My transformation into a beautiful girl started with a hemorrhage.

The two got off the Ferris wheel. By then, the sun was setting, and they walked in the almost deserted amusement park garden.

Kouta seemed to remember something and asked, "Hui, Gang... you haven't answered me yet!"

Kouta wasn't stupid; he was just too happy and felt it was all unreal, afraid it was all a dream, which is why he wanted to find Hui to confirm.

Hui blushed instantly upon hearing Fujiki Kouta's words.

I thought to myself: This idiot! He actually... he actually asked.

Her heart leaped with joy, her head bowed, her cheeks flushed.

Hmph, this is punishment for your stupidity.

Hui replied, "The question from before? Of course, it's... no way!!"

"Uh—, ah?" Fujiki Kouta froze, rooted to the spot, his heart filled with despair, clinging to the last glimmer of hope, "Then just now..."

Seeing Gengtai's heartbroken state, Hui felt more pain than relief.

Then he added, "Fujiki Satoshi! ...That name is awful."

After saying that, Hui couldn't help feeling shy and turned to leave.

Kouta was left bewildered, wondering, "What does this mean? Does it mean they agreed or refused?"

Hui stopped in front of her, turned around and smiled, "What's wrong? Aren't you coming?"

Kouta realized what was happening, a smile spreading across his face as he said with relief, "Okay!"

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Chapter 46 The Vanished Future

Back home, the two parted reluctantly...

Kouta Fujiki entered the house with excitement, but his heart seemed to remain in that amusement park, that Ferris wheel, that moment when the sun set...

"Brother, how is it?" Asuka Fujiki's gossip instincts kicked in as soon as she saw her brother return.

Kouta Fujiki smiled broadly: "Yes, everything went smoothly. Thank you, Asuka."

Kouta's choice to confess his love at the top of the Ferris wheel, and his selection of the movie, are all aided by Asuka.

After dinner, Kouta lost all interest in studying and lay on the bed grinning foolishly... until he gradually drifted off to sleep.

The next morning, Aomori City was bathed in the first rays of sunlight, the entire city shimmering and shining with golden light.

Meanwhile, at Kouta's house, Kouta was fast asleep in bed.

suddenly,

"Hmm! ...Where is this?"

Kouta opened his eyes and looked at the unfamiliar ceiling with surprise.

Kouta stood up with a blank expression, his youthful face now appearing as if filled with the vicissitudes of life.

He squeezed his hands together, checking various parts of his body, and found them to be solid, warm, and without any wounds...

Kouta was even more surprised!

"Huh—what's going on? Wasn't I already...dead?"

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Kouta got out of bed and looked at the layout of the room. After a long while, the memories that had been sealed in his mind were once again revealed: This seems to be his room when he was in high school!

Kouta immediately ran to the table, picked up the mirror, looked at the young face in it... and stood there stunned, the mirror slipping from his hand and falling to the floor...

I opened my phone and saw the date: July 27, 2010...

At that moment, a sharp pain shot through his brain. "Ah—" Kouta gritted his teeth and endured the memory of 'himself'.

After a long while, Kouta collapsed to the ground, panting heavily.

Sorting through his memories and assessing his surroundings, Kōta whispered, "I...I've been reborn!"

Kouta discovers that his 30-year-old self has been reborn into his 17-year-old self.

The headache I just had was also caused by 17-year-old Kouta's brain suddenly gaining 30 years of memories. Normally, the sudden addition of a memory could lead to personality splitting.

However, since it was the same person's memory, the pain was brief and then subsided, and Kouta did not develop a split personality.

It's just that because 30-year-old Kouta has more memories, the current Kouta is mainly based on the personality of 30-year-old Kouta!

The present Kouta, or rather the reborn Kouta (hereinafter referred to as Kouta), carefully recalls his memories of 'himself' at age 17.

Then, she asked in surprise, "Why are the memories of this '17-year-old self' different from my own memories?"

No... Could it be that I wasn't reborn into my past self, but rather into my parallel universe self?!

The more Kouta thought about it, the more convinced he became that his suspicions were correct. He had indeed been reborn into a parallel world version of himself, albeit 13 years earlier. But who knows what's going on in a parallel world...?

Kouta carefully sorted out the differences between this world and the original world:

"First of all, things started to change in middle school. In this world, I didn't become girlfriend with Chiba Miu during middle school."

Haha—I'm so amazing in this world, that woman isn't worth my sadness.

Kouta remembered that Chiba Miu was indeed a talented person. In the future, that woman successfully achieved a leap in social class: with her beautiful appearance and superb social skills, she successfully entered the upper class while in college, and then after graduation, she successfully married a senior executive of a large company and had a daughter, enjoying a happy family and career.

