Chapter 21: Crossing Nature and The Truth
“Outside… The outside…” (Hikaru)
I am saved.
I survived and got out of the forest.
According to the map, there’s still 15km before I reach the closest place with people.
The na of the location is already not Eastern Demonic Lands. It is now the north plains of the Rafeed Ward in the Ringpill Continent.
I walked unsteadily just like that, and went up a slightly elevated hill.
When I looked back, the way too vast forest that I was walking in until now…no, mostly ran my way out of, spread before my eyes.
“I got out… I survived…” (Hikaru)
Tears naturally ca out from .
It still isn’t over yet. My life in this parallel world is just beginning. That’s all there is to it.
But I managed to live.
I can begin.
It starts from here.
[Pin Pon Pan! It is ti to announce the rankings for the total viewers of the Chosen!].
A voice suddenly resonated in my head.
The sa voice as the ti when I obtained that shining flower and when I learned Create Undead.
Total Viewers Ranking… There was such a thing?
[Congratulations, Chosen Number 1,000, Kurose Hikaru, you shone as the number 1 in the 1st Total Viewers Ranking! As a prize for winning, you have been awarded 3 Points!].
Even if I am told I am number 1, I could only think ‘figures’.
I did an adventure of life or death for 10 days.
I don’t know what the other Chosen are doing, but I am certain that I was having the roughest of tis.
[And! From here on, you can get ssages from the viewers on Earth! A mailbox has been added to the Status Board, so please confirm it.]
I thought I would have an astounding amount of ssages since there’s a billion viewers, but it looks like God is choosing the ones with ‘strong emotions’, so it seems like it doesn’t end up being that many.
If used correctly, I could learn about the state of things over on Earth.
When I opened the Status Board, I certainly did get 3 Points.
If only this had co a bit faster… I did think that, but I am still alive here.
I see a fortress-like thing far off in the horizon.
There was nothing resembling monsters, and the wind felt good.
“Hm…? Mail is…wait, eeeh?” (Hikaru)
There was a ① on the mailbox, but the next instant I thought that…mails began to pour in with a ponponponpon sound, and they increased to several hundreds in an instant.
God should be filtering, and yet, since the denominator is high, the amount must be high as well.
Let’s see, what ssages am I getting?
—I still have nightmares of this mont.
—I was feeling a sense of accomplishnt. I had survived 370km of despair.
—I was number 1 in the total viewer count. Everyone is cheering for .
—That’s…what I believed.
—I believed…
I opened the mail.
A peaceful scenery of a light green plain that stretched as far as the eye could see.
A blue sky and gentle sunlight.
A warm and dry wind.
In this relaxed atmosphere of this parallel world, what appeared there was a reality that I didn’t imagine.
[[He seems to be enjoying his isekai life even after killing his girlfriend. Just die already. What are you surviving for?]]
[[After killing his girlfriend’s family, he is going all OP isekai protagonist? I am ashad to be japanese like him. HIKARU is currently trending on twitter throughout the whole world. This is a national disgrace. Give a break.]]
[[Is the air of the isekai tasty after taking away the future of Nanami-chan and obtained power?]]
[[Drop to hell. No, hell would be lukewarm for you.]]
[[You should have been eaten alive.]]
[[Every ti I see you desperately trying to live, I end up thinking that Nanami-chan must have wanted to live too. Why are you clinging to life so much, yet for others…moreover, the life of your girlfriend…why couldn’t you think about hers the sa way as yours? You are a fiend. I hate you. Die already.]]
—I couldn’t even breathe.
All the mails were spitting out insult after insult of .
Everyone was wishing for my death.
I couldn’t understand imdiately what was going on here.
[[You apparently stabbed her several tis on the stomach. I am impressed you can even do that. You are worse than a beast.]]
[[Even though you killed your childhood friend’s whole family, you really have the guts to enjoy your isekai life without showing any signs of doing such a heinous act. You are the worst monster out there.]]
“Nanami…died…?” (Hikaru)
Nanami was a childhood friend of mine that I grew up together with like a sibling, not my girlfriend, but that’s not what’s important here.
Right now, what I could gather from the opened ssages was that…
Nanami is dead.
And for so reason, I am being treated as the one who killed her.
[[I am glad there’s a ssaging system. I will be sending the other Chosen your way. I will definitely make sure you get punished. Sleep in fear.]]
[[If that were , I would give up. How can you continue living on as if nothing?]]
[[I trust God to do a ranking for the most unpopular one too. The kind that properly gives a penalty to the highest ranked one, that is. Being sent straight to hell as the penalty sounds nice.]]
[[DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE. DIE AT ONCE ALREADY.]]
[[How do you feel being the most wanted dead in the whole world? You did sothing worth that, you know. Understand it. Understand it and kill yourself.]]
All the ssages were overflowing with anger at .
The hamr of justice towards a heinous killer they can’t get their hands on.
I couldn’t understand anything.
I thought there would at least be so people cheering for .
I figured there would be so who would be watching in amusent, but I at least believed that they would be happy about managing to survive.
“Nanami…died…? Just like that…? She didn’t co to this world…? Uncle…and auntie…died as well…?” (Hikaru)
I muttered this at no one in my disbelief.
I thought that just like how I am alive here despite dying, Nanami as well would be living here in this world.
That’s what I thought.
That’s what I wished.
In this parallel world where I know no one, my one sole objective was to reunite with Nanami.
The reason why uncle and auntie didn’t show up that day was because they were killed too?
…But I can tell from the ssages.
I ended up understanding…
It should have been transmitted imdiately that Nanami didn’t co to this world.
Sothing that can be found out as soon as they enter the house or call the police.
The bodies of Nanami and her parents were there.
