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When I awake, my body feels very light. I’m awake in an unfamiliar place. The roof supported by pillars might reach 5 meters away. The pillars and walls made from some unknown materials. I have never seen such material. It looks like a transparent gold but could block sunlight and sometimes the color’s changed into dark red or dark blue.
“So you are all awake.”
From the sounds of it, looks like I was not the only one here. Then I looked my surroundings, around me I saw two boys and a girl around my age. One boy looked like Japanese with a wavy brown hair. He wore a black polo shirt and short jeans. The other boy looked like a foreigner with his blue eyes and blond hair. He wore a bluish white t-shirt and jeans with him. The girl also looked like Japanese. She had a long straight black hair with twintails. She wore a long pink gown and white leather jacket.
“Ughh––“
“Where is this?”
Looked like they also did not know where they are.
“Welcome, Hero-dono. I, Lord Franz III, am the one who summon thee into this world. You shalt become the sword of our people.”
An old bearded guy who looked like the King of this place announced himself that he’s the one kidnaps us here. For now I’d just listen to them.
“We of Azarikh Kingdom are one of the 3 big Kingdoms in this continent. Just now, Rukh Kingdom, the smallest of the big three just waged a war against us. We confirmed that Rukh Kingdom got the backing of the entire small Kingdom. It can be said that they are making alliance to confront us.”
“…To simplify, you are chickening out from the fact that war is about to begin, and thus summon us out of nowhere to calm your mind?”
“Wha––!”
One of the boys beside me speaks out what also in my mind.
“You insolent brat! How dare you speak like that to Your Highness! If you are not the summoned hero, you are already dead now!”
“But that’s the fact. Normally, when you are to summon heroes from another world is when you are already in a pinch or there are demon lord around, isn’t it? In fact, you summon people just because a war is about to happen, that means you are fail as a King. Then again––“
“Shut up.” The King said in disgusted manner. It’s like he saw a talking trash.
“What? Now you––“
“I said shut up. Guard, behead him right now.”
“What?”
“Eh?”
“Y–you can’t be serious right, you just ordering to kill a hero you know. The world cannot be saved if one of the heroes missing isn’t it?” the boy said panicky while waved his hands around. Cold sweat could be seen all around his face.
“You said earlier, this is just a war. I don’t need a complete set of heroes here, three faithful generals is more precious than four brat. Plus, I can summon heroes whenever I want. We have a God-class sorcerer here.”
“What the hell. That’s impossible. Heroes summoning can’t be that simple.”
“You bet. Now, prepare for your death.”
The guards rush toward the boy from behind.
“Wai–––“
After that, the King gave explanation about what will be of our role. The other boy’s body and head taken out by the guards, leave the three of us “heroes” in a confused state. And then we had to wait in another room for the Weaponitation ritual. ––I don’t know what the hell is weaponitation, I guess it means about selecting our heroes weapon, right? ––
“What the hell just happened… Suddenly transported here, suddenly killed. There is something wrong about that so-called King.” The foreigner boy stomped his feet around. “What in the world would happen to us I this is continued? I was just unable to understand the logic here.”
“But the fact that we cannot do a thing makes me more frustrated.” The girl just sit in the corner in frustration.
Then the three of us sat down in the sofa prepared on the corner of the room. The room is sized about 8 tatamis. Pretty small for a castle’s waiting room. Then again, I don’t know if this is a real castle or not.
“For now, let’s just introduce ourselves. My name’s Yuuko Nana, 19 years old. Just call me Nana. Oh, and I was a maid~!” the only girl of us three introduced herself. I thought I should too. And who cares about her being a maid.
“Then, my name’s Kuroki Saito, 18”
“Hee~h. What a boyish name. I don’t hate it though.”
What? But I am a boy…
“Then my name’s William Lionel, 19 years old. Nice to meet ya.”
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Just then I realized my voice earlier seems different from usual.
I tried to look at myself after I got a little further away from the others.
I touched my face. It didn’t feel different from usual. I knew I got a pretty face myself, but it alone didn’t make me looks like a girl.
Then I feel my hair. My straight hair became much straighter. And the length, It reach my back! I don’t know why, but somehow my hair becomes longer. And the color changed into chestnut brown.
I look at my body. Somehow my waist becomes smaller. And I see a small bulge in my chest that should not be there. Don’t tell me that’s––
“What’s wrong?”
Suddenly William broke my thought when I tried to touch my chest. I didn’t realize since when did he get so close to me.
“No–Nothing… Just, my body feels different.”
“I knew right! My body also feels a bit heavy here. Might the different of atmosphere here and earth.”
“You said this is a different world then? Like, a Parallel worlds? Like in comics or Light Novels?”
That’s right. This feeling was definitely not a dream. But then, this also didn’t feel like our previous world. The only possibility left were only either we time slipped into another time line, or we transferred into another world. In novels and games I had read, this only means––
“That means the genius me had summoned to save this world, huh. Not bad.”
““Genius?”” both of them asked at the same time. But I didn’t care about them and kept in thought.
“Then the first thing to do is to secure our way home.”
“What do you mean?”
“And what do you means by genius?”
“We should ask whether we could go back to our world or not later, right?”
“Yeah. Then we should also decide whether we can put our trust on this kingdom or not.”
“Hey, what did you means by genius back then?”
“I don’t think I can. He killed that one guy like a trash, right? I don’t think that kind of people can be trusted.”
“You are right. –Heey, answer my previous question, would you?” the ignored maid finally raised her voice angrily.
“I thought so too. But we cannot do anything at the moment. We can decide later after our position is secured. After this ritual, we will get weapons on our hands, and then we will decide. At least, we should always stick together.”
“As expected of the self-proclaimed genius. Maybe you really are a genius, after all. Hahaha…”
We continued our chat after that. It looked like Nana also Japanese like me, but she lived in a maid café where she worked in Akiba. Because of family circumstances, 2 years ago she ran away from home and somehow got recruited in a maid café. That’s not really strange, because she’s cute, light-hearted, and always smiling. Not to mention a huge racks in her chest. She got teleported here when she’s about to working. William was a foreigner. He lived in Australia and only knew English, but why would three of us able to communicating easily like this? He was a college student and about to went overseas due to holiday, but got transported to another world instead in the way there. He’s tall, about 180 cm, a feet taller than both of us. Looks like my body got smaller here.
––And thus, the Weaponitation Ritual started.
The ritual placed in a hall full of magic circles. In the middle, there was a huge magic circle, far bigger than the others. A small altar placed itself on top of it. The king stood on top of the altar holding a golden sword. People covered in dark robe surrounded the hall, read some kind of spell harmoniously.
The guard behind us told us to come to the middle and made a prayer in front of the King.
“Come forth, and receive your judgments upon yourself. Give your soul a shape so that it will protect you and become your sword to slain your enemies.”
I decided to come in front first. I placed myself in front of the King. The King raised his hand and put the sword horizontally.
“Thus I prayed, thou art heroes of the Land of Myth. Break your soul and make anew. May your journey be blessed by Kurishaten and may your righteousness and justice protected by Nushrigruya. Come!!!”
The golden sword suddenly stabbed into my body, but it doesn’t hurt at all. The sword pulled afterward. From the place the King stab the sword, a light appeared. Suddenly my body feels burned from the inside. Blood splattered from my mouth, ears, and nose. Then, from the light, a shadow appeared in front of me.
––A long dagger shaped––