"𝘏𝘶𝘩? 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘮 𝘐?" that is the only words that I can make out after being placed in this position.
For everything to be clear about what is going on, I think I should rewind the time and tell you what happened 5 hours earlier. I have no idea what triggered everything to happen, but I must not be mistaken. I am in a parallel world, or from what the pop-culture called them, isekai.
𝘏𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺, 𝘮𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘬𝘢𝘪 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺.
- 5 hours earlier -
Today is finally the day, the most awaited convention is finally happening. The next 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘬𝘦𝘵 is finally within my grasp after having to stay at home for about half a year due to some outbreak happened last year. Not like it changed anything to me since I have been on lockdown for two years since then. Yes, I am the kind of man that you will call a NEET but, unlike the popular terms for NEET, I am useful in household chores. If I will have to write in a paper that asks me what I am doing in life to earn money, I will say "𝘐 𝘥𝘰 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘰 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺, 𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘢 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘥". No, calling myself a housemaid is kinda awkward since I am a guy in the first place so, maybe butler hits the description. For some reason, I feel I can beat S*bastian when we are talking about being the perfect butler but, I do not want to be killed by a demon so let's not dive too deep with that and forget that I ever said that.
My name is Kitsune Shinku – Kitsune's last name which means Fox, Shinku for my first name which means a male god – a full-time NEET and a part-time butler of the house. I get the approval of my parents for me being a NEET if I remain useful as a person or else, they will force me either to a vocational course to look for a proper job or out of the house. I like neither of them, so I am doing my best to be useful in our home. Unlike other NEET, I sometimes go out of our house and the instances that I get out of my precious shelter are when I am doing some groceries, buying my anime merchandise, getting a haircut, or when I am going to a convention which is what I am currently doing.
Waking up early in the morning is worth it especially for my case. Being the first one in line works for me because this event will be full of people once they opened the gates. Walking on the other side of the line are committees for this year's Comiket and some of them are the artists showcasing their 𝘥𝘰𝘶𝘫𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘪. Well, compared to last year, this year's artist seems to be a lot so maybe I will add that to my to-do list. Checking out new artists will be an advantage for me, by making connections to them. I am looking forward to the gates to be opened to the public and it only takes another hour before they open. On the other side, some cosplayers are showcasing their character and some people that have a camera with them are taking pictures of these so-called cosplayers. Not that I have a bad image of cosplayers, but it feels like cosplaying is already of the norms nowadays. It is good to know that the otaku culture is slightly being accepted, especially here in Japan but it saddens me when the things we enjoyed before are slowly becoming lure for thottery. If there was a thot slayer like there was for goblins, I will gladly summon him even if it cost me my life.
"Ah, just looking at them hurts my field of vision even more than the sunlight did when I finally come out of the house after a week of pulling an all-nighter."
And that is me, the one who finally speaks after having 547 words of monologue. And of course, I did not pull a week-long all-nighter, I just said it so that it will sound cool to everyone reading this prologue. If ever I did pull an all-nighter that long, not only I will die but also, I will be killed by my mother whose tongue is sharper than any swords in the world. Not only she will yell at me to death but also, she will cut all my funds and I will never have any money to support my NEET lifestyle, pushing me to go to school again. I cannot have that happening to me that is why even though I am a NEET, my parent's view of me is like an angel instead of a demon.
And with that all said and done, I wish I did not make that statement. The next thing that will happen to me is my biggest regret in life and I wish I can go back in time and redo things over again. Not that it will make any significant change at all.
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