Mike

Mike's POV

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How has life been for you?

Well, for me it has been absolutely easy.

Born into a rich family in Tokyo, with a handsome face and well-built body; one would guess I'm part of the group of cool kids in high school.

I have everything anyone could desire, and I know this very well. So when the people who are below me in looks and status gaze at me with jealous expressions; I understand them.

And it's not like I can blame them for being envious of something they don't have; can I?

But you know what? There are times when this perfect life of mine makes me grow tired.

You see, when you have a perfect image to maintain even a tiny flaw can ruin everything; it was the same thing for me.

Others did not know that I am a huge anime and manga fan!

More than half of my everyday time was spent reading manga and watching anime.

If the kids back at my high school got to know this then they might think of me as a nerd and I might no longer be counted among one of the cool kids.

So I had to hide it from them.

And I did a good job at hiding it for a long time, that is until 7 days ago.

That day, I visited an event of my favourite manga; I bought some merchandise, got the author's autograph and had my share of fun. Everything was going smoothly… that is until the evening when I was finally ready to go back home.

It was at that moment I noticed a few kids from my class standing a distance away from me, fortunately, it did not look like they saw me. There was still a chance for me to hide so I quickly opened a door that was next to me and entered inside without thinking anything.

And…

"Where am I?"

I looked around myself, just to notice that I was inside a house that did not appear to be of this age and time.

It looked like those houses seen in TV dramas set in history. I looked behind and noticed that the door through which I came here had also disappeared.

All these weird things gave birth to a wild idea in my mind.

"Did I just transmigrate to a different world?"

At first it seemed like a delusional thing to think about but my mind was screaming at me that it was all true.

So just to confirm, I swiftly found the exit of the house I was in and looked outside through the door.

"It looks like I'm in a village?"

This just made me more confident.

"Did I get any powers while transmigrating?"

I wondered because I did not feel anything out of the ordinary. Maybe there might be some clues on my body? I have seen this in many mangas where a transmigrator has some type of mark that gives them cheat-like powers.

In excitement and curiosity I removed all of my clothes and stood before a mirror that was kept in this house and looked all over my body.

"It does not look that different from before- wait, what"s this?"

There was something on my back. It looked like a complex pattern made up of something that I did not know about.

I tried looking at it with more focus and that's when I realized that I understood what this pattern said.

After I completely understood what it said, I could not stop myself from laughing out loud.

"Hahahahaha-"

"Who… who are you?!"

"How did you get inside?!"

I looked sideways at the person who disturbed my celebrations. From her question, she must be the owner of this house and from her gaze that was roaming all over my naked body I can safely say that — she must be in shock after gazing at a perfect body such as myself, right?

Unfortunately, I did not feel the same as this woman was quite old for my taste so I immediately activated the power that the pattern on my back gave me.

And lo behold.

Her gaze which must have been trembling from excitement stopped moving together with the noises coming from outside.

"Did it work?"

I had some doubts so I brought my hand near her and moved it from left to right in front of her face… her eyes still did not move.

"Hahaha, it's true I can stop time!"

I laughed and after a while put my clothes on cause it was getting cold.

After that I went outside and saw everyone standing still in whatever posture they were in; I deactivated my powers and asked around a little and soon I got an answer to which world I was in.

"It's Danmachi!"

Although not my most favorite, it still was a good world.

With my newfound powers and my good looks, I'll be able to form a harem in this world and enjoy my life!

"But before that, I'll need to go to Orario and if I go by what they said, It'll take me 6 days to go there by wagon;"

"Well never mind, there's nothing I can do about it:"

And so I first prepared money by stopping time and robbing from a shop that was nearby. This way I had money to buy food and give as fare to the wagon owner.

This way after 6 days I finally reached Orario.

"Let's go and register in the guild first;"

I thought and walked in the direction of the Guild. While I was registering I asked around a little and received a piece of news that was surprising.

"Did you just say that Goddess Hestia's only familia member is a girl?"

I asked again just in case and the receptionist before me nodded his head.

This made me quite happy because if the original Bell was to exist in this world then he would've been an obstacle in my objective of forming a harem.

After all the paperwork was done I quickly ran towards where Hestia lived to join her familia.

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