1 New addition arrived in the Land of Illusion and Dream
Chapter 1: New addition arrived in the Land of Illusion and Dream
Editor: the_guy (Questionable Questing)
-My POV-
So, yeah…
[Congratulations!]
That just happened….
[You have been chosen for testing a new system that we "the Creators" have established called "Pioneer of the Universe" !]
A Blue box suddenly appeared in front of my face…
[You will be transferred into another universe of your choosing while we process data about your interaction with the "locals".]
I was having a meal in the cafeteria of my workplace….
[You also will be granted an ability and item to survive in that world, and after some time, if we are satisfied with your results, we will put more investment into you.]
With my buddy that was talking about stuff, as if this blue box in front of my eyes didn't exist at all…..
[Please respond to this message by saying "System Start" in a clear voice to start the preparation of your departure. You have a time limit until tomorrow to respond to this message. Thank you.]
*blink*.
[P.S. We figure that you will have a hard time believing this message, so we will give you evidence in your hand.]
*grip* I felt something in my hand beside my spoon. I put down the spoon and opened my palm, and I saw it.
A coin, a golden coin, with the word "Pioneer of the Universe" on it.
"Dude, that's a cool coin you got there, mind if I see it?"
"Uh…yeah, sure but give it back after that okay?"
"Of course, no worries."
My buddy took the coin and examined it.
"Hmm…quite heavy, and a gold color too, where did you get it? A Cereal box? They usually used to give out this kind of stuff back in the day."
"Uhhh…probably. It just suddenly got there in my hand, you know…"
"Dude. I know you are the kind that does random stuff sometimes but I hope you aren't one of those people that use drugs or alcohol." He said with a worried look.
"Of course not dude! You know me; I'm a healthy man inside and outside."
"Yeah, whatever, as long as you don't bring trouble to me then I'm good, Well gotta go back to work." He said, giving me back the coin.
I took it and he went back to work.
I looked at the Coin and started to examine it too.
"If what I read was true then I need to research that Universe more thoroughly…and fuck work if I'm actually gonna go to another world tomorrow anyway" I said as I stored the coin back in my pocket and went to my bosses office for an early leave.
-Afternoon, My Home-
23 Years Old, black hair normal dude, not too skinny and not too fat, no girlfriend, have a couple of siblings, parents still alive, sounds normal right? And then everything changed after he touched the Internet ...well I already had the Internet before that but this is for dramatic value and that value crumbles as I speak, brilliant.
Well, back to what I wanted to say, I don't have a problem with going to another world and stuff because I want something interesting to happen in my life.
"Okay then…let's check out this program...*inhale* System Start."
[Command Received.]
[Welcome to "Pioneer of the Universe" Program.]
[In this program, the User will be granted with an ability and item that the user chooses, this will increase user survivability rate as they are sent into another world that the user chooses as well. We will record data as the User interacts with anything from the selected world, we will also occasionally give the User quests for obtaining necessary data. The User will be rewarded for these quests.]
[The User's existence will be erased from any record from the original world for simplicity's purpose.]
[Press button bellow for starting the program.]
[Yes, let's start] [No, I refuse]
[Consequence for refusal of the program will be memory deletion of this program]
[Time Limit : 22 hours 32 minute remaining.]
*blink*
Well, that's one problem already been taken care of. Now I have about 22 more hours to prepare.
I got an idea about an ability and item that I want to choose, that's like on top of my head whenever I read any fantasy novel.
Alright then, let's blow my bank account if my existence is gonna be erased after I left this world.
-6 Hours later, My Home-
After hauling 12 bags of emergency food, fruits, snacks, kitchen utensils, etc, etc, and more etc.
"FUCK! MY! LIFE!" I dropped the bags and greedily inhaled some air.
As I gasped for breath, I reached into my pocket and take out the Coin.
"*gasp* I *gasp* hope *gasp* you're *gaaaaaaasp* fucking real buddy *gasp*".
After I said what I wanted to say, I put it back into my pocket.
