Isekai'd — Page 01

Chapter 1 : Isekai'd

Hm? Did I fall asleep somehow? I don't usually fall asleep at night because I'm a night owl, so this is one of those occasions, huh.

Well, not that it matters. Let's just find where my phone is and start watching another episode of an anime or maybe read some manhwa while I'm at it.

Hmm.. Uhm..?? Nothing? Oh, liquid.. That must be water, I think. But has my room ever had this much water? It's like a pool or something.

Interesting? I guess I should find out whatever it is with my own eyes. I hope my room isn't flooded or anything! My poor phone isn't waterproof!! My earphones too!

..Huh?

Why can't I see nothing but black? Dark as heck, man.. Hmm, I did stay up late a lot, so my eyes may have wanted to keep sleeping..

..or am I just lazy? Makes sense to me.

Okay, let's just get up instead, maybe that'll wake me up… That's gonna be hard since waking up is like something no one wants to do.

But I gotta.

I'm laying down on something.. rough? Hold on, I just realized. The comfy bed that I was resting on isn't comfy anymore. It's more like I'm laying on the ground..?

Oh no. Did I fall off the bed?! Damn, that gotta hurt. So why didn't I wake up when I hit the ground? Strange.. Am I too sleepy to not notice the pain? Haha, no way.

Okay, I'll just continue sleeping. As if! This is such an oddity that I can't just think it's normal! There's no way for a fragile body like me to fall and not die from the descent off my bed!

Okay! Okay..

To sum everything up, I touched a pool of water, couldn't open my eyes, laid on the ground and heard a voice.

..huh? Heard a—what?

"Bella! Are you with me?! Talk to me!"

Whoever it was, he or she was screaming in my ear, and it definitely wasn't a good thing to hear a high-pitched voice at close proximity.

Sounds like something is piercing my ears.

"Stop playing tricks on me, Belladonna!"

I tried to respond to this unfamiliar person, wishing to say they got the wrong person because my name is 100% not Belladonna.

Huh.. My throat was unexpectedly a bit dry, so I didn't manage to say a word, except "..ah.."

Oof, I need water.

"Ah? Bella? Are you okay?"

Hm, hm.. Wait what? Shouldn't you realize it by now..? You got the wrong person, dearie. I'm not Belle.. Bella.. whoever that is.

First, let's clear my throat and talk to this person while ignoring the fact that a stranger who isn't from my 'family' is talking to me, okay? Okay.

"Who are you?" I asked, waiting for a few seconds until that person finally replied to me.

"What do you mean? Don't you remember me? Is this one of your tricks, Belladonna?"

"Uh.. You got the wrong person.."

"Seriously.. Is this what I get after all the years I spent with you?"

"No, really. I don't know you. Whoever you are, please stop talking straight into my ears."

"Belladonna.."

There was a pause for a moment. I don't know what this person is doing, I assume they must be thinking about it or..

"Is this the side effects of drinking the spring water?"

A—what now? I don't get it, but his or her voice sounds sad for some unknown reason. But that's not my problem.

I'm more worried about my current condition, and if stranger danger implies the situation I'm in.

"Hold on, you must be confused why you can't see.. I'll activate your amulet."

What now.. An amulet? Do I even have an amulet? This person is tripping or being delusional. I shouldn't assume, but it's kinda hard when someone keeps mistaking me for another, and then says I have an amulet.

Sigh.. I should just sleep. Oh, did I hear a tap sound? Seems like the stranger touched something..

…WOAH! AGHH! The Light!

God, my eyes! It likes accidentally turning off the night mode on an app in the middle of the night! Too bright for me!

Ah, it stings! Dammit, now's not the time to be a drama queen, me! Cover it, cover it with your hand, fool!

Aist.. Alright.. I think my eyes are getting used to the light for a bit.. Slowly but surely, let's move my hands away a little to see why it's so bright.

Oh? Wut..? Huh..? What in the world is all of this..? Where am I?! I'm looking around yet all I see is the forest?!

Where am I? What is this place? When did I get here? Why am I here in the first place?! How far am I to my home?

Alright.. Stop it with the bombardment of questions, me. This is a time where you need to calm down even if it's so confusing..!

I don't want to have an unpleasant headache from this.. Definitely not!

"Can you see now, Belladonna?"

Oh, yeah! I almost (completely) forgot about the stranger I heard before. Now, let's check out what he or she looks..

..like…?

Oh.. oh my. I'm in a dream. Heck no, I'm not! If I was in a dream, it wouldn't torture me with the almighty light! I'm not stupid, okay?

Hair in the color of marigold and lapis lazuli irides, she looks pretty and cute as well with her two buns hairstyle.

Instead of marigold, what flower perfectly represents her hair and hairstyles? I'm not gonna ask why I'm doing this to myself when I don't ever encounter nor learn about different types of flowers.

I'll just let someone do it for me. Since my phone isn't with me to search it up. Now tell me a perfect flower!

( The flower, Krigia biflora. )

Yeah, that! Whatever it was inserted in the silence. What a fourth wall break I did in my head of imagination. Haha, I'm joking! There's no way my life is just a character nor am I in a simulation, right? Right??

…

God.. I'm such an annoying person from how confused and jumbled my thoughts are. But what can I say? Not everyone can act calm whenever they find themselves in a strange place..

