《The Diamond Of Eve》


 Chapter 1: Iniciation

    It all came up like a blind shot.


    A punch to the face, or maybe I was always getting humiliated in class, but no one did a thing.


    I felt hurt, scared and worried at what was in front of me.


    It was a girl.. Not just any girl though, a girl with malicious intent on hurting me.


    Her name was Alissa, and she had been bullying me ever since we had met in elementary school. Ever since then she had to move out of town and I was on my own, no friends just study.


    That was when I was 7 years old, and now I¡¯m 14, honestly my timid personality is what would get the better of me.


    Usually she is always hateful and negative towards everything. She has never really showed any remorse over the things that she has done, so much that people call her a ¡±delinquent¡±.


    Everyday it¡¯s the same thing, the only time i get for myself is after school.


    It can be weird at times when she gives up on bullying me saying I¡¯m boring and all but, I can tell she just hasn¡¯t found anything creative, or at least that¡¯s what I think.


    ¡°Hey loser, go grab me lunch from the cafeteria¡± Is what she would say at lunch, however no one else is around, what would happen if other people were around us?


    Is she afraid to show people this true nature of herself?


    ¡°Hey! Idiot! go do what I said¡±


    Ouch!! She had kicked me in my glorious shin! It hurt quite a bit, but obviously this girl has a leg, she was in track and field for 2 years in Middle school.


    Anyways, as the normal occurance I had to go do her bidding, but now that I think about it I honestly don¡¯t have any idea why I am actually doing what she says to do. I feel like I am doing it out of habit.


    I¡¯ve had this weird odd feeling for the last few months. The funny part is when I met with her again.


    But what I don¡¯t get is why she changed so much, she used to be a really sweet girl when we were kids, and now look at the shitty person she has become, the world can really change you when you have no control over it.This narrative has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. If you see it on Amazon, please report it.


    I had arrived at the Cafeteria, and there weren¡¯t many students today there, usually because it was friday, and summer was about to start, usually not many come to school on the beginning of summer break.


    Yet she still came around which surprises me, and the only reason I would come is because I want to study, I have my own dreams and accomplishments too I mean.


    Once I had ordered whatever kind of sandwich she usually asks me to get which is a ham sandwich, without crust and no tomatoes and mayonnaise, (Yes, I take detailing to be one of my many pros heh) I quickly returned back to the classroom that she was at.


    I walked up the stairs took a left into a hall and walked towards the last classroom door at the end of the hall which was our classroom.


    Something felt odd as I slowly approached it though, not like any usual thing that I had felt. Something was gazing at me.


    I kept looking back instinctively towards this suspicious feeling, but no matter how many times I turned around to look, there wasn¡¯t anyone or anything, so I kept moving towards the classroom.


    Finally reaching the classroom door and opening it, she was there looking out the window waiting for me to get there.


    She noticed me as I walked in and scowled at me.


    ¡°Finally, what took you so goddamn long? You had me waiting like an idiot¡±.


    ¡°Ugh, Sorry, a teacher had stopped me for some important things, she asked me if you had any specific handout sheets that were unfinished¡±


    Ah and I had forgotten to mention that I had been making so many excuses to this girl so many times that I have already been really good at lying to her without fail. Just something to mention by the way.


    ¡°Whatever, give me that¡±


    As she had requested I had given her what she wanted, immediately she took the wrapped sandwich, tore off the plastic that she had and started to eat.


    I watched her eat it all up in just moments, she wasn¡¯t a sloppy eater, more like a quick biter.


    She had almost finished until she caught me looking at her.


    ¡°What the hell are you looking at?¡±


    Of course rough as she usually is, I turned my head away, however, when I did¡­


    The walls and everything seemed to slightly distort out of surprise I gasp out air, causing Alissa to glance and drop her sandwich.


    She got up from her seat, but she looked ready to bolt out of the room.


    I didn¡¯t really react, somehow, it was just there but this odd feeling wasn¡¯t that bad or maybe I was just more used to this then I normally would be.


    She had already tried opening the classroom door which was oddly closed since I left it open after walking in.


    She looked really worried, but I felt fine, like it was another day.


    The distortion in the atmosphere of the other end of the room didn¡¯t move any closer, and if I were to describe it, it was like a translucent gel that moved everything around.


    I wanted to touch it, I was feeling curious towards this phenomena.


    ¡°Dumbass! What are you doing?!¡±


    I had zoned out for a moment and already I was about to touch the distortion, but she was still all the way from the other end of the room.


    I don¡¯t get it, why am I not panicking?


    Slowly my body moved, I wasn¡¯t in control of my hand anymore and I touched the distortion.


    After that, everything in this spacial area cracked and nothing was the same anymore.


    . . .

 Chapter 2: Resurfacing The Air

    I can see a very beautiful sea, everything was clear as day and it seemed like there had been a girl by my side.


    I felt like I was underwater but warm at the same time, it was odd.


    I looked around to see where I was but I couldn¡¯t get up.I felt heavy.


    Instead of focusing on what was around me I decided to look at the girl. And she was a gorgeous babe that had a beautiful body, I tried moving my hand, I was able to but I didn¡¯t have any control of it..


    Well my hands went in a bouncy area so much that I feel a nice [CENSORED CONTENT] and yet I never expected that type of feeling either now have I?


    ¡°UGH!¡±


    I felt a strong rush of pain around my lower stomach, so much that I covered it out of the pain, and opened my eyes¡­ This wasn¡¯t the beach that I was on.


    ¡°Where the hell is the beach?¡±


    And there was no girl either.


    ¡°Where the heck is the girl?¡±


    I have to say, I was rather disappointed, I at the very least didn¡¯t have enough time to enjoy the beautiful beach¡­ as much as the girl either, but if I were to be accurate on the bust size on that babe I would think it would be-


    ¡°Dumbass, next time you touch my shit I¡¯ll tear your fingers off and stick them up your ass!¡±


    Reading the few sentences above this particular sentence helped me to figure out that I happened to be dreaming I suppose.


    No wonder I feel like crap now.


    I got up slowly and steady just as I woke myself up from the *cough* sexy *cough* dream I just had.


    ¡°Well now that I am awake¡­. Where the hell are we?¡±


    ¡°Beats me¡± She responded rather quick and curtly, probably because of what had happened, I can see that she is very slightly blushing.


