You Remember Me, so I Exist

Kiritani Rei lived again. In the last life, at the age of twenty-nine, he died of overwork at his workplace. In this life, he is sixteen years old, in Tokyo, and is a privileged student at a prestigious high school - he just wants a life that stays out of trouble: no close friendships, no taking over, and no taking other people's lives. Until he saw those scenes - for three seconds, they flashed and disappeared: the old man clutching his bankbook, the smiling girl on the stage, the girl signing the document with a smile, the moment before the bamboo knife fell. That was a turning point in someone else's fate. The rules are cold and clear: if you try to change them, you have to pay a price - all memories about that person from the first meeting will be wiped out. Save one person, forget one person. So he started to fight with paper. A list of facts was pressed under the glass, and a piece of paper was kept close to the body—the memory would be taken away, but the paper would not be taken away. But there are more and more names on the paper. The perfect class president practices smiling in the library late at night; the senior working part-time spends all his time with others; the student council president waves his bamboo sword over and over again in the deserted dojo. Who can he save? Who does he remember? When three relationships only exist in their memories——