At one night in 4  AM. .... a teenage boy who’s 16 years old is just sitting there, playing video games none stop... “DAMMIT!” he yells out in frustration and anger.

“I lost to that same kid again!”

“... ugh.. What time is it, gosh!”

He checks his phone to find that it’s already 4 in the morning

. . “HOLY-!”

he exclaims in surprise.

“It’s already 4 in the morning-?”

his speech is cut off by the door swinging open.  ... A woman walks into his room to check if he is already asleep, but, in the blink of an eye, (thanks to my gaming “talent”) I hide behind the tv table, until she’s gone.

Once she is gone, I get out from behind the tv table and I notice something. “oh, damn.. My tv, it was on this whole time?!” but no... it was just a gray bland screen. I sigh to myself, then remember something.

“HOW CAN I FORGET!?”

I ask myself. Right at this moment I remember it’s the first day of high school Tmrw.

I then remember the gray tv screen. I sight to myself once again before inserting my hand to unplug the console’s cord. .... “ugh.. I ain’t getting enough sleep now..” I mutter to myself. But as I unplug the cord. I get slightly zapped. “YWOUCH!?”

I yank my hand back quickly, but as I am doing so, It happens almost instantly. My hand is pulled back leaving a green-static like afterimage of my hand. “What the hell was that?!” I try to pull my hand quickly again but nothing happens. I glance around and see all the energy drinks cans on the floor scattered around my small room.

I sigh. (Wait am I even old enough to drink those?!) (groans) Now thinking about it. I am really sleepy, I believe what happened when I yanked my hand was just my imagination. I should just forget about it and get to bed already! School’s gonna start at 7 AM!

I am changing schools this year and I don’t really wanna have a bad impression...

Well, whatever. I’ll leave it for tomorrow.

Then suddenly, I am lying on the ground with my eyes closed, I open my eyes to only see a pretty girl right above me, looking directly at my eyes.

“Hello there~! Funomi-kun!”

And without another word, she quickly leans in to kiss me. But I quickly panic

And just push myself with my heel away from her face.

“W-what the hell are you doing?!”

I exclaim in surprise since I fear women… don’t ask me why.

“You are all mine~ funomi-kun!”

The girl chases after me as I quickly start sprinting away from her in a very white room. She eventually tackles me to the ground. Her grasp is surprisingly strong. I can’t get myself out of her grasp!

…

The girl looks at me with a blushing face as she slowly leans in to kiss me.

“NO, NO, NO, NOOOOOOOOO!”

Right before she kisses me. I jolt awake from my bed and accidentally bump my head on the second floored bed.

“Owww.. what a creepy nightmare…”

I rub the back of my head and lay my back on my bed.

“Ahh.. this bed, it feels so nice.”

“Eh? Am I forgetting something? I don’t feel very comfortable..”

I check my phone, only to realize it’s already 7:15 AM.

“Holy shit! I completely forgot about school! I have to get up already or i’ll be even more late!”

I hurriedly jump off my bed despite my drowsiness, From my panicked state.

I uncontrollably Dash at the speed of lightening leaving 1 greened out afterimage of mine with a straight green trial. Though, I don’t seem to actually notice at all because of how worried, and anxious I am about being late to school.

I quickly put on my school uniform, buttoning it up quickly and carefully comb my hair as I splash my face with cold water

“AH! So cold!”

I feel a shiver from the sudden contact of the cold water with my skin, I quickly overcome it and then snatch my black backpack from my messy bed since I had no time to make it.

I quickly sprint like an idiot to my school since it isn’t that far from my house.

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Pant pant pant.. pant.. “huff huff.. I reached just in ti-“

I look up and notice that they’ve already locked the school doors.

“Oh, what a great start to the day.”

I say a bit agitated and angry

I climb the school fences, and once I am done I don’t ever bother climbing.

I jump on the grounds of my new high school, I quickly sprint and try to remember which class I was put into.

“Damn.. speaking of which, I don’t really remember which class I was placed into.”

I mutter that to myself as I am running as fast as I could.

“Oh yeah! It was-“

As I remember the class’ name. I suddenly bump into a girl, who was also sprinting to her class.

“Oof! I-I am sorry!”

I talk to myself.

“This girl sounds like a senior here.. I should definitely ask her which class is D-1.”

