A young man writhed on his bed.
The moonlight that seeped through the window curtain to the left of his bed shined upon him, illuminating his fair face, his disheveled short bck hair, his bck shirt-cd body that was no longer covered by the duvet he kicked off during the struggle, and the glimmering sweat that covered his entire body.
Suddenly, the young man jumped in a fluster and sat up with a gasp, heaving for air.
“Hah… Hah… Hah… W-What was that- Uuugh!”
A sharp pain suddenly assaulted his mind, hitting him like an intense migraine. He ched his eyes shut ah together, and held either side of his temple tightly, trying to withstand the pain.
But the pain suddenly subsided as swiftly as it appeared as a soothing, warm sensation washed away the pain as if it never existed.
“W-What just happened…?”
His hands dropped to his p. He was just sleeping just now. He was having a dream he couldn’t recall before he was suddenly awakened by this intense pain in his head.
He looked around his room, w if something hit his head while he was asleep, causing that intense pain.
But, he found nothing. It was still the bedroom he had been living in for the past 11 years after being adopted by his stepmother aering her awin daughters’ family. It was still iate he left it before he went to sleep.
He let out a sigh and turowards his desk at the top of his bed to look at his arm clock.
“It’s still 4:am huh…? Hm?”
With his room dimly Illuminated by the moonlight, he noticed something on his desk. An unfamiliar item.
“What is that…?”
He stood up, picked it up from his desk, and sat back down on the edge of his bed, looking at the unfamiliar, yet strangely beautiful smartphone in his hand.
It has a stylish design that he had never seen before. Its surface was smooth, clear, and immacute, enough to reflect his tenance perfectly like a mirror.
He tur around to its sides and back. There were four camera le the tht part of the rounded-er regle, arranged in a square. While on its side, there were only two long, slim buttons to increase and decrease the volume and a button with a lock i on it. There was no charging port, earphone jacks, nor speakers.
A look of fusion painted his face. It was certainly a cool-looking phohe coolest he had ever seen. But it was… strange. How could he even charge it if there was no charging port?
Upon closer iion, he realized there was no brand nor any signs of its manufacturer’s number or the sorts.
“Just what in the world is this phone…? Is it a toy…? Did Yuna or Ni it behind actally? Or could it be mom…?”
He stared at it for a moment, and just as he was deliberating to ask Yuna, Nina, and his mom about it in the m, the s suddenly turned on with a line of message and two options dispyed on the sky blue aper.
[Do you wish to join the Multiverse Group Chat?]
[Yes] / [No]
“....What?”
With his mind still in a state of daze from being woken up abruptly from his good night’s sleep with intense pain, he didn’t know what to make of it.
In all hoy, everything that is happening right now feels like a fever dream… If it wasn’t for the fact that he suffered from that intense pain, he would’ve believed that this is all a dream.
He looked at the s of the phone and thought for a moment.
...I’m curious. I’m super curious…
Judging by “Group Chat” part of the title, it seems to be a messaging app that has started being more and more popur retly along with the rise of smartphones.
However, as for the “Multiverse” part… He couldly recall it, but there was something in the back of his mind telling him that he knew about it.
Hah… I feel like I’m fetting something again. It has been a while since I felt this way...
He sighed and plopped back down on his bed.
Ever since he was young, for as long as he remembers, there had been times when some things would trigger something in his mind.
It felt like Deja vu… He felt like he knew about it. That he was familiar with it, but no matter how long, he couldn’t recall the exact memory of what it was. It happened when he first met his mother and twin sisters. It happened whe some of his friends. Even when he read light novels, manga, or watched anime, he would feel a sense of deja vu.
He felt like he khem, but he would always fail to remember it, and that feeling would disappear as quickly as it appeared.
These deja vu occurrences had bee rarer and rarer in the past few years. He almost even fot about it si never happened again. That is, until now…
He looked at the s for a moment, reading that one line over and over before finally, he made his decision.
...Sure, let’s just join this chat group. Why not? My curiosity wouldn’t have allowed me to fall back to sleep anyway.
He sat up and tapped [Yes] on the smartphone.
The message disappeared before another message appeared, repg it.
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[X]
Wele to the Multiverse Group Chat!
gratutions! You have bee the first member of the one and only Multiverse Group Chat, a soul-bound divine application and device eg individuals of various universes and worlds!
Other members will join you shortly! In the meahe [Chat], [Mission], [Shop], [Gacha], and [Iory] features have now been unlocked! Please feel free to explore the application to your tent!
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“...”
If he was feeling dazed before, the message he’s reading right now certainly snapped him out of it.
His eyes widened in shock. He read the message over and over, but he was still uo process what just happened.
Wait… Soul-bound divine application…? Worlds? Universes? What the hell…? Is this real…?
He read it over, trying to memorize its tent before closing the message. But just as he was about to look into the Multiverse Group Chat, he became distracted.
He knew about smartphones since his mom was a very successful ior ieological field, and smartphones have been all the rage retly. They’ve been being more and more popur tely and have started repg phones due to how ve and advahey are.
