New Start [1]

I was standing in the middle of a vast plain filled with nothing but wildflower. Clear summer sky with small speck of clouds above, it's a bit windy. Over the horizon, I could see nothing. The plain was soo wide that it covered my field of vision.

I walked around the flower field. There, I spotted a figure in white attire sat down while hugging knees. I approached that figure because my feet told me to.

I could see clearly who it was, girl in a pristine white dress. Just a simple one-piece dress. The skin tone was that of pale rice-like white. Her long black hair tied in a single braid. I couldn't see her face, but I have a feeling that she was a beauty.

As if aware of my arrival, she turned her head. And it's true, she was a woman with exceptional charm. It was not a good thing to compare one person to another, but in my two-life, I have never seen someone this beautiful. I couldn't describe it clearly, but she has this simple and pure charm that made her very exquisite.

She looked at me while tilting her head sideways, puzzled. Her almond-shaped and almond-colored eyes gazed at me absently. She then smiled beautifully.

With her slender left hand, she beckoned me to come. Lured by her, I walked to her.

She patted the spot next to her and indicating with her eyes to me. I sat down on that spot.

We didn't speak any word. And even I wanted to ask something such as, 'where is this place', 'who are you', or 'is this a dream'? But I couldn't speak a word.

As if, I'm fully aware that my brain wants my body to move. And my body didn't receive the signal, thus not responding to what the brain commanded. It's just like ..., I was in a paralyze dream.

However, it was different. I never felt the world to be this vivid inside a paralyzed dream. The plain, the sky and this woman ..., it was too real, that made this on the verge of being surreal.

After the long silence, she turned her attention to me. With a smile that was both kind and gave motherly-vibe, she asked.

[Why?]

Why ..., what?

That interrogative word couldn't be answered if you don't give me some context.

Why both of us are in here? I don't know either.

Suddenly, the flower field burned as if it was a background made out of paper.

The sky cracked. And there was a loud explosion that originated from the white-dressed woman.

The impact sent me to fly away and I felt there's a heavy load in my chest.

Why she said?

That should be my question!

The hell with this suicide bombing!? And where the hell am I?

I cursed inside, my two hands were holding the woundless chest.

Oh thanks, that was just a dream ... By now I already regained control over my body.

I was inside my room. Two single-bed, a dresser, one table, a cheap electric fan, and a small-sized rice cooker, with some dirty laundry scattered around the floor.

This is my room. Right, it's a rented room that I shared with my cousin.

Ahahaha ..., so that's it? So everything that happened, I who was crushed by the fast MRT train, the reincarnation and some stuff that happen after that, is just ..., a dream?

I poked the cheek of my sleeping cousin. And when he woke up, he cursed at me because I disturb his sleep. Even trying to strangle my neck. Yep, this is my cousin.

Somehow I feel relieved. It's truly a nice dream. To think that I'll dream about reincarnating into another world that was based on the game ..., and then do that some ecchi stuff with Venetia and Rosetta.

Uh, wait a minute ...

If I did all of that with them and ejaculated while I'm dreaming, I should be wake up and found my crotch drenched in a sticky white liquid. That should be the case whenever I got a wet dream. But no ..., that's not the case. And I did the exact 'that' twice.

So ...

I'm still inside my dream.

"Yep, this is a dream ..."

As if agreeing with my mutter, the scenery changed once again. The transition this time was like everything around me melting. It turned dark as if all the light was gone from the world.

I'm lying in my cozy king-sized bed on the Winter Mansion. Drenched in a cold sweat while gasping for air.

My hand, and this body ..., it belongs to Marth-kun.

As I thought, it was only just a dream. And this is my new reality.

I'm still in Marth's body, and I woke up in the main bedroom of Winter Mansion.

I let out a sigh of relief. It was really a strange dream. I want to get a cup of drink to relieve my thirst.

Ehh ..., if I recall it correctly, I put the bowl and wet towel in this night table, right?

I used that to wipe clean the nosebleed on Diana's nape. But ...

"Oh really ..., so this is another layer?" a realization struck on my head.

And again the scenery change.

The layer of these dreams changed alternatingly between the real world and the new world I'm currently reincarnating.

