It’s pretty dark in hare.
Isn’t it about time to wake up?
Waking up? I don’t remember going to bed...
Going to bed? I don’t remember getting back home...
That’s right! The invasion! There was an alien invasion! A lot of lizard faced guys. Were they looking for the infinity stones?
Man, I wish I met the purple guy. Now I’m dead.
I’m supposed to be dead… right?
Right, the space invasion. I was shot in the stomach.
Really, what a bad day.
Wait, what am I so angry about?
Space ships… alien invasion….
Yeah, that’s right. I swing more toward the fantasy side, not sci-fi. Swords and magic were my thing. Laser guns and space crafts never hit the spot for me.
A gate to another world would’ve been nice. Scratch that, I would never like it if I got murdered by some random goblin immediately after getting beaten by thugs.
Wait… how did I die again?
Right right, the alien invasion.
The green creature shot a hole through me. There is no surviving that.
I don’t feel dead though… that’s weird...
It’s like I just enjoyed a really good night of sleep, something the sleep deprived me never got in a long while.
Isn’t it about time? Any minute now…
No? No system notification? No cute goddess?
Is this what they meant when they said there is nothing after death?
You mean I lived through all that misery just to end up in nothingness?
C’mon! You could at least send me to hell and let me laugh at the irony!
What did I do to deserve this?
Hmmm...
that’s strange… who am I again…?
Space invasion…
Green lizard faced aliens…
Sci-fi guns…
Girls getting eaten…
A bad day…
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Shit… I can’t remember. I can’t remember anything…
Hold on... Am I supposed to feel this good about it?
I think... I think I’m going insane… I can’t move…. I don’t feel the rest of my body…
I feel tired...
I... Have to… sleep
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Day in. Day out.
I wake up, try to remember, then fall asleep again. That’s how I counted them, but in truth I had no way of knowing how much time actually passed.
It was dark and I had no way of keeping track of time. How many days have really passed? Or was it weeks? Could it be months? More importantly, am I dead? Or am I alive?
Did the lizards really kill me?
Perhaps I was eaten, they seemed to like human meat.
An alien invasion huh… How do I know it wasn’t just a dream?
The fog covering my memories continues to expand, getting thicker each time I try to remember. The idea that everything I can still recall might be nothing but dreams felt more logical every time I thought about it.
No, it wasn’t a dream.
The scorching wound I got was real, I can still remember the pain very clearly, though the sensation itself seems to have disappeared.
Wait...
If I’m unable to feel the wound, doesn’t that mean I’m really dead? Not that I’m able to move or feel anything else. No, I am still able to feel the pain. Something like when you see someone getting kicked in the balls and grit your teeth as if you were the one hit.
Man, it would be hilarious if my luck is so bad that I survived my long awaited death.
Am I really dead though?
I can’t move, I can’t see, I can’t hear. It’s like all my senses are gone. Am I breathing?
Hold on...
I try to think about breathing. Doing that causes it changes to manual control and I feel myself struggling to keep it going. I can feel myself inhaling, then exhaling. It’s slow, but I’m breathing. Finally, a proof that I’m alive!
What are you getting happy about, idiot?
Some old guy once said: I think, therefore I exist. That guy should go eat shit. Thinking alone isn’t proof of existence. If everything else is gone, you can’t even tell if you are alive much less if you exist. But if I'm breathing, it's an entirely different case.
If I’m breathing then I’m still alive. If I’m alive then I somehow survived that alien attack. Am I in a coma right now? Or could it be that I reincarnated and am currently in the womb of some woman? I will take the later please.
I want to move…
I want to leave this place…
I want to go home…
No. I want to die…
There is no point in going back...
I'm tired of that pointless life...
If I'm going to die then please let me...
I didn’t want to survive…
I don’t care who. Someone, please end it...
Once again I sense exhaustion taking its toll on me, as if my mind is being forced to shut down. I dive into the dreamless slumber once again.
