Like every night, I was reading my favorite novel re:zero.
The room was dark, and only my desk lamp was on.
"The moonlight spilled across the room like silver. For a second, I felt like I was in an old black-and-white movie…..except Netflix doesn't buffer this slow
Anyway I kinda like it. It's calm.
Suddenly, a sharp pain stabbed my chest.
Panic hit. I gasped, quick and shallow.
The book slipped from my hand. I folded over the hard corner—pain knifed my gut."
My body suddenly started to get hot. Like I was on fire.
I felt warmth on my stomach. Blood was coming. I couldn't breathe. Everything was getting darker and darker.
I tried to say help several times, but the words barely came out of my mouth.
He..lp..hel...p...H....elp
I tried.... I tried..i tri..
Andthen....I died.
I slowly opened my eyes.
I was cold.
I looked around. I was in a snowy plain. And it was snowing....softly.
The snow fell without sound, from a sky that looked like hell after the flames had died
Somehow...no... I didn't know where I was, and more importantly, who I was.
My breaths were turning into mist.
I felt like my body and bones were being crushed under the cold.
The wind was screaming in my ear as if it wanted me to die.Or maybe the world itself wants me to die.
The wind was fiercely cold, as if it was punching me with icy fists.
My lips cracked like dry earth, but this wasn't sand.
it was ice. An endless frozen desert.
Beautiful, yes… but merciless. A place that forgives nothing, no matter who you are. It felt like I had trespassed into someone else's domain.
The first word that slammed into my mind wasn't hope. It was survival. If I sit here and wait, I'll die like a pathetic fool—forgotten, meaningless. No. If I'm going to die, it won't be for nothing
I rose slowly, dizzy for a moment, but forced my balance back.
The boy stumbled toward the glint, knees crunching in the snow. A stone, polished like a mirror, stared back at him.And so did a stranger.
Slender—yes—but not weak.
A body laced with quiet strength.
Hair, deep crimson, like fresh blood spilled across the snow.
Eyes as black as a moonless night, swallowing the gray sky whole.
And that skin… white, not pale, but pure—like snow that never knew dirt.
He reached out.
Ears similar to humans... But with a pointed tip.
The stone burned against his fingertips. Cold—so cold it seared, as if ice could catch fire.
A footstep came on the snow. Heavy and firm.
When I looked to my right, I saw a bear. White like a cloud, but bigger than a regular bear, even bigger than a polar bear. It was like a mountain. Scary but beautiful and worth seeing.
There were two bear cubs beside her. Cute and cuddly like a ball of snow.
But suddenly One word...but multiple voices. The voices of a man and a woman, and a girl and a boy. They were all saying in my head, without order: Run, myson. Run, my child. Run, brother. Run, Brother. Run... away.
And something like a punch made me say: My unlucky day is not over yet.
I took off my shoes and started moving backwards, carefully and focused.
I was breathing calmly, but my heart was beating fast.
But suddenly,i stepped on a small piece of wood, and the sound made the bear turn its head towards the boy.
Oh damn my luck.....No!! I have to stay calm and keep going.
I turned my back to the bear and started walking, as if nothing had happened.
I was walking slowly. I converted my quick breaths into slow but deep breaths.
Cold sweat was dripping down my forehead. The cold of the snow was burning my foot like fire.
And At that moment, the only thing repeating in my mind was, "IMUSTSURVIVE."
And I walked step by step. Without looking back. Not even once. And that's because my gut told me not to look back.
I trust my gut feeling more than anything right now, even the voice that's telling me to look behind me.
(After 5 minutes)
For 5 minutes I've been feeling like someone or some people are following me. I have to... to... look behind me.
I stopped slowly. I turned my head back at the speed of a dying snail. No—slower than a turtle with arthritis.
I am wallahi finished I am WALLAHI finished
I AM WALLAHI FINISHED!!!!
Suddenly I saw the same mother bear and her cubs. I wanted to scream, but I clenched my jaw so hard my teeth cried for help. At least it kept me quiet.
Slowly I'm starting to think that I'm really unlucky.
I'd better say hello and smile.
And Ignore the twitch in my left eye please
I forced myself to give a warm smile, even though a bear.. no, a monster like a mountain is in front of me. And I succeeded and said:....umm...Hello?
Both bear cubs looked up at me, adorable and deadly at the same time, and chirped in perfect sync:helloooo!!
The mother bear answered too—calm, almost polite, but with a look sharp enough to skin me alive and More terrifying than my nightmares
"Hello… young man."
The scene punched me straight in the face. My heart? exploded into atomic pies. My soul? Already halfway to heaven. I WAS ABOUT TO FAINT! Even scream and run. But no.I clenched my jaw tighter, every muscle in my body tensed like a bowstring. Stay calm. LOOKCALMMMM!!!!
I managed to keep a straight face and asked: Did you understand my words? (raised one eyebrow very high)
The bear cubs started rubbing their bodies against my leg, and one of them said: Yes, it's that strange?
STRANGE?! NO, NO, NO!!
THIS ISN'T STRANGE BECAUSE YOU UNDERSTAND ME!!!
IT'S STRANGE BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND YOU!!!
POOR ME!!!!!
MAN WTF IS THIS FUCKING WORLD!?!? WHERE THE FUCK EVEN I AM?!?!
I wanted to scream, but I clenched my screaming teeth again.
I smiled and I said warmly: No... I was just surprised.
I found a big rock and sat on it.
The stone is so cold, it feels like it's breaking my bones. But I need to stay dry.
There is a forest in front of me, and that's good. I hope there is a lake or river for fishing as well.
Ahhhh... I really need to stay alive.
And I have to think about it second by second. First of all, I shouldn't die for any reason, and second, I have to conserve my energy.
Well, I better start right now.
I got up from my place. And I put on my shoes and I headed towards the forest.
One of the bear cubs said: What do you want to do?
While walking, i said coldly: I want to do 3 things.
1. Staying alive
2. Not die from the cold.
3. Not die of hunger
I passed by the mother bear and her cubs and I didn't look back again. I didn't even look at them and I kept my serious face.
Mother bear's thought:...I somehow recognize that look.
Mother Bear said in a warm but strong voice: If you want to stay alive so badly, why don't you come and live with us?
After that sentence, I stopped. I thought for a bit... I turned my head and said: heh,Why not.
Both bear cubs started rejoicing, jumping back and forth, and one of them said :ꉂꉂ(ᵔᗜᵔ◍)
Yaynewfriend
Without realizing it, a smile came to my lips and I started moving towards the mother bear and her cubs.
And I realized the snow had stopped.
The wind wasn't blowing anymore either.
At first, I thought it was normal and didn't think much about it.
But suddenly I felt like someone was watching me.
Or maybe it's better to say something was watching me.
A drop of sweat fell from the my forehead onto the ground.
Everything became quite. A strange and frightening silence
The air around me had become thick. And I could feel that something was wrong.
"I think something's wrong," I muttered.
"So you felt it too," the mother bear said, stepping in front of her cubs.
I picked up a sharp-edged stone from the ground that looked like a knife.
There's a sound of something dry breaking.*crunch*
And again.*crunch*
Strong but light.
Crunch… then an echo that rolled through the trees like a warning.
Hearing the sound made all my senses tell me that something was approaching.
Gray shapes slid between the trees.low, swift, and watching
Red sparks flared between the trees.first two, then ten… then more.
Bloodlust hung in the air, razor-sharp, heavy as an anvil.an invisible blade that wanted to taste flesh.
The boy said with a fearful smile: It seems my bad luck isn't going to end so easily. "How unlucky"
Author note:main character is from our modern world.
Like any other Isekai MC🗿