Trees tall as cathedrals surrounded me, and a strange green light - almost holy - shimmered through the vast canopy of leaves. A small meadow was towering among the trees. The fern-like "grass" was beaten down in waves by the breeze as I leaned on the wooden stern, covered with modified leaves resembling cat ears.

I glanced over my shoulder, to the first position when I suddenly appeared in this... jungle. And I still saw the giant willow-like tree with elongated glowing white leaves, if I were to put it in my word it was like the jellyfish tentacles, and I used that tree as my landmark.

I continued walking... one step, three steps, nine steps. Moving forward felt so awkward and tiring, even though I walked with this brisk pace. I was so out of shape it was embarrassing. At the twenty-seven steps, once again, I stopped and leaned on the nearby tree, this was the fifth time I already stopped to rest.

I closed my eyes while holding my chest, trying to control the pacing of my breath and my heart. I glanced back once again, and no matter how many steps that I took, which was not many by the way, I still could see the jellyfish tree.

Once again I walked forward and unconsciously counting how many steps I could take before I had the urge to rest. This time was 25 steps, 2 steps shorter than my previous 'pit-stop' and 3 steps shorter than the one before that. And apart from feeling more tired and depressed than before, I didn't think I accomplished anything by counting my steps.

Truthfully, I just counted my steps as I didn't know what I should think and feel right now. I just tried to keep the fact that I was alone without any of my medication with me. I didn't know if that was the greatest idea though, but I was determined to just keep going and not worrying so much about it since there was nothing that I could do about it.

About ten pit stops later I already ran out of my breath and sat under the shades of trees... I just couldn't bear myself to move anymore. I just thought in my current situation walking one step at a time before I needed to rest was good enough for me.

As I leaned my back on the tree, I closed my eyes and inhaled a deep breath of what I called as the grassy smell.

"Damn..." I couldn't help but muttered that word. Indeed the air was clean and fresh, but my breath was hot and heavy. I just felt like I'd been sprinting straight for five kilometres without even stopping to take a single breath.

I slowly opened my eyes, only to be greeted by a rustling among the.. herbaceous plants, that had semblable similarity to the comb of a chicken.

I could feel the sound of my saliva gulping down onto my throat echoing throughout the forest, my hearts was beating like crazy... like I said, I wanted to walk one more steps but I just couldn't do that.

As I preparing for the worst, the thing that came out and flew upwards was a small hand sized lizard. Yes. It flew. There was a big disk-shaped membrane on its back and the lizard spinning it like a helicopter fan to raise its body to the sky.

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It was only the lizard but I did know my vision went black for a moment and felt a year of my life had just got reduced by one. Though I didn't know which was worse, the fear or the unknown or the fear of my heart stopped beating because of a lizard. Either way, I needed to take deep breaths and trying to steady myself.

"What the hell is going on?"

Biology wasn't my greatest subject but I instantly knew those plants and that lizard shouldn't be existed, at least not on Earth.

Not on Earth.

So this wasn't Earth?

Combining this fact with the glowing magic circle from before I had enough confidence to tell this wasn't Earth... and I just realized this fact.

But... The magic circle... Was on the whole floor, right?

And my sisters... I was sure I saw them being engulfed by that light, did that mean they also got transported to this... place? But where were they? In fact, where was everyone else?

"....Shit."

It was bad enough for my parent to sell our house just to pay for my medical bill, and now they must also deal with the fact that all of their children were missing?

I took one last deep breath and I forced myself to stand up with a groan. I didn't if this was because of the shock, the fear, or because I had exhausted all of my stamina but I swayed forward like the bones on my knees were gone.

Sure, things hadn't been great lately for me, but that hadn't made my existence so intolerable that I was not going to try everything that I could to make sure my family was safe.... and I stayed alive.

Yeah, as long I could be asserting some kind of control over my... condition, If I could manage that, well, I could stay alive and manage the rest. At least that was what I kept telling to myself.

But before I searched for them... there were two other things that I should search for now. Water and food. Yeah. I should focus on searching for water and food first. 

Then again, I didn't read much book or manga but I knew in this kind of situation if I thought status screen or something like that wouldn't they...

Level: 1

Job: N/a

Stamina: 1/10.

Mana: 2/2.

STR: 4

CON: 2

AGI: 3

DEX: 6

MAG: 2

RES: 5

Status: 

Congenital Heart Muscle Deficiency (+100% Stamina consumption. -50% Stamina regeneration. -50% Maximum Stamina.) 

Heart Arrhythmia (+50% Stamina consumption. -20% Resistance to Dizzy status.  -50% to all stats when being surprised or panicked.)

Passive Skills:

Archery Lvl 4 (You are proficient at using a bow. Able to learn up to Lvl 4 Active Archery Skills.)

Language Lvl 1 (You are able to understand and speak Common Language.)

Active Skills:

None

Special Skills:

None

My heart literarily stopped beating for a second when the screen appeared.