"What's going on?" I asked without anyone in mind for an answer.
My whole body was overwhelmed with an enormous pressure giving me the filling of being oppressed and under the feet of a mountain. Shit, if the clichés are to line up, this should be the time I cough up a mouthful of blood. "Blaarg!" Damn! I had been wrong! Instead, I had vomited a stomach full of blood. Just by this alone I'm assuming that I'm having a very vivid dream... or could it be that I was just built different?
My vision was currently blurry, and so I shook my head in an attempt to stabilize my head. My thoughts were currently in disarray as my breathing became faster and more shaky.
*Clank* *clank*. The sound of metal hitting against itself could be heard as I shook my body. Mh? Are those chains I hear? Well fuck!
At this moment no one could really rival my state of confusion. Chains? Had I been captured? Yeah, sure. I've read of similar situations like this while reading some works of fiction, like web novels, manga and other eastern media but... what was I supposed to do in this situation?
A sense of anxiety and panic quickly began to fill up my conscious.
Fuck! Aren't I supposed to be attacked by a demon or some shit?! What if I get tortured to death because I was actually a side character who had been close to the MC? Did I know the MC? Or what if I get tortured into a state extremely close to death to gain some sort of demonic powers to become an MC? Damn, I didn't sign up for this! ... Well, at least give me something less generic!
My heart began to thump increasingly harder in my chest like it had turned into a set of war drums.
What would I describe myself? I guess I would call myself a 'closet otaku'? Well the thing was— I like anime, manga, web novels and webcomics a lot. I don't really display it in my everyday life though... like a hidden hobby...? Hmm... yes! I am special! Ho ho〜 imagine being an anime fan! Exactly! I am the renowned 'Anime Enjoyer'! Now kneel before me!
Wait, fuck! What kind of situation was I in again? Oh yeah...
Wait maybe it won't be that bad? What if it was actually a pretty sexy, busty and horny succubus on her lunch break?
I nodded in agreement with myself...
Indeed, Busty onee-sans were the best! Or perhaps a MILF? "Hehe..." I had a pretty perverse expression on my face as I was contemplating my options here. However, my perverseness quickly turned into rage.
"No! Fuck you! Do you think you can just knock me unconscious to steal some of this daddy's precious seed? Pfft! While you're out there screwing some 1-dimensional main character, you thought you could just take advantage of me like that?!" I was infuriated that this succubus had the guts to do such a thing to me while screwing another man! "Damn! I demand someone show me the tags on this doujin! I'll perhaps consider giving you my seed if it were actually a vanilla doujin where you had fallen in love with me, and with no way to express your love for me, you had tried to abduct me. Actually... no! That'd be a shitty story that no one would want to read! Unless... you're like... really horny...? or something I don't know..." What if it was actually a shy loli? Ho ho〜 this could be good vanilla material... a shy, vanilla, loli succubus... no, no it feels wrong now. Were there any better options?
Hol' up! What if I don't have options? Shit! What if I'm gonna get gang raped by a bunch of ugly bastards?
Oh shit, my imagination can surely bring me to tears sometimes! I had just had a win-win situation played out in my head where I would give a sexy succubus onee-san some of my seed for her lunch break— and it had completely turned into a nightmare of me being gang raped by the biggest— fattest— smelliest— and most fucking ugliest bastards this world could offer!
"Fuck! I'm sorry!!! Noooooo! Guys, I'm a minor! You can't touch me! I'm also a boy!" I hoped this could at least slow down the ugly bastards as I was really starting to sweat bullets. "My dad is the CEO of Pornhub! He'll ban your IP from entering the site!" I really began crying... "NOOOOO!!! I don't wanna get raped! Please, I'm sorry! This insignificant one is foolish!"
"This foolish one has eyes but has failed to recognize Mount Tai! Senior, please forgive me! I was courting death!" I began to spill out stuff I'd learned from reading lots of Chinese web novels in a last attempt to survive.