“Hey? Are you okay? I apologize for bumping into you earlier..”

I extend my hand to help her up, but she quickly slaps it away in response.

Girl: “Watch where you are going, newbie.”

I feel the venom in her tone, good grief..

“I apologize!”

I reply to her simply, not wanting to cause any more trouble than the one I have right now.

“Do you mind telling me where’s class D-1?”

I take the chance while I am at it, to ask her about where my class is since I am just a junior student…

The girl rolls her eyes and turns her back on me, seemingly annoyed by my presence.

“Go straight, take a left then take a right-“

I don’t waste any other second and quickly sprint once again, at where she guided me to.

“Thanks a ton!”

I yell out, so she could hear me while I am running.

“Goodness gracious. What an arrogant bitch.”

I mutter to myself. After running around for a good minute. I finally reach my destination. Without any thinking I slam the classroom’s door open while the teacher was explaining.

“A-ah! S-sorry mister!”

I start sweating slightly because of the bad first impression.

Everybody’s head snaps towards me staring at me which makes me feel unease since I actually don’t know any of them.

The teacher speaks up after 3 seconds of unease silence

“What the hell do you think you are doing?!”

The teacher scolds me. I really didn’t care about the scolding part but just the bad first-impression  in this school.

“Yes sir.. yeah..”

I reply to him really not giving a damn about whatever he is yapping.

I look at the students and I could hear them giggling at me and laughing secretly. But I don’t actually feel like they’re making fun of me. I believe they thought my first impression with the door slam was just plain funny as it was sudden and came out of nowhere.

“Yeah it doesn’t matter. We were just introducing ourselves. And..”

The teacher replies and looks at the attendance paper

“The next on the line is.. funomi oatksu?”

I reply

“Y-yeah! My name’s funomi oatksu.

I am 16 years old and I am from kyoto japan.”

I introduce myself a little, knowing that nobody really cares about me, anyway.

“Alright then. Take a seat.”

He points at a seat next to a bunch of girls, I get anxious, since I am really not talented around women.

I take the seat anyway, I look at the students tiredly since I barely got any sleep last night. I notice something unusual. I carefully look around again and notice that there is a girl who looks exactly like the one from the dream I had today.

“W-what the heck..?”

I mutter to myself shocked.

“I thought that was just a random girl? Well, wonder if she is just the same from my dream.”

I hear the other students introducing themselves not really paying attention to any of them as I struggle to pull myself together and not fall asleep during the first day.

I then feel a tap on my shoulders. I lift my head from the table to look at who is tapping my shoulder. Only to realize it’s the same girl who appeared in my dream.

“H-hello?”

I ask nervously while sweating slightly, because I think she might be obsessed with me, just like the dream I had.

“Oh, you’ve slept through the entire school day.”

She replies to me.

“H-huh?! I did?!”

The girl nods.

“T-thanks for letting me know..”

I reply.

“Hey, wanna walk home? I am pretty sure I saw you sprinting like a mad man to school right behind your house by 2 buildings!”

I have a surprised expression on my face. Am I still dreaming…? I shake those feelings off and reply to her.

“Sure, we can walk home together if you wish.”

I get up from my desk and walk along with her.

The first question I ask was:

“Hey, I am not pointing anything bad, but, why did you want to walk home with me out of all people?”

I look at the girl and she seems surprised and blushing a little from the suddenness of the question. She replies to me.

“O-oh! All of my friends houses’ are a bit far from here, I saw your house was near, I thought it would be a good idea to make new friends, you know?”

And then I was like, “damn.. why does it have to be a girl?! Only if it was a boy..” I shake those feelings off, and decide to be brave enough to ask for her name.

“S-so.. what’s your name?”

She smiles a little in response and replies

“Akane owajiro. Nice to meet you!”

She extends her hand out, and I get a little bit nervous and start sweating once again a little.

“The name’s funomi, funomi oaktsu.”

I become brave enough and extend a hand. But then suddenly, my hands suddenly dashes by itself at the direction of her palm to shake, I quickly become surprised.

“What the actual.. it happened again, I am not imagining things!”

I mutter to myself and look up at the girl again who seems surprised and shocked.

“H-hey.. did you see that too?”

I ask her just to make sure it isn’t my imagination…

“Y-you’re…!”

