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Chapter 2 - In the coffin

A flash of light made the world turn white.

"MY EYES!!" I immediately covered my eyes.

It stopped!? My hand became numb, and I saw nothing, and felt tired all of a sudden.

"What's this? I feel okay."

The sound of my Voice echoed around my ear, but what is this feeling?

I was covering my eyes for a second, now I can't feel my hand or limb.

I cannot move, I feel like I'm in an enclosed space. Scared as I can't move, I then felt a third wormy third leg at the back.

Creepily feeling something at the back of me, I shouted for help.

"HELP!! HELP!!!! SIR RICK!! LEE!!!! EMMA!!!ARGH!!"

But no one answered.

"Please, somebody! Help me, Hans! Mark! Ayah! Anyone!" My voice echoed and echoed again and again. I then continued calling for help for what felt like eternity.

Getting tired of hearing a barrage of echoes of my voice calling for someone's help going through my ear again and again, I stopped as my throat felt dry. The feeling of the third limb disappeared after some time.

Cough!Cough!Cough! I cried out of hope. I then prayed to god. But there was no hope.

I could not move a limb or leg, could not comfortably breathe, could not see a thing but only darkness. Devoid of hope, I questioned my situation. 

Am I Dead? Dead... Out of rage, I wiggled inside the dark and tight space and felt I had regained something.

It's my sense of touch that I recently regained. I feel the soles of my feet even when I'm not moving. This familiar feeling is only caused by gravity.

I'm standing, I wriggled again, and jumped at the end.

"MY HEAD!!" It hurts, but I pushed something of what felt like a slab of rock at the top of my head.

"I'm inside a box-shaped manhole," I concluded that, as there was a lid at the top of this tight ass box,

I jumped again and again pushed the top with my head and heard a clack.

"Light!" After seeing a light, all hope came back to me.

"I can't stop." I jumped and positioned myself slanted to stop myself from falling.

I then performed a split like a scissor inside a small hole to stop myself from falling. After it, I looked down, then used the back of my head to push the slab of rock.

"ARRRGH!!! I~I~WANT TO BREAK FREE!!!" With all hope, I gained a latent strength out of nowhere.

I successfully removed the slab of rock and saw the sky.

"Finally." Seeing the beautiful full moon made me tear up and made me drop down again into the hole. 

"Fuck!" I jumped again and put my upper body position like the hook.

 Successfully enacting the move, my stomach hurt as I thought that I was inside a manhole.

As I saw the outside, I saw a reflection of myself. "A woman!?"

"Wait, I'm in the middle of a river." With no time to waste, I've escaped from the box.

Dropping head first. "OUCH!! My head." Tearing up from how it hurts so much.

I regained control of my limbs. Standing up, then feeling the wet puddle at my feet.

HECK YEAH I ESCAPED!!!!! After freeing myself, I felt a heavy thing that felt like my leg on my backside.

"What is this?" As I touch my backside I felt a long, thick and scaly thing at my butt.

"This feeling, don't tell me this is-" Out of curiosity I began to look at reflection at ground and saw a tail at my gluteus part of my butt.

"A tail!! I have a tail!" I touched the tail, it felt good, and disgusted at myself at the same time. I looked around at where I am and saw something unusual again. 

"It's a coffin. I was in the coffin the whole time." 

 Did I die? No, I felt pain pushing that slab of rock.

"Man, think positively, you're not dead-" I felt a breeze of warm wind behind my back, especially the cold that I felt at my neck, and a sticky liquid splattered on my neck.

"AAAAAAHHH!!! The Hell!!!!!!!" As soon as I turned around, I saw a dog with a neck as tall as a giraffe, the body and plumage of a peacock, and the legs of a lion behind me.

"GEt AwAY FroM MEEEEE!!!!!!" I ran to trees and notice my body is light I don't have a big ass tummy, I have this Irritating clothes that looked a dress and I have this ridiculous of a long hair.

"Did I perhaps just transmigrate or reincarnate as a woman with a tail at that?" This got too be a dream. I then pinched myself to confirm that I am truly not dreaming and felt the pain.

"Yeah, Nope!" I continued running, even still I was super tired after escaping the coffin."

"Huff!Huff!Huff! Can't take a break!" I ran till I didn't see the long ass neck of that creepy creature.

After the long run in the forest, I saw a long river that looked like the Mekong River and rested there.

"This is a bad Idea!" Looking at the river as I'm curious about what I saw at the puddle, which I only saw a glimpse of after escaping.

"Whoa, I'm cute as hell." I then saw a fish appeared before my reflection, a fish with a human face swimming in the river. 

"Yeah, right! this shit got too be hell!" The fish then splashed at me.

"Ehh! Disgusting!" As soon as the human-faced fish splashed me with water, I immediately left and walked aimlessly through the forest.

"-... .-. .- .. -. ..."

 An irritating noise and a faint light shimmered through the forest, keeping going closer to sin.

"What is this noise?" After looking for an answer to what thing keeps generating noise and Light as it gets closer. 

A man with an axe, talking in a clicking noise. "Wait, that's Morse code!"

