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CHAPTER 1 OR SOMETHING;

Daisuke, an average young man, about 18 years of age awoke in the middle of one of the busiest places in Shibuya; Shibuya Scramble, or, as it's more referred to as, the scramble crossing. "Ugh... I woke up in the scramble again... Whatever," he thought to himself, picking himself up and brushing himself off. He looked around, puzzled as to why nobody reacted to him waking up in the middle of the street. He put his hands in his pockets, but he got pricked by something. He reached in and carefully pulled out an odd little pin. "Huh? I don't remember buying this..." he said, checking for more. Sure enough, there were 5 more. He picked one and looked at it closer. It was all black with a very stylized white skull on the front. He tapped his finger against it to test the durability, and much to his surprise, he heard other peoples' thoughts. "What the hell are these pins?" he asked himself as he got a message on his phone. The message read simply as "Meetup time! Come to 104~! Don't keep me waiting~!" He felt a sharp pain on his palm to find that a timer that read "60:00" had appeared. It was counting down in seconds, meaning he had an hour until it ran out. "What the fu... Wait..." He looked around and slowly realized what was happening. "The reapers' game!? I thought that was a childhood rumor... But doesn't that mean I'm..." his thoughts were cut off as he was attacked by a frog with odd blue skeletal legs. "I guess that's the noise. Better go make a pact," he said as he ran off to find a partner. He saw an odd green haired man as he dashed, who seemed to be laughing a bit too hard at something. He made his way to a statue of a wolf that was well known in the town. "There's gotta be a partner here... Everyone looks for partners by Hachiko... Right?" He looked around worriedly, seeing a woman being attacked by noise. He was about to go over to help, but it turned out she already had a pact with a tall, skinny man. "No dice... Maybe they can help me unt-" his thoughts were cut off again when a girl who seemed quite a bit younger than himself bumped into him, falling to the ground.

"Hey, I can touch you! What's going on?!" she exclaimed, panicked and scared. She looked around wildly, the emotions running through her eyes.

"Ever heard of The Reapers' game?" Daisuke asked, helping her up and running off, grabbing her wrist a bit tightly.

"Don't be silly, that's just an old wives' tale," she retorted.

"Then explain this," He said, rolling his eyes and showing her the timer on the hand he was dragging her by and the pins that he had mysteriously obtained.

"You're right," she said, coming to a terrible realization. "Then... We're..." Her eyes filled with tears as the memories flowed back to her.

"Yes. We're dead." The girl started to cry, having lost all hope. "Hey, snap out of it!" Daisuke snapped in front of her face. "If we make a pact we can make it through this, all we gotta do is fend off the noise and complete the missions, right?"

"... Right," she said, composing herself. Daisuke quickly formed a pact with her, making them connected till they won or got erased.

"Alright, we got..." Daisuke checked the timer on his hand, "20 minutes to get to 104. I suppose introductions are in order. I'm Daisuke Hayashi, an 18-year-old professional slacker."

"Hideki Kagome, 14. What's a professional slacker?"

"I sleep a lot. That's about it." He looked her up and down, getting his first good look at her. He noticed some things that were off about her body type. "You don't... Umm... You're not very..." He couldn't think of a way to put it politely.

"Spit it out, doofus."

"Well… You don't look very lady-like, body wise..."

"Are you calling me ugly!?"

"N-no! You're very cute, you just aren't... You don't..." He was at a loss for words, but to his surprise she fell into a fit of giggles.

"I'm just screwin' with you. I'm transgender, a girl in the body of a boy. I'm too scared to get a sex-change." Daisuke was a bit shocked. "What? You're... not against trans people, are you?"

"No, I just never thought I'd meet one... We'd better get to 104." Just then, her ring caught his eye. "That a mood ring?" he asked, pointing to it.

"Yeah. You like it?" she extended her hand to show him the ring. It was light green in color at the moment.

"It's really pretty. What does lime mean?"

"Mixed emotions."

"Right. Off to 104, then?" Without a word she skipped ahead of him towards their destination. When they arrived at 104, there was an odd, long haired girl flying above the crowd.

"Ah! Yes, more players! Come, come, we're just waiting on one more pair." she called. She was obviously a reaper. "And here they are!" The woman and man Daisuke saw before walked up. He stayed quiet and waited for the reaper to do something.

"Hello players~!" she said, seeming way too excited. "My name is Nakano, Shinju! I'll be your game master! I'm looking forward to playing lots of fun games with you! But first, we need an elimination round to see who actually has what it takes." Daisuke felt Hideki hug his arm tightly. He looked at the ring. "Yellow... Fear?" he wondered.

"Nervous," she said quickly, observing him staring at her finger. Just then Shinji let out a horde of noise, one for each pair.

"Get ready!" Daisuke warned, gripping his pins.

"Ready as I'll ever be!" Hideki replied, trying to sound brave. Their target was 3 of the odd little frogs from before. Daisuke tried pin after pin. "Nothing... Nothing... Dammit, why aren't these working!?" He was about to run from the battle, but he saw a pin on the floor.

"I can't use that one!" he heard Hideki call from a location unknown to him. "You try it and give me all your useless ones!"

"Right," he said, grabbing the pin quickly and dropping all but his player pin.

"ALL of those pins don't work!?" she sounded appalled.

"I've never done this before! They run off imagination, right? I don't have that!" He inspected the pin his partner gave him. It was a gun held by a gloved hand. It reminded him of a boss from a game, specifically one move where it fired a large energy bullet. He stopped moving, aimed at the frogs, and fired, taking out two of them.

"Woah! Two with one shot!?" Hideki finished off the last noise and both were teleported back to the main world, breathing very heavily. They were one of the first 4 groups done. The man and woman Daisuke saw before weren't even sweating, they seemed as if they had taken out the noise with no effort. The other pairs were a mean looking, well built boy accompanied by another boy who was in much worse shape. His face seemed somewhat flat. The last pair, who play an extremely minor role in this story, were obviously a couple or relatives, considering the way they were bickering. They seemed relatively normal. Soon more and more pairs were finishing their battles, resulting in the erasure of the players for about ⅓ of the pairs.

"You all did wonderful!" Shinji was ecstatic. "All of you get to join tomorrow's game! Get some rest, you'll need it~" And with that, she flew off to... "Wherever she's going can't be good… I guess we'd better sleep then… But where?"