Reincarnated in a depressing erotic world but living a normal life (right?) Echoes of the Abyss

"Ugh... What happened...? More importantly, why do I feel so... familiar?"

... WAIT A SECOND.

"I-I recognize this feeling, no, rather, I know this 'lack' of feeling... And above all, this physical disconnection... P-please tell this isn't true, this isn't real! Is this the abyss?!"

... "I have no mouth, I have no eyes, I have no hands, I have nothing!"

"!!!NO, NOT THIS AGAIN, PLEASE!!!"

(SLAP!!)

"Calm down, you're not there."

"Huh...? Could I feel that? No, forget that, who are you?! Or rather, where am I?!"

"Mmm... I really don't know, I just woke up here... although when you arrived this place changed."

".... When I arrived...? Wait a second! What do I look like now?!"

"Oh, right now? Well, I'd say you look like... Mmmmmmm... well, I really don't know how to describe you or rather, do you know what I look like?"

"Now that you ntion it... Actually, I don't know how to describe you either, or rather, have you been reading my thoughts?"

"I don't know!"

"So how did you slap ?"

"I don't know~"

"At least do you know where we are?!"

"No~♪"

"... Haa... Alright... Well, at least knowing I'm not alone helped calm down a bit..."

"You're welco~♡!"

"You know, I'm not one to talk, but aren't you weird?"

"How rude! You're weird too, but you still feel familiar!"

"... So I wasn't the only one who felt that way, right?"

"Hey, hey, hey, do you know sothing curious~?"

"What is it?"

"That the space is changing!!"

"Huh...? No way?!"

"Hahahaha, it's so strange!"

"Ugh, I need to focus and start to understand what's happening here, so please, slap !"

"... Are you a masochist?"

"!!!Damn it, NO!!!"

"I'm just asking you to slap to help clear my mind and rember!"

"Oooh, why didn't you say so before? If that's all you need, then I can do it!"

(SLAP!!)

"Ouch...! I don't understand how it can hurt so much?! But it's still working!"

"That's good♪!"

"Ah, but please, be quiet while I try to rember what happened, can you do that?"

"I'll try~"

"....Well, better than nothing, I guess."

"Now let's see, what happened to and how did I get here?"

"Let's see, first I rember that, after discovering how my gender change, caused by entering that literary world, had affected without even noticing, making more feminine despite my original innate gender and masculinity, I rembered thanks to Echidna before it was too late."

"Wow~... Did that happen?!"

".... Yes, that happened, but didn't you say you wouldn't interfere?"

"I said I'd try!!"

"Of course..."

"But go on and tell what happened next!"

"Alright, alright, well, after learning that terrible truth, I imdiately set about thinking of sothing that could complete the plot to get out of this world and recover my original gender."

"To which I ca to an answer!!"

"And what was it?!"

"Yes, you see...."

"Gulp...!"

"I ca to the conclusion that the key was the heroine of the story!"

"Hooooooww...!?"

"Heh, heh, heh, I know you're wondering how, right?"

"Well, yes, but how did you know?!"

"It's because the reader usually has the sa reaction!"

"I see, it's the reader's fault!"

"That's right, but let's continue the story — ahem!— I an, the mory, shall we?"

"Well, what are you waiting for?! Continue!"

"... You know, talking to you makes lose focus... Well, alright, let's answer your question first!"

"You see, the first thing I saw when I entered this literary world was the cliché engagent annulnt scene, right?"

"I think so...?"

"Well, that sa cliché scene nowadays has many variations, but they all share sothing in common."

"Sothing in common?"

"That's right, sothing in common, and that is... That all of them involve either a heroine or a villainess as protagonists!"

"Is that so...?!"

"Well... Not all the ti... But in most cases, yes! Which ans that perhaps what would complete the plot would happen if I found the heroine."

"Wait a minute... How do you know she was the heroine?"

