I woke up on a soft bed. It feels almost heavenly after being that exhausted. Yes, it must have been a dream. Although I don’t remember the road home, but maybe I was so tired I forgot about it. I opened my eyes and saw a ceiling made of wood. Strange, I lived in a modern apartment with a concrete ceiling. Bolting upright, I realised that it was not my house. Next to me, I heard a thud as someone fell off the chair next to me.

It was a cute girl of about fourteen years of age. She had an average height and blonde, waist length hair. She looked cute, like a high schooler, although her breasts were a bit und—

Wait, what was I thinking? The FBI will come after my head if I had said it out loud. And if I went back. Well, that is if I could go back.

‘Where am I? Who are you?’ I asked her, in a state of confusion. She stood up and sat back on the chair again. In a quiet voice, she introduced herself as Mary Winston, and explained the where I am at patiently. We were in the city of Edelgrand, in her house, to be exact. She then asked me for my name.

She then asked me for my name. ‘Ah, sorry. My name is Chen Nian’ I replied, ‘Sorry for being imposing on you.’ I apologised.

‘You must be from the east, right? Your name, it sounds kinds kind of eastern. ’ She replied nervously.

Thinking of it, I never really introduced myself. My name is Chen Nian, I am from China, and a game developer for Argo game developments Co. Inc. (TN: it’s long here, but only five characters in chinese).

‘Yes, I am from the east.’ I replied, looking around at my surroundings. It seems to be what a medieval room would look like in movies and cartoon. To be fair, the designers designed it to look like one, so it is to be expected. I didn’t know that they 3D modelled the insides of the house, though.

Next to me was Mary, trying to feed me porridge. The door suddenly slammed open, scaring the proverbial shit out of me. ‘Ahahaha! I heard that you’re aw— oh.’ The loud man who called to me in the field walked in, and saw Mary feeding me the porridge. ‘Sorry for interrupting, heh, heh.’ The man closed the door and Mary ran out, shouting that he was misunderstanding.

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After the misunderstanding was finally resolved, the man apologised for misunderstanding. ‘Ah, but I didn’t expect you to just immediately make a move on my daughter after being asleep for three days,’ he guffawed.

‘What do you mean? I didn’t make a move on Mary!’

‘The fact that you know her name so soon after waking up shows you were making a move on her!’

‘Then if that’s so, she’s the one making a move on me!’

‘S-stop!’ Mary’s voice rung out. We looked at her, and saw that she had gone scarlet.

After laughing at how she looked, we got down to business.

After laughing at how embarrassed she looked, we introduced ourselves. He introduced himself as Edward Winston, Mary’s father. I thanked him for saving my ass out in that field, and introduced myself.

‘Which country do you come from? Your name, it sounds kind of eastern.’ Edward asked.

‘Your daughter said it word for word, in the same tone as well,’ I snorted, before stating that I came from China.

‘China? Never heard of it.’ Edward grinned, ‘You’re a decade too young to try and trick me like this.’

‘Go to hell, you idiot. Like the one that produces the phones and game consoles a—’ My voice cut off as a grey screen appeared in front of my eyes.