    Anyways, looking around where we are, I can describe this place as the inside of an abandoned castle that seemed ancient, it was a large room that seemed like a study. The rubble on the ground simply screams out that this place was forcefully destroyed as well as the idea of it being ruins of ancient days.


    She and I were still wearing our school uniforms, so I don¡¯t think much about us changed, the biggest deal of change was in the place location, and probably even time if I think about it.


    I walked off around looking for anything of interest that can help us find out where we are, of course Alissa followed me around.


    I could see pests like rats, torn off tarp from the walls which probably lead to beautiful decorations on this once beautiful but now abandoned castle.


    I saw lots of debris as I made myself around this large room, the only thing that seemed left out were some old books that look like if you touch it, it¡¯d turn to dust.


    ¡°Hey, look over there¡±.


    Alissa¡¯s voice echoed throughout the rubbled and cold room, and as I turned to look at her, she pointed to her left where there had actually been something of unique interest.


    It was a large page of paper, the paper seemed thick like papyrus but it wasn¡¯t old, in fact it seemed like it was only a few days old.


    Looking around a bit more and I found a book near here.


    ¡°Alissa, come over here¡± while facing the book I spoke like I was in control.


    ¡°The hell? Why should I? You¡¯re not planning on touching me again are you? Goddamn pervert..¡± As adamant as she usually is of course she wouldn¡¯t listen to me for no reason.


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    She paused for a moment with an annoyed expression, but then later sighed in defeat.


    ¡°Whatever¡±.


    Her steps were easily heard as she made her way over to where I was exactly. She didn¡¯t seem to care about what she did, though she seems way too careless.


    I opened the book, and started to read exactly word for word what it had said, the surprising thing is that it was in english.


    ¡°Hollow moon of the 5th: Under the night.


    I have finally been able to succeed in regaining the materials for the rebirth of Vesther. However, the difference in power may be a problem if anything goes wrong.


    I had been doing this for the last of 142 years of my life, and failure of this ritual was not something I would take into account, even if I have to shed blood, I shall For the return of Vesther.¡±


    ¡°Who the fuck is Vesther?¡± Out of the blue asking a question without an answer yet was Alissa.


    ¡°I don¡¯t know, but whatever it could be, I feel like we might be able to find out if we finish reading¡±


    ¡°In the dire straights of the kingdom of Halberth, I hope I don¡¯t die before the king overtakes the throne, if anyone needs to lead, that foolish idiot is not meant to be the king, the real leader should be Vesther.


    Yet of course any leads of why he would ever be king would only be a mystery because of that demon child that resides in that castle.¡±


    I tuned the page over only to reveal the rest of the words but there were only 3 sentences left, and the other pages seemed to be charred, ripped, or stolen.


    ¡°At all ends, If I die trying to make this ritual happen, please.. Whoever reads this, I am Nather Orethest a Grandmaster mage, please do not forget that name.. And look under for the 4th Key¡±


    . . . . .


    After I read out loud the rest of the sentence, both me and Alissa stood quiet.


    ¡°I guess, this isn¡¯t earth anymore¡±


    I said breaking the silence of our long ass pause.


    Alissa was more quiet then usual, she didn¡¯t say a single word for a moment.


    ¡°If anything we have to get out of here, I don¡¯t think keeping quiet like that will help Alissa¡±


    She turned me facing me, and looked at me sternly, rather she was serious, she didn¡¯t look mad at all though, and ever since we had appeared here, she wasn¡¯t that rough with me which is odd.


    ¡°I guess you¡¯re right, but you lead and don¡¯t run away now or else I¡¯ll break those legs of yours¡±


    Hahahah Nope she¡¯s still the same bitchy character she always is.


    ¡°Whatever you say, princess¡±


    She scowled at me after my last remark.


    ¡°You know, it¡¯s still surprising about how much you have changed..¡±


    ¡°Like you would know, you wouldn¡¯t be able to remember jack shit if you even tried¡± a strong remark, although she¡¯s not wrong, but she definitely ain¡¯t right about that either.


    With those last words, I quickly grabbed the book and reread a few parts of the book, if there wasn¡¯t any reason for the last few words on the only last page of the book then there¡¯d be no point in trying to look for anything important.


    Of course though, this room is big enough to hold up a house party in it, and even if someone did have such a big room, I don¡¯t think the neighbours would be complaining about the sound since the walls look strong enough to hold back all the sound that would pass through it.


    So this ¡°4th key¡± and this special word ¡°under¡±, what kind of significant meaning would it have to do in a room like this.


    I had to think for a bit, but the only one to be awake before anything was Alissa. If anyone should know how we got here, I¡¯m betting she¡¯d know what exactly happened.


    ¡°Alissa¡±


    It took a bland moment till I heard her respond.


    ¡°What the hell do you want?¡±


    ¡°I want to know what exactly happened, how did we get here?¡±


    ¡°Why the hell should I tell you?¡± She curtly questioned again, I didn¡¯t want to drag this game of 21 questions on, it would be a drag¡­. Hehe get it? I¡¯m funny.


    ¡°Because if you don¡¯t tell me I think we might die in soon¡±


    ¡°Are you fucking serious?!¡±


    ¡°...... Yeah, in fact you have to tell me, quick!¡± It was a joke but I think it¡¯d be fun to mess with her for a bit¡­


    ¡°Ugh crap, alright, Um.. when you walked into that um¡­ thing¡­ I uh¡­ uhh-¡±


    ¡°You better hurry up quick before you and I start filling the ground with our red bodily fluids as our skin turns pale and we end up suffocating because of the intense atmosphere that is currently being created as we talk...¡±


    ¡°I¡¯m trying!!.. Uhh, Okay shit, after you stupidly touched that fucking weird looking thing, you almost dived into it headfirst, I attempted to grab you and pull you back into the classroom, but it was too much and I fell with you!!


    After that we were stuck in some kind of dark emptiness and then appeared here!!


    Then we both fell onto that thing over there, although you hit your head and got knocked off your ass, I had to try waking you up!!¡±


    She seemed to be a bit red, for some reason, if I were any stupid I¡¯d think she tried to do something to me while I was knocked out, good thing I know better to know that she wouldn¡¯t do anything except punch me in the face or kick me.


    ¡°Way to spill the beans, now I know what to do¡±


    ¡°Eh?¡±


    She mentioned two main key points;


    One: that we landed on a hidden wooden board although all of this room¡¯s floor is made of stone and messed up with rubble.


