You could feel it. The pain. The sort of pain that no one could stay sane after experiencing it. Before you could even scream, everything went dark. You thought you would never open your eyes again. That there would be nothing. But you did open your eyes again, and you weren't in a hospital, but some strangely bright place, where the horizon seemed to stretch on endlessly, and the ground looked as if it were made of clouds.

A being of some kind appeared before you. It was strange, almost as if it were made up of light itself. When it spoke, it sounded as if the voice was coming from inside your own head.

"You died an unfortunate death. A death that was not destined for you. Ordinarily, you would be brought to the afterlife, but I would instead offer you a choice. You can still come with me, to the afterlife, or you can be reborn, in a new world, where you will live until your time comes."

It sounded like something straight out of a generic isekai novel. Be reborn in a new world.