Chapter 19: Fourth Playthrough (1)
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"Hey! You blond bastard! Let's fight!"
Rei Furuya glanced at the curly-haired youth under the cherry blossom tree, said nothing, and turned to run away.
Matsuda Jinpei: "?"
"Wait! What do you mean? What's with that look? Are you looking down on me? Stop right there, you bastard! You think you can just run away because you can't beat me? Hey! You blond bastard, are you going to give up???" Matsuda Jinpei instantly chased after him, furious.
But that blond bastard acted as if he were deaf, completely ignoring my existence, and just kept running forward by himself.
"Damn it... running so fast... are you in such a hurry to be reborn?" Matsuda Jinpei cursed, panting as he gripped the stair railing, but he didn't dare to shout outside like before.
After all, they're already inside the dormitory building.
At two in the morning, when everyone was asleep, to shout in such a quiet hallway... he's not that stupid, okay?
Although he didn't know what had gotten into that blond bastard, Matsuda Jinpei couldn't possibly swallow this insult.
Moreover, he intuitively felt that the other person's condition seemed off, and the feeling he gave off was absolutely terrible, so terrible that Matsuda Jinpei couldn't ignore it at all.
Matsuda Jinpei clicked his tongue in frustration and continued to huff and puff as he hurried uphill.
Regardless, he was the one who lured that annoying top student out to pick a fight, so he couldn't be completely at ease if something really happened to the other student.
Damn it! Once he catches that blond bastard, he absolutely has to give him a good beating!!!
Matsuda Jinpei followed Furuya Rei all the way to the rooftop of the dormitory building.
But when he angrily kicked open the door and walked in, he froze instantly upon seeing the other person.
"...Hey, are you kidding me?" Matsuda Jinpei's eyes widened, feeling a chill run down his spine and his whole body stiffen.
Under the pitch-black night sky, a blond young man in a police uniform stood precariously on the edge of the rooftop, seemingly about to fall at any moment.
This is the ninth floor!
"You, you shouldn't be impulsive..." Matsuda Jinpei stammered as he took a step forward, completely bewildered as to why things had suddenly escalated to this point.
"Why did you still follow me..."
The blond youth seemed to sigh helplessly and slowly turned around.
Every tiny movement he made made Matsuda Jinpei hold his breath in tension. The way he raised his toes, lowered his heels, even the way his blond hair swayed in the night wind, and the way he slowly looked up at him—all of these were so heart-stopping.
"I'm sorry, Matsuda, don't be afraid, and don't misunderstand, I just..."
He seemed to consider his words for a moment.
"This is just one of the necessary steps to achieve the final goal that must be achieved."
Rei Furuya has come to a complete understanding of everything.
The last person to die before his reincarnation will possess the memories of that cycle. This is the very first butterfly, and all subsequent butterflies, large and small, are hatched from the cocoon of this first butterfly.
Therefore, no matter how hard he tries, it is impossible to completely avoid any butterfly effect.
So, wouldn't it be better if he just died before everyone else?
If he simply starts a fifth loop where no one but himself has any memories, then there will definitely be no more butterfly effects, right? Everyone can at least survive until graduation, right?
"This time, this time we will definitely succeed." Furuya Rei smiled at Matsuda Jinpei, who looked terrified. "Don't worry, Matsuda, I will definitely save Hagi this time. I won't let him die."
If Hagi succeeds, then everyone can live to graduate using this method.
Give it a try!
He had finally found the most promising way to save everyone's lives, and he was overjoyed.
"Wait! What are you talking about? I don't understand at all!" Matsuda Jinpei was going crazy, completely unable to comprehend what he was saying, and was on the verge of madness.
but--
The curly-haired youth's expression instantly turned calm and serious. He tried to control his expression and tone, hoping to persuade the other person to come down first: "I'm sorry, Furuya-kun, it was my fault, it was my fault. What's wrong? Come down and tell me slowly, okay? You can explain slowly, I'll listen carefully. I can help you solve it. There's nothing in this world that can't be solved. I won't fight you, I don't actually really hate you..."
