"Tell me, what is it you long for?"
"Ah, I wish I had something I could protect with my life. I want to pursue the happiness I desire, but I can't make that happen in this world."
"Why?"
"Ah, these days are so dull, repeating themselves like a picture on a loop: waking up, eating, going to school, coming home, eating, and sleeping. That's all my life in this world amounts to. I can't help asking myself what there is in this world worth protecting with my life. The happiness this world offers isn't the happiness I want. I don't want to exist in this world, because it makes me suffer."
"Then why not do it once and for all?"
"Do you think I haven't wanted to?"
"Then why haven't you done it?"
"Ah, it's embarrassing to admit, but before I got to see the anime Rewrite, I couldn't bring myself to die. Besides, there are so many anime I haven't finished watching. So I still want to hang on and live, at least until there's nothing left to watch...
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.
