A Cheeky Junior Denied Me My Entire Life, so I Tested What Would Happen if I Jumped off a Rooftop to Vent My Anger
“Are you alright? Are you hurt? Aoi-kun.”
Asama-san holds out her hand towards me, who has fallen down. It can’t be that I don’t have any injuries…… . I was certainly stabbed in the heart with a knife just now. I can still see the red blood wetting the floor with my own eyes.
—And yet I have no injuries.
It’s impossible, but that was the reality in front of me.
“Thanks……”
At any rate, I take Asama-san’s hand and stand up. I feel like this girl is always reaching out to me.
“…….”
I heard a sound that sounded like something was broken from the living room. The man whose head Asama-san had just crushed in her grip.
“Sturdy for nothing, this time.”
Asama-san said as if she didn’t care, and kicked the man holding the knife away. She has such physical strength that it is almost unbelievable that she is a human being. It’s not even a …… match.
The man who was slammed to the floor again and again stopped moving as it was.
“Ugh ……!”
Delayed, evasive feeling. A feeling as if the contents of my stomach were refluxing. I was more scared that Asama-san had killed someone …… as a matter of course than that I had been stabbed.
“It’s all right. This is not a human being.”
Did she sense my feelings? Asama-san lifted the fallen man and stripped him of the scarf and coat he had been wearing.
“…… Eh?”
If you look closely, you will see that it was a badly made doll.
“There are people who can manipulate these things at will. Well, I guess they’re just sentinels to see what’s going on. I guess they wanted to see how …… good you were.”
“…… knifing me is confirmation?”
“But as usual, they’re not very good at making them. You have to hide it with a coat and scarf to make it look human.”
Asama-san laughs. I can’t say anything.
“Welcome back, Onee san”
And then Asama-san’s sister, Rio-san, opens her mouth, not looking particularly perturbed.
“What is it, Rio, you’re here? I’ve told you repeatedly that you shouldn’t come because it’s dangerous.”
“I don’t have a problem with it. I’m aware of that. …… But, Onee san. You haven’t given any explanation to Aoi-san, have you? I feel sorry for him, he will be so upset, right?”
“Fufu, Aoi-kun will be fine. Aoi kun is special. Just playing vampire won’t upset him. ……right?”
“No, I knew though.”
I worded it back to her in no time. Asama-san laughed.
“Then let’s talk a little. I’m sorry, Rio, but you need to leave. There hasn’t been any progress yet anyway, has there?”
“…I understand. In return, could you please take me out to eat ramen next time? I can’t go to a ramen restaurant by myself.”
Leaving behind words that sounded like those of a junior high school student, Rio left. Asama-san sat on the sofa in the living room, not caring that the room was in disrepair.
I exhaled as if I had given up and sat down in front of Asama-san.
“Asama-san,……, who are you?”
My brain still can’t recognise the scene from earlier as reality. But at the same time, somewhere, I was convinced……. Asama-san is not a human being.
I may have been thinly aware of it from the first time I saw her.
…… including the mutation, which is happening to my body.
“What do I look like to you, Aoi-kun?”
Asama-san looks at me with a face as if testing me. ……I racked my brains a bit, but there was only one answer that came to mind.
“…… maybe, like a vampire?”
Hearing this, Asama-san laughed.
“Fufu, half right I guess. It’s true that some people call us that, but I don’t suck blood and I don’t mind the sunlight. I’m not even afraid of the cross.”
Asama-san put the necklace of the cross, which had fallen on the floor, around her neck. I certainly didn’t think it was scary either.
“But you’re not a normal person, are you, Asama-san? At least I …… am not a human being anymore.”
“I doubt that. Just because you’re a bit stronger and your wounds heal faster doesn’t mean you’re not a human being in my opinion. The difference between a human being and a monster is something much more lethal. They are weaker than me, they don’t regenerate as well. But a much, much scarier monster than me. Such things exist in this world.”
“…… So what kind of beings are I and Asama-san?”
I’m not a vampire, human or a monster. Then what have I become?
