My Encounter with Joshua Kiryu (A Joshua x Reader/Narrator One Shot)

My Encounter with Joshua Kiryu

I remember the first time I saw him, it was quite a while ago. I was walking in the busy streets of Shibuya when I noticed an ash-blonde haired boy near Cat Street. I easily noticed how charming he looked, kind of like a prince. He had a perfect face I couldn't describe. He was beautiful.

I've hidden myself behind a pole nearby to get a closer look, and hoping to get a chance to snap a picture of him. I wonder what could his name be.

"See you later, Joshua." I heard the tall man say.

Joshua, huh? I like the name, it's a common name for a boy but not here in Japan.

I've succeeded on taking his picture and was happy about it. I don't know why I got so infatuated with this boy's charms this easily. What can I say, he's really charming.

A few days have gone by and I got to know more stuff about the boy because I kept coming back to Cat Street to see if I could catch him again. His full name is Yoshiya Kiryu and he has a way with words and likes to tease and annoy people for his own fun. Stalker much? I know.

His behavior was indeed annoying but I don't know why I find this very attractive. If my other friends tease me like that for fun, I'd get annoyed but there was something about him that makes my heart skip a beat.

Everyday I always run to that spot just to see him. And even if I were in a hurry, I'd still run to that street just to see if he was there; sometimes he is, sometimes he's not.

Days have gone by and my feelings for him got stronger but recently I don't see him in that café anymore. Did he move? I always end up giving out a heavy sigh out of disappointment before crossing the street.

Until one certain time after a big disappointment, in a sudden moment, I've heard a beeping sound and as I turn to see, a truck was rushing by; and after that everything went blank.

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I woke up, finding myself in the center of Scramble Crossing, I stood up and fixed myself. I asked people some questions but they just ignore me as if I wasn't there.

Then, things started to get weird; I received a mail from a strange sender called 'The Reapers', felt a weird sensation after that and found a timer on my hand then a bunch of weird looking frogs started attacking me.

I ran for life's sake and managed to get away from the strange creatures, I read the mail again and it says to go to A East within 22 hours or face erasure. I didn't understand but I suddenly felt a sudden chill with the term 'erasure' so walked towards the way to A East.

I nearly forgot about the creatures and got attacked again, I didn't know what to do. I thought I was done for but this girl showed up and asked to forge a pact with me. I instantly accepted, not knowing what the hell was going on nor what it all means and we started fighting off the frogs. It turns out they were called the 'Noise'. It sounded pretty weird and funny to me.

The girl explained everything to me. Long story short, I was in this thing called 'The Reaper's Game'; which turned out to be a kind of life and death game where you do a series of missions daily within a week to win the game and you had to fight off the Noise in order to survive using Psyches and pins.

I found out that I was dead all along and that people don't see me. That really made sense considering people ignored me. I remembered how I died. Thank you, truck!

During our missions, I always sneak to see if Joshua was still in the usual place I always see him at but sadly he wasn't. I started to miss him, it kind of hurts. My partner asked why I keep coming back to Cat Street so I told her about Joshua and how I always go see him even if he doesn't know I existed and stuff like that. And well, she teased me about it and said that it was alright to admire from afar just don't overdo the stalkish behaviors.