REMEMBERING

He woke up with a stinging headache he felt like his head was splitting open, it was slowly decreasing but the pain was still quite noticeable.

Despite the discomfort of the throbbing headache, he shifted his attention to the unfamiliar bedroom, trying to distract himself from the incessant pain.

He was laying in a bed as soft as silk surprisingly, the bed was somewhat plain but looks can be deceiving it was so comfortable you could sink into the bed, glancing to the right he could see a rather big window, too big actually it was almost the width of all the wall, peeking through the window he could see a garden outside, it was so breathtaking, he could see lots of unknown trees, flowers, animals, he even saw a crystal tree, maybe? He didn't know what it was but it was the prettiest thing he had ever seen.

He saw lots of kids and teens going around, chatting, dancing, chasing each other and ...fighting.

But he couldn't admire it for long he only had one thing in his mind where the hell was he 'What is this place?' It was strange, there were so many blank spots in his memory, how did he get there?!!!!! He wondered,panicky.

He tried to remember where he was, what had happened, and why he was here, all of this was giving him headaches, it was so painful, after wracking his mind for a while he finally remembered.

How after a long arduous day at work he left and met a lovely kid and talked for a while, how she had run across the crosswalk and saw a car going towards her, him running to save her, shielding her from the impact, but it was for nought they both had perished.

He remembered how he suffered in the abyss, his soul slowly being eaten by the abyss, him giving up, the goddess saving him and deciding to send him into another world as apology for their mistake, traveling through space and then a blank in his mind. He remembered the first time he woke up in this new world. How he woke up with a girl sobbing on his chest, three groups surrounding him some onlookers and two distinct groups with some type of school uniforms combined with pieces of...metal?armour maybe? One group having red blossoms as symbols and the other white blossoms, kinda icy, the red haired youth seemed to be the leader or key figure of the reds with a big symbol on his plate... And the girl sobbing on top of him probably leader of the second group. The red haired and the girl were staring at him with stupefied looks, looking down and passing out when he saw the fatal wound on his chest the pain too unbearable.

He slowly reached under his shirt...'theres no wound? How long was I out to even be healed but... its strange theres no scar hows that posible? 'Even being completely healed was strange not having even a scar was unbelievable medicine cant be that much advanced here, can it?

After it all came back to him his pain stopped he had a sudden clarity, questions assaulted his mind but now wasn't the time for them he had to find information about the place and who the body's owner was, he felt bad for him but the goddess assured him his soul would be sent to a dying body.

'Wait was she the one who healed me after i passed out, won't it look weird if i survived and healed that big of a wound, will i be experimented on ' he started panicking this realization startled him, after a while he calmed down thinking of different excuses explanations and solutions '*sigh* The only solution would be if i say its a miracle and that my god probably healed me technically true but do they even belive in gods here do they know what they even are but what would even stop them from still trying to experiment or even disect me,its to late now i doubt i can run far before getting caught '

The biggest problem after would be adapting to this new world and his ties with other people, the best option would be claiming to have amnesia, there wasn't any other way and trying to pretend like he was him would be impossible.

It would all work out... eventually.

He removed the blankets got out of the bed and looked around the room, he saw some shoes by the side of the bed, he walked towards them and put them on.

He looked around the room for a while more he found a pair of new clothes on top of a small cabinet, looking more around the room he strangely found girl's clothes and... stuff.

A realization came in... this was someone's room and that someone probably was the sobbing girl's. Was I being treated here why not in a hospital? strange why would she bring me here, is this her room? or who's is it? Was it because they saw me heal?

He walked towards the exit door, he didn't really know where or what this place was, or if he could even exit this room but he couldn't wait all day.

He opened the door and surprisingly it wasn't locked the door opened to a huge hallway littered with doors like his all along the hallway his door seemed to be one of the last ones, he noticed the shiny door he came out of it was probably made with gold it even had shiny crystals around it she probably had an important family.

