I wearily opened my eyes, finding myself staring up at the ceiling of a bright white room.
"You're awake?"
I turned my head to the right, seeing Onodera sitting bedside the bed I was laid out upon.
"Yeah." I mumbled.
"How are you feeling?"
"I have a pounding headache, and I feel weak."
She nodded to herself.
"Makes sense, the Nurse said it was some sort of mental exhaustion. You got lucky, some people die from that stuff."
Mental exhaustion?
No, that's not right.
It's something completely different.
I didn't realize it until just now, but it feels like there's a lock on my brain.
I've triggered it thrice now.
The first time was during my sleep, perhaps it was something I did during the day? Or something I was thinking of already.
The second was during the swimming race, technically it triggered twice, but I'm placing both in the same event.
The third was just before, after meeting Sakayanagi.
It's beginning to make sense now.
Three years.
That's all I remember of my life.
The person who took me in had said that I'd been passed out, having been washed ashore from a river.
As much as I tried to remember, I couldn't, so he had taken me in officially.
I have no doubt about it.
For some reason, the memories of my life prior to that moment three years ago are all locked away.
But why?
I shook my head.
Wrong question.
Rather, how can I unlock them?
As said before, I've triggered them three times, but the reason for each one seems to be different.
I'm not so sure about the first two, but the third definitely triggered because I met this Sakayanagi Arisu person.
"Thank you for checking u-up on me Onodera-chan."
She sent me a smile.
"It's no problem, I just noticed some commotion in the halls after I finished practice today, and figured out it was you. You collapsed right outside the Chess club room." She explained.
How kind of her, most people in our class wouldn't care much unless it happened right in front of them.
There are only a few I could think of that would help in the same case as Onodera's. Hirata, Kushida, and maybe Karuizawa.
Of course, I would as well, so long as I can steel my nerves.
Ayanokoji might as well, but I've struck him as someone who's just trying to have a normal high school life, and not do anything he doesn't need to.
In other words he wants to be lazy.
"Ah, she said it's fine for you to just go if you're feeling better." Onodera said.
How kind of her to remember.
I didn't feel better at all, but at the same time there's a lot I want to do, so I moved to stand up out of bed.
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My New Life
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