I Transmigrated into the Wrong Body

What's a Guide? (1)

Edited by: ASaltedFish

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Aster woke up feeling like his whole body got hit by a truck. Then he remembered that he really did get hit by a truck or car while he was driving.

It was a dark and snowy morning as he was driving home from work. He drove slowly on the road, like all the other cars trying to make it home safely. Everyone had their high beams on, but they could only see a few feet in front of their cars due to the heavy snow obscuring their vision.

It was early morning, so he did his best to keep himself awake.

Trying to keep himself focused, Aster drove down what seemed to be a really long, monotonous stretch of road. He was overstimulated by his job so he didn't want to listen to music, so he did his best to softly hum to himself to keep himself awake.

Hearing a muffled sound coming from behind him, Aster stopped his humming session. Before he could even register the noise, a strong impact slammed into the back of his small, two-seater black car.

With the lack of friction on the snowy road, his car slid on the icy road and rolled over twice before sliding down the road into a ditch. He did his best to brace himself, but he felt something heavy hit him on the head.

The last thing he remembered was being upside down in the ditch that his car had slid into before blacking out from the pain.

Aster thought it was a miracle that he actually made it out alive. Strangely enough, he couldn't remember too much about who he was, just his first name and some other basic info like his parents, the relatives who raised him, and where he lived at the time of the accident... It was strange he couldn't remember his last name though. Actually, a lot of his memories were fuzzy.

Maybe he hit his head a little too hard...

As he was thinking to himself, he felt a little odd. His body felt like it was floating in some sort of liquid... When he opened his eyes, he appeared to be encapsulated in a large metal tube filled with some sort of slimy green liquid.

Casting his gaze beyond the walls of the tube, Aster saw a person who looked like a nurse smiling at him. They seemed happy and surprised to see him.

Mouthing something in his direction, the nurse hurried away, leaving Aster quite confused.

What the hell did that person say?

[He said that he was going to get a doctor.] A voice that sounded similar to his said, [Right now, you are in a MedTube, recovering from an injury.] This person talked in a flirty and confident manner, different from his own soft-spoken and formal speech.

Med... Tube? Wait... Why were his thoughts replying to him like that?! Does he have schizophrenia?

[I don't know what schizophrenia is, but I would like to know the same thing, random soul that ended up in my body. Your soul has been here for as long as my body has been unconscious. Then again, since we are both stuck in this body, we might as well become friends.]

Aster wanted to pinch himself to check if he was still dreaming, but he couldn't move his arms or legs.

[It's not a dream... My name is Ellery Aster. The year is 4532 of the Interstellar calendar. I am an A-ranked guide with a red panda quantum beast named Sol. It's a pleasure to meet you.]

Aster calmed down a little and responded, 'You are awfully calm... Well, I will do my best not to freak out even though I am pretty confused. My name is Aster. I can't remember a lot of things from before I died, but the year I died was 2025 on planet Earth. Interstellar civilization was something I thought only existed in fiction media... Um... I don't know what a spiritual guide or quantum beast is.'