He, personally, didn’t have o, nor did his sisters. In his family, only his mother had one since she for her work. She had promised, however, to buy each of them the same one as hers. The produd most advaype of the most popur brand of smartphone in Japan, iApple.
But this one was even more advahan that! No, it couldn’t even be pared tur smartphohe spe this thing far surpassed even his mother’s Pd his mother has a powerful PC for her work.
“T-This is insane… Is this even a teology of this world…?”
Such power in something slightly smaller than his hands… It was not something that should exist in this time and age…
No, I shouldn’t be distracted. I o find out more about the Multiverse Group Chat.
He shook his head and opehe Group Chat application.
Just as the weling message had stated, there are five menus in this application; [Chat], [Mission], [Shop], [Gacha], and [Iory]. They were all lined up at the bottom of the s with the [Chat] s dispyed above it, taking up the majority of the s.
He opened up the Group Chat room. There was still no ohere.
Hm… I wonder whehers will e…
Just as he was about to look at the other menus first, a notification appeared on the s.
[*Ding!* “EdgyZero” has joihe Multiverse Group Chat!]
[*Ding!* “Sisahesvara” has joihe Multiverse Group Chat!]
...What?
trary to his expectations, the names, or hopefully, the niames of his fellow Multiverse Group Chat members were… far beyond his expectations. They were… very unique.
EdgyZero: “Hello? Is anyone here?”
EdgyZero: “Wait, why is my name like this?!”
Sisahesvara: “Hello. It seems I wasn’t the only one here.”
EdgyZero: “Uhm… Sisahesvara-san…? Do you know anything about this Multiverse Chat Group…? This device just suddenly appeared on my bedside. I do not know who this belongs to or what this means...”
Sisahesvara: “I’m not sure, EdgyZero-san. This device also suddenly appeared on the dining table in my living room. I do not know anything about this, however, it seemed to belong to us now...”
EdgyZero: “Hm… Judging by the least my own, I see how it corretes to me, albeit in an insulting manner.”
Sisahesvara: “I agree.”
[*Ding!* “SarymanTurnOverlord” has joihe Multiverse Group Chat!]
SarymanTurnOverlord: “Uhm… I found this smartphone in front of my apartment door. Does anyone know who this belongs to…?”
SarymanTurnOverlord: “Eh? This niame seems weird…”
Sisahesvara: “It seems more are joining as well.”
Sisahesvara: “SarymanTurnOverlord-san, I believe you are now the owner of this smartphone and a member of this Multiverse Group Chat, just like the rest of us.”
EdgyZero: “Yes. We also do not know what is going on…”
SarymanTurnOverlord: “Eh?! I-Is that true? I-I didn’t really read weling message, so I really don’t know what’s going on!”
[*Ding!* “PervertedGirl” has joihe Multiverse Group Chat!]
PervertedGirl: “Helloo~ I found this phone in my school bag, so if anyone knows who this belongs to, please tell me~ Also, I’m sorry if I actally made you join a group~ I o enter so I ask someone who this belongs to~”
PervertedGirl: “Oh~ There’s people here already. Do any of you know who this belongs to?”
PervertedGirl: “Pfft! Also, your names are hirious!”
EdgyZero: “You’re oo talk.”
PervertedGirl: “Ahahaha~ I don’t mind this niame~ It is true, after all! That means, your niames are also true!”
EdgyZero: “I’m not edgy.”
Sisahesvara: “I am not a sis as well.”
SarymanTurnOverlord: “Uhm, as for me, I am a saryman. But I don’t know what it means by ‘turn overlord’…”
PervertedGirl: “Oh really~”
PervertedGirl: “Wait… Then is the owner of this smartphone also a perverted girl like me?”
Sisahesvara: “No, I believe you are the owner of this smartpho least, you are now.”
EdgyZero: “Yes. It seems the same thing happeo all of us. We all tally found this smartphone aered this Multiverse Group Chat.”
PervertedGirl: “Eh?! You mean it’s not just an advertisement?!”
As the other members of the group chat began discussing their current situatioared at the s of his smartphohinking deeply as he watched messages after messages appearing in the chat room.
“This Multiverse Group Chat… Are they really from a world in a universe different from this one…? No, are there even other worlds…?”
The premise of being transported or reinated into another world of fantasy was not unheard of by any means. As someone who would occasionally read some light novels and manga or watime, the cept of another world was, at most, fi to him.
But for it to happen in real life would be… impossible, right? It was all supposed to be a work of fi. How could it happen in real life?
He pted for a moment and focused ba the discussions in the Group Chat.
He could certainly wait for them to give him the answer and not say anything, but he had been rude enough for not saying anything until now. If he was a member of this group chat, then it was only polite to greet them.
He took a deep breath and began typing his greetings.
H-Aagonist: “Hello. Five me for not joining in this versation earlier. I was quite shocked and fused by everything that was happening…”
The moment his message appeared, he froze at the sight of his own niame in the group chat.
H-Aagonist: “Wait, what’s with this name?!?!”
H-Aagonist?! He couldn’t believe this multiverse Group Chat thing! He is not the protagonist of a hentai anime! He’s not a protagonist of any anime!!!
