"Should I just kill myself right now huh?" A young man asked, contemplating on how he had fucked up the semester, he looks around the McDonalds, and wonders if they're hiring because he doesn't think he'd get a better job with his grades.

"1.20; 1.50; 5.00; 1.00; 1.25; ohhhhhhhh, all your grades are good except math. Does your professor hate you?" the woman in front of him asked. The woman had long black hair and a thin figure, and wore a pink cardigan with a skirt.

"Well, kind-of. you see, in our computer science classes, I can always sleep when I want to, so having a Math class among all my programming classes, well… you could predict what happened" The man gave a deep sigh and leaned on  the table as he played with the fries in his hand.

 "The difference in professors is scary." He dipped a fry into the ketchup and ate it. "Dad's gonna kill me, he's gonna send me to the Military Academy for fucks sake"

"Ahhh, the difference between professors, huh?" The woman held up a finger as if she was counting. "In your CS classes you mostly get your marks from laboratory subjects, and this is where you are good at, and where you are mostly active." Then she raised another hand. "However, at Math classes, even if you are good in algorithms, you are always sleeping." Then she put both of her hands on the man's face. "In other words, everything is yooooooour fault, hmm! Hmm!" She happily hummed as she stretched his cheeks forming it into different and funny faces.

"I got it! I got it! so stop playing with my face!" The man scowled as he slowly placed his hands on her gentle hands "Ahhh, this makes me calm, don't remove it okay." Then he closed his eyes as if he was at peace. She just stared at the man in front of her, they have been going out for more than four years, and are as close as ever. They had started off as best friends and eventually became sweethearts. Reminiscing, she  couldn't help but smile, "Learn from the past, live in the present, plan for the future," she said, as she stroked his face with her delicate hands. "If you are depressed, you are living in the past, if you are anxious, you may be living in the future, so babe, live in the present, okay?" She smiled.

He closed his eyes and listened to her words. He blushed and felt warmth within his heart, like  he had hit the jackpot. He would turn against the world for her.

"There you go again, with your words of wisdom. You sound like a grandma you know," he said as he removed the soft hands on his face. He didn't let them go, and looked at her crystal-like eyes.

"I can't help it since I was raised by my grandma," the woman looked away and blushed as she said this.

"But that's why I love you. Thank you for being my strength, Ann," he smiled. She returned his smile, and they laughed together.

Andrei roused himself from his memories of Ann. It was hard to believe she was gone, that there was nothing left of her in the world except the memories he held deep inside his heart. She had been his everything, and she always would be. 

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A man is lying on the grass unconscious, he's wearing a camouflage jacket together with a white undershirt, he wore ripped denim jeans, and was holding his cell phone tightly. For modern-day earth one could say that this man's fashion style is Korean-like. The man slowly opened his eyes, revealing his black-colored irises, his face was worn-out and he had dark bags under his eyes.

As he opened his eyes he saw that the sun was shining directly at him, however the breeze was cold, and the green pastures on which he was lying on felt great for him. He thought that this was a dream and that his real body was sleeping and someone opened the window curtains.

"Brix, close the window curtains asshole, who do you think is paying the electric bills here" he said in a sleepy tone and then he closed his eyes again feeling sleepy.

"I have to merge the codes later after-all", but he suddenly got irritated, as sunlight for programmers is the archenemy, especially in near-deadline situations, and when no one dared to close the curtains.

"Wait, where the hell am I" He thought that the dream felt so real as he could feel the scenery he was looking upon - the fresh breeze, the sunlight that is not so hot, and healthy pastures around him.

This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report.

He thought that he was still dreaming, and pinched himself, "I have to wake-up, or the scrum master will kill me" he pinched again himself strongly, but it didn't work, he was still in the strange dream.

"I've been reading too many isekai novels, and now I'm actually trapped in my dream, how do I wake-up?" he reached for his pocket and looked at his phone, there was no signal nor wifi.

He picked himself up, "I guess I'll just enjoy the fresh scenery here, until someone wakes me up" but night came and still there was nothing, he looked at the moon but he felt surprised to see that there was two moons on the sky, and stars are so bright, unlike modern-day earth which has too much light pollution that the stars couldn't be seen, here millions of stars populate the sky, forming a beautiful scenery.

"There are two hypotheses, first I have been transferred to a parallel world, or this is a prank using the latest 3D tech the developer community had" and he looked at his body, "But this feels way too realistic, he touched the grass, smelled his hand and looked eastward, a few kilometers from where he was standing, there he could see lamp lights.

"If this was really another world, an AI wouldn't be able to talk like a real person, if I meet the people there, I might know what really is going on" he thought. Hoping deep within his heart that he has been really transferred to another world.

