(Ark, Ark Licht. That's who I am)
After waking up from that headache, I realized who I was. No I didn't realize who I was but remembered it, not just that but I remembered the entirety of life. 14 years worth of it, living on Earth, this Earth.
When I first woke up, I remember there being light outside but now it's just dark. I don't know how much time has passed since I passed out, I haven't even turned on the lights to see better.
I just sat down in the same place where I woke up, in front of the mirror, trying my best to assess the situation. Instead of acting first, I figured that the most important course of action is to figure out my current status and see if I could find out anything important.
(Lets think, before I came here I was in the trains of London when suddenly a clown called Amu popped up. – Wait Amu)
Struck with realization, I realized that the name sounds familiar. It was a name he has seen many times, especially when reading one of his favorite novels of the time, the popular light novel called "Academic Survival during Cataclysm" or ASC for short. It was a story following the protagonist Kim Yeon-U as he starts his academic life in Nova Academy at the onset of the second cataclysm. Remembering this, memories from my 'current' life and things I remembered from the novel started to align. Confirming even more that –
(I truly am in the world of "Cataclysm in the Academy"-- wait wait. That's not the right name is it?, the actual name was, ASC which stand for… wait no)
A daunting realization hit me. I am forgetting. As my 'current' life's memories started settling in, the information I had from the story slowly disappeared.
(No, I can't let this happen)
With sudden motion, I realize what I must do. I immediately turn on the lights and try to find something to store information with. Seeing my laptop, I immediately opened it up and typed in the password which I remember but don't know.
(I don't have much time, I'm already forgetting the name what else will I forget next)
With haste, I started typing down as many key plot points as I could. Weirdly enough, as my memories start to disappear from my head, my ability to remember the fine details of the story was heightened to an extent I've never had before.
(Damn, since when was I this good at remembering, is this like a special gift from god or – Wait fuck, no time for dilly dallying)
As I typed up the various main points I can remember, the fear of forgetting the story was bubbling up more and more. An anxious feeling rose up and my 'new' heart sped up faster than I remembered it could. But this didn't stop me, as a raging storm of emotions weighed on my heart, a calm set in my mind.
(This won't do)
As my mind reached a calm, I realized that I wouldn't be able to type down all the plot points that the protagonist went through. No, it wasn't even important. The story isn't what I should be trying to remember, but the characters, and even more important than that was the benefits. All throughout the story, the main cast met with various opportunities to level up and get stronger. Not just them but the side cast, villains, mobs and even extra's that barely appeared in a paragraph. For some reason, as I'm forgetting the story, I started to remember details of the story that I barely even remember reading about.
(I need to make sure that I write them down, all the opportunities I could use to get stronger)
For in this new world at the brink of cataclysm, strength is needed to guarantee survival. Of course, items and such benefits weren't the only thing I wrote down. I still made sure to write down the key events of the story, particularly the third and fourth cataclysms that were very big threats on my survival. In addition to that, I wrote down the remaining time and memories I had left of the key points of notable characters I had to remember.