Year:2031

City: Astrea City

Time:2:02 P.M.

[Location: Star Seraph High School]

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Part 1

“Ah, the sun. The Sun sure is shining at its brightest today.”

“This afternoon will be a breeze to finish now.”,Today will be a good day. Everything was looking good so far.

And now after I finished my final exams. I could now relax and enjoy the rest of this school term.

~Sigh

I relaxed myself. And I held my hands behind my back while closing my eyes. I would occasionally take time like this to think things through and relax this way after a long day of intense work or studying.

But now I had managed to overcome the last hurdle involving my final exams. So now I could’ve finally moved on with my life.

I would normally take time like this to look at the beautiful view of the city. I had an admiration for nature and things that would often make me feel good.

I just wish that I just would have experienced more pleasurable moments like this. Moments in which there were no more doubts or worries.

Moments, in which my mind could just wonder and I could freely think about my life.

The thing that I typically admired the most had to have been the sun. But I wasn’t so sure why that was the case.

The sun, the sun which had to shine it's brightest nearly every day had always made the days feel so much brighter and happy here in Astrea City.

Astrea City, a mid-modern-futuristic based city located on an island built above the ocean. The ocean that Astrea city got its name from was the Astrealian Ocean. This was my home for many years ever since I was first born.

Astrea city was a pretty big city for its time. And to have been built on a man-made crafted island above the ocean. Astrea City had a cool mid warmth temperature to it and it rarely ever experienced a cold winter even despite being located on the ocean. This could have been due to the sun.

Astrea city was a wonderfully beautiful city. It was the reason that kept me excited every day. The cool sea breeze that the shore would blow towards the city felt amazing.

These breezes are what make my days so relaxing.

Astrea city was well known for its modern designs, but the city was capable of creating a higher advance on the technological field. But we weren't there just yet. The designs of the buildings and skyscrapers were very futuristic like but our technology wasn’t there quite yet.

The summers were always hot and the winters were always warm. What I loved most about the city was that people lived their everyday lives chasing after their dreams and professions.

Most of us knew what we wanted to do later in our lives.

Well, everyone except me of course. I went about things a bit differently.

Ah oh, sorry to not introduce myself. I'm Satoru Masae. Well, I usually prefer to be called Sato instead. So please don't be so formal with me.

Well, let's see. So every story has a beginning, well my story starts here in my life, at this school. Star Seraph High School.

My life was just as normal as ever for me. Nothing else interesting would seem to go on in these boring days. And so Instead of having friends and always going out on dates like other students my age, I was so much of a loner.

The current school that I am attending, Star Seraph High School is a modern sophisticated cram school located in the west of Astrea City. Star Seraph high school wasn’t your average everyday high school it was a pretty tough and challenging high school.

This school also wasn’t very fancy either. Most of the classes were online courses and most of the daytime was filled with nothing but hours and hours of boring classwork.

“How boring wouldn’t you say.”

I would rather have spent my youth going to some prestigious high school in which the classes were actually worth the effort to be there. The classes here at this school were pretty dull and we weren’t ever really taught anything new and not anything outside of school as well.

The school was evenly divided among boys and girls. Everyone had seemed to have already found a person that they liked or had a crush on, but me, on the other hand, no one ever noticed me..oops I'm going off topic…

Alright so where was I again, oh yeah the classes at the school are pretty interesting, to say the least, but other than that it really just feels like a waste of time instead.

The classes weren’t easy. Not by the long shot and the only thing to ever dislike about the school was its pressure that it puts the students that have exams under.

So much tension and anxiety that the students were always pressured by just so we could get a good score which would look good on our applications to college. And it would look good to job applications as well.

School definitely was not the best in the world for me. I often never had much of a problem with it. Aside from the fact that I never had any friends or someone that was trustworthy,

I was always left with the feeling that I wasn’t enjoying the time of my youth to the fullest.

I was to tense and I was spending too much time focusing on things that wouldn’t happen- Like getting a girlfriend.

Well, I never had a trustworthy girlfriend or any friend for that matter.

So I have no experience of a love life and on what love even is. Well, I've only just seemed to hear about that stuff in romcoms and films, but in my lifetime...nope never!

Nothing of the sort would have ever happened to me in my life. And definitely not in this generation. No matter how hard I tried it just wouldn’t work out. You can't really force your love onto anyone.

And you also can't expect anyone to like you back as well.

~sigh

I sighed in response to my habit from beginning to overthink.

In most situations whenever I tended to overthink. I would generally panic making a big fuss out of something that wasn't that big of a deal.

Just look at all of these lucky bastards. There were so many couples at school that it was even making the teachers feel a sense of jealousy towards the students.

Even in this nearly empty class right now. There were still couples. Many students at this school were dating.

I looked over to the right side of the classroom. And there were two students that were sitting right next to each other being both.

-Tesa, a popular idol in the making. Her hair color was a bright cherry mixed red, and she was just no starting her career in the underground performances.

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And her boyfriend.

-Mou, he was some kind of blonde haired, supermodel guy that starred in magazines. And monthly photo shoots. He seemed a bit too flashy though.

Tesa was very affectionate towards him. And she showed her support for both of their sake.

Mou seemed to have cared about her too. But I saw that most of it was due to the sole purpose because he was chasing after Tesa's lust.

Things never used to be this way between us. We were all friends but one day an event that I would rather not talk about happened. And I just couldn't bring myself to ever trust anyone again.

Even if they were my friends.

Mou and Tesa had a close relationship. They both seemed to have been connected on a spiritual level. And just couldn't have gone a day without making out with each other.

