My chest and abdominal area still hurts... Where am I?

There as my eyes could see is an endless darkness... Am I dead? Did we really get into some kind of death game?

This is what Leona said earlier when she died... There should be a timer then... Gotta check if I'm still in the game...

I swiped my hand sideways and the menu popped up once again... Repeatedly I tapped the log out button but an error occurs every time I press it. I tapped options and checked all the HUD options... HP, MP, Exp, Mini-Map, I opened everything that seemed important.

I open up my status screen and saw that my exp points were being drained... I'm going back to level 1, and all of my accumulated skills were already gone... So does all of my titles...

"What to do..."

As I said that a giant whirlpool came sucking me in from below...

"Are you serious!"

As I could not hold on to anything, I was easily swept by the Whirlpool's suction force...

"Waaah!!!"

The next instance I saw the blue skies, blowing hard on my back was the wind that seemed to stop my fall but to no avail. I tried to roll over to one side and saw that I'm quite far from the ground... I thought to myself "It's been a good gaming life!" and accepted my fate..

Increasingly, my speed went faster and faster... That it was really hard to open my eyes as I fell in descent... There flapped the cape of my mantle as I descended... Now that I'm looking at it all of the items I had were gone except for the mantle, the scythe was gone and I don't know if my inventory items was still there, thankfully my clothes weren't taken from me.

I'm only a few kilometres away from the ground, more like water but still with this much speed it's going to be like concrete... I surveyed the area and saw a town due east or it seems to be east in my perspective.

Soon, I'll be landing... and splat... goes me after that... But due to some kind of inexplicable event, I seem to have survived and only fell a few metres down the river. Hurriedly, I swam to reach the surface...

"Buwaaaaaah! Oh! God!"

As I surveyed my area once again... a man wearing a Strawhat and wore a dress that's naturally found in games and had in his hand a rod... He had a really hard expression... But nevertheless, he called to me saying "Are you okay?", I replied with "Yes! No broken bones and such!" and swam towards to his position...

"You fell from quite a height! You sure you're okay?"

"Yes! It's just my heart's beating a bit too fast..."

Seriously! As I thought how much it would hurt once I splattered down the water, I thought I would die... But then I only splashed a bit of water and poof... I'm here... It's so anticlimactic actually but all is good I'm still alive...

I tried to log out once again but still the error occurred... I wonder why... GM call isn't working either...

"Let us get you some warm clothes... you're really drenched and all."

"T,thank you!"

Led by the man I walked the town with my hood still on... I looked like a cat drenched in water, I kept shivering until we got into his house, there a woman was cleaning the house and asked with a questioning tone.

"Who's that?"

"It's just someone I happen to see as I was fishing..."

So he really was fishing... Well, there is no other thing other than that.

"I'm sorry, I don't mean to bother... I'll just go somewhere else..."

"E, eh! I didn't mean it like that, come you seemed awfully wet, what happened?"

"I got into the water... and that man was concerned so he offered a change of clothing..."

"I see... I thought he kidnapped another girl from the village..."

"Eh? I'm not like that!"

"Whatever... Let's take that cloak off... Hmm? Ah!"

"Achoo!"

"You... You're..."

I didn't know what they were doing as I'm still shivering from cold water... The woman took my cloak away and the man gave me dry clothes. As I changed my clothes I couldn't change them like in game but instead it had to be changed like in reality... I took off my clothes and replaced them with dry ones... I went back from the place the woman said for me to change and as I got to where the woman and the man were another figure was there... It was an old man with a scar on his other eye.

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"Um... Am I in trouble? The atmosphere seemed to be different than earlier..."

"No... No... Come here... Sit beside me"

"Okay..."

The old man kept his gaze on me as I walked towards the woman and sat near her... It's a really uncomfortable gaze... Then the old man spoke in a loud voice.

"She has to go!"

"But chief!"

"We can't have an Ylka in our village! You do know what happens to people, who kept Ylka people!"

"We can't just leave her alone!"

"It's not of our concern, she's of a race persecuted by the kingdom... Anyone who helps the enemy of the kingdom are to be persecuted as well... Toni, Emily we don't want you to get killed helping a stranger."

"But still... She is far too young..."

She? I've been hearing she for a while now... I wonder why...

"Um... I'm a boy... also... if being here poses a problem to everyone then I will gladly let myself out... Thank you for letting me into a change of clothes..."

"Eh? A boy? Wait a minute!"

"Wait, where are you touching! Ahn!"

"There is nothing there..."

"Eh?"

It seems my gender was far more important a subject than me being persecuted by the kingdom and also what do you mean I don't have an..y... d..own...there...

"Gyaaaaa!"

None! None! Where is it! Where is it!?

Frantically, I groped every place of my body... None! None! There was nothing there...

"Calm down! Calm down! Breathe!"

"How could I calm down, it wasn't there!"

"Just calm down! Breathe, breathe, phooo..."

I breathed at set intervals and gradually started to calm down... The village chief had a really surprised expression after seeing me being frantic... The woman, Emily, took me back to the changing room and made me look at myself...

I'm no longer a man... but a woman... What the heck! I checked my status and saw [Female] in my gender specification... I unconsciously teared up...

"You don't need to cry... I don't know what your parents are telling you but you're not a boy but a girl..."

"Waaah!"

You only made it worse! I didn't want to acknowledge it but you still said it! She frantically moved her hands as she tried to stop me from crying... After a while, I calmed down and accepted the horrible facts... How do women do that,this and all kinds of other things... I don't want to ask those kinds of things to a woman.

"Ahem... As I was saying..."

We went back to the living room and there the two had a really worried expression...

"I think you should live here with us!"

Emily had a smile so radiant that it's almost blinding... The other two surprised by her remark interjected and said!

"Emily! You do understand that we can't do that!"

"It's fine just to hide her hair right?"

"Eh?"

"I mean I can make a hat that can hide that hair of hers..."

"Are you serious?"

"Un!"

She nodded with extreme vigor... Seriously, this girl is too easy going... I didn't know that the two who kept me as their daughter were two of the strongest in the country specifically in magic and in swordsmanship...