Dizian Found himself in a pitch-dark place. There was no one other than him, it was creepy, that it gave him shivers. Is this a dream?—No a nightmare rather, he do remember dozing off in the sofa earlier.
Reaching out his hand hopefully able to grasp onto something. He walked and walked as he swayed his hand aggressively. What kind of nightmare is he even having? Or was this just a plain dream? Ah it's frustrating.
Suddenly, darkness started to fade once he took another step. A meadow was revealed, it was breezy that it made him rather relax. A girl then faded in she has a dark colored hair but with a hint of purplish color which can be seen once light reflected on her straight hair.
Slowly, he started to approached the person yelling repeatedly and once he was already close— the girl turned around and suddenly, white light suddenly flashed before him; with this he could not had gotten the chance to see her face, but he heard her voice, she was smiling as light started to took him.
"I hope you succeed... Dear player."
The voice was clear, but what does it mean? Player? Who? Him?
White flash once again faded to black, at this moment Dizian was floating in thin air, but he kept his composure. This is no time to be panicking.
Looking around it was again only him, at that moment and huge screen appeared in front of him.
Interface System.
An electronic Voice suddenly spoke, a screen then appeared loading 1 to a 100%. Dizian then jolted when a sharp cat like eye suddenly appear out of nowhere oozing out a blue light which started to scan him from head to toe.
Scanning complete. Welcome Dear player! Are you ready?
Something started to pull him, the force was exactly like a strong river stream, he tried to pull back but it has no use. What is happening, exactly?!
Dive in.
And with that, the force became stronger as it pulled him in completely, swirling as he vanished into nothingness.
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Dizian opened his eyes and squinted in the sunshine reflecting in through the window. He stretched, feeling relaxed than he had ever since.
With his eyes half open he started to observe the room he was in. Ah that's right, he fell asleep at the living room.
He stood up stretching once again, but suddenly, he felt his chest rather heavier than before. Does he have chest pain? No.
He slowly looked down to see an unfamiliar bump below him. Was his chest always this bumpy? He also then realized that his clothes was larger than it usually is.
That's when it hits him, he instantly looked for the bathroom and started to take a look at his appearance in a mirror above the sink.
Dizian gaped at what he saw, almost making his knee weak. How can this be? What kind of phenomenon is this?
He once again looked as he pinched, slapped and bump his head into mirror making it to crack as blood started to stream down from his forehead. This came to a conclusion, that, he was not dreaming at all!
Was he cursed? Or was this just a dream inside another dream? Ah, he doesn't know.
How can this happen to him? How did he turn into a girl?!
"What the hell is happening?" He muttered panicking as he went out and sat down heavily in the sofa.
His appearance changed, however, his apartment was still Intact.
Something struck him and hurriedly went went back to the bathroom. He cannot be mistaken, still how can this be?
How come he had turned into Luna, the female protagonist of the otome game he was about to play yesterday? What in the world is this?
Going back to the living room and eventually changing in his sister's clothes since all his clothing does not seem to fit this body. He was at least thankful his apartment stays and the things inside of it was still there.
He couldn't believe it, to think he'll really wear female undergarments one day just like Eva said. Does she have something to do with this, is she a witch?
Haaa.
Setting aside this unusual phenomenon, he just shrug it off and went to the kitchen to cook and be able to distract himself. He looked at the clock which was attached to the wall above a cabinet, It was still early, 6 in the morning at that.
"But seriously, how in the world did this happen. How can I fucking go back?" He grumbled, turning the gas stove on and heated up the pan and started to add oil. He then put the ingredients after another.
"Mmn~ that looks delicious, mind if I have one?"
"Sure, get the plates out then—"
It was almost natural how he answered it so quickly. He swiftly looked back up to see a naked glowing man floating into thin air drooling as his stomach grumbled while he was looking down at dizian.
"What in the world, is an LED man doing here?" He said with a sour expression.
"It's a Halo, you piece of— I mean that's rude!
What a bizarre scene. The man has the general average type of body, his hair was medium length long and he is as pale as a sick person. But really, who is this exhibitionist?
"It's too early for perverts to appear." Dizian mumbled.
