That Time I Started A Life In Another World

New Circumstances

I saw my life flash before my eyes.

Ah, it was so thrilling.

Seeing death approach me so slowly felt exhilirating.

It couldn't be described. It couldn't be replicated. And as such, it was a treasure to be enjoyed.

After feeling so much of that reassuring pain. After feeling the warmth of so many guts. After everything.

It was finally the end.

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And yet, I opened my eyes. I still felt myself drawing breath. I felt the familiar muscles tensing.

I was alive.

Confusion, anger, happiness and sadness all at once assaulted me.

How did this happen? I should've died.

How dare this happen?! My life was about to come to an end, the most thrilling event of my life was about to happen, and yet, I was here?!

How good that I was alive. I could now feel more pain and find more guts.

How bad that I was alive. I was going to be punished and under the control of Mama again.

"Hey."

A voice. Suddenly, all the thoughts stirring in my head stopped.

For the first time ever, I actually looked through my opened eyes. I noticed that I was in what could best be called a steel box. I could also feel that my hands and legs were chained, but they weren't secured. I could move them just fine, there was just a chain connecting my arms and legs to the wall.

I looked at where the voice came from. There sat a young boy-

"I'm a boy."

I stared at him as he blinked in realization for a bit.

"Right, I actually look like a boy now. No need to correct the other party's thoughts now. You can continue thinking, I won't interrupt anymore."

There sat a young boy with orange hair and cyan eyes. Unlike the metal walls, ceiling and floor, the chair he was sitting on was wooden. There was also a wooden table in front him, which had a pair of teacups and a teapot on it.

"..."

The situation felt... surreal. I didn't know what to think, what to say. Just a minute ago I saw my life flash before my eyes, and yet now I was chained up in a metal room standing before a boy calmly sipping tea.

I was nothing if not adaptable though.

"Oh dear, have I been saved like a damsel in distress from a horrifying monster? How romantic~."

The boy just looked at me with no expression.

"My name is Cylob, by the way. Come on now, standing must be tiring. Sit down and enjoy some tea."

Suddenly, a chair appeared out of nowhere.

Before I sat on it though, I needed to appraise my current situation.

Considering the entirior, I'm probably in prison. And a very secure one at that.

But if it was that, then why was such a young boy calmly sitting in front of me, offering me tea?

It was all so... strange. Uncomfortable. I was not in the control of the situation, and I did not like it.

So I just had to take control.

Drawing upon my mana, I strengthened my body and-

*clink*

The chains just slightly rattled at my pathetic attempt of breaking free.