THE ENDING OF MY BEGINNING!

[The time now is 6:30]

 The robotic voice repeated this phrase four times before finally shutting up, with the interval of 15 seconds each to complete a full minute.

'' Huh? Isn't supposed to be Sunday today? ''

A completely normal reaction for a lazy person,

Needless to say, that person is me.

I'm Miho, Miho Rillhart

A Highschool student

Sixteen years old.

In a rather bizarre situation that I found myself in, oddly enough, I'm quite calm maybe it doesn't sink in just yet with my brain.

Waking up in circular formation of white sand that seems to be the place where I slept all this time until the alarm clock had rung, the circular formation of the sand measures estimates within 1.5 meter radius, outside the sand will be vast green meadow as far one eyes can see with flowers, grass, and trees to occupy it. A breeze flows through my face as the wind blew, the moment should have been perfect if the sand didn't come along with it through my eyes.

'' Gahh!! ''

After the incident with the sand, I stood up from where I was previously lying down, as to look around the place; I have discerned that no human or animals' presence can be found around the area where I was in. Still one shouldn't lose hope finding another person or at the very least some company and so I began walking wherever my feet takes me.

The scenery before me can be rather be called a view taken out from a painting though it was just simply a vast meadow in which the grass are chests length, the large trunks and branches of trees from afar and the beautiful sunflowers that seem to stretch their flowers up to the sky, and as the wind gently blew, the trees, grass and flowers bows and sways as if the whole meadows is gracefully dancing right before my eyes. After a long time with an estimate of five and a half hour of searching, I stopped by and sit under a huge tree nearby and to assess my situation.

'' I will die! ''

A sudden conclusion,

A serious judgment coming from a person with no survival skills lingering on his every muscle, to whom spends his days just lazily sleeping whenever he has free time. A few minutes after his declaration of his dreaded future, he leaned back to the tree and looked through the sky, it's as if just waiting for his time to come. His eyelids getting heavy with each passing minutes, he closed his eyes accepting whatever happen to him from this day forth.

I said to myself as I closed my eyes due to being tired from a long walk if this is my final line even if it's just my monologue at least I should make it cool right. The lines being said by those support characters of some movies even if they died at the very end they create a lasting impression that they're cool, though I didn't do anything worthwhile in my life at least I got to be cool at the very last moment. But the world isn't really that forgiving-

'' Say, Do you want to live? ''

A phrase I often read in the manga, a quite cliche opening phrase, in which the protagonist starts out. I slowly open my heavy eyelids to see who the person that spoke to me is, since I never found anyone from the entire walk I did, this meeting is my last stroke of luck, judging from its voice, that person must be a girl. But-

'' Or do you want to die? ''

The colors from my face are gradually disappearing as from that moment.

[YES!! YES!! YES!! KILL ME RIGHT NOW!!!!]

An internal scream is happening to me right now.

As apparently the voice came from a man dressed up as a woman with a blue ball gown that seems to sparkle from every thread it consists of. The view is from which I last recall that type of clothes when I watch an animation movie, where a poor girl manages to marry a prince due to her one dance from the ball, called Cin****lla.

The upper body of his, which is the very eye-catching part, is closely similar to a body builder body, making it a body fit clothes, with each fiber of the clothes indicating the muscles it embraces. His face is greatly proportionate to his body rendering his makeup and lipstick useless, eyes who's gaze are like a hawk to its prey after a long time, resembling someone from an anime that's quite about grappling.

'' I think I choose to die. ''

With all the strength I have left from my internal screaming, I manage to deliver a reply to this SHE-MAN.

'' Hmm…Well, that's odd? Mostly all the people I ask this question apparently choose the first choice. ''

[Well, I think apparently they all have clung to the last glimmer of hope that they will live. ]

It seems that my inner monologue starts to kick in some comebacks. While on the outside, I was just blankly staring to the SHE-MAN who seems to be in loss, because the answer she/he gets was different from a majority consensus.

'' Oh well! Orders are orders. I can’t disobey them even if I wanted to.  ''

The SHE-MAN shrugged his shoulders as if it has finally given up thinking things through and just follow some sort of schedule, after a while she turns around to my direction to face me.

'' Well, it's your life young man; do feel free to do whatever you want with it ''

'' Eh? Huh? What do you- ''

Not even finishing my sentence.

In the next moment I was lifted from my previously leaning position to the tree to a height in which I could see his/her face from above, this SHE-MAN height roughly measures about 7 foot tall or more, so you can imagine me like some jacket or trench coat hanging on a wall and he/she did it effortlessly with just a pinky finger.

Seriously pinky finger!!?

 I don't know the reason for the pinky finger maybe it looks lady-like but to support or lift someone effortlessly with, but with just that his strength must me monstrous.

What am I a cup?

'' And up, up, up, we GO!!!! ''

The SHE-MAN had thrown me up in the air.

