You know your day is about to get weird when you woke up to this dark room with a mirror in front of you.

I think I was asleep for a very long time when I finally wake up.

When was the last time I was awake, actually?

I don't remember if you ask me.

I only know that I slept for a pretty long time.

In the distance, I saw a reflection of myself.

Or it was supposed to be myself.

I never had this ash like brown hair in my first life and my eyes are not even pink either.

And since when did I sleep wearing a female school uniform?

Especially when it's a Japanese school uniform too!

I was from Chinese descent and while I did learn Japanese, it was conversational at most for as long as I can remember.

But in all seriousness, what the heck?

Waking up from a long sleep is one thing, but waking up and then seeing that the one in front of the mirror is you… yet not, is another.

I don't feel any differences with the body in a biological sense and I've long identified myself as a girl, but the other physical changes, such as my hair color and eyes, along with my face looking slightly different from what I used to remember too, is a weird feeling.

Wait, was my hair even this short? Like boyish undercut like hair short?

I may have prefered short hair over longer hair, the thing is that I never got to try and have this kind of haircut.

Did I also look younger than I remembered?

Before I can understand what happened and why I ended up here, the mirror started to glow.

Green flames lit up the dark room but I can't comprehend what is going on as some dark energy was oozing out and leaking the whole room.

A voice echoed throughout the room.

"Ahh my beloved…"

Um, what?

"An evil flower so beautiful and noble… You are truly the most beautiful in the world…"

I feel a strong force coming from the mirror in the room I'm in.

"Mirror mirror on the wall…"

…Getting Snow White vibes here. I can hear the next line coming.

"…Who is the most-"

The supernatural like energy surrounding the room got stronger and I can't hear what the voice said next.

All I can make out from what I hear next is the clopping of a horse.

And then there is nothing.

"O soul guided by the Mirror of Darkness…

If you so desire it, take the hand that appears in the mirror."

I opened my eyes to pitch black darkness.

First, I woke up to some room with a giant mirror that looked just like it came from Snow White and now, this pitch black place.

I moved my arm around and felt the space around me to be cramped. Like I'm inside a box;

Now what?

I didn't get time to decide that when I hear someone speaking.

"Crap, people are coming. Gotta get a uniform while…"

There was some movement in front of me while they are talking to themselves. What's in front of me is likely a door.

"Ngghhh this lid is too heavy!"

Wait, lid?

Where exactly am I-

There was a blast of blue fire in front of me and I cover my face with my arms as I jump front and landed to the ground with a thud, rolling around before I stood up.

"Why are you awake!?" The voice yelped in surprise. I turn around the area and saw a black cat standing on two feet, staring at me as if I'm a ghost.

From… its? His? The talking cat sounds like a guy, okay, his words, it seems that he expected me to drop dead and not realize what he is planning to do.

But then I realized what room I'm in.

"Why are there floating coffins?" I blurt out my question.

So I was in a coffin this whole time?

But what about that mirror room-

"You got guts to ignore me. You should feel lucky to have seen the great Grim." I turn my attention back to the talking cat, Grim, who demanded. "Hurry up and hand over those clothes!"

Wha-

"Otherwise…" Flames wreathed its body as he attempts to threaten me. "I'll roast you!"

…What.

You're telling me this… this gremlin from hell wanted to burn me alive just to strip me off the only clothes I have in my back?

Oh hell nah-

I have to escape but that thing will chase after me if I run right away. I need to think of a way to distract it before I leave this room.

My eyes scanned the room before it landed at the coffin I was in earlier. The lid to the coffin was open.

I walked away from the… well; monster would be more accurate; that tried to burn me and headed towards the coffin, glancing back at him as I walk towards it.

The monster followed after me as I get closer to the coffin, it is now on the ground with all fours, attempting to pounce at me with his claws.

"You're not escaping the great Grim!"

He pounced. I side stepped to my left and the monster yelped in panic as he saw me dodging him, jumping into the coffin as he did so.