Just going at each other. Out of all the times they couldn't have waited till after school.

I decide to ignore it.

But I had known those two for some time. And we both had a rather, dark history that I prefer not to talk about.

Well, this was the best for me to do of course.

But so many people make it seem so bad, not having a girlfriend.

Not having a girlfriend shouldn’t be a bad thing, but everyone makes it seem like the end of the world.

So I simply view it as free time to myself. I have time to think and most importantly time to relax and think to myself. With a girlfriend wouldn’t it be pretty stressful?

So I just don’t worry about it too often. Maybe I just have to meet the right girl.

--Or maybe I’ll remain a Virgin forever until the end of time!

The world sure is pretty big, isn’t it? But it just doesn’t seem suitable for someone like me.

Do I really belong in this world?

Am I really ok with how things are now? Or would I rather prefer to live life in another world? A world where I can be more than just a normal ordinary high school student, to be viewed as a hero. I bet there is no other better feeling in the world than to be a hero.

Sure you could call the idea pretty cliche.

But it wasn't so bad if it was a possibility to go to another world. And discover the unknown. And to become a recognized hero, but the only thing that I wasn't paying attention to was--- Did I really have what it would take?

Sometimes I would often wonder.

What if there was another world out there that existed. Well not like a parallel world or anything, but a world similar to this one, but if it was so much bigger and more interesting.

Sorta like the things that you would see in anime and manga.

Well maybe even if there was one. I'm pretty sure it would be much better than this simplistic world. Things would be more interesting and every day would always be a new journey with something new to offer.

Sure this world isn't so bad off itself too. But I'm not really considered to be noticed among anyone else here in this school. They just completely ignore me, but I'm still always here every day.

“Damn!, just how much does it take to get the attention I deserve.”

Well not to say that attention was necessary. But aside from it, I felt as if I was a ghost. No one would seem to have noticed me. So I would just leave the matter alone and never bother to complain. But I did wanna experience something a bit new in my life.

Did people of youth really even have a place in this world?

Life in my eyes was only fitting for adults. There seemed to be no place for people of youth to do anything. Adults were the ones to have all the fun. And in the end, it would be us breaking our ass to study hard just so we could get into high rated universities.

“I think it’s about time for a long break. It really had been a while since I last went out for a city stroll. And especially with all of these exams...that made it nearly impossible to have any free time at the end of the day to do anything.”

There was no fun in this normal life I lived. I had no girlfriend, no friends of any kind and I only lived with my sister. Things were pretty average for me. The only thing that really kept me occupied was my kendo martial arts class i took.

“Well to be honest. These are the days that I should cherish the most. So I can't be too mad about it.”

But even so, it was still bothering me a bit. My looks were pretty far from average but I still was incapable of picking up any girls.

Spending so many days, months and years improving my physical body appearance.

“Well..there goes my luck.”

I had put in so much work to build a well toned lean and proportional physique over the years. So, of course, my body was pretty strong. I had also taken an interest in taking up classes in kendo.

Kendo was just so interesting to me. The swordplay and the swordsmanship between me and my opponents. There was nothing more that I loved than going up against a formidable opponent.

Most of the time I would carry around a 42” Kendo Shinhai Bamboo Sword around. But this wasn’t for show, I would go to kendo practice every day once school ended.

I knew a few styles in kendo.

My favorite techniques that I specialized in was, of course, Shikaze Waza.

Shikaze Waza was a very categorized set of offensive styled kendo techniques. Shikaze Waza were techniques that would require me to attack first.

But if I was forced against the wall then I would generally use the technique that I am most comfortable with.

This technique was the Nuki Waza and I also preferred defensive kendo techniques if I had no chance while on the offensive.

The Nuki Waza, a technique which had allowed me to lure my opponent to swing through the air. Which was then followed by a counterattack at the end of his move.

Counterattacks were how I liked to finish my opponents off. I would like to give them the winning edge then strike them down, finishing them off.

There wasn’t much that I had exceeded in. But I was surprisingly good at kendo. I thought that it was strange at first, but I really do enjoy the art.

Kendo is what reinforced me to put more effort in order to grow stronger. By losing that only wanted to make me grow stronger. When it came to kendo I was fairly recognized. But around my school as a student, I was generally ignored.

But yeah. This seemed to have been everything that had occurred in my everyday basis at school. Other than this not much else had happened.

Occasionally I would take time out of the days to think. I would usually think about my reality. Was the life I lived so bad? Or was I simply overthinking the issue? Well, I usually tended to overthink many things a lot.

But even so, I wanted an escape from reality. The life I lived wasn’t anything close to my expectations. I never really thought of having a reason to live. “Just what. What am I here in this world to accomplish?”

“Could there have been more to my life that I never realized until now.”

Well aside from all of that. The person that I owe my life to has been my sister, Yuna Masae. My sister Yuna was 17, being just 1 year older than me which was 16.

Me and Yuna had never often had the chance to get close ever since our parents had abandoned us. Yuna acted rather cold heartedly towards me and never treated me much like her little brother. Even though I was much younger than her.

When growing up I and Yuna were both raised by our parents. Even then, Yuna wouldn’t talk much to me. Maybe it could've been that she was too shy to do so. But it has been a while since then. Even till now Yuna treats me nearly as If I didn’t exist so there isn’t much that I know about her.

Well, my sister, Yuna would leave early in the morning. It was mostly for her vocalists' lessons because she had always wanted to be an idol. That was her ultimate dream.

