Chapter 2

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I woke up.

My body feels so heavy and sluggish.

Hmm~ What happened... But before that, where am I?

I got up and looked around... Oh~ trees, trees, and more trees.

And there are so many huge trees that seem to have been around for hundreds of years.

Between those huge trees, there are some younger ones, a huge tree, young trees, young trees, and a huge tree.

...Let's just calm down for a moment.

No matter where I look, I see trees.

I turned around to check, it's a forest.

And for some reason, my body feels heavy and sluggish.

Moreover, this forest seems to be covered in a dark shadow.

Can't I do something about this heaviness?

The dark shadow is making me feel down.

Let's think about where I am, assuming this is a forest.

Let's recall what happened before.

Hmm, I'm sure I heard three voices calling me an apprentice... Yeah, that's right.

Could I have been caught up in the hero summoning they were doing?

Hero summoning... I remember it from the manga my sister reads.

Even though I didn't ask, she would come over and talk about it until she was satisfied, so I remember it vaguely.

If I recall correctly, it involves summoning a hero to another world...

Ah, so this might be another world...

Hmm... Could it be that I can't go back?

...

"Damn it!!!!"

I got irritated.

So I shouted to release my stress!

I pushed all the air out of my lungs...

Feeling a bit better.

My sister always says, "It's not good to keep it in!" I remember hearing her yell from her room before exams.

This method is actually pretty good for stress relief.

Alright, let's face reality.

This is probably another world... right?

Another world... the manga my sister reads... there should be some standard things.

What were they again?

The standard in another world is... magic.

Yeah, magic!

Oh, monsters!

Crap, I shouted too loudly.

I looked around to check.

No, there's nothing.

I checked again slowly, because I'm scared.

Nothing.

"Phew~... Still, it feels creepy."

Since I woke up, I've felt something clinging to my body.

Moreover, it feels like it's seeping into my body... Is that weird?

No, that's how I feel...

...It seems like the dark shadows are increasing.

Let's just think... Where in another world am I?

I want to call for help, but all I can see are trees, nothing else.

If I'm in the middle of a deep forest, that would be bad.

Still, I feel worse and worse.

A kind of heaviness and nausea I've never experienced before.

...The heaviness and nausea remind me of the comments from the participants in the ghost show I watched yesterday, eh!... Ghosts?

Could the dark shadows be the curse of a vengeful spirit?

...Do visible curses exist in another world?

"Haha, no way... No, no way, right?"

Let's try to dispel evil spirits... No, that's not right.

I said it out loud, but nothing changed, and it felt embarrassing.

Hmm, in the manga... purification magic?

I whispered to the thing clinging to me, "Go away! Purify."

...Phew... What am I doing... I need to calm down.

Vengeful spirits, how silly of me...

Moreover, I don't even know if magic exists.

Absolutely... huh?

...My body feels lighter... like...

Haha, no way.

I tried it on the black shadow in front of me,

"Purify"

...It worked.

If purification worked... really a vengeful spirit? Evil spirit?

Haha, a world where magic works~

Sometimes it's good to escape reality.

*Growl*

...I need to face reality, there's something behind me.

The protagonist is currently wandering around.