The moment I felt I was being bounced off somewhere, I couldn’t help but jump up. I realized that I had returned to reality when the dark landscape around me had disappeared. As soon as I came back to my senses, I felt immense pain, and it was so painful that I couldn’t even scream. Despite wanting to scream, it felt like my brain wasn’t allowing it, so I had no choice but to open my mouth and grab my face.

‘Ah… shit…’

This must be a side-effect of seeing the Dark World that Kasugano Yuno had seen. I felt like my eyes were going to burst, so as I suppressed my scream, I pressed my palms on my eyelids. I didn’t even know this was possible, so this kind of side-effect was probably normal; however, the part that was kind of heartbreaking was that I wasn’t intentionally trying to look into the Dark World. I wasn’t sure if I was crying because of the pain, but tears started to pour down regardless of my will. This body of mine didn’t seem like it had remembered its past life, but anyway, tears continued to flow out.

‘What kind of… shitty situation is this?’

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