I open my eyes.

It is night.

I stare at the ceiling.

I grab my own tongue, preparing to bite it off.

I don't.

Why? It won't work.

Not now.

Not until I kill him.

The doppelganger.

The one who stays in my way.

My desire to stop existing.

My desire to die.

My desire for death's warmth.

They will stop.

For now.

You get up from your bed.

Your bed, you've woken up here for a hundred days.

Even if they were the same day.

You walk to the bed on the other side of the room.

His bed. He waited for you on here for a hundred days.

It is empty. He is nowhere to be found.

Many thophies and toys decorate his side of the room.

Clearly someone lives here.

On your side of the room, there is nothing but the essential.

Just like you. Only the husk is left.

Where did your shards end up in?

You leave the room.

Before leaving, you've changed your clothing to a school uniform.

It is needed for now.

You walk outside.

It is still night.

You await.

Minutes turn into nearly a hour.

The sun is born.

You walk along the empty road.

People are still waking up.

While you're already awake.

Where are you going?

Likely to the place he talked about.

School.

How do you know where it is?

You don't remember.

Even so, your legs continue to walk.

The school grounds lie ahead of you.

You walk to the entrance.

You're able to enter.

You walk to the director's office for enrollment.

"..."

Someone... Blonde...

His presence is not welcomed.

"Oh! It is you!

I see you've survived so far."

He knows you.

You don't know him.

Even so, his presence is unwelcome.

"Look at that face! Clearly you've experienced death already."

The person is highly expressive.

"Even so, you're still alive.

What a mystery! Maybe you've dreamed about it?

Yeah, that sounds like the truth."

The man keeps moving around in his chair.

He is ecstatic.

"You're the one with most potential that I've seen so far.

Well, there is another one with more potential, but that one is faded to achieve nothing.

But enough is enough. Let me enroll you."

You notice how much this person's existence displeases you.

"Okay, done.

I will be here, watching everything.

Please make everything entertaining, I've prepared quite the game for you.

I wonder if you will be a player, or just another character."

You try to talk again.

"Oh, you still want to talk?

Ask me anything."

"My name you ask? Ohhh.

Well, well, well. I don't want to spoil anything.

So just call me Smith."

"Death await every single living being.

Even the ones fated to not die, will one day.

That is the only truth of the universe.

Death awaits all. And there is no way to escape death."

"Y-You see... I'm just the principal in here.

I won't be interfering with anything.

Just a observer, if you will."

"I've told you. Do not talk about that anymore."

You start to walk away.

"Wait! I've forgotten to give you this."

The man appears behind you.

You turn towards him.

"It is a update for your Kaye.

Due to the haphazard way of your entrance.

It is not properly configured.

Press [Enter] to check your menu."

The man returns to his desk.

And returns to his hobby.

Watching everything that is happening in the many screens behind him.

You walk to the screens.

In one of the screens there is a underwater city.

Is it a movie?

Leaving the director's office.

You return to the rest of the school.

You try pressing [Enter].

Obviously, you're not in a computer.

As by nature, you press the center of your chest.

Information flashes in your own mind.

[Name: Lignum Fraxinus]

There is more information, but you ignore it.

You've learned your own name.

You think you had a different name before.

But do not care either way.

The classes will start.

It is the beginning of a new year.

You've spent a few minutes in the director's office.

Many students have entered through the door.

They are flocking to a place near the stars.

You're unable to see what is behind the mass of students.

You walk towards them.

A student is panicking due to the abundance of students.

You walk to her.

[A girl with navy blue hair.

Her hair is on the short side.

She looks like an airhead.]

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"Hm?

She seems to not know how to start a conversation.

You neither.

"Oh! I am Ypryn.

Nice to meet you?"

"Oh! We need to tell our surnames?

I'm new in this school stuff.

Then I'm Paradise!"

Ypryn Paradise seems to want to talk with you.

"Oh! I don't. First time here actually.

But considering this is school.

I will be coming in here, often, in the future."

"Hm? I was born like this.

Is blue hair unnatural? Your tone seems to imply that.

But I guess you're right. The students around us seem to have only brown and black hair.

Then that makes you special too!"

"They are... Seeing in which class they ended up with.

I guess."

"Bye... It was nice to meet you, Liguinum...?

See you around."

You try to pass through the students.

But to no avail.

A student tries to copy you.

Obtaining less results.

"Why don't they stay in a straight line...

Rather than... Whatever this is."

It is a man-

It is a boy with slightly long hair.

"Oh, hello."

He tries to talk with you.

His human talking skill is less than you.

Which is zero, to begin with.

You feel like you need to punch him in the face.

"Salu- Hey, speak like a normal person."

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"Nice to meet you.

I am Katala. Do I need to tell my surname?

That is weird."

"Fraxinus huh, that is one hell of a weird name.

So, do you come here, often?"

You try to pass through the flock.

"Hey-"

Katala seems to be annoyed by you.

You're annoyed by him.

You two will never become friends.

As you continue to pass through the students.

Something happens.

Like a ocean splitting in two.

The mass of students create a path in the middle.

Something tells you to get out of the way.

You resist the urge.

Someone(s) walks towards the board.

Two girls.

One of them keeps looking at the other one's surroundings.

While the other one keeps looking forward.

Bump.

The one going ahead nearly bumps into you.

She stops while she looks at you.

"Hm. Who..."

You look at her.

Her void is located in the middle of her hands.

You glance at her void.

It is nearly as big as yours.

> Death.

> Death.

> Death.

> Death.

> Death.

You cannot comprehend in a glance what it is about.

But you nearly puke from the amount of suffering.

