Chapter 1: Anime Is Real

It was a dull day, with white clouds obscuring the sun and a gentle breeze softly rustling the leaves of the trees.

It was on such a day that a boy could be seen staring out of the window in class from his school. The boy had black hair and soft white skin.

He was currently wearing a plain grey shirt and regular shorts. At first glance, his appearance seemed unremarkable, but what set him apart were his sharp features and crimson-red eyes.

Looking out of the window absentmindedly from his seat, the young boy muttered to himself, "Sigh, elementry school is boring as hell."

Whilst this might be a natural and common reaction most students have, what wasn't natural was the fact the boy harboured a secret. 

The boy–no older than 12–had actually lived another life. Yes, a past life, which meant he was technically older than 12–mentally of course.

He glanced at the flock of birds flying in the sky, paying no mind to the chattering of his surroundings, before he suddenly heard the teacher's voice.

"Ishida, stop messing around."

The boy casually swivelled his head from the window back to his class, before taking a glance at the boy who had been reprimanded. Ishida had seemed to be joking around with his buddies and got caught by the teacher.

The teacher, who had dark-grey hair, simply adjusted his glasses before continuing his lesson.

"When will the day be over, I already know all this elementry stuff. Afterall, I use to be a college student before dying and coming to this world." The boy thought to himself.

He had been enjoying his life in his previous world: drinking, partying and having flings with women. He had been a relatively smart individual so he hadn't struggled much in that life. He also had a few hobbies and interests being: anime, sports, manga and a little in cooking.

However, after he had went out drinking with his friends one night, his memory of all the events leading to his reincarnation had become fuzzy. 

Then, in the next instant, he woke up as a baby taking on the new name of Akio. He didn't exactly know how he died, perhaps alcohol poisoning? But, that was so rare, he would have been extremely unlucky if he had died that way. He also knew his limits so it's doubtful he killed himself in such a way, but he can't exactly remember anything that happened.

Watching a good amount of anime in his life, Akio new what isekai was. However, he had expected that, if such an impossible thing were to ever happen to him, he would be in a new world of a medieval setting where one can cast magic and slay dragons etc, but he had instead been reborn in Japan. Not medieval, no dragons, no magic and no sexy elves!

But, at the very least, Akio had managed to find out that it wasn't just simple Japan like his previous world. He was actually in a world of fiction where the previous anime series he had seen, had actually become a reality!

It was rather easy to figure out considering he had red eyes and many other people he had seen had various natural hair and eye colours such as blue, red and purple for example. Definitely not normal. He also had some friends that he knew of that came from such animes which further confirmed this.

*Typical Japanese Bell Sound*

Yawning to himself, Akio thought, "Finally, it's the end of the day. Time to go back home."

After casually packing up his stuff and grabbing his bag, Akio left the classroom.

It was only a few moments later after taking some steps outside the classroom that he suddenly felt something crash onto the side of his body.

"Ouch! Watch it!" A voice shouted out.

Akio turned around to see who had bumped into him before locking eyes with Ishida, his classmate. Truth be told, despite being in sixth grade currently, Akio had absolutely no friends in this school. So he wasn't familiar with many people here. He only knows this person as he's quite rowdy in class.

Ishida shot a glare that showed his annoyance at the person he had bumped into, before quickly shifting in attitude when he had locked eyes with the person in front of him, "Oh.. haha, Komiya it's you.. my bad." He said with a somewhat shaky tone, slightly breaking out in cold sweat.

"Yeah, no problem." Akio replied nonchalantly.

Akio noticed him breath out an air of relief. He gave a nod before hurriedly going the other direction with his friends. Akio gave him one last cursory glance before also leaving to his house.

Akio paid no mind to Ishida's almost fearful look he had towards him as that kind of reaction was common in this school.

There were reasons why he was a loner at this school. One of them was due to his appearance: His sharp features alongside his crimson coloured eyes gave him a somewhat sinister vibe which caused many people to avoid him. Furthermore, he had been a transfer student which meant friend groups had already been formed, so he essentially had to seek out and make new friends himself: Something he didn't really bother with in this school.

But, the main reason why most people seemed so afraid of him was due to that incident that happened a year or two ago.

Akio had actually been studying in another school, but due to some reasons that really pissed him off, Akio had managed to create some conflict with a couple of his upperclassmen.

Needless to say, a fight broke out.

But, contrary to everyone's expectation, Akio had completely decimated them. He had even hospitalised one of them after he took a direct punch to the throat whilst the rest were brutally beaten up.

Did Akio feel sympathy for them. No, not in the slightest, heck he even thought of breaking their limbs. They've obviously never got their ass kicked in their life. It's quite a humbling experience that would eventually make you a better person, so he technically did them a favour.

But, after he had beaten them up, he got the typical cliche treatment of being the one to take responsibility. The school, despite knowing those sixth-graders were trouble makers, had still put the blame on Akio as one of them had some backround. 

Akio's mother had managed to sort everything out which led to Akio transferring elementry schools.

But somehow, news of that incident had somehow travelled here, which had made Akio become labeled as a deranged troublemaker that would hospitalise you if you manage to piss him off.

Kids tend to be quite blunt so of course, rumours started to spread about him. However, Akio didn't really care as though he's a loner, no one ever bothers him. Moreover, this generally only applies to people at around the same age as him or people that don't know him well enough. It's not like adults would be scared of a kid just because he had some scary eyes or history of beating up other kids.

Of course, his true nature isn't as reclusive as everyone thinks he was, it was actually quite the opposite: his true nature yearns for thrill and to always kill his boredom. He might have even become a serial killer in his past life if anime and games didn't exist, who knows?

It's not like he was socially inept, it's just that–in this life– he was born with facial features that scream "I'll kill you" as his regular everyday expression.

After patiently waiting for the green light and crossing the road, Akio spent 50 more minutes walking before arriving at the front door of his house.