Prologue
My name is satou ren. I'm a 17 year old with 13 days left before reaching the age of 18 which is the legal age of kicking your children out the door. My parents say i've been blessed with talent as im the top performing student in my school despite me growing up in a poor neighborhood. So i should easily be able to survive without them. And that i'm lucky to be so gifted.
But to those who say i'm lucky. I'm not. You see demons exist in our world despite scientists claiming otherwise. And for some reason 11 year old me made a deal with one. The deal was that in exchange for knowledge my human body would collapse and die on the day i turn 18.
Yeah stupid right? And now since i've only got a couple days left of being alive so what does a typical teenager in my situation do? If you guessed playing video games then you would be correct. And more specifically im playing a DMMO-RPG named yggdrasil.
The reason why im logging back on today is because i've heard from others at school that it was about to close today. I had fond memories playing it but i sadly deleted my character as i was focused on school. so i decided to create a new character and see the fireworks in yggdrasil for one last time.
"Lets see here.. Character creation" i hummed. "Wonder what race i want my character to be" while racism and sexism have been practically abolished in real life. This was a game. And in all games there will be those who grief players because of arbitrary reasons such as whether or not you pick a humanoid or a heteromorph.
After contemplating for a while i finally decided."guess i'll be an elf girl" "after all no one attacks a cute elf girl." i adjusted the looks a bit and i ended up with an elf girl that looked around 15, flat chested, and just generally having a petite body.
"Username should be" i stopped to think for a bit. "Cthulhu."i paused for a second. "having a cute loli elf having the username of a terrifying tentacle monster is the kind of gap moe that i like"
"And also…" My mouth turned into a lecherous smile thinking of all the ero games with terrifying tentacle monsters.
Ah crap i need to hurry before yggdrasil ends! I quickly pressed create character and got transported into yggdrasil.
I opened my eyes hoping to be randomly spawned in midgard. But no. instead of that i spawned in swamp with thick gooey water. Then i heard water splashing around behind me. I turned around to see a giant toad. I managed to mutter "oh no" before getting swallowed by the toad.
"Screw you shitty devs!" i screamed in my head while wailing my flimsy arms around trying to get out of the cramped slimy smelling place known as the mouth of a giant toad.
Then i looked over to my side to see a countdown of 1 minute. Initially i was confused. Then i realized that was the countdown till the servers shut down.
I stopped resisting the toad and just let it swallow me whole. I rolled up into a ball and just stared at the countdown with blank eyes as i felt betrayed. "I log on to yggdrasil to say goodbye to this game and this is the last moment i get before this stupid game shuts down?!" "i wasted my time trying to make a character and that time is really important!" "after all i only have a couple days left!"
10.
"Stupid game"
6.
"I should commit seppuku. That way the demons wont get my body"
4.
"Time to go to sleep and skip school again."
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I woke up to the sounds of nature. A rare occurrence in the world i used to be in. but nonetheless i recognized the scent and sounds of it from rumours. But then my gag reflex kicked in.
Despite being somehow transported to a new world my body was still covered in slime. Which kind of sucked.
but out of all things that could've happened being transported to a new world was still a surprise.
But at least this time i was in a forest instead of being in a swamp.
I just realized something important. The deal i made with the devil is null as the devil only wanted my human body when i turned 18. I snickered at the fact that i have a much longer life now. And how this miracle came to me.
"A new start on life huh. In the middle of a forest."