COTE\OC Unpolished Diamond Year 2

Volume 7: Revenge

Yagami Takuya Monologue

The WhiteRoom

This out-of-ordinary name is my world.

This is where my first memory was made. It is where I ate, learned, slept and did everything asked. This place is my own world.

A world that regular and ordinary people cannot comprehend.

Freedom isn't a theme of my own world.

Survival would be its most prominent theme.

In our world, people who are unable to survive through the program aren't valuable. That's why every child has to do the minimum asked to keep up the program.

Yet...

This place, cut from the rest of the world, has its own hierarchy like everywhere else.

I was at the top of the fifth generation during my early childhood. Behind me, Masachika Kuze was showing significant results but still not as great as me.

Amasawa Ichika and others were children who were able to keep up with the program. 

The hierarchy was clear. I was at the top, with people behind fighting to reach me.

Until the fateful day...

The day we learned about the existence of Ayanokoji Kiyotaka—the one standing at the top of our world's hierarchy.

All the years without any praise or any sense of expectations in my instructor's eyes became apparent as soon we learned about Ayanokoji Kiyotaka's existence.

I wasn't as valuable as the one standing at the top. I was simply another kid behind Ayanokoji Kiyotaka unable to reach him.

This precise moment broke everything apart in our world.

Ichika and the others behind me started to admire Ayanokoji Kiyotaka like they never once looked at me.

Their weak sense of reaching the highest of the hierarchy was immediately crushed by the simple discovery of a supposedly superior existence.

However...

What truly disgusted me and created a sense of hatred was the guy just behind me.

He also abandoned me despite being someone I acknowledged and had expectations of...

I ended up alone and yet still far from the top of my world.

How was it possible?

Our world's rules remain the same. Survive and reach the top.

Then how can they all easily accept such an existence as Ayanokoji Kiyotaka or worse...

How can he decide to change his mind about reaching the highest? How can he suddenly go against everything in our world? Threw everything he obtained in our world.

Abandoning here only meant to spit on all our hard work and sacrifice we made on the way.

Even if everyone around me abandoned our fight or left me on my own all alone...

I had to keep fighting...

For our pride and the meaning of our lives. The values of our lives us people of the fifth generation.

I'll open their eyes by reaching heights they all abandoned.

I'll be the one leading the way in this world of us.