‘Where am I’ Carlo thought. Carlo is in a room that’s unfamiliar to him, it’s not all pure white with a Goddess on it waiting for him but it’s a normal room that can be found anywhere. “The last thing I remember is I’m surfing on the net and then everything got black and suddenly I’m here” Carlo muttered to himself.
Carlo stands up from the bed that he was in and started to examine the room ‘The worse possibility that can happen to me is that, someone abducted me and will torture me with his heart content’ Carlo continue to think scary things like this to himself.
“The rooms not locked, I should escape for now and then report this to the police” Carlo stated. Carlo then runs towards the open door but before he can exit the room, he suddenly stopped and pause for a bit. He walks backward, going to the mirror that he just passed while running earlier.
And there he saw, his body is different from his memory compared to what he sees. “No way” Carlo said in bewilderment. He grabbed his arms and body to check if it’s real or not. What Carlo touch is definitely real, the firm and huge muscles that covered his arms and shoulder, the thick and chiseled abs that looks like it was made by an artisan and the fearless looks from his face with its blonde hair.
“What is this!” Carlo shouted. Carlo just now noticed this but his voices changed too, it’s a rough on that’s befitting for an outlaw. “I look like a delinquent from animes” Carlo jokes to himself but he knows that this is not a laughing matter.
“First I must know as to what happened to my body” Carlo said. The current Carlo is far from what he really is. Because in reality, Carlo is a thirty years old man who has no wife or children, he never have a chance to have sex with anyone so you can say that his a virgin.
But Carlo didn’t particularly mind that, Carlos has only little interest with the real world as he always indulged himself to anime and such because he’s a so called Otaku. At the age of five Carlo started watch anime seriously, at that time his parent are supportive to him as he was inspired by it and draw the anime character with such great details.
But they soon regret that as he always watched anime and do nothing else. ‘Looking back now, I’m really is a failure child huh?’ Carlo thought. As he search the whole house, he find something that made him become more confused with the situation.
He found an I.D that named ‘Koutaro Kyoshiro’ and in the I.D picture, it’s the same face he has now. “What? It doesn’t make any sense” Carlo said. He can’t believe that there’s a I.D like this. And when he looked at the details behind the back of the I.D.
He saw a complete address and phone number. But what really scare him the most is the address, not only it is located in a place that he didn’t know, there was a Japan that was written on it. “There’s no way… right?” Carlos muttered in disbelief.
*DIND DONG* Carlo heard the doorbell. “A guest?” Carlos mindlessly reached for the door for he’s still in confusion. “Kyoshiro you bastard!!!” Carlo opened the door and what welcomed him is a crowd of delinquent with baseball bat and golf club on their hands.
“You mother fucker!! You will have to pay what’ve you’ve done to me!!” And in the center, a man with huge built, blonde long hair and wearing a face mask is talking to him; he’s also saying the name that he found on the I.D. “What are you talking?” Carlo said. He himself can’t understand his body right now. In the past, Carlo would cower in fear when a single delinquent decided to mess with him but this time.
He does not feel being scared right now, Carlo feels like he can beat them down with his left hand tied to a chair while wearing a blindfold. ‘It’s strange since if it’s the me before this happened, I would kneel and beg my life off’ Carlo thought.
“Don’t fucking play innocent! I’ve got my friends now, here with me. I’m making sure that you will regret to what have you done to my teeth!” The man then pulls off the face mask and reveals his broken teeth.
“I don’t remember doing that though” Carlo replied to the man with calm manners. Carlo wants to resolve this peacefully but it had the opposite effect on the man, he was ticked by it and thinking that Carlo taking him too lightly, Well he was right though.
“Enough! I will now fucking break your face and then pull out your teeth one by one and—“ But before the man finished his sentence, he was stopped and can only be seen flying as the blood gush from his nose. “You’re so fucking annoying” Carlo said.
‘What’s happening to me?’ In inside, Carlo is confused. This is not him, Carlo is gentle and patience. He’s not the person that would punch somebody just because they’re talking bad about him or annoying him, he’s not that kind of person.
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“F-fuck! Y-you guys! Beat him up!!” The man commanded his friend to make a move. All of them listen to what he said and walking towards Carlo slowly as they ready their weapons. But Carlo is not scared, he calmly looking at them with cold eyes.
Maybe his eyes were scary, some of them stopped when Carlo looked at them but they soon continue after a second. Inside Carlo there is something strange swelling up, Carlo have felt this before but not in this kind of situation.
Carlo only felt this way when his favorite anime gets a new season or when he’s opening the brand new manga or novel that he just purchased online. The thing that he felt in those events is excitement; he is feeling excitement in this situation too. He didn’t know the reason why but he knows that he is getting pleasure in this situation.
