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- Yu, why don't join come here and join my for a drink?

- I gotta admit, Tao, that I am not fond of liquor. And you are the only one who are supposed to be drunk here.

The bartender hissed over to the woman in front of her, who was smiling cheekily. Yu, the bartender, sharpen her gaze on the glass Tao was holding.

- What do you need today, dear? You only order that drink whenever you have new thoughts about death, as I remember.

Tao giggled.

- Nothing can be hidden from your 'serpent' eyes, my dearest Yu. I've just come up with a new description for death, yes.

- You can start talking now.

- Well, Yu, I will start with a question for you, since you have witness many death so far. Tell me, Yu, when does a living being considered "dead"?

Yu took a small sip from her tea cup, and words slowly came out from her sharp tongue.

- When the brain is no longer active, the heart no longer made blood running inside your body, people can confirm that you are dead.

- Then, in case of zombies, how do you classify them? Dead or alive?

- A good question. Spare me a moment, please, I have got some interesting research for you.

Tao hummed amusedly. She has always been despise those "undead" being like zombies.

- For a short period, extremely short one, after your brain passed out, your body still working. If you are able to make contact with the brain as fast as you discover it in "inactive" state, you can maintain the life span of the body. People tend to regard that case as "reviving the dead". My answer is, the zombies are not actually "dead", because they already been awaken before their body enter the "dead" zone.

Tao applauded hysterically.

- That is what I really expect from you, dearest Yu.

Yu raised an eyebrow, carefully glaring over the other girl. Was she going to present Yu an experiment on "undead" beings?

- Well, if dead is confirmed by how the brain become inactive, it means that the person no longer able to receive information and response to interactions, right? But how could we, the living one, ensure that is how the dead bodies work?

- You mean that, death is the mark to start another transformation of human's mind or something?

- Exactly. No one has been through the true "death" to say that is how death actually affects humans' bodies and mind. So, what if their soul just got separated from their physical form and they got transmitted to another world that consider spiritual being as the "living one"?

Yu remained silent throughout Tao's blabbering. She have never thought of that consequence. Nothing can blame her for that: the world is blurred with mystery of how is works.

Tao's laughing noises still echoed in her mind and haunted her steps from then until now on. Yu has long forgotten the feeling of having a lively companion on her path to escort death to the other world. The closer she got in contact with death, the deeper emptiness cut into Yu's heart.
How many years have passed since that day?

A year?

A decade?

A century?

A millennia?

Yu still can not find the answer for Tao's question, which is also her own.

Yu long desired to find where does human soul belonged after it has left the bodies. Time passed by, and she failed many times.

Tao has gone. A miserable death. Yu could do nothing but hopelessly holding to Tao's lifeless arm.