I become uneasy when Akane starts speaking like that.

“I am..?”

I ask.

“Y-you are.. not normal!”

I start becoming confused, and a bit anxious.

“People like you.. they’re not normal! They’re actually inhumane!”

The girl says before she runs away as fast as possible.

“HEY!”

I yell out.

“Get back here! We can talk about it!”

I start running at her, a bit more conscious about my ability. I feel like I am a bit too faster than usual and I catch up to her with ease. But what’s actually happening is that I am teleporting around leaving purple and green afterimages of myself.

I pull the girl by her shoulder.

“Akane-san! Listen to me!”

I exclaim trying to confront her.

“Come over to my place.. we can talk about what happened just now.”

The girl seems fearful and anxious but just nods her head, we are already standing right infront of my house. I open the door for her and lead her to my room.

“So.. about what happened earlier, I am actually not sure what’s happening with me, I feel a surge of energy overwhelming me. Ever since last night.. I was just plugging the cord out of my console, I got zapped as I can remember. Ever since then, I gained this what is so-called “ability” of mine. Do you maybe have any idea what that is?”

The girl listens to me closely feeling much more relaxed right now. She replies to me.

“Listen, funomi-kun, this thing that you call an ability is called “static glitching”. There are very few people in this world that has this unique ability. I thought this was a myth, but.. the reason why I got scared earlier was because whoever gains this ability automatically becomes evil.”

I reply to her.

“But I am not-“

The girl quickly puts a finger over my lips to prevent me from talking. I become confused and blush slightly at the contact.

“Shhh.. it’s ok, I believe in you!”

The girl replies, feeling proud and cheerful, much more comfortable now.

“You have a unique ability.. please, train yourself. This ability cannot go to waste.. I believe in you, funomi-kun”

I reply to her.

“Uh huh.. do you know more “statical-glitching”?

I ask her curiously. Maybe I could use more information to improve this “ability” of mine.

She replies.

“Yeah, actually! I used to read alot about this myth, but now since it became an actual thing, i’ll do my best to provide you with all the information I know!”

“There are 2 types of these abilities, static glitch users, and, anti glitchers. The myth says there are very few static glitching users because they’ve killed off every static glitching user because all of them were dangerous, thus the reason on why static glitching users are rare.”

I nod to the girl as I listen closely

“So they’re gonna hunt for me basically..”

Akane replies

“Indeed.. that’s why you have to get ready, each anti glitcher you meet will become stronger and stronger…”

The girl suddenly tears up.

“I-I don’t want you to die! Fumoni-kun”

I pull the girl close to me and cover her mouth.

“Hey! Don’t say that, don’t worry. I’ll be fine. I’ll get stronger and fight those scumbags off for your own sake.”

I give the girl a reassuring smile as I pull her in a hug to reassure her.

I ask.

“Hey akane-san? And how do I exactly train this ability of mine?

She replies.

“I-i don’t really have that information.. I am sorry!”

I nod to her.

“No. It’s ok. I’ll find out myself eventually. You could go home now and we’ll meet at school tomorrow.”

The girl waves at me then leaves my house. I think to myself

“I am pretty sure they didn’t write down how do you exactly train your own static glitching just in case anybody actually got it.”

I get up from the floor since I remembered I have to wash the dishes..

“Good grief.. I was never a woman to wash these dishes, but here we go.”

I wash the dishes.. and after a while a dish falls from my hand. Thanks to my quick reflexes. I reach out to grab the dish before it breaks but then as I expected. My ability works just in time making my hand go in the speed of thunder and catch the plate. Which leaves green and purple after images of my body in response.

“I haven’t actually asked akane, about how to turn on this ability, But i’ve pretty much figured it out. I just have to picture something dangerous or anxious happening in my head in order for it to work..”

I start to use my brain to picture something dangerous. As I do so, suddenly a glitching aura appears around me that that is purple and green randomly blinking and freezing as if it’s a glitch from a video game.

“T-this is..!”

I exclaim surprised that I manually turned on my ability.

“That’s actually so cool! Though.. it drains my energy.. I should definitely train it to stay with me for longer..”

I nod to myself before realizing tomorrow is gonna be the start of my anti glitcher’s hunter career!

I hop in my bed to get enough sleep, so I can keep up at school.