Re; Sekai
Episode 2

"Kring! Kingpin!"

Mary awoke in a deep drowsiness and longing to continue her dream, whether she had a dream, but she felt so peaceful in the dream.

So he decided to turn off the plug and only a minute later a loud noise filled the room again, "Kringg!! ringg!!!" and the plug was placed away from the mattress, so Maria had to creep down the floor away from the mattress and in the process of turning off the plug, slowly Mary's life returned. The second weker has always been a rescue for Mary to be awake in the morning.

Maria who had woken up with her face and then immediately went to wash her face and prepare provisions and breakfast. His experience says that preparing both is impossible if not done this early. He sometimes thought when he saw the provision of his friends who had been arranged neatly with various vegetables and side dishes, how unfortunately their mother to his friends.

Before long, Maria had been satisfied when she had plastered and smelled the smell of rice from two bowls of rice in front of the table, baked fish, and warm miso soup in front of the table. Two provisions have been neatly bonded, in which it has been arranged very neatly the proportion of rice and side dishes.

Then Maria took a shower after ironing her clothes and Keiichi who had now folded ready in front of the bathroom.

Maria knocked on Keiichi's door. If not awake, usually Maria will enter without permission, pull the blanket, scream as loud as possible to look Keiichi who woke up with a face that is really annoying, a sister who does not know is lucky, and the, thought Maria.

"Keyichi! Wake up!! You have your baseball club practice, right?!!"

There was no answer at the time.

Slowly Maria held the doorknob, and suddenly her hands were sweating. Spit swallowed. Something began to collapse in Mary's mind.

When the door was opened, it had been empty and empty Keiichi had been empty. Still as messy as yesterday morning, there was no sign of Keiichi returning to his room.

The clothes he was wearing now were black clothes, even the ironed clothes were also the black shirt clothes belonging to Keiichi. Maria forgot today was the day of Keiichi's death ceremony. How could he forget all that? He thought with his chest that now felt so crowded.

***

"Mary!"

The voice of Grandma's cry woke Mary from her daydream. Grandma patted Maria's back, still seen daydreaming in front of the reception desk, in front of her was a neighbor who handed her a charity envelope and then put it into the donation box in front of her. The two of them immediately bowed, thanking the guest before allowing the guest to sit down to pray in front of Keiichi's body.

Mary that day was numb. His eyes had blackened swollen, he had fainted many times and had awakened to just understand that this was not a dream. Unable to have her lips smile in her thanks, her words stammered, and those who looked down at her face water were well aware of how much Mary grieved over her sister's death.

Not far from where Maria is now standing is an engraved wooden board inscribed with Keiichi Ishizawa, with the body of the sister lying in a chest with flowers that embellish her death. His face had been much better after being ransacked by the services of a funeral home, clad in a white kimono that covered all of his wounds, with a face that had been swaddled in such a way that it no longer looked ashen as death.

The participants of the ceremony began to pray, followed by Sutra recited by a monk priest who would fill the room of Mary's little house. People began to arrive, neighbors, school representatives, club friends, and close relatives, giving envelopes followed by Mary and her grandmother bowing in gratitude.

"Osh!!" Shouted respect to Keiichi's comrades who were wearing baseball suits. Their coach was also there, saluting, and giving Keiichi pictures with his baseball buddies. Maria recalled last summer, she and her grandmother together watched a game in which Keiichi became the club's flagship cleanup hitter.

When the coach gave the envelope, he tried to say in a reluctant tone, "I'm sorry, big brother Keiichi, maybe it's inappropriate for me to say this now..."

And then the coach explained how in the 3rd year, when Keiichi's final years could be involved in the match, Keiichi was never again present in training. While Maria always remembered how every day Keiichi always went early in the morning wearing his baseball uniform complete with casti and gloves.

"I'm sorry Keiichi has troubled you..." Mary bowed, with her tone still hoarse.

"No, no, but Keiichi is a brilliant and hardworking boy. Me and my friends will always remember."

Shortly after the baseball team asked permission to continue their activities, class representatives showed up. A girl wearing a school dress with her thick glasses carried a poster paper, a memorial, containing words about how Keiichi's friends loved and missed Keiichi. This girl gave this writing while sobbing sobbing, "My name is Fujioka Kasumi. I, as the class representative, deeply regret this incident..."

Shortly Kasumi cried, and said faltering, "I apologize for not being able to do anything all this time to Keiichi..."

Kasumi immediately bowed and asked permission to continue to school. Seeing what Kasumi and the Coach said, Maria felt that there was something she did not understand in Keiichi's life. Has she, as a sister, really not understood her sister? How could he not be able to feel his sister's shock all this time? Has he been trying all this time? Isn't that so, when he decides to go with his friends while Keiichi waits alone in front of his school fence, until...

A chaotic feeling filled Maria's heart, until the last appeared before her a big man, his hair dyed, still wearing his black school uniform he came here. He was accompanied by his parents, a fish market owner, who put their faces together and took a distance from his son. The man's face was now pale in sweat, and his body was bent so deeply as if to apologize.

