What would you do if you saw your wife glitching out of reality right before your eyes? This is Episode 8: The Failure of Saving a Parent...? of my original anime project.

[ Scene 1: in the street ] - 10:15 PM

Akari rushed back to his apartment in a hurry.

His thoughts racing: I can't let her! I can't! She shouldn't experience what I went through! She should never experience it!

Flashback:

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From the back seat, a child watched. The car was a warm, rumbling box in the big dark. A young woman and a young man sat in the front, their faces lit by soft dashboard lights. Then—WHAM!—a bright flash ate the world, followed by a sound of twisting metal and breaking glass louder than any storybook monster. When the ringing stopped, a new sound took over in the sudden quiet: a slow, scary drip... drip... drip onto the road below.

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[ Scene 2: Akari's apartment ] - 10:20 PM

He threw open the door with such force that it creaked loudly on its hinges. 

Akari shouts: "Hikari!"

Hikari already standing in the middle of the living room

she says loudly: "Akira Soma!"

Suddenly, the sound of a ticking clock filled the room, loud and unnaturally clear. CRACK! — like the sound of ice breaking over a lake. The framed photo of them on the desk shattered. Then Hikari started glitching.

Akari shouts in panic rushing to her: "Hikari!"

he passes through her while she is getting transparent.

Hikari frustrated, her grip tightens on the papers she was holding from the book, and shouts louder: "Akira Soma! Akira.. Soma..." 

Tears start falling from her cheeks: "Father... father..." she murmurs

She raises her hand to hold Akari's but then it passes through his and she disappears, leaving him in a quiet room alone.

Akari stands silent for a moment, his eyes wide with shock: "Hi-kari.."

For a complete minute Akari stood still. In his place not flinching.

Akari shook his head, a bitter, disbelieving chuckle rattling in his chest.: "She is probably somewhere.. It's some magic trick. It needs to be one. She is probably somewhere right now.." 

he walks around the apartment looking for her wishing to find her. Hoping that what he saw was just a magic trick that was too convincing. He finally gets to open the door of the last room - The dark bathroom. He opens the lights. POP! The bulb blows. He heads back to the living room.

He holds up the papers, he ripped from the book earlier then stares at them for a moment.

Akari murmurs, his grip tightening on the papers "I need to get her back. I am not giving up..." 

[ Scene 3: At Akari's apartment ] - 11:59 PM

Akari sitting on the living room's floor, eyes closed.

Akari: "I am Akari Itsuya. An orphan with no parents. I am teleporting to The Other World. The Forgotten Leftovers."

he says but nothing happens.

Akari panics: "what?! I followed the-"

Then his eyes go wide, Flashback:

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From the back seat, a child watched. The car was a warm, rumbling box in the big dark. A young woman and a young man sat in the front, their faces lit by soft dashboard lights. Then—WHAM!—a bright flash ate the world, followed by a sound of twisting metal and breaking glass louder than any storybook monster. When the ringing stopped, a new sound took over in the sudden quiet: a slow, scary drip... drip... drip onto the road below. 

A person who looks like an inspector, asks the cop: "Did you find the corpse?"

The cop responds: "No. We couldn't find anything, not even blood."

The inspector: "Then case closed. We will announce that it was an accident and the corpse was lost...."

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Akari's gets another strong headache, his hand flies to his forehead, his nails digging in his forehead that it starts bleeding. He says in a fast tone: "I am Akari Itsuya.  With forgotten parents. I am teleporting to The Other World. The Forgotten Leftovers."

The clock ticks perfectly on 12:00 AM.

After credits...

[ Scene 4: Akari's apartment] - 12: 00 AM

Akari starts glitching, his form shimmering like a broken signal. He laughs, a hysterical sound of triumph and despair: "Finally! Hikari, I'm—"

CRACK!

then his eyes go wide when he sees someone standing in the now-open doorway, looking confused and disoriented, is a middle-aged man in a rumpled coat. Akari's triumphant laugh dies in his throat.

Akira Soma opens the door. Hikari's father: "Akari!"

Author's note: Check out my website for this anime! I am posting every episode, news, and more!: https://ayanamicien.github.io/The-Forgotten-Leftovers/