Lunch period.
The school was loud, normal, filled with the usual noise of students eating and talking.
Rei Yuu sat alone as always, slowly eating his lunch without much expression.
Then—
A loud bang echoed somewhere in the building.
He paused slightly.
Then another.
Then another.
The sounds were scattered at first... but quickly started to feel connected.
Something was wrong.
A student suddenly tripped.
His tray flew out of his hands.
It struck another student in the head.
That student stumbled backward into a desk.
The desk hit a chair.
The chair tipped into another table.
The table shifted, knocking over a rack of supplies.
And the chain continued.
One mistake became another.
One impact triggered the next.
Until—
A final structural failure somewhere deeper in the sequence caused a violent impact-like collapse, sending shock through the area.
The entire cafeteria fell into chaos.
Rei slowly stood up.
"...What is this...?"
His voice was quiet, but for the first time, there was tension in it.
Because he understood something instinctively now.
This wasn't random.
It was connected.
And worse—
it was still going.
Then he saw him.
A silhouette stood near the edge of the cafeteria.
No one seemed to notice when he arrived.
But everyone felt his presence now.
He tilted his head slightly, then laughed.
A low, distorted laugh that didn't belong in a normal school.
Then he spoke loudly, clearly:
"Once a goal is set… reality begins collapsing in small steps until destruction is achieved."
He raised his voice even more.
"You hear me?!"
The entire room froze.
Students didn't scream yet.
They didn't move.
They were still trying to understand what they were seeing.
Not fear first—
confusion.
The figure turned his gaze slightly.
And pointed.
This time, at a teacher.
"Let me show you."
The teacher's body tensed instantly.
Her hands shook.
Her phone slipped from her grip.
It hit the floor.
The screen shattered into dozens of fragments.
For a moment, nothing happened.
Then—
the fragments reacted.
Glass scattered.
A student stepped back onto it.
The shoe slipped.
That slip knocked a chair.
The chair hit a cabinet.
The cabinet's contents fell.
Metal tools struck each other.
One impact led to another.
One failure triggered the next.
The chain restarted.
Faster.
More precise.
More unpredictable, more inevitable.
The teacher stumbled backward, realizing too late what was happening.
The silhouette laughed again.
"See? It doesn't stop once it starts."
"A chain reaction so perfect, that it shifts to what i make it! Reality IS what I will it!"
Rei's eyes widened slightly.
Something about those words didn't sit right with him.
"Reality is what I will it."
The moment he heard it—
the chain shifted again.
Not randomly.
Not naturally.
But deliberately.
Like it had received a new direction.
The scattered glass on the floor slid slightly under a student's shoe.
That tiny movement—
was enough.
The chain restarted.
Faster this time.
More aggressive.
A chair tilted too far.
A table leg cracked.
A cabinet door swung open at the wrong angle.
Everything was beginning to align again—
toward the teacher.
"No... Stop—!"
The teacher backed away instinctively.
Too late.
The sequence was already locked in.
Rei took a step forward without realizing it.
His chest felt tight.
Not fear.
Not panic.
Something closer to instinct.
Like something inside him was reacting before thought.
"No... this isn't right..."
His voice came out low.
Uncertain.
But the chain didn't care.
It kept moving.
One step closer.
Then another.
And then—
the falling glass shifted direction again.
But this time—
it didn't follow the villain's pattern.
It bent.
Slightly.
Almost invisible.
But wrong.
The chain hesitated.
Just for a fraction of a second.
Like reality itself had stumbled.
The silhouette's eyes narrowed.
"...What?"
Rei froze.
His body felt strange.
Like something had been pulled out of him without permission.
A word formed in his mind.
He didn't understand it.
He didn't even think it.
But it surfaced anyway.
Like it had always been there.
His lips moved.
"Misfortune... redirect."
Silence.
For a fraction of a second—
everything stopped.
Not frozen.
Not broken.
Just... reassigned.
The chain reacted instantly.
The slip on the glass changed angle.
The chair's movement shifted.
The table impact redirected sideways.
The cabinet swing adjusted mid-motion.
Not stopped.
Not erased.
Rewritten.
The entire sequence turned away from the teacher, away from the intended target...
And toward the silhouette.
A sudden impact hit the edge of his position.
Not a direct attack.
Not a weapon.
Just the accumulated result of everything being forced into a new path.
A system collapsing back onto its origin.
The silhouette stumbled back half a step.
For the first time—
his expression cracked.
"...You—"
His voice dropped.
Confused.
Then sharp.
"You changed the output?"
Rei stood completely still.
"...Huh?"
He looked at his hand.
Nothing.
Just a lingering echo in his mind of a word he never meant to say.
The cafeteria was silent.
Even the chain reaction paused, as if waiting.
The silhouette slowly lifted his head.
Then smiled.
But this time—
it wasn't calm.
It was irritated.
Interested.
Dangerous.
"So that's how it is..."
His voice darkened slightly.
"...You don't control the chain..."
A pause.
"You interfere with it."
More reactions started forming around him again.
But now—
they were unstable.
No longer clean.
No longer precise.
Rei took a small step back.
Confused.
"I didn't do that..."
But even as he said it, he knew.
Something had responded to him...
The cafeteria was silent.
Even the chain reaction paused, as if waiting.
The silhouette slowly lifted his head.
"...Interesting."
A short pause.
His gaze stayed on Rei for a moment longer than necessary.
"...I'll look into this."
His tone was lower now. Less confident. Less playful.
Not fear exactly—
but caution.
"What is your name?"
Rei looked at him in confusion and in a low, simple tone
"Rei... Who are you?"
The silhouette stepped back.
The air around him warped slightly, like his presence was being pulled out of the space rather than leaving it normally.
And in the next moment—
he was gone.
No explosion.
No final statement.
Just absence.
And after a moment...
Objects stopped shifting.
Movements lost direction.
One by one, the links broke down until everything finally settled into silence.
The chain reaction had stopped completely.
Rei stood still.
"...What just happened?"
His hand was still slightly raised.
He slowly lowered it.
But the feeling didn't go away.
That word still echoed in his mind.
Misfortune redirect?
He didn't understand it.
He didn't even know why he said it.
But something inside him felt like it had answered him.
Around him, students slowly started moving again, confused, disoriented, like they had just woken up from something they couldn't remember clearly.
Rei looked at them.
They continued what they were doing as if nothing had even happened.
Some people looked at Rei weirdly, since he was standing as if he had just seen a ghost...
Rei approached a boy and asked him—
"Did you see what just happened...?"
The boy forms a confused look as he eats his lunch.
"What are you talking about? You seriously need to get checked out.. You're so weird."
Rei steps back and into his seat again, why was he the only one who remembered what had happened just now?
Well, nobody could answer that question but him, and he didn't know.
A few hours later, Rei went home...
This time, nothing weird happened on the way home.
He entered his house, his mom saying the same thing again.
"You're late"
"No I'm not."
"You always say that"
"Yeah but I'm not."
"Whatever you say..."
Rei went into his room and stared at his hand...
Nothing new.
Still the same hand, as always.
Maybe he was dreaming all of that?
Could be the lack of sleep he's getting.
But then again, there's no way he could imagine that.
It felt... Too real.