The story we started

As soon as he imagined some taboo scene in his mind, Kousaka Kyosuke felt cold all over, and completely gave up the idea of ​​actively looking for Zaimokuza in reality.

"a……"

His good sister, Kousaka Kirino, had similar thoughts and was also looking at the two people on the screen with a complicated expression and a blush on her face.

A picture emerged in her mind:

One day, my future self went home after finishing work and found that my brother, who had gone home earlier, was already sitting in the living room watching the news on TV. Before I could say hello to him, a little girl with white hair ran past my feet, shouted "Pa pa!" in a soft voice, and hugged his thighs.

However, the brother, who usually had a blank expression on his face, acted out of character when the little girl hugged him. He showed a smile so gentle that it made people wonder if he had been switched. He held the little girl in his arms and stroked her hair, his eyes full of doting.

He turned around and saw himself who was stunned by the scene and didn't react, then he said to himself with a smile.

"Kirino, you're back. Hurry to the restaurant. Your sister-in-law has been waiting for you with dinner. It's all your favorite food."

"Oh? Kirino, you're finally back!"

Another lively male voice came from behind him, and when he turned around with a stiff expression, what he saw was someone wearing a standard housewife outfit with a white apron on the outside, holding a pot full of miso soup with his hands wearing heat-insulating gloves, with a gentle smile on his face... Zaimokuza Yoshiki.

"Aunt, Ni is back!"

The voice of his niece was heard from behind him. His neck slowly turned like a rusty machine, and he saw a girl with the face of Zaimokuza Yoshiki.

"what happened?"

The older brother said this to himself who had completely lost the ability to think, and the three of them stood together and spoke in unison like a family.

“““After coming back, how come you don’t recognize your sister-in-law/me/mom anymore?”””

"Alas--!!!"

Shaking her head frantically to get rid of the horrific scene from her mind, Kousaka Kirino was gasping for breath, her face pale and her forehead covered with cold sweat. Her expression of fear still remained, as if she had just woken up from a nightmare.

"Decided!"

After recovering from that imagined scene, Kousaka Kirino's eyes had never been so determined in her life. She clenched her fists and made the first vow of her life.

"Once this light screen ends, I will immediately persuade my dad to move! To a place far away from Chiba Prefecture. At the same time, I must find a way to teach that stupid brother what the correct sexual orientation is!"

"It's fine to have a sister-in-law, but definitely not a male sister-in-law!"

"That...Kirino...look!"

Aragaki Ayase, who was standing behind her, looked at her friend's expression with embarrassment. Just as she was thinking about how to persuade her not to think too much, a new change in the light screen attracted her attention.

Aragaki Ayase pointed at the light curtain in front of Kousaka Kirino and said in surprise.

"Look, the scene on this screen has changed again!"

"Ok?"

Kousaka Kirino turned her head and saw that the scene on her own light screen was slowly turning dark again.

"Could it be that?"

Not only her, many people in the world who had experienced this change in the light curtain before quickly sat up straight and watched attentively.

——A brand new chapter is probably about to begin!

As expected, after the scene on the light screen became completely dim and dark, a line of words that were too pale compared to the background slowly emerged.

At the very beginning, there is still the signature of "Story", and the proverb-like sentence below.

[When the warrior realizes why he set out on this journey in the first place, the end is already revealed at the end of this long journey.]

[Across the era when gods and apostles coexist, the dormant darkness will eventually strike again, and the wheel of fate has been pushed, crushing everything towards the predetermined end, and no one can stop it. ]

[In the beginning, there was a being that was split into two. They had the same origin, but in the end, two completely different souls were born.]

[This fate that originated from the beginning transcends everything. Even if time and space change and the world changes, the people who inherit the past will eventually meet again according to their destiny.]

【Here, the story will usher in the prologue before the ending. 】

【--"dark".】

Although it was dark, this name was the only one in this line of text that was completely different from the paleness of other fonts. It was instead a red color like flowing blood.

The red color was reflected in everyone's eyes, causing them to frown uncomfortably.

"Although this is indeed the style that has always been there, why--uh!"

Arisu Sakayanagi put down the camera in his hand, looked at the bloody title words on the screen, and suddenly covered his left chest with an uncomfortable expression.

She felt as if her heart suddenly quickened its beats. Sakayanagi Arisu, who already suffered from heart disease and had been weak for many years, turned extremely pale in an instant and felt as if she could hardly breathe.

