Chapter 99: In Another World... Again!? [1]
"Ring!! Ring!!"
"Ugh, damn these morning alarms." A young, rather pale man stretched out his hand from the white bed where he lay face down. "I knew I should’ve gone to bed earlier," the young man muttered under his breath.
Cha Eun-woo... or rather, Arthur Arcain, slowly roused himself, still groggy and half-dreaming of stat windows and pretty girls from the manhwa he’d read, which, incidentally, had a novel adaptation he recently finished.
Eun-woo was one of those in the anime, manhwa, manga, and NovelFire communities who despised harems.
But yesterday, he had been enlightened, granted the dao, and finally understood the true lessons of life, things that, as a harem-hater, he had never appreciated.
’I wish that was my life,’ he thought lazily, trying to muster enough strength to move. ’But I guess it’s just fantasy after all. Still, I used to hate on it even though it’s meant to be fiction.’
He smiled faintly and turned on his phone. Arthur squinted as he began typing hateful comments about harems. ’Can’t let anyone find out I read harems now,’ he thought for a moment, then turned off his phone and tossed it on the bed. ’Only an idiot wouldn’t mistake me for a harem fan. Like, how could I possibly end up in a book that boldly screams "harem" when I’m not meant click on them?’
He yawned loudly and dragged himself out of bed.
Without even surveying his surroundings, Arthur, dressed in plain clothes, opened the door and stepped into the living room, greeting his parents with a nod and glaring at his younger sister. The scent of eggs and toast still lingered faintly in the air, but Arthur didn’t pay it much attention.
Today was a holiday after all, and after this, he would be starting high school. The thought of school and interacting with others made him uneasy.
He was the epitome of mediocrity, and at the lower end of it, at that.