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Character
Name: Ayumu Aikawa
Fandom: Is this a Zombie? (Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?)
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Time Period: Post-Season 2 Episode 11 (OVA)
Wing Color: Brown
History: here
Note: I'm playing from the sub of the anime, but I've decided to start using the term "magikewl girl" as an alternative to "masou-shoujo," as this is the translation the English manga decided to go with and it's a pretty awesome pun. The dub of the anime is apparently going with "magical garment girl" which doesn't really convey the pun the same way and it's also made some other kind of questionable term changes. (It's also not been released on DVD yet, so I still have to wait to entirely see what damage it's done...)
Personality:
Ayumu Aikawa is a zombie. He is also a magikewl girl, and a disgusting piece of shit.
...The first two are unfortunately fact, but he’d like to vehemently deny the third.
For most purposes Ayumu is an average teenage boy. He lacks any great motivation, struggles with school, fights with his friends, and can be a bit too fixated on the ladies. However, underneath Ayumu is caring person who quickly grows fond of others and forgives their negative character traits. This has served him well recently as he also has an odd knack for gathering an abusive supernatural harem.
Before his death Ayumu lived alone, as his parents work overseas. This means he lives free from parental oversight and accountability. It's understandable that he became a somewhat carefree person, living mostly from day to day. Even presently he's fairly carefree - it's just that this goal of an average school life is disrupted by monsters, vampires, and magic battles.
Being a teenager, girls form one of his larger underlying motivations. He especially has a weakness for the lolita type – he is more than willing to obey Eu’s every command because of his (mostly delusional) belief that her written orders are actually her being moe and depending on her ‘onii-chan.’ But further than that, he's good at befriending girls and in return getting them to crush on him despite his occasional perverted tendencies.
This is likely because deep down, he is a genuinely nice person. He grows attached to others fairly quickly, even when they don’t treat him well in return, and even sometimes despite his own misgivings (such as his best male friend Orito, who he views as being more pathetic than he is but hangs out with anyway.) Most of the girls living with him now are tsundere at best but he will go out of his way to protect them and considers them friends he no longer wants to part with.
This further shows that he has a selfless streak. He routinely puts himself on the line to help others, even before he gained immortality; he died attempting to rescue a woman from a serial killer. He will put people he's fond of ahead of looking 'cool' as well, as shown by when he first met Eucliwood. He went out of his way tohit on talk to the lonely-looking girl sitting in front of a convenience store, trying to cheer her up even when he knew he was making a fool of himself. He also routinely cross-dresses in order to gain the magical power to help his friends.
This doesn't mean that he won't get into sarcastic banter with his friends on every possible occasion. Most of the conversations in the house involve some kind of sniping at each other. However he does genuinely appreciate each of them, as shown by how he continues to allow them to live with him and provides for them (he does most of the cooking, and likely pays for all their expenses as well.)
Still, at his core Ayumu is not a 'hero' - he's simply an ordinary person making do with extraordinary circumstances. To his friends he is both an annoyance and a valuable companion, and to his enemies he is a dangerous opponent.
In the year since his first visit to Luceti, Ayumu has grown a lot in his understanding of himself and enjoyment of his life... but at the same time, not really changed at all. The first major blow to his psyche came when Eucliwood decided she was too much of a threat to her friends and vanished for several months. All his attempts to find her again failed, and when he finally saw her she pushed him away. This led to him becoming extremely depressed and falling into a coma after he sacrificed himself to prevent a bomb from injuring his friends. The others collected his pieces, but it took Haruna diving into his psyche to snap him out of a cycle of self-loathing.
With his confidence restored, Ayumu was able to confront Eucliwood's previous zombie companion, the King of the Night, and eventually convince Eu it was all right to come back and live with him despite the consequences of her magic.
In the second season, Ayumu grappled with issues as diverse as his secret being discovered by the whole school and him becoming an infamous crossdressing celebrity, meeting a strange alcoholic fairy in the science room, and being attacked by bears. He even had a bad adventure where he failed a test, lost his memory, and had his psyche fragmented into Visual Kei guys named after the 7 deadly sins.
By the end of the season, and despite a few false life-changing epiphanies, however.... Ayumu is mostly the same as he ever was. He's a little less lazy, a little more confident in his friends, and a little less sane, but overall, he's the same guy he always was.
Strengths:
Following his death Ayumu gained a number of ridiculous fighting abilities.
