1 Chapter 1-Waking In A New World

I was a ungrateful little brat when I was little. I had grew up with a silver spoon since young and never worried about the problems others would face because of my decisions. I had always neglected my studies. When one of my employees, servants, or maybe even a older classmate would advise me not to do something, I tried to do specifically that.

Later on in my life everything went down hill. My parents lost their immense wealth. The people who worked for them betrayed them. My own incompetence invited many incompetent people into my family's businesses. Later my parents passed away and I was left a sorrowful excuse. I had kept my unwanted and unrealistic pride.

I had grown throughout my life always unable to get a girlfriend. No girl wanted to date the arrogant, poor, evil little thing I was. Later on I eventually, however grew out of it. I grew into being a slightly bitter middle aged man. I was bitter looking at my own past. My own ignorance. I knew my problems and finally accepted my mistakes.

One day after getting up early in the morning; I took a taxi to get a few items that I needed for my everyday living. I had grown to like shopping myself after all these years. The feeling of getting a good deal on more expensive things became a thrill for my older mind. I needed something after all to occupy my free time, and distract me from my failure of a life.

Looking around I finally left my thoughts only to realized all the shops around me had disappeared. Everything all of a sudden became similar to something that was happening in the middle of winter. My body seemed to feel a unending chill as it tried to shut down. I felt my body go numb all over slowly enveloping my brain, my mind, my existence. I was left without a thought to my situation.

Then there was nothing. As I looked around finally internally peaceful I saw a light that appeared to be at the end of the horizon I found myself in. With nothing to do besides head towards it I eventually clawed my way there on nothingness that somehow allowed me to move through it as if it were in actuality a something. For nothingness is just the lack of something but a thing lacking something is still a thing to begin with. For it to needs to exist to feel like it has no existence.

Smiling as I finally made it I felt a large sense of achievement consume me as I looked at the wall of light before me. Walking and touching it with wonder I leaned against the item and I immediately fell through the solid looking surface. Why are people fascinated by the light and not the darkness that surrounds it. Was it to not a thing created by something beyond the human imagination. Why instead do we fill it full of mystery and danger. The unknown had protected me at first, but now this light pushed me to this world. One now as I could see full of medieval dressed people. However maybe light to is trying to protect me by pushing me to the front, each in their own way. One through hiding, and one through facing the situation.

The people weren't just humans; there were other species such as faunas, demi-humans, and even some poorly treated spirit-kin and yokai. On top of these things there appeared to also be goblins and other monsters on the streets who appeared to be quite friendly. Thinking back and wondering just what had happened I could only shiver thinking about the lingering coldness from the experience that I had just went through. The moment had very, very likely been the moment of my death, however it had occurred. Trying to find somewhere peaceful so I could get my mind straight on what happened and I needed to do, I stumbled my way across the city.

Was I reincarnated or transmigrated, I never really knew the difference myself between the two. Maybe I was just sent to a new planet through a newly opened blackhole that just happened to be where I was at the moment I stood there in the middle of the street. That however didn't explain why the landscape and changed around me before it became nothing but, well nothingness around myself. Then was I pulled here by something like a divinity for some amazingly divine purpose. No, he wouldn't leave me here out in the middle of nowhere with no direction if that was the case. Maybe I am part of some sort of entertainment for him. Nodding as this was what made the most sense to me right now, I started looking around for a place to just settle down and rest.

As I walked into a back alleyway I saw a abandoned little shop. This place looked wonderful to me because it would be a great place to settle my headache, it also somehow looked familiar. So I looked around the building for a way in and finally found one in the form of a broken window just big enough to fit me. Laying down in a corner for a good rest my mind started wondering until a loud alarm sounded in my mind.

"The host has found an abandoned building. The building is usable as either a commodity store or a small scale restaurant it is up to the host to chose his first business."

Strangely enough I actually considered it instead of blowing off the voice. I didn't know if it was residual wants from always trying to return to my past and fix my mistakes; or if it was a want to have some sort of direction for my situation that I found myself in. Honestly my mind was about to just shut off. But eventually like all good things that happen in time I decided to have a commodity shop. I didn't know what I would be selling exactly but I hoped it would be similar to a small time personal shop.

"The System Will start the procedure of transforming the shop to the requirements of selling. You will awaken once renovations are done so the host doesn't accidentally interfere with the process."

And as such that was the last thing I saw before I fell asleep wondering if that voice was actually real. If my whole situation was real, and why I felt some sort of familiarity with this place.