This is much more pleasant to look at.

-Oh, you're awake!

-Yes...Wait.

I try to lift my body, but as soon as I do that an excrutiating, tintilating pain flows across my head, as if a blacksmith is forging an irregular path of metal plates in my scalp.

Two hands with soothing, soft skin find their way to my arm all of a sudden.

-Don't push yourself. I'm sorry, it was my fault.

I move my neck a few inches, just to have a look at who was adressing me.

To my shock, my eyes meet two reptilian ones. I must have externalized it, because that person looked at me with shock and a slight hint of incomprehension of what to do.

I really don't know what else I can do except grasping the moment, even if this can't be defined as real, so I jump out of bed, faster than my nervous system can keep up to have a good look.

What I assumed was skin was, in fact, scales, blue with purple lines throughout, they don't quite feel like what you would expect. Only the face resembled that of a human. He seems to be very fit, I'm kinda jealous.

He came to me and lowered his head, I followed the gesture, only to find a huge centipede twirled around my exposed torso.

I'm sorry, but I can't see you as cute with all of those legs.

I ran, almost broke through the door, adrenaline moved my legs, not my brain, I can't take it off.

The hallway is long, it feels like a maze in here, being trapped with no evident exit, so I sit down to catch my breath. I can see some more light, it's an opening, good, all I could see were trees, maybe I can get some answers.

There is a staircase that leads to what appears to be a dining hall.

I need to make some recon.

One figure immediately grabs hold of my attention, silver-white long hair, a cape and claws, just like what I saw yesterday.

It suddenly turns around and looks at me dead in the eyes, it feels like my soul is being sucked out of my body.

I just stand there, planted on the floor, while she runs to me. She hugs me.

-Good morning.

-Good morning.

-Come.

She takes me by the hand to the table and points me to a seat next to her.

The silence is heavy, so I grab hold of her hand, I think that I already cried all that I could, a simple gesture like this will, hopefully, deliver the message that I wish.

Footsteps are beggining to echoe in the distance.

-Tell me, I really need to keep this stuck in me, don't I?

She seems surprised, almost as if I am more ahead of everything than she thinks.

-Yes, Khanti is still crutial.

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Khanti?

-Cool name.

-Don't look at me, I didn't name him.

-Alright...-a distancing response.

I start to hear steps in the distance.

The noises are getting louder and louder, the tension is killing me, who is it?

There wouldn't be this much chairs for nothing, the remaining denizens of this mansion, if that's the correct term, must be coming over for breakfast, funny...why did I wake up right at the beggining of the day, it seems too convenient, like a writer who is too lazy to create some believable situations in his works.

The room was filled with life in mere moments.

Pointy ears...a fluffy tail...horns...fangs...even more scales, and cute ears.

What?-Is his only thought in the present.

He has made a new enemy, skepticism.

-I need to be sure.-as he gets up.

Fubuki seems curious and relaxed about what can transpire.

Getting trown for petting a red furred tail is something to expect.

-Jud!-Fubuki seems upset

So her name is Jud.

-No,no, I was asking for it.

She's strong, lifted me with only her tail without breaking a sweat.

Her tail...it seems to move very freely and is definetly part of her body.

-Hey, would you let me feel your wool?

-Sure

She looks embarassed, don't worry, I won't do anything stupid.

It feels just like a sheep, no, I never touched a sheep, but it's so warm, and I can't see any fractures in the colage work, any flaws, this is legit.

These elf ears seem real as well, fit right in the skull.

-I'm sorry Jud.

She seems to be cool about it.

-You just surprised me, that's all.

This inside looks almost perfect, the geometry of the architecture is top-notch. But there is just one thing that's triggering me. Right besides what I deduce is the main entrance is an armor. All white, with details of many colors spreaded troughout, it looks like someone vomited all of the existing colors on an empty canvas.

It isn't metal, not in the usual form, it's like a skin-tight metal suit, I can't see the efficiency.

I'm returning to my seat, it's disrespectful to be strolling around while everyone eats.

I'm the odd one out here.

-All right, dinner must be coming anytime now!-Declares Fubuki.

Dinner?

Two girls appear from one of the lower halls. They are wearing aprons on top of greyish hoodies with green lines that merge to form a fox on both of their arms.

The similarities are obvious, they must be related in some way.

The plates are set, alongside some entries.

Here they come.

They are looking at me with those bright orange eyes, I doubt that those aren't contacts, based on what I've already seen.

-We hope you enjoy our meal, Kirito-kun!

Their voices are hypnotizing, and I can swear their lip-sync is off, but I must be imaginig things now.

I guess she already introduced me.

The entries are blue balls. Literally blue spheres.

The flavor is a mix of mango, banana and sugar, like what permeates chips.

-This is good, what is it?

-Raertoi fruits.

Is every name going to be that hard?

-Right...

-Tell me love, how is Earth?

I laugh, a laugh of someone who tries to omit something.

-It's better if you don't know, really.

She was expecting something different but that will suffice.

-It's that bad, huh?

All of them seem to get along pretty well, I feel left out here, but it's natural.

The main dish is a bipedal animal with fins, a bipedal fish.

Yeah, this is definitively another dimension.

Turns out that it tastes better than what it looks. The bipedal relation is the one thing hard to look over.

And the dessert is Ramen. The content of the meal feel a little bit weird, and Ramen?

-A deep voice asserts itself in the space:

-It was Fubuki who taught them that recipe.

A chill is running through my spine, the armor sat down to eat, and it talks!

-You should have seen your face! How could you be so scared by him?

-He has a point,you know.-Says she, barely holding her laugh.

-I thought members of the anime club were more than that. Relax kid! Hentai is an art form right? Just like that AI taught us.

There isn't any motive for Fubuki to make someone impersonate one of our friends.

-There's been so much time!

-I missed you too. Seeing your scared face is always priceless.

-Let's talk about the sleeping arrangements.

As soon as she ends that sentence, I can feel something slithering up my leg.

-I wouldn't mind to sleep with him, I like him.

I just arrived and a snake girl already wants to sleep with me. It's not like I have something in mind, but it's too much pressure. I need a break.

-I...I really love flowers, I'm gonna check out the garden back there, it seems nice.

Fubuki looks like she could kill someone.

-Alright.

And I get up, carefully open the fragile looking sliding doors and run as fast as I can.

Looks very peaceful, I can hear some birds, and this air, I've never filled my lungs with air like this.

It's warm.

The Sun, this Sun, is so blinding that it doesn't even allow me to look up.

So it's like that huh?