In the void in which nothing exists something unknown to anyone's knowledge or understanding, creating things form nothing, awaits the time for the future to tell what its course is going to be.

In depth of forest Pleiades, lies a small village in which resides a girl by the name of Alice Blackwood. Currently, she is in her house fast asleep.

She has pale white skin sliver hair and eyes, which she despises since it made her stand out and always grants her looks of fear for some reason. Suddenly a large bang is heard from outside signalling the start of a new day in the village. At this noise, Alice wakes up with a start and fell from the bed.

"Owww" she lets out a cry of pain.

Alice can feel pain in the parts of her body on which she landed on i.e. her left shoulder and that side of her head. She looked into a piece of metal she uses as a mirror and spotted a bright red patch on the side of her forehead.

"Dammit" she cursed under her ragged breathing. Even after so many years of woken up like this, she still gets startled by it. After that heads towards the bathhouse to freshen up and start his everyday life.

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After being woken up by the bell in the usual fashion and a hot bath, Alice got ready to go to the central hall for job distribution. In the Pleiades jobs were given to every adult every day, every adult has to participate if wish to stay in the village or they would get kicked out. Today Alice got "food gathering" written against her name. It is the job she hated most as it requires a lot of stamina, knowledge, strength and hard work.

After she went dining hall to eat and departed for her job. Even though there were people to grow food in the village, they still rely on the forest as their main source of food.

"Only if I can be free from this" she whispered in a low voice.

She always gets this job and knows the reason why, because the way she looks. She always thought if she is a good girl then everyone would accept her but it was long since she had given up on this dream. She only lives in the forest to survive in this world.

 Thinking of any way to get herself free from this place Alice wandered into the forest. After hours of search, she finally heaved her sack over her shoulder and starts heading toward the village when she heard a faint noise from a nearby clearing in the forest. She thought it could be a wild beast, therefore, she takes out her knife that has a short but sharp blade and approached the clearing.

But to her surprise, it was neither a beast nor any other creature but a human boy laying in the grass fast asleep.