Prologue Ep-1
One Day, I Realized I Was reborn
A sharp crack, like sparks exploding behind my eyes. My brain is rattling from the pain and impact.
My friend Hime-chan is crying and sobbing, calling “Matsuri-chan! Matsuri-chan!” over and over, but even though she’s right beside me, her voice sounds so far away.
The back of my head is throbbing and numb. It hurts so much. I’ll definitely get a huge bump later. Mom’s going to scold me again.
If I remember right, Hime-chan and I came to the neighborhood park to play, and I fell from the jungle gym...
Huh?
How old am I right now?
Like a video being rewound at double speed, the memories of “the other me” come flooding in.
Let’s see, “I” was born in Japan, a 17-year-old high school girl, and then one day I got into a traffic accident...
My body jerks violently as that scene comes back to me.
“Matsuri-chan!?”
Hime-chan looks even more shocked when she sees my body jump.
But… why is the “me” who died now suddenly “I” again…?
And this place feels exactly like...
A tingling current runs through my whole body, as if electricity is flowing from deep inside my head.
Like “that world.”
The moment that thought hits me, I suddenly realize.
In front of my wide-open eyes is Hime-chan, her face a mess of tears and snot, or rather, the protagonist of this “game,” Ichinose Maki, at six years old.