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Chapter 2 - The Golden Room

Pain.

That was the only thing I felt after grabbing the little sphere of light.

You know that awful pain you feel when you stub your toe on the wall? It was like that but amplified about 500 times and all over everything.

Know my pain.

Anyway. After coming back to my senses, I realised that, thankfully, I was no longer in the dark place. You know what. I am going to call that place the void now.

When I tried opening my eyes, I was met by blinding light.

And hurriedly closing my eyes with my hands, I fell on solid ground in pain.

Good, I was no longer in the void.

After a few moments, I felt something strange.

A strange feeling of comfort.

A strange warmth that made me somehow feel safe.

That was strange.

And, when I felt safe enough, I slowly reopened my eyes letting them adjust themselves.

"Holy Sh*t"

Damn.

I, I have no words.

I don't know where I am right now.

No, if had to describe the place where I was currently in just a few words, it would have been:,, F*cking Majestic".

For the next few moments, I didn't do anything.

You would have done the same.

Shut up.

Ahem, the place where I was currently in could only be described as.

I was in something akin of a throne room.

But no throne room from my world would have been even close to this place.

The majestic golden hallway,

The giant statues of beautiful greek men and women.

The massive paintings on every side of the wall.

These where only the first things that I saw right now.

The only thing that this place didn't have were windows.

What only made me ask myself where this golden light was coming from.

Because it couldn't be possible that the walls themselves were emanating the light, right?

After coming back to my senses, I looked more around.

And in all that glory, I had just one question.

Who lived here?

This place was definitely taken care of by somebody.

But who?

"Hello? Is anyone in here?"

No one answered my call. Again, like in the void, I was answered only with silence.

Am I having isolophobia?

<'Yees you are Kaido, Bro, YOU are ME, and we know that I am always right, and I am sure for a fact that I am scared being alone in an empty room, so that means you are also...'>

Have I lost my mind?

<'Yes, Bro, you have'>

All of you shut UP!

Sigh.

Guess I have personality disorder now.

F*cking great.

...

Just in case I waited for another 5 more minutes. And then I got bored.

So, I decided to make my first steps into the hallway and look around.

Not that I could do anything else now.

To be honest, this place has almost everything.

I found a library, with about thousands of books.

Most of them had a golden shiny cover.

Looking through them, I found only about a dozen books that didn't have such cover.

Next to the library was a dining table.

And believe me, this dining table was huge.

On top of that, this table had almost every possible food that I had ever seen.

Salad, Pork, Beef, Steak, Pizza, Omelette,… you name it, it had it.

And looking around, I decided to try a piece of white bread.

Heavens. It's so...so good.

I would have never thought that bread could be so…

How could this be?

I decided to take another piece of bread.

And then another.

And another.

I took, and ate, and ate.

And ate.

Then I stopped.

I looked back and realised that there was somehow still bread left on the plates.

And the amount didn't seem to be going down.

Strange. Really strange.

Am I in Hogwarts?

No.

Hogwarts wasn't a golden palace if I remember correctly.

Then where the f*ck am I?

It didn't matter.

This place had to have a way out.

I didn't like this place. It felt to good to be true.

Even my house didn't give me such feeling of security.

It all felt wrong.

I left the dining table and continued walking.

And I think I found the end.

And before lied a majestic, but empty throne. I would not be capable of describing it, even if I tried. So, try using your imagination.

Shut up.

Left and write stood two statues.

Each of them had a spear, and a shield next to them.

But compared to the other statues in this place, much like the room itself, the were made from gold.

<…>

Hmm.

What would happen if I try to sit on it?

Will his owners suddenly appear before me?

Or would those statues look at me and kill me?

"OHH my, What A Majestic Throne!!!"

No response.

"I Wonder if I Can SIT On It?!?!?!?"

Again no response.

This time I decided to talk to the statues.

"I Can SIT ON THIS THRONE, Right?"

But the statues did not answer.

Seriously, what was I expecting.

I was sitting on the throne for the next few minutes.

No one came.

Nothing happened.

I always had a feeling that the statues would look at me any minute, and then probably stab me to death.

But they didn't.

Even after I was insulting this place, the statues, the throne, and the owner.

Nothing happened.

The throne was actually quite comfortable.