Chasing Elysian

5. A Veiled World

Rosanna's P. O. V:

The few hours I spent today flipped my world. I could neither make head or tail of what happened.

I leaned against my 'familiar' chair as I kept thinking. Thinking, thinking, thinking. Been thinking for a while now.

Recalling Aniysa's words. When I questioned the lady on answers that could explain where I am. This couldn't be earth anymore.

Flashback:

Aniysa looked incredulously at me yet yielded to my request after little hesitation.

"Okay... first thing first, the society is ruled by a monarchical order. Royalties and nobilities are those with the most influence. The Democratic society fell into dust after a new type of 'power' appeared. The first Royal family and Aristocrats were created after the first alien siege. And such titles were conferred by strength or by merit during the war."

I responded with a nod. Noting down; firstly, it was not a democratic society. And this was nm iron fist ruling type. Literally iron fist. You rule with your fist. A strong one at that.

"Three hundred years ago, a specie called 'nightwalkers' descended into Earth causing a whole new chain reaction of supernatural awakenings. The nightwalkers were the first order of demons. Widely more dangerous than the beast level demons and other low levelled ones. They wrecked havoc for decades before the Awakeners, Elementalists, and various other professions were developed in humanity to resist against the fast populating dark siege. Though great damage had already been done to humans.

Fortunately, we resisted and pushed back the demons into certain zones. Most of which ran back into hell; their world. Still, the threat lies. Periodically small stage attacks are launched from hell to Earth."

"The origin of the nightwalkers is somewhat hidden away from the public. Left for ignorant people to theorize. Anyways, long story short, humans adapted and here we are."

...

Fair enough.

Seeing my somewhat blank look, Aniysa stated. "Look, girl. I'm not a fan of this history stuff nor do I have the needed energy to tell the details. Basically, this knowledge is general and you'd best do research on google or through the public libraries. Better knowledge there. I'll send you details later, hm?"

"Sure." I agreed. Ignoring the very coincidental words of Aniysa which reminded me of the book; 'Hibiscus Wisps'.

What are the chances this would be the world setting of Author Miroko? I had read isekai stories but I did not want to believe a reality such as that in my life.

Maybe I could ignore Aniysa's words as a coincidence but not the history notes I found on google.

Nightwalkers? Demons? First Human General Alexander Von Halson? The current Queen being Natalie Athanasius? So even the researchers were confused and made a wide mistake? And to make matters more eerie, the book and Author Miroko disappeared into thin air.

Well, my life certainly got more interesting.

.

.

What was real? What wasn't? Am I Rosanna? I even doubted my identity. The things I once found as familiar became unfamiliar but deep down, accepted. It's like meeting a stranger for the first time and sinking into constant déjà vu.

My brain was in havoc, simply put.

And I needed sleep. But not until I found a short term solution. Lest I close my eyes and some red eyed beast rips my heart off with it's claws.