"Ishizawa-san!" the great man shouted to surprise Mary in his daydream.

Her screams took center stage at Keiichi's funeral procession. Grandma and relatives felt bad feelings for the guests in front of them this time.

"My name is Takeshi Yukichi, and I want to apologize"

"I'm sorry for what?"

The grandmother who sat next to Mary. Grandma's face looked angry as if she knew what she was going to listen to, while Maria grew pale.

"I... Keiichi's accident was probably because of me..."

***

Takeshi was so upset last afternoon. His gangmates came battered, even one of them was said to be in hospital treatment. They complain about the class boy who is known not to know himself, is rancid and often fights if told. In the story too, a person named Keiichi has been sneaky and used a weapon in injuring three friends Takeshi.

"Why can you lose, three like that?"

"Not lost, but equally battered. When we thought he was battered, he attacked us from behind with a block of wood. We didn't expect Keiichi to be that close. "

"***! Here, go see me where that Keiichi boy is!"

"But Yukichi-san, the teacher has told us not to make it because of-"

"Do you want me to answer or not? Now you're explaining, broken isn't that boy's hand?"

"No..."

"Then I'll break the other hand too!"

Takeshi huddled in search of Keiichi, while the injured children fearfully followed from behind at a distance, fearing to be mistaken for conspiring because they had received a warning from the teacher. From what they heard, Keiichi often waited for his brother in front of the gate. There Takeshi was ready with his castle beater to be the executioner for his comrades.

And when Keiichi met him at the gate, his face looked pale with worry.

"Woi, Keiichi!"

Keiichi looked at Takeshi at a glance before turning around again, as if his gaze was drawn to the scene across the street.

"You run away, huh, you think you can run away from me, huh?"

The light was green, with a car racing even on the edge of the school road. Takeshi knew that Keiichi would not be able to escape unless he wanted to be hit by a car. Seeing Keiichi in a daze, Takeshi immediately sped up his path while swinging his iron-caste hitter, but it turned out that his unsuspecting reply came out of Keiichi's mouth:

"Wait on! You see that kid across the street?"

Takeshi didn't see anything across the street, wondering what this kid is? Thought Takeshi.

"Don't make up for you! WHOA!!"

Takeshi is still trying to get Keiichi's attention, but again, Keiichi's eyes are not on him, but across the empty street.

"You look where haaaahhh!!!"

Takeshi was angry when he immediately wanted to stop him, and the boxer was picked up while running towards Keiichi and the person he was chasing ran into the middle of a crowded street with vehicles. I don't know if Keiichi did that out of fear of Takeshi or something else.

Among the unmarked speeding vehicles trying to stop his vehicle, Keiichi jumped with his hands in front of him as if pushing something.

Takeshi did not understand what was happening, what he saw was too brutal to explain in words. But it was clear that the voice entered his ears, the sound of brakes, the sound of blows, and the crumbling of bones.

Then all that remains is Keiichi's body rolling in front of Takeshi's body.

The three boys who were behind Takeshi escaped were afraid of being blamed, while the other students who were in the distance started to huddle together to find out what was happening. Horribly, filled with terrified but also curious looks, with clandestine cellphones coming out of their pants pockets to immediately capture this rare moment.

Is Keiichi trying to run away from him? Thought Takeshi hard. "No! He just said there's a little boy. but where's the kid? Yeah, he's crazy, he even jumps up like he wants to die like that. It's not my fault. It's not my fault." Takeshi in a split second thought so quickly understood his present condition, as a cause or just as a witness.

At that moment the blood flowed from Keiichi's nose, his breathing still there with a hoarse voice, he did not die instantly at that moment. His red eyes were still winking at Takeshi's eyes, and it was as if the last look of his last breath of life was actually cursing Takeshi.

The sight haunted him. Takeshi finally concludes and convinces himself that none of this is his fault. "Keiichi, yes, Keiichi that moronic boy jumped by himself..."

***

"Yes, there's something on that other side of the road, so he jumped..." Takeshi was still trying to explain his story to Maria, and his eyes looking left and right did not dare to look at Maria directly.

"But.but that view is clearly full of hatred towards me. And all night I was tormented, I couldn't lie to myself anymore. I. This is clearly my fault... Ishizawa-san please forgive me..."

Takeshi and his family apologized.

"But, moron! You didn't report yourself to the police!" Shouted one of Maria's families.

"I'm sorry..."

And Maria with her eyes wide open, walked towards Takeshi. Takeshi wished himself a slap, blow, or any kind of physical punishment he knew and was familiar with as a hoodlum. Let it battered, so that with that he was able to get a little relief. But Mary just looked at him blankly, and her trembling hands held Takeshi's collar.

"Killer!!"

Maria yelled at Takeshi, and Takeshi cried. The first time Takeshi faced this kind of guilt.

