A Realist & An Idealist | COTEXEITS

Chapter 1 : Entering The New World

Have you ever wondered about the many folk tales your mother and grandmother tell you as a bedtime story? Or the fairy tales your teacher has read you during your kindergarten? Or the many fantasy novels you get access to as soon as you get to learn to read?

What if some of these stories weren't just some simple stories or tales narrated by an author for entertainment, but! are something completely different and beyond our understanding, like some parallel universes that an author subconsciously gets connected to or something beyond that?

And what if some of the elements, like magic, monsters, and supernatural phenomena, contained in these stories weren't just the author's imagination? But there are some truths hidden at the very origin of these stories.

And what if our ancestors, who have witnessed such phenomena, like magic, monsters, and supernatural beings, have left records of them in the form of scriptures and folk tales for us as a reminder of the existence of such supernatural phenomena and beings, or maybe not as a reminder but as a warning? But with the passage of time and change in the perspective of the next generation, they have become the foundation of nowadays fantasy novels/stories.

At some point in your life, you must have dreamed of becoming a part of your favourite story and wielding the power of your favourite character from that story, right?

What would be your reaction, if one day you woke up and found yourself in a completely different world?

Yes, you guessed it right.

I am talking about the occurrence of such an event in reality. Just like the many novels/stories from the fantasy genre, in which the main characters find themselves in completely different worlds after regaining their consciousness. They could lose their consciousness in many different ways, like after their death, getting involved in an accident, overworking or simply dizziness. But! in most of the stories it was caused by getting involved in a traffic accident with a truck. And sometimes they get summoned as heroes to bring peace and prosperity into the world or kingdom.

Such an event would be a dream come true, right?

But it wasn't the same for me, I had never dreamed about such a thing, or more like, I wasn't even allowed to dream about anything at all. I was too busy to dream.

I have known about fantasy genres of novels as long as I can remember and I have even read some books from this specific genre during my early childhood. But they were later removed from the library at the command of my father.

My father was a very strict and ambitious person. He likes to keep everything under his control, whether it's a person or a thing. It doesn't matter much to him if other people have to suffer because of his ambition. And his son wasn't an exception, either. My father and I didn't have a father-son relationship. He also knew that too. But as I'd mentioned before it doesn't matter to him whether we treat each other's as father and son or not. What mattered to him were my achievements and his ambition of surpassing the natural-born genus with an overwhelming experience and creating a Perfect Human Being. And to do just that he has collected funds and established a facility named White Room. As per its name White Room, newborn babies were brought here as white sheets and they were then nursed into become genus or Perfect Human beings. The facility will remove everything it deems unnecessary.

But he didn't know, or maybe he knew, that such a perfect being wouldn't remain a human afterwards.

Well, enough about my father,

It was when I got to attend high school at the age of 15 that I came across fantasy novels again. As I'd mentioned my father deemed fantasy novels unnecessary for my education so he removed them from the library altogether.