My name is Masachika Kuze.
I am... reminiscing about my happier past days...
Especially that one particular day... I miss it so much.
I remember that day clearly...
It was a small but memorable graduation party for all of us.
We sang and danced for hours, celebrating our uneventful but fulfilling high school days before parting ways.
Yuki, that gremlin... She ordered Ayano to get actual alcoholic beverages for all of us!
I can't believe she's actually my blood-related sister. I would never break any laws like her!
Sarashina-senpai and Kenzaki-senpai made out in front of everyone thanks to that.
Miyamae-san pretended to be drunk and keeps flirting with me.
Seeing her acting like a slut triggered Taniyama-san and my drunken girlfriend Alya to no end.
Masha-senpai, as usual, was trying to help her little sister from committing violence while Taniyama-san is trying to hold Miyamae-san from assaulting me.
It was chaotic, crazy, and of course messy...
But it was amazing... We were happy, and I really wished that day to never end.
But then...
The unthinkable happened.
A fleet of spaceships from outer space arrived near Earth, sending the entire planet Earth into downward spiral of panic and chaos.
They broadcasted their propaganda and demand for Earth to surrender and follow their guidance.
Outraged, 1/3 of Europe, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, half of all Middle East, Thailand, India, and half of USA joined together to form the Anti-Alien Alliance or A3.
However, the aliens were proven to be way too powerful for even all of them.
A single spaceship was all they needed to kill 1/4 of their oppositions in less than an hour.
Truth is really stranger than fiction.
Their battle polluted the Earth so much that the aliens sent free Cryostasis pod for everyone on Earth.
I was put in one after falling unconscious from the pollutants.
50 years later, I was revived and released, then immediately put into a new world I don't know.
I don't know where my family and friends are, and I don't know how to even begin to search for them.
The world I loved and knew, is long gone.
The A3 lost the war (naturally), and what's left of their supporters are now living in areas that Oracle have declared as neutral, that is, Japan.
Or should I say, Exclusive Quarantine Area, Japan.
Passing the border is punishable by immediate execution, and boats are now only reserved for authority figures.
Not only that, I have to mind my speech and actions to match what the government wants me to
...Or else the law enforcement will ruin my life faster than a speeding bullet train.
I now work as a Cashier that's borderline slavery, while living in a small and terrible apartment. The rent is outright robbery, as well.
When I look outside, there's only neon lights of advertisements from big corporations in New Tokyo, a city I can only describe as Dystopia future without the cool gadgets you see in popular media back then...
I can only find slight happiness from looking at the photo of our party back then.
I miss everyone...
Here I am, kneeling before you, God.
Hopeless and exhausted beyond what I even think is possible, I come to you in my hour of greatest need, as you have said:
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
...God, please help me find them. I won't complain if I find them in... worse than optimal condition.
I won't complain if I have to suffer or lose my life. You can take it.
Please, change my life to how it was. I will do anything you ask.
Please... please... please... I beg you...
...Help us escape this hell!