I pressed Doraemon's "dictator button" to make the fat tiger who bullied me disappear from the world.
But the world did not reset.
The next day, everyone was asking me: "Who is Fat Tiger?"
The next door had become an overgrown vacant lot, and Mom said no one had ever lived there.
Doraemon took out a "decompression toy" and said with a smile that it was just a vibrating massager.
And on my desk, there was a blood-stained note:
"Remaining times: 99. Welcome, Nobita."
On the back, in my own handwriting, I desperately wrote - "Help me".
Now, a transfer student named "Takada Tsuyoshi" is sitting in Fat Tiger's seat, showing me a clean smile.
The whole class said that he transferred here last week, and Shizuka praised him for being gentle and cheerful.
Only I remember that that face belonged to a demon named Takeda Takeda yesterday.
I began to find more "loopholes": the empty spaces in the photos that had been deleted, Shizuka's occasional arrogant expressions, and my husband's memory of a childhood playmate that he "cannot remember"...
And the button in my school bag, the cold count is beating:
98/100.
Every time I try to trace it, the number goes down.
Every time it decreases, there is a perfect replacement like "Takada Tsuyoshi" who takes a step closer to me with a smile.
If the number reaches zero, who will disappear?
Is the next "Fat Tiger"...
Or "Nobi Nobita" himself?
This time, no one could hit the "reset" button for me.