Taking care of the food problem, even though I can possibly buy food in that universe, but this is precaution.
Checking the time, I have 14 hours remaining.
"*gasp* Now, let's research everything about that place…"
I said as I turn on my laptop.
"Hm…maybe I need to bring my laptop too, just in case."
-12 Hours later, My Home-
2 Hours Remaining…
"….Glory to Red Bull, 12 hours without sleep, including breakfast and and…..whatever…."
I get up and begin packing my clothes, bringing 12 bags of everything aaaaand taking a bath.
Getting back with fresh clothes, My favorite jogger shirt, black jeans, and leather sandals.
"Okay, let's do this….*inhale* System Start."
[Press button below to start the program.]
[Yes, let's start] [No, I refuse]
Pressing Start.
[Please speak the name of Ability.]
"Vector Change."
[Vector Change Lv.1 is chosen]
Yeah, Vector Change, the ability of "Accelerator" from "To aru majutsu no index" series. The Ability that's prided with its absolute redirection of everything, making it almost impossible to touch the user of that ability. About why I said almost in my sentence; if you read or watched the series I do not need to explain it to you.
If I want to survive in that universe then I will shamelessly ask for this ability.
"Lv 1 ?" I asked, "Don't want to become OP immediately, I see." I nodded understandingly.
[Initiate Ability Installment]
"Wait-wha" Before I finished my words, it came, "UUAAARRRGGHHH !"
The pain came from my brain, I knelt and clutched my head, screaming from my lungs, hoping the pain would stop.
10 second…30 second…1 minute…..2 minutes…5 minutes and it's over.
[Installment Finish]
Gasping for breath, I wiped away my drool and tears.
"*gasp* I know the head is one of humanity's weaknesses but *gasp*Holy sheit that hurt like hell, *gasp* hope no one called the police to my home because of that scream."
After I calmed down, I felt it.
The Power.
It's shrouding my body. It's there but it's invisible. It's there but it's weak.
"Let's test this ability." I said, "First, slide forward."
And then I'm sliding forward ...toward a wall.
"Wait, STOPPPUUU !" I stopped, "I Need more practice with this thing and I still have more than an hour so I have time."
-50 minutes later, My Home-
1 hours remaining…
"Okay, I think I got every move set from this ability in Lv.1 state." I said reassuring myself.
"Next, the Item."
[Please speak the name of the Item]
"Infinite Space Bag, Waist Pouch Edition."
[Infinite Space Waist Pouch is chosen]
*sigh* I sighed in relief, "They actually got it."
[Transferring Item]
*plop* a waist pouch suddenly falls into my hand.
I smirked, "Test number 2."
-30 minutes later, My Home-
Less than 30 minutes remaining...
"So, items that can be stored inside are the ones that more or less fit into the opening of the pouch, huh common sense indeed."
I finished packing up everything that can fit into the Waist Pouch. One last thing….
"System, can I turn my body into 15 years old body when I finish transferring into another Universe?" I asked the system.
[Sending User Request]
[User Request Accepted]
"So Fast!" I was astonished with how quick the response is; they probably didn't care as long as they get data from my interactions.
About this "turn into a 15 year old thing", I know I'm putting myself at a massive disadvantage with how pathetic my punch is gonna be, but this is why I have Vector Change and a brand new survival knife that I just bought. Now let's hope Youkai skin isn't made out of metal. The purpose for this age thing is "Communication", about half of the main cast look like teenagers so why don't I just turn myself into a teenager too instead of a 23 years old man trying to be hip with the kids? I also want to interact with the young un too (spits into the ground).
Now, that that's taken care of.
I grabbed my leather jacket; you know what they say about jacket, "when a knife wants to meet a body, they need to meet the jacket first." Kinda obvious really but it's the truth. Additional PRO-TEC-TION !.
"System, picking the destination !"
[Please speak the Universe name]
'Gensokyo !"
[Destination : Gensokyo]
Eyup, Gensokyo it is. Flying armpit miko, ordinary magician girl, godly gap "forever 17", and other fantasy goodies.
