In a silent hospital room, the doctor is studying Akira's report while Kaito stands by the door and Ryo sits near Akira, feeling uneasy. Ryo breaks the silence by asking why Akira isn't waking up. The doctor replies that they are also trying to figure it out and it doesn't seem to be a coma case.
After the doctor left, Ryo told Akira "You've been sleeping for the last past 3 months, wake up brat" and Kaito questioned if this was because of us. Hikari started remembering the flashback of what happened 5 months ago.
5 MONTH BEFORE
Hikari and Akira started arguing. Akira asked, "Are you crazy or what?" Hikari responded, "Oh! Now I'm crazy. Then who the heck is she?" Akira seemed upset but held back tears. And say I don't know what are you talking about. Meanwhile, Hikari sipped her coffee and looked away, placing her mug on the table. Hikari told Akira to just die and not show their face, to which Akira replied that it's better to die than to fight every day like a doll. Hikari then left the place.
TIME SET TO PRESENT
Hikari said in a creaking voice, "I don't know, but I don't think so because he is the one who can't face rejection" 'Yeah, whatever, Ryo Come on, let's bounce. He needs to rest,' Kaito said.
UNKNOWN
Black screen: "So, what do you say?" "Will you or not?" "Yaa, I will play."
LMDW
-D1
Akira woke up, sat, and started looking around the room. "This is it. Now, I will do whatever it takes," he said. He got up and got ready to head to high school.
He enters the class and sits in the last seat of the last row. While moving to the seat, he tries to find Hikari, Ryo, and Kaito. At one point, a group of students enters, including Hikari, who is wearing headphones, and sit in their usual spots.
After the class is over, it's lunchtime. Everyone leaves the class and Jinja goes to the canteen to check on Hikari. He finds her there, grabs some food, and sits next to her. "hey, guys!" Ryo said. "Who the hell are you?"
"Huh." Kaito stopped eating and said, "Sorry, but we didn't eat with anybody." After a moment, Hikari locked Akira and said, "Hey, don't you listen to what he said? Move you're shit out of here." At the same time, eating and listening to music.
He stands and thinks, "So this is D-1, huh?" Then he grabs his bag and moves. At 7:00, he sits on his bed and thinks. After a moment, he unconsciously lays down on the bed and moves to D-2.
-D-2
"He is in room D-2 when he hears a knock at the door. He opens the door and sees Ryo. Finally, Kaito says while standing beside the door, 'Aren't you coming today?" I'm" "naked"' 'Huh? Dress up, you jerk.'"
--Canteen
All of us were having lunch together when Meiyo said, "You all need to come tomorrow, okay?" Ryo replied, "Look, I'm not coming. Why? He's just my dance partner. I'm not coming, that's it. Bye." Meiyo said, "Hey, stop."
Akira and Hikari were the only two left at the table. Hikari broke the silence and said, "Look, someday we will also dance together." Akira smiled and asked, "Are you flirting with me?" Aires replied, "Yes, I am." what, just kidding.
I haven't seen Kaito today. He is with the music teacher. Oh, is Kaira with him? "Always," he replied.
D-2 is an easy deal. Really?
(everything starts being black just he and his chair have some light)
I don't believe we will meet again.
"This is the place where you can learn that a sentence can have a significant impact on a person. What?"
"Did I tell you everything? Huh?"
Flashback
"Look, she is yours. Don't do anything. Me and Kaito are coming," Akira said in a crying voice. "But she started dating. What to do, what to do, what to do? I want her, I love her." And then he started, "Shut the fuck up, we are coming, okay?" and then he cut the call.
True love, huh? "Yaa, so what!" He turned back and saw a creepy guy standing behind her. "Hey, what are you?" And then he realized that he was in a black space. "What is this place?" "Sorry dude, but I hate the light, that's why I teleported you here. So, you love her, right?" "Yes." "You need her?" "Yes." "You want to live the rest of your life with her?" "Yes, but things are over now. Can't do anything." "Who said?" "Huh?"
"I can we you two together again. "Really? How? Please do it." "If you win." "Win what?" "A game." "What kind of game?" "If you want to know about the game, first you need to be in the game." "Huh." "So what do you say? Will you play or not?" "Yaa, I will play." "Then eat this pill."
Akira enters the game, but everything is just black. He can only see Midori, who begins explaining the game.
(LMDW GAME EXP - so there are 2 voids/dimensions which carry positive impact and one carries negative impact and you need to make Hikari your gf in both dimensions)
"You explain the game to me," Akira says.
"Did I?" Midori responds.
"Yes, you did. "Tell you about the rules?."
"No, what rules?" Akira asks.
Midori starts laughing at Jinja. "You're foolish. How can you think of a game without rules?
"Then, listen. All the bad incidents you face in the real world will happen to you every year. You are going to feel everything every year. It's like you're going to see your parent's death every year, and every time it's going to hurt more badly."
Akira looked at the ground and said, "You bastard. Why didn't you tell me in the first place? Why the hell?" He walked over to the bed. "Are you okay?" Hikari asked. "You fell while we were having lunch."
Akira looked at the time and saw that it was 6:58. He ran to his apartment. Hikari asked, "Hey, where are you going? You need rest, just lay down here." Akira replied, "I need to go. Bye," Hikari was confused, "Huh? I love you. Bye." Ryo asked, "Did he just propose to you?" Hikari was surprised, "What?" Suddenly, Akira fell unconscious. Hikari, Kaito, and Ryo ran to see what had happened and found Akira unconscious again. Kaito suggested, "Let's bring him to the hospital."
