Becoming My Dream Pharmacist! - 【夢の薬剤師になる！】

There are moments in life when the sky seems too far away to touch, when the distance between who you are and who you once dreamed of becoming stretches like an endless winter night. Akio Hukitaske knows that distance all too well. At thirty-two, Akio has become a ghost haunting his own existence—a game designer lost among Tokyo's endless neon, rain-slick streets, sleepless convenience stores, and computer screens that glow long after the world has gone quiet. Deadlines blur together. Days become weeks. Weeks become years. Somewhere between caffeine crashes and empty mornings, he abandoned the dream that once gave his life meaning. As a child, Akio wanted to become a pharmacist. He wanted to help people. To heal suffering. To give hope where there seemed to be none. But dreams can fade when life becomes too heavy to carry. Then, on a snowy night, everything changes. Drunk and stumbling through a deserted alley, Akio encounters a mysterious stranger whose calm eyes seem to know far more than they should. Before he can understand what is happening, a needle pierces his neck. Then—darkness. When Akio awakens, the world has become impossible. His hands are smaller. His room belongs to a childhood he thought he'd left forever. And the mirror reveals the cruelest truth of all: He is fourteen again. A mad scientist's experiment has given him an impossible second chance—a regression that has returned his youth while leaving behind thirty-two years of memories, regrets, failures, and pain. Now Akio must walk through a second chance at life, facing new classrooms, new friendships, new expectations, and new mistakes that shape the person he will, become. And perhaps that is both his greatest advantage and his greatest burden. Because changing his life isn't as simple as knowing what went wrong. Life still hurts. Society still demands more than people can give. Old wounds still bleed beneath many smiles. Yet, among the chaos of his second life, Akio encounters people who refuse to let him disappear. With their help, he begins reaching toward the dream he buried long ago—not to erase his past, but to understand life better. To heal. To forgive himself. And perhaps, finally, to become the pharmacist he always dreamed of being. "Becoming My Dream Pharmacist!" Is a story of regret, friendship, healing, and redemption—a journey where an impossible second chance collides with the painfully ordinary struggles of moving forward. Sometimes, you don't need to change the entire world. Sometimes, you just need one more chance to reach for the sky.