It was like any normal Friday afternoon. Just me and my friends, hanging out to study for an exam, but unsurprisingly we got distracted and felt bored. So we did what any bored teenagers would've done.
...
We went to a worn down and old library, of course. What else could we have done?
And man, It was really musty and dusty. Like, if you wave your hand in the air, it'll feel like you're giving the dust a handshake and bugs were crawling around everywhere too. So, we did what any normal human beings would do in that situation...
That's right, we stayed and split up to walk around the whole building, inside and outside.
And whilst walking inside this crusty excuse of a building, I spotted something... Glowing as if it were calling out to me. So, I approached it and picked it up.
"Hey guys, check this out!" I called out to my friends. "I found this cool book, I think someone left it here!"
We all look at the book with glowing, mysterious markings written all over it, but strangely enough, the title was the only one that was actually readable. How convenient.
"What do you think is written inside?" My friend with glasses asked with curiosity.
"Maybe it's an erotic book!" The other, more, uh... stupider looking guy says with a creepy smirk.
"Pfft, why are you so reta-"
"Can you guys shut the fuck up already? I'm trying to read." I said in an annoyed tone as I shushed them both.
"Geez, okay sir..."
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"「 The Heroes Of Sebitar 」?" I read out in wonder.
"Ha, what a corny name." The smirking boy said.
"Didn't I tell you to shut up-" I sternly said, trying to reprimand him while flipping the book open until I was interrupted.
"Huh?"
The book suddenly started vibrating in my hands.
The three of us looked at the book in confusion.
"Hey, why'd it start shaki-"
Before he could finish his question, we all suddenly got sucked in to the book.
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"DUDE WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING?!" My nerdy friend's voice cracked and screamed in fear as we fell inside what seemed like a shining wormhole with walls that were warping and glowing with the same glow from the book earlier.
"ARE WE DYING?!"
warble...
WaarBlLee...
「Otherworld migration completed! Good luck, heroes!」
"Huh?" I exclaimed as what seemed like a message from one of those RPG games popped up in front of my face.
But before I could process what just appeared before me, we three saw that the ground had returned but, the only difference from before was that we were not in the library and were hundreds of feet in the air.
"HOLYYY SHIIIIIIIIIIII—" I exclaimed before we all hit the grass.
THUD!
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(A few hours before getting forcefully summoned to another world...)
—"..And as a great man once said, 'Women hold up half the sky'."
"..."
"Pfft- HAHA! That's a quote from Mao Zedong, dumbass "
"Wait, really?"
It was a peaceful lunch break in school. So many students were either eating or chatting away in their respective seats and groups. And in those groups were me and my group.
"Dude, why are you so stupid?" I said.
"Shut it, Alex." Lloyd, the dumbest one responded.
"But you gotta admit though, that was pretty stupid Lloyd." Clyde, the most knowledgeable one, AKA, a nerd spoke.
"You don't have a say in this, smartass."
"Oh yeah? You wanna go then, shit-for-brains?"
"Oh, it's on you son of a bitch"
The two entered a scuffle in the middle of the classroom, causing a scene and I, being the respectful person I am...
Did nothing, a true gentleman doesn't just get between a duel between two peoples after all. I just watched. And cheered for them, of course.
"Use your elbow! Haha."
Not long after that, the teacher came in the classroom, expecting it to be clean and proper, only for her expectations to be crushed. We got in trouble of course, it was fun while it lasted.
...
(at the principal's office...)
"... Let me get this straight." The fatass principal said with the typical voice that lardasses like him all have as he pinched his non-existent nose bridge while looking at us with a sad-excuse for an 'intimidating stare'.
"You two, got into a fight because you, Floyd was it?"
"L-Lloyd, s-sir." Lloyd replied, looking and sounding nervous but it's not because he's scared, it's because he's actually struggling to hold back a laugh.
"Clyde?"
"...Yes, sir..." Now Clyde may seem like he's serious but if you look at him closely, he's almost getting brought to tears.
Again, not because of dread, no, no, no... He's counting the whale's chins, YES, chins, as if he's counting sheeps therefore making him sleepy.
"And lastly, Alex?"
"Mhm. Yep, that's me, sir." And of course there's me. Smiling from ear to ear, showing my full confidence... holy shit, how many chins are there..? 2... 4... 6...
... "You guys were fighting because..."
No! I gotta take this seriously or... Or...
... "Blah blah blah blah blah"
Man, what am I even saying?! I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!
"HAHAHAHA! HOW MANY CHINS DO YOU EVEN HAVE?!" I screamed out, not being able to hold it in anymore.
...
"GRRRR!!! YOU'RE ALL SUSPENDED!!!"
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(outside the school...)
