đźź Chapter 0: Prologue
It was a hot day.
So hot the asphalt looked like it was seriously considering melting.
I'm Takashi Takeru. Just a twenty-year-old guy.
My simple plan for the day?
Watch some anime in peace.
But the air conditioner had other plans.
That white, humming idiot of a box decided to betray me... right at the peak of summer hell.
I had no choice—ice cream.
I stepped out, melting slowly.
The outside temperature? Let's just say: "Boiled egg" inside the house quickly turns into "burnt egg" the moment you take a step outside.
I was walking toward the store, drenched in sweat, when I saw it—
a truck speeding straight at me.
For a second, I could feel my life bar blinking red.
A classic isekai setup...
Truck-kun, is that you?
But in the end, the truck screeched to a stop just in time.
And the driver yelled:
> "Watch it, you stupid kid!"
Me?!
I'M the stupid one?!
What a moronic driver.
Anyway, I bought my ice cream and began heading home, savoring my first victorious bite of the day…
when I heard it again:
> "Watch it, you stupid kid!"
I looked up.
This time, it wasn't a truck.
I was standing in front of an electronics store.
And right above me…
An air conditioner was about to fall.
A store employee pulled me out of the way just in time.
What a dumb worker... and what a stupid air conditioner.
And then—
the AC fell.
The last thing I saw in that world...
was an air conditioner.