""Eh?""
The girl and the boy whose names I don't know, gazed at the blonde girl, while having dumbfounded looks on their faces. Meanwhile, I just kept my usual expressionless face, although I do think that this situation is very bizarre. I mean, who would suddenly expect to get transported to another world. Others may have gotten happy about being in this situation, while others may have gotten angry or surprised… But, I honestly didn't care that much about it, although I am kinda sad that I didn't have a chance to watch the anime that was airing today.
"So? Why have you called us in this world?"
I said so in a rather cold voice, and everyone in the room looked confused for a moment. Probably because of my tone, or the way I said it. After a few moments of silence, the blonde girl regained her composure, and called out to us.
"Ahem, I'm really sorry for suddenly calling you here, but we honestly need your help. Our-"
She got interrupted by a person that was wearing a robe, and they told something to her. Soon, she continued talking to us.
"Ahhh, that's right, I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Alice Velvet, and I am the second princess of the Empire Velvet. We have transported you here, beacuse we would ask you 3 to defeat the demon king. He is gonna revive in 5 years and we will need to fight with him. He already massacrated us 1000 years ago and still continues to torments us even to this day."
"What the hell?"
As Alice finished saying this, the girl said this at once.
"What do you mean suddenly transporting us in a place we don't know to kill the Demon King for you? Who do you think you are? C'mon, get us out of here, and transport us back to our original world."
"Hey, Rei, calm down for a bit."
"How could I calm down?! I won't be able to meet my friends anymore!"
Apparently, the girl that's named Rei said so. The boy desperately tried to calm her down but miserabely failed. What I saw from their exchange right now is that the girl has a really bad temper, she had long orange hair, and her eyes were also orange. She was dressed up as those girls that were being called "Gyaru" these days. She had an angry expression on her face and desperately took some breaths, as she spoke very, very quickly.
The boy however, had a relatively calm expression, as he tried to calm down Rei. He's appearance is similar to those ikemen you would often see in anime and manga. He has a relatively short haircut, his hair was blonde, he had a undeniably handsome face, light brown eyes.
"Everyone please calm down."
Alice said that in a rather loud voice, asking them 2 to calm down.
"Once you have killed the Demon King, you can either choose to remain in this world, or you can return back to your Original World. Fortunately, if you choose to go back, these 5 years and more than you will pass here will be only one moment for you. We have made a contract with the goddess, and so, we can offer you this offer, naturally if you choose to stay in this world we will give you a huge amount of money so that you can live a good life. Of course, meantime you're here, you will be treated as nobles, that's the least we could do for troubling you."
"I understand, now we're talking."
"Phew, she finally calmed down…"
Alice said all that, and Rei started behaving like a normal girl. The boy looked very relieved as if he didn't like her acting with that attitude. All of this happened, and I felt, as if I just had to ask this question.
"Okay, I understand what you're saying but why were we chosen?"
I asked this in a rather neutral voice, because I thought I no longer needed to speak in a rather offensive way. I really understand what they're saying, and as we have no other choice than to oblige with what they're requesting us to do, I quickly adjusted to the situation. This is one of the few good things about me. They did say that I was pretty smart, and that I could do well in life. Hahaha… I laughed in my mind in a self mocking manner while waiting for Alice's response to my question.
"That's because you 3 are the most qualified people for this request. We have no power over who we can bring, that's all left to the Magic to decide. It can either be because you guys are smart, either you have a lot potential, or because, something that will happen in this world would change you or those around you. There are a lot of many other things that the Magic Circle could choose from. But I can't really say based on which one it choose you. Anyway, leaving that side, why don't you all introduce yourselves?"
"I see. That makes sense."
"Then I'll go first! I'm Rei Shibata, I'm in my second year of high school, basically I'm 16 years old. My hobby is fashion of course, as you can see, from my beautiful choice of clothes. I'm also very popular among the girls and also the boys. Anyway, nice to meet y'all."
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"Gosh… That introduction…."
He said this while heaving an exaggerated sigh. Then he continued…
"I'm next then. My name is Haruto Arata, and I'm Rei's classmate. I'm also 16 years old. I enjoy hanging out with people and have fun with them. You can call me Haruto. Glad to meet you all and hope we get along! Well then, what about you?"
What a typical riajuu behavior, he looks the part too… Anyway, he asked me a question so I may as well respond to him.
"My name is Haru Nakamura, I'm in my 3rd year of high school. Nice to meet you."
All I said about myself was this. They don't need to know any more than that. Even though we will be partners for 5+ years, I don't plan to form an actual friendship with them, or anything among those lines. This is how I lived up until now, and this is how I'll continue to.
Leaving all that aside, they appeared to be pretty surprised at my really short introduction. And Haruto said this.
"Nice to meet you, Haru! Hope we can get along!"
"I won't promise anything."
I coldly said this, and Rei looked pretty offended about me speaking that way to her boyfriend, because not long after…
"Hey! Speak to him with respect! Why do you have to be so cold?"