I quickly grabbed the lid and closed it before he got a chance to react.

I sprinted away from the room as soon as the lid of the coffin closed.

I didn't have a place in mind when I ran, all that kept me going was that I had to run as far as I can, away from that… that chamber of coffins.

Seriously, this place outside of that chamber is bigger than I thought.

I feel like I was running through lots of corridors in my tunnel vision of escaping that room and that monster.

My run came to a stop when I bumped into someone. Stumbling as I try to regain my balance.

"Sorry about that but I am in a rush. See you."

"Where are you rushing to in that state, young child of man?"

I stopped when the person I bumped into asked me a question.

Without that early tunnel vision, I now look at a pale looking boy who looked about as tall as I am with jet black hair with additional streaks of neon pink coloring the strands of his hair. Or I think it was neon pink.

"Oh, it seems you are hurt, young one."

Huh?

"Your hands seemed to be burnt." He pointed towards my hands. I looked at them just as he told me, there were some burn scars littering my hands.

Must be from when that monster burned the coffin I was in.

"Hold still." The boy held my wrist and pointed a pen with a huge gem adorned above it towards my hands.

I stopped when I saw a glow emitting from the pen and the burns in my hand fading, as if those burns weren't there in the first place.

That's… that's definitely magic. There's no way burns could heal instantly. Then there was that talking cat monster earlier-

…I just got Isekai'ed aren't I?

That would certainly explain why I have an appearance that I vaguely recognize as myself, yet not. And how I woke up in that coffin;

Though that means I died before I end up in my current body…

…But if I died, why did I only have the memories of my first life before reincarnating? Why are the memories of my reincarnated self… blank?

…No time to think about it now.

"…Thank you." I thanked him.

The boy looked at me strangely before a small smile formed at his lips. "You're welcome, young one."

Then he started. "Now then, why are you running away from the Entrance Ceremony?"

What.

"What Entrance Ceremony?" I asked.

The boy raised a brow at me.

"…Were you not one of the new students of Night Raven College who are attending the Entrance Ceremony?"

What?

The boy was about to speak something to me but that was interrupted when the area bursted in blue flames.

"There you are human!"

Oh no.

"This is a warning shot from when you lock me shut in that coffin earlier human!" The monster stood in front of us now, showing off a satisfied grin as he stepped forward.

"Now hand over those clothes unless-"

"I'm neither interested in bestiality nor am I interested in stripping naked for a gremlin who attempted to burn me alive as soon as I woke up just for it to loot some clothes from my corpse." I blurt out.

Look, I woke up first thing to this talking monster demanding me to strip and hand over my clothes, the only clothes I had on my back, mind you. That's the only conclusion I could manage to think of as to why this monster demanded my clothes.

If someone in the middle of nowhere demands you to hand over the only clothes you are wearing, I'd consider that they have horrible ideas in mind for what they will do to me.

Either way, what this gremlin wanted out of me is very inappropriate and rude. No matter his reasons for doing so.

…Why am I even blurting that out loud anyway? I wasn't even this blunt back in my original world.

Meanwhile the gremlin managed to stop attacking for a moment as he pondered at my words.

"What do you mean by-"

He didn't have the chance to finish that sentence when there was the sound of a whip cracking and bound the gremlin from hell incarnate.

"Fgyaah! Ow! What is this cord-"

"It is not a cord; it is a whip of love!"

The bounded gremlin is now held under the mercy of this tall man with a mask that resembled a crow and a pretty fancy ass looking cape. Crow man then turned to me.

"Ah, I found you at last. You must be one of the new students."

Um what-

The boy beside me cleared his throat.

"Ah, Vanrouge-kun; Are you on your way to the Entrance Ceremony?" Crow man greeted the boy… Vanrouge;

Vanrouge nodded. "I fear that the invitation to the Entrance Ceremony did not arrive to Malleus again like the previous times so I was about to head over to the Mirror Chamber… and that was when I came across the young one running into me."