Only my shoes were left at the entrance.
Did the real culprit manage to get away? He must have set it up in a way to pin the murder on .
“Kahah…!” (Hikaru)
The contents in my stomach churned out.
Being exposed by direct animosity, discovering that Nanami and her parents are dead; those two realities were enough to shock in my entirety.
I couldn’t even stay standing, and ended up falling in place.
I couldn’t even breathe properly.
I actually…knew it already.
That Nanami is dead.
I saw the lifeless Nanami after all.
But I wanted to believe it.
I couldn’t do anything but believe.
By believing that Nanami had co here, I managed to maintain the will to get out of the forest.
I myself was also too occupied with my current situation.
If I didn’t face forward, I wouldn’t have been able to move my feet.
[[Your parents and your twin sisters couldn’t stay in Japan anymore and moved out. Well, they will soon be found out even overseas. Don’t you think it should be better to die as an apology?]]
[[Your twin sisters are apparently super intelligent. Well, they ain’t got a future anymore though.]]
[[Your house was literally burning.]]
“Why… What’s with that…?! What the hell is going on here?!” (Hikaru)
My tears weren’t stopping.
I was so desperate to stay alive, I couldn’t even stop to think about what was happening on Earth.
But…what else could I have done?!
I was suddenly thrown to this world!
I was killed too!
being here alive is because of good luck, or maybe bad luck.
It is not like I am here because I wished to…!
There were a mountain of things I wanted to say.
But those words were not coming out from my mouth.
My emotions were overflowing, and they were being overwritten by a different emotion.
“, killing Nanami…? There’s no way I would do that…! She is my childhood friend…! She has been together with since the day I was born… Why the hell would I kill her…! and Nanami were killed! I had no intention of coming here!” (Hikaru)
By the ti I noticed, I was already shouting at who knows where.
“I went there to give my final farewells to Nanami…! When I did…I was stabbed by an unknown student of the sa grade! Nanami was already killed by the ti I got there…!” (Hikaru)
It was a pointless explanation.
There was a part of that understood this.
I have seen flaming on the internet countless tis.
There’s two thods to stop the flaming. Stop the fuel. What I am currently doing is basically like fueling the fire endlessly.
It will most likely just escalate.
“…My family…My family has nothing to do with this…! What did my family do…!?” (Hikaru)
In the end, this isekai transfer that the world was dragged into wasn’t unrelated to .
My family, Nanami’s family; it destroyed both households.
The ssages continued increasing.
Are there also ssages from my parents and sisters within these?
I had no courage to open them.
“Damn it…” (Hikaru)
I wanted to disappear already.
But I can’t die here.
No matter how much hate I am exposed to, the reality of surviving those 370km of despair wasn’t allowing to choose death.
[Announcent from God. It seems there’s a number of Chosen who haven’t noticed the place where the item you brought to the parallel world is stored at. Please tap the Brought Item in the Status Board and materialize it. The things that haven’t been materialized will be erased, so please keep that in mind.]
An added announcent from God.
Now that they ntion it, you can bring an item to the parallel world.
Mine was a sudden transfer, so I didn’t prepare anything. Of course, it must be empty.
And yet, I still opened that option…most likely because I had a feeling…
When I tapped Brought Item in the Status Board, a single album materialized and dropped coldly to the ground.
“……Eh…?” (Hikaru)
A pastel colored photo album.
What Nanami was holding in her chest till the very end…
And what I touched last…
I grabbed that with my trembling fingers…and opened the front cover.
“Nanami…you idiot… What were you planning on doing by bringing sothing like this to a parallel world……?” (Hikaru)
A photo of the ti when she and I were lined up together with our parents when we were in elentary school.
A photo of when I fell down a pond at Distiny Land.
A photo of when my sisters and Nanami fell asleep after playing themselves tired in a gaming competition.
A photo we took of when we lined up with our puffy uniforms at our entrance ceremony in middle school.
A photo we took jokingly while we were talking through the window.
A photo of the borrowing race where the borrowed thing that was asked of her was ‘childhood friend’.
A photo of when my parents went to check on her after hearing she had passed the entrance exam for high school.
The photos had Nanami smiling.
The photos had smiling as well.
“Guh… Damn it…” (Hikaru)
Gone.
By seeing these photos, that reality beca ever more real.
Maybe everything that happened on Earth was a lie?
By being in a parallel world, a completely different world, I couldn’t help but think that way.
But the fact that the album that was originally in the hands of Nanami is here ans that…Nanami is dead…and she didn’t co here.
—Ahaha.
—Kusukusu.
Soone was laughing at who was drowning in tears.
Gazes of curiosity.
Laughing at , telling to stop the fake crying, to stop pretending to be sad.
Laughing, telling that I am the one who killed them.
Laughing at , a diocre high schooler that doesn’t have a single special trait.
The Nanami in the photos was smiling.
The in the photos was smiling too.
—Ahaha.
—Kyakkyakkya.
Laughs directed at were coming from sowhere far.
Laughs directed at were echoing right by my ear.
—I must have broken at this ti.
I began feeling gazes in bright places.
Gazes filled with animosity…hatred…and curiosity.
“[Darkness…Fog…].” (Hikaru)
1 billion real ti viewers.
1 billion people were directing animosity towards on Earth.
They were waiting with anticipation, waiting for the mont I ss up.
The mont I fall to the ground pathetically and die a dog’s death…
I cut off those gazes with the darkness.
In this deep deep darkness, those gazes won’t reach.
I closed the Status Board and began walking.
I didn’t feel like heading to the fortress.
I wanted to sink…sink deeply into the very bottom of the darkness.
Let’s live in a place where no eyes will reach.
So that no one will be hurt anymore.
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