
I don't want to die.
Perhaps those words sound impossible to realize when one's death is already predetermined. Moreover, everyone would also die in the end.
But I said it in earnest. My life is too short to face death. But seriously, I'm still about seventeen this time. So maybe my friends would be surprised to hear the news of my death from nowhere.
You ask how my parents feel? Of course they will be sad. Their beloved son who was in the most beautiful time of his life suddenly disappeared from their embrace. Any old man would be shocked to hear it.
Therefore, I reiterate once again that I do not want to die! I still want to live! At least I want to live to be 130! If it could be even more! I want to die in good health surrounded by my children and grandchildren on my death bed and die smiling.
It's a beautiful ending, isn't it?
But the problem is it's not as easy as I'm talking about. And also can I make that happen? Especially at this moment, a truck was moving at high speed beside me and there was no sign of stopping when I saw it clearly in front of him.
I could even see the truck driver in his wheel as well in a panicked face. Well .. I can't blame him, anyway. Because in a moment he'll hit someone.
Is correct. I spoke like that in the beginning because I was on the edge of death right now. Can they at least delay my death in five minutes? Uh, how about ten minutes? No, no, if it could be a day? Uh! Anyway I still don't want to die! Is that too hard to ask?!
I'm sure my life is only one second away right now because a lot of people say that someone's thinking before death is going faster than usual. That's why I can talk a lot like this in less than a second.
Ekhehem! Before that, let's step back a while before this terrible thing happens to me.
**
My name is Arka Wijayakusuma. A 17-year-old boy from Indonesia who studied in a public school that is quite famous in this country.
I'm smart enough to judge myself. It's not boasting or praising myself excessively, but a lot of my friends are saying the same thing. It's fair to think I'm smart.
Some of the lessons I mastered easily, my memorization ability was also above average. Then the ability of the sport I have can I say quite well, even though it is not my main skill and I do not like it too much.
I've always helped my friends who were struggling in some of the subject areas I mastered— And they thank me for that. I'm actually not a science freak, only sometimes I like to hide some easy problem solving tricks to keep me on top of the class.
Whahuh? You guys say that's stingy and sneaky? Haha! Not at all. That's not stingy. It's strategy.
The one who took out all his weapons was only a foolish benefactor. And I'm smart enough not to do that. With that strategy also that makes me able to be at the top of the class, even school. So you can tell me it's my secret weapon.
Hehe .... A person who took out his secret weapon when the enemy already felt victorious, then instantly they were shocked was instantly desperate. I really like that. Pimply. Maybe I read too much Manga and watch Anime, but thanks to that, now that kind of thing is my favorite moment in an Anime or Manga.
I know, I know. You may think of someone who is smart and only attaches importance to learning. Not at all! Even people like me are also influenced by the culture of globalization through anime and manga. Of course I kept it a secret from my friends at school because they would think of me as a kid who loves cartoons.
So I can't destroy the image that I've been building for a long time. I had to keep it as good as possible and make people think I was the perfect life form in High School.
Okay, maybe that's a little overdone.
But what's less than my perfect high school life is getting a girlfriend. Aye! A lover! A romantic youth! Someone who always reminds me to eat every time, to always sleep on time, a figure that is so caring and loving.
I need someone like that! If I manage to find it, maybe I will make everyone's envy will increase in height— even though that is not my main goal, of course you guys believe in me, right? Yeah, right?Okay, you believe.
And that random thought took place when I got home from school. Along the way I kept thinking about how the criteria for a woman would be my girlfriend. He must be cold. Not literally, but his cold nature to others is my favorite.
I don't want to see him good to everyone he meets. I just want her to smile sincerely at me with her cute and sweet face! Ah ...! Just imagining it makes me flutter.
Come to think of it, it turns out I'm a pretty jealous person, huh? But it's okay. As long as it makes me happy, I don't think there's any harm in having one or two partner criteria.
