10 minutes ago

Earth

Luca, a 22 years old college student was moving towards his apartment after recently getting off the local bus. While he was on the sidewalk, he halted near the display window of a jewelry shop, not to peek at the jewelry on the display, no, he wanted to look at himself.

As he was checking out his new grey shirt and black pants, his black hair, and light blue eyes, he made a pout and slightly closed the eyelids practicing a sexy face, or what he thought looked sexy. This was all happening because in class while he was giving a presentation today few girls were looking at him, which got in his head. Why wouldn’t they look at him, it was his turn to be looked at for a slight chance to find a misstep or interrupt his presentation. So pure in his heart he is.

In addition to his clothes, he had no bag or a notebook in his hand that would suggest he was a college student, in the name of being a student, he carried his phone, house keys, and some cash with him. Not so serious I presume.

Back to the checking himself out marathon, he kept making different poses and checking even the smallest details about himself that he never did before until he realized the few flaws in his looks, all that arrogance and high and mighty feeling that he had built up so far vanished without any trace.

It was like a dead man came to life only to see his wife getting remarried and dying again. With a loser look on his face, he started walking and finally was moving towards his house. But yeah we gotta cover that 10 mins' worth of time so we aren't letting him reach his house so easily. Suddenly a meteorite appeared in the sky (just kidding).

(That would have made a good isekai trope: demise by a meteorite.)

Back to walking…

As he was walking his phone rang, it was an unknown number, and most people would hesitate before picking it up, but not Luca, he was rarely called by anyone. The only calls he received were either from the phone companies or billing authorities.

‘’Hello,’’ Luca spoke with his fullest energy.

‘’We are selling H-Fones at just 3 bucks, but if you can buy it for a thousand the rest will go to charity for hungry teens.’’

‘’Ahhhhh,’’ Luca screamed as he cut off the call, ‘’how do these scammers even get my number.’’

Yes, it was a scam, no way in hell it was going to be a girl from his college, just like what Luca thought before picking up the call. Furious he powered off his phone and placed it in his pocket.

‘I thought it was a girl calling me,’ Luca exploded in tears.

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‘’Look mommy, that old guy is crying like a kid,’’ a 5yo boy pointed at Luca.

‘Your mom is with you, so consider it your lucky day, brat!’ Luca glared at that kid.

The kid's hand went down in fear and he moved his head away trying to avoid eye contact with Luca.

'Yeah… That's right… keep your puny existence out of my business.'

In between that thought and new thought of what to watch while eating dinner Luca was enveloped in bright light.

‘I have rice for dinner, so a comedy movie…’

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‘’It's our new brand of perfume, wanna try it?’’

‘’F*ck no.’’

‘’Oh okay,’’ the man quickly closed the lid. His voice was sad as he dropped his head down and walked back to the place he was standing before.

Luca glanced at all of them moving his head around, ‘’who are you and where am I?’’

He asked the question he should have asked at the start, but the poor question was lost in the stench.

‘’We are the people who brought you to this world,’’ this voice belonged to a female, ‘’and as for where you are,’’ the woman opened her arms in a manner of showing the greatness of that world, ‘’where else can you be, at the marvel of the universe, the land of glory, the country above all worlds, Glorus… I mean Glorious.’’

‘’You don’t say,’’ Luca muttered sarcastically.

‘Definitely dreaming about some anime world,’ his mind was now more set on this scenario being a dream than a reality.

But that thought only lasted a few seconds until his vision got blurry, the reason was tears forming in his eyes. A new wave of unpleasant hell’s breeze entered the closed space of that hall, the source was that woman and the reason was her arm lift.

Rotten onions mixed with the burning garbage, that’s just an understatement of what Luca breathed in. Even though his nose was covered, the smell found its way through his mouth. It’s like life, life finds a way to screw with you.

This made Luca realize, this wasn’t a dream, ‘not a dream, otherwise my whole existence wouldn’t be violated.’

Seeing tears in Luca’s eyes, all the summoners were in awe. To them, Luca was moved by the praise of their world. Which wasn’t the case.

‘’Look he is crying.’’

‘’Our world is awesome indeed.’’

‘’Maybe he is moved by the way we are giving him respect.’’

Whispers, these were the words circling through them. Luca on the other hand was having a hard time staying sane.

‘’Was I… was I teleported here?’’ Difficulty in breathing now lead to difficulty in speaking for Luca, but he was eager to know why or how he was in a hell like this.

‘’Indeed,’’ a male voice came, followed by a second wave of stench as he lifted his arms as well. He and the people in his group were now under the impression that Luca liked this so much that it moved him to tears.

‘’Blech,’’ Luca had a strong sense of vomiting, though it was only a false alarm. The intensity of the stench reached a point that it was making him ill.

‘’Why… did you bring me… *blech*… here.’’

‘’We brought you here,’’ a second woman spoke while lifting her arms.

‘’To be our hero,’’ a second man followed her footsteps, continuing the dialogue.

‘’To be our savior.’’ All of them opened their arms and spoke unanimously.

This was too much for Luca to handle, with each arm lift one of his senses was leaving his body, first, his body began to shake, following that his eyes went blank, and lastly his mouth filled with foam.

He dropped to the ground with a few last words, ‘’guess humans can’t survive hell after all.’’

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*Slow and sad sound of acapella in the background.*

Luca’s eyes met a bright light once again, but unlike before this light was throwing daggers back at him. A white unbearable light. As the stingy feeling slowly depleted a white room appeared, it had no end or beginning.

‘Where am I now?’