It was white all white, what you ask my dear reader?
Well, for starters, the ceiling was white, the walls in the distance were white, the floor was white...Even the summer dress our dear protagonist was wearing was also white...And damn it was cute too...
She was taking note of the design to search for it at a later date, her shoes also were white, but to be honest she would rather use sandals...Aaaand they turned into sandals, a totally normal thing to happen.
"Oh, she is waking up...And she already ditched the shoes, told you sandals were the way" said a....voice? She was sure it sounded like static superimposed into gibberish, but she could somehow understand the language.
"Hmm...No one understands the classics, a dress should be worn with the right shoes," said the voice of a young woman? child? teenager? the tone and intonation somehow varied, but it was definitely female. Unlike the other being.
"...Do I need an adult?" asked the blonde girl, while gathering her bearings and searching for the owners of said voices, the first one that she found was...A thing.
It was a silhouette an androgynous silhouette. No way of determining either its age or sex. She somehow got the feeling that it was looking at her with an amused smirk on its face even though she couldn't see a face on that head.
"What? Like what you see?" asked the...Thing.
"She can't see you anymore, in her perception you look like a white silhouette, she can't even hear your tone, intonation, or voice anymore, your mannerism is being, parsed and made as neutral as possible too," said the woman, yes. She was a young woman, she could see that now more clearly at the very least.
"Well, that's boring. I mean, it's what I asked before going in. But that's still me right? " asked the other being, what it was talking about?
"What did you expect? You asked to leave everything behind, if it wasn't for the skill then she wouldn't even be seeing you" said the young woman, the headache that had been plaguing her mind was receding, slowly but surely. And with that, she could take in more of her surroundings. Like for example, she now could see clearly how the young woman somehow also had pink hair. lt was a lighter shade of pink closer to silver, but it was pinkish silver nonetheless.
"What are you two talking about? And did you kidnap me?" asked the protagonist of our lovely series, still fighting against the fog clouding her mind.
"Man...I got dumber after losing that much of myself?" asked the silhouette to the young woman.
"To be fair, she is still dealing with the backlash from the Ằ̷̪͈̮̲̞̖̼͙̠̠͖͓͔̈̓̉͗̾́̔̕͘͝k̴̡̛͓̟͓̼͓̠̬͉̻͒̈́̅͋̄̓͗ͅa̶̢̟̮̘̰͎̼̠͇͒̈́͂̽̓̉̈́̅̃̒̽͝s̸͕̩̯̭̪̖̩̼̥̹͋̾̈́̉̆h̷̢̨̝̼̘͖̣̳̻̤̺̣̦̲͇́́̆́̓͊̎̔͗i̸̡̭͉͕͎̼̪̮͇͋͝ͅc̸̨̻͓̹̰̿̒̈́ͅ ̵̦͉̼̓̃̀̕͠͠ͅR̶̢̤̰͙̯̥͔͎̹̜͇̫̾̃̄̾̿͌̕ͅȩ̶͉̖̖̰͖̩̭̦̳̞̩̰̀̉̐͊̀̚͜ͅç̸̛̻͉̻̖̪̭̹̞̤̤̳̝̱̑͆͒̀ó̵̧̯̞̻̦̬͔̦̳͇͚̇̃̄̋̚͜͝͠ŗ̵̛̞̯̗̺̞̘̙̻̮̱̮͙͜͝d̸̢̞̦͍̠̘͎̯͔̳͍͇͇̏͒̈̈̄̉ͅs̶̱̻̼͚͕̬̳͖̲̯̟͓̹͖̳̎̄͛̊̈̂́ ̵̨̬͈̬̼̯̝͕̤͎̝͙̥̀̉͊͋̚͜G̴̡̭̮̗̙̞̤̺̻̫͛̓̒į̴̨̨̪͇̭̳̫̿̐̀̔͌̌̀̉̍͝͠f̸̨͎̦̣͍͕̬̒̃̅̔̈́͛͋̽͂̚͜t̵̙̗͌͆͒͒͂,͎̪͙̟̺̙," said the young woman.
She was wearing a nice black dress with white accents, designed with a high slit on the left side to reveal her black thigh-high stockings.
The dress was also adorned with gold buttons and a white collar, complemented by black gloves and boots with gold accents. She also wears a black tiara with a red gem on it with a skull motif.
"You are me?" asked the blonde girl trying to look at the silhouette, she couldn't make heads or tails of it. She didn't even feel closenes or anything while trying to look at it. It was just...An alien androgynous thing.
"This was you before coming to this world, it is everything I took from you after you asked me for a fresh start without anything granted by me," said the young woman, now she finally remembered her.
She didn't look like this the last time she saw her, she couldn't remember how she looked, the memory just wasn't there...But then again, she did ask for this.
"So you are the thing that tried to scam me into a hero summoning, got annoyed because I didn't want, and then threw me out to a random world without anything?" asked the blonde girl finally free from the headache that was plaguing her mind.
