Asahi landed.
Hard.
His knees buckled. His body stumbled forward.He glanced at his trembling hand.
"Huh…"
Then—
SPLASH.BURST.
His finger exploded.Then his palm.Veins ruptured, spilling out thick black blood.
His eyes widened.Horror. Absolute horror.
"ARARARARRARARRARARRA!!!"
Asahi screamed—a cry that shook the skies.Like a monster unchained.
He collapsed.Grasped at the twitching remains of his arm.
The pain—It wasn't human.It wasn't normal.
It felt... dimensional.
Anari screamed.
Then choked.
Her body froze.Her legs gave in.
She fell to her knees—traumatized.She had never seen something like this.Not in dreams.Not even in nightmares.
And Asahi...
Still screaming.Still clutching at the blackened ruin of his arm.
"ARRARARARRAARRARARAA!!!"
The storm didn't stop.The rain kept falling.
The air itself—
Shook with the sound of pain.
He died.
Only to wake.
Same ceiling.Dark room.His room.
Hands shaking.Eyes wide open.Blank.
He lay there—motionless.
A whisper escaped his lips.Low. Broken.
"Ua…"
"…UAAAAAAA!!!"
"I'LL KILL YOUUUUUUUU!!! RRRRRRRRRR!!!"
Asahi jumped out of bed.Threw open the drawer.Snatched the eyepatch.
Covered his corrupted eye.
Footsteps echoed.His mother, coming to wake him.
But Asahi leapt out the window.
He ran.
ASAHI: "RARARARARAR!!! UAAAAA!!"
He tore through the streets.Hair wild.Clothes soaked.Mind burning.
People stared—Terrified.
Strangers: "What's wrong with him…?"
He didn't stop.Didn't breathe.Muscles burning.Every step—screaming.
Through alleys.Through narrow lanes.He searched.
Until—
He stopped.
Anari's house.
And a man.
Standing in front of the gate.Still. Silent.
His back turned to the world.His heart… elsewhere.
Asahi (low, trembling): "Uaa…"
UA (without turning): "Asahi." (smiles)
ASAHI: "ARARRARARAR!!!"
He charged.
UA sighed.Then punched.
CRACK.
Asahi flew backward.Crashing.Blood spilled across the pavement.
He tried to stand.Tried to breathe.
But nothing worked.
He coughed blood.
And began to cry.
Asahi (voice shaking): "G-Get up… get up, you idiot…!"
UA stood there.Watching.Emotionless.
UA (softly): "…What have I done?"
ASAHI (screaming): "I'LL KILL YOUUUU!! RRRRRRRRRR!!!"
Clothes torn.Body broken.Eyes... lifeless.
UA: "Understand me, Asahi. I'm the only one cursed."
He pointed directly at him.
"You know nothing."
"FA knows. Ask him what he's done."
"The blessings you enjoy—" (his voice cracked)"—they're mine."
A single tear fell.
Asahi (shocked): "Huh…"
UA: "This was never meant for you."
Asahi stood.
Something cracked.
Maybe bones.Maybe... his resolve.
He raised his left hand—his cursed hand.Pressed it against UA's chest.
"REPEL. MAX POWER."
Silence.
Then—
BLOOD.
SPLASH.
UA's heart was ripped out.
It flew—Hit the ground.Lifeless.Colorless.
His chest torn open.His left arm fell off.
But...
He didn't flinch.
Asahi knelt.Shaking.Broken.
His arm hung loose—dislocated.
He stared at the heart.It hadn't beaten in a long time.
UA slowly knelt too.
No regeneration.No resistance.
UA: "Even if I die…" (smiles faintly)"You die too."
Asahi (shivering): "T-That heart… it's… lifeless…"
UA (quiet): "It stopped beating… the day she died."
Tears rolled down his cheeks.
Asahi couldn't answer.He could only cry.
UA (broken whisper):"That's how much I loved her, Asahi…"
Both of them—
Dying.
In front of the girl they loved.
UA collapsed.
UA (smiling weakly): "Guess I'm going first, huh…"
Asahi dragged himself forward.
Knees scraping the asphalt.Flesh tearing.
Still moving.Still reaching.
He touched UA's chest.
UA: "I need to win her, Asahi…""You can't save her." (crying)
Asahi: "I… need her…" (barely audible)
UA: "You were lucky… not like the others.""You were blessed with her… and cursed with me."
Asahi stared.
Blank.Numb.
The door opened.
Anari stepped out.Wearing her uniform.Heading to school.
She froze.
Dropped her bag.
Anari: "Asahi…?" (horrified)
Asahi looked up.Blood everywhere.Body ruined.
Still...He smiled.
UA (softly):"You have someone to worry about, Asahi…""I need that. I've lived too long without her."
Asahi grabbed his own throat.
ASAHI: "Die." (coldly)
Anari: "ASAHIIIIIIII!!"
UA raised his final hand.A punch—
To Asahi's face.
CRACK. SPLASH.
His face shattered.His head spun.
DAY RESET.