- At Risa's House -
"I'm home."
Seeing her sister who had come home, Nana, Risa's younger sister immediately stood up from the sofa and approached her sister with a happy face, impatient to eat the ice cream her sister bought. "Ah, Sis! Finally you're home! Where's the ice cream??"
"Here, remember not to eat more than one!"
"Yes, yes~"
Nana ate the ice cream that Risa bought happily, because it was Nana's favorite ice cream.
"Sis, are you-"
Nana immediately stopped talking when she saw Risa's expression.
Risa's expression was very bad. Almost like... 'that time'...
"Sis? Why are you making a face like that...?" Nana asked worriedly.
However, Risa couldn't answer anything. She herself was confused about what was happening to her.
"Why? Why do I keep thinking about what that person said?" That's what Risa thought. Her mind was very chaotic.
"Nana, I... want to go to my room first, okay..."
"Ah, yeah..."
Nana, who didn't know what happened to her sister, could only stare in surprise at her sister who was walking to her room.
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"Where am I...?" Risa was seen standing in a very dark place that even she herself didn't know where.
"Ri... Sa..."
"Risa... Risa..."
"This... Hurts... Very... Hurts..."
A familiar voice
A missed voice
A voice that...
Screaming in pain...
"Please... Stop..."
Risa could only curl up in the darkness while crying and hoping that she would soon get out of the darkness...
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- Morning -
When Risa woke up from the nightmare, morning had greeted her. The morning sunlight slipped in through her window curtains bringing a little warmth to her chaotic mind. Meanwhile on the other side, a black-haired girl woke up to the loud sound of the alarm that broke the silence of the morning.
"Hmm... What time is it...?"
On a bright morning, the black-haired girl woke up. She turned off the alarm and looked at her cellphone to check the time, and it was 05:30. Unlike usual, Vivian woke up early. Usually she woke up at 6 or even 6 in the morning and not infrequently she was almost late for school. And because of that, sometimes Erika, who went to school with Vivian, was also late for school. And since then, Vivian told Erika not to wait for her and to go to school first.
"Hmmm it seems like I'm waking up early today... Actually I still want to sleep, but oh well... Let's get ready," said the girl while stretching her body a little.
The girl slowly lifted her blanket and got out of bed and headed to the bathroom.
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The clock showed 05:42. Vivian was wearing her school uniform. She was getting ready to go to school. While wearing her uniform, she was lost in thought.
Come to think of it, this is already the second day I've returned to the past...
Huh... And come to think of it, I don't have any clues...
The only information I have is about Zea...
From Eri's story, maybe all of this is related to the devil, but... if the person who killed me that night was a devil, what should I do...?? This is so complicated. I don't know what to do, besides I'm just an ordinary high school student, why do I have to get involved with something like this...?
Aaaarghhh I'm just an ordinary high school student! I'm just an ordinary human! I just want to live my normal and relaxed school life!!! Why do I have to get involved in problems like this?!
Ah, no, wait a minute.
If I think back, Zea said that I went back to the past because of my power. Does that mean I have a really great power?
Woah, isn't this really cool? Can I do things that I usually see in novels and comics?
Well... But even if I have it, I don't know how to use it. Zea also forbids me from using it...
Alright! There's no point in thinking to myself like this.
I have to go see Eden soon!
- At School -
Vivian arrived at school at 6:05. "Yup, I'm early... This school is still really quiet..."
Drap Drap
A brown-haired girl suddenly approached Vivian and looked at her with an incredulous face.
"V-Vivi??!! Y-you!! H-how can you come to school this early??? Are you really Viviann????"
"... Your face is annoying."
"H-finished!! You always come last minute!!!!"
"Noisy!!!"
"Hm? By the way, what happened to your eyes?" asked Vivian seeing Risa's eyes that looked very tired.
"Ah, this? Last night I had a nightmare and when I wanted to sleep again, I couldn't..." Risa replied.
"Oh..."
Suddenly a girl came over to Vivian and Risa. "Ah hey! Risa!" called a girl with dark blue hair. "Do you still remember me?"
Risa looked at her in confusion and tried to remember where she had met the girl with dark blue hair.
"Ah, you're the one at the mall that time..."
"Yes, my name is Kaila, thank you for helping Rosetta that time, she was really careless!"
"Ahaha... I didn't think we were in the same school."
"Hm? Of course. We are your seniors, did you forget?"
"Ehh???? S-senior???? A-Ahahaha... O-Of course I remember..."
Of course this reaction was no longer surprising. Because since long ago Risa did not really care about her surroundings.
"Sister!!" called a girl with dark blue hair who had a face that was very similar to Kaila. "Why did you leave me??"
"You took so long~"
"At least, tell me first if you want to go! I've been looking for you, you know?!"
"Yes, yes~"
"Ah that's right, let me introduce you, this is my sister, Laila," said Kaila introducing her sister.
"We're twins~" Kaila continued while embracing her sister.
"Wow~~~~ Twins!!!" Vivian and Risa were amazed to see the twins, because this was the first time they had seen twins.
"Ah that's right, Rosetta told me to call you, Risa. So, I'll borrow your friend~" Kaila said to Vivian.
"You go to class first, Vivi. Eri is already in class," Risa said.
"Okay."
A moment after Risa, Kaila, and Laila left, Vivian was silent for a moment.
She thought about the twins she had just met.
'A familiar feeling'
That's what she felt.
Before she finished thinking, suddenly a silver-haired boy approached her.
"What are you thinking about?"
Hearing that, Vivian, who had been lost in her thoughts, immediately lifted her face. Her eyes met the boy's eyes - blue like a clear tropical sea, making her heart calm.
When Vivian saw him, a feeling of relief arose in her heart.
Since 'that night', there had always been a tight feeling in her chest. But... Now, when Vivian saw the boy, her chest felt relieved.
"What's wrong? Did you miss me that much? To the point of looking at me like that all the time..." the boy asked in a mocking tone.
"... Yes. I missed you," Vivian said while touching the cheek of the boy, who was none other than Eden, Vivian and Erika's childhood friend.
The boy paused for a moment and turned around with his face red. "L-let's go to class."
Vivian just smiled and answered, "Yes."
Now, even though Vivian had many questions in her head, she felt relieved.
"I really went back to the past," she said to herself.