"Basic Murderer!! Ahh. ah..."

Maria fainted and Takeshi caught her limp body. Families and neighbors began to separate them, some of them even kicked Takeshi who was still trying to support Maria's body. They then banish Takeshi from the tomb procession.

"Take this donation, mana, mana, ah this! We don't need your donation!" One of the family throws an envelope which is then taken by Takeshi's parents.

Takeshi left still crying feeling so guilty, and she wanted herself to go report herself to the police, but her family refused. Takeshi clearly did not touch Keiichi in the slightest, as did the explanation of the comrades who saw him. But Takeshi was unable to contain this feeling of guilt, the feeling that he had taken the life of a loved one.

***

Keiichi's casket is now covered with nails. Before that, Maria, who had woken up from her stupor, kissed Keiichi on the forehead, sticking her face to her sister's cold face before letting the other family see Keiichi's apparition one last time.

Maria still brought a picture of Keiichi and saw slowly the box gradually entered the firebox.

Maria leaned her head against the shoulder of her friend Maya, who was accompanying her, and she whispered, "Sometimes I think about death, how absurd it is to think about feeling death, likewise how real his existence was when he saw Mom first."

"Mary..." Maya hugs the head of Mary who starts crying over her shoulder.

"If dying feels like sleeping, thank God, I love to sleep. When I sleep I feel no fear, I forget my troubles, as if they were all gone except for that strange comfort, so quiet that when I wake up I miss them so much."

"But Maya, then I started thinking about the limits of my memory. Of course I can't think any further than when I was a toddler, it's full of vague. But in the faintness of it I also felt it, the void of memories far and far from the memories I once had, feeling myself to be nonexistent. That emptiness and loss of sense of self, that there is no me, my naughtiness. And I felt so crazy thinking about it that I always tried to get away from thinking about it, thinking that I would never die to enjoy life."

"Then think of Keiichi in that condition, as Keiichi slowly loses himself in that void... I was so frightened, as if I felt it myself, and slowly I wanted to ignore the fact that he was dead..."

"And Keiichi will forever disappear, he will become dust that I can no longer recognize." Maria said. And as Mary spoke, she felt something strange, a knock.

At the same time an operator asked if it was permissible for the furnace to be ignited into the family of Mary.

"Wait." Mary said, "You didn't hear that?"

"Marya?"

"You didn't hear that knock? A knock on Keiichi's crate?"

"Mary..."

Mary tried to get closer to the furnace, but the family tried to hold her back.

"Keiichi's gone Maria." Maya's screams also tried to pull her in, sensing from Mary's earlier whispers that Mary was beginning to slip from reality into her hallucinations.

"No, are you really not listening?"

"Mary!"

The uncle approached Mary, a stranger to Mary, but her fierce face was familiar to Mary.

"You're like my sister, your mother! You have to accept the truth! Don't interrupt your sister's departure, let go son!"

"But... But..."

"Maria, please let your sister go..." Even Maya her friend also convinced Maria while crying.

Suddenly there was a voice in Maria's mind, that familiar voice, Keiichi's voice!

"Sister please! Brother!"

"Keyichi!"

Maria shouted, and she looked so happy as she looked at her brothers.

"You really didn't hear it? Keiichi asked for help!"

"Help the officer, turn on the furnace!" Shouted the uncle.

"Don't!!!"

Maria dropped a photo of Keiichi and banged his great uncle's body in tears, until suddenly there was a loud sound inside the furnace.

The sound of the crate shaking so violently, and now shaking it makes a loud noise on the walls of the furnace. And immediately the crowded room was silent, as well as the button-pressing officer whose finger was now restrained. The sound was clear, and they were not hallucinating.

There was something alive in the box.

"Hurry open! Don't tuck a dog in it!!" Shouted the Uncle, while slightly glancing at Maria who looked full of hopeful looks.

"No way sir, sterile cremation place from pets..." Remark the cremation officer while wiping the sweat while returning to remove the nails in the chest.

"Well on what? You're saying my niece is still alive?"

"Keiichi is still alive!"

Shouted Maria heard the words of the uncle who immediately made all speech quiet, deciding to see what was happening before deciding what was going on in the chest. And before long, the uncle and the cremation officer lifted the tight and heavy casket cover, then suddenly those who were facing in the middle of the coffin fell silent making the family behind wonder about what he saw.

"Amitabha's..." Said the grandmother, and followed by the brother's cry: "Keiiichi!!!"

Keiichi sat in his chest with an empty face, before Maria jumped at him, hugging him tightly.

Keiichi was confused to see the surroundings, his uncle's face which he had not seen for a long time was stupefied before him, then there was a grandmother in the distance who was crying while saying prayers praising the buddha. And Mary, whose hand was against her, kissed her cheek as she soaked her face with a cry.

Then somehow, even though he did not understand his condition, a terbesit speech in Keiichi's mind which he then immediately uttered: "Sister." Hugging her brother who refused to take her off.