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"Hah….hah….hah, I guess… it's.. Hard.. for a… city person… like me… to… walk… 30 kilometers… on this… kind of… terrain" cursed Andrei as he walked on flat terrain, there was a road-like path where the grasses aren't growing and he was following this path, the path leads to the town. He was very tired, walking for hours, he participated in marathons in his younger age, but those marathons had water stops, this walk was hell for him.

"Ahhh, I give up" and he immediately fell to the ground panting, "There's no water…" he looked down tired with sweat dripping from his hair, then suddenly he heard a noise that sounded like a malfunctional wooden bike, he looked at the road he was taking and found that an old-fashioned carriage was running.

"Maybe I can ask for water" finally he had hoped that his thirst would be quenched.

But there was something strange, the carriages' coachman was sleeping, no-, he is unconscious and is bleeding on his gut, it wasn't the first time that Andrei have seen a dead person, so he immediately thought of a way to retrieve the man and maybe seek help to the townspeople while giving first-aid, but he lived too much in the city he didn't know how to stop the horses.

"Throw a stone? No it would make it run faster, what should I do?"

He remembered a series he always followed and remembered how they stopped their horses, and he tried to imitate it, as soon as the carriage was near him.

"Hoooaaah, Hoaaah" he shouted, "Damn, this is embarrassing" he thought, but to his surprise it worked, and the horses that ran, was only walking towards him after.

When the carriage was near him he quickly went up to the coachman and layed him on the ground, checked his vitals and found out that the man was dead already.

"I was too late" the coachman wore weird clothes, clothes that one could see in history books, 1700's clothes that were made of leather and skins that Andrei couldn't identify.

"I have to look inside the carriage, maybe there's still people I can save… and water" he quickly opened the door and found an unconscious woman of his age, he couldn't clearly identify her features because of the night, and  luckily this time there was no bleeding, but he had to check her vital signs. "Okay she has a pulse and she's still breathing" he stroked the back of her head, and looked at his hand "Okay no head injuries either" while he was doing this he heard crazy screams from the direction of where the carriage came from.

"Kill the witch! HAHAHAHA! Burn her at the stake!" The crazed men wore bronze helmets and shields and were carrying torches.

Andrei was smart and was able to cope up with the situation

"Apparently they are calling this girl a witch, and they went here to kill her, and they already killed the coachman, this is clearly not my world, even farmers had guns, while these crazy men have those crude weapons, but first thing first... I have to get out of here" he thought and looked at the coachman lying dead on the ground.

"I'm sorry man, but yes, I'll help you smuggle this woman to safety, if you died protecting her, I will make sure your sacrifice was not in vain"

Taking advantage of the night, he knew that he was wearing a camo-coloured jacket.

"Okay let's do this"

He hurriedly put the coachmans body inside and carried the girl in his arms, he had no time to look at her face, he immediately searched for a deeper ground,

"There found it" he threw a rock at the horses which surprised it and made it run, the terrain was plain but there were deformations that he could take advantage of, especially that the people chasing her didn't have flashlights, he ran towards his chosen ground, took off his jacket and layed flatly on the ground covering half of their body, but he discovered that the girl had a white complexion and was easy would really cause them to be found.

"There's no choice then", he placed his body on top of the girl, so that his black-colored jeans would also cover her feet.

"If she was awake she would really mistake me for the attacker and if she was literally a witch, I'm quite afraid that she would really kill me", Andrei couldn't help these thoughts  and sighed, as they were really in an awkward do-or-die situation in a very unfamiliar environment.

The horsemen finally caught up to their position, but the carriage horses had left minutes ago; however , one of the horsemen in soldier's clothes stopped and searched the area near them.

"The carriage stopped here, just in-case they escaped at these parts we will be able to catch them", the man said in a mocking tone.

"Don't sweat it, this place is plain, if they escaped we would have already seen them here, see?" Another soldier replied while riding his horse, he then got an extra torch, burnt it, and threw the two torches on each side.

 "See? Nothing, we need to hurry up and catch-up to the carriage instead you dumbass", the man who replied in a commanding tone was definitely their leader.

"Yes sir!" The man rode his horse again and tried to catch up to his comrades that rode farther than him.

"My Call of Duty knowledge worked HAHA" Andrei puffs out his chest, removed himself from the girl and then sat on the grass, he looked at the sky and realized that dawn came and the lights have died already, He saw that the girl was still sleeping, she had blonde hair, and white complexion, she wore a white long sleeve accompanied by a breastplate,kneepads and a skirt, it looked like that this girl was a warrior, she is unconscious but Andrei could notice that the girl was beautiful.

"Seriously, why do they want to kill an innocent-looking girl like her", he looked at the sleeping face of the girl on his side, still covered with his camo-denim jacket, he thought that she was cute, "But it wouldn't be really cute if she really was a witch and ate me for breakfast right?" he said to himself, then his vision started getting blurry, and he instinctively held his head, and told himself, "Yeah that's right, I think I'm really in another world", and then he fainted of dehydration.