1 Prologue: End of One Life, Beginning of Another

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Author's Note: (The character's immediate thoughts are written within『』whereas actual conversations are written within「」)

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My name is Aizawa Shiro. I'm a third-year student at Minami High School.

Well even if I say that, you don't really have to remember these details.

Why you ask? It's because I'm already dead. Yeah, that's right, I'm dead.

Let's rewind the clock a little bit.

On one Friday morning the same old me was going to school as usual. I took the same route I used to take to go to school. Just when I was about to take a different path, it happened.

The signal was still glowing bright red and cars were moving at reasonable speeds.

Suddenly a boy trying to catch his ball which had went to the other side of the road, was about to come infront of a truck.

I had never considered myself a so-called hero of justice neither did I have any attachments with that boy.

But...for some reason I decided to step in to save that boy.

Then, as anyone would have expected, the truck hit me but the boy managed to get away with a few scratches.

....And I died

My body was burning with pain and my consciousness was starting to fade away.

『Do I really die like this? Without doing a single thing in my life, without accomplishing anything.』

I am just realising this but humans really are fragile creatures.

It felt as if I was continuing to sink deeper and deeper. As if someone was dragging me down.

『So dying feels like this huh.』

And then I finally become unable to feel or sense anything. Even my consciousness was gone.

I finally died....or so I thought.

After a while, I had the same feeling as someone who had just woken up from sleep has.

I tried to look around myself but it was dark.

Well even if I say that I tried to look around, it felt like a pretty confined space which was totally dark.

Hmm?

I felt something infront of me.

What's happening?

Did someone really manage to save me after I took the full brunt of a truck? In the first place, was there really someone so kind that they would take a guy on death's door all the way to a hospital?

I don't think so.

Then what did I feel just now?

I tried to feel my surroundings once more.

It's....hard?

I was somehow able to move around my hands, or atleast I believed I did, and felt something hard.

Moreover, it was all around me.

Don't tell me...

Did I actually manage to survive but they buried me as it is?!!

Ahahaha....there's no way that's true right?

There's....no way.....right?

I start to hit my surroundings with all the force I could muster. I hit and hit and finally something happened.

『A crack?』

I could see a crack appearing infront of me through which I could see light.

How can a crack appear if I'm trying to make my way up to the soil?

At any rate, I shouldn't mind the small details and try to break free from whatever the hell this place is.

As I continued hitting, the crack gradually increased in size and eventually spread all around me.

I pushed the portion above the crack upwards and a blinding light is seen for a moment.

And what I saw around me started making me doubt my eyes.

I wasn't buried inside the ground.....

What I broke out of was....an egg.