In the middle of a bustling city of Tokyo, where tall buildings and colorful lights flash all around. There are many people walking around, even at night. Though, through her eyes, she felt she's all alone in the middle of a jungle. The danger of meeting a dangerous beast, where she's all alone with nowhere to go
She walked faster and faster, away from the many people that would look at her. She stepped on the puddles, the stench was unbearable. She saw the graffiti on the walls of an alleyway, that was the path she had chosen. Then, she leaned into the wall, to hide herself from the world, at least for a little bit
"What should I do now?"
She thought as she grimaced, trying to remember what she had forgotten
…
She found herself laying in the hard concrete the moment she woke up. She looked around with confusion in her eyes, as she saw a street that was dimly lit. The place is dark and she felt that people with bad intentions, will appear at anytime
That's where she found herself, waking up in a dark street where danger will come at any time. She attempted to get up, but suddenly, her head is wracked with pain that she yelp
"Kyahh!"
She holds her head with both of her arms, she hears a whisper of many peoples with unknown language, the clashing of metals, and the roars of beasts. She also saw a faint blurry scenes in her mind, lots of many different scenes that was flashing so fast, that she couldn't make out any of it
Then, as she endured the pain of what she's feeling, she suddenly felt cold. A typical breeze felt like she was being frozen! The sound she hears is so loud that it leads her to switch from clutching her head to her ears. The sounds of people talking and the honk of cars, including many sounds around her, is simply unbearable!
Her nose is especially worse! She smelled all kinds of odors ranging from the smell of sewers to the rotten smell of garbage! She almost vomited and she teared up from the smell! As she's suffering, the whispers and the scenes in her head start to vanish. Her all sensations that she's feeling started to calm down as well. She heave like she's going to puke, but she endured it and sits up
She looked around blankly as felt that she was lost. She looked at the end of the dark street, towards the light that's coming in the distance. She attempted to get up and walk towards the light, but she froze. Ilaya stared grimacing, and her eyes widened in shock
'I-I can't remember anything!'
"H-How could this be!?"
She got up and started thinking about anything about her, and to her horror, her memories are blank! The only thing she can remember is the moment she woke up!
She paced up and down as she panicking, grabbed her head again, this time, by trying to make her remember, but no matter what she do, her memories were not coming back. She leaned her hands on the wall as she's felling confusion, fear, worry, and sadness. She looked at the other side of the street, what she saw is an ominous path with no light, she shivered. Then she looked at the other side, there's light on the other end of a path. She felt that there's a lot of people there on the other side. She hesitated
'Is it possible that I came from the other dark path? Maybe there's something there that can explain why I don't have my memories?
"But, I need to check where I am first"
She looked again on the dark end of the street, and shivered as she felt that there's a person there, looking at her, waiting for her to go in that direction. That made up her mind as she walked towards the light
…
"What should I do now?"
She felt tired, she didn't know what's going on anymore, she felt her stomach grumble, she then thought where to get food. Then she absent mindedly reached in her pocket and froze. She felt something hard in her pocket and she exclaimed excitedly
"Why didn't I think of this!?"
She hurriedly picked all of her belongings and she crouched down to put on the ground. She saw a wallet, a key, and a candy. She immediately put the candy in her mouth as she's so hungry now, and proceeded to inspect the other items. She opened her wallet first to know if there something there that can make her remember. Inside the wallet that contained ID, ATM card, money, and an old address. She read her ID
"Ilaya D. Bayfron"
'Is this my name?'
She tilts her head. There is no picture of her in the ID, and the other information in it is scratched out. She angrily said
"Why there's no picture!? And the other information is scratched out too!"
She's now starting to doubt if this wallet is truly hers. Then she sighed
'I have a name now, I guess? Ilaya… that's what I called myself for now. It's inconvenient to walk around without having a name'
Ilaya then looked at the other things inside the wallet. She picked the ATM card and looked at it for a bit, then she put it back in her wallet
'There's nothing bit of useful information'
Then she picked the old address
'Now this is a pure information, but I don't know where it is'
Ilaya decided that she's going to go to this address the moment she obtained the three basic necessities of survival. Namely food, shelter, and clothing
Then, she looked at the last item that was laying on the ground. The key. She picked it up and studied it
"This key is very strange, it's not like a typical key that's used in everyday life. The shape is tube-like. I wonder what this key will open?"
Then, she looked at the money, tempted by buying food. Then, she gets up and walked again out of the narrow path to enter the world again
'I don't know if this things is even mine, but forgive me for using these, as I really need to survive and… '
Ilaya stepped out of the alley, ready to face the whole world again
'... To search of my past'
She then walked among the sea of people and disappeared in one of the jungle of the modern world, the City of Tokyo