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Release days: Everyday
Release time: 3pm UTC
Status: Unedited. (Will edit after main story conclusion. Specifically from the start.)

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Synopsis:

A fifteen-year-old schoolgirl happens to find herself approached by a strange woman after a rough day—who happens to know her plans on running away. Astonished, she tried to interrogate, but ended up getting dragged into another universe and another world. There, she finds out that experiments are being ran on fourteen other candidates set aside for her. 

Being the last candidate, she is told that she might be the first one to face demise. 

But she is determined to find out what is up with this co-operation is. After some time, she finds out that this whole world and setting is similar to that of a book she read during her younger days. 

And the protagonist happened to be her own cousin. 


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(Prologue)

Listen... No one is judging no one here. 

And so am I. 

The world has been cruel these days. Being modern means being rude to people on the street who are below your rank—That is what they believe. 

I find this all frustrating, why move with a state of mind that could as well kill you someday. You don't know if this person is a lawyer, a far relative, a doctor, a politician. 

But you already get the gist, don't you? 

And like any other teenagers my age, I really want to run away from all this. 

It's not like I am an orphan or from a poor household. I am from a family which is a standard class in economical terms in this world. 

And yet, I want to run away. 

Haha! Anyways. I did succeed. 

I wonder at what cost? 

I am away from all that hostility of course... But now I am in another world.

Not reincarnated. Not transmigrated to another body. I am with my own soul in my original body, but in another world. 

This world... is weird. 

Thinking back, I remember reading a strange book when I was young. This book actually speaks about this world. I am a character there. 

Funnier thing, I don't know what is up with it either. 

It appears to me that the writer decided they want to see the 'live-action' version of it. So now... 

I am the actor playing my ownself.

"I just need to get rid of the tonsils..." I whispered to myself as I positioned my blade at that direction. "Though it seems it will be a fairly difficult task." 


I needed to rip them out. Without them, he couldn't change his appearance or move to the next phase. So it would give me an opening where I could hope on and stab it at its hard to end it. 


Since different species and mythical beast have different organ placements. There is an importance for knowning anatomy in this world.


Now you all may be like, "so Aefia... Why the tonsils?"


Because that is where a Trojan Mutilant is injected. 


Sigh... Why am I the only one who has to fight this thing?


I could feel my soul leave my body, just in time for me to catch it and pull it back in. And then forced my attention back to the beast. 


Lucky for me, the strings snapped just the right time. Of course it did cause me some pain. But I am happy that it fought off the restraints. 


He immediately pounced at me, turning the battle into something more dangerous then just a deadly, cliff-side choreography. 


I was already bleeding. I couldn't bleed even a slight more. Or I was wasting necessary blood.


"Ugh... Freak, this hurts." I groaned under my breath as it continued attacking me from every direction. I was starting to get worried I was going to grow tired from just dogding them. 


My bones felt like breaking with just that much. This mutant wasn't even that strong. Comparing this to the first dungeon... It is just twenty percent. 


I didn't even know it, until my left heel couldn't feel ground. 


"Oh... Fuck it then." I gritted my teeth and threw my sword onto the air. Its eyes followed the blade. At the same time, I slid through the gap between its tenticle and arm. 


I slipped to the otherside, finally finding enough space to even breath actually. With my fingers, I caught the blade of the sword with my bare palms. 


With a small squeeze, blood dripped down my palms. And with a flick of my fingers, strings wrapped around my hand, and the ends of it wound around the beasts throat. 


These strings were strong enough cut through flesh and bone at the same time. But I had to restrain. 


With a pull of my hand, I dragged it to the ground and pulled it to my feet. I lifted my right leg and held its head down. 


If I wasn't wrong, and if it didn't have a different anatomy... The tonsils will actually be at either sides of its cheeks. But those snake-like tongues...


...if I chopped them, it could regenerate. 


Strangely enough, things took a different turn somewhere around. 


...I didn't realize I suddenly ended up standing by a weird looking building in the middle of the village. 


I did recall falling a second time. But I am not bleeding this time. My hair was still caked from the earlier fall. 


Chapter 16 - (Being Edited) Guardians