    Second: That before we came here she defined it as a dark space, which means something of the sort but I don¡¯t know yet.


    I quickly got up and walked to the spot where we had landed to check it out, as she said it was a wooden board, what was a miracle was that I didn¡¯t hit the handle on my back since I landed on it completely.


    Anyways, let''s hope this 4th key is something special, after this I want to leave this place.

 Chapter 3: "An unchanging bitch"

    It took me only a second to figure out what type of handle to open this kind of hatch was, and the only deal about it was that I had to pull it from the top and then slide it down to the left, it was a weird mechanism but somehow easy to figure out.


    After that, Alissa seemed to have gotten closer without me looking, but of course anyone would. Upon looking inside the wooden hatch that had now been opened carefully, there was a key like described and some kind of bottled fluid, it was a small vial of a red shining liquid.


    If anything could be weirder than it would be this, but seeing this is starting to make me believe that there could be something different about all of this.


    I mean the only thing so common to this is a fantasy novel you¡¯d read online, I mean honestly its just too cliche.


    I took into notice that we had been in a castle, rituals is also something that you don¡¯t see in your regular everyday life, maybe on the occult side of things from where I come from but not regularly.


    So I took the key, it had a dragon adorned, and the liquid too.


    ¡°Let me see that!¡± Out of nowhere Alissa snatched it out of my hands just as I was looking at it.


    She checked it out with a wonder that I haven¡¯t seen before, it seemed pretty interesting to know exactly what grinds her gears and what smoothens them.


    ¡°That was something I found, inside the hatch, it was described in the book, something about a fourth key, so I figured this out¡±


    She turned to face me with a stern glance, somehow it was oddly appealing towards her nature, usually she¡¯s all loud and doesn¡¯t really care about etiquette but this was pretty different.


    ¡°So you were lying weren¡¯t you¡±


    ¡°If I wasn¡¯t lying would you have told me?¡±


    This last question probably kept her quiet, but she still had an unchanging expression.


    ¡°I guess you may be right but at least try not to do it again¡±


    ¡°No worrie-¡±


    ¡°Now let''s get the hell out of here, I¡¯m beginning to get hungry again, so you¡¯d need to look for food¡±


    Again never any different as the demanding Alissa will always be the same¡­


    ¡°Hurry up, shit-stain¡±


    Yep¡­ Unchanging bitchery.


    Anyways I got up and she handed me back the vial not caring much about how it was, I stuffed both the keys and the vial in separate pockets, wouldn¡¯t want one metallic object piercing through glass with some weird liquid in it.


    As I went towards the door she waited for me to ¡°take the lead¡± I¡¯m feeling pretty confident, although this place looks a bit creepy it doesn¡¯t seem all that bad, it just seems abandoned, empty and destroyed.


    The entrance to this room was filled with debris, but if you moved towards one side you could see a narrow opening towards what looked like a gigantic hallway.


    There was a rug, dirtied and filled with dust all over the place, I could see the end of the hall quite clearly, that was because there were windows that were large although really dusty the sunlight could beam through the windows.


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    ¡°I don¡¯t need your help you idiot, just keep moving¡±


    ¡­ Well alright miss fuck everything.


    The long hallways were kind of calming, with the sunlight beams and everything it was a refreshing new thing to walk past.


    At the end of the hall though, there was a busted open door, not much debris, I think I¡¯d be able to push it open with ease since the door is only about wooden as can ever be.


    I kept looking back to see if Alissa follow but of course she always was walking behind me with both her hands in her front sweater pockets.


    Now that I think of it I didn¡¯t tell you guys that although we have our uniforms she wears a sweater instead of the blazer that the school administered to us.


    Whatever, that''s useless information.


    ¡°Hey dumbass!, look at that!¡±


    ¡°Hm?¡±


    I was caught thinking and zoning out again, but¡­


    ¡°What the hell is that!?!¡±


    I don¡¯t know what the hell I was looking at but it was a whole fucking reptile with wings! Like a damn Dragon!


    We were both silent except for when we just saw that, except I don¡¯t think I saw that coming holy shit!


    The whole room was destroyed and half of it was completely open, like there was no other side of the castle, It was a nest for the dragon, and the dragon itself was a black with grey streaks going down the head and towards the tip of his tail.


    Alissa wasn''t that glad to see something she had never seen before in fact it had made both me and her petrified just looking at it.


    ...I think it was pretty cool though.


    If I were being honest.


    I sighed with a shaky breath, in the corner of my mind I already know this wasn¡¯t the earth we once knew, and that was definitely the same for Alissa.


    I turned to look at her, and she faced me as if she was asking me what she should do.


    Quickly I looked around for a way out, well there was a small creaking door into another room but what i didn¡¯t know was the fact if there was any type of way to leave from that room, so that was a no-go.


    There was another opening that I also saw, on the other side of the broken busted up roof there was the open forest I also think I can smell the sea here, so then that side must definitely be another way out of here.


    After observing more I saw that there were actually two more ways out, they were small crevices between the cracks of the walls and the tail of the thing as well as the other was right beside its face, I decided to get close enough to Alissa to tell her to go the other way.


    I am sure I can take care of myself however as soon as I said that she was a bit reluctant.


    ¡°What the hell do you mean?!¡± Of course we were whispering since a gigantic damn dragon was sleeping right behind us, and I don¡¯t plan on becoming food for something else anytime soon thats for sure.


    It took me a bit to convince her but as soon as she gave up she started cussing me off under her own tongue.


    It feels great to win an argument but honestly at this point I don¡¯t really feel like that is much of an accomplishment while witnessing a huge fucking dragon in front of us, I bet you¡¯d probably do the same.


    We both left towards each end at the same time to get out easily, if we both went behind each other, I have to mention that we would be blinded, and a misstep could cause us both our lives.


    I took into great consideration which side was actually easier, and I don¡¯t know why but I decided to give her the advantage point with the tail. Call it my manly side or whatever but I respect women y''know? Really.


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    I gave her the timing we would both go at it, I held up three fingers and slowly went down to 0 when I felt like the time was right and we both went into the small crevices at the same time.


    After that, it was such a beautiful display, none like I have ever seen before, The skies were clear and filled with clouds gorgeously, the sea wasn¡¯t so far away from here, I was right on that.


