The transmigration

Transmigration. Or isekai as some would say. It's a nice thing to hear about. Around hundred percent of the otakus crazy about reading transmigration novels and mangas would have wanted to transmigrate into their favorite novel world. I was one of them otakus as well.

Hi. My name is Misa. I am a daily wage worker, which meant that my life lacked excitement. The entirety of my day was sucked off by the work and that meant that the only free time that I got was at night, obviously! And top of it, I did not have many friends at work as well, so that was a bummer.

Look, it's not like I didn't try, you know? I actively tried making friends with people. However, once they came to learn about my crazy obsession with novels and stuff, they just ran away as fast as they could, which is kinda understandable if you ask me. I mean, if I was chased around by someone who wants to talk to me about the latest k-drama, then I too would… wait, I actually kinda like k-dramas, so I would be down for that. I guess I gave the wrong example there.

Well, let's consider this. If I was chased around by someone who wants to talk about the latest reality show or docuseries or something, I would run away as fast as I can as well. I can't blame them. I'm just the odd one out here. And it is no one's fault that I'm not able to make friends.

Anyhow, with no friends whatsoever, that meant that I had no plans for the night as well. And that meant that I had the entirety of the night for myself. And what do I do with all that time? I read novels obviously. I mean, if you didn't get that by now, I would be surprised.

So, it's not like I read every novel in this world or anything. I have a niche as well. And it's called otome isekai. If you don't know what that means, well I'll explain it to you. It's the trope where the protagonist transmigrates into their favorite novel's world and inhabits the body of usually the villainess or a random side character. Why not the heroine? Well, that would be boring for the people to read, wouldn't it? Anyhow, the trope goes like this. The female lead of the novel world inside the novel is usually a crazy psychopath. The male leads are douchebags. Our female lead will manage to find a super hotty who's somehow the side character and fall in love with him. If that's not it, then our male lead would usually be the second male lead of the novel's novel world because our heroine would have some sort of bias on him. And after triumphing over anything and everything, our heroine gets the man, gets everything that she sorts out for and lives happily ever after. Nice, right?

Well, if you don't think it's nice, that means that this trope isn't your cup of coffee. And that's fine as well. But me? Oh, I'm a sucker for this shit. I mean, I believe I have read over a hundred novels with the exact same trope. Like, they do change some stuff at some places, but the essence of the storytelling remains the same. And for some reason, I never got bored of that weirdly enough. 

So, back to the stuff that I was talking about initially. Transmigration. Something that every otome isekai buff is crazy about. Something that they want to desperately happen to themselves as well cuz all of them live mundane lives. 

That's the thing. This is an escape route for most of the people. But I guess that's the case for any form of novel genre now that I think about it. We're going way off point now. It's just that if someone asked me if I wanted to transmigrate at some point in my life, I would say yes. At some point, surely. However, this was not supposed to be that moment.

Well, as you guessed it by now, I got transmigrated into a different world. To be brief, I got hit by a truck and then I died in my world. And now I have been transferred into this world. Although I thought I would be able to meet God in the midst of this transfer, that didn't happen. And that either means that God doesn't exist or God does his business without interfering with our business, which is kinda nice if you ask me. 

Anyhow, I guess I know what your question might be. 

'Misa, why are you unhappy about this transmigration?'

Well, I have my reasons. First one would be the fact that I was dead before my mom died. Here's the thing, yea? I have just this one member that I can call my family and that's my mom. Although we have been living apart for quite some time now, we were always connected. I just wanted my mom to see me living life and all, but instead what she might be seeing as of right now would be my dead body, which is kinda sad now that I think about it. Poor old lady has nothing going on for her right now and that sucks. Hopefully she recovers from it and finds something to live for. The fact that I can't check upon my mother, not even as a spirit or something is the thing that hurts me the most. At least, I would've liked to see her one last time…

Anyhow, what's done is done and I can't do anything about it now. So, I tried to recover from the obvious shock of death that every transmigrated character in the novels should have but somehow they are immune to that shit. But soon enough, I was able to recover from the shock and sadness and I was ready to face this new journey head on.

'Yay, Misa. Does that mean that you are no longer concerned about the transmigration?' is the question I see you asking. And the answer is no. Why, you ask? Because the one who transferred me made a grave mistake. I have somehow ended up in a man's body.

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