Hearing that, the masked man turned to me with a frown. "You shouldn't have left the gate on your own."

"In retrospect, that thing," I spoke up, pointing towards the bounded cat monster, "burned the coffin I was in."

Hearing that, the man scrutinized him. "So it seems the culprit was this Familiar."

Familiar?

"Let me go! I'm not anybody's familiar!" The cat monster hollered.

"Yes yes, all the rebellious ones always say something along the lines. Please quiet down."

With a snap, the cat monster was gagged with what I assume as silencing magic.

"Now we shall be off to the Mirror Chamber. I trust that you could help brief the new student then, Vanrouge-kun?"

The crow man left with the cat monster without even hearing our replies.

I stood and stare at Vanrouge. "Is he… always like this?" I motioned my hand to the crow man who just left.

"Unfortunately, yes. At times;" He answered. Before he added, "Apologies about our headmaster, young one;"

Headmaster?

That man with a crow mask is the headmaster?

Am I in some Harry Potter-esque school?

Admittedly, I never follow Harry Potter beyond the one time my school screened "Prisoner of Azkaban" for my peers during elementary but I'm familiar enough with Harry Potter to know that it's a magic school with a sorting hat.

Anyway;

"May I ask you about what exactly is this place? That cat monster demanded me to simply hand over these clothes on my back and didn't tell me anything else beyond his threat of wanting me naked." I explained.

The boy blinked. "My, it seems you are disoriented due to the transportation magic."

He smiled. "Very well, I shall explain to you as best as this old one can."

"You don't seem old, uh…"

"Lilia. Lilia Vanrouge." He introduced himself. "I shall inform you as we venture to the Chamber."

We both started walking back towards that chamber of coffins they call the Mirror Chamber. Along the way, Lilia started to explain where I am.

"To start, this is Night Raven College. This is a school where those with magic gather together from all over the world of Twisted Wonderland."

Twisted Wonderland? That sounded familiar for some reason-

"Only those chosen by the Mirror of Darkness are allowed to enter this school. Those chosen by the Mirror of Darkness are usually brought here by an Ebony Carriage carrying a gate."

"By gate, you mean the coffins?" I asked.

"Yes." Lilia affirmed.

That could explain the sound of clopping horse hooves I hear before I woke up in that coffin.

"That Crow man is the Headmaster?" I wondered.

"Yes. Chosen by the Chairman of Night Raven College; His name is Dire Crowley."

Ah. I nodded at Lilia.

"Now come, young one. We have almost arrived."

Right in front of us, there was a crowd of people gathering around this one mirror and there stood the Headmaster, the cat monster still bound.

I hear him speak to some group of people. "Not only did one student go missing, you have also forgotten to invite Draconia-kun to the Entrance Ceremony that Vanrouge-kun had to come as his representative!"

The room burst into murmurs as the name Draconia was spoken.

"Draconia as in… that Malleus Draconia?"

"He's in this school?"

The students he addressed at least had the decency to look embarassed at that.

Well, as embarrassed as some of them can be for leaving out someone.

"It's as I feared." Lilia let out a sigh as we moved.

I took note of the attire everyone was wearing and also what I'm currently wearing now that adrenaline left my brain.

It's a black shirt and pants with a purple accented robe covering it.

The shirt and pants are alright, but the robes… Why does this look like that we're all participating in some ritual to call the demon?

With the crowd wearing the same things as I do, this looks like a weird set up of a cult.

Wait, I remember that school uniform I wore beforehand, did they just magic away my uniform to this?

I'm probably asking way too many questions but in retrospect, this situation I'm in is utterly confusing.

As Lilia and I stepped forward to the chamber, the Headmaster turned. "Ah, there you are."

Lilia took a look and stepped aside, going towards where some students gathered as the Headmaster gestured his hand to me. "Now come. You are the only one who has yet to be sorted into a dormitory yet. Now step up and stand in front of the mirror. I'll take care of the racoon."

