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2. My Life

My name is Kisaragi Touma, 34 years old, Occupation: Salaryman.

I'm just a normal office worker living his everyday life in a 2 story apartment in Tokyo, Japan.

Family member? none, but I guess you can count my little sisters and brothers at the orphanage as family members.

Anyway, when I said everything earlier, I meant everything including my death.

Let's take a look at the worst week ever in my life.

(Flashback Start)

Sunday: The nearest train station was about 15 minutes of walking from my place.

While I'm on my way to the train station, I suddenly felt a weird sensation, my instinct then ordered me to run away from this place.

After frantically looking around, I then noticed a black hooded guy is staring at me.

When he noticed that I had noticed him staring at me, he then grinned at me, he then intentionally showed me a sharp-looking knife.

For some reason, the people around us are ignoring the hooded guy's action, the guy then came running toward me while holding his knife.

The looks in his eyes are full of killing intent, his killing intent almost paralyzed me, but I recovered my sane mind when I heard a voice.

"(Run! Run! Run!, if you want to live then run!)"(???)

"O-okay."(Touma)

Following the voice, I then immediately ran away as fast as I could.

I have no time to think about the voice's origin, the only thing that I could think at that moment is just 'where to run', 'how far should I go' and etc

I then found myself at a deserted shopping district, even I don't know how did I end up here, suddenly, I heard someone shouting nearby.

"NO MATTER WHERE YOU HIDE, I WILL DEFINITELY FIND YOU."(Hooded Guy)

Surprised by the voice, I then sneakily hid at a random alley somewhere in the district.

Just when I was about to breathe a sigh of relief, the hooded guy suddenly appeared behind me.

Without giving me any chance, he then randomly slashed his knife everywhere.

I was barely able to evade his attack, after several strikes, the hooded guy then stopped.

"Hah, Hah, Hah"(Touma)(Breathing heavily)

"Drip, Drip"

After running away and evading the hooded guy's attack, my stamina is about to run out and my right cheek was injured by his strike earlier, several drops of blood were dropped to the ground.

Watching my state, the hooded guy then said.

"Are you already tired?"(Hooded Guy)

"OF COURSE I AM!!!" shouted me.

"It looks like you still have some energy left, so..let's play some more."(Hooded Guy)

When the hooded guy said that, he then unhooded his hoodie, revealing a face that pretty much everyone in Tokyo knew.

"I recognize that that face, you... you are the fugitive, Kento Yaiba!!"(Touma)

"Bingo."(Yaiba)

It was almost impossible to not recognize that face because he is the famous serial killer, Kento Yaiba.

A few days ago, he was sentenced to death by hanging, while on the way to the execution site, he mysteriously escaped the armed car.

No one knows how he escaped the car, all we know is that he is a fugitive now, the news of his escape was broadcasted all over Kanto.

And that same guy is standing in front of me, realizing that, my leg then gave up, while slowly approaching me, he then said.

"You know... since I escaped that car, I still haven't killed a single person yet."(Yaiba)

"So do you mind becoming my first?"(Yaiba)

"NO WAY!!!"(Touma)

"And why me in the first place? shouldn't you target the one who caught you."(Touma)

I'm trying to stall for some time for my stamina to recover by talking to him.

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For your information, I had already called the police.

Even though my leg has given up, my mind won't. Yaiba then answered my question.

"Isn't it obvious, it is because..."(Yaiba)

At that moment, Yaiba then stopped walking toward me, he just stood still there.

"...because, Ummm...."(Yaiba)

"Oh yeah, why did I want to kill you in the first place?"(Yaiba)

"Don't ask me that!!"(Touma)

"Either way, you will die and I will get to kill you, a win-win situation."(Yaiba)

"The f*** is wrong with your head!!"(Touma)

With that Yaiba ended the conversation, he then came dashing toward me,

"Uryaaaaahh!!!!"(Yaiba)

thankfully, my stamina has recovered a bit.

I'm pretty sure that I could run away from here, suddenly, my vision then slowed down, then I heard that voice once again,

"(Wait!, are you planning to run away?)"(???)

"(Of course I am, I'm just a normie while that guy is a serial killer, I have no chance against him.)"(Touma)

"(Don't be that way, for your information, you have a chance to win if fight back here.)"(???)

"(Really!?, what should I do?)"(Touma)

"(Just leave that part to me.)"(???)