"He walked into D-1 and checked his phone to see a missed call from his grandpa. He called him back and his grandpa told him that his parents had died in a road accident. A year later, his parents died in an accident. Two years later, his parents died in an accident. Three years later, his parents died in an accident." It has been three years, and everything seems to be repeating like a cycle. I lost my parents four times and saw the moon with someone else. Each time, the pain feels worse than before. I came here to gain her but I'm hurting myself I can't take it anymore, I want to die.
He is his bed shifted to the black space and his bed disappears he is on his knees and from back Midori grabs his hair and pulls then off it seems like he is forcing Akira to look at his eyes then Midori asks "What happened?" "No hope." "Huh?" At this point, Akira is much angrier than ever. He says, "Let's end this." "Really? How?" Akira smiles.
He is in a D-2 bed. He quickly ran in his nightdress to meet Hikari. When he finds her, Hikari sees him "Hey, what's up?" he comes near her and kisses her, then he says, "I love you." "Huh?" she responds. "You are the one I love so much. Be my life partner." "I-I love you too," she says. Then he sees everything start freezing and he falls and wakes up in D-1 while Midori is lying on the roof. Akira then sat and saw Midori's face in front of his face. "D-2 clear. Huh, good, you take me seriously," and after saying that, he vanished.
Now I have more time to spend here.
When I left for school, I noticed that there was a basketball match scheduled for today. When I reached the school, I watched the match as a basketball player. The game was between 10-A and 10-B, and Ryo and Kaito were on the 10-A team. The first half was finished, and the score was 33-10 in Favor of the other team.
During the 10-minute break, I went to the restroom in section 10-A. Ryo, Hikari, Meiyo, Kaito, and Kiara were already there. I ignored everyone and approached Ryo, who is the team captain, and asked, "What are you doing on the ground? If you don't know how to play, why did you take part? "Kaito grab my collar and said let me kick your ass out of here? Yeah, we are weak but at least we are playing Ryo said. I didn't take part because I didn't know anything about the match. Ryo said what do you think who you are huh?.a better player than everyone. Hikari threw a shot and jersey at me and said now let me see your game even know how to play or are you just talking. And Yaa if you can't play well then… then I'll take care of the rest Kaito said. And we move to the ground.
The whole crowd, they have a new player. The match starts after a while Kaito passes the ball to Akira, 3-pointer Yaa by Akira, layup 2-pointer, 3 again. Crowd Akira, Akira… 10-A / 10-B, 3 again 2,3,3,2 ,3. Hikari said what the …. 2 min are left and the score is 65 10-A and 69 10-B match is finished. 10-B won the match by 75/73.
RESTROOM
Akira - Sorry guys we still end up losing.
Ryo - Let's win next time together, now you are a part of our team, even though you deserve to be captain, isn't Hikari?
Hikari - Yaa you play amazing.
Hey, you jerk sorry Kaito said. Okay.
Hikari - Monday morning next match, you Akira right? Yeah. Give me your name and jersey number and I will prepare them for the next match. Yeah, no 9 MOON. Akira respond. Moon? Yeah, moon.
MONDAY MORING
Kaito and Kiara are arguing about something, which escalates into a fight.
Kaito: "Don't spoil the mood before the match."
Kiara: "Hmm, I don't think it makes any difference; you always just have to pass."
Kaito: "What do you mean, huh? Look, just leave the place. You do not need to be here."
Akira noticed and asked, "Why are they fighting?"
Hikari replied, "I don't know, but these days they start fighting at any place."
Akira intervened and tried to stop Kaito and Kiara.
Then Kiara said to Kaito, "What I think is, nobody needs you, just go die." Akira told Hikari to take Kiara with her.
"Yeah, I need to just die instead…" Kaito said, but Akira grabbed his collar and said, "Why? Huh, why do you want to die? Look, we'll talk to her after the match. Okay?"
"Okay, and thanks."
"Yeah, whatever, let's go."
CAFE
Hikari and Kiara were sitting on the coffee table. "The match would have been over by now," Hikari said to Kiara. "Hmm," Kiara replied. "You have been replying 'hmm' to everything for the last 2 hours. What happened?" "And why are you fighting with him that much?" Kara replied, "Look, I don't want to talk about him. I think I should leave."
Akira and Kaito entered the room. "Thank god. Say something to her, she is not talking or replying properly," Hikari said. Kaito and Akira sat down, and Akira said to Hikari, "I love you." Hikari replied, "W-What?" "Like this, you tell her and say sorry for what you did." "Hmm, Kiara, sorry babe…." (couple talk)
Akira said "And yeah, take this Meiyo bags," Akira said. "Why are you having this?" Hikari asked. "Because after winning, she gave me this to give you," Akira replied, and they left. "Go where?" Hikari asked. "Hm, he pointed," and she realized. "O-Ok." "By the way, was that 'I love you' real or...?" "No, I mean..." "Hmm, hey, hello. What happened?" *Freezing*
"Checkmate. Time's up, buddy."
"What do you mean time's up? You didn't mention any time limit."
"Who says there's a time limit?"
"Huh?"
"You took too much time to finish this game."
"Huh? What are you saying?"
Look it's a neural imagined game, that has been running in your brain for the last 5 years. And now your 99.6% of brain cells are dead so from now on you can die at any movement. "Huh" your brain is not able to load this anymore that's why everything starts freezing not finishing. Akira in a crying voice "Why didn't you tell me everything in the first place" I forgot so Yaa sayonara kiddo.
THE REAL WORLD
The multi-para monitor starts showing a straight line.
"Everything seems like it's falling apart," Kaito says while smoking. "You can't bring Akira back, but you can be with Kiara again." "Huh? Who?" Do you want to live with her?
-THE END -
Author - Pairio Chiba