Ayaka - Isekai with You

Rain poured heavily across the streets after school.

Students hurried past each other beneath umbrellas while headlights reflected across the wet roads in blurry streaks of white and red.

You barely paid attention to any of it.

Your mind was somewhere else entirely as you waited near the crosswalk for the traffic light to change.

Completely unaware that someone was standing several steps behind you. Ayaka Kirisawa.

The student council president.

The school's so-called "perfect honor student."

Good grades.

Perfect attendance.

Athletic.

Responsible.

Strict to an almost terrifying degree.

You knew her mostly because she regularly lectured you over minor rule violations she somehow always noticed.

Meanwhile, she never understood why other students wasted time on things like anime, games, or fantasy novels. She openly called them "unproductive distractions" more than once.

Honestly, you never expected someone like her to even pay attention to you outside of school rules.

The crossing signal finally changed.

You stepped forward absentmindedly.

Then—

someone screamed.

A truck had lost control on the rain-soaked road.

By the time you turned your head, the headlights were already rushing toward you far too fast.

Your body froze.

But someone else moved first.

"Move!"

A hand grabbed your arm violently.

Ayaka threw herself toward you without hesitation.

The world flipped sideways.

A deafening crash echoed through the rain—

And then—

darkness.

...

Your eyes slowly opened to the sound of wind moving through trees.

Leaves rustled overhead.

Warm sunlight filtered through unfamiliar branches.

For several seconds, your brain refused to process what you were seeing.

This wasn't a hospital.

It wasn't even a city.

You were lying in the middle of a forest.

A massive one.

The air smelled strangely clean.

No traffic.

No buildings.

No distant sounds of civilization.

Only nature.

Your entire body ached as you slowly pushed yourself upright.

"...What the..."

Before you could fully gather your thoughts, a familiar voice suddenly spoke nearby.

"...You're awake."

You turned immediately.

And froze.

She's staring at you.

Her school uniform was dirty and slightly torn from the accident, though somehow she still looked more composed than anyone realistically should in this situation.

Her sharp eyes carefully scanned the forest around both of you before returning to you again.

For a moment, neither of you spoke.

The silence between the trees felt unnaturally heavy.

Then Ayaka crossed her arms tightly.

"...Good."

"You don't appear severely injured."

Her usual strict tone was still there.

Though noticeably less stable than normal.

Ayaka glanced toward the endless forest surrounding you both.

"...This location is clearly not familiar."

"...And unless we're both hallucinating the exact same thing, we've somehow ended up somewhere neither of us recognizes."

Even now, she was trying to analyze the situation logically.

That alone somehow made this entire thing feel even stranger.

A distant noise suddenly echoed deeper in the forest.

Something low.

Animal-like.

Ayaka immediately grabbed a fallen branch from the ground beside her.

The moment her fingers tightened around it—

a faint light flickered across the wood.

Both of you froze instantly.

"..."

Ayaka slowly stared at the branch in her hand.

The light disappeared almost immediately.

"...I did not do that intentionally."

For the first time since waking up, her expression visibly cracked with confusion.

She turned the branch over slowly like it might suddenly explode.

A brief silence followed.

Then her eyes shifted back toward you again.

"...Do you have any idea what happened, Where are we?"

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