It was a wonderful day outside…
But for Kouji, it's the worst.
Coming from the death, he woke up again to a day, where his death set stone.
"What was that?"
Kouji started the day with a question in mind. Trying to gather his thoughts about a certain problem that seems impossible to solve.
Even though he avoided his death from an accident, that person is going to hunt him anyway. And if asking why she's killing him, it answers with something that makes no sense at all.
How can he get through this day?
He thought of telling it to a cop, but he doesn't have any evidence to believe him. So he thinks of a plan.
First, he did everything that he had done in the first loop.
Eat breakfast.
Michiko picks him up, and they go to school together.
Then stop at the brick road to spend the time on flower viewing that led them to barely not make it to the school.
Also, at school.
Listening to the lesson on each subject comes by.
Break time.
PE stuff and so on.
With that, finally the time has come. The time for school to end, and also the same time or sooner later for his death.
"Sorry, Kou, I have a club today. So, you can go without me… Kou?"
Michiko talking just like she always does, letting Kouji know that she has a club activity and can't go home with him, but apparently he already left the school, without hearing that sequence from her.
Then he went to an empty narrow street again, so with that it gives him advantages.
Now, Kouji calmly walks there alone, ignoring the person at the top, and just keeps moving forward. For he wants the killer to get close to him.
So he waited and waited as he progressed on walking until the person decided to jump off. And with that, he starts running.
Running as he could, not fast, but it's enough to get away from her and save some energy.
They sometimes stop from time to time when the person is trying to attack. Kouji managed to avoid them all, since his sense was sharpened from those previous deaths. Hence, they did that until reaching a certain point.
"Hey kid, wheres the murder?!"
When they're running around, suddenly a cop showed up.
"Yes, officer, the murderer is right behind me!"
It looks like Kouji's the one called the cop before going there at his destination.
"Where–"
But it seemed to be useless when the cop's head suddenly got slashed out of nowhere.
"What?!"
Kouji was shocked that he stopped from running.
"What the f*ck just happened?!"
After wondering what happened, his right leg was cut off.
"AAAaaack!"
He totally forgot that he has still been chased. Now, he's on the ground with his leg torn off.
"Why…why do this?..."
"Because you're here."
He asked once more for the reason, yet still the person answered with nonsense again.
"What you f*cking mean by that?! Why can't you just tell me, why'd you want to kill me?!"
"I… don't want to kill you."
"Huh?... Then why?!"
"You have to find that out by yourself."
"Wha–"
"Goodbye."
Kouji got killed again.
And woke up on a wonderful day.
"What was that?... What did she mean by that?"
Kouji started the day with a question in mind. Confused about what the person said that she doesn't want to kill him.
"Then why does she keep killing me?"
Going back to that question again, on how many times he asked for the reason, he only got one response.
"And what did she mean by 'Because you're here'? What's wrong with me being there? Moreover, the first loop before that, she said, 'Because you're not in the place you are supposed to be'... Really, what the heck does that even mean?"
Kouji tries to think that out.
"When she said, i'm not there, does she mean where the accident occurred? If it is, but why?"
Now going back to what that person said, 'Because you're not in the place you are supposed to be' but that place was where he died or the place he was supposed to die. Saying like that, he's not there, as if she's death itself.
"Does that place or accident have something to do with me that led her to kill me? Or is it just that she wants me to return there so i get rammed by a truck, reminding me that i can't avoid my death?"
A conclusion was already made, but Kouji doesn't want to die. As if he goes there just to get killed, no one's in their right mind to follow that.
"I need to talk to that person again."
He can't accept such a conclusion about him supposed to die, knowing how painful it is.
And so he repeated the day until he got a chance to talk with her.
Breakfast: Ate.
Take a bath and wear a uniform: Cleaned and fully clothed.
Go to school together with Michiko: Arrived.
Cherry blossom: Seen.
Lessons: Listened.
Break time: Wasted.
Subject activities: Done.
School: Ended.
"Okay class! Tomorrow, March 23, we're going to have a test, so prepare for it."
"Alright, Kiiro-sensei."
"Now, the class is dismissed."
"Sorry, Kou, I have a club tod–"
"See you tomorrow, Michi."
Kouji immediately left the school, heading to that place where the accident will occur and as well the same area where he's going to die.
"Yes, sir, i'm almost there."
"Mama, mama, buy me a–"
"Let's go to the karaoke."
As the pedestrian light time counted down, adults, elders, kids with parents, schoolmates, etc. were passing the road.
Kouji was standing there at the side of the road, not thinking to cross and just staring at the people who were crossing. Knowing what will happen, he can only grit his teeth and watch the crowd get ram through in fast speed by a truck.
"AAAAaaa!"
"What the…"
"Call the ambulance!"
It was a dreadful sight on what befall them.
A scream of agony was heard in such a bloody mess.
A child, an elder, many people had died from that.
It's really that horrible to look at and make Kouji turn around.
"So it was a failure, ha?..."
Behind him was the person that was going to kill him.
"You… why you want to kill me? I'm here, so what's the reason?"
"Find that by yourself."
The person attacks him like last time, swinging that sword of hers that is getting faster, and Kouji manages to dodge it.
"Tell me, why are you killing me?"
"..."
"You're attacking me, there's people here, you know."
"..."
Even though there are witnesses around, the person is still attacking him like she doesn't care about that.
"Hey, look, someone's fighting!"
"What? In such a timing?"
"Stop them."
"Right–AAaaack."
Some people were trying to intervene but failed because they got slashed by her.
"Oi, Oi, your target is me, right? Why involve other people?"
Kouji asked.
"I don't want that either… but i don't have a choice."
The person responded while her tears started to flow.
"Huh?"
Seeing that, Kouji got distracted and received a hit.
"Ack…"
It was so severe that he fell on the ground.
"Goodbye."
"Wait!"
Before getting hit, Kouji dodge it by rolling.
"Please tell me why you wanted to kill me?... Are you death itself?"
"...no."
"Then why?"
"Because you're a failure."
"What?"
"That's enough."
"Wait, what you mean by th–"
And with that, Kouji once more died again.