A/N: Would you look at that, I'm not dead.

No real reason this time, my lazy ass didn't want to wright.

I finished the draft up to Rewrite chapter 10, I'll re read them and upload them when I feel like it.


Whether you like it or not, you don't get to choose your own ending.

It can happen suddenly, and without warning.

It doesn't matter whether you are the CEO of the largest company or some kind of hobo on the street, a simple bullet to the head is all that's needed.

Even less, just falling down some stairs kills some people.

It's not glorious, nor is it desirable.

But you can make the most out of it.

And that's what I believe for most of my life.

Trying to live a normal life, thinking that the only purpose to it, was just how many people would mourn my death.

How many people would care ?

Would they even ?

... In the end, it's meaningless to think like that.

When I looked at my reflection that day...

I thought something would change, something would be different.

But in the end ?

... I guess nobody will even find my corpse.


...

It was the beginning of a new day.

You could hear Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture in the distance, well, at least a very peculiar instrument of it.

In here, it wasn't possible for a simple day to be normal.

Or was it me who wasn't normal ?

...

Well, who cares about the details like that.

Thinking about what makes it normal and stuff. Too early in the morning for that.

Now that I think more deeply of it, where the hell even am I ?

I mean, clearly it's just one of Laterano's suburb area, but where-

...

Why did I think that ?

Because it's the truth ?

Yeah, but how do I know that for a fact ?

...

This-

I think I'm not in Kansas anymore.

Holdup, this is just an Isekai with extra step.

Why not give me my own body ?

Because it's my own ?

But it clearly isn't if I have memory of another before this and I don't remember being me before.

... Me ?

Why did I immediately think this kid is me ?

God, why is it that complicated ?

A prayer should at least clear my mind-

...

I'm an atheist tho.

So who do I even pray to ? The RNG Gods ?!

God damn it !

Where is a damn mirror, I have to confirm things !

...

Well, this confirms some theory I had.

Guess I'm a kid again. Or is it just my first time ? I can't tell anymore how it even works…

This is heading in a very unpleasant direction.

I need to at least get my priorities straight. What should be the first order of business ?

First, let's get up to speed.

My current 'self'.

I am a Sankta, in the middle of Laterano. Of course if that was all this was I wouldn't be in such deep shit.

I am a Fallen Sankta. Which implies that I fell.

Of course this makes it clear that I'm not in a very good position, considering that all I ever did in 'this life' is wander around like some kind of zombie.

Well, those are my more recent memories. All of that are my more conscious memories, since just like any normal person, I don't remember my birth or the few years after that, only feelings. Like the warmth of my parents and how they were.

Before they died that is.

Well, it isn't some kind of big secret thing, they always were fated to kick the bucket at some point, being soldiers and all that.

Members of the Pontifica Cohors more specifically. They were decently high ranked, but they were soldiers nonetheless. In the end, they never came back one day, and after that some guy in a suit came and gave me my mother's weapon.

A gun.

More specifically, a SVD Dragunov.

Well, the Terran equivalent to it.

I still have said weapon with me, but it's kinda difficult to use with my small frame.

Small frame… What the hell, someone like me who used to be 1.8 meters tall.

This is really annoying…

Anyway, after that, I cried for a couple of days. I was taken care of by others until I was 'old enough' by their standards.

That being 13.

Yeah kinda it's kinda difficult to see it for people back on Earth, that's why it's a little complicated to understand that point of view.

I never understood why I fell.

I mean, I was born that way.

Why ?

In my opinion, and limited Arknights knowledge, it's probably because of me.

That is to say, because of the old me.

Since I'm a complete and utter Atheist, and one who hates cult- I mean, Religion, with a passion, I probably don't qualify for their 'Cool Kids Club' so to speak.

The 'Law' is one hell of a mystery, and I honestly couldn't care less.

It's probably the kind of thing where you are just better not knowing.

In the end, I should probably leave Laterano.

Leaving would imply that I'm able to not be influenced by their government, and that would be nice.

Integrating into this kind of Country wouldn't be possible, since I'm just one 'faulty cog'.

Don't want to break the system, am I right ?

… Well, I could make a little side trip to meet the main Lateran cast of Arknights…

Fortune favors the bold ?

Let's see where all of this shit leads me…