Kubei was just an ordinary pencil and button pusher working a day job, hating his boss and making horrible speeches when one day he fell asleep after pushing an all-nighter. When he woke up, he was bound to a chair, facing three creepy robed women and in a body way too young and way too weak to be his own. As he slowly came to, he realized that he was no longer in the same universe as he was before. He had teleported to the Kingdom of Helius, where an all-powerful church rules its lands and wages war against the elusive group known only as Mages. Armed with an incredibly cocky neural interface that just won’t shut up and his own sheer wit, our MC will find himself not just fighting to survive, but maybe even something bigger than himself.
Right, the box!
What was wrong with his brain? Why would he obediently get into the box as instructed?
He felt that he was not playing with his full deck of cards.
There was no way he was going to perform on stage later, and since he was planning to escape, why would he be cooperating with the magician?
He was probably too distracted by the gathering of the mages that he totally forgot about escaping.
There was no point for him to stay since he had identified the mages in the theater. He did not intend to leap out of the box, enthusiastically take Henry into an embrace and shout, "Oh, my lad, I’m a mage too!", which could lead the thirty over mages backstage to break into a group hug and sob dramatically. No. Definitely not that.
The initial curiosity died down too.
So what was he still doing here?
He should flee!
Benjamin immediately started plotting his escape from the theater.