YEAR: 2011

After knocking on the door Kosuke stood there until it opened but there wasn’t anyone standing on the other side, Kosuke walked inside and as soon as he was far enough in the door shut and Kosuke found himself surrounded by kids, three girls and one boy, who all seemed to be near his age or older.

Despite their sudden appearance Kosuke didn’t feel uneasy or uncomfortable at all, instead he was strangely confident and wore a dull expression. His demeanour was completely different than it was earlier but the transition was too natural, it was as if he had been this way since forgetting everything and the more childlike side of him was a mask to his new self.

One of the girls, rather pale skin with blue eyes and blonde hair, attempted to talk to Kosuke but he didn’t know what she was saying, to him it seemed like she was speaking but he recognised that she introduced herself after she was pointing towards herself and said a word

“Меня зовут Anya.”

Kosuke responded in kind

“ぼくのなまえは Hino Kosuke です”

As the two introduced each other, the rest did the same and Kosuke learnt their names and where they were from as they pointed to places on a map attached to the wall.

The other boy who seemed to be the oldest was called Joey. He was rather tall for his age, around 8 years old with dark skin, black hair and brown eyes. He was from Australia, the girl who introduced herself first was Anya from Russia and she was 7 years old.

Next was a girl who called herself Mercy, she had thick dark hair and brown eyes, she was from Africa and appeared to be about 6 and a half years old.

The final girl was named Jiwoo, she had long black hair with green eyes and pale skin, and she was from North Korea.

After the introductions Kosuke was brought to a bedroom that had quite a few bunk beds and Joey showed him which be he would have, and so Kosuke simply rested there

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Two hours passed by with Kosuke simply resting in his new bed before a bell rang throughout the entire house and he could see everyone through the doorway rushing outside and so he followed.

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Once Kosuke was out the door there was a small muscular bald man with a rather fantastic moustache who seemed to be fuming after he saw Kosuke and shouted at him but Kosuke didn’t understand what he was saying and so he remained indifferent.

The short man seemed to be getting more furious by the second and then he pointed towards what seemed to be potato sack and pointed at Kosuke, which he still didn’t understand so the man yelled something at Joey.

Joey picked up the sack and walked over to Kosuke, he gestured Kosuke to come closer and turn around, when Kosuke did so Joey raised Kosuke’s arms to the side and slipped straps that were attached to the sack over his arms. As soon as Joey let go of the straps and the full weight of the lack landed on Kosuke’s shoulders, his knees nearly buckled under the weight but Kosuke’s face remained plain and unbothered despite the weight.

Joey motioned to Kosuke to run around the house and he attempted to do slow but had an incredibly slow start, while he tried to run the weight from the sack nearly caused him to fall over numerous times but Kosuke persisted in moving forward.

As Kosuke tried running with the sack, the other 4 children ran past him, by the time he reached the back of the house they passed him 3 times over and when he completed a lap Kosuke had been passed by the others a total of 8 times.

When he stood at the starting point already drenched in sweat looking both tired but unfazed, the short man made him go again and again and again, at least an hour had passed while Kosuke was doing his laps before the man was satisfied.

As soon as Kosuke removed the sack from his back, he collapsed to the ground, panting heavily and sweating a river but it wasn’t the end. As Kosuke lay on the ground, the short man picked him back up and brought him to another separate building. The man brought Kosuke to a plain room filled with desks and the other children were already seated and writing on paper and reading thick books.

Kosuke was brought to another room that connected to the first one where a middle aged lady was waiting, she conversed with the man, who was apparently Number 10, and he left Kosuke with the lady who immediately begun to teach Kosuke languages, maths, science and other academic subjects but he was completely lost.

He was trapped in that room for two hours before finally being released. The rest of the day wasn’t any less intense as after a half an hour break, he was immediately put into weapons training and that was then followed by more exercise and study.

At the end of the day he returned back to the house with the other children, Kosuke was about to go to his bed but Joey stopped him and brought him to the bath and to his surprise the girls were also their which flustered him for a moment but before he knew it they grabbed him and tossed him into the bath which was more like a giant bucket that could scoop up people.

Kosuke was like a cat, frantically trying to get out of the water while the other kids all held him in and just covered him in bubbles, wiping off all the sweat and dirt off of him. It was strange to Kosuke but there was a familiar warmth that came forth in this moment, it was so familiar yet distant.

After Kosuke was dried up he found pyjamas for him on the towel rack, he put it on and when his head hit that pillow, he fell asleep instantly.