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As my consciousness, which had been severed for a moment, began to reconnect, I barely managed to open my eyelids filled with pitch darkness and got up.

“Ugh… fuck, what the hell is going on.”

My body wasn’t particularly cold or hot, but a fragrant grass scent, like something I had smelled in the countryside before, brushed past my nose. However, it wasn’t just a simple grass scent; a stuffy earthy dust also entered my nose, so I naturally had to mutter a curse.
After a moment of cursing and regaining my senses, I opened my eyes to see a vast plain, and I gaped in awe, letting out an exclamation.

“Wow…”

A spotlessly clear sky I had never seen before in my life and a green meadow that seemed to embody the very definition of the color green.

It seemed that even the majestic foreign photos I had seen somewhere before couldn’t compare to this.

However, my enchantment with this spectacular natural scenery was short-lived. As I regained some of my senses, I felt something off about my body and looked down, only to scream at the sight of the voluptuous hills filling my vision.

“Aaaagh?!”

Though certainly covered by clothes, these were unmistakably the protruding breasts of a woman. And it didn’t take long to realize that these were attached to my body, that they were my breasts.

Why on earth are these attached to my body? Unable to understand the reason for this inexplicable situation, I frowned, pressing my forehead with my hand. Not only had the game suddenly glitched and transported me to this plain, but my body had changed as well?

It would have been nice if there was a mirror right away, but without one, the only way to check my body was to see my reflection in something like water.

And as I looked around, I saw a small stream. I hurriedly ran there to look at my reflection in the stream, and at the same time, I muttered at the sight of my all-too-familiar self.

“…Aria?”

Aria, my main character in Kaleidoscope and a derivative job of the Swordsman, the Dual Sword Swordsman.
With hair color that was more of a light pink than rose-red, wearing an ash-colored cloth armor that was a cash item, and two swords attached to both hips. No matter how different games and reality might be, I couldn’t think of the reflection in the stream as anything but Aria.

And no sooner had I muttered the name of my transformed self than a translucent blue window appeared before my eyes.

[Nice to meet you.]

“Ah, you startled me. Wait, this is definitely what I saw before I lost consciousness…”

I reflexively backed away from the window that appeared silently, but soon I realized what the window in front of me was and muttered.

I couldn’t remember exactly because it was right before I lost consciousness, but judging by the familiar feeling, it must have been what I saw before I passed out.

Convinced of this, I calmed my slightly startled heart and slowly read the contents written in the window floating in the air.

[I use this to convey my words to you, who must be bewildered, to provide some explanations. First, where you are is the plain near the capital of the continent, the Kingdom of Phara. You might be more familiar with the map name ‘Beginner’s Plain’.]

[I have changed your body to that of the characters you have worked hard to raise. It would be difficult to survive in this harsh continent with a weak human body. You can change your physical form through a window that opens when you say ‘Avatar’. For your convenience, I have also added ‘Status Window’ and ‘Skill Window’.]

[There are two things I would like to ask of you. Please prevent the worst future that you have already experienced as a quest. Any method is fine. Only you, a traveler from beyond the world, can prevent this future.]

[And what you are experiencing is undoubtedly reality. Please do not turn your eyes away from reality.]

“…Sincerely, Goddess Iriel.”

Hoo, hmm, hum.

What kind of nonsense is this?

That was the first thought that came to mind after reading all the content.

Well, I did press the accept button, but it’s nonsense that such an unrealistic fantasy has occurred. Honestly, I don’t want to understand it and want to look away, but I couldn’t do that because of the last sentence that seemed to have been added in anticipation of my actions.
Never turn your eyes away, it says. It felt like if I really turned my eyes away from the reality unfolding before me, something unmanageable would happen, so I closed my eyes with my arms crossed as a minimal act of defiance.

Why on earth did this happen to me? This should have happened to other people instead. I never once wished for something like this.

“Haaa…”

But once it has already happened, nothing will change by continuing to deny it. Rather, I thought it was fortunate to have received even this much explanation for something that had already occurred.

I barely managed to convince myself, bordering on self-brainwashing, and recalled the contents of the now-disappeared window.

“She said to prevent the worst future I’ve already experienced as a quest.”

The worst future I’ve already experienced as a quest. The future Iriel mentioned was probably referring to the Human-Demon War quest.

It was the max level quest for all job classes and the only quest in the game where representative characters from all job classes appeared in a scene, so it remained in my memory as the best quest.

It seemed that in this place, which was reality rather than a game, it was being referred to as the worst future.

“But how exactly am I supposed to prevent it?”

But even if they tell me to prevent the Human-Demon War, if my guess is correct, the Human-Demon War wasn’t something that could be prevented by a single individual.

No matter how strong the characters I’ve raised might be, the numbers involved in a war are in the hundreds of millions. First of all, it was impossible to single-handedly annihilate one side, and finding a compromise to prevent the two sides from going to war was even more impossible.

To begin with, the demons themselves were beings who came into existence with the idea of annihilating all races other than their own engraved in their souls, and the alliance of multiple races based on humans held the belief that such demons must be exterminated.

Then what can I do?

Roughly based on the original quest storyline and settings, if this is the time of the prologue story where no quests have started yet, there are 5 years until the Human-Demon War. But I don’t know what’s happening yet…

“You there! You! How dare you block the path of the princess of the elven sanctuary, the Kingdom of Moonsgard! Do you have a death wish?”

…huh?

When I was deep in thought, I turned my head towards the source of the shout that came from behind me.

What I saw was an antique wooden carriage and the white horse pulling it. And the coachman holding the horse’s reins and a blonde woman who I thought must be the one who shouted at me.

But if there was something different from an ordinary person, it would be the ears protruding to the sides, strongly asserting that she was an elf.

And I knew this elf. Of course, I had seen her several times during the prologue story while raising my archer job.

Helia, the attendant and knight of the Elven Princess. She was someone I remembered even though I didn’t want to, due to her notoriously rude personality.

‘But if she’s here…’

Judging by what she’s saying, it seems they’re on their way to take the Elven Princess to the Kingdom of Phara. This meant that the prologue story of the Elven Princess, the main NPC of the archer job class that was shown when playing as other characters, had just begun.

I didn’t expect it, but this coincidence was telling me the current story timeline.
Honestly, in the current situation, it was questionable whether this was a coincidence or not, but I sincerely thanked Helia for the important fact I learned because of this.

“Don’t yap so impudently, you caterpillars living on trees.”

…Huh?