Re: Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu (Re：ゼロから始める異世界生活)

Prologue - The waste heat of the beginning

-This is really, really not good.

Feeling the hard texture of the ground against his face, he realized that he had fallen facedown on the ground. He couldn't move, even he tried, and he already couldn't feel his fingers. What he did feel was a certain heart, and it overwhelmed his entire body.

-It's hot,  it's hot, it's hot, it's hot, it's hot, it's hot, it's hot.

He coughed and vomited the blood he felt rising in his throat-the source of his waning life. So much came out that it frothed at the edges of his mouth. With his hazy vision, could see the ground in front of him stained red.

-You've...got to be kidding me... All of this is mine?

Feeling as through all of the blood in his body has spilled out of him, he reached a shaking hand to try  to find the source of the heat that was burning  through his body. As his  fingertips reached the large cut in his stomach, he understood.

No wonder it felt so hot. His brain must has been mistaking pain of heat. The clean gash that ran through his torso was so deep it had almost sliced him in half. Only bits of skin were still holding him together.

In others words, he had run right into a checkmate in the chess game of his life. As soon as he realized that, his consciousness immediately began to fall away from him.

Before his eyes, he saw a black boot descend, making ripples in the red pool of his fresh blood.

Someone was there, and that someone...was probably the one who killed him.

But his didn't even think to look that person in the face. It didn't matter anymore.

-The one thing h did wish  was that she, at least, would be safe.

"-baru?" 

He felt has if he heard a voice that rang like bells. That he could hear that voice, felt like salvation to him more that anything else so-

" ! "

Will a short scream, someone else clumped upon the carpet of blood.

She landed right beside him. He lay there, weakly attempting to reach her.

Her white hand fell, powerless. He lightly grasped it in his own bloodstained grip.

He felt the fingers of her hand move slightly to accept his own.

"Just you wait..."

He seized his fading consciousness, pulling it desperately back to buy a bit more time.

"I'm going to..."

-"...find a way to save you."

In the next moment, he-Subaru Natsuki-lost his life.