The petite girl staggered to her bedside table, opened the top drawer with great effort, took out a white medicine bottle, reluctantly twisted the cap open, and poured a few pills into her palm.

She swallowed the medicine without hesitation, picked up the cup of water on the table and poured the water into her throat, then collapsed on the ground and gasped.

After a long time, Sakayanagi Arisu finally recovered and stroked his left chest with a smile, but the smile was extremely bitter.

"Oh my... My body is really getting weaker and weaker. I didn't expect that just looking at a text with a glaring color would cause an emergency reaction. Sigh..."

She leaned against the bedroom wall, looking up at the gorgeous classical gold-rimmed chandelier above her head with a lost expression.

Maybe God is fair to some extent.

In addition to being given a background that is unmatched by 99% of the people in this country, as well as a beautiful appearance and a brain that surpasses that of an ordinary person, Arisu Sakayanagi was also given a weak body that is far below the average level of health since birth.

Arisu Sakayanagi has suffered from a serious heart disease since childhood, which has made her completely incompatible with any sports. Not to mention the 100-meter sprint that is just a breather for her peers, even speeding up her walking pace may cause her heart rate to become unbalanced.

As a result, Sakayanagi Arisu, who is now in the prime of his life, has to use a cane like an old man, and cannot vent his youthful energy like other people of his age, lest excessive emotions and actions stimulate his overly weak heart, leading to a terrible situation of sudden death.

But even so, according to the words of Arisu Sakayanagi's father who spent a lot of money to find the world's most advanced cardiologist for her:

"Unfortunately, your daughter's physique is too fragile. Although we have been paying attention to her care, if the situation continues to develop like this, even if she undergoes a heart replacement surgery later, but..."

"—There's still a good chance she won't make it past thirty."

"Ha~"

Thinking of the reflective glasses when the doctor said this, and the distraught expression of his father reflected in the lenses, Sakayanagi Arisu couldn't help but laugh at himself.

In a doctor's mouth, is there any difference between "very likely" and "definitely"?

This is the reality she faces - from the moment she was born, the life of the girl Sakayanagi Arisu was destined to be only about thirty years, or even less.

At this age when other people's lives are truly on the right track, she is destined to die young, like an ephemeral cereus, which is so intoxicating when it blooms under the moonlight, but its flowering period is only one or two hours before it faces the fate of withering.

Of course, she longed to change her fate, but even the most advanced medicine of today could only extend her life as much as possible, and could not cure the disease. Rather than saying that everything was going wrong, it was more like a destiny that was already determined.

Arisu Sakayanagi once thought she had gotten over this, but every time she had a heart attack, she could sense the small resentment hidden in her heart... and the fear of death.

She also hopes to be able to run in the sun like a normal person, not have to control her emotions like a normal person, and stay up late watching TV series like a normal girl, even though she knows that these are just extravagant desires.

"It should be Class C's PE class now, right? It's great to be able to run freely on the playground..."

Sakayanagi Arisu slowly propped himself up and sat back on his soft bed, looking at the light curtain where the line of words slowly disappeared with a somewhat dim look in his eyes.

"If there really is a god in this world, I really want to ask him to give me a healthy body... even if I have to exchange everything I have now."

She said something that even she didn't believe, and smiled softly.

Because Arisu Sakayanagi knew that this was impossible. There had never been a god in the world, not in the past, and not in the future.

Even if there is, how can He fulfill the wish of an ordinary girl like me among the masses? Perhaps it would be more credible to make a deal with the devil.

After all, for human beings, only the things that we cannot obtain are the most precious, aren't they?

And just as she was lost in thought, a new picture appeared on the light screen.

[In an underground tunnel in Shibuya District, Tokyo. ]

【 07:54 PM 】

[The sound of a man's rapid breathing echoed in the tunnel. A man in a suit, dressed like an office worker, was running in the long passage with his briefcase in hand. The sound of his leather shoes kept ringing.]

[As the man ran, he looked back from time to time, his eyes staring at the tunnel entrance with fear, as if he was afraid that there would be some horrible monster chasing him there.]

[In fact, there were indeed monsters chasing him, and five minutes ago, the word "he" needed to be preceded by "them".]

【But now he is the only one left. 】

[“Woooooo!”]

[Because the man turned his head and did not carefully check the road ahead, the edge of his leather shoes accidentally stepped on the depression between the bricks and stones, and he fell to one side without any strength. This also caused the man to subconsciously scream in fear and fall to the ground without balance.]

