regained her calm quickly.

Neo was immortal.

He had proven it.

"Why did he die suddenly? He should be still alive. Was it an assassination or…"

Was it the price of cheating death?

She didn't complete her words fearing they might come true.

Nobody could die and return to the world of living without paying a price.

Neo never said what he had sacrificed.

What if his current condition was the consequence of it?

She recalled his heavy aura of Death.

It was something only those who visited Underworld could have.

Did he have to keep visiting that horrible place as a price of his powers?

It was an open secret Exalted Demigods wanted to find methods of immortality.

They knew about the Underworld more than anyone else, and they were afraid of dying and going there.

Amelia bit her lips.

Twice.

Neo died twice to help her mother and her.

Twice, he must've gone to the Underworld, and still, he never told them about it.

"Is he trying to make sure we don't feel guilty?"

What kind of nightmares had he seen in that world?

What would he do if he could not return again?

Amelia did not know how Neo could remain sane.

How much courage was needed to visit the world feared by the so called the strongest demigods?

There was nothing Amelia could do.

She could only pray he would not lose his way.

That no matter the horror he faced he would stand strong.