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[Alexandr Korol]

face to face with death, they have two choices – two possible reactions. And this is actually crucial, knowing that after death, there truly is heaven and hell. And they are real – physically real, as real as life itself. I realized that, perhaps, one of the reasons I was made to experience all of this was so that I could reveal it to people, to my readers, through my fifth volume.
But the most interesting thing is how people around you can behave when they suddenly learn that you’re going to die soon. Some people’s true nature immediately awakens – some reveal a dark side, others a light one. Those with a dark side start thinking about your money, your inheritance, or, if you were someone important to them, they immediately begin looking for another “feeding hand” to replace you. Since you’ll be gone soon anyway. You’re not even dead yet, and they’ve already written you off. But when you see people with a light nature, they react with deep understanding. They show such kindness and sincerity that it even shocks you – realizing that such people exist in your circle. That’s how much everything changes when a person comes face to face with death – how much the person themselves changes, and how much their surroundings change in response to them.
And all of this is also an illusion, just more multiverses – another part of life that every person faces, just like everyone experiences birth. As of today, I have stepped out from under the influence of all facets of the multiverse of death. Maybe it’s because I deciphered everything and passed this trial correctly – one of many. Maybe I will return to it and encounter it again, I don’t know. But what I do know is that I gained immense satisfaction and benefit from it because my perception of life has completely shifted. When you realize you don’t have much time left, your values change, and you start feeling completely different. And you know what’s interesting? I started feeling the same way I did when I first began writing my diaries and my very first books. People always used to ask me, “Why are you so emotionless?” But I’ve always been the kind of person who, no matter where I was taken – even to the most exciting events, amusement parks, carousels, birthdays – I still felt like I wasn’t really there. It’s exactly that state, as if my attention had been stolen somewhere else, as if I was present, but not here. And I’ve been in that state all this time again – as if everything around me suddenly lost its value the moment I became, theoretically, dead. That’s something truly unusual.