The next thing I knew was the vast white scenery.

Oh a something looks like a dog

Now, this situation is quite troubling.

I was up in the sky way beyond the clouds, admiring the soft and fluffy appearance of the so-called white cotton candy of the sky. Making me forget that just moments ago, I was just thrown up through the air for no apparent reason.

'' So this is what heaven looks like, Yeah I think it is, so I really did die! Hahahahaha!''

Tears started to form from the corners of my eyes, the view in front of me is so dazzling that it fills my heart with unnecessary happiness, which makes me suddenly realize something.

With a faint voice, I murmured as tears began to flow down my cheeks.

'' I did want to live! ''

Yep, human decision or resolution of something or the like are very fragile things, or maybe it just me.

Looking at the higher probability

It’s just me, yup just me

At that very moment, I started to recall things from the past with a bitter expression, regrets that I can no longer return to correct my mistakes.

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'' Being able to enjoy the view from up here accompanied by sentimentality, are we now. ''

!??

I suddenly tilt my head around to search where the familiar voice was heard, needless to say, the voice I heard came from someone to whom I recently been acquainted. It’s the SHE-MAN.

We are currently as I assumed to be hovering

the clouds but the posture I took looks like a person from some drawing which I can't remember the name where its hand and feet are wildly apart from each other, in a sense it's a posture used by skydivers which I saw from the movies, however, the SHE-MAN posture was from someone who is watching T.V. from their sofa in their living room.

'' Being so indecisive about your choices in crucial moments might end up taking your life, Young man ''

'' Aren't I dead? Isn’t this heaven already? ''

I hurriedly replied.

As I already presumed that conclusion since reasoning from my mind isn’t functioning well now so it seems.

'' Haha haha !! To both of your questions, apparently not! Young man, you’re not dead, this is the sky to which I had thrown you and from which you will eventually fall, if you survive the fall from this height, you'll live to see another day. If you don't, well maybe you'll get to see the real heaven you sought after. Well, then good luck! ''

After his speech I gradually began to feel that the gravity is pulling me down, giving birth to a spectacular view of the world beneath me just a few moments ago.

A large continent is the first to be noticed with a shape similar to hands joined like a cup but inverted. Along with several continents which are quite small if compared to the inverted hands and the one continent that the joined hands seemed to be protecting. It seems that I always been easily diverted my mind on other things rather than focus on what is happening to me right now.

With my posture like the sky-divers I have seen from the movies my deceleration greatly improves if I keep this up maybe I could survive a fall even from this height, with roughly estimating that I would fall to the bodies of water it will greatly reduce the shock of the fall, but it seems fate has a bit of grudge to me.

'' No! no! no! no! ''

A voice can be heard again even against all these winds that clear out any sounds from the outside, it's even crystal clear.

It's the SHE-MAN from before.

He then descended to the altitude as I am with the same posture as before with a disgruntled face.

In which I can foretell that something is about to happen.

And when I mean something –

It means bad things

I mean nothing good happened the moment I met this SHE-MAN.

'' Young man, if you keep this pace I'll never be able to keep my quota. So even if it's regrettable, I'll have to make you use the gate ''

'' Eh? What are yo- ''

I’ve have been getting a lot of interruption to my speeches lately.

In accordance with what he said, his long bulky arms had reached for my back and take hold of my clothes, and with an arm strength exceeding mere mortals. He performed a 360 degrees turn and thrown me straight to the ground. Imagine it as a baseball player had a full 360-degree turn in mid-air and thrown his ball, except that ball is me.

[Gate, my ass!!!!]

Inner monologue kicks in just in time. When gliding through the air moments ago I can roughly estimate I was going about 25 mph but after the throw I can sense that I have broken through the sound wall, closing a distance of more than a thousands of feet above sea level with mere 10 seconds.

Ten

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Zero

Through that speed, I must assume that the next time I will open my eyes some old man with a rooster by his side will be the one to greet me, along with the angels and such through the majestic gate of heaven.

But it was the brown soil.

It’s a good soil if I may think so.

I was floating with just several inches from the ground.

Ah yes

I think I'm still alive because it seems fate isn't done playing with me yet.

Thud!

My tired body hit the ground.

Dust and the soil are the ones that stole my first kiss.

Not that it mattered now anyway.

I slowly pull myself up to know what kind of place I was thrown to now.

The last thing I remembered before closing my eyes because of an intense wind pressure was an island with a shape of a star, an eight-point star shape island.

Another foreign place

A place where I was suddenly thrown at,

Just for the sole reason of getting his quota.

What is his/her quota anyway?

Why are these things happening to me?

After waking up in a middle of a meadow along with weird formation in its place

Spending the trouble of inspecting the place

Then some incomprehensible SHE-MAN appeared and now this island with a shape of a star.

The unknown island which is called or known as,