For her part the young woman just smiled, she finally could see the last details of this...Being.
A pair of crimson eyes and a sharp-toothed grin, also she had a scythe because of course this thing that played with her soul and ripped more than 90% of her being (Even if she did ask for that) was cosplaying as a Grim Reaper.
"Well of course. We asked for a fresh start without anything of the bullshit Isekai Heroes usually get, who would want to be a Hero? They don't even get paid well enough" said the silhouette, she could empathize with that. Of course, she thought that she had asked for this kind of fresh start out of lazyness. Maybe there was more to it?
"And yet...I got a double awakening-trigger? Why did I became the daughter of the mother of magic and one of the fathers of powered? " Said the blonde girl showing her support for her past self.
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"Not my fault" was all the young woman said, a super dimensional being that was solely responsible for sending her to that specific planet, and she was claiming innocence?
"Bullshit" said the blonde girl, and then after noticing her past self didn't join in she sent a glare that way.
For their part, the young grim reaper and the silhouette just looked at each other, and after seeing how the silhouette didn't say anything...The grim reaper finally sighed and snapped her fingers, our protagonist prepared to defend herself only to notice how...A whiteboard materialized from nothing.
"What are Heroes?" said the young grim reaper while pointing at the board. Her scythe had transformed into a pointing stick and she now had a pair of glasses, great now she was cosplaying as a teacher too?
"Oh Oh. I know! " said the silhouette while raising its hand and moving from left to right on her seat...Since when was it seated?
She looked around and noticed they were now in a classroom...And she too was seated in one of the spots near the front of the classroom.
"Okay student 1, answer?" said the young grim reaper. Pointing at the silhouette with her hand, a smile on her face.
"They are pushovers that get scammed by super dimensional beings into doing their job and fixing their messes!" said with what sounded like a smile the silhouette.
She had to work too hard to eat her laugh since it was too funny of an answer, and it truly was the right definition, her Mother often complained about how she had been scammed when she was summoned to fix the world that right now was probably a mess of dimensional rifts.
"Correct! You only get half points for the answer since you only answered half of it though" said the young grim reaper while writing 'Pushover' on the whiteboard.
"Basically while they are the fixers for problems sent by super-dimensional beings, being those gods, devils...Sometimes administrators...Depending on the lore of the world in question, they are so much more. Why do you think they can do that type of work?" asked the young grim reaper. This time the silhouette didn't say anything.
"Because they are talented?" said the blonde girl, she knew her mother was talented at the very least. Since she started as a normal wizard before turning into the path of a magical girl and beginning her work as the Stardust Explorer.
"WRONG!" said the grim reaper. For a second she also looked like she was trying to not laugh.
"But most of the heroes are talented...There isn't a hero that doesn't have broken overpowered skills or Magics" came in her defense the silhouette. And it was true, as an example her mother was talented enough that she developed her spacial Magics enough that she could tear the dimensional walls and travel far without side effects (To her at least).
"They do indeed have broken overpowered skills...Most of the time" said the young grim reaper while looking at the blonde girl for a second "But that isn't because they are talented, there are a few that don't have real talents and just use the skills they were granted, your mother isn't a good example for this, she is indeed talented but her power isn't only because talent" added the grim reaper while drawing something on the whiteboard.
If their power wasn't because of talent then what it was?
"They are basically vessels, "Said the grim reaper, she had drawn three persons in the whiteboard. To the left was a normal person, and in the middle was another one but it had below it the words 'Talented' and to the right was someone with the drawing of a battery inside of them, and below were the words 'Vessel', the young grim reaper smirked and carried on saying "They have an abnormal space on their soul, and in that space, we shove stuff as needed. If we need more mana in that world, we shove it to the brim of Mana and send the vessel, at arrival the mana burst opens, and as a side effect said 'Hero' now has an exceptional 'talent' for magic or whatnot " as she was saying that, the grim reaper drew a few circles and wrote mana in the first one.
"If the world needs a special skill that no one has, we shove that skill in the vessel, mark it as either auto-active or conditional activation and send the hero in" In the second circle, she wrote administrator rights "As a side effect, said hero now has exceptional learning talent for the skills of that world, and he can learn some nasty stuff" and after that, she wrote a note at the side 'Broken overpowered hero'.
"And finally, if the world just needs saving advancing, or development, we grab a Japanese justice wannabe, his childhood friends (With at least one cute girl) a random passerby and then ship them to the king of one country in that world. Your mother was one such case...She was the random passerby, man that didn't end well..." At this, the young grim reaper wrote 'Standard Isekai plot'
So she was aware of the cliche of this whole shenanigans?
"Usually the last one is made for entertainment for them. Mother was summoned to a world that didn't need saving or anything, so the background check wasn't that good. She was also more talented than the hero...That in itself is a cliche but since this thing wasn't paying attention to her and was just peeping on the hero's harem. Mother managed to get away from this thing's clutch...And she ripped the dimensional barrier making that world an endangered one" added her silhouette.
