October 4, 2035.
A city in which everything is always perfect. Every day, all students gather in the morning for school, and adults for work. Exactly at 8:00 leaving the house. No one is ever late.
"Yu, get down. Time to go to school."
"Now. I’ll only collect textbooks."
The schoolboy fastens his briefcase, throws it on one shoulder and leaves the room.
“Here, take lunch.”
"Thanks Anastasia."
He grabs food from his hands and heads for the exit.
On the way every morning, at the same time, he meets his classmate, named Natsume. Here is just an incredible coincidence, but for us it is commonplace. Nobody wears a watch.
Why do you ask? Everything is simple. People know their future step and every day, everyone has the same action.
34th school. This is a school for gifted children, but I’m an unremarkable ordinary teenager, with results slightly above average. This is quite enough to enter an economic college and get a job in an office.
"Hi Yu."
"Hello, Natsume."
“Have you decided where you will go?”
How boring it is to see and do the same thing all the time. Well, at least we have different topics for conversation.
“Not yet... probably at the Trace College of Economics, which is located in a neighboring area. And you?"
"I was invited to a modeling agency and signed a contract. And I will receive education at the Marshall University."
"Wow. Congratulations. This is one of the best universities in our city." He spoke with surprise.
We walked all the way to school and discussed further plans for life. So I never spoke like that to anyone, but I wanted to keep up a conversation with her.
And now our long-awaited hero lover appears. As soon as we step on the threshold, the school gates. Here he seems to be waiting for us on purpose.
"Hello Natsume!" Fred shouted out loud.
"Again, he has gotten into the whole school. I will go forward."
"See you at Yu's lessons."
Yes, being with him is simply tedious to impossibility. Usually, I merge at such moments and leave for a quiet and secluded place, such as a roof. Somehow, as a child, I stole and made a duplicate to escape at every opportunity.
Yu in a dream.
Around the dark space, one bright zone flashes. In the middle of which stands a little girl of 12 years old, no more.
"Save me, I beg you. Save me Yu."
"Who are you?"
"Save me, save me..."
The light is condensed and this little creature disappears.
"Wait! From whom? I do not understand."
"Save me…"
A strange girl from a dream, dissolved in the darkness.
Wakes up at a lesson.
“Sleeping again. The director’s office is alive."
Yu gets up and leaves the classroom.
"Ahhaha, he is again for his own. The usual piece of gray mass."
“He has no place among us. It would be better to study in another class."
The students made fun of him afterwards, constantly at every opportunity. Due to the fact that he was strange and different from others, with his indifference to everything.
“What strange dream did I just have? Yes, and kicked out of the lessons, as it is too stressful. Is there something to go for a walk on the roof?"
"It's not nice to say that. He did nothing wrong with you."
"It’s my fault. His laziness led to such an attitude. Forever makes himself out of that. If he at least showed a desire for something, he could achieve a lot."
“And still.”
Natsume got up from her desk and hit her hand on the table. The headman got up from the desk and turned in front of the girl.
“You hurt people's feelings with that.”
“Garbage cannot be considered a man of Natsume.”
Girl sit back at the desk. The words of the headman hurt her. In her thoughts, she constantly thinks about how bad and lonely he is now and wants to go to Yu.
"May I go to the medical center. I feel bad."
"Yes, of course go."
She ran to the roof as she could, knowing that now the guy is right there.
"Why?"
Climbing the stairs, the girl abruptly opened the door and spoke with a cry.
“Why do you never say anything back to them? Yu!"
The guy sat alone, leaning against the wall and looking at the sky. What was he looking for there? What did you see? What was he thinking? No one at school could ever understand him.
“Ahhh, you quickly found me.”
"And then. You always come here when... Stop! Do not leave the answer."
"Oops. Yes, I was not going to."
"In fact, I probably just do not care about everything that happens around. It's boring and useless." He said to himself.
Fred quietly spied and watched them. Jealous of Natsume for Yu. Because she spends quite a long time with him, and he pisses him off.
"Damn Yu, always hanging around my beloved."
Almost the entire lesson, they chatted incessantly on various topics. They joked. They shared their impressions. At such moments, the strange guy was just ordinary.
"And he says, “Have you ever heard of a big 40 centimeter”, but she turned all red. And he asks: What? Tasty burger at mcdonalds."
"Ahhhahah, you're lucky. Watch movies with Anastasia, always help each other."
"Yes, she is like a mom to me. Okay, let's get ready for the next lesson."
Skipping the lesson. The couple together went to the others. In the evening, as usual, exactly at 5:00 p.m. they ended and Natsume and Fred and I went home.
Again he is about the same thing. Healed how madly he loves Natsume.
"Anastasia, I'm at home."
"Go get my hands and sit down for dinner."
After school, exactly at 18:00, Anastasia and I sit down to dinner, then we watch a movie and disperse into the rooms. We have neither family nor surname. It feels like we're not from this world. Unique.
"Stop! Surname? Why only we with her do not have it. Natsume has Osaka. Fred has Johnson. Elizabeth - Romanov."
About 10 minutes standing in the bathroom and looking in the mirror, this thought did not leave his head.
“And what about me and Anastasia? Maybe you should ask? She must know for sure.”
Calming his mind, the guy wiped his wet hands and went to dinner.
"What happened to you? What a painful thought you are today."
"Not. Just got a little tired, that's all."
Ask was out of breath. I think some other day.
"Then no films today. We eat and go to rest."
"Yeah. I spoke upset."
Anastasia's phone rang.
“Yes, I'm listening to you.”
"This is a class teacher, it bothers you."
"Yes, something happened?"
“You were kicked out of the English class.”
Anastasia is talking at such a late hour? I don’t recall that.
