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Volume 1 Chapter 1 - Awakening

First Volume – A Different World upon Awakening

The excruciating pain of his body had lasted three whole days, and the fact of being confronted with such ailing the instant he woke up had further resulted in him being thrown into confusion.

He had asked himself why he was in this place and why he had to suffer like this.

Even now...I cannot believe it, but...still, it must be true...the memories certainly exist inside my head.

At last, he did get out of his bed. As he stretched his body, he could hear his joints cracking. And then he spotted a piece of paper on a nearby table.

It contained a request, asking him to either burn this message or flush it down the toilet after reading it. The name of its sender was 『Yuuta』, and just as he had wondered about the addressee...the message went on with 『To the awoken Yuuta』.

A message to the one that would wake up after him...... He must have hated this world quite a bit.

To plainly summarize the content of the message: 『I don't want to keep living in this world, so you use this body to live on, okay?』

With his hurting body also playing a part, Yuuta had required another two days to somehow get a grasp on his own situation after having woken up and read the message.

And today, on the third day, he finally decided to accept his situation.

I'm Yuuta, but then again not. This is a distant future of the world I used to live in...or rather, it's the rebuilt world after its civilization perished at one point, I suppose. They found the genetic information of an old world dweller in a place they call Ruins of the Old World, used it to reconstruct my memories, and incorporated them into this body...... All of this was possible because I had a collaborator, but as for the information about said collaborator, I'm pulling a blank...maybe because it's been deleted...

Just as he sorted the information available to him, his meal was brought into the room. By a completely autonomous robot.

Yuuta decided to gratefully accept the food.

I guess I have to also put my clothing in order. If I remember correctly, robots capable of haircuts exist as well, don't they?

He had taken over the memories of the previous owner of this body, so it didn't look like he'd have any problems with knowledge on how to live here, information about this world, or the common sense of this world.

Yuuta operated his tablet-type of device, scheduling a haircut for the time after finishing his meal.

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Cutting his hair and taking a bath allowed Yuuta to completely freshen himself up. Currently he was sitting on his sofa, sorting the situation once more and making plans for the future.

First off, at the moment he was in a room of a mansion located in the 「Exclusive Male Zone」. This zone was only inhabited by men, and men were regarded as precious in this world. This room had been reserved for Yuuta, and because all he needed to live was handled by autonomous robots, he could live here without ever meeting anyone, if he wanted to only survive.

The number of men in this world is low, making them valuable...but, the principle of competition does exist here, doesn't it?

The ratio between men and women was said to be 1 : 10,000, meaning the number of men was exceedingly low. Because of that, men were protected by the state. Yuuta was also protected. By a country called 「Nihon」.