For now, I need time to collect my thoughts, however, I should do that later since the situation doesn't look like it'll be resolved soon enough.

Guess I'll remain dumbfounded and crazy for now.

Aside from that, this stranger in front of me is different compared to a human like me..

Why? Because she got wings! And a smol body! That's why!

"Hello.. Miss fairy?" It's awkward, and I know I shouldn't be talking normally to some strange creatures..

However.. it's better than panicking and going insane from one mythological creature. Plus, aren't fairies nice? Right?

"I'm not a fairy. I'm a pixie."

Welp, I didn't expect a pixie. I'm screwed. Not only did I judge a book by its cover, pixies are tricksters, aren't they? There, I did it again by judging a book by its cover! Ugh!

Although I don't think this pixie in front of me is evil, I gotta stay cautious.

Nothing beats being cautious over new things, right? Anyways, she appears to look concerned for.. me?

Thanks, I guess? But I don't need you to be worrying about me, okay? I'm more worried about—

"Belladonna, tell me if you remember me. Or if you remember anything at all? Like say when you drank from this spring."

Don't cut off my thoughts, please. I'm trying to have a monologue right here. Either way, I'm curious about this spring she kept talking about..

Ah. I remember there should be a pool of water somewhere since I accidentally touched it. That might be the spring or whatever.

Let's check it out!

"Ew.." When I take a glimpse at the so-called spring that I thought was a pool, it looks utterly gross with green crap all over it..

Kinda ew. Super ew, actually.

Did this Belladonna person drink this spring water? That's nasty, gal. Heck, I would even vomit from just the appearance alone.

Speaking of appearance.. Who is this person I'm seeing from the water's reflection?

Except for the pixie, I don't see myself everywhere I look. Instead, I witnessed beauty itself!

A flawless long white hair with one thin braid on the left while the hair length extended to the point of touching the dirty ground.

Maybe I should remove the hair from touching the ground. I can't let beautiful hair be touched by dirt! Non, I say!

Okay, now what..

Earlier, I remembered I described the pixie's eyes with a gemstone, lapis lazuli, then I should do this one as well.

The beauty's irises are..

Oh my god. That was my reaction when I noticed it at first. Her eyes resemble a perfect diamond. It really shocked me because I thought the eyes were real diamonds, and they are!

..Maybe.

Really unbelievable to have irides that look like diamonds.. I can already see the disadvantages in having eyes like these..

Did someone shove diamonds into this beauty's eyes or something? But hey, never mind that.

This lady in the reflection is DAMN gorgeous! I would have asked to marry her immediately if it weren't for my preference in appearances.

Since I'm more of a 'personality is more important than looks' type of person, uh, I don't get swayed easily.

…I'm not picky, okay?

Wait, wait. I'm getting a little sidetracked, aren't I? I should be more concerned about why I'm here.

There's a chance that I got kidnapped by a pixie, and I'm saying this because strange creatures come with strange powers..

Even if it's a smol body, this pixie right here might have a cool superpower or something! Don't underestimate a smol being just because it's adorable and smol, okay?

Cute can be deadly, y'know?

"You look surprised, and not behaving like the usual you. So this means you really lost your memories as the price for drinking the spring water.."

Ah, the pixie is talking. And from the way she's speaking, I'll not think ahead or expect that I'm the beauty in the reflection.

There's no way.. Absolutely no way…

Just in case, I should probably ask the pixie who the person in the reflection is, and not get my hopes up after seeing the beauty's hand pinching the cheek.

..hehe, I can feel the pinch.

"Uhm.. Miss pixie, may I ask who this is?"

"Isn't that you? You even forgot the one thing you brag about?! How many memories did you lose..?"

Wow.. Holy.. Wait a minute, let me please calm down for a damn second. Are you saying I'm this GORGEOUS lady in the reflection?!

Heck no. Definitely not. Okay, okay.. I.. I don't want to say this, but did I get isekai'd to another world? Like the ones I see in manga and manhwa?

I get dreams like this a lot since I'm just a depressed trash who wishes to avoid reality. I'm a sad human, okay? Don't pity me, okay?

L-Let's just ask the pixie.. To confirm the questions I have before I get blown to bits with this new revelation!

"Miss Pixie, where is this place? And what world is this?"

"World? Did you get dumber also from drinking the water? This is quite a predicament.."

I wanna feel angry from her comment, but I can understand that she doesn't know my situation. Just.. Gotta hold in my anger.

"Belladonna, this is the place where we live. It's the forbidden forest, ‹ Octavius ›. And I won't answer your second question because that's stupid."

Hey, I am dumb, but don't call out my dumbness, Miss pixie. And what kind of worlds would a question about a world be stupid?

Ugh, I'm angry now. The disadvantages of being short-tempered, and it's not good at all.

When I was trying to cool down, I realized something important. How am I communicating with a creature from another world?

The answer is easy. The knowledge of this body must somehow remain within this body, making me able to speak or so I think that's what it is.

Maybe that's why I was able to speak freely and comfortably without fearing of misspeaking my first language at home.

It wasn't English, by the way. It was something else that I won't mention for privacy sake.

Don't know why I say that, but I don't even trust myself enough to mention my first language.

..Feels like I'm gonna hate myself if I were to bring up that part of my life..