"And the door to her room is open? Usually she always locks. Maybe it's worth a peek?"
Having risen to the top, strange things happened in his daily routine. There have never been calls, and the door is open. Really in this worthless routine at least something began to change.
"No you can not. But so interesting. I never saw a women's room."
He turns to the other side and looks into the gap. Anastasia is still talking on the phone. Then Yu returns to her door and opens.
"The corpses. Blood. The limbs of monsters. What the hell is going on here? It is waiting for me. I will die too. She is my family."
A projection of a girl from a dream appears in front of him in a room and says.
"I was waiting for you Yu."
"You?"
"I'm Amelia Kraus. There is no place for conversation now, we are transported into the world of Frey."
Yu's body flashed and pulled into a void. In a completely new and incomprehensible place for him. Full of games and entertainment.
"Where am I?"
"We don't have much time, so listen carefully. Your life and the whole city is an illusion. According to the scope of the project, a chronometer. And you are beta testers of an ideal world, and people like Anastasia are hiding reality from you under the curtain of a similar day. But no one even notices that changes in life are not happening. Based on everyday life, everyone believes that a new day has begun, but this is not so. You are the only one who sees it."
"I see, that’s where this boredom came from. Because of the creation of the so-called ideal and tranquility. People have become fake. Limpless corpses. Pretty tragic. Do not find. Amelia."
"Are you scared?"
"Not. And should? Tell me, what kind of corpses are in the room?"
"Failed experiments. But I am amazed, an ordinary person would have gone for a long time."
“I think you're exaggerating. If all that I saw is true, and not some other stupid dream. Then…"
"What will you do?"
"I will destroy this false world and create a new one."
Amelia disappears.
"Save me Yu."
Frey's world is disappearing.
"All the same, it was not a dream. A terrible sight. It is necessary to bring down until Anastasia saw. I’ll cover the door in the same position as it was and..."
The guy ran to his room, wrapped himself in a blanket and trembled with fear, like a beaten puppy.
Hearing the run, Anastasia began to go upstairs and headed to Yu’s room. On the way, she saw her door and remembered how she had forgotten to lock it today. This was very alarming, because if Yu went there, then he definitely saw all the horrors that were happening there.
"I enter."
Yu's whole body trembled with fear. Not abating for a second.
"Don’t pretend that you are sleeping. I heard you running along the corridor."
He could not say a word.
“Your class teacher called me.”
"What to answer. Damn, something needs to be answered."
Yu to sit down. Sharply putting himself in order as if nothing had happened answers:
"And what did he want."
"He said that the teacher kicked you from an English lesson."
"Is there something wrong? Has the project moved on? Not. It is painfully calm if he came into my room. I certainly could not leave such composure. Or am I underestimating him?"
"I got bored and I fell asleep."
"It really upset me."
"Sorry, I didn't mean to."
"Okay, talk tomorrow. Good night."
"And you."
The next day. All right up to the minute, the same actions took place as yesterday. Like I spent the day again.
"Yesterday? And really. Repeats."
"Good morning Natsume. Where are Yu?"
"He said you were too noisy and went ahead."
"What the hell is going on here?"
While I was analyzing the morning, I noticed one small detail. Only children under 16 years old participate in this project. In the city from 16 to 25 there is not a single person. Apparently, all adults are up to date. They follow our every step. They observe and communicate with each other reporting on the situation and its changes. And this means that at 16 years old they get rid of children. One of such places is Anastasia’s room. I must not stand out and imitate the same day in front of adults.
"You saw this. Natsume put the pen on the wrong side. We need to report."
"And Fred missed the floor. For the first time I see. Usually he never misses it. I will signal to his family too."
The phone rang. Anastasia in the room with the corpses.
"Hello."
"This is class teacher Yu. He did not sleep today in an English lesson."
"Don’t worry, I will settle everything." He says with surprise.
"Are you sure."
"Do you doubt it?"
"Uh, no way."
"That's nice now I ask you not to call me again."
"But."
"I’ll deal with everything myself."
"I understood you."
Peep, Peep.
"So the project began to move from a dead point. 10 years have passed Yu. It's time..."
"I have to hide from her what I know. She is my main rival now. Well it's time..."
"Play gears just like in childhood Yu, Anastasia." At the same time, the same words were spoken.
Meanwhile, on the heights of the outskirts of the city, stood the building of the head of the city, which had never before been opened for many years. The gates are always closed and the fence of the mansion is 9 meters high, with a smooth wall and static discharge. No one in their right mind would venture to get there.
A strange man. In the entire history of the city there is not a single mention of it. No one saw him live. Only now all adults adore, as if God or the ruler of the state.
"How is the project progressing chronometer?" The guy near the window spoke standing behind the screen. Looks like 15 years old.
"No results. Not one of the experimental subjects has returned memories. Children live in peace and tranquility without suspecting anything." The butler spoke, bowing before him.
"Clear. But you know, one question worries me. Why did my memory remain untouched?"
The butler puts his hand on his chest. Bowing its head.
“I don't know it, Mr. Takao.”
“No one knows.”
The little mayor came out. A handsome tall guy with a very stern expression. At the same time, a note of mercy is added to this severity, which gives a chic look. He took a glass filled with wine and drank.
“My dear butler, is it time for us to begin the action?”
He shot a murderous look at the mayor.
"Excluded mister. Otherwise, I myself personally..."
Not letting me finish. Takao interrupted his butler.
"That, I'm joking, joking."
"I do not advise raising this topic anymore. I try for your protection. And yes, stop drinking alcohol. You are not an adult."
The butler took the glass from the hands of the young master and set it on the table.
"Nuuuu. It’s delicious. Just a little, a little possible?"
"Not."
"The greedy."
The end. 1 day.
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