The Only Haruka

[participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge] A story that takes its time. Salkony didn't ask for anything. Just a quiet year of high school, fading into the background, far from any drama. A normal guy, not too ambitious, not too pessimistic, he just wanted to go unnoticed. But on the very first day, he meets Haruka. A strange girl. A girl who claims she's the only one of her kind in the universe. A girl who says she travels across worlds. A girl who, without asking for his opinion, drags him into her club, a club that barely exists and seems to serve no purpose other than her own amusement. Salkony thinks she's crazy. Completely, utterly insane. He tells himself he'll just go along with it for a while. Recruit Ren, a guy who's too perfect to be genuine. Then Mizuki, a girl with a stare cold enough to freeze fire. Just to get Haruka off his back. But just as he's about to go find a fourth member, on orders from his so-called "boss," things start to shift. People around him begin acting strangely. Haruka herself isn't quite the same. Memories vanish. Reality starts to fray at the edges. Salkony didn't ask for any of this. But the ordinary high school he thought he knew might be hiding something he never could have imagined.