As Matsuda Jinpei spoke, he observed the other person's expression and tried to get closer, looking for an opportunity to suddenly pull the person back to a safe place.
Rei Furuya couldn't help but burst out laughing.
"Thank you, Matsuda. It's really nice to meet you all." The blond youth's smile seemed genuinely happy.
He does indeed have a very, very good group of friends.
It's just that those few unlucky friends always seem to die by accident, like they're being maliciously targeted by the world.
But it doesn't matter. No matter how many times, as long as there's still a chance, he won't give up reloading.
No matter how many times, no matter what he goes through, he will go back to save that unlucky guy who dies again, until he achieves a happy ending where everyone is alive and well.
"Well then, see you next time." After saying that, Rei Furuya turned around and resolutely jumped off.
The instant he jumped, he felt all the layers of red butterflies that had enveloped him being suddenly blown away.
The blond youth was even laughing, as if he had grown wings and was free from the constraints of gravity.
Without butterflies, without constraints, only his light body soars through the air, smiling as he embraces the earth and the hope of the next cycle of reincarnation.
Everything starts from scratch.
*
In the police academy late at night, almost all the students were already in a deep sleep.
Apart from those two people who arranged to fight together at night right after the start of the semester.
Also, there's Morofushi Kagemitsu, who is awakened by a nightmare.
The young man with blue cat-like eyes was breathing heavily in the darkness, and it took him a while to stop trembling.
He let out a long breath, finally regaining his composure, and took out his phone to take a look.
April 1st, 2 AM.
Zhu Fujingguang scratched his sweat-dampened hair, sighed, and got out of bed to open the window for some fresh air.
"Whoosh—" He drew back the curtains, and the silvery moonlight and pink cherry blossoms outside came into view, illuminating the dark room.
"Furuya!!!!!" The heart-wrenching scream and the familiar name that suddenly came from above stunned Morofushi Kagemitsu.
Falling into the valley?
Are there any other people with the surname Furuya in this school besides his childhood friend?
Before Moribushi Kagemitsu could react, a figure fell from above outside the window in front of him.
For a moment, time seemed to stand still.
The moonlight, cherry blossoms, and falling Rei Furuya outside the window.
It was less than a second, but Morofushi Kagemitsu saw it all clearly.
By a twist of fate, the two people inside and outside the house met eyes at close range through a transparent window.
Morofushi Kagemitsu saw that his familiar blond-haired, dark-skinned childhood friend had a crazy and terrifying expression on his face that he had never seen before, and that pair of purplish-gray eyes widened slowly the moment they saw him.
Then, before either of them could react, their eyes swept past each other in a flash.
"Bang--"
The sound of a human body falling to the ground from a height was very loud, and Morobushi Kagemitsu heard it clearly, even feeling that it was deafening.
Zhu Fujingguang was stunned for a full three seconds.
Then his hands began to tremble, and strange, incoherent moans escaped his throat, like a child who had suffered from aphasia but still tried to scream and cry desperately.
Zhu Fujingguang suddenly opened the window and looked down.
He saw that on the cement road downstairs, under two rows of cherry blossom trees fluttering in the breeze, under the startled streetlights, his familiar childhood friend was indeed lying in a pool of blood.
It's not an illusion.
I'm not seeing things.
It wasn't a nightmare.
Zhu Fujingguang's mind went blank. He turned around and ran out the door like a madman, panting heavily as he ran frantically through the dark stairwell, almost falling several times as he desperately tried to get downstairs.
He had never imagined that the stairs leading down the stairs could be so terrifyingly long.
However, until he staggered and knelt down beside the blond youth, the reality before him told him that this was not a nightmare, but a cruel reality.
Beneath the cherry blossom tree, a black-haired young man with blue cat-like eyes trembled as he carefully picked up the body of his childhood friend.
Unable to make a sound, he could only gently shake the blond youth with his hand, hoping that his childhood friend would suddenly open his eyes and smile, saying that it was just a prank.
However, the night wind blew through Furuya Rei's blood-stained blond hair, and cherry blossoms fell on his golden eyelashes, yet he remained motionless.
*
You are dead.
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