It seemed that even my sister, Yuna, had her life figured out before I even could think of my future. I just couldn’t bear it. The idea of thinking about my future of what is yet to come.

So instead, I focus on the present. Making the best of what’s happening in front of me now.

-Tick!tick!tick!tick!

The secondhand of the clock began to slowly tick by the second. Just inching closer and closer. At its own pace, the lock had seemed to have been ticking slower than it normally would have.

Today sure has been going by slower than normal. Huh, well anyways it’s probably because of the testing. Testing can kinda mess with the pace of a school day.

“Come on just a little faster. If only the seconds could move by faster.”

I couldn't bear to wait around any longer for the final bell of the day to ring. After hours and hours of testing my brain was completely fried. So currently at the moment in the classroom, it was only me and about 7 other students.

All of us had just finished testing for our final exams of course. So many of us were tired and some of us were relaxed even after the test ended.

I looked around in the front of the classroom. The other students had seemed to have been hazing around just like me. A few of them used the last remaining time of class to talk to their friends.

To the right of me, two desks were 2 girl freshmen. They had seemed to be conversing about their afternoon plans later that day.

“Hey Yomiya, do you wanna go over to the new Astrea Market Hall later today?”

“Oh sure. I've got plenty of time later today when this class ends.”

Everyone else in the class at the time had seemed to be conversing with their friends. While an administrator had seemed to have been sitting in the teacher’s desk reading a book.

While I sat in the far left hand of the classroom.

Gazing outside of the window just thinking,

---What if I could go to another world?”

“If possible. Im sure it would be better than this one.”

“Another world could lead to so many more possibilities and experiences. So many new things to discover.”

When I usually think of possibilities like this my mind becomes very excited and intrigued. I had always thought that the idea of going to another world was absurd but could it be possible?

If there ever was a slight chance. Could it have happened?

Well, anyways this was the last class of the day. And I was ready for it to end. During these last few weeks of intense studying, I’ve finally worked myself to the fullest. So now I could finally rest after it all..happily

“Im-soooo tired right now. Well, at least I’ve finished my final exam for this semester. So now i'm all finished.”

I closed my eyes. I then began to lean my body back in my chair as I wrapped my hands behind my head. I took these few moments left of the day to take a break.

~Sigh

Even at the end of the day. Once I finished all of this testing there seemed to have been nothing any different in my life. All I was just doing was taking these few moments of what was left of the period to relax. And to take my mind off of things. But then all of that started to change when…

-‘Whooooooshh’, a long sudden wind had begun to blow outside of the school.

I then opened my eyes. And then I put my attention towards the wind which began to blow at the moment.

“Ah, that wonderful ocean breeze from the shore. It sure is soothing to look at. I bet it feels even good outside. Well, today is a beautiful day.”

I looked through the open window which was left open on the left of me. Nearest to the window at the time, I leaned over out of my desk. Something had taken my attention. I had noticed that the wind was blowing from a different direction than normal.

“What? this isn’t the shore breeze!”

At first, I thought that I was going crazy for a second.

But this wind began to blow strong and stronger as the speed of the wind began to drastically increase within the next few seconds.

-’Whoooooshhhhh’-, the wind began to blow so strong outside that leaves and pebbles were being blowed in different directions by the movement of the wind. The wind had seemed rather strange than normal.

Then it had occurred to me. Something wasn’t right. Something strange was happening. I could feel it inside my body. It was like something was calling itself to me from my heart warning me that something was heading this way.

“W-what?”,I grasped ahold onto my heart, but the sensation I was feeling was strange.

The Sun is black. W-wait no....something couldn’t possibly be right here.

Since when has the sun ever been black?

For so long we have known that the sun was orange, red, and some of us even saw it to be golden. But why was this sun black?

Why was this happening? What could have caused the Sun to have turned black all of a sudden?

“W-what the hell! the Sun is black!”,I yelled aloud in the classroom at the moment. Everyone was shocked after hearing me speak in front of the class for the first time in a while.

Everyone then took their attention towards the window that I was standing at.

“Hey look, what is Sato babbling on about this time.”,one student said.

“Hey, Sato I didn’t notice that you were there.”,another boy said.

As I may have told you plenty of times before. No one ever seems to notice my presence when I am near. They almost treat me as if I don’t exist.

“What who is this guy? i’ve never seen him in this class.”,one girl had asked her friend.

More students now just kept becoming aware of my presence for the first time. This is what pissed me off. I’ve taken this class with them for over 2 years and now they notice me.

Hell, I’ve been in this exact same classroom with them for over 2 hours and none of them have noticed me. Not even once while I was sitting on the far left side of the classroom.

I really had no friends in this world. People treated me as if I was never here, but why?

“Uh, I don't know I’ve never really noticed him until now.”

All of the students had begun to stand up. They then began to approach the window of the class. The students had seemed often curious to see what I was talking about.

When the students had come up to the window I was sitting next to in class I pointed to the sky.

I then said, “Hey look the sun is black!.”

The other students took a short pause while looking. Then they had all looked back towards me and they began to laugh at me.

“Hahahaha..what do you mean by 'The Black Sun'?",the sun is yellow.”

“Hey, Sato are you sure that you’re not losing your mind lately. Maybe the stress from all of these exams has been getting to your head.”

“Hah, is this some kind of joke. What a loser.”,the girl had said.

“Hehe he, yeah I just don’t understand why someone so foolish would make a joke like that.”

Once I had told them that the sun was black. They all began to laugh and make a joke out of me as if I wasn’t being serious.

-Their faces had shown no slight expression of concern or awareness at all. They were all being carefree and didn't seemed to have thought what I said was serious.

