Reinhardt opened his eyes, and soon as he did, he saw a cute brown haired girl looking at him from above with a curious expression. "Wow an angel, damn I must be in heaven" Reinhardt said with a smile which caused the angel's cheeks to go a slight shade of red.
"You are not in heaven, get up we have a lot of questions for you." A cold voice called out to him. Reinhardt lifted his head and saw a silvered haired beauty wearing what he could only assume as a leather armor, and then he saw a bunch of knights around. He remembered his free fall and then darkness.
He immediately sat up and started speaking, "Who are you? Where am I and what am I doing here?" Reinhardt said spewed questions like a machine gun. 'Damn are they going to a convention, what with all this medieval getup. Are they cosplayers?'
Celine said with the same cold and reserved manner, "You are in the in the Restize Dukedom, part of the dyna kingdom of the north. This place is the Orwell Forest, bordering the Restize Dukedom. I am Celine Restize daughter of Gersha Restize, the duke governing these lands. And I myself don't know what you are doing here, that's what I want to find out myself since the clothes you wear are not local to anyone in our kingdom or our neighboring kingdoms for that part, so, who are you?"
Reinhardt had a poker face while listening to all this but inside his mind was kicking up a storm ' NOOOOOOO! I knew she looked familiar. I have been ….have been …..isekai'd, but why this world of all things, why into an otome world. And in front of me is the first villainess of the game, damn it, in the game she is a genius and magically talented as well but worst of all she is suspicious in nature due to the many assassinations she had to go through in her childhood according to the game's lore since she is the only child of the duke. I bet she thinks I am some kind of spy and if I even give her a slight thing to be suspicious about, she is going to poke me full of holes. Yes I know what to do, modern culture has prepared me for this day, it's time to play the 'amnoisa' card.'
"I am…I….don't remember. The only thing I remember is falling and then darkness" The boy said with a confused expression. Celine narrowed her eyes but could see they confusion in his eyes as well. She realized that the boy in front of her truly didn't know who he was but still she didn't let her guard down.
'Thankyou shitty Net**ix shows' He sent a silent thanks to his sister for forcing him into watching them but still he was actually confused. He didn't know what to make out of this situation.
It all felt surreal, one moment he was walking home and the next, he was in a fictional world with characters he only saw through the screen.
Getting into such a world of fantasy might be many people's dream but he didn't want any of this. He was content living a simple life with his parents, goofing around with his best friend, playing videogames all night and even the quarrels that he had with his sister.
A sudden thought came to him that he would never see them again. What if there was no going back, that he was stuck here for the rest of his life.
The sudden loss that he felt brought sadness, a sadness that no acting could ever hope to achieve.
Celine saw sadness in the boy's eyes, one she was familiar with because she saw the same sadness in her father's eyes when her mother died. She could see it even when her father tried to hide it, sadness due to the loss of a loved one. Maybe the boy in front of her really did lose his memory and was distraught by not remembering where he belonged to.
Celine decided to pose another question to distract the boy from his sad thoughts. "We found you floating in a lake, it seemed you had fallen from a great height, perhaps several hundred feet. It is a miracle that you are alive."
Reinhardt looked at Celine with a raised brow 'several hundred? It felt more like several thousand, I should have been red paste.' Reinhardt realizing that he would have died if he wasn't saved feeling grateful to the ice queen.
"I-I see, so you saved me thank you." Reinhardt expressed his heartfelt thanks he didn't know what would have happened to him if he stayed there unconscious, perhaps eaten by wild animals and then become fertilizer for the trees in the process
The girl next to Celine spoke this time, "It's okay, we couldn't just leave someone alone like that, especially one wounded such as you."
Reinhardt looked at the girl "Thanks but …. I was wounded? where-" He had fell, but where were the wounds.