    I could hear the sound of nature unlike the way is sounded when I was on earth or before here.


    There were no car sounds in the distance, there was no city sound, or anything like that.


    It was complete nature around here.


    Ow!!


    ¡°Stop zoning out about the view already and start focusing, we still aren¡¯t out of the issue here, where the hell are we supposed to go and where the hell do we get food?¡±


    Alissa had punched the back of my head with much to my surprise, I stared at her blankly for a moment.


    ¡°Good point, either way, I think it would be best if you can keep an eye out, but try not to be too loud, there can be other things like that beast or whatever it is¡±


    I am still a bit in denial about this, but if it¡¯s in front of me, I can¡¯t just say its all too real, I can still be dreaming but I am definitely not sure. For whatever reason I will just take this as an opportunity to explore this, and I quote, ¡°Dream¡± that I am in.


    There was a large open crater of a castle and yes, that was where that beast was supposedly sleeping, or rather I should say it''s his chill spot.


    While taking notice of my surroundings I can feel that the air is fresh and unbelievably tasty, although its odd, yes, I can taste the air that flows around.


    The forest trees were abnormally a bit bigger than your usual tree, these trees looked like they were maple trees or birch trees but they were more taller than the average pine tree that you¡¯d normally see around the closest forest near you.


    The sunlight could pass through the cracks of the leaves of these larger trees and it was a sight to see.


    Alissa and I were stunned, and even more so since this is not the earth we know.


    How did we come here? What was it that I touched that supposedly lead us here? These were questions that had no answers, but that didn¡¯t mean I wasn¡¯t going to look for one.


    We walked for quite a while before we finally came up on a small dirt road, this was a sign that society existed in this new world.


    I was excited to get to meet new people, it was something I had been waiting for.


    So we had followed the trail and at least about 16 minutes of walking we witnessed the first person that we could see.


    I wanted to meet him, and I was definitely going to figure out where this place is.


    . . .

 Chapter 4: I Have a Dream

    I Took in notice that this person was a farmer, by what he was wearing was a straw hat, overalls, and crappy farm clothing (Very new generation like for me to say, real sorry about that).


    In that the farmer sees us and is suprised, I''m pretty sure its by our clothing, we look like we are from a different place in comparison to them.


    "?" I couldn''t understand him from what he said, it sounded absolutely like a different toungue.


    Alissa (which I have been ignoring this whole time) finnally speaks up though and things get interesting.


    "Can you speak english?" rough and tough and everything puffed out of those lungs as she spoke the magic words.


    "???? ???? ??????" Of course a different response but still no perfect communication.


    "The hell, I asked if you-" I grabbed her shoulder before she kept on going, I know she would have another outburst simply due to the stress and all that but I don''t want to make things worse then the already are.


    With a bit of a suprise she brushed my hand away negatively, andI moved forward.


    I looked around on the ground for a small stick, and grabbing one I grabbed the attention of the farmer. As an attempt to communicate I took the stick and tried to draw onto the ground the events that had happened, it wasn''t easy as it took us a few minutes to get him to understand.


    However as more than 40 minutes flew by and time is precious, the farmer still stood around to try to understand what happened.


    By the end he started using the stick and drew down something like a map, but I think he also is offering that if we wouldn''t mind staying at the farmhouse or his house for a bit, so I tried using my hands to communicate more and agreed with him.


    Stupid but it''s whatever am I right?


    Upon agreeing towards his request, the farmer then signed to both of us to follow him, and as we did, we saw the farmlands or the vast plains that had different people in their homes. It was calm and sunny for the moment, but in a while I feel like the sun would go down.


    I noticed the farmer had a bit of a ragged way of walking, he was limping but I think its not a recent pain, he doesn''t show any expression with pain or any sudden movement, he was chill as I would say.If you encounter this tale on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it.


    While we are following the farmer, somehow i''ve been recieving the glare stare from our little friend Alissa. She had been doing that ever since I had stopped her from further speaking with the man the way she did.


    I stared back for only a few seconds and she had turned her head away like she wanted me to notice it, this girl is just too much sometimes, shit.


    Instead of listening to her or even having the chance to look at her I decided to put all my attention towards the farmer.


    He was quiet and all and he seemed steady, but of course this farmer was a bit elderly.


    .... Anyways fast fowarding towards the farmlands, we had arrived soon enough, it wasn''t that far off from where we had gotten to, but how could this place be near a dragon? Do they even know something like that is over there? or not?


    I wish I could ask these people these questions but it was probably the biggest barrier yet.


    Also, I Hadn''t noticed before but Alisson although trailing along she seemed awfully quiet. She must have slightly calmed down.


    Back onto track, while we got closer to what appeared to be a house, which I''m guessing is his home a girl had ran up towards the elderly farmer and jumped into his arms, I supposed that she was either his daughter or grandaughter, she was a small red-haired little girl. I guess by around the age of 10?


    Anyways, moving on I took into notice that most of the other houses weren''t as big as this farmers house, and in the background I could hear the girl talking to the old farmer as he held her, but not knowing what she was saying I simply stared back with a smile.


    The little girl however, game me a horrified look, I didn''t get why, but it somehow seemed as if I looked like something evil.


    As this happened I heard laughter randomly from behind, me.


    It was alissa who was laughing, and somehow I''m pretty sure it has something to do with me.


    "Hahaha, she just took one look at your face and boom, she''s terrified" She laughed loud.


    I turned around and Fakely winced. "Ouch it hurts so much that I''m being laughed at, please laugh at me more" of course I was being sarcastic but she didn''t seem to care and kept laughing. Whatever not like I cared.


    When I turned my head back though I saw the old man started to slightly chuckle as well while the girl still looking at me negatively. What the hell old man!


    I''m not even going to bother, anyways, I kept looking at the old man with my ''Not-giving-a-shit'' and he looked like he wanted to tell me something, so he put the girl down from his arms and signaled me to look up at the sky, the sun was going down bit by bit, time seemed to have gone by real quickly.


    Right afterwards the Old farmer had somehow asked me with his signs if I had wanted to stay, and upon that I nodded with a smile, Alissa''s laughter had died down already, and she had also understood from where she was standing that we were going to stay the night.


    Soon after by the end of the day we were in separate rooms preparing to go to bed... However, this as the first day in a new world, I had a dream, and it explained everything.