My vision then returned to its normal speed, I then immediately stood up, when Yaiba entered my reach, I then smoothly deflected his right hand that is holding the knife.

"Huh?"(Yaiba)

Yaiba was bewildered at that moment, but that moment is all I need.

Using my hand, I then smashed Yaiba's right hand into the wall's surface, causing him to lose grip of the knife.

While being confused about their roles switching, I then headbutted Yaiba's head as hard as I could.

I'm quite famous for my 'hard head' when I was in the orphanage, who knew that head would be useful in this kind of situation.

After being headbutted by me, Yaiba then falls to the ground, then the voice spoke to me once again.

"(Don't show any mercy!)"(???)

"OF COURSE!!!"(Touma)

I then kicked Yaiba's groin multiple times, on the 4th kick, he then fainted.

"Don't worry Yaiba, losing your ability to produce a heir is better than dying."(Touma)

After saying that, I then remembered one fact.

"Oops!, sorry Yaiba, it seems like I have made a blunder." (Touma)

"After losing your ability to reproduce, it seems you're going to lose your life after this.''(Touma)

I then tied him up with a rope that I conveniently found somewhere, in about 5 minutes, the police then finally came for us.

Monday: It is now about 5.30 p.m. I'm on my way to return to my home from work.

After getting off the first train, I then walked my usual route, while I was walking I then saw a cute black cat.

Because this is my usual route for the past years, the cat around has accustomed to me.

Today, something weird happened, the black cat (Kuro) suddenly ran away from me when it saw me.

I for some reason have a bad feeling about this, ignoring that, I then continued walking.

When I was walking along the street of a 5 story apartment, I then heard something falling.

I then looked on top of me, I then noticed a flower vase falling from the apartment's balcony.

A heavy vase filled with dirt and flower + falling from a high place + gravity + my not-so-fit body = my inevitable death.

I honestly thought that I could die here, because of that, I have prepared myself, then I heard a woman's voice this time.

"(Don't give up until the last second, you can do it, you can turn it around.)"(???)

For some reason, her voice filled me with power and energy, even though my body is quite weak (normal), I managed to dodge the vase in the last second.

'SMASH!!!!!'(The sound of the vase smashed to the ground)

But that isn't the end, the woman voice resounded once again in my head.

"(Don't let your guard down after scoring once, look up.)"(???)

When I looked up, I saw multiple vases also falling from the same place, even with the woman's 'buff' there is no way I can dodge all of that, then she said to me.

"(This time, you can leave it to me.)"(???)

I then dodged all of that vase using an athlete-like footwork

"Smash, Smash, Break"

All three of the vases then were smashed to the ground, in just a minute after that, a dirt-covered young woman came to me while holding the earlier black cat which is also dirt-covered.

She was in the middle of making her small garden on her balcony just now when she was about to put everything in place, her pet cat then 'accidentally' knocked every vase.

After she explained to me about her situation, I then forgave her.

Wednesday: This morning, after checking my temperature, it looks like I was down with a fever.

Because of that, I took the day off from work thankfully, my boss understands my situation and he said to take care of myself.

After a while resting on the bed, it was around afternoon when my body felt quite better, because my stock of medicine has run out, I then went to the convenience store to buy some.

On the way home, I saw a little girl playing with her ball on the side of the street, seeing that I then felt quite irritated with parents that would let their kids play alone in the street.

But I can't say much, because I never had a child before, hooray solo life.

Then a crazy scene happened in front of me.

All of a sudden, a nearby truck suddenly started and then goes out of control, crashing anything in its way.

I then noticed that the truck was going to hit the girl, dropping my medicine and I then immediately ran toward the girl.

I managed to push the girl away from the truck in the nick of time, but now another trouble arose, I'm the one that is in front of the truck.

I truly thought that this would be my 'true' end, I won't regret the choice that I had made to save that girl, then I heard my voice of salvation.

"(Touma-dono, for thou who had saved the 'loli', it is now my turn to help you.)"(???)

After hearing that samurai-sounding voice, my body then evaded the truck in an inhuman speed, it is truly in the nick of time.

The truck then crashed into the nearby electric pole and broke down, later I was thanked by the girl's parents and I also found out that the truck driver doesn't remember anything that had happened.

He said that he was sleeping inside his truck when all of that ordeal happened.

Looking back, I managed to survive quite well in the past three days.

But the next day.... Thursday is my last day on Earth.