Ai wo Ataeru Kemono-tachi Vol. 1

chapter 1 (To Another World)

First off, I'm translating (not my work) this bc I love this story, and I've been looking for it, and I can't find the full translation, so this is mostly for me. If you're reading ok thanks.
Also, this is a great book. Chabashira Ichigo is the original author.
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Warning ⚠️ talk about SA (r*pe) suicide and enslavement. If u are triggered by this please don't read. I will tell u when one of these paragraphs contains a TW warning tho.
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When I woke up it wasn't the world that I knew. After my job in the hospital was done, I wanted to rest my tired body as soon as possible so I am going home early that day. After I closed my eyes a light that dazzled like the sun was flashing at me, and my whole body felt like it was tossed around somewhere. When my vision returned, what appeared in front of me was not a familiar commuting road, it was an unknown forest where the trees grow.

The changes didn't just stop with the scenery, there was also a change in my body. First, my body felt very light. Even though my back pain had already become a chronic disease because of surgeries and bad sleeping or sitting posture, the pain is gone like it never existed before. From the start, my height was already not so high but now the line of sight was strangely low, the hand was small, and the legs were small too. The shoes I was wearing were fuzzy, the shirt and jacket I wore were big, and the chino pants were sliding down to my feet.

was stunned for a while because I could not understand the situation I was in, but I managed to regain my sanity and I start walking until I arrived at a lake in the forest. My throat is feeling a little thirsty so I rush to the waterside while searching for something that I can use as a container to drink the water. The water in the lake is clearer than I thought, and even if I drink it should be okay, but even now I still can't forget the shock when I see my reflection in the water while I scoop the water in my hand. It was not my face that reflected on the surface of the water. No, to say it correctly it was not the face of the present me.

 Even at the age of 40, a nurse from my workplace said that my face was a baby face and I look like a trainee rather than a long-time employee, they said my face make them feel envious, but my colleague’s doctor and boss laughed at me saying that no dignity can be felt from me at all.
However, the face that appeared on the surface was the face of 10 years old boy that has no problems in his life. No matter how much of a baby face I have, my face shouldn't look this young.

This is an unknown phenomenon happening to me when I find myself 6 an unknown place I arrived at. This is the first time I can understand that when human beings exceed their limit they can’t think about anything.

I don’t really remember anything that happened from there. Later on, when I am wandering around in the forest, I met a bad guy that pointed a knife at me. When I was surprised and tried to escape, I was attacked from behind and fainted. When I woke up later, I got myself in a carriage while wearing shackles on my hand and feet. When I arrived in a place like a town, I was dropped from a carriage and put in a cage. There was another person who was wearing a shackle in the same way as myself, but of course, they weren't Japanese. I don't know why, but animal ears are attached to their heads and their skin has scales.

Speaking of what I can remember it's just about this much. After that, I finally understood that this place wasn’t Japan or the earth that I know, this place is another world, and I was caught by a bandit and sold as a 'slave”. Fortunately, I was able to understand the language here and I can even talk using it, so I am desperately trying to tell a man who seemed to be a slave trader about my circumstances but I was laughed at and I was beaten. It was very shocking for me who was living in a peaceful country like Japan before I came to this world and has been living a life unrelated to violence to get beaten up this much.