"And that in itself is fine too! We all love a good plot twist here and there...The problem here isn't that...But you" said the young grim reaper.
"Me? I didn't ask for anything...Did you shove something on my vessel before throwing me away?" asked the blonde girl glaring at the grim reaper.
"Nope, your original mission was to fix the world your mother messed up. But since it required a more delicate approach...We needed someone willing, so since you didn't want to fix it...And I took you out of the circle of transmigration...I took what you didn't want so you could have a fresh start and just shoved you on your way to a new start. Nothing was added to your vessel" said the grim reaper.
Her silhouette also added "And since I'm no longer part of you I can vouch that she didn't add anything. I was conscious during that whole endeavor, after arriving in our new world I was sublimated into your soul to nourish our new life, and most of 'Me' was turned into talent and strength for your body...You could say your transmigator bonus was a few extra stats and extra talent" so that's where the extra points in her status came from.
"Then my double awakening-trigger event?" asked the blonde girl.
"That...Was the gift from the. Hmm...let's say, god? Yes, the local god of your new world" answered the grim reaper "When your soul arrived in that world it read your original fate and since it was one of my people, it found it amusing and so, it shoved you into the Stardust Explorer's womb and gave you...That..." said the grim reaper while pointing to something behind her.
She tried to look behind her but there was nothing but an empty classroom.
At least till the silhouette that symbolized her past life snapped his fingers, taking her attention to that.
P̵̡̢̡̛͚̝͓̭̠̺̆̾͊̏̊ŗ̶̡͈̟͛̈́̐̋̎͊̓͝ọ̶̡̢͓̖̩̱̯̍̏̐̂̅ĺ̸̛͈̰͎̐̈́̋́ī̵̡̝̫̮͚̜̯͍̯̓͛̆͂̾̕f̷̯̟̳̰̈͌̐̂̔̆̋͋̽ē̸̺̖͙̤̲̖̭̯̳r̷̨̡̛͎͚̳̣̤͘̚ḁ̶̢̧̜̬̄̀̂͗͝t̸̥̜͚́̚i̶͈͉̙͊̾̀͜o̷̗͚̻͍̟̹̝͔̍̑̓̇͒̽̆̽̕͜n̴͕̞̺̯̮̯̽̇͌̽̔̾̕
"I'll take this for now," said the silhouette while physically grabbing the blue box with garbled letters.
"What is that?" asked the blonde girl trying to summon her status screen, but not having much success on it.
"That is my problem now, and nothing that you should worry about...For now at least. Not that you will ever need this thing anyway...Or could use it" said the silhouette before walking to the door of the classroom and leaving the room.
"Anyway, just called you over to fix this as part of the deal I made with my new familiar," said the young grim reaper pointing at the door from where the silhouette had exited the door.
"I became your familiar?" asked the blonde girl flabbergasted, she would never do that.
"No, the remnants of your soul that couldn't mix well and got awakened by the A̶̟̝͐̏͠k̷̛̝̳͒̌̈́̈́̅͛̆̐̐͝͠ǎ̸̫̈́s̵̨͔̀̒̓̈́͋͠h̸̘̦̳̻̱͕͚̭̭̩͇̄̾́́̇́̃̐͂͛͛̚͜ͅͅĩ̶̫̥̱͍̞̙̰͕̣̥̤͈͖͉̿͝c̵̺̭̿̊̀̅͆̈́͋͛̏̅͂̕͘͝͝ ̴̢̨̗͕̩̞͙̌̈́͗̑̇̃͒̒̍́̑̐̍ͅR̷̮̻͖̟͋͗e̴̡̙̻̱͉̲̦͉̹͔̝͍̼̎͒̈́̈́̊̌͒̈́͒̒̃̄̕ͅͅc̶͈̣̼̣̙̺͕̺̈́̑̈͛͛o̷̘͊̎́̓͝ṛ̷̺͈̈́̓̈́ḑ̵̹̥̪̺̉̃̏̎̃͑͝s̴̭̙̬͚͚͇̋͒̾̂͛̈́̂̓͝ͅͅ meddling became my familiar. " Said the grim reaper.
"It was that or death, so I think it was a good deal for..." said the grim reaper snapping her fingers and returning everything to how it was at the start. Now she was again in the white room, just alone with a grim reaper. Nothing dangerous at all.
"Not a good deal for you, but for ᅨ̷̹̼̜͙̯͐͋͑̑̃͐̍ཀྵ̷̶̛̛̛̼̺̹̪͖̖̮̟̦̅̈́̌́̊͆͂͑͛́̏̉̽̒̿̽ͅ" it was the best one to hope for. Have fun explaining to your friends, teachers, and parents what happened to you by the way ♪" added the grim reaper snapping her fingers one last time.
And then a bright light flashed in front of the blonde girl before losing her consciousness again.
...Maybe she needed more iron on her diet to prevent these faint episodes?