Reason 1

Reason 1 is the 1st chapter of Bokutachi no Ikita Riyuu and the 1st chapter of Volume 1
== Story ==
The first chapter of the story shows us a bunch of creepy featureless dolls buried under the yard of a large school. The only visible sign of this on the surface is a doll arm with the number 4 on it. We are then introduced to Akira, a young boy on the day of his graduation. He feels nostalgic and sad about the event, saying the past 6 years have ended too fast and he felt like it was anticlimactic because he hadn't accomplished anything that big. He didn't want all the fun he had at school to end. That wish though, happens to cost him almost everything.. 
The boy is taking pictures of himself out of boredom while laying on top of a structure outside the school when he hears a voice call out to him from inside the school building. He recognizes that voice, it was the girl he's had a crush on for a long time, Mirai Himeno. Himeno was the main reason Akira didn't want all of this to end. She tells Akira everyone else was heading home but she wants one last favor from him. Akira has a small flashback about talking with the girl in their classroom while they exchange each other's contact info on their phones and become mail buddies. Mirai equates this exchange to a kiss and blushes, making Akira blush in return when he realizes what the girl implies. The two are about to share their first kiss together, but at that moment Himeno's phone rings and she says she has to go, leaving the classroom a bit embarrassed as Akira sat alone a bit dumbfounded. When the flashback ends, Akira says he's considered messaging Himeno so many times and as he's thinking about it, he actually receives a message from her on his phone that reads "Let's make a good memory to end on. I'll be waiting in the classroom. ~Hime". 
Excited that the girl is giving him another chance, Akira runs towards the school building and heads to his classroom, hoping to see Himeno. Just as he greets her by name, the boy encounters something grim. Something he never expected to see in his life. He sees Mirai hanging from the ceiling, entangled in what looked like brown string. She was in visible pain, her limbs twisted by the strings tied around her body, she was choking and crying with her tongue sticking out. Akira has trouble processing how this happened and has a mental breakdown on the spot, saying it has to be some sort of mistake because she had just messaged him minutes ago. He falls to his knees and starts screaming & sobbing hysterically, begging to see Himeno's smiling face one last time. As he says that, the strings that were attached to the girl's body snap and she falls to the hard floor with a loud thud. 
When Himeno's lifeless body hits the floor, Akira rushes over to her and hears her phone play a song about depression called Nightmare on Galaxy Street (銀河街の悪夢 Ginga Gai no Akumu) by Sekai no Owarihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTdzuqQV6DQ. The boy picks up her phone from her skirt pocket and at that second feels like he has a splitting headache. He grabs his head and the lights around him start dimming, along with Himeno's body slowly disappearing from his vision. For a bit, all Akira sees is a black void until his vision comes back and he finds himself among what appears to be an overwhelming amount of dolls scattered on the ground, in the distance was even an entire mountain of them stacked up high. Akira walks on the doll-covered ground with the audible crunches of cracking plastic and notices there was an actual person standing at the very top of the doll mountain. He climbs it and asks the person if they're Himeno, but when they turn around Akira is shocked to find out it was his classmate Mikami, a sickly boy who died a bit over a year ago. He looked at Akira with a sinister smile before everything around them turned black again. 
Akira screams and springs up after the encounter with Mikami, realizing he just woke up from a bad dream. He breathes heavily as he tries to collect his bearings on the situation and sees his classmate, Chinatsu right next to him asking if he was alright. Akira finally focuses on his surroundings and sees some of his other classmates in the room. Miyao, Kine, Yashiro, Keigo, Taiga, Sakura, Mii, Miu and Ryusei were in different places of their classroom, some of them panicking, some of them confused. Chinatsu is thankful Akira finally woke up but before he can respond, Taiga kicks a chair in rage and slams his fists on his desk, demanding answers about this situation. The classroom was in a small chaos. Yashiro angrily asks Kine if he's checked the teacher's room yet, to which Kine says no. Mii comforts her crying twin sister Miu and tells her that everything will be alright. Keigo panics because he's supposed to be in cram school at this time and his mom would be angry if she found out he wasn't. Miyao plays with his fingers in a corner and has a suspicious smile on his face. Ryusei sits on top of a drawer in the classroom silently, pondering something. Sakura trembles at her desk, holding her golden cross and praying to God. 