    This dream, is where I had recieved my "Gift" and I''m sure alissa had recieved hers too.

 Chapter 4.5: A pep talk

    Under the universal realms of power lays a god, Kylus and a droplet of water fell into those realms, but this droplet once touched by Kylus had dispersed revealing a boy.


    Lifting up his arms, Kylus was ready for something.


    "Wakey wakey"


    A few gentle small slaps to the face of the boy, soon enough though, he would wake up.


    "HEH!?"


    Popping his eyes open, the Main character of the story had a widened look, after a small moment passed he turned his head and looked at everything surrounding him, he was in a blank space.


    "Okay, why does this always happen to me?" He mumbled under his breath.


    "Because... You''re the main character" said Kylus


    "What?"


    "eh-errr I mean y-you are the uh... you were just dreaming about hot babes and a beach right?"


    "Ahhh yeah... where the hells the beach?" Said the boy while looking around.


    Kylus immediately turned around.


    "Anyways, so, I have summoned you to a new world, in this new world you have 3 wishes of power I can grant you, now you better not make these a stupid wish otherwise they will be stuck with you forever" Kylus spoke indifferently.


    Upon hearing the word wish, the boy''s eyes glinted up like a shining metal.


    "Uh... Wishes you say?" He turned his head in a very condescending manner.


    "Yes, 3 wishes of power, meaning I will allow only 3 as a gift"


    With a silent follow up the boy had started to think to himself very hard, he didn''t want to mess up on this type of problem.


    "Any type of wish of power? like a skill or a specific ability?"


    "Not every type, only a skill or ability, for example; I wouldn''t give you the power to destroy everything otherwise you''d probably best my power albeit I do happen to be a god myself, say a simple ability that makes you unique I will allow up to that point"


    Kylus happened to be very curt when explaining what he had to elaborate, he, of course, wanted the boy to quickly choose so he can get back to his tasks.


    As he had heard, his slight confused expression turned to that of a very introverted grin, smacked onto his face.


    "Then I guess this is pretty simple, I want the ability to have all the other abilities"


    After that, a very deep silence surrounded the two, and then the god who has his serious composure broke into crazy laughter.


    "Pfff, Ahahahahahah, I didn''t expect that sort of answer" he laughed.


    It had caused him so much humor that it had made him roll on the floor back and forth, this to him, was entertainment.


    "Well? are you going to grant it or not?"


    Still not listening, Kylus was still laughing, taking his sweet time until the very last moment had passed. \


    "Are you done yet?"


    "Ahaha, aha, yeah" Wiping tears from under his eyes he then crossed his arms.


    With a smile he proceeded to speak, "You, of course, don''t seem to understand, I can''t grant something like that it''s absolutely impossible.


    "Man, you''re offering me 3 lousy wishes and honestly I haven''t even questioned anything yet, in fact, I am pretty surprised I haven''t asked myself, then allow me to ask this, why exactly are you offering me this, where am I?"


    "Very well, I suppose I do owe you an explanation about this all"


    In the flick of a finger he caused a ripple of space in thin air, allowing them to see through it, and what could be seen through it was the house he was in, the bed he was sleeping on, it was himself.


    "Now then, I suppose before we begin, you could at least introduce yourself now won''t you?"


    "Right... I''m Lucas, I was a Highschool student before... well before all of this had happened, I don''t know where this place was, or even if it existed, but somehow I did feel odd when I came here, like I didn''t feel like there was anything wrong, I felt indifferent when usually I would slightly try harder to get to know where I am"Stolen from its rightful place, this narrative is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.


    "That''s right Lucas, you were a student, but although all of this happened, do you think you can guess why you''re here?"


    Lucas had crossed his arms, and slightly calmed his stance, he hadn''t thought about that, but something told him that there was a sure reason why he would ever be here in the first place.


    "No, I can''t really put my finger on it I guess."


    While both of them were looking through the ripple, the image then changed showing a kingdom and grassy plains with mountains on the far reaches of its horizons.


    "This land is called Enosha, and in this land, monsters, demons, demi-humans, even demi-gods like from those fairy tase you have believed or heard of in your life, live in the fray, rare are the chances you''ll come across a demi-god though but if you have to fight one good luck with that heh. Anyways, the main gist of it all is that I have brought you into this world to settle a bet I made with an enemy of mine, his name is Calix, and he is the god of revenge"


    After explaining that slight part he flicked his hand to the left from the right and it had shown Lucas a fiery blazing inferno with a throne in the center of it all, and in the throne was sitting an elegantly dressed child with blazing eyes, and red fiery hair.


    "That little boy on the throne that you see there, although he looks like a boy it''s actually his physical figure, but that is the god of revenge, Calix. And the bet that I had made was that If we picked our champions and allowed them to soon duel, then whoever was their victor, one of us would give up our godhood"


    Kylus was rather speaking in a gentle tone but didn''t leave anything out of what he had to say.


    "Oh, that''s nice....so basically... You brought me into a fight that I had no say in, and then just decided that I would then fight to the death with a person who I have not one single Idea which would expectedly beat me?" Asked Lucas in a calm manner.


    "Well, yeah basically"


    Kylus scratched his head while awkwardly letting out a laugh.


    "Ugh, very well then, I would burst out into anger but seeing that I don''t really have it in me I don''t think thats the way to go."


    "you''re taking this rather well, so anyways now you know the gist of it all, you get 3 wishes, but you better hurry, time doesn''t go on forever you know?"


    Uncrossing his arms, Lucas nodded about the whole ordeal.


    "Okay so my first wish, I want to be able to have an affinity with any weapon that I can get my hands on"


    With that started Kylus gently smiled, raised his fist and lifted a finger from it.


    "Secondly I want to be able to understand any and every language there is"


    Kylus raised a brow and lowered his hands.


    "Wait, but I will allow you to be able to understand the language in this world, there isn''t any need for that"


    "If you say that, do you also mean the language of the monsters and the animals and demons as well?"


    "Er... no, I don''t mean that" Said Kylus in a light dejection.


    "Very well then, allow me to have that sort of ability, to be able to understand every living thing there"


    "Alright, now what about the last wish?"


    Before answering the last wish, Lucas wanted to ask a last question, he wanted to be sure about what type of world this is.


    "Before I give in the last wish, I want to know what type of world this is although I know I will find out myself, what can I do to be able to know If I am going to die, or how can I prevent that?"