Something tries to take over your body.

But you avoid her void.

It is better this way.

"Get out of my way."

Something tells you to move.

You resist.

The girl becomes puzzled.

The other girls pushes you to the floor before you notice.

You fall on your butt.

The girl takes a last look at you before walking to the board.

She keeps looking at Class A.

With a red feather pen, she writes her name on the board.

The board do not accept it. She shrugs it, and leaves the scene.

Like the ocean splitting.

The students all flock again.

You take the opportunity to walk to the board.

You look for the name Lignum Fraxinus.

Finally finding it in Class A.

Ypryn is also in Class A.

As is Katala.

Looking at the list for Class B.

The names seem to be uninteresting.

You're surrounded by the many students.

Suddenly.

Something tells you to run.

Death awaits you.

Or worse, having to redo this day.

Like the other students, you run away from the scene.

As a student bigger than everyone else walk to the board.

"I see, Class A."

The man nods his head.

Before heading to the stairs.

You walk to Ypryn.

"I see we're in the same class."

Katala approaches you two.

"I am too."

Before you know it.

The two of them talk between them.

The party is formed.

You walk to the director's office.

The door is locked.

You can hear someone trying to solve a mathematical question on the other side.

You try to leave the school grounds.

Ypryn do not understand.

You head for the bathroom.

Ypryn can't follow you in there.

Katala decides to not.

You walk to the mirror.

It is only you.

Even so, behind you.

You can see her.

The planet earth, or a small part of it.

You're unable to keep the world out of your view.

You return to your party.

Katala and Ypryn seems to be following you.

How did this happen.

You three talk on the way to the classroom.

Climbing the stairs.

You choose one of the desks left, Katala sits at your side.

Ypryn laments not being able to sit near you two.

Sitting on the back.

The class awaits for the teacher.

...

...

...

"BORING."

The larger student gets up.

He looks at everyone.

"I hate school."

He is really big for a student in this grade.

The rest of the class is ten years old.

While he looks like a ten years old, his size is double of that.

Both vertically and horizontally.

"So... Let's see...

The two less interesting humans in here are you two."

He points towards Katala.

He points towards Lignum.

"So... You four."

He points towards four of the students in the class.

"Desks, on the corners of the classroom."

Before long, the space in the middle of the classroom is cleared.

He points for Katala and Lignum to be in the center.

"Let's begin a little game.

Fight until fainting.

The loser will be bullied for the rest of the year."

He sits on the teacher's desk.

Katala looks at-

Katala looks at me.

That glare.

I know it all too well.

We will fight.

Katala looks like he has been bullied a lot on his life.

Which means his resistance is big.

And the fear of being bullied is huge.

He will give his everything in this fight.

He walks towards me.

The words come out of my mouth.

The reason is unclear.

Katala becomes confused.

The big student walks towards me.

"You're boring."

I look on the big student's void.

It is on his biceps, average size, makes sense.

Glaring at his void.

I can see...

> Anger.

> A lot of anger.

> Revenge.

His mind seems to be simple.

It is been so long since the last time I void-glared completely.

The negative emotion felt during void-glaring kept me from doing it.

I wonder when will I be able to analyze someone completely again...

His name is Stanrocc, that is the main information that I obtained.

He grabs my head.

"You had potential.

The loser in a game is honored.

But a forfeiting trash needs to be eliminated."

Before I know it, he rips my head off.

They say you're able to see seconds after being decapited.

The pain isn't as severe as I thought.

Maybe because it is so great that my body simply decided it would be meaningless.

In less than a second. He ripped my heart from my body too.

In a single bite, he ate my heart.

In a single bite, he ate my head.

I feel like I've become part of him.

My flesh is being absorbed.

Turned into strength.

Even so. Suddenly.

Everything freezes.

I open my eyes as the world is already formed around me.

Katala is in front of me.

Katala comes forward with a punch.

He tries to punch my chest.

My two hands grab his wrist.

I knew where he would try to hit me.

I press his wrist with the combined strength of my arms.

His hand stop exerting force.

I give him a punch, right on his face.

He tumbles backwards.

Before regaining his feet.

His left hand is on his pocket, he approaches me.

I've seen this before.

This all happened before...

From where do I know Katala?

I look into his void.

It is on his hand too.

I might be bad at remembering people's faces or names.

But the voids. They do not lie.

I remember this void pretty well.

It is smaller than before.

Which means it only grew with time.

Katala.

I know who you are.

I'm not on a orphanage this time.

You're not either.

I don't know if we lived before in a separete universe.

But I know you.

You're going to be bullied your entire life.

Until you decide to give your everything to accomplish a list of goals.

After doing them. A single one remains.

"How you feel after taking a life, huh."

Katala.

The one who will kill me in the future.

With a knife on one hand.

And a gun on the other.

But I guess you could not find a gun.

Which means... On his pocket... There is a-

"Ugh-"

My guts are cut open, not. If only I didn't remember.

I dodge it by a small margin.

Before I know it, he keeps cutting the air with his everything.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve.

That is the amount of slashes he did before slowing down.

If I was the one I was before, I would've been slashed on the second.

But I've fought against him.

For more than a hundred times.

This is child's play.

I grab his wrist again.

He drops the knife on the floor.

Now we're both disarmed.

I punch him in the face.

And punch him again.

The boxing I learned from the Doppelganger is a deadly weapon all on its own.

Punch after punch.

Soon enough, Katala is knocked out.

"OH! You two surely surprised me.

I would kill the one that lost.

But I guess both have potential.

Let's see how much you two grow."

Stanrocc pat my head.

Being a little curious about me.

I return to my desk, as the classes start.