1) Living humans naturally limit their strength so as not to injure their bodies. As Ayumu is undead, these limits have no meaning anymore and he is able to use force far exceeding what someone should expect from a person his size. He can throw heavy objects, punch things with devastating force and jump across rooftops without trouble. As his power comes from ignoring limits, this kind of activity can, of course, result in tearing his own body apart but it doesn’t matter much because -
2) Although he can be injured, bleed, and be knocked unconscious, Ayumu regenerates within a matter of minutes, up to and including reforming organs and reattaching severed limbs and torsos. Even an explosion fails to kill him, and his body will reassemble itself if the pieces are returned to the same general area. This allows him fight with no regard at all to his personal safety and produces maneuvers like him pinning an enemy while his ally stabs through the both of them.
3) As if this isn’t enough, Ayumu managed to accidentally absorb the abilities of a "magikewl girl." This means that when he is in possession of her chainsaw Mystletainn he can also transform into a magical girl. In this form he can fly and use magical attacks (most often used is 'Mystletainn Kick’ which is really stabbing the enemy with the chainsaw.) He can also repair things and erase memories, which he uses to his advantage when the whole school catches him in transformed mode.
This form can get even stronger if he concentrates and powers up, which results in him “getting cuter” and gaining even more frills and ribbons on his outfit. This form has been shown to give him up to 1000% of his normal power level, but it is theoretically able to get much stronger. It's noted that he has very high magical potential.
(What triggered him absorbing the magic abilities in the first place is still unclear, but it’s probably related to his necromancer’s godmod powers so for the sake of RP, he won’t be absorbing anything else.)
Mental: Educationally he is quite average, but he is able to study when he puts his mind to it. His bigger strength in this area is his determination. He refuses to lose, even when the odds are against him, and is willing to face bodily injury if it means he can succeed. He knows he is basically indestructible now and uses it to his advantage.
Emotional: Despite the amount of bizarre weirdness his life has descended into, under normal circumstances Ayumu is fairly emotionally stable. He doesn’t think too much on his death – aside from some morbid joking and a desire to find his killer, he barely seems to dwell on the negative aspects at all. In fact, he sees it as a positive event, one that allowed him to meet many important friends. He is also able to completely shrug off the effects of the somewhat abusive form of friendship the girls in his house provide. Despite being the victim of verbal berating and slapstick comedy on a regular basis, he doesn't take any of it to heart and can see the caring nature beneath the tsundere.
Weaknesses:
Physical: Zombies are susceptible to the sun. In direct sunlight Ayumu will dry out very quickly, meaning he must stay indoors during most of the day or otherwise work around standing in the sun. Dawn, twilight, being in the shade and cloudy days seem to be all right. An umbrella is also usually enough to let him wander outside on normal sunny days. However high heat makes the condition worse, so during summer it's more difficult for him to get around. In addition, extreme stress can also cause him to desiccate even indoors because of sweating too much.
Ayumu won’t die from this condition, and returning to the shade is enough to fix the problem, but it is a major handicap.
(As a note, transforming into a magikewl girl removes the weakness to sunlight, but comes with other problems detailed later.)
The zombie’s other natural weakness is fire. Presumably, if Ayumu were to be caught in a large enough blaze he would burn away and not be able to regenerate. However, he does survive an explosion that blew him into pieces, albeit he had to be gathered back together again first.
Although he can’t die anymore, Ayumu still experiences pain (but it is not as crippling as it would be to a living person.) The girls he lives with take full advantage of this to torture him when they feel slighted, knowing he’ll be fine. In addition, Ayumu’s regeneration is caused by the power of his necromancer, so whenever he is injured, she feels the pain he receives as well. This bothered him when he first learned about it and has given him some moments of caution when he ends up receiving mortal injuries. In practice however.... it doesn’t actually stop him from getting hurt a lot. (It's a little unclear whether this is the case for all injuries, or only ones which she touches and heals directly, like when she resurrected him in the first place... but considering the girls continue to beat him up even after the revelation, it's probably the latter.)
In fact, his callous disregard for his own health is probably a weakness as well. He uses his undead status to shrug off injuries in a fight, meaning that he will sometimes simply take an attack instead of trying to dodge it. This ends up with him in a lot of pain.