[Insert Pioneer Coin]
Grabbing the coin in my pocket, I looked at it one last time, not regretting leaving this world, only excitement, adrenalin, fun things, and all that sweaty stuff after this. Oh yeah, I'm gonna be Youkai dinner hahahaha I'm such a pessimistic little bitch.
Inserting the coin into the blue box.
[Initiating User Transfer]
-Muenzuka, Gensokyo-
In the forest of cherry blossoms, a land covered with red spider lilies, there's a peculiar cherry blossom, the special characteristic of the tree is that it's big in size with purple colored flowers.
Once a year, the purple flower will bloom, the tree will purify its land and sever all hesitation from all phantoms and ghosts to go to Road of Liminality. So once a year, the tree will do house cleaning and tell all the spirit things to get the fuck out from here and get judged by Yama already.
And one teenager suddenly appeared in front of that big tree.
-My POV-
Suddenly my eyes scan over a forest, a forest of cherry blossoms with red lilies on the ground.
I absentmindedly stood like that for a minute before I finally realized.
"Like I said, THAT WAS TOO FAST!" I yelled from the absurdities of the situation.
After I calmed down from my outburst, I looked around and finally I looked back.
That's one big ass tree, with purple flowers at that!
Big purple flower cherry blossom tree + a ton of red lilies on the ground, only one place comes to mind.
This is Muenzuka.
The only place where an Outsider could accidentally get into Gensokyo and almost every time becomes a Youkais dinner. A graveyard for the nameless or relatively Gensokyan.
I take out my survival knife from the pouch.
Something feels weird. It feels weird. The knife feels weird. It feels…heavier.
I looked at myself, still in my attire, leather jacket, white jogger shirt, black jeans, waist pouch, and leather sandals.
"…nothing changed." Oh wait, "I forgot about it for a minute there." different voices.
15 years old body, perfect for anime cast bullshit and maybe the worst mistake of my life.
*ding*
[Starting Pioneer System]
[Scanning]
[Requesting Username, please speak Username]
Name huh…
"New life, new name, I guess.",I have been thinking about this for a while "Arah."
[Username Confirmed]
[Displaying User status]
[Lv.1 Pioneer Noob , Arah.]
[Ability points : 0]
[Item points : 0]
Okay, so I'm a noob, that's fair. But those point things are interesting.
*ding*
[1* Fight Test – In Progress]
[The Locals anticipated your arrival, have contact with them and survive]
Oh, of course, the locals.
I heard some laughter behind the tree ahead, 2, no, 3 short humanoid figures appear.
From left to right.
1 hairy head green goblin, 1 one eye green goblin, and 1 yellow goblin with ragged loincloth as their attire.
And on their head.
[Lv.4 Lesser Youkai]
[Lv.5 Lesser Youkai]
[Lv.6 Lesser Youkai]
"kekekekeke""kakakaka"kekekeke" They laughed, probably because they saw dinner appear in front of them even though I'm taller than them.
Little did they know that their dinner will be fighting back.
I readied my knife, but they just laughed harder, son of a bitch.
Oh…one of them went forward, the hairy one with smug in his face.
I made the "bring it" hand gesture with my free hand, and by the looks of it, it worked. The goblin got mad.
It jumped at me. I back off, and it landed at my previous position.
I saw the opportunity and prepared to slash at its face, speeding up my dash with my ability and attack.
It screamed, probably from the pain and grabbed its own face.
Another opportunity, I grabbed the knife with both hand and dash-stabbed its face. We both fell to the ground with me on the top. It thrashed but I kept holding onto the knife handle.
I needed to end this battle quick before the other two join, so I did a thing that had only happened in my imagination.
I dragged the knife to the direction of the knife sharp edge, and in this scenario, down.
It screamed louder, it blood splattered onto my cheek, but I needed to finish it quickly.
I used my ability to boost the dragging speed, I dragged it for a good 15 cm downward and back off immediately with my knife.
