PROLOGUE: DEATH AND REINCARNATION
"I'm home." I said to my mother when I got in through the door.
"How was school?"
"Same as always..."
I passed her by the kitchen and grabbed snacks.
"I'll be going out with friends tonight so I'll be home late okay."
"Sure."
It was early evening on a Friday night.
I greeted my mom, grabbed some snacks and went into my room. I lay there on my bed still in my school uniform with my Ipad in hand and the snacks on the side.
I scroll on the Ipad looking at the new anime episodes released today.
"Wow. This is some pretty good stuff. These new episodes look exiting."
I selected one episode, watched it and liked it. Soo I selected another one and another and then another.
Before I knew it I had watched a dozen episodes and the time to go had arrived.
I stood up and took out some casual clothes.
I put the outfit on and get out the house. I start heading to the karaoke place on foot and on the way there I pick up Asahi.
Like I expected he is wearing a casual outfit as well. But God damn this guy's like a model.
"Yoh, You ready for karaoke and Maid Cafe?"
"Yeah... I knew you were gonna wear casual."
"Look who's talking."
We got to the place. Saw the girls waiting for us there.
They're our classmates we invited to join us on our fun little outing.
Asahi complimented Hana on her outfit and she blushed.
He really put me on the spot so I had to compliment Rin as well.
"You look beautiful too Rin. I like your dress."
"Thanks. You look good too"
She blushed. And she made me blush as well.
Wow. A girl like her is blushing at me.
I mean I'm not that handsome and not ugly too, and my outfit is casual. In all honesty, I'm just a fairly decent guy when it comes to looks. Average.
But she still compliment me. Was it the pressure?
I for one felt the pressure to compliment her. Even so, I do find her dress to go well with her long black hair.
Hana also has black hair but hers is in a ponytail.
We got into the two story building. The first floor is a Maid Cafe and the second is karaoke rooms.
We spent the evening in the Maid Cafe and the night doing karaoke.
We first did solo songs taking turns and ranking each other on the song and presentation. I took first of course.
The girls were in awe. Asahi didn't look surprised. He just ate the snack looking through the songs.
Though I'm just average in looks compared to my top model friend Asahi here, I have a pretty good voice.
We then did duos, pairing up together until everyone sang with each other. Sometimes the pairings were not that great and it ended up being laughable.
We finished it with a quartet and then it was time to go.
Hana and Rin stay far from the karaoke place we chose, so we called a cab for them and waited until it arrived.
We said our goodbyes and went the opposite way. It's past eleven. 23:35 to be exact.
"I have a feeling you're going to be famous after today. Prepare yourself to sing at school dude."
"Oh! You mean like how Hana and Rin were surprised with my singing voice?"
Hmmm. It'll be nice to be famous.
When that thought came into mind. I imagined how it would feel like to have girls fawn over me and boys to envy me.
But life rarely go as we expect it to.
Thump-thump-thump-thump.
I heard footsteps coming from behind us. I was gonna dismiss it as just someone using the same street as us.
But then I got a chill. It was a chill I've never felt before.
Maybe bloodlust? I had no way of knowing because I've never felt bloodlust before.
The chill made me more aware to my surroundings.
Of the two alleyway light poles one was out and the other is dim. There are no people walking about on the two main roads connected by the alleyway.
And this guy looks sketchy. He's wearing heavy clothes for summer.
Fear started to set in.
Bu-dump! Bu-dump! My heart is pounding out of my chest.
"We need to run..." I said that softly like a whisper.
"What?"
Thump-thump-thump.
The footsteps got quicker. I think he heard us planning to run.
Asahi looked back trying to inspect the situation.
But I was not gonna wait and ask the man what he wants.
I took the initiative and ran. Asahi followed suit. As well as the man.
We ran and got to the corner ahead.
I was the lead runner, so I decided to take a right. I thought of running home which is on the left but I decided against it.
They say when you're being followed, don't run straight home.
In the end that didn't matter cause we were never gonna see home again.
I looked back to see if the man was still chasing us before taking the turn.
But he was not.
Behind me was Asahi running and breathing loudly and the man chasing us just stood there and watched. Not moving, just staring.
I suddenly got an even bigger chill down my spine.
Something is not right, I thought.
And indeed something was not right, but it was too late to figure it out.
Right at the corner after turning, there was another man waiting.
The moment I turned the corner. He swings the machete he had in hand from above aiming for my head like he was expecting us to be there. Whoosh!
I dodged the blow to the side and fell on the ground with my back against the wall.
"Aaahhhhh!!"
I looked up and saw Asahi screaming with his hand on his shoulder.
Blood spraying everywhere.
He went down on his knees and then on his stomach. Bang!
"Noooooo!!"
I screamed standing up and running to him.
Bawling my eyes out.
While thinking "Why did I dodge? I could have blocked that attack. I'm the strong one out the two of us"
"You're gonna be okay."
"R-Run... leave me here," he said in a weak voice.
"I'm not leaving you here!"
A lot of blood was coming out of his wound.
Then the man got ready for another attack.
Blinded by anger and sorrow. I charged the man, screaming in rage and grabbed his hands trying to disarm him.
We had a struggle for a brief moment.
"Ahh..."
From the back a knife was trust into my body. I turned around to see and.
It was the man we left behind. It seems i had forgotten about him.
Feeling pain, I loosened my grip and the machete man overpowered me and took a swing at me too dealing a fatal blow to the neck down to my belly button.
I fall to the ground. Head facing Asahi.
He was just laying there not moving.
Why is this happening? What did we do to deserve this?
With the last bit of brain function and awareness I had left. I tried to figure out these guys purpose for attacking us.
Did we do something to them? As I thought that, I instantly saw their smiling faces and realized that this was just an unfortunate turn of events for us.
We're just victims of two serial killers.
The smiles they had on their faces were psychopathic smile. The kind of smiles a maniac makes after doing something horrific to others.
Aah. I see, I thought. To get caught up in some serial killers happy spree when life was about to be fun for me. Does death not have mercy at all or was this just bad luck? Mom, I'm sorry to leave you and my sister so early.
I shed one last tear and let go and drift off into the afterlife.
During the happening of all this. There was something happening somewhere else.
A beam of light engulfed someone and a magic circle appeared right at their feet and they were transported to another world.
This transportation created a slight rift in between the two worlds and Ryu's soul was sucked in and he passed through to the other world.
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In a forest on an island with a bright blue sky, and beautiful flora and fauna.
There was a woman picking fruits from the forest trees and she came a across a body lying on the ground.
She approached the body and found that there was still life in it.
She started to tap it's face trying to wake it up.
"Hey! Are you okay?" She said. "What's a person doing here on this island let alone a boy?"
That's how Ryu a boy who was about to taste fame for the first time in his life died from a serial attack and reincarnated in another world.
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