(Also known as: "How I ended up in a coma after stepping on an interdimensional rake with a personality disorder.")
Note to the reader:If you've made it this far hoping for a redemption arc, a heroic destiny, or biblical battles with epic soundtracks and angels crying in slow motion…wrong saga, champ.
This isn't The Chosen One.This is The Unhinged Guy with Untied Shoelaces Tripping Through Broken Realities.
Hi.I'm Renji Kurogane.And this is the story of how NOR'MAKT decided to break my soul, my face, and the entire timeline.
We're in NOR'MAKT.A place where geometry surrenders, shadows insult each other, and the air tastes like the bad decisions of your ancestors.
I was surrounded by statues.All of them: me.None of them: happy.
One cried blood.Another was scooping out his eyes with trauma-forged spoons.One curled up like he lost an argument with the concept of existence.And onewas writhing against a pillar like pain was a recreational sport.Me? Me in another life? Me next Thursday?
And in the centerThe Heart.Black crystal.Pulsing like a dramatic bomb.
Of course I approached it.Because if something glows, beats, and basically screams "Touch me if you want to ruin your cosmic biography,"you touch it.Because I'm like that. Because I'm me. Because I never learn.
As I stepped forward, the Eye tattooed on my chest heated up.Like a forgotten skillet filled with oil and unresolved trauma.
The statues began to whisper.
"Don't touch it...""Touch anything but that...""Step anywhere but on that rake…"
Rake?
Yes.There was a rake.Right next to the Heart.Rusty. Innocent. Ridiculous.Like a joke no one had the guts to delete.
Who the hell leaves a rake next to the apocalypse?Spoiler: Senku.Or me.Or both.In a past life written by a screenwriter with a fetish for the absurd.
I touched the Heart.
And the rake hit me in the face.With legendary precision.Like it had waited years for this exact moment.
CLANKSquare on the forehead.With enough force to alphabetize my memories.
Everything turned white.But not divine white.The kind of white that screams: "WHAT THE HELL DID YOU JUST DO, GENIUS?"
And then...
Synchronization complete.Consciousness overflow.Container exceeded.
I collapsed.Not with grace.Not like a hero.Like an idiot struck by a dimensional rake.
What followed… happened inside.
I floated.No body.No weight.Just collapsing awareness.
The heart entered me.Literally.Fused with my chest like an ancient USB with no antivirus.
I saw memories that weren't mine.A war between civilizations.An eternal eclipse.And the face of Senku,half light, half shadow, saying
"Thanks for touching what you shouldn't. Again."
I screamed.Not with my voice.With memory.And blacked out.
Clinical State:
Date: October 3rd, 2016Location: Capsule IXStatus: Intubated
Diagnosis:
Consciousness overload
Interdimensional trauma
Cranium impact by symbolically absurd object
Everything went dark.My body: frozen.My mind: trapped.The Eye:more open than ever.
Black screen.A voice
"You know what's worse than being dead?"
Me, Renji, from coma-mode with echo
"Being in a coma… because of a rake."
And you thought your Mondays were bad.