The duration of the dream was unknown. I can live for ten years in one of the dreams and forget everything that happened in that peculiar dream when I'm in another layer. I only got the time to remember it all when I was in the 'transition'.

Every time I moved into another layer, there must be something devastating happening.

There was a layer of a dream when I got NTR-ed by Eldrite Araphaime. He stubbornly wanted to make my sister, Venetia, his wife. He kidnapped her on the way to Hagia, after killing my mother and little sister and their convoy.

After that, he also captured me and put a Constrict spell on me. Then he raped Venetia in front of me who couldn't do anything but watch and weep. Even after I thought 'this is a dream', I didn't move into another layer. It was only after he kills me while f*cking my broken sister that I was able to move into another layer.

There was a dream when my original parents didn't lose their lives in that accident. I live frugally with them but we're relatively happy and healthy families. When I'm in the second year of high school, I notice that this happiness felt empty. It's just too good to be true. And thus, I was able to move into another layer.

I start with a completely different route and somehow my sister was already betrothed into that Eldrite. I survived the Uthgard Empire Invasion and after accumulating some soldiers and built some weaponry, I waged a war against that Eldrite.

I lost, devastatingly lost. Even with the superior weaponry that combined both magic with science and technology, I couldn't hold a candle against him who was already a Sage that reached the Seventh Circle.

I encountered my adoptive parents in another layer. I found it was odd because they were very kind to me. This is too unrealistic, why would they be so kind to me, an outsider?

I sighed and told myself, 'there's no way they'll be so kind like this.' And thus I ended up in another layer.

I killed Eldrite after tossing a lethal warhead equivalent with 23 kilotons of TNT into his mansion. But then, I was chased by the whole Kingdom because of this crime. Ironically, the one who killed me, in the end, was that red-haired Roman Einvogel with his party.

My adoptive parents didn't take me into their household and I live with distant relatives of my dead father. But just like with my adoptive family, they were unable to treat me as one of their own. I separated from them after graduated from high school and worked as a cheap construction worker.

But reality hit me harshly, a crane that was lifting a batch of 'I' beam suddenly swaying, sending one of the steel beams into the place where I was standing. I'm dead and then returned into the [Golden Ark] world.

I tried another route ..., right now I don't even f*cking care whether this is a dream or not. I just wanted to live without any worries with my family. I managed to convince my family to run away from the kingdom. We were able to live in a secluded Island and then built a coastal city. But several years later, [Demon Gate] suddenly appeared in the heart of the island and killed everyone, destroying everything I've built.

It was an endless maze.

I become numb with all of this ..., good grief, what's with this alternative route that all end up with me being killed or accidentally died.

Even if I conquered all of the collectible heroines, and also their relatives. I still died early. If not when I'm in the late teens, it'll be when I'm in the early twenties. If not because of people from the Kingdom or the Rebels, it'll be the Empire ..., if not them then it'll be the mad monk of the temple, demon, or even that frickin dragons.

In the real [Modern Earth] also ..., if not because the route was too good to be a reality, it'd end up with me getting killed by some random incomprehensible accident.

Just how many layers this dream would be? If this is a lucid dream, just how can I escape from this place and wake up?

I wonder, if I wake up ..., will I end up on Earth, or in the Golden Ark?

I lost count on how many routes I've been through in the two worlds. Was it two thousand each ...? I don't know, it probably more than that. But I'm hella tired with all of this. I want to cry, but I couldn't. My lacrimal gland already dried.

"Plez stahp dis! Sthap et!"

I can't. I really can do this! I give up! This is just too much, I can't bear this shit any longer.

[Are you sure?]

Why?

What's with this question all of sudden? The hell, who's speaking?

I looked around to see nothing but darkness.

[You can't return into this state if you terminate it now. Are you sure you want to do end this?]

What ...?

Is this something like a simulation? Then why don't you say so? Isn't this way too hard?

Okay, don't then! You think you can beat me with that!? I'll prove it to you!

Whatever you are, the voice inside my head! I will conquer this shitty world and that mirror earth!

I re-challenge modern earth.

I still haven't found the answer as to why I'm in this place with this endless loop. But, to hell with that. If this is a game, then I will find the most correct route.

To perfectly clear this game-like dream!

