A life so normal that nothing can be said about it.
After leaving college, I joined a prestigious academy to teach the history and am living alone now at the age of 37. Having no girlfriend.
Filial duty left to my younger sister, my life is essentially that of an independent, single noble.
Neither short of height, or wanting of a good face. Yet unpopular. I have tried exherting effort into finding a girlfriend – and have confessed thrice! –
but after being dumped, my heart is left shattered. Well, having reached this age, I can honestly say that this romance thing is naught but troublesome.
And although you could say that I am mostly busy with work, it's not like I am troubled by not having one. It's not like I am making excuses… really.
"Dude! You're finally here, We thought you'll never come!"
At the counter of a ramen stand, I saw two men and a beautiful woman.
They were my childhood friends: Fujiwara Ikki, Nishimura Naoki – these guys have always been my shadow, but it's thanks to them that I'm who I am today. Without them, I'd be unemployedt; the one by their sides is the academy's renowned Madonna, the headmistress Kitagawa Yumi.
Yep, I have been asked by these colleagues to offer consultation on Ikki and Yumi's upcoming marriage. And by the way, this is the reason why I started wondering about my own unpopularity.
"Yeah! Yeah! So tell us everything, what kind of advice are you looking for? You should know I don't know anything about love, and you guys?"
"Personally, I could give them one or two tips, but after that?"
"This might be better if our maid of honor shows up, right?"
Naoki ask while looking at Kitagawa-san.
"Hello, pleased to meet you. My name is Kitagawa Yumi. Although we have seen each other before, this would be the first time we are speaking, right?
Makes me nervous, somehow."
I'm the nervous one, damn it? Maybe it's my superior, but I've never spoken to women except my sister in the first place. Cut me some slack! With such words, I silently complain to myself.
And if it were me, I would have stayed home playing Genshin Impact where the latest update was installed with the Story Quest for Varka. I've got like the feeling they're all just poking fun at me! It's spite, isn't it.
"Hello. I am Akatsuki Shurei. No need to be nervous or anything. Kitagawa-san is famous with us, so I know who you are even without the introduction. About Fujiwara – we went to the same University, you know, so we've had lots to talk about. After which we naturally hung out a bit."
"Yeah, that old fool, he always knew how to act the idiot at school, but I wonder what his secret is to dating such a beauty?"
"I'll never tell you, guys."
Ikki sneers like a villain in a fairy tale. There are times I'll never understand... I don't think any of us will.
We could see the academy a few blocks away. I hope this day goes well. And just when I thought so…
" " "Kyaaaaaaaaaa!" " "
Screams. Confusion.
What's going on?
"Get out of the way! I'm going to kill you all!"
We turned around at the sound of the shouts. A man was brandishing a razor-sharp axe.
Next to me, Naoki was calling for backup, because the man was dangerous.
"To all units! We have a dangerous man walking around with an axe in his hand in the street. We need officers at my exact location, immediately."
I hope they'll arrive in time… I hear the scream. I see the man. I see the knife. Where is it pointing? At….
"Ikki!"
*Don* I hit Ikki out of the way.
*Dosu* There's a burning pain in my back.
"Damn, I messed up. It's okay, at least one less rival."
Having shouted thus, I see the man escaping but the authorities jump on and arrest him. I turn to make sure Ikki and Kitagawa-san are safe.
With a shout that resembled no words, Ikki runs up to me.
Kitagawa-san is stunned by the sudden turn of events, but appears without other injury… thank god.
That being that, my back burns. Feelings of pain aside, it just burns.
What's up with this? It's too hot… can't it let off a bit?
Could it be the end for me in this world?
Naoki arrives with his colleagues, horrified.
"Shurei!"
"Order me to send an ambulance to the nearest hospital as quickly as possible, while I take care of my friend."
The police officer salutes and then runs to call the hospital.