Mental: Besides drying him out, heat and sunlight have the additional effect of slowing Ayumu’s mental processes. During the day he is much more dull and lethargic, only perking up again after dark. However even under perfect circumstances he is basically unremarkable. His main motivation for wanting to pass his final exams was that the sun would be too bright during summer school classes. Aside from his supernatural circumstances, he is a painfully average teenager.
His mouth and his hormones tend to get him into trouble. For instance, he tries to get Sera to wear cat ears and pose despite knowing that she will brutally injure him for it.
Finally, while his magikewl girl form gives him numerous crazy superpowers, it also comes with a transformation sequence. The frilly pink dress may look cute on its own but it’s not so much when a boy is wearing it. Thus he will never transform until he has no other choice. Most of his shame is gone when fighting in front of friends and people who know about his ability, but as for others, he still has some pride as a man left. Social suicide is one of his biggest fears.
Emotional: Ayumu is naturally a geek and a loner so although he does enjoys having friends, the effort involved in trying to appear "social" is very stressful to him. In season 2, for example, attempting to put on a 'cool' persona to invite his classmates to a party ended up stressing him out to the point of drying up. His first instinct when it comes to big social events is to try and avoid them, but he will push himself when he has to in order to appear more 'normal.' Ayumu is most comfortable in groups when they are all people he knows well and can be himself around.
Ayumu is quick to turn judgmental when someone’s actions fall against his own reading of a situation. For instance, he cannot understand the Vampire-Ninja's strict adherence to clan tradition even when it conflicts with their own personal feelings. This has resulted in him getting into shouting matches when they weren't strictly necessary.
He's also weak to girls. Part of why he's okay with his new houseguests is that they're all pretty women, and one villain was able to capitalize on this lure him into an extremely suspicious trap.
However his biggest emotional weakness is his tendency to quickly become too emotionally invested with others. The most major example of this is Eu – since she is normally expressionless, he tries to assume what her actual feelings are. Sometimes this works and sometimes it results in moemoe fantasies that bear no resemblance to her real desires.
In fact, despite only being together for a short time, he has grown very dependent on Eu, so much so that when she disappeared for several months, although he still had Haruna and Sera he began to fall into a depression. He allowed his self-worth to rest on his ability to protect her, and when she rejected him to go with the King of the Night, he allowed himself to be blown up, fell into a coma and nearly gave up completely. It was only Haruna beating on him that brought him back to reality. Since he has already worked out this issue it's unlikely something so severe will happen again, but prolonged separation from her could begin to cause him to spiral downwards if he isn't careful.
For everything he's been through, he's surprisingly well-adjusted, but he's still a lonely kid who only discovered how to enjoy life after he died.
3rd person:
It was awkward settling back into an old rhythm of life when you have just spent a year peacefully forgetting that life existed. It was sort of like rummaging through boxes and finding your middle-school uniform. Suddenly, suppressed thoughts come rushing back and you wish you were less curious and left the boxes buried where they belonged.
Luceti was much like that scenario. Ayumu was not a day back from his year’s ‘vacation’ and he was already wishing he’d somehow known to leave this particular box unopened. Just this morning he’d narrowly avoided a fate worse than (un)death when Haruhi had tried recruiting him to capture a giant squid. Zombies don’t need to breathe, she’d claimed, so he’d be perfect. The problem was, he still did, and he was more likely to spend time eternally unconscious, imprisoned on the bottom of the ocean by the weights she’d strapped on him.
Instead, he’d been sent on the far less dangerous task of searching the wilderness and wrestling a wild boar. And in his two hours of trekking he’s encountered no boars, but two very large and angry bears who think zombies are a tasty snack. Once again he’s reminded just how many bad traits Haruhi and Haruna have in common. They have the same hairstyle. They have the same bossy attitude. They have the sound at the start of their name. And, they both get him attacked by bears.
Remembering Haruna was another somewhat painful blow. During his last visit to Luceti, which by this calendar, was sometime last week, he’d only known the girls for a few months. He’d spent more time in Luceti than he had as a zombie in his own world. The homesickness for his new friends had begun to fade. But now… He’d spent over a year and a half with the girls, as well as many insane and painful adventures. The end result was – he missed them. A lot. They were a surrogate family, a somewhat poor replacement for the parents who still sent their son home strange boxes of paraphernalia from countries he couldn’t pronounce. Maybe they weren’t even on the same planet anymore. But regardless –
Ayumu had only just gotten back, and already he wanted to go home. Unfortunately, life – and death – rarely gave him what he wanted. Just more bears.
