Chapter 2: First Meet

Just as the girl was about to stab Haruki from behind, Haruki quickly dodged thanks to a notification from the system.

"Who are you?!" Haruki asked the girl.

"Are you a soldier from Arcane or Vyber?!" the girl demanded.

Before Haruki could answer, the girl rushed toward him and tried to stab him again.

Haruki dodged, and another notification suddenly appeared in front of him.

[SYSTEM QUEST]

—Become friends with the girl.

"Huh?!" Haruki was shocked by what the system was asking of him. However, whether he liked it or not, he had to follow the system if he wanted to survive.

"W-Wait!!"

The girl stopped for a moment.

Haruki then asked her, "You asked me which army I’m from, right?"

The girl nodded.

Haruki looked at her clothes. They were worn and tattered, which made it obvious that she wasn’t from Arcane. So, Haruki decided to claim that he was a soldier from Vyber.

The girl immediately dropped her knife and hugged Haruki.

Haruki fell to the ground as the girl began crying in his arms.

After that, the girl took Haruki to where she lived. When they arrived at the village, Haruki could only stare at the destruction around him.There was almost nothing left of the village.

Haruki couldn’t say a word. The girl occasionally glanced at him.

"What’s wrong? You look like you’ve never seen anything like this before," the girl said.

Haruki remained silent as they continued walking.

When they finally arrived at the girl’s house, the two of them went inside.Haruki then asked the girl for her name.

"Vila.Vila Marshy."

The moment Haruki heard her name, he felt that it was strangely familiar.

Not long after, Haruki suddenly remembered the novel he had read.He remembered everything.

Vila was a character who was supposed to die after returning home from the river.

Haruki froze.

Before he could process what was happening, Arcane soldiers suddenly crashed through the door of Vila’s house.

"Come out and surrender!" one of the soldiers shouted.

Haruki remembered it clearly.

Vila was supposed to refuse to surrender and would eventually be killed by those soldiers.

Haruki immediately stepped in front of Vila.

"Stay behind me. Don’t move."

A system notification appeared in front of him.

[NEW QUEST]

— Kill the three soldiers.

Haruki was shocked.

"Kill three soldiers?!"

The problem was that Haruki didn’t have any weapon.Another notification suddenly appeared.

[REWARD FOR COMPLETING THE PREVIOUS QUEST]

— Dagger acquired.

Haruki looked at the dagger that suddenly appeared in his hand.

"So that’s my reward..."

Haruki then pretended to surrender.

However, the moment he got close enough, he suddenly stabbed one of the soldiers.

The other soldiers immediately reacted.

They began casting magic.

Two of them summoned flames and launched their attacks at Haruki from a short distance.

Haruki could only dodge their attacks. He couldn’t get close enough to attack them.

"System!"

Haruki opened the system and quickly checked what was available.

He entered the system shop and noticed a skill called Camouflage.

[CAMOUFLAGE]

Price: 200 Coins

Haruki checked his balance.

[Coins: 300]

"Perfect."Haruki immediately purchased the skill.

The moment he activated it, his body became camouflaged and disappeared from their sight.

Using the opportunity, Haruki attacked the soldiers one by one.

Soon, only one soldier remained.

Haruki approached him from behind and struck him down.The last soldier fell.

Haruki then revealed himself.Vila quickly pulled Haruki back inside the house.

"Thank you..."

Another notification appeared.

[QUEST COMPLETED]

REWARDS:

— 300 Coins

— New Skill Slot

Afterward, Vila offered Haruki some spare clothes.

Haruki accepted them. After all, who would want to keep wearing heavy armor?

Haruki returned to the river to clean himself.

As he took off his clothes, he noticed a pendant hanging around his neck.He opened it.

Inside was a picture of a family he didn’t recognize.

Haruki stared at the picture for a moment.

Then, he finally understood.He was inside someone else’s body.

Yet strangely, his face was still exactly the same as it had been in the real world.

After cleaning himself, Haruki put on the clothes Vila had given him and returned to her house.When he arrived, he saw Vila collapse.

"Vila!"

Haruki quickly carried her to the bed.

The system immediately informed him of her condition.

[VILA IS SUFFERING FROM SEVERE HUNGER.]

Haruki quickly opened the system.

Fortunately, the system had food available.

He bought some bread and soup and gave them to Vila.

After eating, Vila slowly regained her strength and was able to move again.

Apparently, the food also contained a beneficial potion provided by the system.

After giving the food to Vila, something strange suddenly happened.

The world around Haruki seemed to stop.

Everything turned gray.

Haruki became slightly frightened.Then, a notification appeared.

[THE CLOCK IN THE REAL WORLD INDICATES THAT IT IS NOW 6:00 A.M.]

[YOU WILL NOW RETURN TO THE REAL WORLD.]

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The next moment, Haruki suddenly woke up from his sleep.

He looked around in shock.He was back in the real world.

"System?".Haruki tried calling the system.

[THE SYSTEM CANNOT BE USED IN THE REAL WORLD.]

"Oh... I see."

Haruki sat on his bed, still trying to understand what had happened.

"So that wasn’t a dream...".He paused.

"...Or was it really a dream?".Haruki was left confused.

However, he didn’t have time to think about it any longer.He had to get ready for school.Haruki still couldn’t believe what had happened to him. Haruki left his house and looked around the area around his house.

The place was still the same as usual, and Haruki arrived at the school and went straight into his class.

Before class starts, Haruki always reads novels on his phone, and Haruki looks at the latest Chapters of The World Beneath the Arcane Throne.Haruki thought that this was another prank, but after Haruki read it, the story was the same as what Haruki experienced at that time.

And at the end of the Chapter, the author says that the character in this Chapter is the Unnamed Character Extra’s,which made Haruki shocked and pale.