Danger is stranger
I had already woken up from my bed(which is actually the floor) and went to freshen myself up. I changed into my school uniform. Of course, school time. What do you expect?
I enter the hall. Because the Fujimaru family are on a vacation trip. So, only me, senpai and Fujimaru's daughter are left in this house.
I see that the whole table is already ready with breakfast on the plate. Senpai started to eat breakfast too. I can't cook and senpai can't do that either. So, the only option left is Tora. So she made breakfast.
Fujimaru Tora, the daughter of the family that took care of me when my parents left me behind in this world. She is not that beautiful compared to Rei senpai but she is very popular due to her archery skills whereas senpai is popular for her beauty and big heart. She has short punk style brown milk melted chocolate hair that matches her eye color very well.
I start to eat my breakfast. Tora is reading the newspaper for no reason even though the only news we get is about this city, nothing more than that.
"Fujimura, don't you think you shouldn't read the newspaper during meals?"
"..."
Tora ignored Rei's question.
She's acting weird, but Tora always acts in suspicious ways during breakfast. Senpai must be used to it, as she continues to eat with no particular care.
Tora prefers to make Japanese foods.
But she learned to cook western food.
Senpai and I preferred western food, so Tora learned to make Western food for our breakfast.
We are eating our breakfast silently.
"Um, senpai can you pass me salt?"
"Sure, Seig" she handed me the salt. I pour some salt on my dish and when I eat it—
"Baaaah! This is black pepper! Who the heck changed the labels!?"
Tora throw the newspaper away
"Hahahahaha! I finally took my revenge on you!"
She laughed like a maniac crazy. Damn her.
"What's wrong with you Tora?"
"Seig called me Boss yesterday in the school!"
Of course due to her bossy nature she always try to force her rules upon us. We called her boss, a mafia boss villain for sure.
This is how the morning starts in the Fujimaru house!
We are currently on our way to school.
We reached the main crossroad.
From here, there are many roads: a big bridge leading to the neighboring city…
Introducing the characters wasn't enough. Now the goddamn town needs its own introduction, too.
…A hill road that leads to an abandoned church…
…The shopping district Tora and I always use…
…And the school we're headed to right now.
We didn't talk too much. It was early morning and the time was seven O'clock. Normal school time.
Shambhala city. A city which is very weird from its core. It is a Japanese city but the fact is that I have never seen anyone who is outside of this city. The map doesn't even include the whole of Japan. City's population is about eight hundred thousand souls which seems quite small but in fact a big number. Scary fact is that the population of this city doesn't even change. Even after the Fujimaru family went on vacation, the population is still the same. I can't understand this bizarre city.
"Are you okay, Seig?" I snapped out of my thoughts when Tora asked me.
"What? Well, I am okay"
"You really looks like lost in the deep thoughts of yours"
"Maybe"
In an unknown space…
A person is standing or not. No one knows.
The play where he is very confusing. It is like this place follows whole different rules and concepts.
"Is the stage ready?" The man asks someone who is standing beside him.
"All pieces are arranged according to their positions. The game would start soon"
Both of these beings are monsters from another dimension because they don't belong to the mortal world. The man who is appearing like a shadow is pale not in appearance but in terms of his soul. He is dead like an old tree in a dying bed.
The person who is talking to this abomination of a friend is different.
He has golden markings all over his body and it is glowing. He has long golden sun blazing hair and deep sea emerald eyes that are very deep in terms of emotions.
"My friend, this is amazing. I really feel like something different. I can see the time itself. Flow of time and space looks like nothing but a twin headed snake who try to chase each other for eternity"
"It is true, my dear child. You reached the realm that no one had ever reached other than that person.
This is the feeling of being true actual four dimensional being" the shadow smiled at his friend.
"True fourth dimensional?" The man can't help but smile like a kid who has achieved something that even genius adults can't.
"Yes. World is of mortals is made up of three dimensional matter as building blocks but for you time is building blocks. Past, present and future wouldn't matter. They are same and would loop for you"
The genius smirks a little.
"I got it. You were already beyond us and had reached this plane of existence before. This is why you always appear at unexpected times"
Both were discussing something which is another worldly knowledge that nobody possesses nowadays in an even more forgotten tongue.
Like those sages from an ancient era.
"Well, everything is okay. But I still wasn't able to understand the power of cultivation even after refining my soul through many realms.
I was only able to absorb half of the power of the cosmos. I cultivated to reach this place and now I wasn't able to achieve what I want in the first place"
"O dear Arthur. Everything is a game of chess. Be patient and understand what's going to change. Ragnarok would happen. The day when the shackles of all people who were bound to this ghetto of a world shall arrive sooner or later.
You will free one day too, O child"