However, she was extremely cruel to her junior classmates who also wanted to "stand out".

Because these girls all want to climb into the upper class, they are naturally prepared to sacrifice their bodies.

However, Chiba Miu deliberately "offered" those girls to those dissolute playboys.

It pleases these rich kids, but it can also completely ruin these girls.

After all, Chiba Miu didn't want anyone to follow in her footsteps.

One of the girls was deceived the most by Chiba Miu. She lost her virginity countless times and was abandoned by rich second-generation heirs who got tired of her each time. She had so many abortions that she basically lost her fertility. After graduating, she lived in a daze for a year before committing suicide.

Finally, the girl's brother learned the truth about his sister and killed Chiba Miu's entire family one night, sparing no one.

"Secondly... um!? This version of myself in this world actually confessed to Hui at the age of 17 and succeeded..."

Fujiki Kei, no! Kei isn't married to me yet, it should be my wife Kei.

Both Hui and Hui moved here, that's the same.

However, in her original world, Hui was a quiet and withdrawn girl from the moment she moved in, and she also suffered from androphobia.

It turns out that the person in the world had tried to pursue wisdom again and again, but all they got in return was failure after failure, and in the end they gave up.

After that, the two had no further contact.

Looking back now: Hui acted that way because of what she had experienced before. If I had been able to persevere a little longer, perhaps... the future wouldn't have ended that way...

Unlike the Hui of the original world, who closed herself off, the Hui of this world is... quite lively!

Next...

During the subsequent camping trip, a major incident occurred to Kei: Yoko Shimakawa, Hitomi Kobayashi, and Runa Ogawa, out of jealousy, subjected Kei to violence.

When everyone arrived, Hui was lying on the ground, in a pitiful state...

After being taken to the hospital, the doctor said that she had previously suffered an injury that caused permanent damage to her uterus, and she had completely lost her fertility!

In vitro fertilization (IVF) technology is also useless.

Moreover, this accident caused Hui's already damaged internal organs to begin failing prematurely, meaning she would likely not live past 30.

Kouta recalls that, in order to cover up the violence scandal, the school only gave Shimakawa Yoko and the other two girls a demerit, which was a very minor punishment.

Hui's father, Kusaburo Azuma, sued the three women, but the court only ruled that they were guilty of "negligent injury," and since the three women were minors, they only had to pay a small amount of medical expenses.

After this incident, Hui completely closed herself off and never left home again.

I learned about Hui's kidnapping from Hui's mother.

Kouta remembers that, in a fit of rage, his wife Soto killed two of the three men with a knife and seriously injured another. She was eventually arrested, imprisoned, and sentenced to life imprisonment.

After that, my wife's family moved again, and then we lost contact with them completely...

The two met again ten years later.

But in this world: everything is different.

Yoko Shimakawa and her two friends had already dropped out of school because of fighting...

And wisdom.

Kouta recalled Hui and found that Hui was weak. Sure enough, the kidnapping of Hui had already happened and had not changed.

Damn it! Why can't I be reborn earlier so I can change Hui's fate?

However, although Hui's chances of having children are extremely low now, we can adopt a child in the future and still be a happy family of three.

However, the person who harmed Hui was still alive and well in their original world when they died, while that world was already dead.

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And there is,

It is July now, but in the original world, on Christmas Eve, December 24th, the father died in a car accident on his way home from working overtime. The vehicle that caused the accident fled the scene, and the police searched but found nothing, so it became a cold case.

I must prevent this accident from happening in my lifetime.

Kouta can never forget that the tragedy of his family in the original world began here:

At the time, she was a sophomore in high school. Her father, the only breadwinner of the family, passed away, and the family was immediately in dire straits. Asuka and she did not want to be separated because they were adopted by relatives.

There is a huge misconception that children who are adopted are simply living under someone else's roof.

However, in reality, adopted children not only have to act as full-time unpaid servants for their host families, doing all sorts of chores every day: sweeping, washing clothes, cooking, etc.; but they also have to act as the family's punching bag, with all the family's conflicts being transferred to them.

That's considered good if it's just that. If you're unlucky enough to be adopted by a family with terrible character, being beaten, punished, or insulted is commonplace.

As for treating adopted children like their own?

It's possible if you were raised from infancy when you don't even remember anything, or if the family doesn't have any biological children. But to others, a child whose memories and emotions have been formed is just a 'stranger, someone else'. Aside from saints and heartless machines, who can treat their closest relatives the same way as strangers?

This is also why Kouta and Asuka don't want to separate: living with their loved ones, even if they are materially poor, is at least spiritually warm!