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Darkness is all that Shinji sees then, flashes of light. It was all that Shinji saw for now, but enough occasional illumination came and went to illustrate the surroundings Shinji currently was situated, it was a train car. Shinji exhaled briefly, he did not know the specific details of how he ceased deceasing, but he can at least sit down and think about it, and so he thought about it. His body although sat in a train to an known unknown destination, at least he did know what the ultimate destination of everybody was though. The thoughts came to him like a hail of snow and ice, thoughts about his death, his life up to this moment, his friends, and whatever else, discombobulated beyond any measure.
Out of habit, Shinji reached into his pockets to store his hands to a place with a semblance of warmth, only to be surprised by the sudden appearance of a object in his pocket without him knowing, he took it out and found what seemed to be a device of some sort.
It came with a set of dark earphones and a note, on the note in fancy calligraphy was instructions
You are heading towards your destination as you are currently reading this
When you arrive there, head to the neighborhood known as Yongen Jaya, and find the residence of Sojiro Sakura. You will be under his care for the time being and will start your journey soon. As for the device in your possession, do spend effort into learning how to use it, much has changed within the seven years of your passing, and this will only serve to help you.
-Regards, Igor.
“Ok Igor, thanks.” Uttered Shinji.
Over the next few minutes, Shinji sat in the dark train attempting to learn the intricacies of his new phone, it was a bit confusing having only operated flip phones to this point, but he worked out enough on how to use it for the time being. He even worked out what the app was for playing music. With a lack of things to do on his phone or anything, really, he out of curiosity plugged his earphones into the phone and played whatever was downloaded in the music library of his phone.
Now playing: Otherside, by Red Hot Chilli Peppers
As the song started, a light had shown fully into Shinjiro’s face originating from the next train car, it illuminated the current train car he was in to allow him to fully see his surroundings clearly, he had only noticed that there was a bag next to him on the seat to his right, having seen no other passengers in the train car, he could only assume that the bag was meant for him, and even if it wasn’t, finders keepers. Shinji stood up, and faced the light coming from the proceeding train car, and then turned around to peer into the black vortex of darkness behind him. There was only one course of action that could be made here, that Shinji knew, he moved forward to the light and never looked back.