After looking at me for a few seconds, the god of the new world I will be going in simply said, "I am being honest here. I really admire your foresight. I am happy to have chosen you out of the 27 people coming to my territory. It was very fun talking to somebody after a long time and it makes me very hopeful that you can complete the missions I entrusted to you."
He smiled at me for the first time and it was so sweet and he was so good-looking that my breath hitched and I felt like he is enveloped in a blinding light. I simply closed my eyes and thought, "Damn! I am not having a crush at this age. Gods are normally good-looking. That's their default setting. Inhale. Exhale."
He coughed before he spoke again, trying to get my attention after noticing that I closed my eyes. I had to open my eyes but made sure to look at some place else and not him, "My name is Altair. I will watch over you and be with you as much as I can. I don't want you failing the mission of course. This world's fate depends on our teamwork though you need to work harder than me. As a god of one of the worlds, I can't interfere much in the mortal world. I got some circumstances too, you see? Oh, I forgot. What was your name?". He gave me a helpless and carefree smile this time.
I replied, "My name is Luna. I don't seem to remember my surname though no matter what I do. Do I have to keep the same name in the new world?" I asked.
Altair simply answered it his carefree way, "You can change it if you want. This is your new life anyway. You will be continuing a bloodline so just use their surname too. No big deal. Oh! And I have a surprise for you once you move to the new world." He did that evil smirk again.
I looked at him for a while, curious about the surprise he was talking about. I then said, "That better be a good surprise with all the things you want me to accomplish." I scoffed.
He answered, "It will be worth your while." I replied, "Fine. I will look forward to it." This time I stared at him making sure that he will feel uncomfortable. I have to take my petty revenge since he must be thinking that I am stupid. He also made fun of me so I think I should do the same to him before I leave this domain. I then snickered and looked away and he looked a little pissed.
I can see his mind thinking of how to mess up with me again but I made sure to interrupt him by asking, "Is it time to go? You want to get rid of me so much a while ago. Can't bear to part with me?" I laughed after saying those sentences.
He rolled his eyes and said, "The set up is you will be included in the set of people that are taken from another world. Remember when I told you that the number of women are too few? Some kingdoms use magic to pull unknowing women to this world in desperation. They are hoping to have at least one more healthy child born once every few years. You will be placed in a certain kingdom and in a certain school where you need to finish 2 years compulsory education before you can leave. You will be in a 17-year old female body. Would that be alright?"
I kept my silence and not showing any emotions on my face but inside my mind I was celebrating! I was quite surprised since I will be young again. This would be fun. I can pretend to be a cute student, go shopping, have friends and date boys. Oh youth here I come!
Contrary to the celebration in my mind, I simply said to Altair "Alright. I don't mind being young. People in my world would give everything they have to stay young as long as possible. Anything else I have to know before I go?"
He looked up, thinking of other things to tell me and then his eyes became big suddenly and he exclaimed, "Oh! You will be able to use magic. Eventually... I think after some time or so. Umm. You came from a world with no magic so it will take some time for your body to adapt. The mana in that world is not as dense as before. Given the current circumstances, it should be at most, a month? You can enter the realm of your inherited kingdom to absorb mystical energy faster." I looked at him, wondering why he seems to be wary if I will get angry or something.
I simply said, "It's just a month at most. I don't even have magic or mana or whatever before coming here. It will be fine to pretend to be human like that. Oh! I will look human and have no mana so I am not really pretending to be one. I want to be low profile as much as I can at the start since I have to learn a lot about the new world first."
He immediately said, "Thanks for understanding! I can't do much about the adjustment period and the amount of mana in the realm so... Yeah. Now it is really time to go!"
A black hole, similar to the one that absorbed me when I was a tiny yellow orb appeared beneath my feet. I looked at Alistair with anger in my eyes and I said in my mind, "Not this again."
I didn't even have time to scream when my vision went round and round like being inside a washing machine. I screamed at the top of my lungs hoping that he will still hear it, "This dizziness again! Argh! Is there no other way to move people from one place to another?! At least give me a heads up, you bastard Altair!"