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It was early in the morning, the sky was bluish-black with a shade of orange. Rosetta began her day by wiping her body with ice-cold water. The servants of the mansion were bustling with activity in this seeming silence and calm morning.

She put her black and white frilly maid dress. Tied her lustrous golden hair in a bun, she didn't forget to put the ornamental maid headband on it. With this hairdo, she looks both professional and stern. If only she wore glasses, then perhaps she would look like blonde Yu☆i Alpha.

Her position was different from the other ordinary maids, she was nominated as Young Master Marth's caretaker. She didn't have to join with other maids who cleaned the house or cooked breakfast since early in the morning. Perhaps, this was the exact reason she didn't raise her cooking skill in the first place.

She walked into Marth's bedroom. When she entered the room, she did that without making any noise. It would really bad if she accidentally woke up her master.

She stealthily walked and then stood beside his bed. There was the young slave girl Diana who was showing an uncomfortable sleeping face. And then Marth who was sleeping with dismayed expression hugging her tightly from behind.

Rosetta found some dried red stain on the pure white sheet. And glared dagger to the brown-haired slave girl. She wanted to wake her up here and then, but ...

"Dad, Venee-san ... mom ... little sister ... no ..." suddenly Marth clutched his small hand into the slave girl's thin dress while shaking his head.

Rosetta was perplexed by this. She panicked and didn't know what to do ..., she wanted to wake him but unable to do so.

Swallowing her hesitation, she put grabbed Marth's hand and it somewhat helped him regain his calmness.

Marth's breath that has run rampant and become ragged slowly calmed down. His expression also eased slightly.

'That old man Reno is doing an errand in a faraway place ..., then, there's no one could interfere us this time right? Though ..., there's this Diana girl, but ..., let's just ignore her.'

Rosetta then took off her footwear and went up to the bed. She embraced Marth to calm him down.

She didn't know why or what kind of dream he was in, but looking at his disturbed face, it only saddened her heart.

"Gahhh!!!" he shouted and woke up suddenly.

"M-mom!? Mom?! Venee-san!" and then shouted in panicky and hurried.

"Shusshhh ..., calm down, calm down ... young lord." Rosetta put her hand and patted his head and caressed his hair slowly.

"Ro-rosetta-san!! Rosetta-san!!! Uwaaaa!!!" he hugged her rather strongly and cried on her bountiful chest as if to release all of the tension built up from his nightmare.

"It's okay, it's okay ..., I'm here, I'm always with you. So please ..., it's okay." she caressed his coal-black hair and gave him a reassuring smile that looks like it was forced to some extent.

There's no way that Diana didn't notice when he was like this. But this was something unexpected. She thought Marth was a strange genius, a strange genius that out of this world.

But nevertheless, even if he was a genius ..., he was still a child who cried after having a nightmare.

While she thought about this, she pretended to be still asleep.

Not long after, Marth was finally able to calm down and put an end to his weeping.

'This is embarrassing, to think I'm crying at my current mental age ...'

Marth thought while burying his head on Rosetta's chests. Still, he remembered clearly what happened on his dream just now. And able to differentiates between that endless loop with this current reality.

The absence of Diana was one of the many signs, but then there are several things that made him know which was 'reality' and which one was 'simulated reality'. Like, sometimes he was in a different situation with different circumstances compared to the 'reality' he remembered.

He could immediately tell that this is the true 'reality' based on that.

He still unable to know what was that dream, however, he knew that this dream would help him to know better this world. The dream operated under the same rule of the true 'reality'.

And true enough, this one opportunity with his countless trial made him gained mastery over numerous skills and magics. It was really unfortunate because he still could remember what happened in the 'Modern Earth Simulation'.

Although when he arrived in the transition stage he could remember anything that happened in the simulation, his mind was locked when he was in the 'modern earth simulation' and 'golden ark simulation'. Though, he still retains the 'modern earth' knowledge when he was in 'golden ark simulation'.

He remembered everything that happened in that countless simulation. And he was in the Golden Ark world. This would only mean that he was finally in the real world and not in the dream world.

'I ..., I definitely kill those f*ckers!' he silently vowed in his heart.

Of course, he was referring to whoever it was who became obstacles on his path of a carefree life.