SIRO-1453 Amateur AV Experience Shoot 510

About this work

'I'm bored.' Clutching the paper on which I'd written those words in red pen, I fell asleep. It was some kind of urban legend circulating online. You draw a hexagram on a piece of paper and write "I'm bored" inside it. You fall asleep holding it, and if it works you supposedly wake up in another world (a parallel world). It's like a little charm: try it if you're bored with the you in this world. My name is みなみ. I failed at job hunting and after graduating university I'm working part-time at a convenience store. My boyfriend, whom I'd been dating since college, dumped me for some reason I didn't understand — saying I was "too heavy". I've always been bad at socializing, so I didn't have any close friends, and the moment I lost my boyfriend I was left completely alone. Don't leave me alone, don't abandon me, you're the only one I have— I kept muttering that in my head. My life was over. If I just kept drifting along doing part-time jobs there would be no chance encounters and I wouldn't become anyone. So even if this charm failed and I disappeared from everywhere, I didn't care. It would be much better than killing myself. That's why I tried it. As a result, when I woke up there was no paper in my hand. I couldn't find it anywhere. Maybe it would have turned up if I had looked properly, but I didn't look for it. The bed I woke up in looked the same as always, and the house and my mother's face were as usual, but I thought this place must be different from the world I had been in until yesterday. In this world I had a boyfriend, and the more social version of me actually had friends. I felt a small pang of guilt for having taken the place of my counterpart in another world, but trying that charm had been worth it. I'm happy now.