‘What ...just ...happened?’

Everything seemed blurry. Alex was on the floor and saw a familiar ceiling and tried to get up.

‘Where...am I?’

Alex looked around to see where he was.

‘Huh!! I’m in my house!? How did I get here?’

Several questions were popping in Alex’s mind.

He went to the kitchen and got some bread to eat. He then casually opened the TV and saw the news.

‘Mysterious fire in the old building in Chiba, the cause is still unknown.’

A news reporter was live at the scene.

Alex was watching the news with great interest, he also felt like something was missing, something he needed to remember, but he just couldn’t.

’Also, we found a young NAKED boy running from near the incident caught on camera, the police say he might be involved in it in some way, although the camera couldn’t catch his face clearly, he is estimated to be 16-18 years old judging by his body.’

‘Something’s familiar about that boy.’

Alex paused the screen and looked closely, he then saw a birthmark on his left shoulder, although his face was blurry, you don’t need a clear picture to recognize yourself.

‘What the hell happened?’

He looked down and saw he was still NAKED.

‘Youth these days, I am not sure if the boy was involved in the incident, but I’ll never be able to understand today’s trends.’

A policeman reported.

Alex confused, sat down, and then, like lightning striking him out of the blue, it hit him.

Flashback to when he had cancer, agreeing to perform risky surgery, being in the lab, and then his final memory of hearing people screaming.

‘Oh yeah… that stuff happened?’

Alex tried to relax a bit.

--Was the facility in Chiba? How did it explode? Did I get here by myself?

Alex was still not sure about the incident.

’Okay, that stuff happened, considering I’m still alive and actually feeling very alive means the treatment was successful, meaning I don’t have brain cancer anymore. The facility was destroyed, and somehow I got home in Kanagawa while running Naked and probably looking like a maniac and…...’

Alex looked down, and he was still Naked.

‘I should put on some clothes first.’

Alex went to wear some clothes after taking a bath.

He was still thinking about how did the facility was destroyed, and he could vaguely remember someone saying that the patient, Him, was unstable, and he EXPLODED.

--Well, that does sound cool, but I’m sure that I didn’t explode…probably.

‘I should also check what’s happening in school since I was away for three weeks’

Alex called his friend Yuuto.

It’s 8 in the morning, so I’m sure he’s awake. Yuuto was always an early riser no matter the day.

‘Hey, Yuuto. What’s up?’

Yuuto was surprised to hear Alex’s voice

‘ALEX!!!? Is that you?’

‘Yeah, it’s me, so I was wonderi-’

‘Alex, where have you been? You suddenly just disappeared, I tried calling and texting you, but you wouldn’t respond.’

‘Ye-yeah I know so-’

Yuuto was talking too fast.

‘Also, when I asked the school about you, they said you left some weird application about going to Germany to visit your great aunt Bessie? I thought you were half American.’

‘Yeah, about that ….um ...crazy story actually, l will tell you about it later, anyway, what’s new in school?’

Yuuto sighed.

‘Nothing much, everyone is just stressed because of the exams that are starting tomorrow. Are you ready for them?’

’Ex-exams? What Exams!!?’

A cold chill ran through Alex’s spine.

‘This semester’s midterm exam, what else? You do remember, don’t you?’

‘Ye-yeah, of course.’

‘Good, I was worried that you suddenly disappeared for three weeks, but you just came in time for the exams, guess you were still studying in Germany’

‘Anyway, I was just checking how you were doing, I have to go now, Bye’

Alex hung up.

‘This is bad, what am I supposed to do? I don’t remember a single word of what I learned, and I skipped almost three weeks of school, how am I supposed to make up for that?’

Alex was a student with high grades, he always performed well on exams. Terrified, he grabbed his head and sat down, and as they say when in trouble, be optimistic.

--Maybe, there’s still hope. What are the chances of a major earthquake hitting Kanagawa tomorrow? Let’s see, Kanagawa is a part of Greater area Tokyo, and Tokyo has about 85% of a chance of having an earthquake every day, and the last major earthquake was in-.

’WAIT!!!, WHAT AM I THINKING? Actually, how do I know all of this?’

Alex was desperately thinking.

‘I have to come up with a plan.’