[After the fall, the briefcase under his armpit and the glasses on his face spun and slid in different directions.]

[But the man didn't bother to pick up his things. He hurriedly got up and limped forward, dragging his sprained foot. Not only did he leave his glasses behind, he even left behind his briefcase, which is as important as life to office workers.]

[Because the man knows that if he doesn’t run away, he will really die.]

[“Damn it, damn it, damn it!”]

[“What’s wrong with that woman!? Why did this happen to me? I just want to go home!”]

[The man cursed as he ran. He was injured and didn't even have the energy to look back. He could only run forward while tumbling and crawling.]

【Thinking of what just happened, he shuddered uncontrollably. 】

[He and his colleagues only saw that the woman walking towards them was pretty. Although her outfit was a little strange, they could still tell that she was a beauty who could score around 90 points.]

[They had some deep experience and could tell from the other person's clothes that she was not a decent person. They thought that they might have a chance to have sex with her, so they approached her in a daze.]

[But before they could speak, the woman suddenly pulled out a sickle from under her skirt and chopped the man's colleague in half in front of him. The man was stunned when blood splattered on his smiling face.]

[It was not until the woman turned her gaze to him that the man finally reacted, screaming and running away desperately.]

[But even after escaping to this point, the man still doesn’t know if he has escaped from the terrifying woman who suddenly attacked and killed people. The scene of his colleague being chopped in two by the sickle left a deep impression on him and completely frightened him.]

[As he ran as hard as he could, the light of the tunnel exit was vaguely visible in his blurred vision after losing his glasses, and the man almost cried with joy.]

[The man was very familiar with this stretch of road, so he knew very well that as long as he ran out of this tunnel, there would be a police station a few hundred meters away. As long as he got there, his safety would be guaranteed! ]

[Even if that woman dared to kill people in the street, she wouldn't be so bold as to break into a police station with a cold weapon and start killing people, right?]

【"finally--"】

[The light of the road to survival is already within sight. The man wiped the sweat from his forehead, and happily sped up his speed again, and soon ran past the exit of the tunnel.]

[But just after he took a few steps from the exit, his steps suddenly stopped, his body stood still, blood slowly flowing down his spine... Hmm? ]

[The man with a happy expression suddenly became confused. ]

[Why... can I see my back? And... where is my head? ]

[With this thought in mind, the man's head, which still had a smile on it, fell to the ground and rolled several times. When he stopped, his pupils had completely dilated.]

【Puff——】

[Under the high blood pressure, the headless body spurted out a stream of blood from the broken neck. After staining the surrounding ground red, the man's body fell forward straight, his hands and feet twitching continuously due to the reaction of the nerves.]

[“Hmph~ It’s so easy.”]

[Garima swung the double-headed sickle in his hand vigorously, and the blood flying from the blade drew a dripping red line on the floor tiles. ]

[Its body twisted for a moment, and turned back into the sexy human form. The sickle in its hand also turned dark blue and transparent, and turned into a small jade pendant, which Garima put back on the necklace around his neck.]

[“The 300th goal has been achieved.”]

[Garima reached out and raised the bracelet on his left wrist, and moved the first and last stone magatama to the right.]

[“Is my game now complete?”]

[It nodded slightly in satisfaction, then turned and spoke to the darkness in the tunnel behind it.]

[“…You do have great potential.”]

[A hoarse and dull voice sounded from the tunnel, and a Dorudo in a white cloak walked out of the dark shadows and stopped at the man's head.]

[Its eyes wrapped in scarf glanced at the man's headless body, and it used its fingers to touch the keyboard in its arms, speaking hesitantly.]

[“The game target is 300 people, and it must be completed in GO format within 18 hours. You only took five hours... Congratulations, you have completed your game.”]

[“It’s just as expected. There’s nothing to be happy about.”]

[Garima showed disapproval of Dorudo's compliment and spoke with a haughty expression. ]

[“Since I have already completed the game, why haven’t I become a ‘GO’ yet? According to the rules of the game, shouldn’t I be able to be promoted as soon as I pass it? Why is there no movement at all now?”]

【Buzz.】

[A dark silver belt appeared on its slender waist in a short-sleeved jacket. Garima patted his belt and looked at the silent Dorudo with a bad expression.]

[“Tell me what’s going on? Stop talking nonsense and let me become the ‘GO’!”]