I wasn’t going crazy. I wasn’t delusional either. The Sun was in fact black. But no one had seemed to believe me. Could they have not been able to see it? Or were they pretending to have not seen it?

The longer I stared at the black sun, the faster my heart began to pound. The black s

Sun was rather strange than the average Sun. This Black Sun had an ominous purple aura radiating around its sphere which was dark black.

The black sun had seemed to have replaced the exact position of the normal sun somehow.

But why am I the only one that can see it?

Why can’t anyone else see the black sun?

-Thump! thump! thump!

My heart began to drop harder and harder by the second. It began to feel as if I wouldn’t be able to breathe within the next few seconds.

--Whooshhhhh!, the wind began to blow even harder than before.

Except for this time, it’s howling roared breaking all of the glass aligned inside the windows of the classroom.

The teacher had seemed to have taken notice of this. The teacher had become alerted by the bashing sound of all the glass which had bursted into pieces.

“Everyone!, It is not safe here. We must now move to the evacuation room in the basement corridor.”

All of the students stood up out of their chairs. The classroom was not safe with the windows broken as a storm began to form its way outside.

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“All right we have to evacuate now! a boy said. He seemed to have been confident to evacuate to the school basement. And everyone else was seemingly going to follow his lead.

Yet still, I stood there. My mind was so fixated on the Black Sun. Everyone else began making preparations to leave the classroom and evacuate to the basement.

The teacher then came up to me as he said,” Sato we have to go now. Now is not the time to be sitting here looking at something that does not exist!”.The teacher then pulled on my forcing me to go with him and the other students.

“What if the black sun is causing this?”

I tried to tell the teacher and the other students but everyone thought I was just being delusional. No one would believe me. They all thought that I was crazy.

“Stop being a pain and cooperate!”,the teacher forcefully attempted to drag me by my arm.

“No stop pulling me! I have to go..”

“Wait, what do you mean. You have to go?”

“I have to go make sure that my sister is okay! I then shoved the teacher off of me. Making a quick attempt to run out of the classroom which had surprisingly worked. I managed to escape from the classroom and now all I had to do was find my sister now.

“Yuna, just where are you?”

I don’t know why. But for some reason, I had the feeling to go after my sister to find where she was. I wanted to be there for her. After everything that she has done for me.

Meanwhile, as I was running through the hallway the wind which had flowed so gently earlier had turned into a huge windstorm.

-”Shlinkkk!”

Glass went bursting into pieces through the windows in the hallways.

“Shlinkkk!”, a window had gone bursting into pieces. The pieces of glass were forced by the wind towards me.

I jumped far in front of the glass avoiding it from hitting me. The windows had seemed to have been all completely shattered by now, but outside was terrible.

“Damn it!.”

When I had landed, my face made a brutal impact on the ground from the jump. I felt the pain rush to my head. But anyways I knew that I had to keep searching for my sister, Yuna.

I knew exactly where she was of course. Around this time of the day she was usually spending her time thinking on the rooftop of the school.

“Damn I just hope she is safe. I couldn’t bear it if something had happened to her.”

I knew that my actions were reckless. I knew that I was putting myself in the risk of potential danger, but I wanted to make sure that my sister lived. She was all that I had ever since our parents had both abandoned us.

While running through the hallways I began to climb my way up the stairs. The stairs had only seemed to go up to the 5th level which then led to the roof.

The other students had seemed to have already been evacuating their classes as they began to head down to the evacuation center in the school’s basement.

But it never once occurred to me that what if my sister had already evacuated with everyone else.

I was feeling some kind of emotion-no id rather call it a sensation in my heart. I could sense that something was wrong or that something was going to happen.

The storm began to rage on growing stronger and stronger by the second. In Astrea City, there were many people that had their cars wiped away by the intense winds which were blowing from the north. The people in Astrea city were having a panic and everyone was trying to evacuate but it was nearly impossible to escape in the midst of a storm.

“Come on legs don’t give out….not now!”,my legs had begun to lose their momentum. My body then began to lose its stamina but fortunately, I was able to reach the entrance to the rooftop of the school where my sister usually spends her time at around this time.

I walked up to the stairs. And towards the door which had seemed to be locked from the outside.

I forcefully pushed the door open. I looked outside the entranceway but I couldn't see much, so I inched further out.

I inched further out to the center of the rooftop and I scanned the premises down. But I didn’t see my sister anywhere.

“Yuna!, where are you!. Please tell me you’re alright.”

Over on the far right towards the metal rooftop fence was my sister, Yuna. She had seemed to have been taking a view of the storm.

There was no mistaking that face from anywhere it was my sister. She had seemed to have been crying while looking out at Astrea city from the rooftop of the school. Her short length of curly hair was blowing along with the swift currents of the wind.

While her purple eyes seemed to have been filled with a void of sadness and fears.

My sister had looked so traumatized. I had never seen her look this way before and she had looked very worried as if something was on its way for us.

“I-its so sad. The city is being destroyed by the wind.”

The look on my sister’s face was strange than usual. She had seemed so sad. But why?

I was sort of wondering about what she was thinking about during the moment. It had never crossed my mind that I had ever seen her cry before.

Not even a single time.

While I stood there gazing at the reaction on her face. She stood on the edge of the roof with her fingers which were entangled around the metal rooftop fence. Which at the time was helping guard the rooftop.

I could see the deepness that her eyes could see. Her eyes seemed to have been the same as mine. Both of us were born with very special eyes as children. We were both born with a special purple-black eye color variant which was much different from nearly every other eye color.