Akira finally stands up and asks Taiga what's going on, to which the large delinquent says he has no idea. The last thing he remembers is going to the bathroom. Chinatsu claims the same thing and Taiga theorizes that the 11 of them were all knocked out right after their graduation ceremony, trapping them in the school. Akira panics and asks if it's true that they're unable to get out, to which Taiga responds that all doors seem to be locked from the outside and all windows from the 3rd floor down are covered with fencing, preventing any sort of escape. Yashiro shares the bad news that none of them can even call for help either because everyone's phones were taken while they were out cold. When he hears the word 'phones', Akira remembers the way Himeno's phone rang when her body fell to the ground and he suddenly shakes Chinatsu by the shoulders, asking in a panic where the brown-haired girl is. Chinatsu and Taiga start visibly sweating, the blonde girl doesn't say anything and Taiga claims Mirai escaped and made it home safely, but Akira doesn't believe him because of what he recalled seeing before he went out cold. 
Before anyone else could say anything, Miyao says that Himeno is right there, pointing at two desks that were put close together. Chinatsu and Taiga begin getting even more nervous than earlier, telling Miyao not to be stupid and that there was no way Mirai was there, but Akira runs towards the desks and pushes Miyao & Yashiro out of the way. What he sees obviously catches him off-guard. Laying on top of the desks was a life-sized plastic puppet of Himeno. Her hair, clothes and body were identical and Akira picked up the doll to examine it, looking closely at its hair and face before putting it back on the desks in disbelief. Taiga looks at the puppet and says it really does look just like the real Himeno. Yashiro tells Kine that it creeps him out and Sakura trembles on her desk, holding her golden cross closely. Akira asks if anyone has seen the real Himeno anywhere, thinking the doll is just some sick joke. He turns to Taiga for an explanation, but the muscular boy tells him he has no idea what happened because he woke up only just a bit before Akira himself did. 
Yashiro smacks his best friend Kine and asks him if he saw anything since he was reportedly the first one to wake up. Kine nervously shakes his head and says no, telling Yashiro that all he did was wake him up. Then he points at Ryusei, saying he was awake before Kine was. The others all look at the violet-haired boy who was sitting on top of a drawer close to a window in the room. He had an emotionless expression and looked like he was thinking about something. Akira asks Ryusei if he's seen the real Himeno anywhere around, but Ryusei says no and claims all he saw was the doll. Akira then glances at the puppet again and wonders if the Himeno he saw hanging from the ceiling earlier could have just been this doll, but the pain on her face looked too real. His thoughts are interrupted by Miyao suddenly yelling out that the entire class has been cursed and that everything that's happening right now is due to a curse. He says that his third eye has been opened with a deranged smile on his face, which annoys Taiga who picks him up by the sweater collar and warns him that he's going to hit him if he keeps saying things like that. 
Miyao whimpers once he is grabbed and Chinatsu rushes over, begging Taiga to put him down and stop being violent. 
 
== Notable Events ==
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==Characters ==
The following characters appear in this chapter;
* Akira Inukai
* Mirai Himeno
* Shinichi Mikami (brief appearance)
* The Puppetmaster (brief appearance)
* The rest of Class 2
==Victims==
The following characters fall victim to the Puppetmaster or other circumstances in this chapter;
* Mirai Himeno (Turned into a Doll)
== Trivia ==
* The Class 2 blackboard tells us that the class actually consists of 30 people total (29 after Mikami's death)
** The board also has small messages left by students, two of which say "My panties are pink" and "Aim for the future"
** It also features a running hog drawn by Yashiro
== Gallery ==
File:1class2.png|Class 2 with full Hearts
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