Our hero once again finds himself in the strange Japanese suburban world. Like last time, he makes his way to the school, the only place in this world that seems to contain another person. Like last time, the memories of the world he was in while awake, is muddied and unclear. He has a hard time remembering it. Once he gets to the classroom from before, the young pink haired girl, Natsuki is there again. She's sitting on the floor reading manga. She then looks up at our hero from her book.

"Oh. Hey. It's you again. I don't suppose you saw the others on your way here, did you?" She says with her normal jaded tone.

"No not at all. Who are these 'others' you speak of anyways?" He asks. Calling to the fact that they seem to be the only ones in this surreal dimension. He then takes a seat next to her like last time.

"The other members of the club. ËŏďąÜĵ, ćƈŭ˙ő, and ŚƅŌäĀĸ. What? Haven't you met them yet?" She say slightly annoyed.

"Umm..." He says confused. He didn't catch any of those names.

"Well, it's fine I guess." She says dismissively.

He then just decides to read along with Natsuki like last time. Maybe these others will show up this time. Getting any sort of answers out of Natsuki seems to be an uphill battle anyways. So with that they begin. He opens up the manga from last time and picks up where he left off last time. He then gets to a certain part of the manga that seems to be some kind of back story.

It tells of some young girl that managed to obtain the reality altering powers of a god, and used her powers to bring about a lot of pain and suffering. Eventually she used her power to destroy the entire universe, but somehow the universe was then recreated. How exactly the universe was brought back anew has not yet been made clear, but it goes on to tell how this girl has returned. Although this time around it seems she has lost a majority of her godlike powers. Yet she seeks to reclaim the rest of her powers so she can destroy the new world, like she did old one.

He pauses for a second to take in what he just read. He feels a strange connection to this. Could this manga has some sort of hidden meaning to him?

"Hey, are you okay?" Natsuki asks.

"Y-yeah. It's just... why would this girl want to destroy the world?" He asks.

"I don't know. Maybe she's just a bitch? To be honest, I haven't read that far yet. I'm sure it will tell in time." She says.

"R-right." He simply says.

"So are you gonna continue reading, or are you just gonna set there spacing out?" She barks.

"Spacing out?" He say. That phrase has some sort of meaning to him.

"Sorry. You're right." He says, continuing the story.

He picks up where he left off. The story then jumps to these young space marines on a ship patrolling the galaxy. It mostly follows the story of this boy and this girl that seem very close to one another. But then the girl starts to get more and more depressed, and the guy starts to get concerned for her.

He puts the manga down and puts his hand against his face. It's like his memories from the waking world are trying to come back to him, but something about this strange realm keeps him from remembering. But at the same time, he remembers something else. Like from before, he remembers Nothingness, darkness, sadness, despair.

"Are you okay? You're starting to freak me out a bit." Natsuki says.

"It's just... a headache. That's all." He says tying not to worry her.

"Well I don't know if I can help you out much there. But I guess I could offer you something to eat. Maybe that will help. But seriously, you shouldn't go around freaking people out like this." She says.

She then stands up and walks over towards something on a desk on the other side of the room. He hears the distinct sound of aluminum foil. She then walks back over to him with a cupcake, and holds it out. "Here. I made a whole batch of these for the others, but you can have one if it'll make you stop acting all weird." She says. He gets a good look at the cupcake. It has a little cat face on it made of icing. Suddenly, something clicks in his mind. He quickly stands up, walks over to Natsuki, puts his hands on her shoulders, and looks her in the eyes.

"Natsuki! Listen to me." He says

"Hey! What do you think you're doing!? Hands off, sicko!" She says with an angry tone.

"Look. I know you from somewhere. I feel like I've somehow experienced this all before." He says sternly.

"What are you talking about?" She says, brushing his hands away.

He stops and thinks for a second.

"Where were you before you got here?" He asks her.

"At... at class?" She says with an unsure tone.

"Are you sure?"

"I... I don't know." She says looking downward. It seems her mind is just as muddled as his in this realm.

Suddenly the world around them starts to become distorted and begins to fill with white noise, just like last time. Our hero darts his eyes around, before looking back down towards the manga on the ground. "The manga!" He says. "The answer's got to be in there." He rushes over to it and picks it up. He starts frantically thumbing through, looking for the place he left off at.

"You're right." Natsuki says all of a sudden. "We do know each other. But how, and from where?"

"I don't know. Dammit, where did I leave off?" Our hero says.

It's hard to concentrate with the noise and distortion, He comes to where he left off, but it's no good, the pages become blank once more. As the world starts to fade back into darkness, he turns back around to Natsuki.

"ŐƀĴãëùĪ!" He tries to call out her name. The world then once again disappears.


Suddenly, Natsuki wakes up in bed. She sets up in bed and reflects on what happened. "Again? There's no way this is coincidence. I have to find out who that was, and get ahold of them somehow." She says.