14.5. Thoughts.

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 " Thoughts are the shadow of our feelings-- always darker, emptier, and simpler. "



- Friedrich Nietzsche



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I never believed in reincarnation. For so long, I thought that once you die, that's that.


And for someone like me, who died earlier than he should've, I considered it as an escape.


A good rest, so to speak.


A means to stop... having to think. To stop doing everything I can to preserve myself, to shield the harm. To conquer whoever I went against. And to see that man be proven wrong... that even  his ' masterpiece ' couldn't escape the clutches of sudden death.


By no means that I had a remarkable life worth cherishing, so I had neither regrets nor laments nor dreams. I embraced the idea of death, the idea of my end.




But then...



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I was greeted by a gaze that entertained the thought of there being a heaven, only to realize soon that I'd been given a second chance. A second life.


Not as Ayanokouji Kiyotaka, a successful product of the White Room.


But as Hoshino Goldenberyl, the son of an idol Hoshino Ai.



And you two were there, Aqua and Ruby, by my side right from the very start.


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