[center][h2]Yasuho Tanaka/Myrtle Bramblewood[/h2][/center] [i]This is it! This is the day! Ooh, I'm so excited![/i] [i]What day, you may ask? Why, the day for the new expansion of Emerald Odyssey, of course! I've been waiting for this day for so long you have no idea how excited I am right now![/i] Yasuho Tanaka was spinning in her room, her uniform skirt fluttering as she did. She had just gotten back from school and without even undressing, she booted up her PC with a kick of her foot. As she waited for the boot-up to finish, she danced around, talking to herself in the process. It was what she always did whenever she got too excited. She needed to let it out of her system after all. Only after she started to feel dizzy that she pulled her seifuku up her head and unzipped her skirt. Dumping both unceremoniously in the laundry bin, she sat on her lovely gaming chair and clicked on the icon for the game. [i]Perfect! It already updated by itself! Hehe, thanks to my genius that let it run all night yesterday![/i] Grinning, she clicked the Enter button. The game loaded in an instant, shifting into the title screen with the logo for the game. She clicked log in, selected her character, and waited until the game finished loading. [i]Well, that's weird. No queues at all? On a release day?[/i] And then, light enveloped her. … … … [i]Huh?[/i] She blinked. [i]Wait, what just happened?[/i] She blinked again. Her PC… it had disappeared, vanished into the void. There was now only a wooden chair in front of herself. Or rather, a dresser, as there was a mirror right above it. Her eyes widened. The face she saw in the mirror… wasn't her face in the slightest. It was her character, Myrtle Bramblewood. She yelped, her body leaning too much backwards that she and her chair fell. "Miss Myrtle? Are you alright?" She heard the sound of a door opening. Looking to her right, still upside down with her legs up in the air, she found that a maid was entering the room. [img]https://i.pinimg.com/564x/be/ee/90/beee90666fa98b12a3e4803a08d580df.jpg[/img] Her eyes widened once again. [i]That's Azure! One of my retainers![/i] In the game, players with sufficient funds could pay for NPC retainers to work for them. Azure was one of them. She dressed her up as a maid since it fit with the western mansion aesthetics that she used as her house. "Miss Myrtle, how can you fall over like that? Here, let me help you up." The maid bent over and lifted the chair back up. The weight of her mistress and the heavy chair didn't seem to bother her in the slightest. "Hehe, thank you, Azure." Myrtle scratched her blushing cheek. [i]Wait, why am I talking so casually like this? I've been transported into the world of Emerald Odyssey! And my face! And this body! They all belong to my character, Myrtle Bramblewood! Somehow or the other, I have transformed into her![/i] Myrtle pinched her cheek. No dice. This really wasn't a dream. She stood up to have a look at her new body better. Slim waist, flat chest, average height, pink hair — it really was the body of her character. It took her three hours to customize her appearance so there would be no chance she forgot how she looked. She then twirled in place, her eyes locked to the hem of her short dress. Yep. This was also the outfit she had equipped for her. "Milady, is something the matter?" The voice of her retainer interrupted her thoughts. "A-ah, nothing!" Myrtle smiled nervously. She couldn't very well tell her about this! Especially since she was supposed to be her! The maid pouted. "I believe you need a rest, Milady. Shall we take a stroll outside?" "Outside? Y-yeah, that's a great idea, Azure! We should do that!" Myrtle praised herself for her swift thinking. Outside! Yes, she had to go there! She had to see if she really had been brought into the MMO world she loved! "Very well, Miss." The maid smiled. "I shall pack a lunch and we can have a picnic together in the park." With a quick bow, she left the room, leaving me back with my own devices. "Whew… that was… nerve-wracking… since when an NPC like her can act that intelligently?" She frowned. "Though if this is an alternate world of sorts, and not literally the world inside the game, that would make sense…" She paced back and forth for a bit, squeezing her chin with her index and thumb. Until she suddenly stopped and snapped her fingers. "Well, time to look around this place! First, we'll start from this room!" The place was big, a lot bigger than her room back in the real world. A large queen-sized bed was neatly tucked to the northwest corner of the room (if she were to assume the door was on the south). A grandfather clock stood proudly to the east, along with the dresser. A full bookshelf was placed to the north and a lit chandelier was hanging from the ceiling. There were two pairs of windows — one near the dresser and the other above the bed. It was exactly like the bedroom she had designed inside the game. A knock came from the door. She jumped. "Milady, I'm ready. We can depart now." She turned in a flash. "A-ah, yes, excellent work, Azure! Let us depart then!" She spared one last glance at the room before she left. This was her room. No doubt about it. She imagined in her head that the room was to be used by her character when she designed it. And now, it had become a reality. Just what in the world was going on?