*Rumble rumble*

*Increase!*

Lighting pierced the sky and the clouds above my head, creating thunderous sounds that shook the environment. At any time when the sky exploded, I may really feel its shockwaves vibrating throughout my pores and skin, making the hair on my arms rise up. With every strike of that highly effective drive of nature, the earth beneath me violently shook like a bowl of jelly. It felt like the entire world had been shaken to its core, about to perish simply from the mere thunderstorm.

*Woooo*

Along with these abrupt flashes and booming sounds, a storm wouldn’t be referred to as such with out wind. Always and harmful, I may hear howlings round me, sweeping up all the things caught of their approach. Like wolves howling at their prey, the winds roared from the highest of their lungs, creating horrible noise that signified an incoming apocalypse.

It was clear. We had been reaching the grand finale of our story. Effectively, to be extra exact, solely my narrative would finish right here. My protagonist’s story would proceed lengthy into the longer term, into the precise ultimate act of this world, into the truth by which we’d all break away from our curse.

Nonetheless, regardless of all of these indicators of an ending world, regardless of the highly effective storm rumbling excessive within the sky and its huge serpents fabricated from pure power, unusually, my coronary heart was calm, and my thoughts was clear. I knew I ought to be lamenting. I knew I ought to be asking for extra and being grasping. In spite of everything, my life had all the time been a large number, so it made good sense to crave an opportunity to dwell the remainder in happiness and delight till the world’s finish. I used to be speculated to clutch onto the love of my life tightly and ask him to not neglect about me.

But, a wierd sense of peace coated my complete physique like a refreshing wave that soothed my soul. Even when the world round me was chaotic and damned, inside myself, I felt as if nothing was misplaced. All the things fell into the proper order I had anticipated, because it ought to have from the start. The world was what it ought to all the time have been. And, at this second, I used to be stuffed with nothing besides tranquility and serenity.

The present me was not only a Kurokawa that lived in C’s previous, however I used to be additionally the Kurokawa of the current. We fused, mixed, shared the identical feelings, and understood many issues.

C had all the time been in our hearts. We had been two folks with comparable needs, two completely different variations of the identical actuality. Nonetheless, we had been additionally the identical particular person.

On this explicit occasion, out of house and time, we had been however one being.

To say it was laborious to explain what turmoil rummaging by my thoughts was belittling my present state. The Previous Me and The Current Me, because of some unknown energy, got here into existence in just one vessel. In reality, every a part of me was being managed in another way. If I needed to guess, my current was in command of the ideas, whereas my previous was managing the physique.

In a approach, it made good sense. I couldn’t change something previously. Nobody may. Nonetheless, what I may do was to look at intently our reminiscence, and that was finished. This was an identical to standing from the third particular person standpoint to see fragments of C’s reminiscences unfolding however from the primary particular person standpoint.

An upgraded model of C’s contact, I’d outline it like so.

Regardless, there was a specific sense of heat enveloped me. It was one thing that the present me hoped for probably the most: security. Security from the storm, security from the world itself, however much more importantly, I needed to be secure from the darkness of my very own self, to be freed from the deep ideas that terrorized my life. Whereas I used to be nonetheless coping with the monster given start from the self-hate from deep inside my chest within the current, that monster was small and pitiful on this iteration I used to be in.

It was not totally gone, however I may really feel what my previous model had finished. That Kurokawa had come to phrases with herself. She had lastly achieved one thing I’d sacrifice my soul to get. Previous Kurokawa accepted her imperfections with open arms.

Therefore, peacefulness was born.

I may really feel it clearly. That fixed grave burden weighing my soul was not current, leaving nothing however liberty, a splendid factor to really feel. The hideous monster I used to be presently going through was far lesser than what was consuming me in my current life. For as soon as, I didn’t should worry being swallowed by the darkness. For as soon as in my life, I felt hope. A future was there for me to embrace.

All…because of… a sure somebody whom I used to be sharing a deep kiss with.

After a few seconds, our lips separated, and I noticed him standing in entrance of my eyes.

Though we had been standing by the blooming Sakura tree in the course of the varsity, there was solely his picture in my complete visible discipline. He was stunning. Good-looking. Gorgeous. Far more so than the alleged protagonist of this hell-like world. I didn’t want anybody to inform me who this particular person was as a result of my coronary heart already answered that query.

Taking a look at his hair waving slowly with the assistance of the wind, I may really feel my coronary heart craving for his love. He was all the time particular. He was past any conventional measures I may consider. But, he was additionally the identical as me. He suffered the identical destiny that I had. He endured the ache that I felt. Since listening to his inside voice, I had recognized we had been two kindred souls.

However, the Kurokawa of the current would by no means have the ability to guess what he regarded like. I’d by no means have the ability to speculate how comparable we had been bodily.

His eyes…had been the identical as mine.

Emerald inexperienced…

“My protagonist…”

“I am right here.”

I gently touched his face, and C kindly smiled. My love grabbed my hand and gave it a young kiss. We didn’t change phrases as they had been redundant. The 2 of us solely stood silently to delight in one another’s heat.

*Saaaaa*

The wind blew by our faculty’s sakura tree, making a chilled sound. It was so bizarre how this tiny space was unaffected by the apocalyptic view round us whereas buildings and homes had been become nothingness.

One way or the other, it jogged my memory of somebody’s indomitable spirit.

“Why are you so good, C?”

“Proper again at you, Kuro.” He touched my brow lovingly, caressing the pink scar I all the time had.

I lastly understood why Rachel behaved in another way after her first kiss with C. Even when she didn’t reveal something, Rachel didn’t conceal the change in her demeanor. Not like Laura, who solely obtained emotional after his embrace, that blond-haired lady turned nearly one other particular person after kissing him.

That blond-haired lady went from being referred to as Rachel, the psycho, to Rachel, the cuddly child, after one kiss. In reality, the housewife appeared to be extra relaxed than earlier than, as if she had already gotten her want. Instantly, the bickering between Laura and Rachel got here to a halt. And in the event that they did get into an argument, it appeared Rachel was all the time the calmer one.

C noticed her change however didn’t suppose a lot of it. This present iteration was already past his wildest dream. Due to this fact, having two variations of Rachel didn’t make my faceless protagonist waver. I guessed he dismissed her sudden wholesomeness as one other bug within the system that might return to regular after a reset.

Nonetheless, to me, Rachel was suspicious. Her violent tendency for her love rivals dropped exponentially, leaving solely the lovable and lovable facade.

I’d not consider somebody may flip from forcing her love rival to eat a paper-knife. There should have been one thing else that precipitated her abrupt change. One thing we didn’t see however may carry an incredible influence than a contact.

The kiss was the important thing.

I obtained that. Laura additionally knew that. She was not the category rep simply because the plot needed it so. Having a great head on her shoulder was essential to maintain that place untouched. I even thought Rachel needed us to realize it, as properly. Nonetheless, I doubt that Laura knew kissing C would switch our consciousness into the previous.

Nonetheless, that was not the one cause for my sudden kiss.

There was…one other one. Not taking my emotions under consideration, after all.

C noticed the identical flashback as mine. This would possibly sound like one thing redundant initially, nevertheless it was important.

As a result of it was the primary time he was introduced into his reminiscence world. All the things he noticed, right down to the tiniest particulars, matched mine. Though my faceless protagonist nonetheless didn’t consider what he noticed was his actual life. It didn’t matter a lot at that time.