🌫️ Scene 1: Awakening in a World That Shouldn't Exist
Kentarō woke up gasping — no watch, no memory crystal, no Chronos.Just a quiet bedroom. A ceiling fan turning. His own breath.
"Was it a dream?"
Then came her voice.
"You're finally up, sleepyhead."
Sarah.Not a version of Sarah. His Sarah. Hair a little longer. Smile a little gentler. But her soul… unmistakable.
🕰️ Scene 2: The Version That Feels Too Real
This world was peaceful.They lived together in a modest apartment in a small town.No timelines to fix. No memories to recover. Just breakfast, errands, missed trains, and soft arguments about chores.
But something lingered beneath it all — like a hum Kentarō couldn't silence.
He found a notebook Sarah kept hidden in her drawer.
Inside: one line, scribbled over and over.
"I don't want to remember. If I do… I'll lose this."
🧬 Scene 3: Glitch in the Stillness
The number 1365625 began appearing again.
In the microwave timer.In receipt totals.On a train schedule.Even in Sarah's dream journal.
"What if this world isn't real?" Kentarō whispered to himself.
Reika's voice echoed in a dream:
"It is real. But only until you ask too many questions."
Then the glitch came.
Sarah froze mid-sentence one morning, like a tape that skipped.
"Ken-ta-rō… I lo–... I lo–..."
Then resumed.
"–ve strawberries for breakfast!"
Kentarō's heart stopped.
This world is being simulated. Not watched. Simulated.
🧨 Scene 4: A Door With No Lock
He found a black door behind their apartment wall — one that hadn't been there yesterday.
Scratched into the wood: "DO NOT OPEN IF YOU LOVE HER."
But Kentarō knew: behind it was the truth of this world.
He opened it.
💥 Scene 5: The Collapse of 1365625
The door led to a mirror room — every version of him, staring back.
One stepped forward.
"This is the only world where she survives without memory."
"In every other timeline, your love killed her. Or changed her."
"So we made this world for you. But it's borrowed time."
"If you stay, you'll forget everything too. You'll become… just one version."
🌀 Final Choice
Kentarō stepped back into the apartment.Sarah was humming. Folding clothes. A quiet smile on her face.
He walked up behind her and held her — as if holding an entire collapsing timeline together.
She turned, surprised.
"What's this for?"
"Nothing," he said softly."Or… everything."
He kissed her forehead.
And made the choice:
To live in the lie.Or destroy the timeline — and try, one last time, to find her for real.
🧩 Last Line
"I'd rather break everything…than keep the one version of you that isn't really you."