Faced with the blackened heroine, they actually stopped time

An ordinary girl.

But she is also a special girl.

I don’t know when I started to realize that I was special. It wasn’t because I was always prettier than my peers, nor was it because I was exceptionally smart and could easily achieve the outstanding academic performance that my teachers and parents required.

But one day.

That sound appeared when I saw myself in the mirror in the bathroom late at night.

"elder sister..."

It sounds like a very scary and weird story.

I clearly didn't say a word, but the person in the mirror opened his mouth and spoke.

To be honest, I was shocked at the time.

I even thought I was dreaming.

But the 'self' in the mirror told me that she was my sister, Aya Asagiri.

It was my sister who could not be saved from the womb.

It took me a long time to suppress my shock, but I didn't believe it easily. But I didn't know what I should do in the situation at that time.

I am good at studying, but not good at dealing with weird things or even ghosts.

My young heart once suspected that those horror stories had come true. I even thought that my life was going to sink into mud and that there would be a ghost-like existence haunting me all day long.

But... that's not the case.

She became my friend.

She understands my troubles and comforts me when I am sad sometimes.

It would tell me what to do when my father came home drunk every day to vent his anger about the money he lost gambling.

She told me that I should protect myself and that she just wanted me to...live well.

I was surprised, but I was indeed happy.

I have a sister like this in my life, a special friend.

But I finally couldn't hold it in anymore and tried to ask my mother...if I had a younger sister.

Of course, I will never forget my mother's expression at that time.

Her eyes were empty and dazed for a moment, and then she held my hand tightly, which hurt.

But I saw tears instantly streaming down my mother's fragile face.

I couldn't bear to break free.

I know everything.

The doctor told my mother when she was pregnant with me.

These are identical twins, most likely twins.

Doesn't this look like a scene worth celebrating? Should it be an event worth rejoicing about?

But that’s not the case.

Because one of the twins is too big and too strong, she absorbs most of the nutrients, resulting in very little nutrition for the other twin, and there is even a possibility of stillbirth.

The doctor at that time gave the most reasonable, yet most helpless solution.

"Madam, I suggest you perform a caesarean section in advance. Otherwise... when the normal delivery comes, there is a high possibility that the weaker one will become a stillbirth. Even if it is born by chance, it will be difficult for it to survive."

So the parents chose a caesarean section under advice.

But something unexpected happened.

The specific reason is that the words were too profound, and I don’t know whether my mother has forgotten them or is selectively forgetting them.

The stronger one...didn't make it out of his mother's womb alive.

And the weaker one succeeds in being born.

That means I...Asagiri Ran, survived.

This is of course sad and helpless.

My parents also chose to never mention this matter, just raising me as their only daughter. Now that I think about it, it is true... at some point in time, I did feel overwhelming love.

At one point I felt that I was the happiest daughter in the world.

But when did all this start to change?

Was it... that her father was fired from his job and became disheartened, and the whole night was silent at home? She remembered that night, the lights were dim and flickered all night, but no one spoke.

Is it... that my father started drinking, numbing himself with gambling, and even trying with ridiculous luck to get a glimmer of luck from fate to give him everything?

do not know...

All I know is that there are more and more quarrels at home.

All I know is that more and more dishes are broken.

All I know is that my mother’s tears are increasing.

I just know that scars are starting to appear on my body...

Why did life become like this? Asagiri Ran didn't understand. Those subjects and books didn't tell her why life changed from blooming flowers to muddy and muddy.

No one told me why parents who loved each other would become enemies with ferocious looks on their faces and quarreling until their faces turned red.

I don't know... I just want to escape from the trivialities and quarrels in life.

I am like an ostrich in the desert, burying my head in the corner of life. As long as I pretend not to see those things, I will always live in happiness.

But I have fewer and fewer friends, not because of anything else, but simply because I don’t want to talk anymore and I trust others less and less.

But what truly changed my destiny and made me wake up from the flood of fate... was that day, a day I will never forget.

It was the gloomy-faced father who broke into our already cramped home with a few ferocious-looking men.

I never thought that those words could come out of this man's mouth.

"...I have nothing but them...If you like them...Take them away. I have no money, really no money."

I understood something instantly.

This man who once gave me fatherly love, gave me countless surprises, and kissed my face with a happy smile on my birthday... wants to sell me and my mother.

I could clearly hear my mother's questioning, which was almost hoarse and almost broke.

But the man just knelt there dejectedly without answering a word.

Then I clearly knew what it felt like for the world to collapse. I buried my head in the sand, refusing to believe that what was happening was real.

In mind.

That voice.

My sister, Aya Asagiri, only said one sentence to me.

"escape."

So at that moment, I burst out with unimaginable courage, and my mother and I rushed out.

As I ran away, tears and footsteps splashed in the air.

At that time, I couldn't think of any bright possibilities for the future, but I didn't want to fall into the hands of these people.

I want to live well, I don't want to be ruined, I don't want, I don't want!!

Until my mother and I ran to the rooftop.

When I thought I could take a breath, I saw an expression on my mother's face that I had never seen before. Now I know that expression is despair.

"Ran...I'm sorry."

She said this with a smile, but tears were clearly flowing from her eyes.

I don’t know how to answer, because I was crying too. I don’t know why I was crying. I was just shedding tears and feeling sad for no reason.

Until she hugged my thin body and held me tightly in her arms, but... I could no longer feel any warmth.

My mind is just thinking...

Why does life treat me like this?

Why does fate play such a trick on me?

Did I do something wrong? Did I tell a lie? Did I... deserve this?

Why...everyone can be happy in this world.

Why can't I?

She hugged me and said in a gentle voice.

"I'm sorry...we became like this...mom can't protect you."

I'd love to say it wasn't her fault.

But his throat was choked with sobs and he couldn't utter a word.

Maybe...if I had been braver, stronger, and smarter at that time, everything would have been different?

But...I said nothing.

She let go of me and held my shoulders.

"Are you willing to go to another world with your mother?"

she asked with a smile.

I looked at her in confusion.

Where is the other world?

"A happy world, a world where such things will never happen again. We will live in that world without worries, and we will disappear from here forever."

She glanced at the bottomless building in front of her.

That is the abyss of mortals.

I understand what she means.

She wanted to die, and she wanted to take me with her.

This seemed to be a way to escape from all the troubles of this world, and the despair on her face could be explained.

It seems that all the suffering in this world can be resolved.

But...

I don't want to die.

I really don't want to die.

I want to live. I am still so young. My future has clearly not yet arrived and my real life has not yet begun.

Why...I want to die?

My expression changed and I looked at her with fear in my eyes.

I told her honestly that I didn't want to die, I wanted to live.

As long as you survive, there will be a way.

As long as you survive, you will definitely wait until the daybreak.

But she just smiled and held my hand. She was obviously smiling, but her strength was so great that I couldn't imagine it. She had never used such great strength to hold my hand before.

It was clearly my mother's hand, but at that moment, I felt that it was a hand that was pulling me into the real abyss.

"I don't want to die...Mom, I don't want to die..."

She continued to comfort him with the most gentle words.

"It's okay. It will only hurt for a little while, Ran...it's okay. Compared to living in a real hell, where we are going is heaven. Trust mom, mom will protect you, no matter where we go. Come with mom, be good, okay?"

"I don't want to...I don't want to! I don't want to die!!"

“Be obedient! You are my child, how can you not be obedient? We have no choice! Ran... we have no choice, we can only die! Our destiny is to die at this moment! What is the point of living? To suffer more and endure more hardships? Go to hell, let’s die together, Ran, die with your mother!!”