1 Welcome back old friend
*DING*
[Repent conditions met, unlocking the previous system.]
Wait, what?!
[Welcome back user, I hope that you learned your lesson this time around. Locking most of the system for the time being. Think about "Help" to see all the options]
I tried to look around but I couldn't see anything, I was in a black place with no light. I tried to touch my chest with my hands but I realize I didn't have a body!
Holy fuck! I tried to move but I could only look around like I was rooted in the place. Only those words were floating in the air in pristine white color.
I began to panic, thinking about all the possibilities. This was hell? Heaven? Afterlife? Or someplace in-between?
After a long time, I could organize my thoughts, the information I deduced was pretty simple.
I was in a reincarnation cycle even if that's was absurd, and the life I lived was, at least, my 2nd cycle of reincarnation.
I didn't remember my 1st cycle of life, but it seems that I fucked really bad so I got delivered a crappy 2nd life, being homeless for almost 30 years and even if I got talent at some point in anything, that incident ruined all my chances for success in life.
I didn't regret a single thing for my former life, I did what I felt was right, even if I didn't gain anything or even if I lose my life. I wasn't a saint, but I wasn't indifferent to the problems of other people, maybe that's why I lose so much.
And one more thing, it seems that my "system" was mostly blocked as a penalty I suppose. Now only rest to call "help" option and see what options are available.
After I thought that the white letters changed and a menu appeared:
[Past Life Memories] {LOCKED}
[Past Life Achivements] {LOCKED}
[General Settings]
[Next Life Settings]
I tried to click on [General Settings] and a bunch of options regarding the length of notifications windows, position, notifications pop-ups and settings regarding that and more stuff I didn't know. It was similar to the setting of a real-life game, like on I saw kids playing nowadays. I played enough computer games for free on my youth, and since it was one of the better parts of my life I remembered clearly.
I closed the window with the little X at the top of the screen and proceed with the menu option of [Next Life Settings]. And a new window popped up.
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Name: Ryan
Position: Karmic Warrior LVL 0
Karmic Points: 25
Available choices:
1~ Keep past-life talents (20 points) {One time only}
2~ Better economic background (10 points)
3~ +20 Stats at the start of life (10 points)
4~ Add a legendary natural talent (50 points) {One time only}
4~ Increase Position LVL (100 points) {One time only}
5~ Clean State (1000 points) {One time only}
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I played a lot of computers game back on my former life, I tried to stay as clean as possible to be allowed to stay in warmer and cleaner places. Sometimes a boss would feel pity for me since I was young and obviously poor and gave me some hours of free computers games. I played a bunch of single players games since I didn't have a computer to play multiplayer games. So I understood the worlds immediately.
It seems that my 1st cycle left me with a lot of negative points and my former life added a lot of them so my karmic points were now positive. Fuck, that 1st cycle really fucked me up.
I only had 2 choices, I could be orphan and homeless but keep my past-life talents or to start a better economic background and have a bunch of stats for add.
The second choice is better for the early game but demerits for the long run. And the first choice is the opposite, but what were my talents? I was pretty good with the guitar until that accident on my 18th birthday, so maybe that was my talent?
And if the "past-life talents" includes that motherfucker 1st cycle talent so maybe the first choice is the way to go.
I calmly re-evaluated my possibles choices and decided to choose the first option. Another life of hard existence is bound to happen, but this time I would be really careful about protecting my life talent or possible talents, and of course my life!
After I choose the option "1~ Keep past-life talents" a white light encircle me and a notification ringed inside my mind.
[Choice made, insufficient points for choosing another option. Transferring remaining karmic points into talent points pool, 50 talent points added. Initializing new life. 24 hs needed for recalibration]
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I wake up in pain of my whole body looking an old and ruined ceiling, maybe it was white when it was painted but now it seemed to be more green and black because of the humidity and lack of maintenance.
I tried to call the "system" or "help" but only a screen saying this appeared:
[System in calibration, will be online again in 23 hours 59 minutes]
With no other choice, I sat on the squeaky and crooked bed and looked around, it was a big room typical of orphan places. I counted 8 bed with various of different level of comfort that typical people couldn't distingue but people who lived here could. That bed had a warmer blanket than the other, that pillow was not smelly, that matters didn't have missing parts, that bed didn't squeak, etc.
Why I was paying attention to those details? In every orphan house there is a ranking position, the lower you are the lesser the privileges you had. And after evaluating all the bed I realized I was at the bottom of the food chain. I had the worst bed, blanket, pillow and position in the room. That's not good, not even in my past life I had such a bad position.
I finally stood up from the bed and looked for a mirror, I found one that placed on a square pillar in the middle of the room. I went there and looked at my self, I was so FUCKING different from my past life, I was a pretty white skin boy with honey-like eyes and I looked around 18-ish years old. I removed my T-shirt that was almost a rag at this point and looked at my body. I didn't have any muscles and I was pretty hurt all over, I was skinny at the point that my abdominals were visible but not for doing exercise. And after that, I obviously looked at my junk...Nice! Pretty big even sleeping, later I will find out how big really is.
Finishing my self-medical I put my former rag back on and went back to my bed and looked under the bed. I found 3 T-shirts that looked as used as the one I was wearing another jean that it had seen better days and 4 pairs of socks and boxers. All of this in a neat carton box with the name of Ryan messily written, I helplessly smiled, It seems that my bad writing is still haunting me in this life.
I put back my things inside the box and continued looking, and finally found what I was looking for, a loose wooden panel on the floor.
It was one of the tricks most orphan boys picked up for keeping things outside of the range of prying eyes. I put my hand inside the hole and felt a book, I remove it and looked inside.
It was a dairy, I didn't have time to read it all now but I looked at the last page's entry of the dairy that said:
02/03/2010
Adam and his gang are constantly harassing me, even putting laxatives on my food and itching powder on my clothes. Even began to hit me with their gang in the shower when they had an opportunity, I can't wait to receive my check for my 18th birthday of the government and leave this place.
03/03/2010
FINALLY MY BIRTHDAY! GOODBYE, FUCKING ORPHAN NOW MY LIFE BEGINS!
A couple of the kids are inviting me for drinks with their own money to celebrate my departure! And I thought I didn't have anyone to remember! Charles and Austin you rock guys!
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After that, there were a couple of intents of writing something but I couldn't understand most of it only a couple of words...
...FAKE...POISON...ADAM...
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I felt the cold sweat on my neck and realize the gravity of the situation, that motherfucking Adam most likely killed the former Ryan with poison just to steal some petty pennies the government send to new 18th years old of orphans.
Obviously, his plan had a fatal mistake that I keep my diary with all the evidence needed to at least investigate him. But of course, what detective would go to an orphan house to investigate the death of a nameless boy? Besides it seems that this was the breakfast time so they needed to go there to appear it was all normal and then search under my bed for possibles left pieces of evidence.
Shit, I was even worse than my past life, no money, no roof and in constant danger.
I had to leave without anyone noticing it, no, what use is to do that? Even if I somewhat managed to jump from a second floor without hurting and without making noise, the moment they see that I'm not there Adam and his crew will search for me.
Shit, I need to search for the director of this orphan house and ask for a job to at least be gone off here and be a little safer, the further the better!