    "well there''s many ways, but you''d mainly have to keep an eye on enlargening your array of abilities, say you try to learn a skill, there''s about 3 main ways to learn a new skill or ability or capability that you can use, for example, say you want to learn a skill through a book, you can if the book contains a sigil, however, it wouldn''t be as great as learning a skill you forced by your own will, another way would be from a scroll or written paper sealed with magic encrystalment, which is basically taking a skill than using a way to chain it down from your own with a magic ability"


    "So then if that''s so, wouldn''t it be better to learn a skill on your own?"


    "Yeah, but the process of doing so takes an abundance of time"


    "I see... how about the ability to steal a skill?"


    Kylus had slightly grinned.


    "I see where you''re going but that''s not an ability I can allow you to have, yet you can attain an ability that lets you learn something faster then any other would, how about it?"


    "Hm.. well, if that''s another option then give me the ability to have an increased ableness to learn anything 5x faster then anyone else," Said Lucas.


    "Very well if it''s as you say"


    Kylus had held his fist with 3 fingers, and at the last second of his words, his hand had flared a blazing white flare of fire.


    This white flare had consumed Lucas, and in awe and bewilderment, he had looked at his arms and legs.


    "Welp, I believe this is as long as we can talk for, we have overpassed the time limited, but there''s not matter, ah and here''s a small point of advice, get a change of clothes, those rags on you both make you guys stand out too much."


    With a quick glance at kylus, Lucas smiled in determination.


    "I''ll try not to get myself killed, and before I go, what your name?"


    Kylus opened his arms as if he had shown him everything.


    "I am Kylus, the God of the Dawning sun, it was my pleasure to have met you Lucas"


    With this, a slight nod and in a flash, Lucas had returned to the physical realm.


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    "well, that was fun, it looks like we have someone who may be more loyal then I have expected, although the girl had nothing to do here I still ended up bringing her because of how close they were at the time, oh well."


    While the ripple of space had still been there with the face of Calix, Calix had stood up, and moved towards the ripple, and spoke.


    "So you''ve finnaly picked your choice?"


    "Yes, in due time we will have our little bet settled, won''t we Calix..."


    "In due time, but don''t let me remind you when your champion falls, it was you who insisted in such stupid bet, I never wanted anything to do with this you crazy fool"


    "Hush now, Of course we both know that you are the one who broke the chain of gods, you became what you are because of what you did"


    Kylus''s expression had changed, he was smiling.


    "And who''s fault was that? Pardon me but It was you who started this, and now you just want to continue this endless banter and fighting, You''re a fool who thinks of only yourself Kylus"


    Kylus had never stopped smiling.


    "Well then, lets finish this little Calix"


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 Chapter 5: Enter the world

    I could feel a slight and slithering rush of air, pushing against the skin of my face.


    The window left open while I had been asleep this whole time, it had made me wonder about the little dream I had.


    While I kept on thinking about my dream, I heard the slow small thumps of footsteps coming from outside the door.


    The wooden floor creaked with every step and upon opening the door which also had another creak to it, Alissa had appeared before me.


    "Sloth, wake up, we need to talk" Her voice in a very demanding manner made me rethink about opening my eyes.


    "Er, no, goodnight" Immediately I turned over and cuddled against the bed I was laying on"


    With an irritated gruntle, Alissa stepped closer, I had guessed it was something about the dream. But, sleeping is so nice.


    "Listen to me, you idiot, I''m not sure if it''s just me, but last night I had a dream, and not a normal one ether, I''m guessing you also had one as well" Impelling me to listen, she had rocked the bed a bit in a fashion of gaining my attention.


    I turned my head over my shoulder.


    "For all we know, this is another world, and this is not earth. Where we are is in some other planet or some other dimension, but magic and all that foolish fantasy shit that we used to know in the other world somehow seems to exist in this one" Slowly speaking more about this I lifted myself from the bed.


    Putting my feet onto the ground one by one whilst sitting on the bed I continued.


    "The big dilemma that we are dealing with ourselves though is that we don''t fucking know what to do in the first place, but the small info is that we have to get to a city and..." I turned to look at the ground.


    I really didn''t know what to do.


    Looking at this in a serious manner we actually don''t know where to begin, apart from that god of the sun dawning or whatever it was that he had said he was it had occurred to us that we are not in any specific idea to know where we stand.


    Looking up at Alissa again who had her back against the wall with her arms crossed. That mild expression though, it got me thinking.


    "Alissa, what type of dream did you have?"


    "Huh?" Snapping her out of this convo onto another, she stumbled on the wall almost tripping over herself.


    "My dream? Oh, it was weird, there was some type of ultra being"


    I prodded more onto the subject.


    "What else happened, just note the details, and speak up from what you know, I''ll tell you what happened in my dream as well" I followed up by standing and listening.


    She had told me about her having to choose three wishes, but she on the felt like there was a catch to it. Upon speaking to the god for a prolonged moment though, in the end, she had received its blessing, and the god that she had spoken to was named "Revus, The Alkine God".


    Not having any info though, it would be best to keep quiet about this until they knew about what significance these dreams were of.


    Going onwards with it though, she did say that her three wishes were 1: To be faster than anyone else. 2: To control fire and 3: To know everything. but as the last one wasn''t really an able wish, the god conveyed to her a different deal, instead to read runes that had knowledge of everything, and that meant any dialect and any other thing.


    So, speaking in a general manner, we had to move, and now if we wanted to know where we are.


    Shit..... Why me?


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    In a short while, we had eaten our breakfast, provided by the man of the house. Although we didn''t understand him in the beginning, after my little talk in the dream with Kylo or whatever his name was, I had understood every word, and so did Alissa.  If you spot this narrative on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation.


    However, we needed information, so I constantly was speaking to the man rather than eat my breakfast, I needed answers and he was my info broker for the moment.


    Upon my understanding of where we had been coming from, first I asked him about the layout of the land, he was astonished though because when we had met he knew that I was a foreigner from these lands, and wondered why I could speak in one night after many failed attempts and trying to get him to understand me in the first place.


    But I came up with many excuses, saying that it was a curse set on me that wherever I slept for one night, I will understand anyone within a limited space for one year.


    It was stupid but I had what I had, and the farmer did give me this weird ''Are you bullshitting me?'' kind of expression. It honestly made me almost die of laughter on the inside.


