Hello.
I'm Hikaru.
I'm seventeen years old.
I have a lot of friends, and yeah… I'm pretty popular at school. I've even received quite a few confessions.
But for some reason, I never gave an answer to any of them.
I don't know why.
Every morning, I wake up at six. Before heading to school, I drop my little sister, Hanako,at her middle school.
You know—big brother responsibility.
Hehe…
I was a pretty normal guy.
At least—
before 7th May.
6th May — 4:00 PM
I was returning home when my phone vibrated.
A video.
I don't know why, but the moment I saw the video, my heart sank.
I tapped it.
And my breath stopped.
Two bodies.
Lying motionless.
Blood on the floor.
A broken window.
A shattered TV.
And standing beside them, people crying, screaming—
my parents.
No.
No, no, no.
My hands started shaking.
My legs moved before my mind could process anything.
I ran.
I ran like I had never run before.
When I reached home, I slammed the door open.
My chest was burning.
My heartbeat was deafening.
And there—
They were.
My mom.
My dad.
Alive.
Standing in front of me.
For a second, my knees almost gave up.
But then—
They rushed toward me and hugged me tightly.
My mom was crying.
"You're alive… You're really alive…"
I froze.
They told me everything.
The news.
The accident.
A high schooler who tried to save a child.
They said I died.
But I was standing right there.
Alive.
How?
When?
And who… was that child?
My head started aching.
I rushed into my room.
It looked exactly like mine.
Yet, it wasn't.
The posters were gone.
The drawings I had received during confessions—missing.
Even the tiny things I treasured weren't there.
It felt like my room…
but not my room.
Fear slowly crawled up my spine.
After everything that had happened, I felt dizzy.
I went to the bathroom, splashed cold water on my face, and slowly looked up at the mirror.
And—
My heart nearly stopped.
There was no reflection.
No eyes.
No face.
No me.
Just an empty mirror.
My breath hitched.
My legs trembled.
"No… way…"
Panic took over.
I ran back to the living room.
"Mom! Dad!"
They looked at me.
Perfectly normal.
The mirror.
I rushed back.
Everything was normal.
My reflection was there.
But it didn't feel fine.
It didn't feel funny.
It felt wrong.
Terribly wrong.
I grabbed my phone and ran.
Straight to my best buddy's house.
I knocked desperately.
The door opened.
"Hikaru? Bro, why did you run off like that earlier?"
Earlier…?
He was talking about the time I had received that video.
I told him everything.
Every single detail.
He stayed quiet for a while, then scratched his head.
"…Maybe watching anime and reading too much manga finally paid off."
I stared at him.
"I think you experienced a parallel shift."
"What?"
"Basically… you jumped from your universe into another one."
My heart skipped.
"The universe you're in right now might be the one where you're alive. And the one you saw in that video—"
He paused.
"—was the universe where you died."
My head started spinning.
"I don't understand anything!"
Pain rushed through my chest.
I screamed.
And ran.
Back home.
I didn't have a choice.
I needed to see them.
My mom.
My dad.
My little sister—
Hanako.
Wait.
Hanako.
Why hadn't I seen her yet?
When I met my family the last time I didn't saw her....
My steps slowed.
My breathing became shallow.
No.
Don't say—
I opened the door.
My parents stood there.
They saw me.
And once again—
They hugged me.
"We thought you died…"
But—
This time—
I saw her.
Hanako.
Standing behind them.
Alive.
Smiling.
But—
Wait.
Wasn't she… missing before?
My vision blurred.
"…Is this another shift?"
My mind started breaking.
"What caused this…?"
My knees hit the floor.
"Fuck… my life…"
"Why this why all this is happening to mee...!!!??"
I ran towards my room again!
It was same but this time around it doesn't feel identical
It feels like my real room
My real one original one!!!
But how!!! Whennn!!???
To make sure it was really my room, I checked everything.
Every single thing.
Even those adult magazines…
They were in the exact same place where I had hid them.
That's when my brain finally stopped working.
Once again, I rushed to the bathroom and washed my face.
Slowly, I looked up.
And this time—
In the mirror…
I saw my reflection.
But it was wearing different clothes.
"…How?"
My heart started pounding.
"How is this possible?!"
I touched the mirror.
It was solid.
Cold.
Real.
It wasn't a portal.
It wasn't an entrance.
It was just… a mirror.
Then how?
How?!
I stumbled back into my room, my breath shaking.
And suddenly—
I screamed.
Fear swallowed me whole.
My legs gave up, and I collapsed on the floor.
Tears streamed down my face as dark thoughts flooded my mind.
I couldn't think.
I couldn't understand.
I felt trapped inside a nightmare I couldn't wake up from.
My hands trembled as I called my best buddy.
I never expected his first words to be—
"Yo, what happened to you? You ran away so fast today. Is everything okay?"
I couldn't even answer.
The shine in my eyes was gone.
I looked horrible.
Broken.
Empty.
I stared at my phone screen…
And before I knew it—
I passed out.
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Hello Readers it's HoneytaleX hehe
I present you my new lightNovel
This story gonna be long one I'm not thinking of ending it soon hehe
Btw it's just chapter one the real story haven't even started yet
It's soo interesting....
Btw here's a quick question for all of you hehe---
"If you saw your own reflection wearing clothes you've never worn… what would you do? And what if it wasn't even really you?"
See you all in the next chapter bye bye for noww...