My sister mind had seemed to have been wondering off. She was thinking deeply. And her eyes could tell it all. She was seeing the entire destruction of the city and was bearing it with her.

Even despite all of the things going on around her. My sister was strong. Se was much stronger than me. She was so curious but she was always optimistic.

Us both on some days would occasionally go and think outside. Just by looking out up to the sky letting our imagination roam free where it belonged. My sister had seemed so calm even with everything that was going on during the windstorm at the moment.

My sister didn’t often talk to me very much. She was instead very shy towards me, but if something had happened she would do whatever it took to protect me.

I then grew up the courage to ask her a question, “Hey yuna?”

“Yes, sato?”,She answered.

“J-just what do you think is happening. “What do you think could be causing all of this?”

“Well Sato, I’m so sure myself either. But it is strange, but our storms have never been this bad before.”

While my sister was peeking at the city from the height of the school rooftop through the metal fence. She then had said, “The wind. It sure is powerful. This storm-it is nothing close in comparison to all of our other storms. There is something more raging about this storm.

“This storm is mad at us. Or no-this storm is here to get us.”

“The storm is here to get us?”

“I wasn’t so sure what she had meant by that. A storm was out here to get us. But why? And how?

Did my sister know something about what was happening that I didn't know? Was she hiding something from me that she didn’t want me to know or find out?

It was almost as if during the time of the storm. My sister was acting like an entirely different person than normally. Usually, she would’ve always been more aware, but it was almost as if she had known that the storm would’ve happened.

“Sato im sorry for not telling you this until now. So please don’t be mad at me.”

“Huh?”

What did my sister, Yuna have to tell me? Well, whatever it was; it must’ve been very important for her to wait til now during the storm to say it. But instead, I grabbed ahold onto her hand.

“No Yuna! Now is not the time we have to evacuate now!”

My sister was being way too dangerous by deciding to have told me this until now. And during a storm too. We were better off going to safety to get away.

But then something different had changed in my sister. She then slapped my hand away. A dark expression had seemed to appear on her face and the time and a strange shadow glare appeared on her expression.

“No Sato. You have to hear me out. I want you to pay close attention because It's important that you listen to what I'm about to tell you!”

I didn’t know what my sister was babbling on about. But what I had my focus on was getting her to safety at the moment. But she had seemed to have been so concerned about something else.

There was something that she wanted to tell me. But safety comes first. So I came out and told her,” Yuna it's not safe up here we have to leave now. You can tell me whatever you have to tell me later. Our personal safety is more important than what you have to tell me.”

“Well, are you so sure about that.”,She said.

“...well”

I couldn’t answer that. I didn’t know what she had to have told me. I was too fixated on getting to safety away from the rooftop and somewhere safe with the others now since I finally found my sister.

“Alright, Sato our mother. She didn’t leave us because she wanted to. She did it to protect us.”

“She had given it to me. Both mom and dad left so that they could protect us.”

I didn’t know what Yuna had meant by protecting us. Protecting us from what?

“Sato I'm so sorry. I had only done everything until now to keep you safe. But they will do anything to get their hands on it.”

Why was my sister saying that she was sorry? And what did she mean by,’ they’ and ‘it’. Even after my sister had started to tell me about this stuff I still didn’t understand what she had meant.

“Yuna, I just don’t understand. Why would you wait until now to tell me all of this.”

“W-what do you mean Sato?”,she asked while looking directly into my eyes.

“There has been something that has been bothering me for the longest. There is something you haven’t been telling me. Just how long do you plan to lie and derive me of the truth”

“S-Sato.”

“Oh, you think I can't handle the truth. Yet here I am asking you for it. Stop telling me lies and just tell me everything you know. Stop hiding everything. It's making me so confused, Yuna!”

“I….I’m not the sister that you know to be. I'm, not Yuna.”

“What!, what do you mean? You’re not Yuna.”

“Erhm..it’s hard to explain. What I’m gonna tell you is the truth. But im, not a human. And neither is mom and dad.”

I didn’t know what my sister had meant by this. She wasn’t human. She wasn’t Yuna. So then who was this imposter in front of me?

“If that’s the bit at least true then answer me this question.”

“Yeah, alright.”

“Does….Yuna Masae exists?”

“Is she even real?”

My sister had hesitated to answer. I wasn’t sure about how she would’ve answered the question too. But she had to have an answer to it somehow.

I stood in front of her on the school rooftop. In the midst of the howling wind storm which followed the prescence of the black sun. At the moment nothing else had mattered to me. I wanted to listen to everything that my sister had to tell me.

Across from me, it looked like she had finally found an answer. Then she began to mumble something in a low tone.

“T-The Yuna Masae...that you know is dead.”

“..........”

What the hell. Was that really what I heard at the time. Was my mind losing its sanity from all of the testings earlier that day?

What the hell did she really mean by this? She still wasn’t being specific enough.

Where is the Yuna Masae that I have known so long in my life go to? Or was she still not telling the truth.

It had come to my mind that in order to test whether or not if she was lying I would ask her the question,’Is the sun black?’

Yuna had seemed to have turned her back against me while she had turned her attention at the sky instead. She seemed to have been so focused on the sky and what was happening in the storm as of right now, but she still was avoiding my questions and weren’t telling me the truth.

I then began to approach her. I took one step at a time inching myself closer to her.

From the back of her view, I could see the reflection of something in her eyes. It had appeared to have been the sky. But she was also looking at the sun as well.

