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It's springtime for a new school year.
I, Takahashi Haruki, am going to be a second-year now.
There are too many students here in the school, as usual.
I missed this feeling because I've been hospitalized for months before getting here. I don't know the reason, but my mom said she found me unconscious in my room with a wound near my heart. My clothes were full of blood, and my vitality was so weak that the only thing that could save me was a miracle.
Though I lived, neither my mother, the nurse, nor the doctors know the reason, and neither do I.
I look around the school, and I found her: Natsume Yumeko, the popular girl in our class.
The moment our eyes met, I got a bit embarrassed.
But there's something wrong with her; her eyes were getting wet.
Is she crying? Wh-Why?
I look around to see if she was really looking, but her stare was really for me.
She came rushing towards me, her arms open.
"Haruki, Haruki, Haruki," saying my name again and again.
That time, I had an urge to hug her, hold her hand, and many more.
Well, that's normal for me, but now it's different. I'm not a pervert, okay?
I don't know, but my body was moving. It wasn't me. I don't have the guts to do a thing.
Yumeko hugged me and cried on my chest.
Her actions attracted the attention of many.
I know I got hospitalized, but why is she this worried? We're not even that close.
"Uh-uhm...---"
Before I knew it, I'm already hugging her. I'm already crying.
Yumeko continued to hug me and cry.
That moment, vague memories came into my head.
It's about another world, another world with amazing powers, demons, monsters, magic, and my relationship with Yumeko.
Then I remembered. It's all the things that happened last year.
Let me tell you the story. It all started here...
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