Chapter 2: I’m back!

Countless streams of light shot past her eyes, and when Charlotte came to her senses, she found herself plummeting downwards at high speed.

Before her was a beautiful, brilliant starry sky, and the black-hole-like void rift was rapidly moving away from her.

Charlotte turned to look down and was stunned to discover a bustling city below.

Countless neon lights flickered throughout the city. On the grid-like streets, traffic flowed ceaselessly, and crowds of people gathered, creating a lively and extraordinary scene.

“Eh?”

Charlotte landed smoothly on the rooftop of a tall building, gazing at the modern metropolis below with a look of astonishment.

This place was completely different from her original world, yet Charlotte felt an unusual familiarity with it.

That was because, before she was born into this world, she had lived in just such a bustling city.

Charlotte is a reincarnated person.

Before her reincarnation, she was a boy named Bai Shenxinghe.

Simply because he hadn’t looked when crossing the street, he was sent directly to another world by an oncoming large truck.

Although the other world had far fewer amusements than the real world—no manga, no games, no silly netizens to chat with—it possessed magic that the real world lacked. Using magic, she could soar freely in the sky and do things ordinary people couldn’t.

Moreover, she was born with a constitution brimming with innate magical power, allowing her to learn all sorts of magic with ease and deal tons of damage.

Charlotte suddenly became interested; ‘Wasn’t living in another world also a kind of immersive gaming experience?

And so, Charlotte developed and learned rapidly in the other world. At the tender age of fifteen, she earned the title of Star Witch, becoming the strongest, most overpowered female protagonist in that world.

She never expected that after becoming the strongest in another world, she would actually have the chance to return to her original, real world.

It had been fifteen years since she had any contact with manga and games, fifteen years since she had eaten fragrant roasted skewers and drunk ice-cold cola.

This time, ‘I’m going to make up for the fifteen years I lost!’

At this thought, Charlotte’s face lit up with glee.

“I’m actually back! This is fantastic!”

Charlotte plunged into the bustling city center and returned home laden with a large handful of roasted skewers in no time.

Although Charlotte didn’t have any of this world’s currency on her, that was hardly a problem for her. With a casual wave of her hand, she used projection magic to conjure two banknotes.

Of course, if any other witch had tried this, even the most perfect projection magic wouldn’t pass a counterfeit detector. But Charlotte, having once lived in this city, perfectly replicated even the anti-counterfeiting marks on the bills. No one would ever notice there was anything wrong with them.

However, such a cute, short, white-haired witch still attracted the attention of nearby passersby. But they only thought Charlotte was very pretty and cute; in a modern city full of cosplay, no outfit, no matter how outrageous, was considered strange.

In no time, Charlotte returned triumphantly with a large handful of roasted skewers.

As she munched on them, she exclaimed, “This cumin-filled aroma is just too delicious!”

If she had known it was this easy to return to the real world, she would have brought Lillian along. She would definitely be captivated by this flavor!

‘Well, I’ll bring a jar of cumin back for her to try later.’

‘But speaking of which, where is this place?’

Charlotte scanned the nearby signs and noticed that several of them bore the two large characters for “Silver City.”

‘Eh? Is this the very same Silver City where I used to live?’

Back when she was Bai Shenxinghe, he had a younger sister at home named Yukina.

Fifteen years have passed; she wondered how Yukina was doing.

‘If she were to appear before her now, would she be scared out of her wits?’

‘Well, she should be in her thirties by now. She must be much more mature than before, and she probably has a new family and a new baby of her own.’

‘It would be rather impolite to just barge in and disturb her. Better not.’

Just as Charlotte was about to dismiss the thought, a very familiar cry suddenly entered her mind.

“I’m begging you, Brother Xinghe, if you can just wake up, I’ll do anything!”

Although she hadn’t heard this voice in fifteen years, Charlotte immediately recognized it as Yukina’s cry.

‘It seemed to be coming from about two kilometers away, in the direction of…’

Charlotte followed the sound and looked off into the distance, vaguely seeing the image of the First Central Hospital.

‘The hospital? Why would Yukina be there? And that voice didn’t sound like someone who was over thirty.’

‘Also, why is she crying and shouting for me to wake up? Hadn’t I been dead for fifteen years? Is the flow of time different in another world and the real world?’

‘If that’s the case…’

At this thought, an inexplicable excitement ignited within Charlotte. She gobbled down the rest of the skewers in one bite, then took a running leap into the air. Like a launched cannonball, she traced a graceful arc across the night sky and shot straight towards the room in the hospital where Yukina was.

Kicking through the hospital room window, Charlotte stepped over the shattered glass on the floor and scanned the room, her eyes immediately falling on herself lying on the bed.

To be precise, it was her past self, named Bai Shenxinghe.

It looked like he had just died not long ago; the color hadn’t faded from his face yet.

After being hit by the truck, her soul was reincarnated into another world, while her body remained in the real world.

Seeing her own thoroughly cold corpse lying before her, Charlotte only found the experience rather amusing.

After all, in the other world, no matter how bizarre things got, they could all be considered standard procedure.

She walked to the bedside, leaned in to carefully observe her own dead face, her eyes filled with immense curiosity.

“So this is what I looked like when I died? Not very good-looking, is it!”

“Um… excuse me, who are you…?”

Yukina’s voice came from the side.

Charlotte tilted her head and saw the girl, Yukina, sitting by the bed, tear tracks still on her cheeks. Clearly, her brother’s death was a heavy blow to her.

But speaking of which, that she would cry for him was something that surprised Charlotte.

After all, before the car accident, his relationship with Yukina wasn’t exactly harmonious, at least that’s what he had thought.

But that wasn’t so strange. After all, Yukina was in her rebellious teenage years. She might say she hated her brother, but deep down, she loved him dearly. The fact that she could cry so miserably for him was proof.

Since Yukina had asked so sincerely, there was no need for her to hide it. She might as well let her know just how awesome her brother became after reincarnating in another world!

At this thought, Charlotte’s face immediately beamed with pride. She reached out and patted her own underdeveloped chest.

“Hehe, Yukina, didn’t expect this, did you? Your big brother won the revival tournament and is back!”