When I wake up…
“Eh? Where is this?”
I woke up as usual at 6 am, to the sound of my alarm clock, and
started to prepare for work in a hurry.
Stopped by the convenience store and bought breakfast, onigiri
and some oolong tea. I ate them whilst heading to work.
I am s.h.i.+ngo Ichinomiya, 25 years old, a graduate from a
decent university. I entered a trading company upon graduation, just like how
everyone plans to.
I am currently in my third year and have subordinates who are
younger than me. However, I am constantly pulled into dilemmas between them and
the boss.
But it was something that somewhat applied to everyone, so I
never really felt like quitting.
Though for ordinary members of society, it should not be strange
to think about quitting at least once.
However, they will only end up thinking that they are not brave
enough or lack the financial resources to actually quit.
Continue living alone in an apartment within a ten minutes walk
from the company. No wife or girlfriend. Most meals are taken outside.
Barely asleep because of
fatigue from working until morning, spending the remainder of holiday doing
household ch.o.r.es such as cleaning and laundry.
I can say that this also ordinary.
There are many people like me in j.a.pan.
I am not really that dissatisfied. As long as I keep working in
the company, sooner or later, I might get a girlfriend, then get married and
have a child.
You could say it was a pretty ordinary life.
Or so I would like to think, but…
I woke up as always, not remembering the contents of my dream;
never heard the sound of my alarm clock
that was always noisy.
I did not know what time
it was but it was dark outside.
The room was pitch-dark but I still decided to get up and investigate my
surroundings, as my eyes began to gradually get used to the dark.
Then I began noticing many unfamiliar things, one after another.
This was supposed to be the apartment room that I am living in,
but I don’t see the familiar wallpaper or any recognizable furniture. Three
similar beds had been placed near me.
Then I noticed that
including myself there are four figure sleeping in similar beds like mine.
And as I strained my eyes on the bulges on the other beds, I could see there
were human-like figures on it.
So this place is a quadruple room.
When did I become a freeloader?
To shake the confusion from the sudden change in environments, I
decide to check my own condition.
Just as I expected, my condition was quite different from before
I went to bed.
First, was my bed itself,
which should have been a high quality product by Nitori, was now an
old-fas.h.i.+oned bed which was not all that comfortable.
Even the blanket I was using was worn out and a little smelly.
Then I thought about
something trivial “I just bought that a week ago, it was a new blanket
too…”.
After which, I steeled my mind and began to confirm the condition of my own
body.
‘Eh? Did my body become smaller?’
Sure, I am not that tall
but my body should have been the average height a j.a.panese male.
However, right now, no matter how I looked at it, my body had shrunk down to
that of a child’s height.
‘Eh? This is?’
This was something I been
reading lately in net novel, the idea of reincarnated into another world come
to my mind at once.
And as for not becoming a baby, there is a possibility that my consciousness is
now possessing another human being in another world.
‘That’s mean…’
It is dark now and the other people sleeping near me might think
I went mad if I made a noise now.
First of all, I do not
even know the relations.h.i.+p between the owner of this small body and the
remaining three bed owners.
However, it is more likely a big family though I don’t know who they are.
‘I must behave myself till I can confirm my situation. So
another nap for now…’
I was overcome with sleepiness as I thought about that and I
fell back to sleep.
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