I could only comply because I didn't have a choice. So I walked my way up towards the gigantic mirror that stood in the center of the room.

This mirror seemed familiar…

"State thy name."

My mouth ran faster than my thoughts, like it was instinct;

"My name is Yuu."

That's not my name my name is-

"The shape of thy soul is…"

The mirror paused before it answered.

"I do not know."

There was silence among the crowd and the headmaster implored. "Come again?"

"I sense not a spark of magic from this one… The colors, the shape, are all nothing."

And the mirror declared. "Therefore, this one is not fit to be in any dorm."

Murmurs filled the room and I blanked out as my mind analyzed the situation at hand.

I was born in a world where the concept of magic is but a myth to most of the population. Of course I wouldn't have magic in any form.

Well, before I reincarnated into my current self, "Yuu", at any rate.

Why am I even in this Magician's academy anyway?

This is starting to sound like your good old Isekai manga plot if you ask me.

…I should actually freak out right now like any normal person but my instinct went on "Analyze and calmly think of a way to get out of the situation first, freak out later."

Is this because of whatever life I went through as "Yuu" before I was summoned here?

What kind of life did I go through actually-

I felt something tackling me from my right and I stumbled before I recovered my balance on the ground.

I saw the monster cat who called himself Grim who stood and declared. "Then let me take that place! I can use magic unlike that dumb human!"

I got a bad feeling about this-

"If you need proof, I'll show you how great I am! "

"Everybody get down!"

I obliged to that warning and jumped down from that platform.

I landed onto the ground on my two feet and then blue flames emerged and surrounded the whole room.

"What is going on!?"

"Wahh! Hottt! My butt's on fire!"

There were way too many voices of people panicking left and right-

No no make it stop make it stop make them stop talking-

No. Calm down.

Panicking will get me nowhere in this situation. I don't even have time to breathe and make clear of what kind of situation I got into but first, I need to deal with what is happening right now.

Steadying my breath bit by bit, I look around the room.

Some of the students are separated and end up scrambling around the room. A group of students are panicking while another group tries to help maintain order and get the panicking students to calm down.

The fire is spreading quickly and the heat is unbearable… and blue flames in general are hotter than normal flames.

In the corner of my eye, I see some of the others just standing by and watching. Like it wasn't their problem;

I scrunched my brows at the sight. Like, Really?

This might be a magic school but fire is still very much a threat!

Somebody could have gotten badly burnt or die from the fire!

With a goal in mind, I walked my way out to the three students nearest to me who got separated from their groups due to the panic.

"Hey."

The three students, boys, heard my call.

I couldn't see their faces but I could make out some of their features. One has tanned skin, one has blue-ish green hair and the last boy has dark purple hair. At least from what I could manage to make out of their features under the hood.

"You're the magicless kid." The blue haired one who stood in the middle of the three spoke, recognizing me.

"Talk later." I interjected. Questioning them, "How well can you use water magic?"

The three looked at each other before answering one by one.

"Not that well but I could still use it." The tanned one spoke.

"Water is like air to me, I can use them well." The middle one answered.

"Ehh, pretty decent if you ask me;" The last one admitted.

Well, it's better than nothing.

"I'm going to need your help to extinguish some of the flames before they spread any further."

The three stare at me incredulously.

"Why should we listen to someone who didn't have magic?" The tanned skin one questioned me, perplexed.

I retorted. "It's either we survive and stop the fire, or we all die from arson and let this fire spread towards the whole building. Would you rather die right on the first day of getting into the school of your dreams?"

That shut them up quickly.

"That's…"

"He… he has a point…"

…He? Did they think I'm a dude?

…You know what, no time for that.

"So what do we do?" The blue haired one questioned.

I looked around the room to see which area took the most damage. Then I remembered the guy whose butt was burnt.

"Let's extinguish the flames on the guy who got burned earlier and after that, extinguish the flames around the area. But don't extinguish the larger flames yet, that's a death wish in the waiting. So start with the smaller ones before we get there. I'll keep an eye on the flames."

