Chapter 12: Chapter 12

Hmm?

What's this…

This feeling is like I'm on the air floating yet at the same time I feel a semi-solid ground beneath me

I've remembered I am just sleeping like normal as usual

I take a look at my surroundings and I see vast flowers of many kinds sprouting healthily

Vast arrays of fruit-bearing trees that have fully ripened fruits

A clean pond that has flowering lilies and a stump that has bedding and a red-clothed girl sitting on it looking at me

The girl has red eyes and light orange hair and has a face akin to a galge villainess for some reason

The girl pouts, seemingly offended by my thoughts…

Wait!

Kusa: yes, I can read your thoughts

But-

Kusa: it's a breach of privacy? Nope, it's easier this way… Though I could only read your thoughts because you are in my domain though.

Kusa: well my name is Gaia, the avatar of the world

Gaia… isn't she the sadistic goddess of the Fate series that tries to extinct humankind in more ways than one?!

Cause Alaya is the Protector of mankind while Gaia hates mankind

Kusa: Ahem!

Ah! She can read my thoughts!

Kusa: just a correction, Gaia is the will of the Planet and Alaya is the will of humankind

Kusa: But don't worry, I'm not the Gaia you've heard of

I'm a bit skeptical… So yeah, I'll roll for it for now.

Kusa: what's with this distrustful person…

It's called being cautious

Kusa: anyway, I've called you here because I wanted to say that because of my habit of removing our conversations

Kusa: you have no idea what world you are in right now

I know it's a world of collective fables, folklore, and myths that exist

I can't go to the outside world because of the barrier made by the sages

And in this world they used bullet battles as a means to solve their problems

Kusa:…

She stayed silent for a few minutes

Kusa: I'm shocked that I met a reincarnate that is so smart

Is that an insult?

Kusa: no, not at all, it's a praise… Then I will tell you what is happening in your body.

Oh…?

Kusa: though you don't remember it. I am the one that created your body…

How?

Kusa: I'm Gaia herself

Understandable

Kusa: you see… heroic spirits are strong if their masters have a vast mana pool

Kusa: but you are in the other world without a master, so I made that body not needing a master by making you absorb the mana in the air

Kusa: though Mana is your life so if you exhaust it, you will die

Kusa: and your fire consumes mana so don't get riled up, or you'll die because of anger

So basically I am a solar panel but if I consume too much energy compared to my produced energy I will be emptied and die

Kusa: that's the gist of it…

Kusa: but aren't you taking this too easy?!

I mean it's very easy to deduce to be blunt

Kusa: I guess me telling you these things is unnecessary...

Seeing how Gaia seemed dispirited and sad makes me feel bad

Uhm... Didn't you say that you reincarnated me?

Kusa: yes

What did I wish for?

Kusa: ahh! About that!

She becomes happy that I asked it

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Kusa: I have given you three wishes

Kusa: your first wish is to become Ibaraki Douji

Seriously?

Kusa: yes... I thought you are going to choose a saber to be honest, but Ibaraki that's unheard of.

Kusa: your second wish is to make your father suffer more in prison

I like that because death isn't suffering at all

Kusa: I've given him the trait of being hated by everyone, being sensitive to
pain, wounds heal slower, and being sent to the fifth layer of hell if he dies

Yup she is truly sadistic

Kusa: you wished for it! Not me!

Kusa: ahem... Your third wish.

Kusa: is to make Stella happy

Yes! Then is she very happy right now?!

Did she find someone else and have a good life?!

Did she become healthier Because she does not constantly worry for my sake?!

Kusa: she will be happy soon...

Huh?

Kusa: anyway I guess I'm just a bit worried about you but well you are more capable than I think

Kusa: so goodbye!

Wait! What do you mean, she will be happy soon?!

The entire world has flashed white

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Hmmm...

I see the sleeping face of Marisa near mine

And I'm currently being hugged like a teddy bear

I think there's cotton and some wool in the storage, I just need a dye to make a stuffed animal

I guess something better like a small version of Marisa, so she could hug that instead of me...

Furthermore, I lost my chance to jog for a bit this early in the morning

Well, I could only sleep again...

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Today is just a normal morning except I have my sword in my back

I am getting to collect some silk if possible that's why I'm in the middle of the forest and I mark the trees in order to not be lost

Ibaraki: though I could summon and unsummoned my sword

Ibaraki: fear factor can help me to be honest

About that weird dream I've had meeting Gaia...

Wait! I actually met Gaia?!

Ibaraki: this is bad... I hope she won't get offended and decided to exterminate me...

Ibaraki: but... She is actually a kind goddess despite the story she hated humans.

Ibaraki: wait, I'm an Oni, so I'm not human... Does that mean she won't hate me?

Ibaraki: I guess I dodge the bullet there...

I've felt something bad, so I jumped sideways as something has popped up in dirt

Now that I think about it, there's a clearing in this forest that means it's suspicious

It's a giant tarantula that is black sharp spikes on its body and an ominous four eyes starting at me

I think that's a Tsuchigumo, or it's English name Dirt Spider from the Japanese folklore

It's basically a giant burrowing tarantula

It shoots its web onto me, so I hid behind the tree

I tested its silk with my sword, and it's surprisingly dense, if I swing my sword slower it will cause it to stick

Ibaraki: sorry, I need you to spit all of your silk, so I could have materials for clothes

The spider seemed angry that it spit out a net patterned silk

Ibaraki: I hope it will be more than 30 meters of silk cloth

I cut the net, so it wouldn't catch me like a fish

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[A/N]

I am cringe... :(

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