As I opened my eyes, I felt that something was off. Then I saw my hands; they were different. I was puzzled after seeing this and started to wonder what could have happened.
Then my eyes landed on my surroundings. I was surrounded by a city completely plated in gold – the streets, the roads, the buildings, and even the houses were golden. The streets and roads were also filled with human statues, similarly plated in gold.
It was a freaky scene; anyone would have freaked out after seeing this. But I felt nothing. I was completely indifferent to it all, as if it were normal to me.
The entire place was enclosed by a large oval-shaped barrier. I started to ponder the purpose, the reason for which the barrier was placed at the first place. After a lot of pounding, I came to understand that it was probably placed here to seal off something or someone, perhaps it was related to
with the original owner of my current body.
Then, I started to roam around the place. My eyes landed on a building; it was covered in gold.
I entered the building. Everything inside – the floor, the furniture – was also golden. And there were two human statues there, similarly transmuted like the ones outside.
Then I saw a mirror; it was, like everything else before, completely petrified.
I approached it. I could still see my reflection in it. Curiosity arose within me to see my current appearance.
I rushed to see myself in the mirror: two large, carved horns were sprouting from my temples, purple hair bristled from my back, and my eyes were covered in a wispy shade of blue. My eyes were deadpan, completely of emotions, utterly indifferent.
I wear a high-collared, knee-length dark green shirt adorned with three golden tasseled braces on my right arm. A bracelet peeks from beneath my sleeve, and a long blue coat hangs from my left shoulder.
I started to realize that I had been transmigrated into the world of Frieren as Macht of El Dorado, the strongest among the Seven Sages of Destruction, who could turn everything into gold with his signature spell, Diagoldze.
I began to understand that I was in the fortress city of Weise, which Macht had transmuted out of his desire to understand human emotions like guilt and malice. He was sealed here by the continental magic association.
I had read the manga yesterday when I was still on Earth in my original body. I never thought I would be transmigrated into this world.
Then, I began to mutter, "I still remember I was a high school student. My grades were average. I didn't have that many friends, but I had some. I also had a loving family: a father, a mother, and a little brother. And now I have lost them. I don't think I will be able to see them again."
If it were my past human self, it would probably start crying right now. However, now I am a demon.
In the world of Frieren, demons have evolved from monsters who used to prey on humans by shouting for help. Demons in this world are monsters who mimic human words and gestures to deceive and lower the guard of humans for the sole purpose of preying on them.
But unlike other demons, Macht had the desire to understand humans, to find a way to coexist with them.
Even though he had such visionary desires, but still at his core, he was still a demon, a monster who could never truly understand humans. And also the way he tried to understand human emotions were by killing humans.
I know it is a strange way of trying to understand human emotions. But in this world demons are monsters who have evolved to kill humans. They could never stop kiling humans they can never understand humanity.
I remember what Frieren said after hearing Macht's twisted way of understanding humans; she had said that demons are so different from humans that they could never came to a common understanding.
Then I began to talk to myself. My voice was cold and composed, "Now I have become a MONSTER."