EXO - The Eve

Chapter One

“Thank you so much, Ha Eun, for helping me. Now, hide. A Death God is coming and he can’t see you.” One of the souls I can see keeps on crying while holding onto a Polaroid picture of her and her little sister. I just helped another soul accomplish something before a Death God could take her.

I helped her spend one last moment with her one and only little sister.

With a heavy heart, I smile and slowly walk away until I hear that familiar bell echoing on the street, “Be happy, okay? And you’re welcome.” I say with a soft voice and quickly hide behind a wall as the sound of the small bell becomes louder.

“Always take care, Ha Eun.”

The sound of the bell becomes louder and louder I could also feel how real death is coming closer. It suddenly feels colder.

My heart is beating loudly inside my chest as if it would burst any time. I place my hand over my chest in an attempt to hide any sound that a Death God could probably hear. I still don’t know what a Death God's abilities are.

My heart hurts too much. Seeing another go. Seeing another good soul go and knowing the earth loses another good person.

A Death God arrives to fetch the soul, “Kim Jin Yi, I came here to fetch you. You’ve been roaming for quite a while now.” He says.

I can hear every word he is saying and I keep quiet until the voice fades along with the sound of the small bell, signaling the Death God has already left. I wait a couple of more seconds to make sure they are gone for sure.

I step out from my hiding place and pick the Polaroid picture left on the ground. I look at it and the image of the soul that I just helped, disappears right in front of my eyes, making my heart sink.

If I die…will I really have to escape and hide from Death Gods too? I don’t want to leave my mother alone. Encountering and meeting all these souls made me think of that.

I walk closer to the house of the soul I just helped, slipping the Polaroid picture inside the mailbox where her sister lives. Not to scare her, but because I’m sure, she’ll also forget how she and her sister met a while ago. Death Gods leaves no trace.

I continue walking towards the nearest bus station and thoughts flood my head as a couple of souls continue to pass by me, on the busy street of Seoul. Lost souls in particular. They won’t know I see them unless I talk to them and make eye contact. No one else can see them, no one else can talk to them, but me. I stand at the bus stop, sitting on the bench as I wait.

“No, No, please I still need to do something!”

I frown, closing my eyes for a moment as I hear another lost soul behind me pleading with Death God not to take her just yet.

“You have to come with me.”

“No, I need to see my child! Please, just one more day!”

I keep on hearing these pleads every single day. Why me? Why only me?

I straighten myself up while clenching my fists, turning my head a little to see the Death God standing in front of the soul as she kneels and pleads for him to give her another day.

If you think I’m a typical girl, you’re wrong. I’m different from others, not physically nor mentally and emotionally, but I can actually see souls or human bodies possessed by these lost souls. I see these kind of scene every day.

I have had this ability ever since I was little and my mother told me to just treat this as a special ability and whenever I see one, I ignore them and just don’t disturb the souls on earth.

As long as these souls don’t hurt me or my mother, it’ll be fine.

For as long as I can remember, I can see missing or lost souls wherever I go. They are all nice souls who want to fulfill something first before leaving or before a Death God takes them.

I can’t remember how many times I told myself that this is going to be the last time I will help a lost soul fulfill something, since I promised my mom that I won’t get involved with them again, but I can’t help it when someone looks so desperate to do this one thing before he or she disappears.

I am the only one who can see and help them.

I also believe that, the reason as to why I am seeing them, is to help them fulfill their one last wish.

That’s my purpose.

I tried growing up normally even though my friends from before stays away from me. Whenever they –are catching- me talking to someone else they couldn’t see. But, there’s something else I could see besides from these souls…

The souls calls them Death Gods.

They aren’t really bad nor really nice. I haven’t seen or met one personally since they always tell me, that a Death God shouldn’t know a normal human could see them.

According to the souls I met, a Death God can’t see me. If one sees me, and know that I can see souls and Death Gods, they will take me and make me as their slave. A Death God could also kill me with one blink. I also can't look in their eyes, because they will be able to read my mind. Death Gods appears as a normal human to others, but when they are at their work, no one else can see them taking souls except me. And they have this small be