C16: Waking up on a Thursday in another world

The crickets were no more when he woke up, but the many birds had risen instead.

Jamie woke up on the pillow the witch gave him, and it didn't actually smell like cat shit. Rather, it smelt like raspberries. "Hmmm… must be the laundry powder or something," said Jamie as he sat up in his futon.

He fell asleep in the clothes he wore for the past two days, but it didn't feel too uncomfortable for him. His scabbard was lying next to his futon, and the fire had gone out. He wiped his drooling face on the pillow to begin his new morning and checked the date and time on his new phone.

[Thursday. 13th of June 2022]

"Shit… are there Thursdays here too?" He asked himself, drowsy as he could be.

The sunlight falling through the windows looked amazing, and he wanted to take a selfie of himself with that view in the background. He was pretty excited to take his first selfie anyway.

"Hmm… let's see, turn the camera and – holy shit!" Jamie looked hot even in his goddamn bed. "Fuck me…"

Snap!

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There was a toilet in the cabin, and electricity… so surely there was a shower.

Since he simply dozed off the other day, he didn't even have time to check out the cabin by himself.

Jamie moved to the bathroom and damn… that was nice. A shower, a bathtub, a toilet which still hopefully works!

"Ha… I finally bought myself a house. Be proud, Mom and Dad."

Jamie hung his clothes near the bathroom sink and washed his face with clean cold water. However, he needed a toothbrush too.

He gazed at his teeth in the mirror and his teeth were going yellow. He was disgusted by that yellow in his past life and he is disgusted by it now! He needed a goddamn toothbrush.

However, there was this thing in his mind which just didn't slip through! What the hell was it?

"Hmmm…" he gazed at the mirror, narrowing his eyes. "AHA! SHADOW FORGE!"

Jamie looked down at the sink to look for a good place with any shadows around. If he remembered the skill detail correctly, it was about merging something using a shadow or any form of darkness. Right now, the light was shining upon the sink, but there wasn't any light under it!

"Ha…" He reached his hand down under the sink and thought about one of those ads on TV which showed the bents and the shape of the toothbrush. He thought of the toothbrush of the finest quality and —

"Walla!"

There was a small brush, the exact same size as the toothbrush he had back in his apartment! Not the color though.

He did the same with the Toothpaste, but it took more time and more energy to create that. As he finished materializing the whole toothpaste, a notification appeared!

<Your mana has been drained! Recover your mana to use magic once more!>

"Ha… haa…" his body was tired too, and he was literally panting.

'I guess materializing complex substances takes more mana.'

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After a refreshing shower, he came out of the bathroom and went straight to his new bedroom, the 'Living Room.'

All his clothes were there too, so…

"Hmm… What a fine day." He gazed out of the window, looking out for any goblins who might be walking around the woods. There was none.

His new life was going really well. The new phone he bought – with a used sim card of someone else because he didn't have a national ID for now.

*The other day at the phone shop!*

"Sir… don't you have an ID card? We need it to assign you a new sim."

"Make it 20 shickles!"

"Sir we got a fine selection of used sim cards, gladly choose whatever you like," the young elf in the phone shop had placed a nice box of old sim cards in front of Jamie, and he just had to fish one out. But that was a bullshit trade. A Sim card's true worth was just 3 shickles. Though, it was kinda worth it.

***

Jamie hummed away as he took his phone and sat down on the bed, still wearing his towel.

His pants were down on the clean, glittering floor. (All thanks to Claire.)

"Speaking about Claire, didn't she invite me to have coffee in the morning?" Jamie asked himself. He looked to his side at the empty spaces in his small cabin, and he could see nothing more than a shiny floor and wooden walls.

"Coffee or no coffee?"

Was that even a question?

"Coffee."

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Holly's House, 08:00 am:

"Jef, whatever you say, we have to agree to these shots that had caught the uprising of the Shadows! Many people are claiming this news to be a fraud, but… as the voice of the public, the KDD news reporters must look into this matter further! So – bringing you the latest news on KDD's News, Jef Fowler and I, Jim Smith will bring you the 'Uprising of the Shadows!'"

Holly was talking to her friend Jasmine over the phone when the news was playing, and the conversation was just too intense!

"What – so, what did your new boyfriend tell you, Jas?"

"Nothing, just that he's gonna kiss a little lower next time!"

"AYEEEE! JAS!!"

Holly jumped in excitement. They have been in the same conversation about Jasmine's boyfriend for more than 15 minutes and none of them were ready to hang up!

"So, so… enough about Jake, tell me about this Jamie guy." Jasmine giggled over the phone.

"Jamie? Oh, well… he's…. Oh… oh my God that body!"

"What? You guys… did it on the first fucking day!?"

"Mhm mhm… and man, don't blame me. I was drunk, he was drunk… so we can't count that, right?"

"His sausage went in you… I'm pretty sure it counts —

"Jef, look at these images! Shadows are almost 9 meters tall, and look at that! It is exactly what it's supposed to look like. Carrying that fiery spear in his hand! How can the community claim that this is a fraud? And soon enough – I'm pretty sure the Angel of Kaden will rise too! Who knows?"

"You're right on the money there, Jim."

Holly went silent as she saw the news, and she could overhear the same news playing on Jasmine's tv too. "Jas, you really believe these guys?"

"I don't know, Holly. Honestly, we all think the Daily Dose is going crazy these days without any crimes to report, but the truth is, there are plenty. They say this crap was made up – but it couldn't be made up if the Daily Dose is showing us this on screen. I mean… these guys have been the voice of the public for so long!"

Holly worryingly sat down on her couch in front of the TV and gazed at the images Kaden's Daily Dose was showing them.

"Hmm… the Demon King might just be back."