The tanned one grinned. "Leave that guy to me; he's my dorm's leader!"

"I'll be following Octavinelle boy to extinguish the flames!" The purple haired one chirped.

"The Octavinelle boy's name is Lyle." Lyle drawled out his name and turned to me. "You should come with Ignihyde kid and me and tell us which areas are left to be extinguished."

"My name's Mel!" Mel grinned as he followed after Lyle.

I nodded and followed after the duo, observing the area around as we start extinguishing the flames that are starting to spread out.

The duo took out a pen with gems of different colors embeeded to it and channeled magic to it.

Waves of water emerged out of the pen and snuff out the blue flames they saw.

Meanwhile, I scan around the area near us for any flames while the duo stood behind my back, on guard and ready to use their magic.

"Mel, at your left!"

"Aye!" Mel saluted at me.

"Lyle, on your right, two o'clock!"

"Alright." Lyle nodded at me.

We kept at it for a good while, like our rhythms matched to a beat.

"Is there anywhere else that we need to note of?" Lyle wondered.

Hand on my chin, I observed at which areas are still surrounded with flames.

"Only those surrounded by the larger blue flames are left." I informed them.

"Leave that to me!" A loud voice declared behind us. We turned to see the tanned student approaching and brought along with the person whose voice I recognized to be the one who got burned.

The person grinned. "Thanks for helping out with the fire on my butt by the way! Kasper told me!"

I looked at Kasper, who turned away as soon as he noticed my gaze. "Look, I don't want my groovy entrance ceremony to get ruined and it's a good chance as any!"

Huh. What a way of saying that when your ears are red. Like a stereotypical Tsundere reaction.

"Anyway, I'm Kalim Al-Asim! Dorm head of Scarabia!" Kalim introduced himself and soon asked. "So where are the places that are left to snuff out the flames from?"

Ah right. "Over there." I pointed my hand to where the larger flames are spreading.

"Ok, lead the way!" Kalim smiled at me.

"We're coming with you too." Lyle spoke up.

"The more the merrier, Dorm Head Kalim!" Mel grinned at Kalim.

Kalim grinned back. "Thanks! Now let's get to it!"

The merry group of one dorm leader, three new students and me, the possibly Isekai'ed person, went on our way around the room to stop the spreading flames.

"Kalim-san on your left, seven O'clock!" I directed.

"Okay!" He grinned as he followed my directions.

"Kasper, right above you!"

"I hear you!" Kasper groaned, not liking the idea of being ordered by anybody, but he complied nonetheless.

Lyle and Mel followed my lead quickly as well as I pointed towards the areas still wreathed in flames.

Having the help of four magicians makes a big difference because the flames are snuffed out very quickly in the blink of an eye.

I didn't notice how much this has been going on but by the time I noticed it, the flames are completely extinguished.

"…That's all of it." I informed them.

"You did great!" Kalim complimented me. "We would have to wait for the teachers to stop the flames from spreading if you didn't take the initiative to stop them from spreading!"

I couldn't help show a small smile at that. "It's nothing. I'm just doing what any normal person would do."

"You wouldn't call that normal when you were overly calm throughout the whole situation." Lyle pointed out at me.

Huh, he has a point. Maybe it's to do with me having and keeping my reincarnated self's current emotional response to things… I'll deal with this momentary disassociation later.

"We managed to prevent a disaster at any rate!" Mel smiled.

"Now let's head back!" Kalim ordered and so we walked back.

By the time the flames are all snuffed out, we returned back to the center of the room and saw two students in front of the Headmaster.

Kalim returned to his position while the three students walked back to their rightful groups while I made my way towards the Headmaster and the two students.

One of them held the cat monster responsible for nearly burning the whole building and he shouted.

"Off With Your Head!"

…Why does this guy sound like the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland for some reason?

…Wait.

Oh.

Oh shit.

I'm in Twisted Wonderland!?