It couldn’t have been a coincidence that she was looking at the sun in the middle of the storm. Or so I thought so. I then came up with an idea.

I decided to go along with an idea and ask Yuna.

“Hey, Yuna. Just what color is the sun?”

I then pointed over to the sun which was over to the right in the direction she was looking in.

My sister had become shocked for quite the time. I saw her eyes from the rear look back at me. It was almost as if she was surprised that I had noticed that the color of the sun was black.

“Huh. Well, the sun is yellow.”

“Oh is that so. Yuna?”

“Well to be exact. The sun could be considered many colors such as gold, red, yellow and even orange.”,she said.

“If that’s the case. Then why were you so surprised when I asked you the color of the sun.”

“We both know. That the sun is black.”

But answer me. What is the sun black and why would you lie to me about it. Is there something that you didn’t want me to know about?

I had caught this imposter that was pretending t have been my sister dead in her tracks. I had already figured her out. And she was very surprised by how she wasn’t able to fool me.

“Just who are you. And what did you do with my sister.”

I began to approach the girl. And she had become rather overwhelmed. I scared her and she had fallen onto the ground after being figured out.

“B-but. how did you know? And when did you realize?”

"You aren't her. My sister would never act this way, so just....who are you!"

"........", she had gone completely silent. She was not saying a single word at all.

“I'm much smarter than I look. So tell me the truth. I wanna know everything and this time. No Lies”

“A-alright. It's my fault for not telling you sooner.”

”Sato just listen to me”

-I am your sister Yuna, but your memories of me have been altered.

”huh? what do you mean by altered? ”

”well erm...this was all to protect you. Because our family isn't normal.”

”Our family isn't normal?”

Just what did my sister, Yuna mean by this?

”hey Yuna, just what the hell are you babbling on about?”

”Our family isn't normal.”

”My memories were altered.”

”You wanted to protect me.”

My mind just couldn't process what was going on. I just couldn't have believed that so many strange things were happening all over the place.

-First the Black Sun’s Appearance.

-Then that strange powerful windstorm that followed the aftermath appearance of the Black Sun.

-And now, my sister that I had known for so long began telling me the sort of things such as our family isn't normal. And that my memories were altered in my head.

Hey Yuna. Tell me something, what did you mean exactly by my memories were altered.

-She began to cry, Yuna felt emotion resentment. All she had wanted to have done was to keep our family safe and out of trouble. But she still wasn't telling me everything that she knew.

”your memories...they were altered in an effort to keep you safe….safe from,” Chaos”

”But I don't know who Chaos is. Just who is this person.”

”I'm sorry. All I-I just wanted to keep you out of this mess. I didn't want to get you or our entire family involved in this.”, Yuna then began to sob. She began to collapse onto the ground. Tearing up.

”It's the Sun. The Sun is what's responsible for all of this.”, Yuna said.

Even when no one else in the class earlier could see the black sun other than me. The how come Yuna could see it?

“Yuna we need to get out of the storm it's getting dangerous.”

I tried to reach out my hand to Yuna. She then took her attention from the black sun and instead looked me down with a cold stare. Her eyes had looked so sad. She had seemed to have been worrying about something.

She then swallowed all of the sad emotions feeling her heart at the moment and just embraced them.

“Yes. Let's go Sato.”,Yuna then reached out to my hand. I think that this was the first time that she has ever started to accept me as her brother. She finally began to open up to me somehow, but why?

“Alright, let's go Yuna.”

Before our hands could even grasp hold onto each other. The area that Yuna was standing on had begun to break apart from the ground which had formed a boulder.

“W-what’s happening! b-brother!”, Yuna said as she began to panic while reaching down to me. The boulder and other pieces of debris around us which were being shredded apart from the school rooftop had begun to get absorbed into the sun.

I tried to reach out Yuna's hand desperately. But I couldn’t seem to reach. The force of the Black Sun had seemed to have been absorbing the materials of buildings and deconstructing construction.

‘Why is everything being absorbed into the Black Sun?”

And why did the Sun become black all of a sudden?

My mind at the moment at clearly no idea. It was so strange the wind was roaring so loud and was blowing so powerful. And the Sun, which we had seemed to have recognized for so long has turned into a rather devastating force.

I looked up at the Black Sun. At the time I was thinking deeply about why was it here and what did it want.

. While my eyes were fixated on the black sun. My sister seemed to have been feeling regret and remorse.

There was something that she was holding inside of her heart. I could easily tell this.

Mostly because for most of my life I’ve been lied to. Not from random people I know, but instead it was from my family. Ever since our mother and father put Yuna in charge of taking care of me I noticed that something else was going on that they didn’t bother to tell me about.

Ever since I was younger on that one night. I managed to have caught my sister having a conversation with my mother and father.

And they had an urgent look on their faces. But at the time I was too young to really understand what was going on.

I still remember that night.

The night that we were abandoned.

That was the night that our parents had both left us. And I was left into the dark on it. And Yuna would often tell me things of the sort, “Don’t worry about it. They will be back soon, well it’s really just gonna be a short trip after all so there isn't anything for you to worry about. Instead, we both need to support each other and work hard.

As your big sister, it’s my responsibility to take care of you now since our parents are gone for work.

But after all. It was all just lies!

While looking directly up towards the chunk of debris that was lifting my sister up towards the black sun. My sister then had begun to mumble something while she began to lower the tone of her voice.

“Im sorry, Sato please forgive me. This is all my fault. “

“W-what do you mean!”,I tried to have asked my sister what she meant by that. But instead, she was dodging all of my questions and were completely ignoring them.

