Prologue.

"Thank you for shopping here!"

The voice of the cashier rung through the convenience store behind me, after I bought some snacks for my dinner. 

The streets were filled with people, especially salarymen and businessmen celebrating a week's of work. The bars, clubs and other establishments had plenty of people. Some drinking their life away and some celebrating their successes. 

Well, that has nothing to do with somebody like me. I'm only a high school student after all...

Oh, sorry for not introducing myself. I'm just your average high school student named Kyle, I'm an 18 years old who is interested in playing video games and on occasion watches anime and read manga and light novels. 

I still live with my parents, and is currently preparing for college and something like that. I'm somewhat unsure about my future.... some may say that I don't know what I want, and I'll say there're right. 

I have hours of saved progress of playthroughs and gameplay of some of my favorite games on my computer. Many people in my class bully me, and called me all sorts of names. 

With that said, I have technically no friends in school...

It's the same thing everyday.... I just wish to do something fun for once...

My parents tried their best with me, providing the essentials things and are all in all good people... I spent most of my time indoors and playing video games on my computer, studying, and eating dinner with my family. With the little time I have left is spent hanging out with friends at the arcade, and at school...

The reason why I was buying dinner is because my parents are currently on a business trip overseas. Leaving all the responsibilities of taking care of the house to me... it's been like two weeks since they went on their business trip..

After walking for a little while, I found myself sitting down in the park. It was kind of dark outside that night, but the lamppost luminated the park. 

There were no one in the park sitting down, only me and a strange looking guy who seems to be a businessman. He wore a white suit and he had on glasses...

Hmm?... what is he doing in this park at this time? Shouldn't he be home with his family?

I don't know but something feels off about him... I don't know what, but he's strange. 

He suddenly got up and started moving closer and closer to me. I couldn't get him out of my thoughts..

"Good night, young man, what are you doing here at this time of the night?"

He greeted me, with his face showing a big smile. 

I froze when he started talking to me. I'd never talked to someone whom I didn't know, it's only close friends I converted to. 

"You don't have to be afraid of me... I just want to ask you a simple question..."

Question....? What kind of questions is he going to ask me? Please don't be something weird!

Hopefully he doesn't ask for anything impossible or outright strange...

I was deep in my thoughts trying to figure out what he wanted to ask me... it was so stressful! 

"Do you like to watch anime or read manga? I know people nowadays loves them!"

"Mmm...? Anime...?"

"Yeah, Isekai anime to be precise. "

Huh? Is he trying to get into Isekai anime? Well, you have the wrong person. I'm not that of an Otaku...

you better ask someone else...

The man started to chuckle and his smile turned from normal to straight up creepy. 

"You know, you should really watch what you're thinking around someone who can read minds (chuckles)"

Read minds...? Is he serious about this? 

This gotta be some sort of prank... am I going to be on TV?

"Oops , I just told you something that you shouldn't have heard. Well, eventually you'll find out anyway. Let's get that out of the way, I'm a Traveler. A person who travels to other worlds, that's the explanation. "

"Do you want to go on an adventure just like the anime and game characters you admire? All you have to do is sign here!"

The man took out a paper from the briefcase he had on him, and put them on my lap.

So I technically don't have a choice in the matter, right? 

This is something else... but I still think that I'm being pranked. What am I actually signing up for?

This whole situation feels fishy. But if I don't sign, this guy might follow me home, and I don't want that!

"I don't have a choice in the matter, right?"

My friend told me that I'm kind of a pushover and always do what people told me to do. With enough pressure, you can get me to do and say anything. 

"Not exactly.... hahaha."

So I signed the papers and afterwards, I felt tired and I suddenly fainted. The last thing I saw was the smile the man showed me. 

Dawn, I did it again....

"It would have been hard to explain every single thing to him, and I wasn't going to do that again... humans are so dumb!"

The man stretched out his body to get ready to leave. 

"Well, time to go get some other work done, and stop playing around. At least I remembered to give him some useful skills..."

The man got up and a portal appeared behind of him and he entered while smiling and laughing to himself. 

"..."

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When I regained my consciousness, I found myself in a strange place that looked like a forest, laying down on a truck of a tree. At first it was kind of hard to open up my eyes to look around. 

But I eventually begin to look around. I was in a strange forest that feels Neverending. The trees were thick and dense, and I was in close proximity to a spring.

The first thing to do, is build a shelter. 

Next, find a clean source of water, and food for dinner. 

Next, is to find a way out of this forest before the monsters come out to hunt.

Those were the plans that I came up with to survive for the night. Everything else was secondary.