What was on the poster was a series of images. <br>A polar bear and her child left huddling together on a small piece of drift ice, <br>a herd of giraffes that had died in the drought-stricken Africa, <br>and the Amazon forest made bare by deforestation and raging forest fires. For some reason, a sudden tightness gripped my chest, and my heart began to pound; the sounds around me and the world itself seemed to vanish—as if I were being sucked into this desolate world, all alone and abandoned. <br>That was how it felt. Suddenly, everything that had been hidden until now— the true reality of the world—revealed itself right before my eyes. <br>That's right. <br>The world I thought I knew up until now... <br>Peaceful and ordinary, where I could eat meals every day, use air conditioning, and even ride high-speed elevators that don't shake at all... <br>Those everyday things, <br>were part of a world made in exchange for those terrifying sights. <br>… <br>Ah, of course—even if I call it a peaceful world, there are still troublesome things like mandatory dodgeball or marathon races where everyone has to participate. <br>Still, I can put up with those things… Ah, wait actually, <br>it doesn't seem right that I'm the only one who has to endure them. So, I'm going to speak up about it here! <hr> I think dodgeball is incredibly barbaric, throwing balls at people like that, so I really hate it and think it should be abolished!! <br>But. Even so, something like that, compared to the Earth's crisis is truly, really, really, <br>such a trivial matter… <hr> Of course, seeing that poster was just a single fleeting moment in one day of my life. <br>But, it was more than enough to change my life completely. <br>Because. <br>Right now! <br>At this very moment, the Earth is in danger!!!