Project Reborn
Chapter 1 : Welcome to Project Reborn
My name is Ren and starting tomorrow I will be living in rehabilitation center for a hikikomori recovery program. It has been four years since I dropped out of school, it's been three years since I've truly talked to anyone who wasn't my sister. She has been the one who has beared the burden of supporting me. Her name is Hikari but I just call her Kari, and she is my older sister and guardian. I dropped out of college in Tokyo four years ago and was forced to move back to my home city of Vancouver with my sister. But since then I moved back here I haven't left my sister's apartment, I've cut off contact with the outside world and with everyone I had ever known.
Hikari puts on a smile everyday, but I know that she's been struggling, her smile is meloncholy and her eyes are tired. She's been struggling with financially, socially, and emotionally all because I can't get my fucking life together. I can't bear to watch her wither away anymore because of my failures , she deserves a better life. So I've finally made up my mind to leave and find help. At first she was against my decision, citing the fact that I haven't left the aparament in four years and three years since I last talked to my parents but I was able to convince her that I was ready to make a change.
And so I'm here to start my road to recovery, to a normal life, to be reborn.