The three of us were walking away from the school gates after getting suspended and kicked out.
"... Great job, dumbass. You just had to say that and get us kicked out of school." Clyde said to me angrily. "I didn't even do anything to aggravate him but he still lumped me in with you." He added.
"..."
"Hey, look on the bright side, at least we don't have school for the rest of the day." Lloyd replied, trying to look on the bright side.
"Y'know what, you're lucky that your parents are deadbeats, Lloyd. Because they don't give a shit about your education." Clyde said in an insulting tone.
"..."
"Too far dude. Too fucking far!"
The two get into another scuffle, this time on the sidewalk. And while yin and yang fight over dominance, I was watching again. But this time around, I actually stop them.
"Hey, you two just stop already." I said as I walked closer to the couple having one violent lovers' spat.
I grabbed Lloyd and Clyde's heads and pushed them apart.
"Can you two cut it out already? I wanna go somewhere."
"Khk... hng!... Dude, how the fuck are you... this... STRONG?!" Lloyd said as he struggled to reach Clyde.
"Yeah, KRKK... WHY... ARE... YOU... SO STRO-" Clyde added before getting interrupted by me squeezing both their heads a bit more harder.
"Just shut up and come with me before I smash your heads together to make you two kiss."
"Yes, sir." Both yelped in response, obediently following my orders.
"Okay. Finally. I saw this thing online and I wanted to go there because the forums said they hid some stuff in there." I said as I softened my grip on their heads.
"Sir, yes, sir."
"Alright. Follow me then." I said as I let go of both their heads and started walking.
...
And now we're here again.
...
Oh c'mon, you expect me to tell what happened after that again?
(Just scroll back up or get better memories, lazyass.)
Anyways...
THUD!
...
"GAASP!" I gasped loudly, pushing my self up from the soft green but unfamiliar grass as I tried to recover from what just happened.
I looked around, still in shock.
"Holy shit... What the fuck..." I said as I breathed heavily, taking deep breaths with every pause.
"... Wait...hah- ...huhk... where are they?... cough..." I asked myself in panic.
I took one deep breathe and screamed.
"Lloyd?! Clyde?!" I called out with dread as I looked around once more, trying to find a sign of my friends.
"LLOYD!!! CLYDE!!!" I screamed as I walked through the tall grass an-
"Hey idiot... cough... we're right here."
...
I swiftly looked behind me and stared at the two dumbasses. Just like how I am, breathing heavily and dirtied up whilst laying down on the ground.
"Wow Alex, I didn't know you loved us that much... Come give me a kiss, mwuah mwuah..." Clyde said, teasing me for screaming their name in such a distressed tone.
"Shut up... I thought you two died..." I said as I approached the two.
I crouched to talk to them better before taking a good look around us.
...
"Now that I can think properly... Where the hell are we?" I said, dumbfounded.
"Yeah, now that you mention it..." Lloyd said, also wondering where we are and how the fuck we got here. "Ignoring that we just fell from the sky, where in earth are we?.. Are we even in Earth?"
...
"Wait... Did we just get isekai'd?!" Clyde screamed after a moment of thought.
"What?" Lloyd asked. "The fuck is an isekai?"
"Well, an isekai is a genre of-"
"Hold up, is this one of those nerd things you watch?" The brash foul-mouth interrupted.
"Ugh... As much as I loathe that word, yes. It's one of those nerd things. And this particular nerd thing tackles on people getting summoned to another world." The nerd said.
As they both rambled on as usual, I had already left the two to go to the woods to investigate.
"Dude, are you serious right now? You really haven't heard of any Isekai or any anime at all?"
"Well, I did watch Ippo and DBZ when I was a kid."
"That's it?-"
"Wait, where's Alex?"
They asked themselves as they looked around.
"Hey guys! Over here!" I screamed out, standing next to a tree. "You gotta see this!"
...
The duo shrugged and went over to where I was.
But... What we didn't know was that someone was tailing us.
(from a tree on hill nearby...)
"Ssso~... thossse boysss are the heroesss King Grisha sssummoned forth on thisss land?" A slender, evil-looking figure whispered in a snake-like tone.
"Hehehahaha..."
"What a foolish move by them. I shall report this to the lord immediately."
After saying that, it started convulsing and it's limbs started contorting. Starting with the arms, that turned into wings, then the legs and feet that turned into bird legs and talons, and lastly it's torso and head, which turned into a crow's.
"CAW! THE LORD WILL LIVE LONG! CAW!" It said as it flew away from the tree it was planted on.
...
(To be continued...)
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「 Current Heroes' Party 」
Alex Grayson (Level 1)
Lloyd Edwards (Level 1)
Clyde Meyers (Level 1)