I surveyed the situation, the hairy voice died down eventually with its body twitching, presumably dead. The other two were still looking at their dead friend, dumbfounded with what just happened.
My breath got a little ragged, but more importantly I needed to calm down first, okay, my first kill, killing a big living thing, killing something that could scream, killed by my hand.
*big inhale* *big exhale*
I think I'm okay now, looking again at the other two, seems like they heard me and looked super pissed.
"Graaaaaagh !" Two of them moved up to seize me, green one on my left and yellow one on my right.
They moved slowly to my position, and I answered with backing up slowly.
Backing up, I realize that behind me was a big ass tree, so I stopped.
Seemed like me stopping was the signal for the two of them to leap at me.
I immediately put both of my hands forward, open palm with my left, and fist with my right, I lept toward their leaping figures, seeming like they were surprised by my action.
My open was left hand aimed at green face and my right hand was aimed at yellow face.
With my ability, when my hand touched them, I stopped their leaping momentum, making them lose this leaping duel. I put in extra pushing power to push yellow the fuck away from here, making green the only one I have to deal with.
It connected, both of them get carried away by my leap, yellow got pushed very far. I landed, green pinned by the mouth.
I held my knife on reverse, and stabbed at its eye, stabbed, stabbed, stabbed, stabbed, stabbed, stabbed, stabbed, and stabbed.
It was dead. I got up, my hand and knife drenched with its blood, my breath ragged, but I don't have time for this. 'Where's yellow?'
I saw it, to my right. It saw me from the distance, not moving from its position.
It glared at me, didn't come to my position. I just glared back at it.
After a few seconds of standing, it left. Probably not worth the trouble for getting a snack or getting more reinforcement, but I'm taking it as reinforcement possibility because I'm pessimistic.
*ding*
[1* Fight Test - Complete]
[Reward: 1.000 ability point & 1.000 item point]
*ding*
[1* Judgment Test – in progress]
[Get out from Muenzuka]
'Thank goodness, I can relax for a bit, but I need to do it fast. I don't want it to come back and bring back a thousand reinforcements for revenge.'
But first, I didn't have enough time to check it out 'but what's this point thing?'
[Point is a currency value in the system that can be exchanged according to its point type.]
'What is this, mind command recognition?'
[Affirmative, User only need to issue commands to the system with their mind]
'Oh my, that's so convenient.'
'Display User status.'
[Lv.3 Pioneer Noob, Arah]
[Ability Point: 1.000]
[Item Point: 1.000]
Would you look at that, I leveled up from all that killing.
Speaking of killing, I looked at the two lesser Youkai I've killed, one of them having their head cut open vertically and the other having a stab wound in its one big eye.
My shoulder slumped and I sighed.
It's unsettling to look at it, even though I'm the one who killed them but this is legitimate self-defense. After all, Outsider are free game in Gensokyo and I'm an Outsider right now.
[3* Emergency Quest – In Progress]
[Survive the encounter with the Yokai Sage]
Wha-
*clap* *clap* *clap* *clap*, a sound of clapping, on my right side, it sounding so soft but I could clearly hear it.
Clapping sound? Yokai Sage? Survive?
I turned my head slowly to my right, my heart kept beating faster and faster as I turned my head to the location of the sound, and finally I saw her.
A gap in mid air, many eyes inside the gap looking at me, as if they were observing me, no, they were observing me. Inside the gap, there was a smiling woman, sitting atop the gap, purple eyed, long blonde hair, pale pink mob hat with red ribbon in it, wearing a purple dress and a paper fan in her hand.
Yukari Yakumo.
"$%# great #$* " She said something, I knew some of her word because of anime but only a little bit.
I was confused, paralyzed, and scared, so scared that if I moved even a single muscle, I might meet my end, paralyzed by fear of this existence that named "Yukari Yakumo", confused to what she said didn't not make any sense to me.
About 2 second later, She blinked her eyes, with only that gesture, something in my heart told me that she saw confusion in me and correctly deduced why.
She raised her index finger at me and moved it down and then up, as if she was touching a button.
