章節 1: 1. A strange encounter
I woke up in a drunk haze sitting slumped over in an alley with cheap beercans all around me. I felt aches all around my body when I moved. Every muscle feeling battered and bruised.
It was the first time I ever got drunk. Kicked out of my appartment, almost broke and with no place to stay or friends to call, I had given up on the thought of living.
"I feel so fucking sick." I muttered. The acidic and bitter stench of my breath making me want to hurl. I slowly pushed myself up and tried to get a grip of where I am. I didn't recognise this place. I probably wandered off in a drunken stupor, but couldn't remember from where or why.
But something, or rather someone, stopped me from getting up. As I looked down I a woman resting on my lap face down.
"A cosplayer.. pretty old one at that."
She looked about someone in her late twenties, maybe early thirties. Probably a bit older than me, I'd guess. Did I have a fling with her yesterday?
I carefully poked at her neck, but she didn't seem to notice much at all... outside of the ears twitching?
"No fucking way, right?" No way that those things could be real, must have been watching too much anime. I'm probably just seeing things, eyes playing tricks on me. Yeah, catgirls, if those were real then I wouldn't even be a 2D lover... nah I probably still would be.
Out of curiosity though I tickled the back of the ear and...
"Wait, they are real?!"
They felt real, they twitched again as I lightly scratched them and even weirder, the woman seemed to enjoy the touch as well.
"Nyaa~"
Am I hallucinating? Have I perhaps died and reincarnated into a parallel universe? This makes no damn sense. But as I caressed the woman laying on my lap, it definitely felt like it was similar to petting a cat. I sat there baffled at what I was experiencing, spacing out. Too busy with trying to comprehend the situation, I didn't even notice I woke her up.
She perked her head up towards me, eyes half closed as she was still not fully awake.
"Hmm?"
"Ah, sorry, I didn't mean to wake you up."
"Mm..."
She didn't speak, only making grunts and noises to communicate... does she even know how to speak Japanese? How the hell did I even meet her?
She lazily rubbed her head against my hand, seemingly finding the feeling quite comfortable. Maybe it was due to her being half asleep that she was leaning against me.
"More...." She sleepily begged.
I decided to scratch her chin a little. she didn't seem to mind me down so, and promptly after went right back to sleep, pinning me against the wall with her head on my chest.
Still dumbfounded as to if I'm going insane or not, I decided to lean back and fall asleep as well, hopefully this time not waking up.