"Master? Are you awake?" I hear a soft voice whispering, as I slowly open my eyes to see who it is. Hmm? Am I dreaming? Is that…... izzi? She looks exactly like how I designed her, with her pink hair, lavender eyes, as well as a black and white dress with a blue ribbon in the middle. Wait- could it be, did I get reincarnated like in those anime and manga?
I reflectively raise my hands into my line of sight and a sense of disappointment comes to me, I was still a human, and here I thought I'd get reincarnated as a slime. Oh well, better than nothing.
"Master hoax?" Izzi mumbles in a soft voice.
"Yeah? What is it?" I reply
"Ennn… you've been asleep for 4 days now, so I'm worried for you."
"Ah? Is that so?"
"Y..y… yeah."
"By the way Izzi, do you have any idea what happened to us? I mean, I was a vtuber x developer you know, and you were nothing more than a bot."
"Well you see, when you got crashed by the truck, you were summoned by God to this world – xenex – and I was brought to life to assist you, but you were unconscious from then till now, albeit the god gave you some potions to heal you. Perhaps the shock and distress of the recent incident took a huge toll on you."
"I see. Well, besides that, do you know the purpose of our summoning"
"Ah, not much really, I was just told to inform you that your luck in Earth was an error in the data handling of the gods, your luck was supposed to be around 1048 times better than it was, but due to your data being wrongly handled, your luck became well, your luck, and so the god decided to give you another chance here as compensation."
"I see. Wait, doesn't that mean we were living in a simulation? Also are you fully alive? Like as in having a heart, emotions and so on? And not just some creepy AI?"
"Haha, you can say it's like that, but wouldn't that make this world also a simulation? Yeah yeah, I am fully alive, see, I can feel excited and care for you!" She exclaimed while vigorously nodding her head up and down. Seeing her like this, I could only say I did well with her design.
"Well then, what should we do now?"
"Hmm, I guess we should start by greeting the duke in charge of us"
Wait shit, I was too focused and excited about Izzi being alive that I forgot everything else, I haven't even scanned the room or inquire about the more important things. Wait, if izzi is here, what about Yue?
"By the way, is Yue here also?"
"Yeah she is, although she's currently out shopping with the maids of the mansion"
bruh an imaginary character I made be living a better life then me, even I never went shopping with maids.
"I see. By the way, can you give me a couple minutes by myself to calm myself down and align my thoughts?"
"Sure, just call me when your done, I'll be outside," Izzi said while bowing to me and leaving the room.
Now then…... I'm sure y'all readers are excited to know what the room of a guest in a noble's mansion would look like…. Well, have you seen those very expensive hotel pictures online? Now, imagine that, but the room is a hundred times fancier. Man, a single night here probably would've costed a couple years of my income, and I was a vtuber, meaning I had an above average income. Aight, time to explain it properly with fancy language and everything now.
The walls were enveloped with rich, textured wallpaper covered by a flowery pattern wallpaper (ahhh, I would probably need to sell my kidney if I want to buy this). Besides that, there were gentle shadows dancing with the flicker of the chandeliers hanging on the ceiling in the middle of the room. The floor was crystal clear and reflects the grandeur of the room back upon itself. And lastly, there was a red round carpet in the middle with quality so good that an amateur like myself could tell it costs more then my liver.
Ok, now the room aside, I need to organize my thoughts. I was summoned by a god, and am currently a guest in a duke's mansion. Wouldn't that make me quite the important person then? I mean, I wasn't even given any troublesome responsibilities like saving the world from a demon king or stuff like that.
I took a deep breath, and start walking towards the door, with my confidence level rising with every step I took- until I reached the door, my confidence level got multiplied by zero all of a sudden. But oh well, what happens will happen. If I fake my bravery and confidence when I'm scared, then I'm actually brave and confident…. Right? Silence means yes, so I guess it is right.
I open the door, and nonchalantly said to izzi, "well then, let's do what must be done, although I don't know what we need to do," while shrugging.
"Ng, that's just like master when you're chatting in discord. It seems like your behavior in reality is no difference with in the virtual world, well then, let's start by greeting the duke in charge of us like I said, then we can go eat, and maybe Yue might be home by then."
"All righty! Let's go then, lead the way please!"
"Mm," she mutters while signaling me to follow her. We walked and walked and walked, until we reached a garden, and she signals for me to enter another building. Just how big is this mansion? How does it have more then 1 building?
As we entered through an elegant jade door, a storm of thought entered my mind. This- isn't this not at the level of "fancy" anymore? This is already at the level of the housing of billionaires , maybe even the upper levels of them. This is crazy, how many hundred million dollars were used to build this mansion? Oh wait, this is a parallel world, if there was one thing watching hundreds of animes taught me, it was that dollars were never used.