Character
Name: Ayumu Aikawa
Fandom: Is this a Zombie? (Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?)
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Time Period: Post-Season 2 Episode 11 (OVA)
Wing Color: Brown
History: here
Note: I'm playing from the sub of the anime, but I've decided to start using the term "magikewl girl" as an alternative to "masou-shoujo," as this is the translation the English manga decided to go with and it's a pretty awesome pun. The dub of the anime is apparently going with "magical garment girl" which doesn't really convey the pun the same way and it's also made some other kind of questionable term changes. (It's also not been released on DVD yet, so I still have to wait to entirely see what damage it's done...)
Personality:
Ayumu Aikawa is a zombie. He is also a magikewl girl, and a disgusting piece of shit.
...The first two are unfortunately fact, but he’d like to vehemently deny the third.
For most purposes Ayumu is an average teenage boy. He lacks any great motivation, struggles with school, fights with his friends, and can be a bit too fixated on the ladies. However, underneath Ayumu is caring person who quickly grows fond of others and forgives their negative character traits. This has served him well recently as he also has an odd knack for gathering an abusive supernatural harem.
Before his death Ayumu lived alone, as his parents work overseas. This means he lives free from parental oversight and accountability. It's understandable that he became a somewhat carefree person, living mostly from day to day. Even presently he's fairly carefree - it's just that this goal of an average school life is disrupted by monsters, vampires, and magic battles.
Being a teenager, girls form one of his larger underlying motivations. He especially has a weakness for the lolita type – he is more than willing to obey Eu’s every command because of his (mostly delusional) belief that her written orders are actually her being moe and depending on her ‘onii-chan.’ But further than that, he's good at befriending girls and in return getting them to crush on him despite his occasional perverted tendencies.
This is likely because deep down, he is a genuinely nice person. He grows attached to others fairly quickly, even when they don’t treat him well in return, and even sometimes despite his own misgivings (such as his best male friend Orito, who he views as being more pathetic than he is but hangs out with anyway.) Most of the girls living with him now are tsundere at best but he will go out of his way to protect them and considers them friends he no longer wants to part with.
This further shows that he has a selfless streak. He routinely puts himself on the line to help others, even before he gained immortality; he died attempting to rescue a woman from a serial killer. He will put people he's fond of ahead of looking 'cool' as well, as shown by when he first met Eucliwood. He went out of his way to
This doesn't mean that he won't get into sarcastic banter with his friends on every possible occasion. Most of the conversations in the house involve some kind of sniping at each other. However he does genuinely appreciate each of them, as shown by how he continues to allow them to live with him and provides for them (he does most of the cooking, and likely pays for all their expenses as well.)
Still, at his core Ayumu is not a 'hero' - he's simply an ordinary person making do with extraordinary circumstances. To his friends he is both an annoyance and a valuable companion, and to his enemies he is a dangerous opponent.
In the year since his first visit to Luceti, Ayumu has grown a lot in his understanding of himself and enjoyment of his life... but at the same time, not really changed at all. The first major blow to his psyche came when Eucliwood decided she was too much of a threat to her friends and vanished for several months. All his attempts to find her again failed, and when he finally saw her she pushed him away. This led to him becoming extremely depressed and falling into a coma after he sacrificed himself to prevent a bomb from injuring his friends. The others collected his pieces, but it took Haruna diving into his psyche to snap him out of a cycle of self-loathing.
With his confidence restored, Ayumu was able to confront Eucliwood's previous zombie companion, the King of the Night, and eventually convince Eu it was all right to come back and live with him despite the consequences of her magic.
In the second season, Ayumu grappled with issues as diverse as his secret being discovered by the whole school and him becoming an infamous crossdressing celebrity, meeting a strange alcoholic fairy in the science room, and being attacked by bears. He even had a bad adventure where he failed a test, lost his memory, and had his psyche fragmented into Visual Kei guys named after the 7 deadly sins.
By the end of the season, and despite a few false life-changing epiphanies, however.... Ayumu is mostly the same as he ever was. He's a little less lazy, a little more confident in his friends, and a little less sane, but overall, he's the same guy he always was.
Strengths:
Following his death Ayumu gained a number of ridiculous fighting abilities.
