

Uploaded by timeofsage on Jul 23, 2013

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Hah, Is there an easy part-time job out there?

Sunero, i'm leaving soon, buy some meat at the supermarket, would you?

No prob.

Well then, to the supermarket you go, Tonio.

This is Tonio from the same class as me, my underling and a taxi.

Hm?

To think of it, i don't have a lot of money.

Should i go back?

Oh. Isn't it Tonio and Sunero.

Sup. What're you guys up to?

Huh? Should you be at work right now, Jaita?

Manager is so annoying. He fired me for doing nothing.

Is it really normal to fire because of that?

It's you who is abnormal.

This is from the same class as me, Jaita. Is kind of a hooligan.

And i've been working my ass off for 650 yen/hr!

Well, let's search the next place together.

Yeah...

I wish there was more of exciting job out there...

Tonio! You know any?

I do.

Buy i'm not sure if it's good or not.

The way to get a 1 million yen in a single moment.

1 mil in a moment!?

SERIOUSLY?

Positive-dechu.

And the method is simple as well. Anyone can do it.

That is: push a button for a moment.

1 mil for THAT?

The moment you push the button a current runs thorugh your body and teleports your consciousness. 1 mil for THAT?

The moment you push the button a current runs thorugh your body and teleports your consciousness.

After that you have to live for 500 million years.

Just by yourself, in this empty space, alone.

The job of "living".

Will you do this for 1 million?

There will be nothing at all.

Also, you can't sleep or die there.

But when it ends you will be taken back to the moment you pushed the button.

With body and time you had before.

And your memory will be wiped.

"Eh? It's over already?"

"1 mil! Lucky me!"

Will say the person who lived for 500 million years after getting his memory wiped.

For him it was the instant.

But in the process, 500 million is a really long time.

With nothing to do and unable to sleep,

You will have to go through every single hour.

500 million years byyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy yourself

Unable to do anything at aaaaaaaaaaall.

But when it's over, your memory returns to the state when you pushed the button.

Hence, "One million!!!"

"The way to get a 1 million yen in a single moment"

That's how it works.

Will you do it?

Then i shall.

YOU SERIOUS?

I see-dechu.

I have the button right here.

Do you really want to do it?

Yeah. So when i push, it will start?

That's right.

Hey! It's 500 million years! 500 MILLION!

It's 1 million yen, dude! Who would turn down such an offer?

Me. It's 1 million yen, dude! Who would turn down such an offer?

Me.

All right.

Here, your 1 million yen-dechu.

Huh? it it broken or something? Nothing happened.

Awesome, a real million yen.

Jaita, how was it?

I just pushed the button though.

You sure you are giving this to me!?

In reality, you've just lived through 500 million years.

Wanna do it again?

Huh? Sure.

Hell yeah, 2 million now!

Wait, you only pushed the button!?

Whoo-hoo! Let me do this too!

Viva la 2 million yen!

I should push this, right?

Right-dechu.

Okay, for starters, one million.

Nothing happened

Or so i thought.

That moment...

What is this feeling?

My conscioussness... flies off...

What's this...

NO WAY.

500 million years, start.

Shit, so that's how it's gonna be.

500 million years, for real?

Nonsense.

Sunero was naive. At first he searched for an exit.

Was it like that for Jaita? Sunero was naive. At first he searched for an exit.

Was it like that for Jaita?

Where is the exit?

No matter how much i go, the scenery doesn't change.

Sunero ran. He rested when tired, then he ran again.

In the end, he ran for 3 days. And he finally understood the simple truth:

"There is no exit"

I don't get it at all. What happenned? I wonder if my parents are worried...

What will happen to me now?

I want to go back...

He spent his first week thinking about parents and friends.

Three months.

He began to notice how big this place is.

Though he's not getting hungry or feels pain, an obscure fear assaults him.

A perspective of a lone, long life ahead worries him.

6 months.

Scissors. Left hand wins.

"Rock-paper-scissors for one" gets invented.

He tries to live there without looking back.

Using the concept of doing everything by himself he developed ways to kill time.

One time, he took out his tooth and played the lonely game of "Throw and find a tooth"

The other time.

Playing shiritori by himself.

Walking without touching the gaps between tiles.

Burrowing fingers into gaps.

Killing time. Other than killing time there's nothing to do.

And if you don't do it, you will go insane.

Losing interest and inventing, losing interest and inventing and so on.

6 months later.

Stop it, Sunero!

I can't? Why not?

Don't, not here.

It's gonna be okay.

No means no.

Fantasy world got developed.

It lasted only for a while, since it felt futile.

40 years.

Sunero did not do anything.

Countlessly regretting pushing the button.

Time spent here becomes longer than his whole life before.

He felt the weight of time of mercilessly collapsing unto him...

Then, hundred years since his coming there.

I've lived a long time.

How much more do i have to live through i wonder.

499999900 years left. Good luck, Sunero.

And so, an unreasonable amount of time flows on.

12066 years since the arrival here.

Sunero had stopped thinking.

But of course, you can't die or lose conscioussness here.

12066 years. Living without missing a second.

Countless years flow on.

One day, on the year of 5040000.

Suddenly, a philosophical question flashed through Sunero's mind.

What if only this world is real? Where is this?

Inside the universe? Or somewhere else?

Why do i want to go back?

The place i've been before, what was it all about?

Long time ago, i've lived in a human society without thinking too much about it.

But why was it there and what kind of place it has been.

I don't know that!

And what was the universe?

To be born and to die in this strange cosmos on the Earth's surface.

How insignificant is the existence of my species?

Sunero thought.

Luckily he had a sickening amount of time for that.

Using tooth in stead of a pen, he thought without rest.

Everyday, everyday, ten years, hundred years... Ten thousand years.

Pursuing the truth, investigating everything around him.

Gradually, the laws of nature get derived.

Mistaking countless times. The Truth becomes more detailed.

Year 20,000,000.

Having surpassed the humanity long ago, he continues to investigate.

Year 123,169,649.

He understood the universe, and got kind of enlightened.

Year 307,683,351.

He had transcended the space.

Year 500,000,000.

He returns back.

Memory gets wiped.

Here's your 1 million yen.

Oh, all right!

1 mil in cash. Lucky me!

Nothing happens, after all!

It's all about pushing the button.

You've experienced 500 million years, you just don't remember.

Hey, one more time.

As much as you like.

A million yen in a moment! This job rocks.

Here goes my third million.

There's no other job like this one.

A mil in a moment, how could you stop?

Can i push more?

Sure, if you want to.

Then i'll go for a barrage. Takahashi Meijin-style.

500 million years, 16 round-trip course, START.

Voices/Music/SFX by Tsubasa.

Story by Sugahara Souta



