Prologue

I woke up in a strange room, staring at an unfamiliar ceiling. Confusion flooded over me. "Am I dead?" I wondered aloud, my voice sounding oddly Japanese. Something was definitely not right.

And then it hit me. I wasn't the same height anymore, and the legs in front of me weren't mine. My hands looked different too. It couldn't be real, could it?

I stumbled towards a mirror, my heart racing. My reflection confirmed my fears. "What's happening?" I gasped, scared and bewildered. It couldn't be a prank; it felt too real, too strange.

Just when I thought things couldn't get weirder, a woman's voice, much better than Siri, spoke out. A blue screen appeared, displaying an unread message.

I reached out to touch it, but nothing happened. Frustrated, I tried saying, "open." And magically, it obeyed my thoughts.

The message on the screen chilled me to the bone: [You are dead].

But that wasn't all. It listed crazy goals.

[Objective: Eliminate Otsutsuki Kaguya with your own hands.]

"You're insane!" I blurted out, unable to believe what I was reading.

And as if to tempt me, the screen offered a reward.

[Reward: Return to your world with a wish granted.]

It was absurd, like some twisted joke.