"In the first place, you guys are my kouhai right? I don't necessarly have to speak to you with honorifics. Speaking of talking with respect, that's what you should do instead of me. Second of all, I have no intention of getting along with you all, but that doesn't mean that I won't take part in the subjugation though. Sounds pretty fun to finally kill some fucks. I'm not attached to the previous world per se, but I would prefer watching anime instead of living in a place like this. Seems similar to the medevial ages, so the only fun thing would be to train and kill monsters, right? I'm saying this right now, for all of you to hear. I am going to be the one killing the Demon King. He is my prey, and I won't let any of you touch him."
I said this in an arrogantly manner, but I seriously meant that. The Demon King will be killed by me. Everything that happened till now sounds like a fun game. Hahahahaha.
"Pretty arogant aren't we? Oh, sorry, I should have spoken to my 'Senpai' with respect, right?"
"Both of you, calm down. Let's leave all of this behind and continue talking about the matters at hand."
As me and Rei were verbally abusing each other, Haruto quickly stepped between us. Speaking of which, Alice had a really astonished look on her face that I thought was pretty funny.
"Ahem. Right. I should introduce you to the Emperor and the Empress and we'll go on from there. Ah, I also forgot to introduce my trusted friends and subordinates."
As she said that, she quickly started introducing the 3 people who were being hid by robes.
"This is Sara and she is my most trusted maid. She has been serving under me for a few years already and she's very capable. If you need anything, you can ask her and she'll help you."
Alice said that and moved her face to look at her, Sara then took away her robe, and while doing that she glanced at me. I wonder why… Leaving that aside, the first impression that I got when I saw her was that she was in her maid uniform. She looked as if she was in her 20s, she had a relatively semi long black hair and had black eyes.
"Greetings, my name is Sara. As my master said I'm her maid. If you need help with anything, please ask me anytime."
She gave what I could call a lovely smile and bowed once again.
"The second person I want to introduce you is actually the best mage in the world in this century. Her name is Yui, and she is the one who is going to teach you guys how to use magic."
She whispered "I'm really not the best…." in a very low voice, coughed once and then….
"Hello, I'm Yui. And as Princess Alice said, I am going to be the one who will teach you how to use magic."
As she took off her robe, I saw a relatively short girl, I'd say that she is about 160cm tall. She has light orange hair and light blue eyes. Based from her looks alone, if she was in japan, I'd say that she is a middle schooler. So, because curiosity got better off me, I decided to ask her.
"Hey, are you about, 9 years old?"
That's what I said, I had no ill intentions behind my innocent question, but when she heard that she quickly began to look annoyed.
"No! I'm 17 years old this year! Why do you think that I look like a kid?!"
She said that as she began to quickly blush and by each second she started to get even more pissed off. I guess I 'stepped' on a landmine there. Damn.
"Well, it's because you look like one? What do you expect me to say? That you look like a goddamn 20 year old with that body? Come on, get real."
"What did you say?!"
Yui said that as if she finally snapped. Besides Yui, apparently Rei disliked it too and also decided to join in on the 'fun'.
"Hey! Stop acting so fucking full of yourself, man. You're really pissing me off!"
"Yes, I do think that you've went too far but let's all calm down, okay?"
Rei quickly swore at me and Alice also jumped in to attack me. Or more like calm things down. But anyway, I don't see why I shouldn't counter attack, so I may as well.
"Yeah, just shut up, bitch. I told you to speak to your senpais with respect. Also, could you stop acting please? You pretend like you are a 'good' and 'cute' girl in front of your boyfriend. But the only thing you're doing right now is to break off that image of yours."
As she heard my words, she quickly began blushing. And….
"Who is my boyfriend?! Haruto and I are nothing like that!"
She shouted this, and Haruto began looking a bit sad.
"Oh, so you two aren't a couple? Damn, that's tough. Just get together already."
I said this and Haruto quickly replied while blushing.
"What?! Me, getting together with her? No way!"
This time, it was Rei who seemed sad. By the way, Yui still glared at me but decided to stopped bickering with me and took a few deep breaths. Probably, because she thought she couldn't beat me in arguments.
"Anyway, we're getting side tracked. Here is the last person I want to introduce to you, this is Chika. She's my very good friend and she is also a prodigy at magic."
Chika quietly took off her robe and looked at us. She had pretty short pink hair, and pink eyes. Her gaze didn't divulge any emotions as she quietly said.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Chika."
Alice quietly stared at her, as if telling Chika with her gaze to add more to her introduction, but apparently Chika didn't want to.
"Nice to meet you Chika, Yui and Sara. Let's get along."
Prince charming said that as he gave a radiant smile. Rei didn't look too happy about that but decided not to comment about it.
"Hey, let's get along."
And she quietly said that as she gave them a glare for a split second.
"Yo."
I said that and Alice decided to continue what she had to say.
"Alright, now that everyone introduced themselves, let's get going to the King's Throne room."