I'm Doing My Best to Make Myself at Home in Another World - Chapter 0 - Prologue

Author: Himawari
TL: Noya

Just to inform you of the conclusion, I, Akitsu Midori, 27 years old, have passed away.

My demise was abrupt, and I believe that overwork might happen to be the cause. I was aware that I was working over the limits and that my physical health was already declining.

Well, I should have visited the hospital, but I kept myself too preoccupied with work.

Just how could a death be determined by the cause of overwork?

Although, I don’t particularly feel devoted to my company and at the moment they must have listed their stocks, even though I was a contract worker, I couldn’t feel anything else but woeful of the fact that my death must have caused a bad image to the campany.

Though my business is a subsidiary, I want to believe that it won’t go bankrupt now, will it? …Ah, in my mind, I could imagine the form of my superior from the parent company speaking deameaningly.

To be honest, I don’t give a damn about the parent company. Superiors who don’t even glance at the manufacturing floor, should go to hell.

Now then, I wonder what will happen…

I was deliberating, when suddenly I heard a voice calling out to me, it was God.

I attempted to reach out to God, just as I would to them in times of trouble.

Then God gave me a deal and promised, that if I would accept specific terms, they will make everything work out.

God brought about a condition called “reincarnation.”

I was then told promptly of the world that I’d be sent to, Asdelon, and that I had to determine whether or not to destroy humanity that lived there.

I felt the need to know more, so I inquired the specifics while wondering what in the world was going on.

In short, the Asdelonians behaved in a way that suggested that they believed that God had chosen them over other beings and that they had been ‘given the right’ to control the world by punishing elves, beastmen and demons that resided on their lands.

Despite the fact that this was another world, humans had the same way of thinking. Somehow, I had already been taught of such developments from history…

Why, yet, are you unable to make a choice between them?

Upon asking God that, they responded that they couldn’t decide as every race was their own creation. How selfish, I thought.

…Wait a second. If reincarnation is the way I’m going to be alive again, then it just means that I’ll die anyway.

God then told me, that it was my destiny to die at the age of 27 and that it is something they could not change…

They then assured me that they would let me choose between dying now or after reincarnating into the other world and to choose to destroy the human race or not.

I thought of how sad it would be that this was the end of my life, after working so tirelessly and then dying all too suddenly because of that…

Should I just accept the condition or should I continue to die the way I’m now and move on.
Hmm…since the parent company has connections with the government, which is supposedly the place where high-ranking officials retire, I believe that they would hide my death.

When I considered rejecting, God promised to grant me any power I desired.

By power, you mean…a cheat!?

It’s the reincarnation cheat that’s popular nowadays!!

I started to think of an ability that would be good for me… I want to touch fluffy animals and play with them!! Give me a soothing time, please!!, I thought and shouted from the bottom of my heart.

God was somewhat shocked by my bizarre wish and the way I conveyed it, but it can’t be helped!

Fluffing up my beloved animals was my number one therapy.

Whenever I would play and stroke the cat at my parents, I’d be categorized as an enemy and playing time would eventually become a bloodbath, yet I couldn’t hold back my urge to stroke it.

…Aaaaahhhhh!!

Doesn’t this mean I just gave my approval!!?

Wait! Time’s out!

Then God told me that they will place an affectionate feeling in the hearts of the animals for me, other than the humans, and that I could search for the ones I like.

Oohh! So it means that it’s going to be possible to savor the feeling of playing with animals without having problems that we encounter in the world I came from, animals that are dangerous to be too close to, like wild cats or birds of prey…!

God, I didn’t know that you listen to what people saaaaaaay!!

You have great ignoring skills, to be honest!

It’s fine it’s fine said God, embarrassed.

I have picked a wonderful family for you.

I don’t know how I got caught by this guy and I don’t think something like this happens very often, right? If this is all true…then I despise the person I was before my death!

For now, I hurriedly left after socking God, who was once wearing a radiant smile.