In the nighttime park, the only sound was the gentle rustling of leaves stirred by a light breeze. Under a streetlamp, sitting on a bench, was a white-haired girl in a black dress. In the lamplight, her beautiful face was clouded with worry.
"Why did things turn out like this?"
Bai Jing looked at the unfamiliar park before him and sighed deeply.
Five minutes ago, he'd been sitting at his computer in his room, ready to play a newly discovered treasure of a game. That game had an incredibly powerful character creation system where any part, any detail could be customized to his exact preferences.
He'd spent several nights creating a character that perfectly matched all his preferences—a white-haired, red-eyed beautiful girl.
The moment he finished creating the character and clicked to enter the game, he'd instantly appeared in this unfamiliar park.
Appearing here out of nowhere was one thing.
Bai Jing lifted a strand of silvery-white hair. What he never expected was that he'd actually become the character he'd created. What kind of twisted development was this?
As someone who'd read plenty of transmigration novels, Bai Jing had fantasized about what he'd do if he transmigrated, but he'd never imagined that transmigration would actually happen to him.
He pinched his thigh. Unlike his previous thick-skinned, rough thigh, a girl's thigh actually felt pretty nice to pinch. But the pain was definitely real.
The pain reminded him that this wasn't a dream, and he also couldn't find any button to exit the game.
Thinking that continuing to sit here would be pointless, Bai Jing decided the most urgent matter was figuring out what kind of world he was in. From the Japanese text on a nearby street sign, he could tell he seemed to be in Japan.
Strangely enough, he only knew a few Japanese phrases from watching anime or studying "educational materials," and didn't understand written Japanese at all. Yet he could completely comprehend the Japanese on the street sign. Was this a benefit that came with transmigration?
Speaking of which, could he have transmigrated into an eroge world?
If that were the case, wouldn't his current situation be quite dangerous?
Various twisted scenarios from doujinshi suddenly flashed through Bai Jing's mind, making him shudder involuntarily.
Just as Bai Jing was about to get up and leave, a pleasant voice suddenly sounded in his ear: "System installation complete, initiating startup..."
Hearing the voice, Bai Jing instinctively looked around, but in the nighttime park, there was no one else besides him.
And the voice just now had mentioned a system.
Bai Jing wasn't unfamiliar with this term at all. He hadn't expected that on top of transmigrating, he'd also have a system.
In many novels, this would be treatment reserved for the protagonist, wouldn't it?
However, he didn't have high expectations for the system. He just hoped it would be somewhat normal and wouldn't give him something cursed like a Tribble Breeding System or anything like that. Ideally, it would have a function to let him transmigrate back.
After nearly a minute, the system's voice rang out again: "System startup complete. Nice to meet you, pleased to make your acquaintance."
"You can call me anything you like—Little Ai, Siri, whatever works. If you want to call me 'honey,' that's fine too."
"???"
"Systems nowadays are this quirky? And your voice—why does it sound like HanaKana?"
"To enhance the host's experience, this system's voice can be freely switched. Precisely because of this, I was concerned the host might develop certain strange interests in this system, so I thoughtfully added the 'honey' option."
As the system said this, its voice switched to Kana Hanazawa's.
Honestly, Bai Jing was quite susceptible to this kind of thing, but even so, there was no way he'd develop strange interests in a system.
"System, is there any way you can send me back?"
"Sorry dear, this system doesn't provide transmigration services. Besides, this is the transmigration ordinary people dream of—why isn't the host happy at all?"
"If you suddenly went from being a life winner with a car and a house to a white-haired beautiful girl with nothing who could be violated at any moment, would you be willing?"
"You don't even have a girlfriend, yet you call yourself a life winner. Host, you're really quite adorable." The system's voice suddenly switched to Kaguya Shinomiya's tone, even mimicking her manner of speech perfectly.
The system's words struck like a heavy hammer to Bai Jing's heart, nearly crushing his spirit.
Not having a girlfriend was his eternal pain.
After finally calming his complicated emotions, Bai Jing continued to ask: "Then can I at least return to my appearance from before transmigrating?"
"No can do. The host is the one who chose this appearance. The system clearly gave you a prompt before the game started, asking whether you wanted to enter the game with this appearance. Didn't the host carefully read the game instructions?"
Bai Jing thought back carefully—there did seem to be something like that. But who pays attention to prompts when playing an eroge? If he'd known it would turn out like this, he would've created a domineering T-Rex swagger character long ago.
He really wished he could find somewhere to sleep and wake up in his familiar bed.
"If this doesn't work and that doesn't work, can you at least help me find a girlfriend?"
"Helping you find a girlfriend is something this system cannot do, but this system can make you become someone else's girlfriend."
???
As the system's words fell, before Bai Jing could say anything, he noticed a small black shadow rapidly approaching from not far away. As the shadow entered the streetlamp's illumination, he realized it was a small dachshund.
The dachshund seemed to be heading straight for Bai Jing, leaping directly into his arms after getting close.
Looking at the dachshund frantically wagging its tail, Bai Jing was utterly confused. Before he could ask the system what this meant, a somewhat familiar female voice called out from nearby: "Sabre, where are you?"
Shortly after, a cute pink-haired girl came running up to Bai Jing, panting heavily. Though she didn't have her signature bun hairstyle, Bai Jing recognized her at a glance—the pink-haired girl before him was Yui Yuigahama.
At the same time, the system's voice rang out again: "The host just mentioned wanting to find a place to sleep—why couldn't that be Yui Yuigahama's house? Please try to get Yui Yuigahama to proactively invite you to her home. Success will reward you with card packs or items related to Yui Yuigahama, and as this is the first task, completion will also reward you with temporary housing for one year, proper identification documents, and basic living funds."
"This is a newbie benefit. If you miss this chance, the host will have to solve these problems on your own."
"If the task fails, the host must draw from a penalty card pack, and if your luck is bad, you might just become the female protagonist—the kind from 18+ doujinshi."
"???"