1) Living humans naturally limit their strength so as not to injure their bodies. As Ayumu is undead, these limits have no meaning anymore and he is able to use force far exceeding what someone should expect from a person his size. He can throw heavy objects, punch things with devastating force and jump across rooftops without trouble. As his power comes from ignoring limits, this kind of activity can, of course, result in tearing his own body apart but it doesn’t matter much because -
2) Although he can be injured, bleed, and be knocked unconscious, Ayumu regenerates within a matter of minutes, up to and including reforming organs and reattaching severed limbs and torsos. Even an explosion fails to kill him, and his body will reassemble itself if the pieces are returned to the same general area. This allows him fight with no regard at all to his personal safety and produces maneuvers like him pinning an enemy while his ally stabs through the both of them.
3) As if this isn’t enough, Ayumu managed to accidentally absorb the abilities of a "magikewl girl." This means that when he is in possession of her chainsaw Mystletainn he can also transform into a magical girl. In this form he can fly and use magical attacks (most often used is 'Mystletainn Kick’ which is really stabbing the enemy with the chainsaw.) He can also repair things and erase memories, which he uses to his advantage when the whole school catches him in transformed mode.
This form can get even stronger if he concentrates and powers up, which results in him “getting cuter” and gaining even more frills and ribbons on his outfit. This form has been shown to give him up to 1000% of his normal power level, but it is theoretically able to get much stronger. It's noted that he has very high magical potential.
(What triggered him absorbing the magic abilities in the first place is still unclear, but it’s probably related to his necromancer’s godmod powers so for the sake of RP, he won’t be absorbing anything else.)
Mental: Educationally he is quite average, but he is able to study when he puts his mind to it. His bigger strength in this area is his determination. He refuses to lose, even when the odds are against him, and is willing to face bodily injury if it means he can succeed. He knows he is basically indestructible now and uses it to his advantage.
Emotional: Despite the amount of bizarre weirdness his life has descended into, under normal circumstances Ayumu is fairly emotionally stable. He doesn’t think too much on his death – aside from some morbid joking and a desire to find his killer, he barely seems to dwell on the negative aspects at all. In fact, he sees it as a positive event, one that allowed him to meet many important friends. He is also able to completely shrug off the effects of the somewhat abusive form of friendship the girls in his house provide. Despite being the victim of verbal berating and slapstick comedy on a regular basis, he doesn't take any of it to heart and can see the caring nature beneath the tsundere.
Weaknesses:
Physical: Zombies are susceptible to the sun. In direct sunlight Ayumu will dry out very quickly, meaning he must stay indoors during most of the day or otherwise work around standing in the sun. Dawn, twilight, being in the shade and cloudy days seem to be all right. An umbrella is also usually enough to let him wander outside on normal sunny days. However high heat makes the condition worse, so during summer it's more difficult for him to get around. In addition, extreme stress can also cause him to desiccate even indoors because of sweating too much.
Ayumu won’t die from this condition, and returning to the shade is enough to fix the problem, but it is a major handicap.
(As a note, transforming into a magikewl girl removes the weakness to sunlight, but comes with other problems detailed later.)
The zombie’s other natural weakness is fire. Presumably, if Ayumu were to be caught in a large enough blaze he would burn away and not be able to regenerate. However, he does survive an explosion that blew him into pieces, albeit he had to be gathered back together again first.
Although he can’t die anymore, Ayumu still experiences pain (but it is not as crippling as it would be to a living person.) The girls he lives with take full advantage of this to torture him when they feel slighted, knowing he’ll be fine. In addition, Ayumu’s regeneration is caused by the power of his necromancer, so whenever he is injured, she feels the pain he receives as well. This bothered him when he first learned about it and has given him some moments of caution when he ends up receiving mortal injuries. In practice however.... it doesn’t actually stop him from getting hurt a lot. (It's a little unclear whether this is the case for all injuries, or only ones which she touches and heals directly, like when she resurrected him in the first place... but considering the girls continue to beat him up even after the revelation, it's probably the latter.)
In fact, his callous disregard for his own health is probably a weakness as well. He uses his undead status to shrug off injuries in a fight, meaning that he will sometimes simply take an attack instead of trying to dodge it. This ends up with him in a lot of pain.
Mental: Besides drying him out, heat and sunlight have the additional effect of slowing Ayumu’s mental processes. During the day he is much more dull and lethargic, only perking up again after dark. However even under perfect circumstances he is basically unremarkable. His main motivation for wanting to pass his final exams was that the sun would be too bright during summer school classes. Aside from his supernatural circumstances, he is a painfully average teenager.
