"Huh…? Where am I," Ethan Smith moves slightly as he places his hand on his forehead "My head hurts so badly…" The window across the room was burst open by a strong gust of wind making the red curtains flap uncontrollably, shocking Ethan Smith as he stood up immediately, hitting his head on the edge of the metal bed.
"Ouch…, that made my headache even worse…" He turned his head realizing that the environment around him is different from his apartment. "Wait, this isn't my room." he pinched himself, trying to wake himself up thinking this was a dream "Ouch… I definitely felt that…" Ethan Smith realizing this wasn't a dream quickly panicked "This isn't a dream! I repeat this isn't a dream!" he panicked even more, thinking he was kidnapped he pondered "Okay Ethan, just calm down, you are a psychology teacher, you can do this."
He closed his eyes and quickly pinched himself praying that it was a dream "No no no no, this can't be happening, I still have to write a paper about my absence!" as he shouted, a female voice was heard "Brother, why are you shouting early in the morning? You're waking up the neighbors."
Ethan Smith wondered "How is that voice familiar to me?" The door next to his bed opened, a thin and young girl appeared looking confused as to why her brother was shouting early in the morning "Wait, how do I know her..?
Selena Fletcher, the middle child of the family." Selena looked at Edwin with a weird face "Hey Edwin, you seem a bit off today…" Ethan regaining his thoughts scratched the back of his head "I'm just a bit tired today, that's all.." with an awkward smile he managed to persuade Selena. Selena sighed as she checked her brother's temperature using her hand. "You do have a fever, don't overwork yourself and rest, finding a job can be done later when you get better." as she retracted her arm and went to the cabinet on her right, looking for some medicine for Edwin to take. "I didn't have enough time to process everything earlier since I panicked" he sat down and looked at Selena "I'm inside the body of Edward Fletcher, the second oldest in the Fletcher family, she is my younger sister Selena Fletcher."
Edwin rubbed his eyes, trying to clear his thoughts and organize them "This feels a lot like that one novel I finished reading… I think that was Lor-" his thoughts got disrupted when Selena called out his name, holding a glass of water and what seems to be a medicine, she sat down beside him and made him take the medicine "Here, take this and go back to sleep, I don't want you suddenly collapsing out of no where." as she offers the glass of water and medicine "Ah.. Yes, Don't worry, I'll get better soon." as he reached out for the medicine and swallowed it with the water.
Edwin suddenly coughed, shocking Selena "Edwin!" She panicked thinking that something had happened to her brother, Edwin regaining composure and looked at Selena with a smile "Don't worry, the medicine was just bitter." Selena sighed in relief "Don't do that ever again without a warning, you almost scared me to death!" Selena shouted, "Yes, I'm sorry for suddenly coughing without any warning." As he patted her in the head, Selena smiled and before she left she waved enthusiastically "Get well Edwin." and she left the room. Edwin sighed and mumbled to himself "Phew, that was close, my teacher instinct kicked in at the right time."
He heard a tick on the wall behind him and turned around noticing a wall clock "That clock looks like it came from the 1900s" Edwin went closer to the clock and inspected it "Roman numerical and an antique design? Did I transmigrate into the past?" He pondered, while looking at the clock a strong gush of wind went inside the room again, Edwin looked at the open window to his right and went over to take a look at the view, he looked with awe as the streets of Eldrida was filled with different kinds of markets, the houses made by brick and roofs with chimneys emitting smoke made Edwin even more fascinated by this era "This really is the Victorian era."
He smiled and closed the window, he went back to his bed and sat down "Now that things have been settled, I need to recall everything that was happening before I got transported here" He immediately stood up and went to the table besides the door that Selena went in from, he sat down, grabbed a piece of paper and pen "Wow, this pen is a fountain pen, I've hardly ever seen nor used this." He inspected and played around with the fountain pen for while before finally remembering what he was supposed to do "Oh crap, I got distracted, let's get back into topic" he re-filled the fountain pen with ink and started writing "So, before I got transmigrated I was preparing a new lesson for the students while being heavily sick, I think I was heading to a printing station near my apartment and collapsed on the street…"
Edwin paused his thoughts realizing that his death was very awkward and embarrassing "I died on the street!" he shouted in his thoughts while making a panicked gesture grabbing his hair and looking into the ceiling "What an embarrassing way to die! Gosh I hate myself for dying in the worst way possible!" Edwin looked back at the table and sighed "Well, there's no turning back now…"
He looked at the paper that he was writing at, the paper was just a doodle of his pet cat back from his original world "I miss you Demi" he placed his arms on the table and rested his head trying to calm himself "What now, I'm in another world, I know nothing yet I'm here, out of everyone why me…" He started to overthink things "I miss my students, my co-workers, my cat, everyone…"
A small amount of tears started dropping from his eye, he raised his head and rubbed his eye. "No, I'm already an adult, I should be better than this, I'm a psychology major for a reason." He looked at the slightly wet paper, folded it and placed it on his right mini pocket on his shirt. "I'll learn and adapt to this world." Before he starts exploring his surroundings, shouting was heard from the outside "Shouting? Outside?"
