NOVEL WEB Chapter 4: Chapter 4
There is no good morning. Damn folk wisdom. The first thing I did when I woke up was to look up at the ceiling. No miracle happened and I saw the same old wooden ceiling from yesterday. For a minute, I had a beautiful, clean, snow-white ceiling in my house. To confirm my fears, I looked around.
A wooden floor, a bed, a chair, a table, and a window without glass. So what I saw yesterday was not a glitch. I am dead and that is a fact. And I possessed a little guy whose memory came back to me. Bummer. And even worse when I tried to remember the guy's life in a more meaningful way.
He (I?) had lived here practically since he was a child. The images of the beginning of his (my?) life were too blurred to understand for sure. The child (me?) was being watched by a beautiful woman of about forty years of age. And the strangest thing was that she could control the water.
And as an apotheosis, her name is Hama. Under such circumstances, with such abilities and such a name, I can assume that I'm in the Avatar universe. It's just a theory worth testing. Alternatively, there's the possibility that I survived and am in a coma observing such realistic disturbances. But even if I am in a coma, I will behave with dignity.
Just dignified, and I will define the limits of that dignity myself. For now, I'm going with the version in which I died. And if that's true, who am I now? I recognize myself as an inhabitant of a metropolis. And although I no longer remember my name, I still have my self-awareness. So it follows that I've absorbed the guy and taken his place. Even though it feels like we've merged. But it's easier for me, mentally.
On the other hand, if I'm right and this is an Avatar world, then the legitimate question becomes, what to do? As I recall, there were two sources for this story. The movie and the anime. I've seen both. The movie sucks, but the anime is okay, but it's a little long.
But if you look at it more closely, there are some very significant differences. For example, in the movie, it takes a few seconds to create magic. And that's too long, any experienced fighter can easily take out such a «Mage». In the anime, the mages are more ferocious. They are a real fighting unit that, with the right training, can easily scatter an entire platoon. I don't know where to live.
My thoughts were interrupted when the door to the room opened.
«Yoko, you're awake!» Hama saw me sitting on the bed and rushed over to me. I didn't know how to react and decided to rely on the memory of this body. «How are you feeling?»
«Fine, just a headache», after I said that, I realized two things at once. I'm in the Avatar world after all, and the mages here are from the anime, because Hama imperceptibly created some water from the air, and the water glowed with a green light, and then brought it to the back of my head.
«Don't worry, it's just a small bruise. Just lie down a little and it will go away», her calm voice awakened my memory. And there I found some very interesting information. It turns out that I was in a coma after all, or rather, it was Yoko who was in a coma because of his carelessness during the water magic training. Yes, yes, it turns out that I have abilities in magic.
«Still, knowing the potential of this branch of magic and having the magic itself available, it would be sacrilege not to train with her.»
«In about three months, I think.»
«That long?» I made a sad face. Memory again obligingly told me that I had recently turned ten. Now I could see why the ceiling was so high for me. «Why so long?»
«I'll explain later. Okay?» I just nodded. «You rest and I'll make you something to eat», my stomach growled hungrily. Hama just laughed and left the room.
All in all, my situation is quite interesting. Now that my memory has come back a bit, I can draw the appropriate conclusions. This turned out to be the universe of the anime. And the magicians here are appropriate. Strong, impressive and powerful. But not many of them. There's a war going on. And it's been going on for eighty years. According to the story of the anime, the main events will start in about twenty years.
I can speed it up or prevent it from happening at all. But if I think logically, I'll have to live here. And I want to live a good and well-fed life. What do I need for that? I need money. But earning it isn't really an issue right now. What's more interesting is magic. All of us, whether we're children or adults, want to be magicians. And I plan to take full advantage of this opportunity.