"I'm a God, how dare you call me a pervert!" The man fumed, wriggling in the air and eventually bump himself at the ceiling.
"Really now? How believable, how did you get in even, I should probably call the police ime—"
"H-hold on!" He quickly stopped Dizian's hand.
"What?"
"Aren't you wondering why you're in that body?"
Dizian froze frowning at this so called God, does he have something to do with this?! Just thinking about it made him frustrated.
No, he needed to calm down, an issue wouldn't be settled if he will keep adding fuel to a burning fire. He sighed, as he pinch the bridge of his nose.
"Speak."
The two were now having a long conversation like old pals while eating. The man introduced himself as the God of Divine Love.
It is also said that all newly born God needed a trial for them to become an official deity. And as he was the God of Divine Love he choose to create an Otome Game which he taught would be an easy trial, but it was not exactly how he planned it out to be.
He had explained that the game handed to Dizian was meant for Eva. But this God did not know that dizian was buying it for his own and so this situation happened.
"Then Bring me back, you can at least do that."
"I can't."
"What?"
"I said I can't, see, once you have entered or had been already involved in a God's trial then you cannot go back, even if you want to, because returning someone before the trial has been accomplished, that God would vanish to existence."
"I don't really care, so get me out of here." Dizian said in a very dull tone.
With this reply, the God of Divine love cried and started to plead for dizian to stay and help him. He does not want to vanish so fast for he was just a newly born being.
He was bawling uncontrollably loud that it's making dizian to almost cover his ears.
Dizian really do not care whether this God would vanish completely. He is not a play thing, just like any other being he's also having life crisis of his own. But he was not heartless enough to leave this poor deity.
He shut his eyes heavily before sighing, giving out and irritatedly looked at the wailing God who was floating upside down
"Ah geez! Stop crying already and get down you crying like that is creepy! Fine I'll help!"
The God 's face lit up as a huge grin started to form. He abruptly Got into his feet, wiping the tears from his face.
"Really?!"
"I don't wanna repeat myself." Dizian replied, as he piled up the dishes and put it in the sink. Turning the faucet on he took a sponge and put a dishwashing liquid in it.
The God smiled, "Alright then, call me Agapius." He lately introduced. Floating again in thin air as he watch the kid doing the dishes, he couldn't help but chuckled.
"What are you laughing about and stop staring."
"Oh my, I've been caught. Well, I just thought—this wouldn't be bad, observing you so far I could say that you will be a great housewife." Agapius stated, it seems that this kid would fit the role.
But dizian turned around and glared at him. Him? A housewife? How ridiculous.
The God then coughed awkwardly, "T-then I'll fill you into the game. Ah! This game has only one copy for It was made by yours truly—but anyway," He said coughing as he clapped his hands together.
"There are 7 love interest as you already know. Your task is to complete all path of the game, and eventually fall in love with one of the interest. However, you can reduce or carve out the other men into position by setting them with other characters." Suddenly, Agapius shifted into a black cat with red eyes still floating in thin air. "The main scenario starts once you encountered all the love interest and—"
Dizian suddenly interrupted him, "Does this mean after getting into the main scenario I can already pair the others to other characters?"
"Uhh, well, you could say that."
"When?"
"Huh?"
"When will the main scenario start?" Looking into Dizian's eyes, it clearly screams determination. His heart was pounding so fast, of course he's excited, he badly needed to reduced the love interest before they could even fall for Luna.
"A week from now."
"Will there be some kind of like an entrance ceremony?"
"Oh! Correct, how'd you know?"
To think it would really be like those in Shoujo manga. Dizian is known to be uninterested in romance, however, he do like reading shoujo manga. He sometimes, steals Eva's manga collection when she's not home and read it all day long. But of course, he would neatly put them back to where he got them.
Something struck him suddenly. He became conscious of him being so calm and relax, why is it that he's just going with the flow?
Haaa.
"An entrance ceremony, huh?"
"That's right! Luna— I mean you will be entering as a Senior I at the Starlight magic academy! Isn't exciting?!" Agapius said as he circled around Dizian in his cat form.