Emily replied once again, "Well we gave you a potion, it healed you up but it couldn't make up for the blood loss. We decided to rest a bit so that your condition wouldn't become worse. Now that you are awake, it's best if we leave these woods as soon as possible before sunset"
Reinhardt felt incredulous hearing about potions but still focused on what Emily said at the end. She was right and they should leave before sunset, even normal woods were dangerous at night let alone the one in a fantasy world ' heck a monster could come out just now and bite my head off...…..wait...did I jinx it.....dammit I totally jinxed didn't I?'
A screech was heard from a distance and everyone stopped doing whatever their tasks. The knight commander ordered in a stern expression, "Everyone battle formation, a monster must have smelt the blood of the boy and followed its scent here, it is most likely coming from the lake so focus on that direction." The knights hurriedly went to their positions.
Celine drew a rapier and started chanting as her weapon glowed and went back to normal. Emily also started chanting which Reinhardt could only assume were incantations, as visible wind blades hovered above her hands. Reinhardt's eyes widened, "wow, I really am in a fantasy world" Reinhardt stood there mesmerized by the special effects-err I mean magic.
'Psht, it's the Orwell Forest, it's a low level beginner area, the most there is are slime or goblins…..' As Reindhart was thinking about the identity of the monster, the bushes to the side rustled and a monstrosity emerged as it lunged towards a few knights who dodged to the side and then started fighting with the monster. Celine jumped as the monster's whipped past the place where she had just been. While in air she casted a spell as shards of ice formed around her, "Careful, it's a forest rat. The stinger at its tail can shoot spikes so be mindful off it" Celine said as she dashed towards it.
Meanwhile Reindhart was looking at the 'rat' with a bewildered expression. ' a rat? A RAT? No that's not a rat.....Thats a fucking abomination! Of course you idiot, what kind of slime or goblin roars! This monster isn't supposed to be in such a low level area'. The creature in question well it did look like a rat, but it was the size of a horse and had spikes the end of its tail with which it was wildly swinging at the knights along with its sharp claws.
Celine was shooting icicles at the 'rat' as it started to slow down and knights showing their training and coordination were slowly making wounds on its body. Emily who was at the back was sending wind blades.
Meanwhile Reinhardt was calmly standing there looking on at all this with a poker face with only thought on his mind. To retreat from a fight to live another day is not cowardice, what? Do you expect a modern-day teenager to be gung-ho about fighting a magical beast in a magical world on his first day, Nein! even if by some miracle he didn't run away, he wasn't going anywhere near that monster.
Reinhardt was scared shitless, since when had he even in his 15 years of life seen a monster, well not counting comic con but still. He was so petrified that he couldn't move, but he was still seeing everything and he saw something rustle beside the bushes near Emily as she remained unaware.
Emily gathering mana pumped more of it into her spell as the wind blade grew larger in size and she let it go as it struck the tail of the beast and it tore off. The monster screeched in pain as its tail fell and it got surrounded by knights, it slowly accumulated wounds and started to stumble. It would only be some time before the beast fell.
Emily gave a tired sigh and relaxed for but a moment before she heard something glide fastly through the air, she turned in alarm as she saw spikes coming towards her. Accepting her grim fate she knitted her eyes tightly awaiting the pain.
But it did not arrive as someone dragged her down as they both fell on the ground with the projectiles whizzing above them. Reinhardt lying on the ground near Emily wiped the cold sweat on his forehead as Celine and the soldiers attacked the new Pok*mon which seemed to be the mate of the previous one. The other one lay butchered to the side while they focused on the new arrival.
"Damn, that was a close one" Reinhardt said as he got up and dusted his clothes as he put his hand to help Emily up.
Emily looked at him and smiled, "Yeah, it was, thank you for saving me." They both looked at each other for a moment before Reinhardt asked a rather obvious question, "Uh, don't you want to help them?"
Emily shrugged, "No need, it's just a normal Tuesday for them." Reinhardt lips twitched as they both stood and watched Celine butcher the poor pok*mon.