GAME AFTER-English Version

12-Joker part one

KIYO'S POV

One day, I returned to Shibuya and saw them. Arisu, Kuina, my brother and Chishiya.

They stared at me, then I ran to meet them.

We looked at each other for a few minutes, without saying anything. Then Arisu started talking...and the whole truth came out, upsetting my existence.

To get back to our world, we had to play, all together, one last time.

And this time, we had to win.

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"Guys, where were you?" I said, out of breath, as soon as I reached them. "I've been looking for you for days!"

"Kiyo." Niragi looked at me worried. "You know who I am?"

"What the hell do you mean Niragi? Why shouldn't I know who you are?"

"She does remember, then." Arisu said.

"I don't know if that's good or bad." Chishiya added.

"Kiyo, you made us so worried!" Kuina hugged me.

Their speech made no sense.

Why shouldn't I have remembered them? And if anything, I should have been the one worried, since I found myself alone and I didn't know what had happened to them.

"Can you explain to me what the hell is going on?" I looked at them confused.

"You had-" Niragi began, but Arisu cut him off.

"Maybe it's best if we sit down." He said, coming up to me and sitting down. Chishiya sat down on my other side and looked at me with a look I couldn't decipher. Kuina and Niragi remained in front of us.

"Okay, we're all seated now. I had what?" I asked. "An advantage? I don't think so, I struggled a lot to find the Joker's Game and in case you haven't noticed I haven't cleared it ye-"

"Kiyo shut up and listen!" Niragi was exasperated.

Seeing him in that state made me speechless.

"you had an accident." Arisu said.

"An accident?"

"Yes, and you'd lost your memory." Kuina added.

"I don't understand."

"Before I go any further," Arisu looked at me. "Let me ask you something: do you think this is the reality?"

"Huh? What do you mean?" I didn't understand where my best friend was getting at.

"Do you think this is the real world?" Arisu seemed to want me to understand something. "Don't you remember, for example, being in the hospital?"

Now that he made me think about it, I'd had such a thought. It had been just before arriving at the Joker's Game, but up to that moment I had believed that the hospital had been a dream; because finding yourself in the hospital meant that I had managed to pass all the Games. But in that dream there was something wrong because, I remembered at that moment, I no longer knew who I was and I hadn't even recognized my friends.

I tried to explain as best I could, my dream.

"How can your brain conceive such a thing?!" Niragi looked angry.

"Perhaps, because she has more imagination than you do." Chishiya said, with his usual calmness.

"Chishiya if you open your mouth again-"