“Hey….”

“… Yeah….”

“Is this?”

“I think it is.”

“…I’m not dreaming, am I?”

“…”

“…”

“…”

“Why’d you punch me?”

“Did it hurt?”

“… It did.”

“Then you’re not dreaming.”

“…”

“…”

“Right, let me punch you back.”

“No don- Ouch!”

“So what kind is this?”

“What do you mean?”

“Well… Is this the kind where we get reincarnated, or did we get summoned?”

“We didn’t die… did we?”

“Might have, we were on a bus, maybe we just don’t remember the crash.”

“…”

“There are other people from the bus here too, so….”

“Please stop”

“…Maybe they also die-”

“Please stop trying to convince me I died.”

“Though... I don’t see a god apologizing for killing us, so maybe we aren’t dead”

“A summoning it is then.”

“Well… Not necessarily, we might have, like, accidentally entered a different dimension”

“… How would that even happen?”

“I don’t know. If I did, I’d have done it ages ago.”

“…”

“…”

“So what are we supposed to do now?”

“Please don’t just ignore what I say…”

“Shouldn’t we, like, get some op powers first and be told to defeat a demon king or something?”

“Ah!”

“Ah!”

“…”

“…”

“We do have a status…”

“… I know.”

“What’s your mental stat?”

“… 7”

“I knew you were dumber than me, I’m an 8”

“What’s your strength at then?”

“…”

“Well? What is it? I’ll tell mine first, I’m a 10.”

“…”

“Well?...”

“…6”

“What was that? I couldn’t hear you, did you say your strength was lower than mine?”

“Ah! There!”

“Don’t try to change the topic”

“No, them!”

“Say your strength stat again, would you?”

“There are people there! This is a summoning after all.”

“Ah! You’re right.”

“They’re saying something, be quiet.”

“…”

 

“Umm…”

“… That’s”

“…That’s messed up, yeah.”

“only 1% will live?”

“That’s, like, ten people.”

“We do get weapons though.”

“…”

“…What? Don’t look at me like that.”

“Have you ever even held one before?”

“…”

“Didn’t think so.”

“Well… I’ll learn.”

“In a day?”

“Surely the first monsters are easy…”

“…”

“Right?...”

“We’ll have to find some people to team up with.”

“Please don’t ignore what I have to say.”

“Let’s find a party to join”

 

“I levelled up”

“Yeah, me too”

“So… How strong are you now?”

“Not that much stronger”

“Yeah, me too”

“I got a good weapon though”

“…”

“Did you loot anything good?”

“…By the way, what do you think happened to the one who suddenly disappeared.”

“Please don’t ignore what I have to say”

“Well?”

“Don’t know, he got picked out, so he might be dead now, or he got out of here”

“…”

“…”

“Do you think we’ll survive?”

“Please don’t start”

“We’re not particularly strong or smart, how are we supposed to get out of here?”

“…You know those monsters we just fought?”

“…Yeah?”

“They were goblins right?”

“…Yeah?”

“That’s how we’ll survive”

“…”

“…”

“Have you eaten enough? I can spare some if you want.”

“… I’m not going mad”

“…”

“What I’m saying is that we knew those monsters, we know their strengths and weaknesses”

“…”

“We’ve both read about this situation so much, surely we’ll survive. We’re experts in this”

“…”

“…”

“Did you notice that brunette up there?”

“Please don’t ignore me...”

“She’s got scales and claws…”

“…I guess you’re right.”

“That means she’s not human, right?”

“I suppose…”

“That means there are races besides humans out there”

“…You don’t mean.”

“I do”

“Cat girls!!”

“Elves!!”

“…”

“…”

“Cat girls are obviously better.”

“You’d prefer an animal over a graceful lady?”

“You’d prefer someone several times your age over a cute, mischievous beauty?”

“Your have shit taste”

“…Do you remember what you have as the wallpaper of your laptop?”

“…Don’t!”

“…Traps are gay”

“They’re not!!”

 

“…”

“…Did you just?”

“…No”

“I’m pretty sure you did”

“You’re mistaken”

“I heard you quite clearly, though”

“Please don’t”

“I could have sworn I hear you yell ‘Demon slaying slash!’, when you attacked that spider.”

“…”

“And you didn’t even hit it. Instead, you got caught in a spiderweb and wiggled around on the ground like a worm”

“…”

“And when I saved you… What did you say again?”

“…Please stop, I beg of you”

“ ’Ha, just as expected’, was it? That was what you said, right?”

“…”

“You did all that, didn’t you?”

“Right, let’s go gather the loot before it’s all gone”

“You can’t escape reality, you know?”

“These spiders were quite tough, they must have dropped some good stuff”

“Also, yelling ‘Demon slaying slash!’ doesn’t make any sense when you use a spear”

“AAAAAHH!!!”

 

“Hey…”

“…Yeah?”

“Don’t you think…”

“That this is bullshit? Yes, I do”

“So it wasn’t just me…”

“…”

“How are we supposed to defeat this thing?”

“…I do have one idea”

“What is it?”

“Do you know the myth about how Odysseus fought Polyphemus?”

“…Vaguely”

“Let’s do that”

“…”

“…What?”

“You want to blind it?”

“Yeah? So?”

“How?”

“…”

“…”

“Maybe we can hit its eye with an arrow”

“Like that guy over there has been trying for the last two minutes?”

“…”

“he even managed to hit it a few times already, they just can’t damage it”

“… Maybe if you hit its eye with your spear”

“…”

“It would at least do some damage…”

“…Screw it, I’ll give it a try”

“Good luck! I’ll just be over here”

“…Maybe I should try throwing you at it instead”

 

“…We did it”

“…yeah”

“I didn’t think we would”

“Me neither”

“…”

“…”

“So… What happens now?”

“Don’t know, we defeated the boss, shouldn’t some reward appear now?”

“Ah!”

“Ah!”

“something appeared”

“I can see…”

“What are those crystals?”

“Someone picked one up, what’s go-”

“He disappeared…”

“…”

“…”

“Should we also get one?”

“What if it’s a trick”

“…”

“Maybe that guy just died; Maybe he evaporated”

“You want to stay here then?”

“Not really”

“Let’s go then”

“Before that!”

“Yeah?”

“Let’s gather that stuff first”

“What for?”

“Well… If we do get transported to a different world after this, we won’t be able to get any of that”

“…You have a point”

 

“Have everything?”

“Yup”

“Alright, let’s leave”

“Hey, Alex…”

“…Yeah?”

“If this does kill us…”

“…”

“…”

“…Yeah?”

“…I love you bro”

“…”

“…”

“No homo”

“…I love you too man… No homo”