Begin Again || Return To Life
In the end…
You chose to return to the life you once had.
After all, you were given what most people could only dream of having. A second chance at life. And how could you pass an opportunity like that up? To return to your friends and family you hold so dear. Sure, the reaper’s game and entry fee’s may have taken a lot from you over the weeks you’d been there but that doesn’t mean you’ve given up on hope completely. Even if things would never be the same as they were before at least you could be given back the life and future that was cruelly taken away from you by Kousei just weeks prior.
After you two come to a decision, and after watching the brutal death of a girl you can’t seem to remember anymore, Chuuya and Anatol approach you. You watch them give their farewells and with a flash of their hands there’s a sudden flash of white that overtakes your vision…
When you open your eyes you realize you’re outside of the Haniiro forest. Dazed and disoriented.
How… Exactly did you get here? Weren’t you just in the manor just moments ago? You check over yourself and are relieved to see you’re all in one piece. As you look around you’re surprised to see a clear and sunny sky above you, something you hadn’t seen for weeks during your stay at the manor. There’s birds singing, insects and critters chirping, and no sign of that wretched mansion anywhere to be seen.
Just as you’re wondering what to do you hear the crunching of leaves and soft footsteps behind you. As you turn around you hear an audible gasp from a woman staring at you with wide eyes.
“Oh my god are you…?"
The Woman pauses for a moment, staring at you for a couple seconds before calling out behind her.
”…Han-san you’re gonna wanna take a look at this.“
Soon the two woman are all over you, inspecting you for wounds and making sure you’re alright. You quickly recognize her as one two women you had seen enter the manor just weeks ago. But this time they actually see you. After making sure you’re okay and a couple of questions they quickly usher you with them and before you know it you’re at a police station.
What comes next is hard. You’re bombarded with questions. Where had you been for the past couple months? Where were the rest of your classmates? Who kidnapped you? It’s a struggle to find the right words to say. Police would never had believed your story anyway. After all, even in the old rundown manor Manor in the Haniiro forest there was nothing but old ruins and rotting wood. No signs of the killing game that had taken place. How were you to explain that you had practically been spirited away and been forced to watch your classmates die and murder each other? That your captor was long dead and gone? Whether you told the truth or lied and said you couldn’t remember it doesn’t matter to you.
In the end you were brought home to your families, some pleasantly surprised to see some of them. While you’re not sure if you had regained your lost entry fees or not it seems the possible ones involving your family members had been returned. Or were they ever truly in danger to begin with? It’s hard to say.
But despite the hardships and struggles you had been through, the deaths you were forced to witness, all of that was finally in the past. The tragedy and the horror would never truly leave you, but at long last you were finally free. Reunited with your family members safe once more
Perhaps the future didn’t look so bleak after all.
