Kagerou Project Light Novel

Headphone Actor IV

Headphone Actor IV 

I wonder if my last words reached. 

Although I had no way of making sure, surely, they had. I had that kind of feeling. 

It was a strange sensation. 

Like floating in warm water, or flying through the sky …. 

Yes, a sensation like waking up from something. 

My quickened breath, the pain in my legs that seemed like they would tear. Even the usual drowsiness that would irritate me …. Today, I didn’t feel anything at all. 

Had I died? 

Could this seemingly endless darkness be the afterlife ….? 

I had imagined it’d have a bit more of a fairy tale-like feeling, but unexpectedly, it seemed like even God slacked off sometimes. 

At the very least, I wish He’d made a bit of light …. 

"Sigh, somehow I just don’t understand this at all ….. Huh? Ah! Ah~! Ah~! …. I can speak. U~hm …. hm~ My body …. is here, too." 

Patting my own body all over, it was evident from my voice and body that I was properly conscious.  

"Then, I wonder what this place is. It doesn’t feel like I’m trapped somewhere, either ….. I wonder if I what I saw just now was some weird dream …." 

All of a sudden, the memory of my horrific experience from earlier came flooding back. 

The town of agonizing cries. 

The crumbling sky. 

The voice of another “me” that I suddenly heard ….. 

Just remembering it gave me goosebumps. 

And from “getting goosebumps,” I realized something. 

How had it become something this strange in the first place? 

Although I could speak, I couldn’t feel myself breathing. 

Although I could touch my body, I couldn’t feel a temperature. 

If this was what being “dead” was like, I probably had to come to terms with it, but no matter what, I couldn’t understand it. 

That time, before I’d woken up in the hallway, what in the world had happened to my body? 

I’d experienced this sensation several times before. 

The sensation of “waking up after suddenly falling asleep.” 

In actuality, my memories from before I woke up in that hallway were completely missing. 

It was probably because I’d fainted because of my “illness,” and woken up there. 

That was something that had happened many times before, so it wasn’t such a big surprise …. but this time, the situation in which I woke up was different. 

Up until now, I’d never been engulfed by this dream-like phenomenon, wandering around in the darkness. 

"Nn~!! I don’t get it!! Just what is this place!? Someone!?! Is there anyone here~!?!" 

The moment I shouted this, although I didn’t know if it was an opportunity or anything—suddenly, something like a square television screen emerged from the darkness. 

In it, there were an infinite number of monitors, and cables that seemed to be alive, running from the ceiling. 

"U-uwaah! That scared me … What is this? …. TV?"