Why is it so dark? Is this what happens when I die?
It is as scary as brown bears âŚ
I tried to get up plumply.
Suddenly a woman called me, and I was surprised by it.
âAre you okay?â
Where is it here? Is it the hospital? Is she a nurse?
This is so dark! No, waitâŚmaybe I canât see?
I tried to reach out and search around.
*Boink*
I think I touched something.
âKyaaa!â
The woman screamed.
âOh! Iâm sorry! Did I touch you? Iâm really sorry!â
âItâs okay. Nevermind. Itâs dark because thereâs no light here. Iâll create some now.â
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*Flicker*
A fire lit up, and the surrounding became brighter.
In front of me, a person is kneeling and staring right into my faceâŚ
Who is that?
Sheâs a blonde foreigner, dressed in a white dressâŚ
What an exceptional beauty!
I saw a ball of light is on the palm of her hand âŚ
I wonder what kind of lighting?
âWell, uh? Isnât this a hospital?â
âNo itâs notâ
âYou sure? Because a bear attacked meâŚâ
âThis is the afterworld, Nakajima Shin-san. Iâm sorry, you died ⌠â
âSo Iâm deadâŚâ
âYesâ
âKilled by that brown bear?â
âYesâ
âErmâŚâ
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I lean forward and ask.
âWhat about the girl? The one from the elementary school!â
âShe is safe. Thanks to you.â
âThank god.â
Three days ago, there was a brown bear came down from the back mountain to haunt an elementary school.
I witnessed it near the school road, and although it was dangerous as it was, I still decided to get rid of it at the hunting association.
Iâm an employee of a rural town hall, but when my grandpa retired as a hunter, he was asked, âWould you like to be a hunter?â And that is how I became a hunter.
Grandpa was an active hunter until last year, carrying a hunting rifle and doing things like exterminating vermin from the mountain.
Even at the government office, the town was suffering from damage such as deer that ruin the fields and foxes that attack livestock, and even at the government office where I work, had to assist farmers by putting up a net to cover the fields with fences. With all the efforts, the damage is considerably reduced by a little.
Grandpa says that most hunters are aging and there are not enough young people in the hunting association.
And that is precisely why after I graduated from a local high school, I became a government employee. At that time I was still young. Now Iâm 20 years old, and Iâm old enough to get a gun possession permit and a hunting license, I told him to give me the hunting gun that my grandpa always had.
âI want a young guy like you to join the hunting association,â said Grandpa. I couldnât make that request.
Then, I am a first-year hunter who has cleared the difficult gun possession permit and hunting license.
Since I was an employee of the government office, I was qualified as a vermin extermination worker from the town that year, and at the request of the farmer, I used to catch deer and foxes with an old shotgun that I had received from my grandpa.
Grandpa gave me all sorts of his guns and hunting equipment before he died from pancreatic cancer six months later âŚ
If you think about it, maybe he just wanted me to take over himâŚ
Today was a request to get rid of brown bears.
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It is a known strategy to drive up and climb around the back mountain as a member of the hunting association.
I donât have a rifle yet, so I can only use my shotgun.
So, I didnât go into the mountains just in case and took on the role of patrol around the school to prevent any accident from happening.
Gunshots echoed in a row in the back mountain, and the voice of the simple digital radio I got it from my grandpa attached to my shoulder saying âIt is going to the school now! Careful!â When I took off the gun cover of my favourite Remington M870 and put the Sabot slug in the two-shot magazine, I saw a little girl playing around at the back of the school building.
âCome back! Itâs dangerous! Faster! Go back to the school building!â
I wondered why the children is there.
Shouldnât the school is temporarily closed!
Before I could think more, something fast moved.
The groves of the back mountains sway, and black lumps run at a tremendous speed.
Itâs a violation of the Firearms and Swords Act to fire behind the school building like this.
Thinking about that, I ran to that kid.
I open up my shotgun magazine and loaded two ammo. The spring then sends the ammunition from the magazine into the chamber.
Then, put another bullet in the magazine and make a total of three shots!
âGet into the school building now!!â
I stood between the kid and the bear, instructing the kid while trying to drive the bear away by hand.
âGuah guah guah!!â
A bloody brown bear that jumps out of the grove roars.
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Bam!
I fired one shot!
Damn it! Why did it come out!
*Clicks*
I hurriedly pull the fore end of the pump-action to eject the shells, and push the ammo forward and take another shot!
Bam!
Great! I got it!
Another shot at the throat of the bear in front of me when I stood up and tried to land a hit me!
*Clicks* Bam!
I shot the brown bearâs arm but it was too late. I was blown away by the brown bearâs armâŚ
Then, thatâs all I could remember.
âWho are you?
âI am a goddess. My name is Nanotes, the goddess who controls the world after your death.â
SeriouslyâŚ
There is no such beautiful foreigner in the country town where I live.
âYour courage to protect the kid and confront the brown bear, itâs too regrettable to die for you to die as it is ⌠is what I thought so, so I brought you back here.â
âBrought me back here?â
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âYes. You are dead. Although I canât bring you back to the previous world, but I want to make your life better a little longer.â
âWhat will happen to me?â
âI will send you to a different world.â
âDifferent world?â
âMay you start a new life. May you live happily there. It is the earth, not the earth. There are humans, and some are not.â
âLike a manga?â
The goddess smiled gently and said.
âMaybe. It may be a mysterious world.â
âI have a job ⌠my family and friends. I canât just throw them away and go to that world!â
âIâm sorryâ
âNO! I not convinced that Iâm already dead!â
âYou may not be convinced, but itâs still a fact that you died. Either way, canât you try to accept it?â
My sob leaked. I had no choice but to cry.
I was disappointed that I died. My parents, brother and sister. I cried when I thought about my family.
I was attacked by a brown bear at the age of 21 and died âŚ
It wouldnât have happened if I had only been a staff member of the government office instead of a hunter.