“There’s no strict definition, but most people would call me an ‘immortal’. because I don’t die no matter what I do. Easy to understand, isn’t it?”
“No, it’s easy to understand, but ……”
“In short, we’re just people who don’t die”
“………..”
I don’t know what to say, so I let my gaze escape out the window. It was completely dark and my eyes met my own reflection in the windowpane.
…… For some reason, I was smiling.
“Well, Aoi-kun, you don’t need to worry about that. Like now, there are times when troublesome things come to kill us, but most of the time I can handle it. Even if I’m not there, Aoi-kun won’t die.”
“Is that because I’m also …… that, an immortal?”
“Right. Aoi-kun, right now, he won’t die even if he gets stabbed in the heart with a knife. Even if he gets run over by a truck, sinks to the bottom of the ocean, or gets shot in the head with a gun, he won’t die… …Just like me.”
“…………”
I’m not sure if that’s something I should be happy about. I felt like I was getting into some kind of trouble, but strangely enough I didn’t feel bad about it.
“Well, no matter how much I explain it to you, you probably won’t understand, so let’s go see the owner of this doll again sometime. I’ll show you firsthand what it means to not die.”
“…… Is that the special world you’re talking about, Asama-san?”
“Fufu, I don’t know. That’s not for me to decide, it’s for Aoi-kun to decide.”
Asama-san stands up. I was a little worried and called out to Asama-san’s back.
“Wait. I want to ask you one last question, why did you make me …… umm, an immortal?”
I still don’t remember anything clear. But I definitely should have jumped off the roof and died. Asama san helped me like that. he saved me and transformed my into a body that wouldn’t die.
I wanted to hear the reason.
“Fufu…”
Asama-san laughed. She laughed and shook her head.
“I’m not helping Aoi-kun.”
“No, but it’s true that I’m alive like this. That’s because Asama-san saved me when I jumped to my death—”
“—I also committed suicide a long time ago.”
“…… Eh?”
The sudden words made my eyes widen involuntarily.
“But I didn’t die. Aoi-kun didn’t die either. We are the remnants of death who despaired of this world and still could not die. So we are the same weaklings. …… That’s one of the reasons I’m taking care of you. Do you understand?”
Asama-san looks at me. I can only nod silently.
What is still happening to me? What kind of world have I been put into? I don’t understand anything. …… But what bothered me more than that is that Asama-san, who seems to be supernatural, also had a weakness that made her choose to die on her own.
….. same as me, weakness.
“Well, don’t worry,Things like I want you to fight alongside me. I want you to protect me. I won’t say anything like that. What I want you to do, Aoi-kun, is something else.”
“I haven’t always been good at exercise, so I appreciate that, though ……”
“I’ll explain more about immortals another time. I’ll tell you more about immortals another time. …… But for now, let’s have dinner, shall we? I found a good ramen shop.”
And so we went straight to eat ramen. ……In the meantime, I tried eating it with more garlic, but still nothing unusual happened to my body. …… Well, you have to be careful about bad breath, though.
Anyway we had a nice bowl of ramen, went home, had a bath and went straight back to our room. There were plenty of questions I still wanted to ask, but my brain couldn’t process any more of what was being said. There’s no reason to rush, and I can ask her tomorrow for more details.
Or rather, I have to go to school tomorrow. Just because I’m not dying is no reason not to live.
“…… can’t sleep.”
But I couldn’t get to sleep. Yesterday I could not sleep well, and today, too, sleepiness has not come at all. My body feels unnaturally well.
“Is this also the effect of the body that won’t die?”
I say and get up. …… The body that never dies. Immortals. When I heard that, the first thing that came to mind was a very boring sentiment.
“…… That’s ridiculous.”
Still, I had something I really wanted to try. So, I left my room and walked through the night streets, being careful not to wake Asama-san.
“─ ─ You are very careless after being stabbed through the heart, aren’t you?”
Then, what appeared was a man in his prime, with solemn eyes, like a priest. I had no idea what it meant to not die yet.
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