"SILENCE!" A loud and thunderous voice soon shook this entire place into a deathly silence.
Due to this thunderous roar— I had momentarily regained my vision.
Having a closer look, I noticed that this entire 'world' was being surrounded and covered by a blood-red miasma. From this it seemed like I was in the middle of it all, it all seemed like I was in a sphere... like I'd been trapped inside a blood-red crystal ball...? Those crystal snow globes...?
My right arm was currently being bound by two chains, my left by three, my chest by four, my neck by two and each of my legs had three chains binding them each.
Sheesh... a bit extravagant don't you think? Or did you just have too many chains on you...? Poor guy probably couldn't have gotten a refund on his chains... damn, Harvey Norman's sure are stingy nowadays.
As if reading my mind, almost instantaneously— the 18 chains currently binding me began to tighten on my body.
"Fu—" Before even giving me the courtesy to curse out loud— a magnificent presence descended upon this place.
I guessed it was the owner of that thunderous roar.
Just as I thought so— the miasma in the air closest to me, began to transform itself into droplets of blood which soon began to coagulate in a near solid-liquid state.
As these blood clots increased, it started to shape itself into the face of a demon.
It was no use describing the color of the demon as it was the same blood-red surrounding this entire world. The face was that of a frowning demon with three mouths and four eyes, two horns on its temples, and black and empty eye sockets. All three of its mouths were wide open as one tongue was wriggling outside each mouth while also showcasing its golden teeth with the inclusion of each mouth having four fangs each.
"What the—?" Before being able to ask any questions, or cuss— the demon in front of me had cut me off with five words.
"Find Me In Anthropology Museum."
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*Slam*
"Ahh!" I was suddenly startled awake by the slam of someone's hand onto my desk. Opening my eyes as I fixed my vision— a long and slightly above average sized and hairy male arm could be seen. 'the heck?'
I began looking around the classroom as I saw everyone was looking at me now...
" *Cough*, sorry Jack, but was I interrupting your sleep with my teaching?" The deep and masculine voice of my Japanese teacher could be heard reverberating in my ears. Shit! I fell asleep in Japanese?
Damn I must have been quite tired...
Though I wasn't really the studious type— I could definitely say that I really enjoyed having Japanese... well perhaps except for the teacher.
Yeah, I must say that I preferred my Japanese teacher from last year. Even though she might have been a middle-aged and somewhat strict white woman— I had learned a lot in Japanese while having her as my teacher. Though our current teacher— Mr Knight— was a good teacher, he had a really low level of tolerance, so even when I'd been quite good in the past 9 weeks of school, even just dozing off had ticked him off...
Mr Knight was not too different from last year's teacher as he was middle-aged, white and had spent about 15 or more years in Japan before deciding to come back and teach Japanese, and when we students would behave he would even—though rare— let us out of class early.
The only thing I didn't like about the old fart, was his different tolerance levels...
This is due to even though our class is predominately female— the girls being the ones who talk a lot more and cause trouble— get off slightly easier than the boys... Damn it, bro! You have a wife and kids! Your kids are probably even old enough to enroll as a student here while the other teaches.
Could it be that he'd figured out that 50 percent of his male students were weebs...?— except for me of course, as I'm the noble 'anime enjoyer'!
"Mhh? Oh... ahh! Yes— I mean no sir! I just went to bed late, that's all." I quickly responded while stumbling on my words.
Mr Knight gave out an exhausted sigh before continuing.
"Minasan, konnichiwa." (Hello, everyone.)
"Sensei, konnichiwa." (Hello, teacher.) Everyone responded in unison as it had become a habit to start off our lesson like this.
I was currently a year 11 student at Essendale State High School. My name was Jack Garden and I have daddy issues— Hey, hey fuck off! That wasn't in the script!
My family have just moved to Australia last year and I guess that— no... I'm pretty certain that I'm probably a bit of a controversial topic in my family.