My body moved in autopilot mode and when I entered the building, the soft embrace of the wind wakes me up from my world, and I found myself analyzing the interior of the building. I was greeted by a huge chandelier and two flights of stairs right after I enter. Izzi went up the stairs, and so I followed suite. Each step felt heavy, it was as if I have forgotten how to walk. Every step felt like climbing a mountain, and there were probably dozens of steps before I arrived at the second floor.
What should've been minutes of walking felt like hours of mountain climbing, it took all the energy out of every single cell in my body for me to reach the second floor. Perhaps it was due to me being unconscious for days and hence didn't take in any food and water, or maybe it was because the walk from the room I was in to this building was nothing short of a marathon.
As we arrived at the second floor, Izzi knocks on a big door that looks like it was big enough for a giant to enter.
"You may enter," a voice roared from inside. The few seconds Izzi took to open the doors felt like minutes as I gulped nervously, what kind of person was waiting behind that door? I hope they're friendly. Maybe this will be like those anime situations where a very strong character who exudes the aura of an overlord renders other characters unable to move as they got paralyzed in fear, I hope that doesn't happen; that would be pathetic. I mean, Izzi seems calm, so it should be fine right? Right? Right????? Wait, what if it was the kind of noble that thinks of everyone who's lower ranked then themselves as trash? What if they see me as trash and treats me like one? What if I piss them off and I get beheaded? Oiii, I just got reincarnated, it's only been half an hour at best, it wouldn't be funny if I died already. Gods, or should I say developers of the world, have you patched my luck? Readers, help me come on. Pray for my safety, you don't want a story that ends so soon, right? Right????? I mean, we haven't even met an antagonist or encounter a conflict, it would be disappointing to end the story here, I mean, everyone knows a good story has a conflict and a resolution, right? What? You didn't know that? What did you do in third grade?
Ok, calm down, I need to calm down, I can't let the duke see my unsightly state. Deep breath, deep breath, I need to take a deep breath. Ok, I'm calm now, cool as an ice. Totally not panicking. Hmm? Sarcasm? What's that? Is it delicious?
"Hi hi," A silver pink haired girl wearing a white dress lightly waved at me, "You're hoax I assume?"
I breath out a sigh of relief, she seems friendly, not the type of person to behead me for no reason, I guess.
"Y-yeah, that's me."
"I see I see. Well, nice to meet you, I'm Reiko Pareo, a duke here in the mining country, greenwouln. Well, you were summoned directly by God so expect good treatment from us, well besides that uhmm, is there anything you'd like to do? Just let me know and I'll see what I can do."
"Ah no, I'm fine, but I would like to meet Yue as soon as possible," I mumbled, of course there's a lot of things I want to do, but I can clearly tell she's busy and don't have time for me, I mean, the amount of paperwork on the table she's sitting on is crazy, there's gotta be at least a few thousand pages there.
"Yue, huh? Sure sure, hey milas, can you tell Yue to go find him later when she comes back home?"
"Aye aye captain," A knight in metal armor shouts
"I can't hear you," Pareo singsongly says
"AYE AYE CAP'N," the knight, whose name seemed to be milas, shouts louder
Who lives in the pineapple
Doesn't this line seem familiar
"Well then, you and Izzi can go have lunch first while waiting for Yue, I'm sure she'll come home soon."
"All right then, thank you, I'll be in your care"
"Well then, let's go master, the dining room's this way"
Fast forward to the time when I was already sitting down at the chair in the dining room…. Hmm? I'm not telling you about the journey there? Why should I? Hmm? Wait, you just like to see me suffer, don't you? Oi, look at me straight in the eye, You're an S aren't you. Go find an m to play with, not with me.
Anyways…. After around 5 minutes or so of waiting, the food finally arrived, some bread… I expected rice man. Oh well, whatever, Bon Appetit…. I guess.
I bit into the bread, and oh my, it felt like I just got sent to heaven. The bread is so fluffy and soft, my teeth feels like it's digging into cotton, while the taste is nothing short of perfect. There's no improvement that can be made to it. The exact amount of sweetness, saltiness, as well as spiciness is mixed into a harmony of flavors dancing on my tongue. My tongue is blessed by the embrace of the harmonious orchestra produced by every single ingredient in the bread. The texture is soft, but also crunchy, while the flavor satisfies every single taste bud on my tongue. Please please please, I wish for this bread to never finish. This is heaven, if only I could keep eating this forever. Bite after bite, I slowly eat the bread. I want to suck it like a vacuum cleaner, but I'm scared of finishing it too early, I want to prolong this experience as long as possible. I don't want to finish this meal, but alas, everything will always come to an end, and despite me trying my best to prolong the lifespan of this bread, it still dies to my mouth. Ahhhh- this bread sure has the ability to put me in an euphoric mood.