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One year after 'Sign'
"HURRY UP TSUKASA OR WERE GONNA BE LATE!"
"Sorry Mimiru, I'm almost done."
"You had better be or Bear and Subaru are gonna throw sand at us like they did last time we were late for the beach." Says Mimiru
"That was your fault. You insisted on doing your hair for some reason" said Tsukasa
Mimiru looks down sheepishly and mumbles something containing the words "for you". Tsukasa decides to let it go and comes out in his swim trunks and holding a volley ball.
"Well IM ready, lets go" he says.
30 minutes later at the beach
"Hey guys, what took u so long?" shouts Bear as Tsukasa throws the ball to Subaru.
"I swear it wasn't my fault this time, Tsukasa couldn't find his towel" says Mimiru. She doesn't mention it was because she had hid it.
"Only because you hid it" Tsukasa says with a 'and you thought I didn't know it was you' look.
"Well that doesn't matter now. Let's just enjoy ourselves and play some volleyball" Subaru says with a smile as she hits Tsukasa in the face with the ball. Everyone starts laughing including Tsukasa. Little did they know that the fun and games would soon end.
Later that night after Subaru and Bear have gone home
"Well, I guess ill see you tomorrow. I had a lot of fun today." Says Mimiru at Tsukasa's door.
"Ya, me too." He replies. They stand across from each other in the doorway for a few seconds. And then like two moths bumping clumsily together, with no more weight than that, their lips touched. They were lost in their love and it seemed as if the world is spinning. Nothing else could be more perfect than the love they felt for each other at that moment. It felt like god himself had blessed them. Then, all of the sudden, she breaks away. She has tears in her eyes as she says she's sorry runs away, leaving a very confused Tsukasa on his own doorstep. He walks inside after a few minutes and makes some ramen. When he's finished he cleans up, showers and walks into his room. He lay's down and closes his eyes and goes to sleep. Although he hasn't told anyone, he has been having weird dreams. Whenever he goes to sleep, his dreams are of being in 'TheWorld'. He dreams that he is there, with his guardian, by the bed of the little girl that was once the cause of much disruption. The little girl that wouldn't wake. He sits there, leaning against the bed, and remembers the pain he went through. He sits there for hours, and then his surroundings get blurry and he wakes up in his bed. That is how it has been for the past 2 weeks every night and he starts to get the feeling that something isn't right. He gets the feeling that he will soon see her again. That he will see the girl that wouldn't wake.
Monday at School
It's Monday and Tsukasa has gone to school and come home. He noticed Mimiru avoiding him all day. Subaru and Bear had been giving him looks that say they know what happened, but kindly don't bring it up. When he gets home there is a note taped to his door. It simply reads "park, 7:30, alone. –H". As soon as he reeds it he realizes something is wrong. He decides to go. It's a nice night. He decides to walk so he leaves at 7. It's a long walk.
Park
7:28, he's at the park. He sees three other people there. Bear, Subaru, and Mimiru are all sitting on the benches. Mimiru is looking at the ground. Subaru and Bear, however, see him and get up to say hi. It turns out that they all received the same letter. They go to sit down on the bench. Tsukasa sits with Bear between himself and Mimiru, with Subaru on his other side. This way he's not to far from Mimiru, but not to close. While he loves her and wants nothing more than to be with her, he doesn't know how she feels and decides to play it safe for the time being. It's exactly 7:30 and a car pulls up. It's a white limo. From the limo, however, steps a lady that can best be described as "interesting". She is wearing a white dress bottom, white fur coat, white fur hat, white gloves, and has a scarf over her mouth. Her long blonde hair is covering her eyes. As she approaches them, they see that she has a walking stick. She walks over to them slowly. When she gets to them, she says "Do you four know who I am?" Tsukasa, Subaru, and Mimiru all look confused, but Bear instantly says "Helba."
"Correct Bear. Now that we all know each other, I must talk fast. There is a crisis in the world that is more problematic than the last. There is a second wave coming. I will assume that you all remember that Aura had a mother. Morgana. Morgana has cut off all means of logging in …and out of the world. That means that whoever was in the world when she did this, stays there. As we speak, she is trying to send a virus through the minds of every person stuck in the world. If she succeeds, every person stuck in the world will die. She must be destroyed, and you four are the only ones that can do it."
Tsukasa pov
Just like that. No sugar coating, no softening the news. She just told us that thousands of people were in a coma, their minds stuck in a video game, and her voice didn't even change. Subaru, who was a tad bit more emotional than the rest of us, started to cry. Mimiru sat there with her mouth hanging open, all thoughts of the night before gone. Bear looked like he had just been punched in the face. I just sat there, looking up at the famous hacker who had told me that I would have to go back to that horrible place.
I said one word.
"No."
"No what?" said Helba.
"I swore that I would never go back there. I swore that I would never risk putting my self through that again. You don't know what its like to feel pain like that. Pain that should kill you. To have to go through that pain, not being able to die, not being able to escape it. Only being able to think, think about the pain, and think about how much you wanted it to stop. I haven't been back there since, and I'm not going back now."
"But Tsukasa," she said "did you think that those were just dreams?"