What I Learned Only After Sorting Through Hagiwara's Belongings

All chapters for just 59 cents. [Next story: Hagi, Randomly Refreshing My Death Scenes. Coming soon: Koto-dolf] [Check out my friend's completed story: [Fandom: DC and Marvel] Not Tragic, Just Batson] After returning to Japan, Aoi Akikawa becomes a personal effects organizer, responsible for sorting through the belongings of the deceased. On his first day at work, he follows his mentor into a dead person's home and discovers the deceased is Hagiwara, a schoolmate he had an unrequited crush on. * Mutual pining, both alive, happy ending! A short story. * Told mainly in reverse chronological order, with two points of view. Inspired by the film Love Letter. * For more Hagi-related stories, follow the author's page: Love Is Being There, Day After Day. Coming soon: Randomly Refreshing My Death Scenes Aoi Akikawa wakes up one day to find himself at a crime scene, holding the murder weapon. The deceased has the same name and face as him. Even more terrifying, there's no sign of a third person. Did I... kill myself? (Hime Mukai's bewildered face) He grits his teeth and takes the dead version of himself's place, working as an office drone for a few days. Then he dies suddenly because he stepped off with his left foot first, and a new death scene appears. I Killed Myself, Version 2.0 Aoi Akikawa, going through it all for the second time: ... After that, new death scenes can appear at any time, in any place. The victim and killer never change, and every scene features the same line. [Find Hagiwara Kenji.] * Hagiwara has fallen in love. His partner is cheerful and outgoing, and is struggling through his college entrance exam preparations. The only odd thing is that he's rather mysterious. He keeps disappearing without warning for a while, then refuses to say where he's been when he returns. He comes back with injuries and things that don't belong to him. A business card from a high-tech company, a lease for a shop, a driver's license with the name erased... Hagiwara doesn't mind his lover's secrets. They're deeply in love. After surviving several brushes with death, Hagiwara successfully proposes, and the two are about to begin a new chapter in their lives. The day before they register their marriage, his childhood friend tells him gravely: There is no one named Aoi Akikawa in the household registry. Everything he told you was a lie. Coming soon: Koto-dolf Gin, a top assassin. Cold-blooded and highly skilled, he is a perfect killing machine. Everyone fears him, and everyone wants to claim him. But he is loyal only to the Organization. * Kurosawa Jin, 31, has just one hobby in life: maintaining his image as the Mafia's number-one assassin. A disciplined, arrogant, perfect killer. He has spent half his life working toward this, diligently and tirelessly carrying out assignments for the organization he chose. Until one day, a newcomer excitedly runs over while he's on a mission and shouts, “Wow, look! Gin's going easy on his own side and about to kill them!” Kurosawa Jin crushes his gun in his hand. On his 31st birthday, Kurosawa Jin gets bound to a System. The System tells him: A lot of transmigrators from other worlds have entered this world. You need to drive them away, or the world will collapse, blah blah blah. Kurosawa Jin doesn't take it seriously. He ignores the System's existence, occasionally thinking of shooting himself to get rid of the hallucinations, until transmigrators nearly expose his perfect-assassin persona. Kurosawa Jin has had enough. He's going to embrace his Koto-dolf instincts and send every transmigrator back where they came from. Theme: Kindness will be returned.