That mobile game where Disney Villains become pretty boys with Toboso Yana-sensei in the helm for character designs?

That Twisted Wonderland?

Fuck.

No wonder it sounded familiar!

Then… that means this guy shouting "Off with Your Head" is Riddle Roseheart!

Now that I think about it, I thought the name Kalim seems familiar but I didn't get time to think about it because it's a dire situation where we're on the verge of nearly getting burned alive…

…Yep, given what I've gathered right now, I probably got sucked into an Isekai via possibly dying, reincarnated into "Yuu", and then punted into the world of Twisted Wonderland.

I stopped thinking and got back to the situation at hand to see the gremlin from hell that possess underworld flames, of all things, attempting to use fire again but to no avail. It just looked like a cat that is trying to take off it's medical cone.

"Huh? I can't use my flames!?"

Riddle harrumphed. "Hmph. You won't be able to use any magic unless I remove it. You are but a regular cat under that collar now."

"What!? I'm not a pet!"

Riddle then turned towards me. "This cat is yours, is it not?"

Hearing Riddle, the Headmaster then approached me with a frown.

"Yes, you must do something about this! It is your Familiar, is it not!?"

I feel a grating irritation at the man's accusation right now.

Good grief, I really dislike teachers who barely listen to what the students have to say and believe that they are the ones in the right.

Even if said teacher is the headmaster of this college.

"…If that gremlin from hell is mine," I drawled, I was getting annoyed at the headmaster's assumption. "That gremlin wouldn't have attempted to wake me up, trying to make me strip and go out naked, and then burned me alive for refusing."

"Train him properly-"The headmaster paused. My words registered into his mind as he questioned. "He's not yours?"

I couldn't help roll my eyes as I spoke my following words. "I have never seen that gremlin from hell in all my sixteen years of life."

"O-Oh, I see…"

I exhaled a sigh as the older man fumbled for a moment.

…Wait, sixteen?

Since when was I sixteen?

I remember that I was twenty three years old back when-

Ah.

Didn't I guess that I possibly reincarnated into my current body?

That could explain why I called myself "Yuu".

Ugh, there are only guesses and probabilities to my situation at this point.

My head is going to hurt.

The masked crow man then cleared his throat. "Now then, you are lucky that we did not decide to turn you into stew… for I am benevolent."

…That doesn't sound benevolent to me.

With a snap of his fingers, the Headmaster summoned robed apparitions near him.

"Take this monster out of the academy, please."

The apparition obliged and took the cat from hell incarnate away from Riddle's hands.

"Fgyah! Let me go!" Said cat monster struggled against his captors but to no avail, as he is brought further away from the vicinity.

"I will… I will…"

He then declared.

"I will become the greatest magician in the world!"

The doors then closed.

…Really? He demanded me to strip just so he can be one of the students here?

...What he planned to do of me is still completely inappropriate. Monster logic be damned.

And that doesn't even excuse the fact that he resorts to arson when things don't go according to his plan like a kid throwing a tantrum because they couldn't get what they wanted from their parents.

That gremlin gets no sympathy from me. No matter his reasons, it's no excuse for the damage he did.

Nope.

That motivation of his will not stop me from calling it "Gremlin cat from hell" for as long as it lives.

"Excuse me."

I turned my head to a see the student that was chasing after the gremlin from hell with Riddle approaching me.

I can make out a glimpse of silver hair and glasses underneath that hood.

…Speaking of which, Night Raven College is an all-boy's school isn't it?

I didn't follow everything from Pre-release but from the cast shown, it only made sense that Night Raven College is an all-boy's school.

Which… well…

Anyway;

"…Can you repeat what you just said?"

What I said? What I said to the headmaster, maybe?

"…That gremlin from hell isn't mine?"

He shook his head. "No, after that;"

Oh, huh.

"…He woke me up, trying to make me strip and go out of the room naked, and attempted to burn me alive for refusing."

I received blank stares aimed at my direction in response.

I clarified. "That thing tried to steal the only clothes I had on my back and you'd think I'd comply? It's common sense."

