Prologue
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“The war will never end, no matter where you go.”
Many things happened in the past, but those that made a mark in our history are mostly made up of wars. Be it in history or the bible, blood is always spilled. But, why do wars happen? Is it natural for us? Or is it a solution? There are many answers to this question.
I closed the book that I’m reading and my gaze reached outside of the window beside me.
“Arc, you didn’t pass your notebook yet” I heard Eve’s voice while my thoughts wander away.
I looked at Eve, she’s holding a list and a bunch of notebooks.
“Here it is. Do you need help?” I tried to offer her some help.
I can see her arm shaking a little bit, but she shakes her head.
“Nope, I can do this. I’m the class president after all” She looks at the book on my desk, “Looks like you’re busy?”
“This?” I raised the book, “Just doing some research, after that I won’t be even touching this book ever again”
She laughs and smiles at me.
“Well, well mister I gotta go collect other notebooks as well.” She was about to leave but I stopped her.
“Look, let me help. You’re not a good liar, I can see your arms shaking” I stood up.
“Is it that obvious?” She shyly laughs, “Then, thank you”
She passed the notebooks that she was holding and I helped her collect the notebooks from our classmates.
While we are on the way to deliver the notebooks to the faculty, Eve suddenly speaks.
“Do you watch anime?” She looks at me curiously
“Yep, I think that’s the only thing I watched for the past 3 years”
“Ehhh? Are you a shut-in?” She puts her right hand on her mouth, pretending to be shocked.
“I meant that I only watch anime, it’s not like that it’s the only thing I’m doing”
“I know, I know. I’m just joking”, She pats me on the back.
“Well, what genre do you prefer to watch?” I asked her.
“Let me think” She puts her index finger on her chin, “I think those isekai ones”
“Oh? I also liked that genre, it’s really good!”
“I agree! It’s also interesting how people are creative on those kinds of things”
“Yep, but sadly it doesn’t happen in real life”
She suddenly stopped walking and looks at me seriously.
“Don’t tell me that if isekais are true, you wanted to go to another world? You know what needs to happen right?”
I let out a sigh.
I know what she meant, but isn’t she taking this pretty seriously?
“Look, I don’t intend to end my life whatsoever intentionally”
“You promise? I really don’t like the thought of people dying… Most of all people who are close to me”
The look on her face seemed familiar.
“I promise” I gave her a reassuring smile, “I may have problems but I’ll deal with it”
“WE. We’ll deal with it” She smiled.
“If you say so. But, we better get going or else the teacher will be mad at us”
We delivered the books and returned to the room.
“See you after class, Eve”
“Sure”
We both went back to our seats and I let out a sigh.
To think that someone kind as her existed, what a treasure.
“Hey, have you heard? The foreigner?”
“You mean the transferee? I heard that her family is rich”
“Of course, they came from America after all”
I heard the conversation of the three girls in front of me and got curious. I wanted to ask them but I guess I’ll just wait for the transferee to be introduced.
The bell rings and the class is starting. The professor entered the room with a foreign girl wearing our uniform, guess this is the transferee.
“Okay class, before we begin A new student will be joining us. Please introduce yourself.” The professor gestured her to stand in front.
I got a good look on her face. She has a pair of blue orbs, snow-white skin, and curly hazel hair.
"Hi! I'm Sonya Dreyl and I just transferred here from America" Her gaze traveled around the room, “I’m looking forward to being with you all”
“Thank you Mrs’ Dreyl, you can sit next to Mr. Folly”
I let out a sigh.
Looks like I won’t have a peaceful nap anymore. Transfer students are pretty popular and tend to have a lot of friends, I just hope they won’t chatter next to me. I hope that she’ll just ignore me, but I was wrong.
“Hi! What’s your name?”
“Arche Folly, just call me Arc”
“Nice to meet you Arc”
Fortunately, classes began and she didn’t talk to me anymore but I can’t concentrate on the lectures. I can’t get my attention away from her, I can’t help but look at her. I don’t mean it romantically, but already sleeping at the moment then wakes up a moment later and writes something in her notebook. After that, she will sleep again and wake up again over and over. I was about to completely ignore her but I saw something familiar drawn in her notebook. A crest that appeared in one of my dreams, if I remember correctly, that is the crest of the royal kingdom of Dargon.
Now, I can’t focus anymore. More questions began to pop up in my head and I wanted to ask her about the crest. I want to know what she knows about it, I mean it can’t be a coincidence that she drew that randomly, right?
In the end, I didn’t understand any of the lectures, and the classes have ended.
I was about to ask her but Eve approached me.
“Let’s go?”
“Yeah, let’s go”
Looks like I will ask her on another day.
We walked together on the way home.
“Watcha thinking?” She looks at me curiously.
“Well, it may sound weird. But, do you believe in reincarnation?”
“For me, I do believe it’s real. The world is big enough to make such things possible”
“That’s true, but what would you do if you happen to remember your past life?”
We stopped walking.
“I do remember some of it, but I don’t know if it’s true or not” She laughs, “I mean, maybe it’s the influence of watching too much anime”
“What if… You saw a piece of evidence that other people also remembered their past life?”
“You mean, it’s real?”
Silence began to envelop between us and I decided to break it.
“I’m just joking, as if those things exist” I started to walk, “Let’s go”
She didn’t talk anymore on the way until we parted.
- Writer