".-.. .. ...- . .-. -... .-. .- .. -. ... ... --- ..- .-.. -... .-.. --- --- -..!" "L-I-V-E His saying I should live, wait, R liver?" I thought it was live, but it was liver.

"B~R~A~I~N Is this guy a zombie?" B~L~O~O~D Yeah, a ghoul well, figures I'm in hell. Starting from now, I shouldn't trust strangers.

"..-. --- --- -..!" "F~O~O~food!" "What Food?!" The lumberjack then stared at me with his mouth watering.

"Again! Can I take a break?" After running a whole yard, I saw him at a far distance raising his axe, then a corpse of an unknown creature climbed up from the earth, stood still. 

I still keep thinking why he talks in Morse code. 

"I mean it's convenient as you can communicate through light, as light is the fastest speed ever recorded by human research." Wait, that means Morse guy died and goes to hell.

The lumberjack transformed into a monster with a grotesque bulb as his head and a stomach as his mouth. Its axe became three-fingered and kept using Morse code.

 The more I think about it, the process is going to hell isn't terrifying but the hell itself is terrifying.

~Stomach Growl~

"Man, I'm sure I'm hungry."

"Ooh, a Smoke." Come on, this is hell, of course, there is a cloud of smoke in the underworld.

 After being curious about what's happening in the underworld and after thinking for a long time, I decided to go and check on the source of the smoke. 

Wait, there's a man he's tatted too.

Scared of how the man looked, I then climbed a tree to avoid confronting him. 

I'm glad that I didn't ink myself, cause it looked like even in hell he was inked. 

"eefksvk kuj?in xmusk? ju q?wxzc !!??"

"Eh!? What language is that?" The fully tatted man then scouted the area.

 Aegerian is a language belonging to the race of the Aefers, people who live by inking themselves with the divine ink. 

"Aefer? Aegerian?" I looked around and found no one who had just answered my question.

Am I crazy? Did I just hear someone answer me like a nerd?

"Who the hell!?" Escaping a coffin and running from a monster. What now?

Shhh! Whisper while you're talking.

I'm getting stressed here, my mind just talked to me right now with a majestic male voice at that.

I'm Cheon Dal. I'm beside your soul.

So you're the one who keeps talking to me, I thought it was my subconscious rallying against me, as I'm so hungry.

...

Weird, he's not talking to me if I talk inside my head, but he talks inside my head. Well, if that's the case, should I just try talking while whispering to see if he can just hear me while talking using my mouth?

"So you're the one who keeps talking to me. I thought that I had mental illness for a second there."

It is you who keeps talking to yourself. I can speak inside your head, read your expression, and send words in a language you understand. 

...

I hid you just now using my external technique: Divine cloaking of the hidden dagger.

"The thing you called technique is a martial art." Whispered.

 Yes, that is a martial art I just used to hide you.

"Also, you're the owner of this body?" Whispered.

 No, but you transmigrated to my descendant's dead body; this body should have died because of the curse. Also, this world is no hell.

"This isn't hell?" I was pretty sure that this was hell.

Of course, there's no hell; hell is a state of mind, as heaven too is a state of mind.

How come this isn't hell, Scholar Cheon?

You see, this world you're standing right now is the 1st Plain of the world manaqind.

 I'll help you become stronger and translate any language that comes your way. Help you fight, but you control the body. In this sense, I'll guide your little soul.

Cheon, the noble name of the Heavenly demon king, I keep hearing this name and seeing this over some light novel or manhwa.

"Hold on, you said earlier that your name is Cheon Dal. Are you a demon king?" whisper.

I'm kind of happy you noticed the noble lineage name of Cheonma.

 But no, I'm no demon king, I'm just an orphan who happens to be smart, a scholar of the 10th heavenly demon king, and became a noble by name. 

So even the Heavenly demon king bothered to adopt you because of you're talent. 

"Then, may I know the reason for helping me?" Whispered.

My soul reached the threshold, I'll vanish in 10 years. In those 10 years, you must become the strongest to avenge this body.

"Hold on, you're helping just to become the strongest in the world of Manaqind." Whispered.

"How can I just live inside a woman's body with a long tail wearing a Korean white robe?"

That body is not a woman, that's a man's body, little lost soul. So feel free to possess it.

A pretty face and a long-haired body like this is not a woman. How can a man's body like be more sexy than my mom?

 

.....

That confirms it, so he can't hear my consciousness. But how can he talk inside my head?

"Scholar Cheon, how are you talking inside my head?"

A martial art that I'll teach you when you're ready.

"You're kind, Mister Cheon," whispered. A martial art, huh? 

 Cheon dal laughs.

 You know how to please this old man, Little soul. Remember, I'm no venerable, just a dying old man stuck to you. 

"Wait, how do I get back home?"

 You'll find out soon enough.

I'll be unconsciously helping and guiding in a form of your familiar text. Goodbye for now.

"What familiar?" I feel like the more I talk to Scholar Cheon Dal, the more confusing this world becomes for me.

[Demonic Scholar Guide System activated]

"A system!? Like those cheats on Fictions!?"

"Thanks, Mister Cheon!"

[keyword activated][Transmigrator System activated]

Transmigrator?! If I'm transmigrated into what novel or crazy, I just transmigrated, and this came in late.

 

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