Senran Kagura; Shinobi by Death: Volume 1, The Beginning

Chapter 3: Realization

Yukio woke up in his bed again, screaming.

"Ahhhhhhh! What? I-I'm alive?!"

No, no. I was definitely gonna die. There's no way I could've survived that. Is this a dream? Is everything a dream now?!

"Calm down, there's no way-"

Yukio's alarm clock went off, and he turned it off. As he was turning it off, he saw his phone on his desk. That surprised him, because it couldn't have teleported from the old building to his dorm, in the same place as it was when he woke for his first day of school.

"There's gotta be something wrong here."

Yukio grabbed his phone, and looks at the date. Then he got his answer, he started shaking. It was the first day of school...again!

H-How?! Wasn't that two days ago? Wait a minute, am I...

"I'm reliving my first day of school?!"

That was when he realized, he must have been restarting the day every time he was killed.

"So I must be stuck in a timeloop or something, this makes me start the same day over from the moment I wake up."

Yukio once again heard the school bell, and got ready for his first day of school for the third time. He opened the door, and saw the students leaving the dorm.

So everything really has been reset. This is great! That old building must have been connected to all the times that I was killed. I just have to avoid the old building, and I won't be targeted.

With that in mind, he walked to his class. As he walked by the shrine, he smirked.

"Bump into the little girl, in 3...2...1..."

When Yukio said one, he saw the little girl heading towards him. He tried to dodge the girl, who was about to run into him for the third time.

Now she won't run into me-

The little girl still ran into Yukio, regardless of his efforts to avoid. They both fell to the ground.

"Ah! My apologies, mister. Are you ok?" The little girl innocently asked.

"Y-Yeah, I'm fine. Are you ok, little miss?" Yukio replied back.

The little girl responded the same, and they both got up.

"Well, see you." Yukio said to the little girl.

"R-Right. I'll see you around, mister." The little girl replied as she went around the same corner to the shrine.

I guess no matter what, I was gonna end up running into her anyway.

Yukio made it to school very early this time. He went to the old building, and just stood near the entrance.

I've been killed, twice. All because of my curiosity of this old building. I shouldn't even be near this building after what I experienced, so why am I still drawn towards this place?

Yukio felt like the building was very important, despite how old it looked. He wanted to know why it was important, without getting himself killed.

"Who are you?" A female voice snapped Yukio back to reality.

"H-Huh?" Yukio started to freak out.

He expected to get some kind of threat after he said that, but nothing happened. He looked around to see who was talking to him, but he couldn't find anyone near him. After looking around, he replayed the girl's voice in his head.