    The name of this world was called Enosha, and the name of the continent that we were in was actually the Kingdom of Halberth, which was actually renamed the Empire of Valst ever since it was overthrown in the past hundreds of years.


    I also asked him if he knew of ruins in the direction that we had passed from.


    He told us that this particular forest that was named The Black forest bared a castle and a noble, but it had been long since then, and now it''s completely infested with monsters, he also mentioned that it would be no surprise if even demons had appeared in that area.


    Although it surprises me because when we were there, there weren''t any demons or monsters, the only thing was a big fat reptile that in my guesses would be a dragon. Because dragons are fucking cool.


    I can imagine riding a dragon while a hot babe is on my right with big kazookas and me with a badass sword. I dream of that.


    While I was in my daydream, I felt a hurting smack at the back of my neck snapping me out of it. I winced while rubbing the back of my neck, and turned to look at a glaring Alissa.


    I stared for a few seconds after opening my mouth that made me look like I was about to scream.


    And then I whispered "bitch".


    After saying that I started running fast without looking back. in a very few moments though, I was getting chased by a pissed off Alissa simply because I called her what she didn''t want to hear.


    Eventually, I slowed down due to lack of stamina and she fly kicked me to the farm grounds without hesitation.


    But anyways back onto topic.


    So this world, I asked and it does consist of magic, but unfortunately it depends on the person, for someone to use magic, they had to be taught in the arts of it, and he has no idea how any of it works.


    But he had known of many heroes who had used incredible magic spells that have completely obliterated demons and enemies, some had even passed through their village setting out for adventure beyond these "Carvallian Boarders" which I think he said was the end-line to the Sempiternus lands.


    The Sempiternus lands as he said, were barren lands that bore nothing but ash grounds and bones, there were no villages there, no water, and many demons and monsters. The only next nearest spot to rest would be on the other end of the land that went to the Foreign lands, which as clear as the name, is another place entirely that not many from this part of the world know of.


    Moving on.


    Finishing to talk with this farmer though, I asked him if there were any near cities nearby or if there was any way I could get to them.


    As I had asked, he spoke of a town in the opposite direction of the forest leading onto the denser farmlands, he mentioned that there we could take a carriage that would lead us to the cities.


    Immediately I looked at Alissa as she had been standing near me this whole while listening in on the info the man was giving as well.


    We didn''t have much stuff, and the clothing that we were wearing was also weird, not to mention it would be a while until it would start to smell.


    I asked the man his name in order to thank him before I had left, but he had stopped me, given me a small sac, one that looked similar to those potato sacks.


    It had clothing inside and food and also a small waterskin, the other thing that I also saw were some coins.


    "I knew you were not from around here, so I thought this would help you for your journey. I know that it may not be much but it is what I can give" The old farmer smiled, and somehow in those eyes of his I could see some sort of fire that blazed strong.


    It was probably one of the most interesting things I have ever seen.


    Soon after we were mentally prepared to look ahead at what we were going for, we had set out on looking for our place in this world, or whatever it was I guess, there would definitely be a lot of bitching but I can''t just leave this girl. One because she needs me, and two because I need her, and lastly because we come from the same world.


    And somehow I feel its a mutual unspoken feeling.


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    "well look at those two go, I remember when I first came here, it reminded me of the troubles I had gone through"


    The old man looked up in the sky.


    His eyes glowed upon gazing under the still clouds that covered the rays of the sun.


    "still" He felt broken in his heart.


    A tear had fallen from his eyes and as he could feel this deep wallowing pit inside of him he closed his eyes in remembrance of the one beautiful little girl he had left alone in the other world that he had come from.


    "I still miss you" again as his tears fell from his eyes dripping down his face, he was remembering his very daughter.


    He could hear footsteps on the grass coming from behind him.


    "Uncle? what''s wrong?" the little girl he had taken care of in this world had approached him and grabbed his hand.


    She had looked at him with pure innocence, he knelt down to hug her and said: "Nothing my dear, just thinking with my heart, about the stories I''ve told you about".


    In response to this, she closed her eyes and wrapped her arms around his head.


    "Don''t worry uncle, I''m always here to help you"


    The sky was slowly turning blue as the wind picked up, swaying the tall grassy hills and swinging the leaves within the air. The pristine time was slowly turning this world around, darkening the skies. Soon enough it would be night, and by that time, the two would have headed inside their little home.

 Chapter 6: Far Plains, Further gains.

    The sun''s rays had laid down on the earth and its surface, the plains glowed with the morning dew and the slight fog from the air.


    The moist feeling was very cold but the rays of the sun balanced it, to a very different feeling on my skin. Pleasant, but soon enough it would be high morning.


    Before the night had fallen on this world we were able to catch a place to sleep at a nearby inn, at the small town we had followed from what the farmer said. I kind of feel bad, because although he had helped us, I never heard his name.


    However yesterday may have been, today was weirder for me and Alissa. Somehow, we just started to help each other out because of the lack of information we have, although she still bitches about what I do, I can''t go wrong, humans like her will never be satisfied.


    Likewise, without any data from the info that she had told me about her dream, I kind of asked her for more details in order to understand what exactly had happened.


    And from what she said, it was too vague from what her wishes were, but going more into detail the god she had spoken to had said that he can only allow a small amount of what wishes she had asked because of the lack of compatibility within the spacial relevance of her soul in correspondence with said god.


    In a more easier to understand, is that her soul isn''t as connected to that god in any manner. Like a circuit has difficulty connecting with what it is trying to connect with, and even if that example isn''t enough, tough luck because I have no other way of telling what it is exactly.


    Anyways, back onto where we are and where we are heading.


    So basically, we are on our own right now. Survivability, or to strive onwards in this world is primal for us to continue living.


    I had thought about this and it is just what it is, even if it is a different world, work is always around.


    I had wondered about what type of work though, would it be at a local market? Or at your favorite restaurant that serves a side dish of whatever you want?


    No. I was looking at my old world, in this world there is magic, and possibly swords or fighting, I also heard the old man mention demons, and distant lands worth exploring, but the only danger is the risk involved.


    I''m in a new world for crying out loud. Who in their right mind wouldn''t want to explore something new? Something that changes the way they live? Or maybe even something that they have been dreaming of? And truth be told, there had been some part of me that didn''t want this, but there is an extremely great part of me that did.


