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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.