"Naoki… there's blood coming out… it's not stopping… it ain't…"
"Ikki… I want you to be brave… we're gonna save Shurei…"
What's up with those loud guys. Feel like their voices were strange just now; perhaps, it's just my imagination.
But blood? Yeah, that's clearly leaving. I am human, after all. When stabbed, I bleed!
But pain is unpleasant, isn't it….
"Na... Naoki... Ikki... you are damn loud. It… is not that big of deal, right? Stop worrying…"
"Of course it is. You have a life to live, and besides, who will take care of Sakura if you die?"
Naoki barked with frustation.
My eyes widened a little, but due to the burning pain, it was impossible to do more. I almost forgot about my little sister. What will become of her if she finds out I'm dead?
Well, there's not much I can do about it.
Suddenly, a car stopped; it was an ambulance, and the woman getting out was... my sweet little sister.
Born five years after me, she decided to become a paramedic.
"Sakura, it's perfect that you're here, we don't have a single moment to lose. Your brother has already lost a large amount of blood."
Sakura nodded. Her face blue, on the verge of tears, Sakura continues to hold me. That's the face that is the ruin of handsome woman.
I tried to take a look at how Kitagawa-san was doing, but my vision is too hazy. Can't see.
The burning sensation in my back is gone. Instead, a ferocious cold strikes me.
This could be bad… when people don't have enough blood, they die, don't they?
I try to speak, but no words come out. This is bad, maybe I really will die….
But hey, I no longer feel neither pain nor the burning.
But it's cold. So cold, and nothing I can do about it. What's with this… I am too busy of a man to be freezing in this cold.
At that time, the dying brain cells of mine, with a flash of inspiration, have remembered the truly important things!
Yes! The contents of my PC hard drive!
"Sister!! If and only if, I say, I die… take care of my PC. I beg you… submerge it in water, turn it on, and completely wipe the data clean…"
Thus I, having summoned the remainder of my strength, have conveyed the matters of most grave importance.
"I bet you've been downloading illegal movies and pornographic series, as usual." Sakura, she said, laughing warmly after carefully removing the axe and sealing the wound, but it was already too late, I knew it.
"You won't die, bro." She said with a serious look. Who would even want to look at a woman's serious face? I saw this many times. Ikki told us then...
"You know, I… about Kitagawa, I wanted to show her off to you, bro…"
Heh, I knew it... this bastard.
"Tch… jeez. I've forgiven all of it, so your girlfriend, make her happy, got it? And take care of the PC… Sakura, I wanted to tell you that I'm sorry I couldn't be there for your thirty-second birthday last year and Naoki, congratulations on your promotion."
The last of my strength, was only enough to say that much.
Completely unsatisfied, Akatsuki Shurei died.
And at that instant, Akatsuki Shurei's "soul" linked with a spawned monster in another world.
Into a dimensional crack so small that no eye could see. His soul linked with a mass of infinity energy.
This mass was the origin of abyssal realm, and to Akatsuki Shurei who had linked to it, his thoughts as a base, the mass constructed a body.
What is normally is essentially an impossibility with an astronomically small chance of occurrence, Akatsuki Shurei was reborn as a monster in another world.
Unaware that his rebirth will guide him to become the offspring of a divine being.
A life so normal that nothing can be said about it.
After leaving college, I joined a prestigious academy to teach the history and am living alone now at the age of 37. Having no girlfriend.
Filial duty left to my younger sister, my life is essentially that of an independent, single noble.
Thus, a virgin.
Unbelievable, departing the world without ever been put to use… my 'son' must be crying right now.
Sorry, I never could make you into an adult…
When I am reborn, we'll change the world around. Go on the offensive with a
bang. Call them out, and go on devouring spree…. But that's no good, is it?
And well, at almost forty years old, the thirty year old virgin that I am, in a magical world would certainly be a sage… heck, a great sage wouldn't be out of the question, would it?
Thinking that, I went to sleep.
(So this is death, huh… not as lonesome as I thought.)
Those were, for Akatsuki Shurei, the lost words spoken in this word.