“Here sato! I want you to have this. Keep it. And never let it out of your sights. Our mother would’ve wanted you to have this so please-treasure it!. Wear this around your neck at all times!”

While I looked up from the ground I saw my sister untie the necklace around her neck. She then hurled it down towards me as she threw it down with a strong force.

“Yuna!, no you can't leave me!. I tried to reach out to her but nothing could have been changed. Even if Yuna jumped and if I caught her, her body would've been in a risk anyways. At this moment I was completely helpless to have even saved my own sister.

The last seconds of her being alive involved a faint smile from her face, while she echoed words through her voice which I couldn’t have heard. Her body then was absorbed into the presence of the Black Sun. I’ve witnessed the death of someone with my own eyes. My sister, in that very moment wa erased from this world.

My sister was killed. Her entire body was absorbed into the rays emitting from the black sun.

-“Damn it why did you have to take my sister away!

All I did at the moment after that was blame everything that had occurred on the Sun. I began to emotionally collapse on the ground. My eyes began to shed heavy droplets of tears. I just couldn’t bear to live the rest of my life with what just happened.

“Sh..Sh...She is....gone. Yuna is dead.”,I then began to nearly lose my mind. I felt so lost without my sister. Without her, I was half of what I could've ever imagined being.

“No-Yuna”, I began to sob on the ground. The tears from my eyes began to run onto the ground and form small puddles of teardrops.

I just couldn’t admit it. I can't accept it!, “I won't!”

When the result was clear. My sister was dead and I just couldn’t face it. So much had happened it nearly drove me to the thought process of a psycho.

Even with my sister dead. The black sun stopped at nothing in its way. It kept absorbing everything until nearly all of the building materials from houses, skyscrapers, and schools were completely stripped apart.

“Whoooshhh!, Whoooshhh!!!!.

The wind grew so powerful that as it blew stronger it created ripples in the sides of the school building. The wind began to tear apart at the construction of the school building.

The black sun filled the sky with rage and a storm that had seemed to have gone on for that entire afternoon. The Black Sun had no intention of stopping its actions any time soon.

—instead, the black sun began to absorb more and to consume. Consuming more and more of the materials of Astrea City. Absorbing all of the buildings, cars, and trees sucking them all up like a typhoon.

“Why!, why are you doing this! And why won’t you stop!”

I began to punch my fist into the ground. Until my first, we’re drenched in my own piles of blood. I had lost everything.

I then was beginning to lose my sanity.

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Part 2

The storm continued to rage on. The wind blew stronger and stronger until all of a sudden a strange array of mysterious particles appeared as they came falling from the sky.

The particles that came falling from the sky were smaller than the eye could see. The only thing I could see from them was the sparkle emitting from the strange particles.

And the particles had seemed to have been falling from the black sun.

It never crossed my mind whether or not if it was dangerous to touch the particles or not. But I couldn’t really see them. And if it did come into contact with my body I'm pretty sure that I wouldn’t have even noticed.

My mind was still on the verge of insanity from losing my sister. I had felt as if all Hope was lost. I felt a sense of emptiness as if I was in this world all alone without parents and a sister. And without any friends.

I was just here without a reason. Experience this traumatic event that occurred.

“Why? why does everyone important in my life get taken away from me!”

“What have I done wrong…”

I sobbed with my face over the ground. While grasping my fist together enduring all of the emotional feelings. I just wanted to not believe what had happened before my eyes.

I wanted to treat everything that had happened so far as a dream.

But even if I did lie to myself I still couldn’t face the direction that my reality was heading.

First my parents. And now my sister! Just how much more suffering do you want me to endure. I can only bear so much. Now I have no one. I have nothing!

Do you know how much this made me feel?

I looked up towards the sky as the strange particles had begun to fall onto the surface of the city. When the strange particle fell into my hand I saw a strange sparkle to it. The sparkle which occurred form the particles that came into contact with my hand was black.

Very similar to the color of the sun at the moment.

More and more particles began to fall onto me and my body began to radiate a strange aura.

“Just what is this?

This aura was a blackish color. And the aura had seemed to have come from the particles once they came into contact with my body, but how was this possible.

Was I even experiencing reality anymore or was all of this a dream. I became very unsure if I was dreaming or if I was already dead.

The strange sensations in my heart had seemed to pick up speed so suddenly. It started to become unbearable to a point in which my vision began to go blurry rapidly.

“M-my vision. Just what is happening to my body? Why are my eyes doing this sort of thing? And why does it keep weakening my vision.”

“I need to get out of here!”

If I didn’t leave the school or get any help then I knew for certain. That I would not have lasted long in my current state.

My body was growing weaker somehow. And I felt myself losing grasp of my e edgy at the moment which is also why I had resulted in crawling earlier.

I stood up. I stood up trying to get off of the school premises as fast as I could. But I couldn’t see it.

“Why can’t I see. M-my vision, it’s disappearing!”

I tried to touch my eyes. I placed my hand on top of them, but they felt very cold almost as if they began to freeze.

“Tcg!, tch!”

No, I don’t wanna lose my vision. I can’t go blind.

I need to find a way off of this place. I stood up. And I was able to see through my distorted vision somehow which began to blur after a while.

“I can sorta see the exit way. If I can get back inside the school then I’ll be safe.”

I tried to walk. But this time I developed difficulty with walking. My legs had become rather heavy and slow to move.

“Ugh!, Damn it move!”

”Come on....move!”

No matter how much I begged for my legs to move they simply had refused to do so. Could this have been caused by the strange particle I touched earlier?

