Kimi opened her eyes slowly.
It was so bright, she had to squint and shade them with her hands.
After her eyes finally adjusted to the bright light, she saw a bright blue sky and smelled the fresh scent of grass.
Her eyes widened.
'Where am I?'
She sat up and found herself in a meadow, under a big tree.
'Huh... wasn't I walking in the city earlier?'
She rubbed her head, the jerk hit her head hard. She remembered she was walking on the sidewalk, and a man pulled her into a small alley and held her at gunpoint. Kimi tried to fight back, but the mugger hit her head with a baseball bat.
It didn't hurt, it didn't bleed, it didn't hurt at all.
She blinked a few times, trying to understand what was happening.
'Am I in heaven now?'
Her hands felt the thick, slightly damp grass.
'I guess so, this place is very beautiful.'
No people were crowding the streets, and no tall buildings blocking her view.
No matter how far she looked, everything was green.
She looked up and saw a large tree towering above him. Its shade protects it from the sun.
She turned his gaze under the tree. Some small flowers grew around it.
Then she realized there was a horse tied to the big tree. Its fur and mane are shiny black. His body is very muscular, and his eyes are very beautiful.
"Wow... the horse is so beautiful..." Kimi didn't realize she was standing close to the horse.
The horse noticed Kimi and snorted once.
Kimi smiled and stretched out her hand, she forgot that she was confused because she didn't know where she was.
The horse kissed Kimi's hand and snorted once more. Kimi chuckled and started stroking the horse's mane. It felt so soft.
"Don't go near that horse!" Someone shouted very loudly.
Kimi was shocked and pulled her hand that was stroking the horse. A young man appeared from behind Kimi's body. His face was very handsome with black hair and red eyes, but he looked very fierce. He was wearing a fine white shirt and black pants, also wearing a long jacket that was also black. A sword hung from his waist.
Wait, a sword?
Kimi gasped and unconsciously took a step back.
The man pulled Kimi's body which was about to hit the horse. Then he shifted Kimi's body to the side rather roughly.
"What the..." she muttered.
The man stared at Kimi sharply and then pointed to the place where Kimi had been sitting with his eyes.
Kimi turned her head, now there was a cloth there, and on it were some fruits. There were bananas and apples.
Kimi looked back at the man with a confused look.
"Eat." The man said coldly.
Confused, Kimi walked slowly towards the fruits while thinking. 'Let's try to follow what he wants, then ask where this is…'
Then she sat down and took an apple. The apple looked very fresh and red. She tried to bite it, um it tasted really good.
"Umm… can I ask you something?" Kimi muttered softly.
The man ignored Kimi and continued to stroke the horse that was eating the apple from the man's hand.
"Where is this?" Kimi asked a little annoyed.
The man just turned to Kimi, then went back to his activity of stroking the horse.
Kimi was getting more annoyed, and when she was about to stand up and confront the man, she just realized that the skirt she was wearing was long.
'Wasn't I wearing jeans when I got hit by that bastard pickpocket?' she thought.
She looked at what she was wearing. An old-fashioned dress! Lots of lace and it was pink! She hated pink!
But this was weird, she thought. Why was she wearing old-fashioned clothes?
She held her head and realized that her hair was now long and flowing down to her butt. And it was silvery white! Haaaaa! When did she get this much gray hair?!
Kimi started to panic.
"Mirror… I need a mirror…" she muttered while looking right and left, then looking at the man.
"I need a mirror," she said to the man loudly.
The man frowned but remained silent.
Kimi was annoyed and then tried to look into the distance. Ah, there was a river not far from where she was. She walked half-running towards the river.
Suddenly the young man was in front of Kimi. Kimi was shocked, wasn't the man still at the horse stand?
"You're not allowed to go anywhere." said the man.
"I need a mirror!" Kimi said firmly.
The man was silent again staring at Kimi.
"I want to know, why did my hair turn all white like this? And where am I?" shouted Kimi in frustration.
The man frowned. Kimi clenched her fists in annoyance. What's wrong with this man?
Finally, the man stepped aside and Kimi ran towards the river. The man followed her slowly.
When Kimi arrived at the edge of the river, she immediately knelt and tried to see her reflection on the surface of the river water. Luckily the river water could be used as a mirror.
Her reflection was in the form of a young girl around 18 years old with long white hair. Her face was beautiful, her eyes were big and green, and her lips were small and red.
"W-who is this? Why is my face like this?" Kimi held her face in panic.
Then the reflection of the man appeared in the river water. "Who is this?" Kimi asked the reflection of the man while pointing at her reflection.
"Camelia Valois. Daughter of Duke Valois." The man finally answered.
Kimi looked up at the man behind her. "Duke you say? So where is this?"
The man answered, still coldly. "Kingdom of Calonia."
Kimi's eyes widened. So she transmigrated like the stories in the novels she had read? But she never remembered reading about the Kingdom of Calonia or Camelia Valois.
Then the man's next words made Kimi shiver.
"And I'm kidnapping you."