White, plain, empty.
That was the first thing I thought when I saw what was in front of me.
Does that mean I managed to die? And this place is called afterlife? I thought, I would wake up in a darker or hotter place because I killed myself (suicide is a sin, right?)
Faintly, my ears heard voices and conversations. And slowly I began to realize that I was currently lying down. My eyes rolled to the side and around, apparently it wasn't completely empty. There is a table with two drawer doors made of teak, and a cupboard with two doors made of teak too.
'By the way, how come I can feel my body?' That thought finally crossed my mind after trying to move my hands. I think when someone dies, your whole body will go numb.
I tried moving my head, and it moved!! And forcibly I raised my body so I could sit up. Pain like a thousand sledgehammers immediately spread through my head. I reflexively massaged my temples and cursed faintly.
"GOOD GRIEF!! OH LORD!!!!!"
Someone, no, two people could be heard exclaiming.
I reflexively turned to the source of the sound, and then I realized that there were two other people besides me here. My eyes are still blurry and foggy, it feels like I've been asleep for too long. But I could see the image of two people, one of whom was wearing all black, and the other was wearing all white.
The one in black showed a hurried attitude and immediately disappeared from my sight. Meanwhile the white one seemed to take something from a box(?), I don't know what it was, then came over to me and pushed me to lie down again. Damn, my eyes are still nearsighted and can't see clearly until now.
"Are you an angel who wants to ask about my deeds?" I'm trying to make sure. But all I got was the answer, 'huh??'
He didn't answer anything after that. And after that I felt my eyelids opened wider, then light came in and illuminated my irises. 'Damn it!! You hurt my eyes!!'
I tried to push him away, but it turned out he had already moved away first. Next, my jaw was opened, then the next thing was like a round disc with the diameter of a small ball pressing on my chest. It's like... check up(?)
After doing all that, he pulled away and sighed. Then suddenly, the black figure from earlier appeared out of nowhere. "How?" he asked.
"His condition is fine. Only his eyes were a little problematic. He experienced temporary nearsightedness due to the side effects of the poison that entered his body. Soon it will definitely recover." He said to the person dressed all in black.
They talked again for a moment, which of course I didn't want to know because right now I was busy thinking about where I was.
"I will report this immediately, you can go back." The black-clothed person ended the conversation, and the white-clothed person immediately left the room at the same time as him.
Slowly but surely, my vision returned to normal. Everything is clear now. I sat down, and just as I sat down, there was something round (with strange root ornaments decorating the edges) hanging several meters straight in front of me.
'Just a moment!!! Who is that?!!' It wasn't the root ornament that made me wonder. However, it turned out that there was another figure in the round glass. I thought it was a mirror, but the edge turned out to be just glass(?) connecting it so I could see other people sitting on the bed in a similar position to me(??)
Out of curiosity, I decided to get up and ask the person behind the glass. Strangely, when I stand, walk, even get close to the mirror, why does that person make the exact same movements as me??
Right when I was in front of the glass, I immediately realized it. "wait? What? Heeeeeehhhh??????"
1 second..
2 seconds..
3 seconds..
"WHAT THE F*CK?!! WHO ARE YOU??!!!"
***
Nearly half an hour has passed.
And I'm still going round and round with questions like these:
"Whose face is this, wow!!! How come you're more handsome than my face?!"
I've tried pinching my own cheeks, slapping myself, even punching a face that doesn't belong to me. And there are 2 facts that I got: 1. This is not a dream, 2. What is being done in this round object is the same as what I am doing, in other words, this object is a mirror!! Not just glass!!
When you think about it, you think about it even more!! I thought this was just a dream, or my eyes were wrong. It turns out not wow!! This is real!!
I tried various strange poses to confirm once again that this strange object was indeed a mirror. Starting from ID card photo poses, smiling poses, two fingers, fucking, Hulk mode, to Cherrybelle-style cute poses. What is shown in the mirror is exactly what my body displays.
'Gosh... is this serious?!' I couldn't stop thinking. Whose face am I actually wearing right now?
I took a deep breath. I think I'm starting to understand what kind of condition I'm experiencing right now. Certainly-
—clack— the door opened suddenly.
"Sir Wills, I'm sorry, but the duke wishes for your presence to come to his office immediately. Please -" his sentence was cut off.
Damn, I'm still doing the Cherrybelle pose right now!!!
"—let's just say I'm blind today, sir. I didn't see anything happen just now. You don't need to worry." The person dressed in black and white, which seemed to be a maid's outfit, closed his eyes and naturally backed away while closing the door.
I was silent for a few seconds. Then I realized and kicked the cupboard (well... even though it ended up hurting my leg) while hurling various curses. How embarrassing.
"Sar-sir-sar-sir, your ass!! Who is Sir Wills, huh?? How come you enter someone's room without any morals?!! Can't you greet or knock first?!!" I ruffled my hair in frustration. I immediately threw my body onto the bed and took a deep breath. OK, first, I have to accept the current reality.
I'm sure right now I'm in someone else's body. I don't know who it is.
and now, I'm forced to follow whatever this person is supposed to do to get information.
"I have to, I have to fulfill the call. Yes... even though I don't know who called and where it was. At least, I have to follow the flow first." I muttered to myself while dreamily staring at the plain white ceiling of the room.
I opened the door and took a peek at the wide hallway.
"That person told me to go to the office, right?" I tried to remember while looking left and right, watching the hallway.
The white atmosphere with ancient patterns on the wall wallpaper adds a luxurious impression with the theme of the industrial revolution era. The hallway alone is very luxurious, so what about the office? I can already imagine how spacious and luxurious this house is.
"Strange... it seems like this house is really luxurious. But how come the room I woke up in was a bit ordinary, huh?" I muttered.
The room I stayed in really seemed plain and simple. The floors, walls, and ceiling are plain white. And there was only one teak bed, a table with 2 drawer doors, and a round mirror with roots wrapped around it as an ornament.
Since I don't have any idea about the ins and outs of this place, I can only shrug my shoulders and try not to care. I decided to keep walking in any direction even though I didn't know where to go to work.
At least I should visit the Duke's office and find out, right?
You can think about getting lost or being thought to be stupid because you forgot about the office later.
To Be Continued~