I couldn’t see so moving around was rather becoming even more difficult once I lost the ability to move my legs even further.

I had no other choice but to crawl my way inside. My legs could only have done so much running from earlier on my way up here so running and even standing was nearly impossible for me at the time.

I began to crawl reaching out one hand after another. Pulling the front of my body and push myself down the stairway. Making sure, I didn’t slide down I held onto the stairway rail.

“Hello? is anyone there. Could you please help me.”

I tried calling out for help but no one else had seemed to still be at the school. Everyone else had evacuated from earlier.

“What’s going to happen to me. Will--I die?"

This was all I was so conflicted of. I wasn’t ready to die yet, but at the same time, there wouldn’t be much of a difference if I lived or not.

I would’ve still been alone. Even more alone than before since my sister was dead. And without no other family members left there wasn’t anyone else I could’ve depended on.

Could I have really been okay with dying here and now?

I felt so much differently now than from before. Right now my body felt so heavy that I could barely move my fingers yet alone my legs.

My legs and body were beginning to weaken but why was this the case.

I then began to feel a light sensation of relaxation in me. Once the light sensation of relaxation had faded away for a few seconds. Both my body and mind faced tough excruciating pain.

“Uguahhh!!, I began to tumble over onto my back. I then began to roll over which then led to me tumbling down the entire stairway.

No matter who I called out to. And no matter how desperately I wanted to have been saved my mind began to eventually give up. I then behind to lose all hope of being saved. There were absolutely no signs of someone ever returning to the building to come to save me. And I knew that no one wouldn’t want to risk their life by putting themselves into danger for the sake of 1 pathetic person.

I couldn’t do anything. Maybe the best thing for me to do was die. I was pathetic thinking I could save my sister when I should’ve just gone ahead and gone with my class.

Well, no use. Because they don’t even notice me as an existing person. Maybe I’m better off if I wouldn’t exist.

My back sat off against the face of the stairwell. And my mouth which was bleeding from taking an impact from the stairway fall.

“Nobody can save me now.”

My heart began to pound so intensely that I began to have trouble even breathing. I couldn’t even hardly breathe out of my nose. Something rather strange was happening to my body.

I stood up. After managing to recover a bit of stamina in my legs. I struggled with walking so I held onto the wall to maintain my balance.

I then began to approach the center of the staircase. The one that I was struggling to climb up which had seemed to go on nearly forever to the last 2 floors of the school.

While walking. A strange black aura appeared around my body fogging itself around my hands and my legs. Almost similar to a cloud of smoke or fog. It was a faint aura but I could see it.

“Just what is this. It's an aura”

I tried to move the aura away from me by using my hands to fan around myself. But instead, the aura began to grow more and more until it was a complete pitch black color.

“Whaa-what!”

“This strange aura. It won't go away?”

“Just, what is this?”

The aura had caught me off guard. So I let go of the wall by accident. Leading to me tumbling down even more stairs than before.

“N-no! Not again!”

When I landed after the fall I was laying on the ground. And the aura began to wrap itself around me even tighter. I sensed something strange about this aua. But what was it?

Why was it entangling itself onto me? The longer the aura stayed on my body moving and wrapping itself tighter around me. It became much harder to move.

Well, earlier I could somewhat move. But this time I felt my entire body shutting down. It became 10 times harder to even move my fingers and my legs than before.

“W-what’s happening to me.”

My left eye then hard a sudden amount of pain which occured in it at the moment.

“Damn it! my eye.”

Wait. What am I seeing out of my left eye? This isn’t normal.

My left eye had begun to show strange symbols. But just what are these. I’ve never seen symbols like these. They weren’t anything normal. I’’ ll tell you for that much.

My left eye had felt so much different than how it normally would. I felt an intense pressure coming from it. There was something wrong with my eye at the time, but I just wasn’t sure what it was.

And then it struck me. When each second began to pass by me. I felt something fade away from me. But just what was it. Well, I couldn’t put my mind exactly on the matter of what I was thinking of.

But I felt the thing that made me human, slowly fade away. Yet again I wasn’t very sure about what was the thing that made me human. But my body felt rather heavy. And not to mention that I was also seeing strange magic symbols in my left eyes.

My left eye had seemed to have been showing me a mystic white vision. I didn’t know what this was. All I could think about was if I would die or live. But even if I lived nothing else would have changed anyways.

I pulled my hand towards the left side of my face. My face had begun to feel strange as well.

I was so naive and foolish to have looked for my sister. And now at where this has led me. Now my life is hanging on a thread of life and death. Or so that's what I believed at the moment.

The strange aura had completely shut down my legs.

And it had completely shut down my nervous system.

”ugh! Ugh!!”

I soon began to struggle with even lifting my fingers. My entire body was shutting down on me.

And there was no sign that there was anyone around that would have been willing to help me.

I had lost all of my abilities to the fullest. I couldn’t move. I couldn’t hear, Smell.

”just what the hell. My body is useless..arghh..ughhh..”

” I can't feel or even move. I was lucky to have been able to breathe right about now in my current state.

The only thing that I had seen in the last remaining seconds of my life was a faint vision of the strange force. The left of my eye had been feeling strange and I was seeing some sort of white vision.

But then once my entire nervous system was shut down. My body was rendered useless and immobile.

I couldn’t do anything. I was chained down in place by this strange aura which had to appear during the appearance of the black sun.

And before I had even notice.

-”My entire existence and life of a human being had completely vanished on that fateful day.”

And yet, what I didn't realize was that my life in Another world, Was only just beginning.

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