TIINN'S... TIINN'S...
"Eh?"
But I'm off guard. I was too busy playing inside my own head and imagining the no-no until I forgot to pay attention to my surroundings. Even I just realized that now I am in the middle of the sidewalk. With traffic lights that are not even red.
And ... everything feels slow.
And that's the story of how I kept shouting 'don't want to die!' inside my head from earlier.
God fucking. My perfect life will end just like that because of one of my negligence. Is there nothing I can do right now? Whatever it is!
I tried to move my body, but I couldn't. Even blinking seems so slow, it seems like what works normally right now is just my brain. Or maybe my brain is working faster than usual? Maybe it could be.
I have tried many different ways. But it seems ..it is indeed my time to get out of this world. Inevitably I had to accept it, because even though I was smart, I was just an ordinary human being.
It is also beautiful enough to live a short life. I guess I only regret a little while I live.
In the end, I stopped trying. I closed my eyes to tell them that I was resigned to what would happen to me next. It might hurt a little, but I'm sure it will pass quickly.
Goodbye to the world, from the Vijayakusuma Arch.
[Installing Super System On Soul Arch Wijayakusuma]
Eh?
[Successful Installation]
Whatisit? For a moment I could hear a faint voice inside my head. But I know for a fact that the cold voice of the flat woman is not mine.
Is this also the imagination of someone before they die? I could see a blue hologram screen suddenly appear in front of my face. And there are some questions and posts there.
[The Life of Wijayakusuma Archipelago In This World Has Ended. World Transfers Needed To Keep Running Super Systems. Accept?]
[Yes] [No]
The voice appeared again. But this time the voice recited what was on the hologram screen. Should I answer or what?
But it says here that I have to do what's called 'World Transfers'. Does that mean I won't live in this world anymore? Is there any other place besides earth that humans can live in?
I remember there was such a thing as a parallel world. The planet Earth is almost similar to where we live today. But isn't that still a debate?
[Time You Remain 1 Second Before a Truck Hits Your Body. Accept?]
[Yes] [No]
Tu-tu-tu-wait a minute, the sound of a flat woman is impatient! Let me think first or at least prepare my heart! But it looks like this woman's voice came from a system machine or something that doesn't have feelings, so I don't think it's any good to scold her.
I really don't want to die. But suddenly moving the world without any preparation I really never imagined.
I gulped dry spit in my imagination. My mouth opened and I took a breath before I finally said it steadily.
"Yes! I accept!"
[World Transfer Approved. Preparing to Move the Arka Wijayakusuma Body]
My body feels light. I can move my body again like never before. My current gaze was quite bright because suddenly a bluish light appeared that surrounded me and slowly floated upwards.
I tried to catch those bluish particles but it was useless. It seemed to pierce my palm and pass through his back. Then after doing that useless experiment, I felt that something was pulling me up and flying into the sky.
I wanted to scream and my heart wanted to fall because I was speeding up, but it was all useless because my voice didn't want to come out. And after I flew up into the sky far enough away to leave the earth, the voice of the flat woman reverberated in my head.
[World Transfer On The Body of Wijayakusuma Arch Successfully Performed]
**
While at the Arka spot before the accident occurred, a blinding bluish light blocked the view of everyone— including the truck driver.
The truck driver stepped on his brake pedal after he passed through the bluish light that had now disappeared. He was very sure that he would hit a schoolboy earlier.
But he was also confused because the front of his truck was not destroyed or scuffed, and he also did not feel that he hit something. So he stopped his truck and got out of there checking if what he saw was true.
"There's nobody there, right?" One of the sidewalks spoke uncertainly.
"Has he been hit?"
"But where is his body?"
Everyone on the scene was confused by what they had just seen, as was the truck driver. His face immediately turned pale and realized that he was about to hit someone.
But there's one thing that trucker— and the people around him don't know, that Arka has now gone to a faraway place. Very, very far away.