Understanding had dawned onto the onlookers and I hear the whispers from the crowd who heard us.

"So not only did that cat try to attempt stealing some clothes, it also attempted murder?"

"Well, that cat did set the whole room on fire earlier…"

"That phrase sounded wrong in so many levels out of context."

…Oh. Well.

That did sound wrong at another angle...

Get your mind out of the gutter!

I said that and yet I also had a similar conclusion to why this monster demanded me to strip my clothes off.

"At any rate," the headmaster starts again. "Despite the troubles that plagued us today, this draws the Entrance Ceremony to a close. Dormitory Leaders, please show the new students back into their sorted dormitories."

The Dorm leaders obliged.

Lilia then spoke up. "Those sorted into Diasomnia can follow me."

After he informed that, he turned to the headmaster. "What will you do with the young one there?"

Oh, he must mean me.

"Fret not, Vanrouge-kun. I'll take care of it."

With that, Lilia nods and left the room.

The audience has completely dispersed and now, there's only the headmaster and I left in this room.

"Now then; Yuu-san." The headmaster addressed me. "I am terribly sorry but we must have you leave this school."

"Because I don't have magic?" I wonder.

"Yes." He bluntly answered.

Oh well. It's a very strange and hectic Isekai trip while it lasted.

"Do not worry. The Mirror of Darkness will send you back to whence you came from."

That sounds like tempting fate given what I know about several Isekai genre manga and webtoons but I stopped myself from saying that outloud.

Not when the headmaster is hospitable enough to send me back to where I came from.

…Well, where my current self came from, at any rate.

"O Mirror of Darkness, Guide this soul back to where it is once from!"

The mirror didn't respond.

The lack of response had the man coughing. "One more time, O Mirror of Darkness-"

"It is nowhere." The mirror answered.

"Eh?"

…Sometimes I hate that I was right about a genre and how things will go because of that.

"The place that one belong to is nowhere in this world."

…Huh.

Well, I already died once and maybe I died again as "Yuu" too, maybe that's why I can't return to where I came from.

After all, you can't return someone who is already dead back in the world they are summoned from. Or at least that's the law I know from these kind of reincarnation flavor Isekai genre.

That or "Yuu" is in a coma. Who knows?

"- so where do you come from?"

"Huh?" Oh no, I must have been too deep in thought.

"I ask of where you come from." The headmaster repeated.

"…Going from what I managed to gather so far, the place I was from isn't in this world." I spoke up.

"…Come again?"

The headmaster asks me to repeat what I had said. Then again, it's been a very weird day filled with a lot of chain of events. Can't fault him if he's utterly confused;

I instead concluded.

"If you'd like an easier explanation… I'm from another world."

Shuu: Do I actually want to write a Twisted Wonderland SI when I still got other fics I haven't finished?
Friends: DO IT
Shuu: …Well then!
That was how I decided to start this SI. I'm aware the game has recently just released around three months but I've been itching to write something for Twisted Wonderland along with some of my friends telling me to go write it so here I am.
This is supposed to be AO3 exclusive until I found out about the Disney Twisted Wonderland category being available here so I decided to cross-post this.
Now about our protagonist... For what it's worth, the SI barely knows anything about Twisted Wonderland beyond pre-release stuff when the announcement of the game first came out so the existence of Grim and the fact that she has taken the place of the MC is a complete surprise for her. (On another note, she also wasn't aware that there was even an MC for the game in the first place) She also wasn't there when Grim got announced so she doesn't know anything about Grim.
So essentially, The SI is going into the story blind. She doesn't know what to expect beyond what little she knew of the game, which might change things. Since this is the SI's new reality now;
The SI is also dealing with some identity disassociation added onto THAT so this is going to be a ride.
I have the appearance of the SI at my tumblr blog (shuuenmei there) if anyone is interested.
That's it for now. If you have more questions, you can review here or find me at my tumblr.
See you next time!
- shuu