He can’t help but smile, the enemy around him was surprised by this but they continue their own strives. The first enemy ran at him while swinging his golf club. For some reason, the movement of his opponent tends to be slower as what it has to be.
Carlo did not miss this chance as he steps to the left, closing his distance to the enemy and gave him a clean punch through his solar flexus. “GUUGH!!” The one that Carlo punched let out a weird noise as his saliva flows out from his mouth.
Carlo suddenly dash to his left and evade the baseball from his behind. “Tch!” The man who nearly hit him spouted. Carlo immediately grabbed the golf club earlier and then swung it towards the baseball bat man, but the man blocked it with his baseball bat. The man suddenly put a grin on his face, thinking that he have won the fight. But what he does not realize is that Carlo managed to buy a time by doing that, he is now in his position, stretching his body, twisting his left foot, and then to his waist and then to his fist.
Carlo hit the man with his full strength, *CRAK* A crack sound resonate the whole place, the man fly through the air just like the other man did and then the moment he fell down to the ground, he did not moved.
“N-no way! He easily beat the first, second and third!” one of them said. “W-what are you doing! Ganged around him!” The man with the broken teeth said. Carlo picked up the baseball bat and the golf club and put it to his shoulder.
“Can’t we just finish this already?” Carlo said with an intimidating aura. Perhaps the toothless finally regained some of his senses, he commanded his men to retreat. “I will get my revenge next time!” The man said. “Then do it now!” Carlo then walks towards them as he shows his anger.
“Hiih!” All of them run vigorously and left Carlo alone. “What the hell is that?” Now that he’s alone Carlo finally calmed his nerve down. He then went back to the house to do more investigation.
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“Now this is all I know for now” Carlo muttered. He explored the house and search for every clue that he can get. The first thing he knows is this man, or body he has is named Koutaro Kyoshiro or in not Japanese name, Kyoshiro Koutaro. Based on the birth certificate that he found, Kyoshiro is currently seventeen years old and born in Japan.
But there is one thing that bothered Carlo is even though they are many evidence that what he lived in is Japan, the letters that they use is the normal alphabetical letters, they are not using kanjis or katakana as a letters.
And the people earlier, if it’s Japan then those idiots would have to speak Japanese, but Carlo can understand them clear and well. ‘There’s no way a guys like those can speak fluent English’ Carlo thought. The second clue that he found is Kyoushiro is still attending school and is currently in his third year of highschool.
The school Kyoushiro currently attending is called Tengoku Highschool Academy. Since there’s a internet in the house, Carlo decided to check the status of the status of the Academy through the help of smartphone. “Hmm…” Carlo said.
After the loading, the search finally come up, “It’s a prestigious school that only a top quality student can get in, most of the students there is full of high class people and such……. Then why the hell this kind of guy can enter there!!!” Carlo shouted in irritation. “Only in anime can only happen this kind of thing!” he added.
Carlo then searched the way towards that school, even though it’s not confirm that this body is not really his but to someone else, he decided to enter the school for he can’t bear the thought of destroying someone’s life just because he take it and be lazy.
“I guess I will attend the school tomorrow” Carlo said to himself. Maybe because of his past habits, Carlo kept talking to himself like this, the people around him would find it strange for Carlo its normal for someone to talk to himself.
And then the last clue, this guy is currently living alone, he have no family pictures or anything like that. Although the room in the house is two, the other one is currently a room filled with nothingness so he can safely say that there’s no one currently living with him now.
“It’s late already? Maybe I should prepare some dinner” Carlo said. Carlo then stand up from his sit and walks to the kitchen, he then checked the fridge if it’s anything to be eaten. Luckily he found some vegetables and some eggs.
“This will do” Carlo muttered. Before this happen, Carlo is originally alone in life so he was used to do some house chores like cooking and cleaning, even the housewives who loves gossips can’t bad mouth him except for being single and Otaku.
But Carlo didn’t mind that since Carlo is a kind person, he would often make fun off but he would just usually laugh along with them making him the approachable and the dependable guy at his work office.
“It’s all done” Carlo said. He then goes back to the living room and there, he eats his food while watching the T.V.
‘I wonder what happened to my parents’ Carlo thought, Carlo finished his study and now a working adult. But that doesn’t mean that Carlo disconnect and abandoned his parent though, Carlo still helps them with all he can. He even open a shop that his mother and father longed wish for.
Even though his parents didn’t support Carlo in his hobby, his parents still love him so that’s why he can’t help but to worry for them.
After he finished his meal, Carlo cleaned the dishes and head back to his room. ‘I wonder what will happen to me now” Carlo thought. He can’t help but wonder.
After sometime of contemplating, Carlo finally gets dizzy and closed his eyes. “It will be good if I can back to my normal life” Carlo said and then sleep.