In all honesty, he do feel somewhat excited and nervous at the same time.
Once he was done with the dishes, he couldn't help but think about his family outside this world. He wondered what kind of reaction are they making now that he's gone missing or will they forget his existence?
Remembering the things that happened yesterday, the man he encountered suddenly flashed in his thoughts.
Hmm?
Again, he realized something. If Agapius was the reason he entered the game then, was the tall tan guy also a part of this? He could see it coming but how can another human know this game if it was just a God's made up game?
His curiosity only went up as he continue to figure it out. Could that guy, also be one of the deity's?
Dizian swiftly grab Agapius by the neck which made him stop circling around and is now at the clenched slender hands of Luna.
"You..."
Agapius let out a shriek once dizian started to glare at him as his grasp became tighter. He felt so powerless at the sight of Dizian's fierce gaze. His tail started to curl as his cat ears went down and his whole body tremble.
Dizian could feel that the little thing in his hand was trembling so much. That's right, he realized that Agapius was now in an animal form. He sighed wiping off his fierce gaze and gently put the cat down.
Tsk.
Pinching the bridge of his nose he crouched down and started to talk.
"Hey," he started, "that guy, the one who recommended this game to me— is he connected to you?" He asked.
Agapius just started at him for sometime, but eventually got back into his senses.
"Oh that, that's me."
Time seems to stop, what does he mean it's him? Wasn't that man a model? An underrated model that is. Does this mean he's been in land longer than expected?
"What?"
"I mean you saw me shape shift into a cat, of course I could also shift into human."
"Then you've been here for a long time?"
"Oh no, no, no. I happened to saw that guy on what you people call cellphone, he was quite handsome so I decided to shape shift into him when I saw you three going inside my made up shop."
The so called unusual shop was actually just an illusion made by Agapius. This illusion was applied to all people in that city to make it more believable, although the items from his shop are real. He thought it'll be nice to give humans gifts, even though they don't know him.
Agapius was very excited when he first got a glance at Eva because the thought of she's perfect to be Luna. Her bubbly personality was all he needed to confirm that, 'cause to him that is pretty attractive personality. As to when he saw dizian looking for a Game Dvd that's when he purposely went to his side, pretending to buy some adult Blu-ray.
When dizian started to ask for recommendations, he panicked but luckily he heard some teenagers talking about a shitty Otome game with a fascinating plot which was 'Triple crown' and used that to get his attention.
After he successfully handed dizian the game, he was very much proud of himself and will just wait in the dimension realm of the game and is gonna wait patiently for Eva to arrive but to his surprise it was dizian who got in.
"Demigod is torturing me..." He muttered.
"So we were just fools who are entering into some shack. I want to kill you right now."
"Spare me oh great Dizian."
"..."
Dizian couldn't tell whether Agapius was being sarcastic or not. He went back to the living room followed by Agapius who was floating by his side.
As he got into the living room he lied down at the sofa reaching the remote at the table in front as he switched the TV on. Unfortunately, all networks and shows that was changed into magic related news and shows.
Dizian sat down leaning into the sofa, Agapius then followed him floating at his side.
"Luna has three friends," Agapius started. "Elaina and Josefina Aiken, they're twins. They and Luna became friends when they were 16 years old at the magic academy."
Suddenly, two blue translucent screen appeared as to when Agapius raised his little paw.
The screen showed information about the characters, however some contents are labeled as Unknown.
[Elaina Aiken
Age: 19
Date of birth: June 12 x567
Race: Half Elf
Magic: UNKNOWN
Background: UNKNOWN
• Other information [LOCKED] ]
[Josefina Aiken
Age: 19
Date of birth: June 12 x567
Race: Half Elf
Magic: UNKNOWN
Background: UNKNOWN
• Other information [LOCKED] ]
Those are what was written on the translucent screen in front of him. It was only natural for other major informations to stay unknown and locked. However, this made him kind of disappointed thinking that he would already have access to all of them.
"I need to work hard, huh." He muttered while still looking at the two screen.
"Of course!" Agapius Scoff.
Dizian could tell that this God would not make things easy for him. Is this a punishment of him for being so bitter in love and for rejecting people who confess to him? Does he feel guilty?
