Shooting Star on Midsummer Night

Avadhi Ranata is a college student who study in computer science. He is your everyday ordinary gamer and also an avid webnovel reader. One of his current favorite genre is the one which is also trending in his time: Isekai (Other World) genre.

If you ask him why he loves that genre so much, despite so many repeated and similar events and also template tropes in its story, He would immediately answered that it is because this genre is perfect for his purpose for reading novels, which is to escape from reality and indulging in his own fantasy and ideal world. Well, you could say that his only dream right now is about living in another world where magic and monster exists. And no, it is not a metaphor. Quite literally, whenever he is asleep, he would dreams about living and adventuring in various worlds, ranging from heartwarming fluffy world like in P*kemon, typical other world in medieval fantasy setting like in Dunge*n and Dr*gons, myriad chinese cultivation worlds with their own unique cultivation system, and even sci-fi world filled with machine monsters and cyborg martial artists are some example of his every night dreams.

Even though he is like that, he also don't forget about his real life. Well, gifted with a good brain, it is not hard for him to graduate from his college as a cum laude. His only issue with his life is only on his social interaction with other people. Apart from people with whom he have business, he only have a handful of friends. All of them are also gamers and some are fellow anime lovers or the fellow webnovel fans. You could say that even though he dreams and yearn for otherworld adventure, he is quite content with his life in his current world until now.

And on that fateful day in midsummer night, he is on the top of a hill enjoying the night sky filled with stars.

"The stars are beautiful again this year."

Looking at the uncountable stars decorating the vault of heaven, he leaves a sigh while muttering lightly.

"Every star have their own system, with planets revolving around them, like our Earth revolving the Sun. Who knows how many other worlds like our planet out there, surrounding their own star...."

When he is looking up, he suddenly see a shooting star crossing the night sky.

"Going to otherworld and become overpowered. Going to otherworld and become overpowered. Going to otherworld and become overpowered!"

With a faint light glimmering in his eyes, he quickly chants his earnest wishes in his mind three times in succession in the span of three seconds while holding his breath.

"Something is wrong here!"

He realize that there is something strange going on. Instead of vanishing over the horizon, that streak of light get brighter and brighter, like it's getting closer and closer to him.

"Wha!?"

Surprised, he can't even react when that light strike him and enveloping his whole body. His vision is blinded by light and his consciousness is getting lighter as if it will fly out from his body, slipping away from his mind.

"What happened? Is this the end of my life?"

Such is the last thing he thinks with his remaining awareness, before he finally lost his consciousness and fall into the darkness....