He was supposed to be dead.
Sagami Ichiei, self proclaimed true weeb,rich bastard, and a NEET, was supposed to be dead by a severe case of heart attack at the age 24.
That was how he remembered it. In the darkness of his own room, in front of his own computer after nonstop gaming session with no sleep for over...one hour? two? maybe even past four hour? He didn't look at the time nor check on any.
Why should he?
He didn't care.
No, actually he never cared at all.
For him, this was yet another daily grind. A race against time, except the time itself was not moving forward like it was intended to. even if he was ranked as the top international champion of 10 different kind of games, praised and hated as the most no-life person on Earth, that lives with money from his winning prizes for over 3 years consecutively since his gaming career, or the fact that he never showed his face on public, or the fact that he ran away from home and already cut ties with his ever unconditionally loving family. He already stopped caring about such details since years ago. Actually that was wrong as well, He had already stopped caring since before even that.
After all he was already a broken clock.
Forever his hand would ticks, but never will it ever stop.
Just like every clock which hand always comes around, his life will always be ended on the same milestone. age 24. that was his limit. anything past that was unknown territory for him.
He had tried every possible option to overcome this. From expensive treatments to achieving an incredible amount of virtues and good deeds, he even tried every questionable medicine and mixed chemical in the hope, that born from desperation, that it will somehow cured him and letting him lives longer, he even resorted into illegal means. But nothing seemed to affect or change his pre-destined death.
Sagami Ichiei was supposed to be dead at the age of 24.
...This was how it should be. Just like how trees shed their leaves comes winter, or how the sun always rises from the east.
There will be no hiccups, his life won't continue afterwards and it was fated to be so.
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His first relife was like a miracle, the first time he was brought back to the past, it boggles him. he couldn't wrap his head around it. After all how could someone accept the fact that they had traveled to the past, coupled with the fact that they became a baby again but this time with the memory from the future that have yet to come?
The second relife had been another shocking experience for him, as well as a dawning realization that came to hit him. But still, he ignored that fact, not because he thought it was stupid. No, he was afraid of the truth of his state at the time. The death by the hand of a serial killer that somehow had been in the area, or even the age of his death, didn't register to him at the time.
the third and so relife, he became depressed after he realized the situation. But still, he cling to the hope that was no longer there, and he began to better himself. he thought at the time, that he could still change his end, that he could get throught his life as normal again.
and so he strives to better himself, he tried to learn every tricks, he tried to learn every knowledge he could get his hands on. Science, Music, Art, Literature, Languages, as well as every other subject and much more. Not only that, he had also trained his body to its absolute limit with every martial arts possible, not for its physical Benefits but for the knowledge it would brought him. Because every time he came back to life, his physical body won't come back with him, but the knowledge which was stored inside his mind could. He learned everything he could, just to give him an edge to fight against his death. Back then he still had hopes that he could overcome his fate and continues on his life much more longer.
Unfortunately such hope won't last any much longer.
His life will always be ended at the same day.
No matter if it was at day or night, even if his location changed, even if the situation he was in could never possibly harms him ever.
Either by 'normal' death such as getting killed by someone, or even a freak accident, which occured through unnatural means that somehow just near him enough that it also involved him. For example, a single flap of an unassuming avian which will then continues a chain of events with a very low probability for them to happens in tandem, and it would go on and on, and somehow his life will end by then.
Once the clock on his 24th birthday reached 00:00, his life would already be no longer there.
The heart attack was something that will happen when everything else fails and he reached even a single second after 00:00.
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Sagami Ichiei was supposed to be dead at the age of 24.
This was the undeniable truth.
And that scary truth broke him.
Even with everything he could get his hands on, every bit of information and edge he could gather, every power he could muster just to gave him a chance to avoid his end. It all won't matter in the end.
The truth had been set.
and it will be so for eternity.
Thus he began another of his eternally daily grind.
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Sagami Ichiei would die again at the same age. But this time, this run (life), fate had something to give to him.
And it involves a certain white haired fox eared person and her unstoppable gaming tendencies.
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[AN] So I made this story because i was inspired by another author which also made a hololive story. Its called 'Isekai Vtuber' by levelgap, and it was really interesting to read!this story was a bit of a prototype, but I would like to expand it and hopefully flesh out a good tale.welp, thats that! see you next chapter~