I come from a French family with strong routes in England— well... that's on my mother's side of the family. My parents had met in the French Alps while my mother had been researching the geological structures of the closer mountain ranges, where she had met a man named Elliot...that's all I'll say about him. I don't even wish to call him my father in this lifetime.
I unintentionally clenched my fists as I began to feel upset.
Soon after meeting Elliot— my mother had gotten pregnant... what the hell was she thinking?
Though Elliot had disappeared just as quickly as he appeared, he had still left my mother heartbroken.
Even so... she'd decided against getting an abortion which I'd still be thankful to her until the day I die.
In the same year as my birth, my mother had met a man with a 2 year-old son. His son's name was Justin and the man had just been divorced for 2 years— the woman he'd loved divorcing him after the birth of the child, leaving the father and son on their own as the woman had been the breadwinner for the family, and the father had been a stay-at-home husband. In the following year— my mother had once again fallen in love with the man; one year later baring his child after marrying one another.
Holy fuck, mum... why does this story make you sound like an easy woman?
After spending 2 years with each other— the couple had later moved to East Africa for 12 years, where they had lived with their 2— uh... 3 children...
Yeah, surprisingly enough I hadn't been put up for adoption or anything of that sort.
However... I'd always felt different or alienated in my family.
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"Oi, Jack." The sweet and mellow voice of a girl was whispering to me.
Yes! Sweet and mellow! If you've live in Australia long enough, you'd know that the women of this nation— no matter how beautiful— don't sound mellow! Some may sound sweet, but I've never met a sheila with a fucking mellow voice!
Yes, this girl was a foreigner!
I lifted my head to look in the direction of the call. The person I was looking at was an adorable and petite Japanese beauty!
Her skin looked surprisingly pale and soft... I kinda wonder how'd it feel if I touched her body... it does look quite soft...
Her eyes were surprisingly big for her race, she had small hands and a nice oval face, black hair and deep brown eyes. Though from afar she looked quite ordinary— as I was quite close and literally sitting across from her— I could see everything. Well... that's if I 'accidentally drop' my eraser... showing of her nice curves.
'Sargent! It seems like we've found a wild 'Jade-skinned' beauty, sir!'
'Alright, soldier! Now, release the Virgin Sargent!'
'Wait... what the fuck was I going on about again?'
"What is it 'Liv?" I answered my fellow foreigner. Wait... foreigner? No! This place was practically home!
"Do you like, wanna walk to the train station?" Olivia asked me in a small voice.
"Uhn! I'll just have to drag my bike along as we walk." I responded.
"What are you guys talking about? Are you planning to ditch me?" A dejected voice could be heard from beside me.
"That's pretty much it, Ben." I responded as I looked at Ben as my face was radiating the pinnacle of seriousness— the peak of duty, responsibility and rightiousness!
"But you said we were gonna go buy some manga after school today..." Ben reminded me.
Shit! Was I slipping? Was I caught simping? No!!! I shall never turn into a simp!
"Oooh... yeah. I definitely need to see if they've got the new volume I was looking for!" I seemed to have quickly changed ships as I readily accepted Ben's offer.
Currently sitting at my table were Ben, Olivia and myself. We were practically inseperable *cough* slip *cough* and we were pretty much all best friends.
Olivia had a soft and sweet personality while Ben and I were pretty close to each other on our personality spectrum. Uhn, if either Ben or I were to switch genders— we probably would have been a perfect match.
Ben was currently also part of the volleyball club— he was the opposite hitter as I was the outside hitter.
He was pretty tall, had messy but school regulation brown hair, green eyes, an athletic build and he currently had circles under his eyes, not to different from my eyes, due to this— my walking around with Ben looked quite suspicious.
"Can I come with you guys?" Damn, Olivia, were you sent by heaven? I felt tears forming in the back of my eyes...
Just now I had been reminded that all three of us shared interests in Japanese media... why were female weebs so hard to find?
Damn, this feels kind of sad... but I'm too oblivious and engrossed in my youth to figure out why!
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