Prologue

Joselita throw her phone on the bed as soon as she finishes the 'just one last episode' she's talking about for almost 3 hours. She look at the clock, 8:49 PM. She still haven't eaten anything nor at least cook for herself.

She stood up and fix her hair without bothering to look in the mirror. Her face doesn't even matter anymore for her age.

'Ah, where did I put it again?' she ask herself as she look on her super-duper messy room. She haven't cleaned for ages that you'll totally mistook her room to be a mountain of garbage.

She kicked all of the scattered things around her until she found her wallet under the dirty clothes. She took it and stood up before walking towards the door, not bothering to look on where she's stepping. She left her apartment in the middle of the night like it was the most normal thing to do.

She hold her her stomach when it grumbled. She's hungry, and she only felt it now. Watching anime or reading manga or light novels made her forget a lot of things. Like doing her commissions, eating and even taking a bath.

She stopped walking when she saw the 7/11 and Alfamart across the road. She doesn't know what to buy or where she'll buy, all she knows is that she's hungry and she needs to eat... fast!

She look at the pedestrian light restlessly, while tapping her foot on the floor and waiting for it to turn green. She's getting more hungrier as time passes by, a hunger that she didn't even felt a while ago.

Joselita was startled when she felt a hairy thing in her feet. She suddenly look at it with a surprise look.

It's a cat.

The black cat was standing beside her while looking across the road. The cat felt her presence and suddenly gaze back at her. She once again got startled from where she's standing when she saw the cat's eyes.

She puckered her forehead. Joselita never saw a cat with red eyes before so she felt so bothered by it.

'Or was it because of the light?'

She was about to dismiss it and planning to glare at the pedestrian light again, when the cat did it first and started crossing the road.

She pay no mind to it and turn her attention to the pedestrian light, but it was still red. She glance back to the cat that was walking on the road, then turn her eyes back to the pedestrian light, and then to the opposite sides of the road.

Her eyes grew big before looking back at the cat, who stopped at the center of the road and scratches its head.

It'll be fine if it stopped at the center of the truck, the cat would just pass through the hole below the truck. But no, it stopped at the center where vehicles pass through from left and right.

She look around to the people around her, but it looks like no one even notice or have seen the cat at the center of the road.

She once again glance at the two trucks that are about to cross from left and right, it's just a few meters away from the cat.

She bit her lower lip, and for an unknown reason, she ran towards the cat and tried to save it.

"Miss!"

The person beside her reacted when she started running.

Everything was so fast, but it seems so slow. She doesn't know what she's thinking, but she want to save the cat. She extended her left arm, trying to reach it with all her might.

The cat with the red eyes look at her with confusion, and then... rolled its eyes as if it finally understood what's happening.

"Stupid!"

Joselita saw how the cat's lips moved and talk.

Her eyes grew big when she clearly heard its voice in her ears, but before she could even react or shout, the truck hit her and made her fly meters away from it.

The impact of the truck hitting her and stepping on the break was so loud that even the people from the other side of the road and the people inside the 7/11 and Alfamart look at it and screamed.

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'E? What's happening? Why is it so loud?'

Joselita tried to open her eyes and take a look, but she can't see very well, everything's blurry.

'Why are there so many people?'

She tried to talk, but there was no voice, she only heard herself moan. She also tried to stand up when she realize that she's lying down, but she only felt dizziness and pain.

'W-What-' Joselita was about to ask what's happening again when she remembered everything.

She got hit by truck while trying to save a cat.

'A-Am I... going to die?'

She started feeling all the pain in her body when she realized what's happening. She's getting breathless.

'Am I... going to die alone?'

She tried to look around her even though it's blurry and her eyes are about to gave in to eternal sleep. There's a commotion around her. There are people running, on their phone, and there are some people vomiting on the sidelines.

She can't see herself right now, but base on the people vomiting around her, she's pretty sure she looks like a character from the anime 'Another' or looks like someone that got eaten from 'Tokyo Ghoul'.

