"Where am I...?"

When Keishi opened his eyes, he was lying on a comfy bed. Keishi could only see the white walls surrounding him. There were also a lot of cute pink and blue toys on a cosmetics table.

"Where is this place...?"

All he can remember is that the-girl-who-looked-like-Aina smiled brighter than the sun after hearing his decision. He decided to help Aina with all his might, although he isn't even sure whether he is able to do that or not. "Now as I think about it, I didn't truly have that kind of hero-in-a-light-novel resolution. I simply went with the flow as I have been believing I was in a dream. In a dream, you can do anything you want, right?"

And then Aina just opened her arms widely, and something that looked like a black hole appeared. "It was as tall as me, and looked quite frightening". Some cold winds were blowing into that purple-black thing, and it sounded like the roaring gale that you hear every time a storm approaches your homeland. Yet Aina was not afraid of it at all. She just put out her two cute, slender hands in front of that thing, and said "Hai! Please get in the portal!" with a welcoming tone.

"Oh! Is this a portal leading to another world?"

Keishi remembers that he asked Aina this question. Still believing that he was dreaming, he didn't think too much about it. He thought he watched too many isekai anime to know where this was going.

"Yes! That's true, my hero!"

He heard the nice, sweet and welcoming voice of Aina, and he walked in.

Keishi can't remember anything after that.

However, right now, there is something much more important that requires his attention.

There is something soft and fluffy under his hand. No, that something is surrounding his arm.

He looked towards the mysterious warm thing.

"Gyaa?"

He was startled at the sight of Aina sleeping next to him!

It seems Aina was awoken by Keishi's beastly groan. She slowly opened her eyes, rubbed them with a cute gesture, and looked at the guy with the face as red as a tomato sitting next to her.

"Hero ...?"

Keishi was flustered for a while and murmured:

"Good... morning?"