1 DEATH

22nd October 2018, Bengaluru, India.

In the busy streets of Bengaluru, a black bike could be seen moving unhindered due to traffic on road. The people in the cars the bike passed, could hear humming of some song in a foreign language from the man riding the bike. The man didn't mind them as he increased his pitch and sang,

"I realize the screaming pain,

Hearing loud in my brain,

But I'm going straight ahead, with the scar.

wasurete shimaeba ii yo, kanji na kunacchaeba ii

surimuita kokoro ni futa wo shitanda

kizutsuitatte heiki da yo, mou itami wa nai kara ne

sono ashi wo hikizuri nagara mo..."

(A/N: Naruto Shippuden OP "Sign", the translation is as:

I realize the screaming pain,

Hearing loud in my brain,

But I'm going straight ahead, with the scar.

It's fine if you forget, it's fine if you can't feel it

I've patched up the scrapes in my heart

It's okay if I'm hurt, because I no longer feel the pain

Even as I drag my feet along...)

As he was signing, he arrived at his destination. He looked at the venue with a lot of people cosplaying and having fun, he smiled at the sight of that and drove his bike to the parking. He got off the bike and walked towards the exit of the parking lot.

He went in front of the stadium and looked at the sign "ANIMECON-18", his eyes were practically shooting out stars. He walked towards the entrance, a staff member came in front of him and asked warmly "sir, can you show me your pass?"

The man smiled and took a piece of paper and passed it to the man and asked "can you point me to the dressing room please?"

The staff member checked the pass and gave him the directions to the dressing room and walked away.

The man just stood there and thought 'finally! I'm here. Yes! The first Animecon in Bengaluru hehe. I've waiting for this for nearly 5 years. And one of my wishes is about to be completed today.'

*screech* *dang*

Just as the man was about enter the venue, he heard a screeching sound to towards his right he instinctively turned towards the sound source. What he saw made his eyes narrow. He saw a car hit a light pole, he didn't know if the driver was fine or not but seeing that the air bags were deployed, he thought he was safe. So he didn't worry about him though, but he saw a group of children in their shaggy cosplay under the electric light pole.

'Shit! I can't let such young heroes die!' with this thought in mind, he ran towards the children. He cursed non stop in his mind 'F**k! I'm gonna kill that bastard! Is he driving blind? Damn I'm a bit late, I can't get to all of them before it falls. Ah! I've got two choices I could only save a couple of them or I could save all them by holding the electric pole that's coming down. Sigh I guess after all that anime and novels I've read, if i don't save all of them, then I would be looking down on my own idols. It's decided I'm going to hold that falling pole.' He ran as fast as he could and positioned himself in the trajectory of the fall of the pole. He sighed 'so much for my Animecon this year, guess i didn't even get to finish one of my dreams.' He yelled loudly "I'm going to hold the pole, believe it!" he decided to shout 'believe it' because he saw the children in ninja outfit and he didn't want this incident to become a trauma for the children, so he said something Naruto would often say in anime.

The children were frightened when they heard the loud sound and froze without knowing what to do. After a few minutes they heard someone yelling "I'm going to hold the pole, believe it." They turned around and saw a man cosplaying as Ichigo Kurosaki in his bankai form, but it was awkward to see his cosplay as the man was a bit shorter.

(A/N: Ichigo Kurosaki, the MC of Bleach anime.)

Seeing the children just staring at him, he shouted anxiously watching the pole that was nearly on his shoulder "RUN"

Just as that word was heard, the pole hit him on the shoulder and the children started to run too. Too bad the cables which were holding the pole couldn't take the weight of the pole anymore and one of the cable was cut.

The man felt his shoulder dislocate and some cracking of bones was heard, because of the weight he couldn't stand and he kneeled down, blood started flowing from the left side of his body and from his mouth, he wasn't feeling any pain because he was too dizzy, he sighed 'yup! Being a hero is really difficult.' He thought it was over and he made it with his life. But reality proved wrong, the cable that was cut came in contact with his blood on the ground. And *poof* he was instantly fried.

Just before the cable came in contact with his blood, he saw all the children were safe and was about to say some thing encouraging to the children, he opened his mouth and *poof*. Everything went blank.

'Eh?Eh? What? Wait! I was about to say something cool, why did everything go black? Where are the children? Shit! What happened? Where am I?' he thought very confused.