"Oh, that's easy. I got all kinds of information from the guy who tried to defile my 'purity' when I woke up in the castle dungeon after 'training' him carefully."

"Train...?"

"Aahh... Well, 'training' is... In short... Sothing you do to release stress! Understand?!"

"I understand!"

"Aweso, then let's continue!!"

"Following my hypothesis at full speed, I took my trusty allies Silver and Goldie along with a small battalion of my babies to find the heroine throughout the royal palace, but let tell you sothing..."

"What, what, what is it?"

"That place was imnse!!"

"You can't imagine how many tis I got lost in it while searching... It was horrible..."

"... It must have been terrible."

"And it was, seriously it was, but in the end I managed to get to where the nobles were, which ant that consequently the heroine would be there!"

"... Although there was a guy who interrupted saying sothing, which I decided to ignore, and then, then.... I REMBER NOW!!"

"WOW, WHAT HAPPENED!!"

"Oh, I'm sorry for shouting... if you can call thinking or whatever I'm doing that?"

"Don't worry, I was just surprised, so go on and don't leave in suspense."

".... Well, you see, what happened next was that I turned around when soone spoke, introducing the heroine, throwing her near my feet, so I decided to thank him for his help that facilitated my search when out of absolute nowhere the dallion on my chest lit up, shooting a ray of light that was the last thing I rember."

"Hey, I have a question."

"Huh...? What question?"

"The person who gave you that heroine, wouldn't it be that one?"

"That one....?"

"Yes, look at the one over there."

It was only when my gaze? It directed towards where it was (I guess?) pointing that I noticed how the entire space had now transford into a replica of the castle and how two figures stood facing each other, chatting.

"Tell , did you learn everything~?"

The first figure was a woman in a kimono with fox ears and tails, elegantly smoking a pipe, appearing like so kind of courtesan.

".... That's right, but why are you giving all this valuable information?"

The second figure was what appeared to be an old man in a black robe, hiding his face.

"Do you want to know why I grant you all this~?"

"That's right, what do you gain from all this after giving so much? You must have so motive."

"Well, yes, I have a motive, you see~..."

At that mont, although I couldn't understand their expressions or faces as if there was so kind of force hiding them, still, without a doubt, I could "feel" the silhouette of the fox woman's face...

"Because I have a personal yearning~"

As without a doubt she smiled with a twisted grimace of joy while the worst and darkest emotion I had ever felt until that mont invaded .

... Honestly, I'm very glad I didn't have a physical body at that mont, because if I had... I would have certainly collapsed...

"But if you're looking for a simpler reason then~... I do this to test these 'prototypes', nothing more, nothing less~"

"... You're a monster, aren't you?"

"You're not so different from , truly~"

"...."

"We're all monsters deep down, just a simple push away~"

With every word she said, I felt as if this space was trembling while she seed to dance in place, sohow "looking" at us.

"Hey, why not let it out~?"

It was with those words that the space around began to crack piece by piece as everything collapsed.

".... Alright, I'll do what I have to do regardless of the consequences."

And the last thing I saw was the old man taking a "skin suit" from that person I had recently seen...

"I wonder who I'll deliver you to and how they'll use you, 'princess' kujujuju."

With those final images, the space broke.

"Wow...!"

.... "I couldn't say it better, seriously, what was all that?"

"I don't know... But didn't it feel exciting?"

"..................... I don't know, the words she said, for so reason, undoubtedly made feel fear, anxiety, and anguish like never before, but nevertheless.... At the sa ti, it really... made feel 'sothing' else... But I don't understand what...."

"Haa... you can say that again, seriously, what was all this for? Or why?"

"Ahh! It seems ti is running out!"

"Ti is running out...? What do you an?"

"I don't know!"

".... Seriously, I don't understand you."

"I don't understand myself yet, but I know we'll et again!"

"Why are you so sure?"

"Just a feeling~♪!"

And after those words, everything lit up as I felt my consciousness begin to disperse once more...