Volume 1 Bonus Report

Plot
With still a month to go before the start of his ReLIFE Experiment, Arata contacts the people he knows to let them know they won’t be seeing him for a year. Arata tells his mother that he got a job, and as she wants to know more about it he just gives a vague explanation that it is something related to an experiment. He uses LIME to tell his friends, who are under the impression that he has a job in a company, that he is getting transferred. Upon hearing the news they want to organize a goodbye drinking party, but due to currently looking like a 17-year old, Arata refuses using an excuse. However, he feels a sting afterwards for not having many people to share the news with.

Despite being content to notify his mother and friends without seeing them in person, Arata feels that he has to do so when he quits his part-time job and asks Ryō for a pill to transform him to his real appearance. Upon receiving Ryō’s order in the laboratory Kento wonders why Ryō needs to return to his adult form to give Arata his pills. Ryō explains that he wants to see Arata’s surprised reaction when he sees him in class at the start of his ReLIFE, but more importantly Ryō wants Arata to be a little anxious about the experiment and knowing about his presence in the class might ruin it.

As Ryō is leaving the laboratory Kento inquires about how his subject has seemed so far. Ryō just tells him the experiment should be interesting, which he inwardly thinks is due to the contrast between Arata’s unrefined approach to work and his prosocial personality.

Trivia

 * The bonus report for volume 1 is the only chapter without a proper title.
 * The events of this chapter took place on Saturday, March 2 in the story, on the same day but after Report 5.
 * The second half of this bonus report is covered in anime Episode 7.
 * While Kento Amagase debuted in this chapter, his name was not introduced until his second appearance in Report 113.