While he was mesmerized by the door, a certain purple-haired beauty was running towards him, she was quite the looker but she seemed too childish for her appearance but she also had a hidden threatening aura.

He heard the footsteps and turned around he saw a girl running towards him, running? more like sprinting when she was about to crash into him she suddenly stopped, she was one inch away from bumping into me.

She had a blue maid outfit on, her hair was purple with green dots her eyes looked scary she had emerald green eyes but they resembled snakes, a black line in the middle striking down, anyone would notice the unique appearance,

"Sir, the princess wants to see you."

He had a bewildered expression on his face who was the princess.

"Who????"

"The princess you dummy."

"Uhm."

She had a shocked face.

after a while, she sighed

(sigh)

"The worst has happened I need to go call her this is gonna be problematic."

The princess was probably someone very important so important it was strange to not know her.

"Go straight ahead at the first intersection, go left and you will see a garden stay there until I come back....."

"okay?"

She left in a hurry towards a gold room with a dorm administration tag on it.

He started walking down the corridors admiring the paintings of big figures...probably, after a while he finally saw the garden.

When passing through the door he saw an old man sitting on a bench, he looked very old but a strange youthful vigour emanated from him like the passing of time couldn't affect him.

He sat on one of the benches near him and waved at him after that he just kept staring at the dazzling garden and its different flora.

The old man got up from his bench and came closer to him.

"Hello, young one."

"Hello, elder."

He had a big grin on his face.

"So you're faking not knowing your headroom teacher you rascal."

"Uhm teacher ???"

'Whattttttt I'm a student?!!!!'

"You skipped the first week of class, you think you can skip all this, maybe if you were stronger I would understand, but you're the weakest in your class!!!!"

'Weak? strong? what did he even mean, what did being strong matter in school was this a military school maybe fireman or police'

"Elder I really don't know what you're talking about I just woke up today."

"You dare keep up with this joke!!!!"

The two of them heard some footsteps they turned around and saw a maid and another girl they were slowly coming towards them one of them was the purple-haired girl and the other was the girl he saw before passing out.

The old man smiled and bowed.

"Hello young princess, I hope you're doing ok. How are the guild matters going? I heard almost everything has been arranged."

After hearing that and seeing him bow he followed suit.

"Yes everything has been going smoothly for the new year and to soon welcome the freshman."

She looked at me and a small sad smile crept on her face but it soon disappeared.

"So you really don't remember anything, but I suppose it was obvious that would happen you did almost die after all."

He looked at her he had lots of questions in his mind but he refrained for now and with an unwavering gaze he asked her

"Your Highness, can I ask you what's my name?"

"And can you help me later?"

She grinned and answered

"Don't call me Highness I'm not really a princess it's just a bothersome nickname, You are my saviour and friend after all so call me Riki."

"Your name is Yuko Ichigo and my name is Akina Riki, nice to meet you."

"oh? Yuko Ichigo,..... gentle .....guardian."

"So that's my name."

He smiled at his newfound identity, a lot of happiness, struggles and adventures awaited him but for now he had to catch up with his studies and the world around him,he would have a long long year ahead of him.

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From now on I decided to start writing again I've been on a long hiatus for a while and I'll probably upload from 3 to 9 chapters a week, before that, I need to change how I write, I wanna start writing with Yuko did Yuko was I wanna stop saying he all the time since in the future when having lots of characters it would be hard to differentiate between them I won't stop saying it completely but I won't say it all the time like before. Wish me luck guys I gonna stay late tonight to finish it before the week starts and so I can upload on Sunday something as well. I plan to make AI-voiced episodes of the book on YouTube including my voice as the main character and if I can find friends that can join me. I'll add images made by AI or myself to make it more fun and just in case you don't wanna read it or do not have time you can just listen to the audio.(Ps:sorry guys i did say this but ive been busy for a while but ill start writting soon)