My youth story cannot be a knight war

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’!”]

[“…Your cognition is still stuck in the perspective of the past, so you could only be ‘ME’ before.”]

【“Wait a minute, it’s about to start.”】

[Dorudo's tone was still unhurried, but this made Garima, who was not in a good mood to begin with, raise his eyebrows and open his mouth to express his dissatisfaction. ]

【“Huh? What do you mean——huh!?”】

[Plop——]

[Before he could finish his words, a sound like a heartbeat suddenly rang out from his belt, causing Garima to swallow back all the words that were about to be said.]

[A golden light lit up at the eyes of the demon belt, and then several electric currents of the same color flickered and jumped on the magic stone called Kiboron. Instantly, a severe pain spread throughout the body. The pain was so intense that even a determined Gurongi like Garima couldn't help but groan, curled up with his hands around his waist, and his body kept shaking.]

[“Ugh – my body – what’s happening – ugh!!!”]

[Garima suddenly raised its head, and its pair of black eyes suddenly turned purple, and a hint of green gradually emerged from its right eye, slowly replacing the original pure purple.]

[As the transformation began, cracks emitting purple and blue light began to spread upwards from the neck, and soon covered its beautiful face. The pain flowing through its body became even more severe, causing Garima to let out a scream that was almost like a roar from his throat.]

[On the dark silver belt, the golden light continued to expand from the eyes, and quickly spread to Garima's entire body. The dazzling light illuminated the area around the tunnel.]

[Crunch, crunch—]

[A creepy sound of bones rubbing against each other sounded in the golden light, and Dorudo's expression did not change at all when he saw this scene, and his body was gradually swallowed by the light.]

[“…Welcome to the world of GO.”]

[Dorudo's eyes narrowed due to the dazzling light, and the illuminated brown pupils reflected the figure that gradually distorted its original shape in the light and became extremely huge.]

【“GO-Garima-Ba.”】

【“——”】

[It responded with a roar like a monster's roar and two pairs of huge sickles swung at it.]

[The blood spreading on the ground reflects all of this, witnessing the terrifying demon that was born into this world by sacrificing the lives of innocent people.]

2. The subsequent restart (6K)

【Tokyo, Shibuya-ku. 】

【 10:54 PM 】

[Crash~]

[The armored hand lifted the bloodstained cloth, revealing the scene underneath.]

[The broken head and body were pieced together, and the expression on the man's face still vaguely showed a smile of hope for survival, but it had been frozen forever on his face along with the dilated pupils of his eyes, without any trace of life.]

【“…”】

[Kousaka Kyosuke silently put the cloth back on the body and waved to the medical staff to carry it away. The medical staff saluted him with respect, and then carried the stretcher with the body towards the ambulance parked not far from the tunnel.]

[Through the open back door of the ambulance, one could vaguely see that there were also several stretchers with bulges covered with white cloth inside, and the cloth was also stained red with blood.]

[“We are a step too late... B6 has already left.”]

[Watching the ambulance with the stretcher carried in and the door closed slowly disappearing from sight, Kousaka Kyousuke reached out and took off his helmet, revealing the iron-blue face underneath.]

[As he muttered to himself, Zaimokuza walked out from the shadow of the pillar behind him in a windbreaker. He also looked at the ambulance driving away in silence, but his hands were clenched into fists.]

[“Is there no new information?”]

[He lowered his eyes and asked softly.]

[“No, this is where B6 last appeared. There has been no sightings of it in the following hours.”]

【Kousaka Kyosuke shook his head and answered his question.】

[The so-called B-classification refers to the unique number of the group of unconfirmed life forms that have been witnessed in human form other than Gurongi. For example, Ra-Baruba-De, the first person confirmed by the police as a Gurongi in human form, her registration name is B-group No. 1.]

【As the sixth Garima to be confirmed to be in human form, its code name is B6. 】

[Starting from noon today, the Metropolitan Police Department has received calls from citizens about "a woman killing people with a knife in the street". The police officers who originally thought it was just an ordinary criminal case found that the murderer's image described by those callers was highly similar. This immediately attracted the attention of the Metropolitan Police Department, and they suspected that it was a large-scale serial killing case. ]

[They immediately retrieved the crime scene footage from surveillance cameras. It would have been better if they hadn’t checked, but once they did, they discovered a major problem.]

[A sharp-eyed police officer discovered the problem when the woman in the video was using a sickle to kill a citizen. After still zooming in, they found that the woman had a totem tattoo similar to a praying mantis on her right forearm.]

[The news about the Gurongi human body had been distributed to all subordinate agencies by the superiors long before, and one of the police officers who watched the live video happened to know this information, and confirmed on the spot that Garima might be an unconfirmed life form. ]

[This incident was quickly reported to the Metropolitan Police Department's Unidentified Lifeform Search Headquarters. Kousaka Kyosuke and others immediately took full control of the incident and conducted an intelligence summary.]

[After they collected data from various places, they found that more than a hundred people had been confirmed dead at the hands of Garima, and they completely confirmed the other party's identity.]

[This kind of single-person massacre is something that only that group of monsters are capable of.]

[But this time was different. Garima acted too quickly. By the time the police reacted, everything was already settled.]

[Kousaka Kyosuke and Zaimokuza Yoshiki, who arrived late, could only mourn silently in front of the remains of the victims who had been sent away, their hearts filled with heavy and unwilling emotions. ]

[“The Gurongi that appeared this time was very efficient in committing crimes. According to the crime patterns of those unconfirmed life forms in the past, it has committed crimes so rampantly and there has been no news for several hours. There is only one possibility.”]

[“That is… it has already done what it wanted to do.”]

[Speaking of this, Kousaka Kyosuke turned his head and glanced at the tunnel behind him, his gaze as cold as a knife.]

[Behind him, the entrance to the tunnel and the road inside had completely collapsed, and rubble filled the entire space, just like the disaster site after an earthquake. Firefighters were struggling to move away the rubble that blocked the road.]

[In addition, the ground and trees around the tunnel all looked like they had been hit by a typhoon. The ground was covered with scratches in all directions, and the trees collapsed in the middle one after another. The broken ends were as smooth as if they had been cut by a sharp blade.]

[“According to the eyewitness, he only heard a strange light emanating from the exit of the tunnel, and then a sound similar to that of a wild beast was heard, and the entire tunnel collapsed in an instant. Judging from the damage at the scene, it should be caused by some strong vibration that destroyed the load-bearing structure of the entire tunnel from the inside... or perhaps there are other reasons.”]

[Kousaka Kyosuke squatted down and picked up a stone from his feet - no, that was not a stone. ]

[Although the color and texture are very similar to the surrounding stones, if you look closely, you can see some subtle patterns on this fragment, similar to the remains of some insect wings.]

[Staring at the fragment, Kousaka Kyousuke said thoughtfully.]

[“It seems that my previous speculation was correct. They are not killing for no reason. Once a certain standard is met, these guys will be able to obtain a “reward”, which may be a stronger power, or perhaps something else.”]