Good-Bye Sengen - Chapter 0 Prologue

What are your dreams for the future?

I wonder how many people can answer this question immediately.

If the respondents were kindergarteners or elementary school students, they might all be able to answer immediately.

That’s because… children are full of hope.

Someone somewhere once said that a child can become anything they want to be, and I think that’s true.

When I was little, I used to say, “I want to be a professional soccer player!”

But now, I can’t even juggle a soccer ball with my feet.

The older I get, the more I understand.

Most people can’t achieve their dreams even if they have one.

In fact, no matter how hard I try from now on as a high school student, I will never be a professional soccer player.

I eventually came to realize this.

Maybe I’ll just go to college, become a salaried employee at a regular company, find someone I like, and if I’m lucky, we’ll get together, marry, and have kids… I wondered if I could have a normal life like that.

Just so you know, it’s not that I don’t want a normal life.

Rather, I thought that I would be happy enough if I could live a normal life, and that I wouldn’t deviate from such a life unless something drastic happened to me.

However, it was the last spring of high school.

My life would change drastically when I met her, a girl who did all kinds of absurd and unreasonable things and could not be called normal—

[EDN: Totally didn’t ask Char to pick this up because the song is a banger.]