#the age old story of a gay middleaged doctor and the implausibly hot women that end up following him around

[suntiger745]

When you isekai the wrong guy

The premise is simple, and familiar by now. A high school or college guy gets killed in the modern world and is transported to a fantastic realm where he gains powers and become surrounded by beautiful women who want him carnally and/or emotionally.

But sometimes the gods get drunk, or there's a glitch in the Matrix, or someone handed the Web of Reality maintenance off to the intern on a friday to take an early weekend.

Enter Dr Kojiro Watanabe. 51 years old, trauma surgeon, speaks 5 languages, has worked with Medicines Sans Frontiers for 15 years before returning to Japan. Happily married to his husband for 23 years.

And now he finds himself in the Commonwealth, on a different earth and with no supernatural powers. He is still, for some reason, getting surrounded by implausibly hot women though. And it's true that the Commonwealth is in dire need of his skills as a doctor, but while he doesn't mind helping people out he misses his husband and just wants to go home.

"I'm a healer but..."

Unfortunately, the isekai story has a kind of narrative inertia of its own. The pink-haired (and implausibly hot) alien woman he meets considers them married after he helps her out.

"Wait, we are what?!" "Pair bonded. My translator chip says 'marriage' is the correct term." "I'm already married! To my husband, who I love very much!" "That is not an issue, doctor Watanabe." "It is to me!"

The whole "marriage" thing aside, Sonora is a nice woman and a crack shot, so she will be very useful in keeping him alive until he figures out a way to get home.

Of course, things like interdimensional travel are not so easy to figure out. He is a trauma surgeon after all, not a quantum probability physicist, or an occultist. They do find an interdimensional anomaly though. Entering it, they meet Ella, a crack commando trooper from Colombia. Only it's not the Colombia from Watanabe's earth, nor the Fallout world, if her outfit and weapon are anything to go by.

The interdimensional anomaly hosts a variety of weird things and it's quickly apparent that some seriously advanced and highly experimental science was going on in the facility.

They find their way back, though to Dr Watanabe's disappointment it is the Commonwealth they return to, not Kobe in his Earth.

They continue to explore, and stumble into an old theatre turned fighting arena. With a very hostile audience.

Once the lead and lasers have stopped flying he approaches the victorious fighter and the commentator/owner of the place.

Thanks to the narrative inertia of the isekai setting, the owner of the area suggests that the fighter goes with him. Kojiro reluctantly agrees, and as they exit he discovers that a reason he keeps getting saddled with implausible attractive women is that the isekai narrative literally warps them to suit its archetypes. Cait was not unattractive as such, but she had clearly had a rough life based on how she looked when he first talked with her.

When they exit the combat zone, not only does she have less bruises, she's taller and wears a completely different outfit.