Chapter 2: I Choose the 2D Summoning System!

Chapter 2: I Choose the 2D Summoning System!

With those thoughts in mind, Toma cast aside the pressure of reality and all the doubts that had been twisting around inside his head.

He focused completely on the newly appeared options.

[What kind of cheat ability would you like? 1. Protagonist Template (Overpowered Protagonist Type) 2. Self-Enhancement System 3. 2D Summoning System 4. I Don't Need a Cheat Ability]

Seeing the choices, Toma couldn't help laughing.

Now that he had completely let himself go, he didn't bother holding back his comments.

"Holy crap! If there's actually a 2D Summoning System, why the hell would I even need to think about it?!"

Without another thought, Toma chose option three.

Whether any of this was real or fake no longer mattered.

Toma just wanted to go crazy one more time.

To dream one more impossible dream.

As for why he chose option three?

That was easy.

In Toma's eyes, nothing could compete with the temptation of the 2D world.

And as for the ridiculous fourth option?

That didn't even deserve consideration.

Anyone who chose "I Don't Need a Cheat Ability" had to have something wrong with their head.

Toma was just an ordinary otaku.

A weakling with practically zero combat ability.

He was fully aware of that.

More importantly, he desperately wanted a cheat ability.

And if that cheat ability could summon beautiful girls from the 2D world?

Then it couldn't possibly get any better than that.

At least, not for a hopeless otaku like Toma.

[Who would you like to summon? 1. Female 2. Male 3. Hideyoshi]

Looking at the newest options, Toma barely had the energy to complain anymore.

"What the hell?! Isn't this question way too stupid? Male and female I can understand, but why the hell is Hideyoshi an option?!"

Toma weakly shook his head before finally selecting...

Female.

"I'm not gay, thank you very much. I'll take female."

After finishing his complaint, Toma's imagination started running wild again.

If he chose Hideyoshi, then what would happen?

Would he end up summoning the flat-chested Youmu he knew...

Or some YOOOOO-mu with something extra between the legs?

Just imagining it sent a violent shiver down Toma's spine.

Yep.

Definitely a shiver.

Hideyoshi?

Cute boys?

Toma had absolutely no interest in either.

I'm straight, damn it! I only like cute girls!!!!

After screaming internally, Toma's imagination immediately shifted elsewhere.

If he really could summon cute girls from the 2D world...

Who should he summon?

Nothing had even happened yet, and Toma was already thinking about what came afterward.

Then another thought occurred to him.

If he really obtained a system capable of summoning beautiful 2D girls...

Then maybe choosing the wrong answer earlier didn't matter after all.

Specifically, the option about building a harem.

Because if he could summon beautiful girls...

And he had conditions this ridiculously favorable...

Wouldn't not building a harem practically be begging to get struck by lightning?

Yeah!

The more Toma thought about it, the more convinced he became that his logic was flawless.

But just then...

A new line of text appeared on his monitor.

[Thank you for participating. Goodbye.]

"Huh? That's it?! Hey! What happened to sending me to another world?! Are you fucking kidding me?! You son of a—#$%@...!"

…

"Brrr... It's so damn cold!!!"

That was Toma's first thought.

After waking up, Toma looked around at his surroundings. At last, he was certain.

He really had transmigrated...

Just moments ago, Toma had still been sitting in his room, furiously cursing at the option box that had already disappeared.

He'd been convinced that some hacker had really screwed with him.

Then, a black hole-like object suddenly appeared on his computer monitor.

And then...

Well...

Toma had absolutely no idea what happened after that.

"To think the first time I ever passed out would actually be the prelude to transmigration?"

Toma subconsciously complained before shaking his head.

He understood that this wasn't exactly the time for jokes.

After all...

'Don't tell me I got transmigrated into some godforsaken forest in the middle of nowhere?'

Looking at the trees surrounding him, Toma couldn't help thinking exactly that.

Worse still, when he transmigrated, Toma had only been wearing boxer shorts and a white undershirt.

Back home, he hadn't thought anything of it. It was summer, after all.

But right now?

He was freezing his ass off.

"Damn it! Where's my System?! Hurry up and come out! How the hell is a weak otaku like me supposed to survive here without a System?!"

Wrapping both arms around himself, Toma stood there shivering from the cold.

Still, since he had already transmigrated, there should at least be some kind of benefit waiting for him.

For example...

That promised cheat ability from before.

A System capable of summoning beautiful girls from anime and other two-dimensional worlds.

It was precisely because he remembered that little detail that Toma shouted to himself like an idiot.

[System initializing... Initialization complete. Greetings, Host. System No. 9527 is honored to be of service to you.]

Hearing the electronically synthesized female voice inside his head, Toma—an hardcore otaku who had read countless transmigration novels—immediately understood what it probably was.

His System.

After all...

That was how those novels always did it.

One had to admit that otaku really were ridiculously adaptable.

If an ordinary person suddenly heard a mysterious voice speaking directly inside their head, they would probably be scared shitless.

Because no matter how you looked at it, suddenly hearing a voice inside your own head was incredibly creepy.

But an otaku like Toma?

He didn't care at all.

If anything, he was delighted.

After all, for a weakling like him, this System was the one thing he could rely on to establish himself and survive in this completely unfamiliar otherworld.

Without it, Toma felt that with his pathetic physique, he wouldn't even need some magical beast to drag him away.

He might simply starve or freeze to death first...

There was nothing he could do about it.

Reality was cruel.

Who told him to be a useless shut-in who couldn't do anything?

Toma was well aware that he probably couldn't even beat a single wolf.

What?