His mouth and his hormones tend to get him into trouble. For instance, he tries to get Sera to wear cat ears and pose despite knowing that she will brutally injure him for it.
Finally, while his magikewl girl form gives him numerous crazy superpowers, it also comes with a transformation sequence. The frilly pink dress may look cute on its own but it’s not so much when a boy is wearing it. Thus he will never transform until he has no other choice. Most of his shame is gone when fighting in front of friends and people who know about his ability, but as for others, he still has some pride as a man left. Social suicide is one of his biggest fears.
Emotional: Ayumu is naturally a geek and a loner so although he does enjoys having friends, the effort involved in trying to appear "social" is very stressful to him. In season 2, for example, attempting to put on a 'cool' persona to invite his classmates to a party ended up stressing him out to the point of drying up. His first instinct when it comes to big social events is to try and avoid them, but he will push himself when he has to in order to appear more 'normal.' Ayumu is most comfortable in groups when they are all people he knows well and can be himself around.
Ayumu is quick to turn judgmental when someone’s actions fall against his own reading of a situation. For instance, he cannot understand the Vampire-Ninja's strict adherence to clan tradition even when it conflicts with their own personal feelings. This has resulted in him getting into shouting matches when they weren't strictly necessary.
He's also weak to girls. Part of why he's okay with his new houseguests is that they're all pretty women, and one villain was able to capitalize on this lure him into an extremely suspicious trap.
However his biggest emotional weakness is his tendency to quickly become too emotionally invested with others. The most major example of this is Eu – since she is normally expressionless, he tries to assume what her actual feelings are. Sometimes this works and sometimes it results in moemoe fantasies that bear no resemblance to her real desires.
In fact, despite only being together for a short time, he has grown very dependent on Eu, so much so that when she disappeared for several months, although he still had Haruna and Sera he began to fall into a depression. He allowed his self-worth to rest on his ability to protect her, and when she rejected him to go with the King of the Night, he allowed himself to be blown up, fell into a coma and nearly gave up completely. It was only Haruna beating on him that brought him back to reality. Since he has already worked out this issue it's unlikely something so severe will happen again, but prolonged separation from her could begin to cause him to spiral downwards if he isn't careful.
For everything he's been through, he's surprisingly well-adjusted, but he's still a lonely kid who only discovered how to enjoy life after he died.
3rd person:
It was awkward settling back into an old rhythm of life when you have just spent a year peacefully forgetting that life existed. It was sort of like rummaging through boxes and finding your middle-school uniform. Suddenly, suppressed thoughts come rushing back and you wish you were less curious and left the boxes buried where they belonged.
Luceti was much like that scenario. Ayumu was not a day back from his year’s ‘vacation’ and he was already wishing he’d somehow known to leave this particular box unopened. Just this morning he’d narrowly avoided a fate worse than (un)death when Haruhi had tried recruiting him to capture a giant squid. Zombies don’t need to breathe, she’d claimed, so he’d be perfect. The problem was, he still did, and he was more likely to spend time eternally unconscious, imprisoned on the bottom of the ocean by the weights she’d strapped on him.
Instead, he’d been sent on the far less dangerous task of searching the wilderness and wrestling a wild boar. And in his two hours of trekking he’s encountered no boars, but two very large and angry bears who think zombies are a tasty snack. Once again he’s reminded just how many bad traits Haruhi and Haruna have in common. They have the same hairstyle. They have the same bossy attitude. They have the sound at the start of their name. And, they both get him attacked by bears.
Remembering Haruna was another somewhat painful blow. During his last visit to Luceti, which by this calendar, was sometime last week, he’d only known the girls for a few months. He’d spent more time in Luceti than he had as a zombie in his own world. The homesickness for his new friends had begun to fade. But now… He’d spent over a year and a half with the girls, as well as many insane and painful adventures. The end result was – he missed them. A lot. They were a surrogate family, a somewhat poor replacement for the parents who still sent their son home strange boxes of paraphernalia from countries he couldn’t pronounce. Maybe they weren’t even on the same planet anymore. But regardless –
Ayumu had only just gotten back, and already he wanted to go home. Unfortunately, life – and death – rarely gave him what he wanted. Just more bears.