Hello, Can I Borrow Your Body?

“You mean...” Hayakawa Fuyuki hesitated. “The cherry tree I planted by the door is connected to other people's lives?”

The System corrected him. “Those five cherry blossoms are your bond with them. In other words, if even one petal falls, you'll die too, you know?”

Hayakawa Fuyuki: “...”

No. I don't want to understand.

Who'd be able to make sense of something like this when it was sprung on them out of nowhere?!

-

Hayakawa Fuyuki, male, 24, a police officer.

He had just died in the line of duty during a bomb incident.

There had only been six seconds left when the countdown started, so no one could have reacted in time. He didn't have any complaints about being blown up.

But after he died, something claiming to be a system spoke inside his head: “Beep. Mission failed. Please restart.”

Hayakawa Fuyuki could only manage a question mark. After the two of them argued for a while, the System was stunned. “You're saying you don't know what the cherry tree you planted is for?!”

In short, after a long conversation, Hayakawa Fuyuki had more or less understood what it meant.

“So if they die, I die too?”

According to the System, the cherry tree represented a connection.

He was a soul summoned to this world. His mission was to ensure that several people survived. But because the world's consciousness suppressed his memories, many of them would become hazy once he entered the mission.

The System hadn't expected him to forget even the most basic things!

Hayakawa Fuyuki was puzzled. “So what do I do now? I can't remember the specific mission, and I can't foresee their deaths. Am I supposed to stick close to each of them and protect them? I can't be in two places at once!”

“...There's another way, though normally we don't tell mission-takers about it.” After a moment's silence, the System said with difficulty, “From the moment a cherry petal falls until it hits the ground, you won't actually die.”

“In other words, during that time, you can find a way to go back, catch the petal, and nourish it with a special method. The petal can grow their bodies back, but you'll need to find somewhere else to put their souls.”

“Put them in me?”

“No. Your soul is too fragile to bear the weight of even one more person.”

Hayakawa Fuyuki fell into thought.

-

And so, after time turned back, many people's lives changed.

Akai Shuichi opened Hayakawa Fuyuki's gift without a care, and found a noisy soul in his head who called him Little Akai all day long.

Morofushi Takaaki received an anonymous package marked with the character “0,” along with the sender himself.

As Conan wiped his sweat and stood up after disarming a bomb, he suddenly heard someone chattering in his head about how shoddy the bomb was.

Amuro Tooru grew wary when he heard about a series of strange events.

He put together the common thread, and finally fixed his sights on a police officer named Hayakawa Fuyuki.

So when the other man eagerly tried to coax him into accepting something, he: (politely declined) (changed the subject) (talked around it).

Hayakawa Fuyuki panicked. “Did you hear something? I swear I won't hurt you. Just take it and you'll see, ”

Amuro Tooru: Turned and ran!

Hayakawa Fuyuki looked down and met the gaze of Morofushi Hiromitsu, the last one left in his hands. “???”

Oh no! Your childhood friend doesn't want you, and now you're going to be stuck with me!

2025.6.16

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