"Now, this will fix the problem right ?" she asked while smiling.
I opened my eyes, I could suddenly understand her.
"Yes, Thank you very much Miss." I automatically lowered my head and said my thanks.
"Oh my, what a polite boy." She exclaimed cheerfully.
"Ah yes, my mother always taught me to say thanks to whoever help me."
"Ufufu, that means your mother is a wonderful woman but please try to call me "Big Sis Yukari" next time, I don't want to feel old with the way you call me there"
"Yes, I'm sorry Big Sis Yukari." I obliged.
"Good." She smiled more cheerfully.
'What's going on, the fear in my heart just vanished completely, as if it was never there before.
Is this the Power of Conversation?!'
I looked at her level.
[Lv.? Yokai Sage, Yakumo Yukari]
...Of course...
And also, Clueless Boy mode ON !
"So Big Sis Yukari, can you tell me where is this place and what is that mons-what?!" as I looked to the side to look at the corpse.
"Where did it go?!" The corpse disappeared.
"Don't worry boy, I cleaned it up, after all nobody likes to see a corpse lying around in the open."
"I see."
"Now that's out of the way, boy, I saw your fight a while ago."
My heart skipped a beat.
"Honestly, I despise killing but this is a special case where you are defending yourself from those mindless fools."
BULLSHIT and TAKE THE BAIT ME!
"…mindless ?" I said, "Big Sis Yukari, why did you say it as if you are very familiar with those monster ?"
"Well first, they are called Youkai and second, why of course, because I am one of them." She cheerfully replied.
I immediately readied my knife.
And the fear came back again, Dammit Yukari!
"Fufufu, do not worry, I'm not a maneater." She opened her paper fan and put it in front of her lips, "Let me give you a little tip boy. Look at that road." She gestured with her head to point at a road.
I didn't want to leave her out of my sight so I kinda used my fast eye peeking technique, a technique one used for taking a peek at girls boob in bikini out of the corner of one's eyes.
"Fufu." and she laughed at me, DAMMIT YUKARI !.
"Just goes straight and you will out from this forest. That's it for my little tip boy and there's a human village out there. If you can arrive at that village, I will give you a reward."
I was dumbfounded with what she said.
I lowered my knife slightly and relaxed a little.
Yukari started getting into her gap.
"I'm sure you know what the red spider lilies are and with your abilities you should be okay boy."
The gap starting to close.
"Oh, and also you asked what this place is, it's called Gensokyo."
The gap stopped closing, its so small that only Yukari face visible through them.
"So, I welcome you to Gensokyo, Arah boy." She smiled at me as she said it.
And the gap vanished.
…..
*ding*
[3* Emergency Quest – Complete]
[Reward: 10.000 ability point & 10.000 item point]
I immediately fell into my butt.
I sighed from exhaustion.
Well, that was some experience…and things like that probably will keep happening in the future.
And of course, she knew, she watched from the beginning and listened.
I brought my palm to my face to swipe the sweat and I finally noticed something strange with my hands. They were clean.
All that blood cleaned from me, I start looking at my surroundings again.
Aside from the disappearing corpses, all looks normal, no trace of blood on the ground.
"Huh, thanks I guess, Big Sister Yukari."
Author note :
Heyo, this is Ligoya, the Author. Holy shit, I can't believe it, this is my own SI story. Usually, I'm just waiting for SI story to pop out, but look at this, I make it myself. About this version of Gensokyo, I'm trying my hardest to as close as possible with the cannon and my knowledge about Gensokyo are gonna be reveal as time and things happening because…you know…TH 15.5 & 16 coming out.
If you happen to see some typo or strange structured English, I'm very sorry. English is the second language of the author and this is my first time writing fanfiction, and also I need to find my style of writing, to become comfortable writing this stuff you know.
And now Release time, this is probably what you guys care anyway, I'm gonna try to at least post 1 chapter per week, more if I feels like it or not busy or whatever, I really wish English is my first language for smooth writing, this is like my first world problem when I write this fanfic. See you guys on the next chapter
