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In the footage, as his younger self walked out the door, a tall, thin man in a black coat stepped into the frame from the opposite direction. The man didn't look at the camera. He looked directly at Natsu's younger self. Then he pulled a small, rectangular device from his pocket—it looked like an old MP3 player with a cracked screen—and pointed it at the retreating figure.
Natsu looked at his reflection in the dark monitor. He saw a character. Not a person. A file. A download. And for the first time in his life, he understood what true freedom felt like—because if he was just a story, then he could write his own ending.
The screen went black. Not the sleep mode black, but an infinite, velvet darkness that seemed to suck the light from his desk lamp. Then, a grainy image materialized. It looked like security camera footage from a convenience store—a 7-Eleven he recognized from his old neighborhood in Chiba. The timestamp in the corner read: 2024-03-15 02:14:17 JST .
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Title: Natsu Igarashi – Season 2, Episode 1: “Escape.”
He opened it. One sentence:
Another file appeared in his download folder. Then another. Dozens, then hundreds. Each one a memory he didn't know he had. Not from his own perspective, but from the outside. A third-person recording of his life. Him crying in his childhood closet at age seven. Him cheating on a high school exam. Him standing on the roof of his university library, looking down at the pavement, wondering if he would die if he jumped. In every single clip, the man in the black coat was there. Sometimes close, sometimes far. Always watching. Always recording. In the footage, as his younger self walked
Natsu sat frozen. His hand went to the back of his own neck. He felt a small, smooth bump he had never noticed before. It felt like a grain of rice under his skin.
What he didn't remember was the other figure.
Natsu's breath hitched. March 15th. That was two weeks before he moved to Tokyo. He was still living with his mother then. Then he pulled a small, rectangular device from
The line went dead.
He deleted the bump on his neck with a sterilized x-acto knife, packed a bag, and walked out into the Tokyo night. Behind him, his computer screen flickered. A new file was already downloading.