    This town that we had stayed in was a small town, it was a type of town that had basic living housing and other stuff, commercialized commodities like outposts and police headquarters which were embassies and others, didn''t seem to be apparent.


    There were guards but they seemed like they were drunk and too lazy to give a damn about anything. I feel that.


    I mean what else is there to protect when there isn''t any danger near this town?


    So anyway, this particular Inn that we stayed in, regardless of the name, I asked around for more info on the next city that would be on the road and they had told me it was a ways from here.


    Anyone that wanted to take the route towards the city would be best to travel by horse or carriage.


    The name of this city was called Argon city, and the spokesperson at the inn mentioned something about monsters having to be in the same route direction, it would be best to be careful.


    So, there''s that.


    Careless of what I thought about, Alissa had the idea of buying our ticket out of here instead of purchasing a horse, knowing that If we were to buy one it would cost pain to take care of it.


    And the good thing is that I had noticed earlier that there had been a man with a carriage outside enter the Inn about a good while ago, I don''t think he would have left so quickly.


    I went ahead and walked up towards the front counter of the Inn again to ask for more info, this time about the man who had owned the carriage. This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.


    And the gist this time was that it was a traveling merchant that sold medicines.


    So...Thats when I go, "Jackpot"


    Alissa went ahead and asked where he was right now as the carriage seemed to be unoccupied right now at the moment. But the lady had clearly said that she could not allow any info of the client to an outsider, which caused Alissa to get into her bitchy mood, and then have me to stop her and then explain to her that it was our only "safe" way out of the town.


    Understanding the situation the spokesperson then told us his room number, and we had passed towards the room to speak with him.


    I knocked on the door of the front of his room. "Hello? Is there anyone in there?"


    I knocked again, and again, so much so that Alissa spoke up.


    "If there''s no one there just bust down the door and get this over with," She said irritated. As this idiot was eager to go forward with this, I stopped.


    "Hello? We are looking for a ride to the nearest city going up the main route from here. We asked the person at the counter of the Inn and they told us you would be in this room. Is there really no one here?"


    I stopped to wait for a response. but sadly after waiting a while, it was best just to give up. No point in waiting though.


    However, just as I was about to leave. There was the sound of creaking, and it was the door of which we had been knocking on just a few ago.


    After hearing it creak, it was opening.


    And upon completely opening the door, there was a man inside the wooden frame in said room.


    He was rather tall and looked intelligent, he wore glasses, had a long black coat that extended to his knees, and what also was quite interesting was the curled up mustache that he had. Made for a rather unique relevance.


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    "Hello fellow children, My name is Rost Belfort, I am the traveling merchant you so much seek" He had a lot of etiquette for a merchant following a route, and he had a pristine way of presenting himself, went as far as to make me and Alissa a cup of tea while we sat in wooden comfortable sofas in the same room with him.


    "Uh... thank you for the tea, and hello, I''m Lucas, and this is my traveling partner Alissa, we have been looking for a way to get to the city" I clearly explained the simple task, and spoke to the point, simple and clear, although maybe it wasn''t as perfect as he would, its enough I guessed.


    He leaned forward and narrowed his eyes in order to get a better look at my eyes. As he ruffled his mustache (which I thought was hilarious)


    I tried to keep in the shits and giggles almost coming out of me, but this idiot beside me laughed her ass off.


    The man pulled back as she blurted out laughing, and he gave her a glare. Until Alissa''s laughter was slowly fading, she then began to notice it, and as she did, her expression changed to that of laughter, to slight confusion.


    And as the man saw that, He started to laugh and point at her.


    "Hahahahaha, what an impressive expression" He laughed and laughed, slowly his laugh was beginning to get to me, and then he soon started to settle down.


    "haha, well, you aren''t too bad, I guess you two aren''t bad at all" He smiled warmly. Albeit he had a specific ideal to move forward to he went straight to the point.


    "Very well then, let us get to business, you guys want to go to the closest city right?" asked Rost excitedly.


    Both me and Alisson nodded in compliance with ourselves.


    He pulled himself back earnestly and took off his long coat, "I will let you ride with me, but before you do, I will ask you a set of questions that I have been meaning to ask"


    "Alright, but we also have some questions we want to ask too, yet as long as you are okay with it, the only thing we need is that ride and-"


    Rost raised his hand with respect to allow him to speak.


    "Please ask away, I wouldn''t mind answering a couple of questions" He sat patiently on the sofas of the room.


    I looked at Alissa and she flicked her head gesturing me to go forward with whatever I wanted to ask first.


    I leaned forward holding my hands together in between my legs as I sat eagerly to ask him.


    "Do you know how to use magic?" There it was, the question of the day, it was something both me and Alissa wanted to know hearing about it just made our minds tingle.


    Rost had Looked at us blankly at first, but then he smiled and brought his hand up to our face.


    "Something like magic can be as simple as lighting a small candle with a fire" Upon finishing that sentence with the word fire he snapped his fingers and an immediate small flame had appeared on his fingertips.


    It had both me and Alissa in a state of shock and denial, but at the same time we were greatly intrigued, and we both wanted to see this.


    "However, even to do something like this, one must have a good aptitude with magic on a residual scale, to read magic would be even more study, and to understand it, is purely based on experience with magic" He had clapped his hands together and upon letting his hands go, a small slight pressure of air pushed around in the room. it was like a windy breeze.


    "However, I would prefer you come to look for a mentor on magic, I would teach if I could mind you, but I have no real patience to teach, my apologies" He tipped his head in a display of respect and as an apology.


    "Oh please don''t apologize, you have shown us enough about magic, thank you, and also, You had a question for us as well right?" I wanted him to have a chance of asking us what he wanted, as he showed us without any negative rebate.


    He glanced at me and at Alissa blankly and simultaneously.


    "well? Is there anything you''d like you to know?" I prodded on allowing him to have his chance at the spotlight.


    "Ah? Wait, I just forgot please give this old fart a moment" He smiled showing his teeth, but while doing so, he took the teacups that he had served us with tea and put it aside on the bed of the room to clean up for later.


    With a moment going by in silence, he then leaned forward staring me and Alissa sternly and narrowly in both our eyes.


    "Ah, I remember now, my question was, How did you get to this world?"


    As he asked that, goosebumps immediately formed all over my arms, and Alissa had quietly gasped.