Frozen solid, Seina pointed at the girl in front of her and accidentally yelled.
"Y-you're that girl!" she said.
"What?" the girl replied, confused.
"Hmm…" Seina lowered her hand, remembering what she saw the night before. Her posture sagged immediately.
The silver-haired girl stood there, waiting.
"I saw you yesterday…" Seina said, looking away.
"Yesterday? But I didn't leave my house."
Seina raised an eyebrow. She clearly remembered the previous day — the silver-haired girl, the creature, the death.
And now, there she was.
Alive.
But that had never happened before. Never.
"Wait…" Seina took a step back, staring into the girl's purple eyes. "No one…"
No one ever came back from death after a reset.
"How are you still here?"
"You're scaring me…" the girl began shrinking a little, clutching the strap of her backpack with trembling hands. "Who are you?"
"I don't get it," Seina muttered more to herself than to anyone else. "I saw you die on the seventh day, how did the reset bring you back?"
"Sorry, did you say seventh day? The reset is only six days, what's wrong with you?" She turned and walked away toward her classroom.
Seina stood frozen in the hallway for a few seconds, feeling the ground shake beneath her feet — or maybe it was just the confusion growing inside her.
Still dazed, she walked to her own classroom, trying to organize her thoughts.
Since moving to that godforsaken town, everything felt… wrong.
Small glitches in everyday life.
Things that came back when they should have disappeared.
People acting like they were reliving the same day.
At first, no one wanted to believe it. But over time, it became impossible to ignore.
Products that had been bought — food, clothes, electronics — reappeared in stores the next day. As if the money was never spent.
But what really blew the truth wide open was the accident.
It happened on the seventh day.
Two cars collided at a street intersection. Chaos. Sirens, screams, onlookers.
And then, on the "new" first day…
No cars. No crash marks. The people involved? Gone.
But there were still photos. Videos and messages about the accident and the missing people.
That's when the world realized something was happening.
A cycle. Seven days.
And then: everything started over.
The Reset.
No one knows how it started or who caused it.
But everyone remembers it.
Seven days, in the same order, with the same events.
Everyone…
Except her.
The silver-haired girl.
The one Seina saw dead.
The one who now walked the halls like nothing had happened.
She lived like the seventh day never existed.
Like she hadn't died on it.
Like she was immune to the Reset. Like she was immune to death.
But she's not.
She's the glitch. The flaw within the flaw.
Classes passed by in a blur again, but Seina only saw the girl's silver hair in her mind, surrounded by mist and nothing else.
How could someone who should be dead be so… alive?
Later, during break, Seina saw that girl again, sitting alone, headphones on, staring at the cloudy sky like she'd lost her own name.
Her silver hair swayed in the wind, reflecting the pale light of the afternoon.
For a moment, Seina froze, standing there admiring her, her feet seemingly stuck to the floor. But after a few seconds, she took a deep breath and walked to the bench where she sat.
"Can I sit here?"
The girl looked surprised, took out one earphone suspiciously.
"Um… sure, I guess."
"Cool." Seina sat down, looking anywhere but at her. "Sorry about before, I… said some crazy things."
"Ah, it's okay, you seemed… scared."
"I was," Seina laughed, embarrassed.
They stayed silent for a while, Seina could hear the music playing in the headphones and tried to guess the song.
"So, what's your name?" the silver-haired girl asked.
"Oh, my name's Im Seina, but you can just call me Seina. And yours?"
"My name's Thalya Everhart, nice to meet you."
Seina smiled shyly, and before she could start a conversation, the bell rang.
"The bell rang, finally. See you another day, Seina." She stood up and walked away slowly.
"See you…" Seina just watched the silver-haired girl walk back to class.
For a moment, Seina was consumed by doubt and haunted by the lack of answers.
Was everything she saw on the seventh day just in her head? Or is Thalya a glitch in this reset?
Whatever she was, Seina couldn't look away.