Chapter 1

Akaashi Keiji who had found his soulmate years before. It is believed that once you had finally found your soulmate it is ought to be the person you will live through the rest of your lives till the world shall end.

But Akaashi Keiji's soulmate died in the year 1020 when, he was at the age of 25. The day his soulmate died he noticed that as he have grown older there were no sign of aging. His dazzling face and amazing figure has remained the same, his soothing voice and mesmerising eyes were like the days when he was 25. And now that he is currently 1025 years old he realized that he was cursed with immortality.

Keiji lived his life like a living hell, He never made friends and stayed away from his relatives as he was afraid on loosing them, He was afraid that he will witness the funeral of his loved one's and he hated it.

He remained his job as an editor since it was the only thing that could make him busy in his lifetime. Waking up, eating, drive, smoke, work, and repeat it all over again. His daily routine was getting old but he didn't bother changing it, either way if he did nothing will change he would stay alone in his home and work until eventually ...hopefully the curse that was enchanted to him will slowly fade away.

Sometimes he thought to him self "Will this curse ever wear off?" But honestly he was getting sick of it. He has tried committing suicide endless of times, He had done every possible way that could ruin his insides, He was going sane but every time he did he would always end up on his bed waking up like it was just a nightmare.

Keiji lived in a average home, a two story house... A house that was similar to the one he had before, The one that Keiji's soulmate would always sneak out for every night from the hospital and watch a movie that his soulmate had been repeating several of times. 

Occasionally he would remember his soulmate and shed a tear till he sobbed, he could still feel the imaginary presence of his soulmate, he would sometimes hallucinate of his soulmate in his couch calling his name to watch his favorite movie for the endless time and Keiji would agree. The favorite blanket his soulmate loved and held for the last time was in his bedroom serving as his blanket.

Keiji had loved volleyball since his highschool days but soon stopped in college, but when the time came at the age of 25 his soulmate that was dying requested to play volleyball with him. Even though his soulmate is lacking of sleep and was in jaws of death with a sickness that was believed to never be cured he remained happy and kept smilling until he finally expirienced what a "Peacefull Sleep" would feel like.

As soon as he touched the volleyball again, his experiences had came crawling back to him as if he was back to his high school life playing for nationals. And ever since that event,  he had been playing volleyball frequently to his release his stress. But that didn't mean his life began to take a happy turn.

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