January 19, Friday 11:34PM
"Ah we are finally free, at last. These extra work hours have been a pain in the ass."
"Yeah, yeah i agree. So what are you two going to do on your weekends?"
As two of my coworkers start a little chat, i slowly try to walk faster and away from them. I need to leave as soon as possible. After all, the end of the week is finally here and i get to pull some all nighters.
"Yuudai-kun, what are your plans this weekend?" Very big and curious eyes she has.
"W-Well my plans are that i will be going to the mountains... with my friends." Obviously that was a lie, i don't have any friends. But lying to her is like lying a child. It doesn't matter, since they are going to believe you.
"Aw you're so lucky! All my friends are busy getting married off or having kids nowadays."
"You are 27 already and still, you don't have anyone. I would blame you for that, #@%!."
What did he say?
"Aw true, but i have my reasons, hmph."
"Yes, your standards are quite high."
"No they're not! I just want someone tall, rich, six packs and he has to be a foreigner and also very handsome and caring and lovable..."
As she goes on and on about her preferences all i can think about is the RPG i plan on playing tonight.
"Come on Yuudai, tell her that her standards and preferences are just a joke at this point."
"Wait what?"
"Man you weren't even paying attention? What exactly goes through that head of yours i wonder."
"Just stuff i plan on doing i guess, oh and boobs."
"Fair enough."
We both shake hands in agreement.
"You two are such perverts!"
We laugh it off and slowly arrive at the point where our paths diverge.
"Goodnight you guys! See you on Monday!"
"Goodnight #@%!, and you too Yuudai."
It happened again. Some static noise.
Maybe it's just my imagination from hearing loud noises all day. The supermarket i work for is trying to expand, so the noise is natural.
As i walk home, it slowly starts snowing. Snow is lucky. It just falls, lands and that's it. It's job is done.
Something on my left lights up, a noise of some sort can be heard. As i stop paying attention the particles and turn my head, i see darkness. A darkness that for some reason feels very calm and nostalgic. But this relaxing feeling soon ends because of an annoying light up ahead. A light so blinding it surrounds me and gets rid of all the darkness around and opens up a whole New World. There's trees, grass, flowers.
"Where am i?" I say out loud.
No answer. It appears that i am alone. Something however, catches my eye. It's nothing more than a rabbit that runs somewhere deep in the forest, as if it wants me to follow it. I start running behind the rabbit and i eventually catch up to it.
As soon as i reach both my hands to catch it, i fall.
I fall for a brief moment and land on my buttocks.
"Welcome, dear traveler."
My attention immediately goes to the person whose voice i heard, and what i saw was a beautiful white-haired woman wearing a white dress with some kind of a gold belt around her waist, wings on her back and a halo over her head. A Goddess is what i thought to myself.
"H-Hello?"
"Hello traveler."
An awkward silence is present.
"Is this heaven by any chance?"
"No."
Another awkward silence.
"Is it possible for you to explain where i am and... what is this small wooden cave anyways?"
"This place is called 'The Wooden Ground'. Everything here is made out of wood, and yes even the books."
This so called 'Wooden Ground' truly resembles a man made wooden cave. Theres a desk infront of me and a chair behind it where the beautiful woman sits on. Everywhere else is filled with bookshelves and they are full of books. I grab one and it looks like a normal book... it's true that books are made out of wood but i was hoping for something better.
"So what am i doing here in this Wooden Ground?"
"You have been chosen, Kita Yuudai."
Awkward silence.
Why is this person so vague with her words?
"For what exactly?"
"You have been chosen for the greatest quest a mere mortal such as yourself could have the opportunity to involve themselves in."
"An opportunity? Please be more specific, what is going on? Who are you? What the hell is the 'Wooden Ground' anyways?" I yell at her.
"Calm down Kita Yuudai, your questions will be answered soon enough. The reason as to why you are here is that you have been chosen to defeat The Demon World of Grades. A parallel planet to your original planet,known as Earth."
"Defeat the Demon Lord? You think i'll buy that?"
"You have no choice but to 'buy it'. This is the new life you have now get over it and stop interrupting me."
She said this in a calm tone, that sounded quite aggressive or some reason.
"This world that me and you are standing on is Haeven."
"Don't you mean Heaven?"
"This is Haeven, it is a place which resides under the Heaven that you speak of. And i am it's ruler, Javeria. I am an angel who was assigned to take care of this place and guide the mortals who end up here."
"A mortal? Angel? This isn't making any sense for me. Please tell me what is going on, i was just walking down the street when suddenly i am here"
"Kita Yuudai, you are dead."
"Dead?"
"Yes, you got hit by a scooter?"
What did she just say?
"A scooter? I died from a scooter? Me dying from a scooter?"
"Yes, it was quite funny i must say. The scooter was going on an average speed and you tripped and your head got cut off from a scooter wheel. Quite grotesque but funny nevertheless."
She says this in a very calm voice, without batting an eye.
"No i can't be dea-"
"Alright, our time is up. Good luck down there."
She clicks pulls a book on the small bookshelf in her desk and once again, i start to fall.
I fall at a very high speed that i didn't even have time to comprehend what was going on.
I hit the ground pretty hard. But no scratch on me or the spot i just hit. I get up and see notice that my clothes changed. I had some old time western villager clothing.
"Sir are you alright?" I hear someone say, i turn to face them. It's an old man with a huge bag on his shoulders.
"Yes i feel great old man."
"The way you fell worried me. It looked like it was from very high up."
"No it's ok, but thank you for caring about it."
I look around and what i see are houses. The kind of houses you'd see in knight movies. I have traveled back in the past i thought to myself. But that wasn't the case.