CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
Panic rose within me as I watched the timer count down before my eyes. I struggled against the tendrils, but they held me down as tightly as steel chains.
And still, the timer counted down … 6 … 5 … 4
I closed my eyes. If I was going to die, then I didn’t want to see what it would be like. I knew that wouldn’t make my death any less painful, but I still didn’t want to see myself dying anyway.
Nonetheless, I opened my eye just a bit to watch the timer counting down: 3 … 2 … 1 …
I close my eyes firmly shut again. The timer was about to hit 0, and once it did, I would be dead. I would just have to hope that Mecha Knight and the others would somehow be able to stop Holly where I had failed.
But that was when a new notification appeared before me, which I could still