'Even in my death... I look ugly.' She tried to joke to herself. 'Other than dying ugly, I'm also dying hungry,' and then she laugh in her head when she realized that it rhymed.

She tried to feel if she's still hungry, but all she felt is pain.

'If only I knew that I'm dying tonight, I should've eaten something fancy earlier... No, if only I ate early, maybe I wouldn't be here at all, dying.'

She started regretting everything that she did and didn't do today and the last few days.

She hated herself for not visiting her parents' grave, for not cleaning her house before dying, for not eating on the right time. She hated herself for not having a husband and a family, for not having friends. She hated herself for everything she did and she didn't do.

She's loosing her strength. Death is already pulling her and she can't do anything about it.

'I'm really dying... My life didn't even let me finished One Piece.'

She cough, and she knows that she coughed blood, a lot of it.

'Ah, I remember, there are those anime's too. Those anime's where the main character got hit by the truck and got reincarnated to another world. Ah... isekai... ha,' she coughed another blood again. 'I wonder if it's true.'

That's the last thing she could think of, before loosing the strength to fight and closing her eyes for the final time, but before death pulled her to the eternal slumber, she heard someone talking to her.

"A rare Earthian that can see me," a feminine voice said. "Ha! How stupidly unfortunate, you... wait... wha... what's happ--?"

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Is this what death is? It's so dark. I can't see anything. It feels like I'm just floating in the darkness.

How long have I been here? I don't know anymore. It feels like, I've been here for months now.

My brain stopped thinking when I heard someone talking.

It isn't very clear.

It feels like there's a barrier preventing me from hearing anything, but I know that someone is talking. Someone is shouting.

"...Disgrace..." That's the only word I heard clearly.

Disgrace? What is? What's happening? Who's talking?

I felt something on my feet. There's something like a wall in there. Am I somewhere? Am I alive?

I kicked that wall, and it feels like it moved, I tried to kick it again, but then I stopped when I heard someone grunt.

Is there a person below me? Did I kick her?

I want to say sorry but nothing came out of my mouth.

And then... I heard there's someone panicking.

What is happening?

It felt like eternity have pass since that time. I can always hear someone talking. I can move and I can also feel, so now, I'm pretty sure that I'm alive but confined somewhere.

Somewhere dark.

Did someone imprisoned me?

The last thing I remember is that black cat and me getting hit by the truck and dying.

Did I somehow survived the impact of the truck hitting me, and got imprisoned for not waiting for the pedestrian light to turn green? Do police imprison someone who's almost dead?

Ah... I don't think so.

I sometimes try to kick or punch the wall in front of me, trying to get out of this darkness, but I always stop every time I hear someone grunting or crying.

It's like I don't want to hear that person's grunt or cry at all. Like it is someone who has a special place in my heart that I don't want to see suffer.

The eternity within that darkness was so boring and annoying, so when the wall I'm in, finally opened up and I saw the little light coming from above me, I hurriedly tried to get out of it.

I heard someone screaming, like it was in pain, so I stop moving and tried to listen to that person.

It's crying, screaming. It's in pain. I totally stop from moving when I heard it clearly.

Those cries and screams were different from the past, they are way too intense right now and I want it to stop.

A few moment later, I felt like I am being push out of that darkness. That someone, cried and screamed more when I did.

No! Stop! I don't want to hear it. Please!

But I'm still being push out of that darkness, and the more I get push is the more that person scream. I want to cry. I really want to cry every time she screams.

A few more moments later, my head finally got out of that darkness.

The light welcomed me, and then when I started adjusting to it, even though it's still blurry, I finally understand what's happening.

I am being born.

When my whole body got pulled out of... I think, my mother's... vagina... and then she finally stop screaming...

I cried.

I cried, because finally, she's not hurting anymore. I cried, because I finally got out of that darkness. I cried, because I'm alive.

Alive... for the second time.