He immediately rushed to the window and looked outside, a ragged man with a weird looking stick was holding and threatening a female hostage, Edwin noticing this grabbed a cane that was hanged near the window and jumped outside, he ran to the ragged man and struck him behind with the cane "Take this ya bastard!" the ragged man fell on the floor and dropped the weird looking stick, Edwin dropped the cane and grabbed the man, strangling him "Someone, call the police!"
luckily there was someone on patrol and rushed to the scene, the patrolling police placed cuffs on the ragged man and grabbed his arm "Sorry I'm late, I took a small break and this happens, I do applaud your courageous act young man." The police smiled at Edwin and dragged the ragged man to the nearby station "And you are going to jail for assault." Edwin looked at the police dragging the ragged man before being interrupted by the woman that he saved, she grabbed his hands and thanked him "Thank you kind sir! I was scared to death when that filthy criminal suddenly grabbed me and asked for some ransoms. Just because he has a catalyst doesn't mean he's already powerful."
Edwin smiled before wondering what she meant by Catalyst, he looked at the woman and smiled "No worries, I saw that you were in trouble so I instinctively had to move." The woman made a massive smile and offered Edwin a sack of coins for saving her "This is for saving me, I still can't thank you enough for saving my life!" Edwin looked at the sack of coins in his hands and looked back at the woman "This is more than enough, thank you."
The woman moved forward and kissed Edwin on the cheek before waving at him and left, Edwin left speechless, looked at the woman before regaining his thoughts "Shoot, that caught me off guard." He touched the spot where the woman kissed and blushed, he grabbed his cane, placed the sack on his left hand before looking at the grass where the ragged man dropped the weird stick, he picked it up and inspected the stick "Was the man crazy for threatening someone with a stick? Even the woman was scared from this." Edwin went back to his room before getting greeted by Selena "Edwin, that was so cool of you! I saw you jumping out of the window and hitting the man from behind!" Selena looked at his brother with awe, her eyes sparkling with a wide smile, Edwin slightly laughed and looked at Selena "Well, I just did what I had to do, nothing really special."
Selena frowned at Edwin and scolded him "No, that was very heroic! Many people were too scared to approach him yet you were the only one that decided to act!" Edwin was shocked at Selena's serious approach at the scene that happened earlier, he tried to brush it off but Selena was still enthusiastic about his actions "I'll brag this to my classmates that my brother saved a noble lady!" Edwin looked at Selena with an awkward smile "Please don't.." Selena teased him before going to school "Are you about to go now?" Selena replied "Yes brother, I'll see you later!" as she grabbed her bag on the table next to the entrance door and hugged Edwin "Stay safe Selena."
Selena smiled and let go of her brother "Yes brother." She leaves as Edwin waves at her. Edwin went inside, closed the door and went back to his room. He placed the sack on the table and checked the weird stick again "She said something about a catalyst, is this one?" he questioned himself, as he was about to sit down, Edwin suddenly felt like something was moving inside of his veins "Crap, what the hell is this." He tried to move yet something was restricting him
"What is happening! My veins are showing on my hands and I can't even move, heck I can't even speak!" He starts to panic, his veins move even more as he starts to feel an unbearable pain on his head "A headache? What even is happening to me!" After a few seconds he fell on the floor, his veins went back to normal and the headache disappeared like it never happened, Edwin fell unconscious for a while before regaining it back, he suddenly stood up and inspected himself, touching his arms, his head, and his legs, he decided to speak to test if everything went back to normal
"Hello..?" He sighed in relief when everything went back to normal "What the heck happened… Was I being possessed by a ghost?" He looked over the stick that he took from the ground earlier, the stick was surrounded by red lines and texts "Wait, by catalyst… Does she mean that this is a magic wand?" He slowly took the stick on the ground and looked at it closer, the wand suddenly reacted and the red line and texts surrounding the wand disappeared. "Did I activate the wand..?" he swung the stick around and attempted to cast magic "Do I just cast spells?"
He looked at the window and aimed the wand on the rock outside "Let's test this baby out!" He exhaled and prepared himself "Fireball!" He stood there awkwardly as passersby looked at him, some even muttered about how cute it was, Edwin still standing, slightly blushed and immediately closed the window and curtains "That was so embarrassing and corny! Why did I even do that…" As he sat down on the floor
"Do I have to undergo training or do I lack mana?" he pondered to himself, he stood up and placed the wand on his table, he went to his bed and laid down, he covered his head with his arms and closed his eyes, he felt something weird 'Wait, didn't I have a fever earlier..?"
He quickly rose up and double checked his head "Yeah, I did have a fever earlier, how am I okay immediately?" He looked at the closed curtained window "How did I also have the reflex to jump on the window earlier?" There were too many questions that Edwin had
"Even the moment I first woke up here, the headache that I had was gone after I stood up, I may not be good about the human body but I know that a severe headache does not just disappear after standing up." He starts to consider things regarding his transmigration "There must be a reason I transmigrated here."