Seventeen-year-old Xiaozhi got Dr. Oak's illustrated book.
The illustrated guide states "Safety Instructions" for the Kanto area: Do not make sounds exceeding 40 decibels. Don't stay in front of the mirror for more than three seconds. Don't respond when you hear a call for help. Don't talk to someone outside the window.
No one told him where these rules came from.
In Viridian Forest, a trainer shouted "Found it" and was dragged into the ground by a hand stretched out from the soil. The next day he appeared at the exit of the forest, still smiling and walking, but he would say the same sentence repeatedly: "I'm fine."
Xiaogang, the gym leader in Nibi City, spends every night hitting stones with a hammer. He engraved a line of words on the back of the badge before he could forget it.
"Don't believe the next update."
Xiaozhi is the only one who has been "restarted" under the rule erasure. The price is that all memory of one of his companions disappears.
The illustrated book told him how to "live", but never told him how to "be free". That night when he turned off the illustrated book, something speaking in his mother's voice sounded outside the window——
"Xiao Zhi, have you eaten?"
The rules of this world are doors. If you don't touch it, it's safe. Once you touch it, you are no longer you.
Xiaozhi decided to open every door and take a look.
"I don't care who wrote the rules. I just want to know—"
He placed the gray badge close to his chest.
"——Why everyone has forgotten, but I am the only one who remembers what I forgot."
It's so beautiful, I'm still listening to it