Infact, he does not regret things that he had already done so far in his life. Just like he always thought why would you date someone when you don't even feel like dating them? When your feelings for them are not that strong and was just only for admiration?
To him dating someone means that both party is ready for the circumstances that they will encounter along their journey.
"Love is burdensome."
Suddenly, he heard a gasp at his side. Agapius who has his mouth wide open and was wearing a disbelief expression. Was that statement really something to be shock about?
"You did not..."
"I did."
"Dude, who hurt you exactly?"
"No one? Look, I have no time for what you call love. I'd rather be unemployed and a rich bastard."
"Is that even possible?"
"If you dream of it then yes."
Agapius just couldn't believe it, to think such human like him exist. Someone is too bitter when it comes to love. Since agapius was just a newly born God, he only ever believed that humans is full of love but to think he'll meet a human without any interest in this emotion. But this only made him more determined to give dizian a love story he could never forget in his entire life.
Dizian stood up turning the TV off, "Right, didn't you say Luna has 3 friends? Who's the other one?" He asked, as he walks towards the kitchen counter which was just near the living room. Grabbing a slice of bread and heated up the kettle for him to make coffee.
"Oh that's right it's—"
Before agapius could even raise his paw to make the screen pop up, the sound of the doorbell interrupted him.
Both looked at each other. Dizian who was in the middle of munching the bread felt very nervous, he turned the kettle off and slowly walk-run towards the front door. His hand was trembling as it reach the doorknob, he took a deep breath and as he got a grasp on it and slowly turning it for the door to open.
As to when the door was slightly opened, he then peeked outside. Suddenly, Dizian's eyebrow raised, his jaw go slack as he saw the person outside.
It was a man with a blue hair. He was wearing a black turtle neck inside a purple cotton jacket and was wearing a black watch. The man was tall and seem to have an athletic build type of body, his face has a soft gentle expression.
Shutting his eyes close he was reminded that he is now in the protagonist's body. Can he do it? He can. Building a facade is one of his specialty.
After a long deep sigh he then open the door widely and put on a bright Expression as he greeted the man waiting outside.
"Hey," He casually Called out with the bright happy expression.
The man looked at him then flashed a warm genuine smile, which made Dizian to feel somewhat guilty for making a a forced expression. Ah this kind of torture is too much.
Dizian invited the blue haired man inside offering him a cup of coffee. Agapius then suddenly meow which caught the attention of both of them.
"A cat? When did you get a cat?" The man suddenly asked picking up agapius who was purring below him.
Dizian then looked at the God who was now on the man's lap and was being rub in the belly.
"Oh uhh, just now, I saw it outside freezing so I let it in ." He said as he forcefully grin hoping this man wouldn't doubt him.
"Hmm? Oh your a magical beast!" He gasped.
Without even looking, Dizian could tell how proud and agapius is. Well, he is the creator after all, still Dizian was unfazed.
While handing the coffee agapius suddenly jump out of the man's lap and tap his paw on dizian's feet as if telling him to follow him.
Dizian excused himself and follow Agapius into a corner. At that time a blue screen once again appeared, this time it was the blue haired man's information.
"I knew it, he's one of the love interest."
"You're too calm." Said agapius.
"I mean I already saw it coming really, they're even childhood friends. Typical troupe for romance."
[Arlo Kimiko
Age: 20
Date of birth: October 10 x566
Race: Human
Magic: UNKNOWN
Background: UNKNOWN
• Other information [LOCKED]
Likability: 60%
Affection rate: 3%]
Reading it all Dizian was shock when he saw the affection rate already at 3%.
"The affection rate..."
"Yes? Oh that's a separate rating for love, while likability is kind of like the friendship feeling thingy."
"You made this and can't even explain it well, I'm disappointed."
"Well I'm sorry, even a God can't be perfect geez."
"You're a God."
"And you're a human."
"What?"
"What?"
"... Nevermind."
Dizian sigh in defeat. Seems like this would be his new life 'till who knows when, not as Dizian but as Luna Vermillion.
What kind of exciting story would he unfold?