He had to admit. Being the stepson of a transdently beautiful stepmother, a brother to a pair of geous twin step-sisters, and a o a hot and sexy step aunt was aremely ve setting for a hentai anime. But it’s something that only happens in fi!
He never had any sexual retionship with them at all, unfortunate as it was!
PervertedGirl: “PFFT!!! AHAHAHAHAA! WE’VE GOT ANOTHER OH AN AMUSING NAME!!! ARE YOU REALLY A HENTAI ANIME PROTAGONIST?!?!?!”
H-Aagonist: “NO I’M NOT! Ugh… Is there any way to ge the name?”
Sisahesvara: “Hm… One moment.”
He also started to look for a way to ge this ridiculous niame. Now, he felt bad for finding their names amusing. Karma really hit him hard on this one, because his name was the worst of them all!
Shiba Tatsuya: “There we go. We ge it through our profile like usual. Thankfully it is not perma.”
Thank God!
He sighed in relief.
Tsubakihara Yuuji: “There we go… Thank you, Tatsuya-san.”
Lelouch Lamperouge: “This is better. Thank you for saving us from such embarrassing niames, Tatsuya-san.”
Suzuki Satoru: “Yes, thank you very much.”
Kiryuu Aika: “Aell, I guess this is much better for us to get to know each other.”
Shiba Tatsuya: “No problem.”
Wait… These names… I feel like I’ve heard of them before…
Yuuji thought for a moment before his gaze nded on his bookshelves.
He stood up from his bed and quickly began rummaging around, skimming through his colles of light novels before he finally found four series having a character with the same name as his fellow Multiverse Group Chat members.
As I thought… They’re all characters from light novels, anime, and mangas!
Yes, there ossibility of them tally having the same names as these characters. But, after reading that first message from the Multiverse Group Chat and the sudden appearance of this smartphoh sci-fi level of advaeology, he was starting to believe it...
Suzuki Satoru: “Uhm, I have something to ask… Is everything written in that message true…? Are you all from different… universes?”
Lelouch Lamperouge: “I’m not sure… Perhaps we’re only living in different tries. I am living in Area 11. It was a try called Japan before Britannia occupied it.”
Suzuki Satoru: “Eh? I am living in Japan as well, but what is Britannia…?”
Shiba Tatsuya: “So am I. I don’t know what Britannia is.”
Kiryuu Aika: “Me too. I have no idea what Britannia is, but I also live in Japan. Do you know anything about it, Yuuji-san?”
Tsubakihara Yuuji: “Please feel free to call me Yuuji. After all, aside from Satoru-san, it seems we are all the same age.”
Suzuki Satoru: “Eh? H-How do you know…?”
Tsubakihara Yuuji: “It seems the weling message dispyed when we first entered is true…”
Shiba Tatsuya: “Hm, I’m also starting to believe it… I have no recolle of any try called Britannia. The only thing I know about the name is that it is the name of the national personification of a Britain in the form of a helmeted female warrior with a trident.”
Lelouch Lamperouge: “I see…”
Suzuki Satoru: “T-Then, is Lelouch the only one in a different world? I mean, we are all in Japan, right?”
Shiba Tatsuya: “No. There is no guarantee of that. Just like Lelouch, we may be living in different versions of Japan in different worlds.”
Kiryuu Aika: “That’s true…”
Suzuki Satoru: “Eh? Uhm… Thehat mean you don’t know about the DMM Yggdrasil?”
Kiryuu Aika: “No. I’ve never heard of it.”
Lelouch Lamperouge: “I have never heard of it as well.”
Shiba Tatsuya: “her do I. It seems that you were right, Yuuji. Judging by these differences in our version of Japan, we are indeed living in different worlds… As unbelievable as it is.”
Tsubakihara Yuuji: “Yes. But, that is not the only basis I have. There is ohing I would like you to see. One moment.”
Yuuji quickly downloaded all avaible volumes of “The Irregur at Magic Highschool”, “Overlord”, “Highschool DxD” light novels as well as the anime for “Code Geass” into his smartphone and quickly tried to send it to the group chat. He did feel slightly guilty for pirating them, but it is an urgent matter.
Fortunately, everything was downloaded in an instant and he was able to upload it to the Group Chat instantly as well.
Tsubakihara Yuuji: “Please take a look at these.”
Tsubakihara Yuuji: “These are fial works in my world, and judging by your names and what you say about your world… I believe these stories will ring a bell to you. Unfortunately, most of them were still ongoing series except for Lelouch’s, but I believe these will still help. Perhaps there exists a story in your world with a character who has the same name, background, and character as I am and a world just like the one I’m living in. If anyone knows such a story, I would appreciate it if you tell me.”
The new messages stopped appearing as everyoarted to read or watch what Yuuji had sent them.
It would surely be a shog sight to them. After all, not only were they just hit by the fact that there are multiple worlds, they were also shown a fial story which they were a character in.
Even Yuuji, who didn’t know if there was a story with a character just like him in another world yet, was very nervous and uneasy.
Yuuji waited for a while. But even after tens of minutes passed, there were still no messages.
...Should I try to explore the Multiverse Group Chat for a bit?
Looking at the still unmoving chat room, he decided to go explore the application in the end.
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