Wait, if I can feel tired, wouldn't that mean...ColdIt's coldWait… it’s cold! I can feel cold! I can feel it again!A sneeze forced my eyes tightly shut. My right cheek was against the floor. I think I’m currently completely naked too.Why?I remember floating in the darkness before my mind inevitably shut down. I remember I couldn’t feel a thing besides breathing before falling asleep. Now, however, I can feel the cold, solid surface beneath me. I can sense my eyelids pressing tightly together as well. After much struggle, I force them apart.Everything was a blurry mess, but thankfully dim enough to not cause me any discomfort. As I wait for my vision to clear, I suddenly recall the alien from my dreams and the hole it put through my chest. I instinctively reach for the spot where the wound should have been only to find nothing.There is no scare. No trace of a wound.Was it... was it all a dream?I stare at my bare skin and notice something else.This... this isn't my body...Clear, unblemished skin and toned muscles. Pecs, abb
Standing there while flashing my manhood to an armed girl, I prayed in my heart that she wouldn’t turn out to be a tsundere of the violent type. If she really is one then this situation would have either one of two endings:One: she accidentally kills me.Two: she accidentally turns me into a girl.Her reaction, blushing to the point of steam rising from her head, made me realize what a shameful first impression I was giving right now.I covered my crotch with both hands and turned away. For some reason, it felt like one of those dreams where you go to school just to notice you weren’t wearing any pants.The humiliation... I would never wish it on the worst of my enemies.Turning my back to her wasn’t any good either. Again, I had nothing on at the moment.Now, all that’s left is to wait for her to scream. If I’m lucky enough she wouldn’t resort to violence. Best case scenario I would be labeled as a pervert and it ends there.Please don't be a tsundere!As I waited for the verdict som
Her name is Lilia.She is a female Zesionien from Zsion, a planet in the twenty-first sector of the Gwabara star cluster in the galactic rim of the Luminous Veil Galaxy. In other words: she is an alien.Yeah, I know, I know. She isn’t a demon. What did you expect? A succubus wearing a white dress? Those creatures are known for wearing dominatrix-style black clothes. Although she has horns, the impression I got from our first interaction makes me believe she's more like the serious and surprisingly innocent type. Besides, this place is a little too comfortable for it to be hell.Apparently, I’m on a planet in the same area called Gorgola.My previous guess turned out to be true. Since she introduced herself by giving me the name of her species and the location of the planet it originated from then casually mentioned that we were on an entirely different planet, I no longer had any doubt that the setting I'm currently in involves interstellar travel, meaning the genre of my story had jus
Gwabara star cluster, Sector twenty-one, planet Gorgola, Lilia’s spaceship.By the time we sat down around the campfire, the sun was on its way out. A few minutes earlier my stomach started roaring. Surprised by the loud noise, Lilia proposed we eat first.I didn't know what to expect from alien cuisine but my famished self didn't seem to care. We were having the same rations as before along with some leftover soup Ms. Alien cooked the day before. Going by the color, smell, and taste, I decided to name it tomato soup.We sat around the campfire eating silently, but when we were done it was back to the awkwardness we experienced on the way here.I looked back at her ship. It was clear from the crater beneath it that it had a rough landing. Its body shell and windshield don’t look to be in the best condition and even someone with no experience like me could tell it’s incapable of flight. When I asked Ms. Alien about it as an attempt to trigger a conversation, she told me the engine was d
Sector twenty one, plane Gorgola, Lilia’s space craft. Although it looks quite small from the outside, the craft's interior is comparatively spacious. It’s clean and well organized, you wouldn’t be wrong to think it was assembled recently. In fact it’s too clean for something that crash landed from space. How is this thing still intact? “I will make something for you to wear.” Lilia said as she walked to the back. “You can’t sleep like that, right?” “That’s… something we can agree on.” I’ve been walking around like a pervert for a few hours now. I don’t want to ruin her impression of me any further. “The night is cold too, you don’t want to get sick.” In one of the corners was a glowing ring about two feet in diameter. She pointed at it and told me to get inside. “Stand here, then take that off.” Not like this, a w
After I was done with the shower Ms. Alien began scanning my body looking for any abnormalities.The tube-like space was no simple shower room. It can be used to perform a full-body scan and detect any internal ailments or injuries.So that’s what the boiling water was about, huh? You don’t know what germs and microbes might be sticking to something you found on an uninhabited planet. Better sanitize it just to be safe.I guess that’s another reason as to why she kept her distance from me. Definitely not because I smelled nasty.The scan also took my measurements. Apparently, the ship has yet another sci-fi device that can make clothes out of raw materials you could collect outside. It disintegrates said materials to their base components then uses them to make the fabric for the clothes.The clothes themselves are top quality as far as I know. The problem is they would seem strange as casual wear by human standards.Ms. Alien took it upon herself to make something for me to wear, but
What little memories I had told me I never was the kind of guy who did his business in the woods on a regular basis. It was a truly novel experience, though something told me it would have felt entirely different if we were back on Earth.Finally done, I covered the abomination I spawned with some dirt then washed my hands. The sanitizer mixed in the water stung a little, showing that it was much stronger than I had expected.When I returned to the camp, I saw that Ms. Alien was preparing to go out. She said the morning was the time she used to gather fruits since the most dangerous beasts were still asleep.When I asked why she doesn’t store some instead of gathering them every day, she explained that she only does that when making the rations.Apparently, despite being uncharted, Gorgola housed animals and vegetation that could be found on other planets in the same star cluster. One theory is that most of them were brought there during the attempts to study the planet, which ended up
About an hour passed before Lilia returned. In her hands she held what looked like a combination of huge watermelon and an apple. “Umm… what is that?” Lilia looked at me, then at the watermelon apple fruit, then at me again. “This? According to the catalog it’s a papaya.” She said with a straight face. That doesn’t look anything close to a papaya if you ask me. “… it seems… different from what I remember.” I commented, still trying to understand what part of that was the papaya. “Really? The first time I saw a real one was when I came here.” She walked over to where I stood then handed me the papaya? fruit. “It can’t be eaten like this so we have to cook it fir-” she suddenly came to a stop and glared at me “you reek.” And just like that I was forced to shower again. My clothes were washed and dried on the spot as well. We began preparing lunch immediately after. I gathered the wood for the fire, careful not to