1 What to choose...

Another end of the day in the school, Leonard was on his way home as always. Anxious to get home earlier to get food before surfing in the web for novels to read and time to waste.

Procrastinating was one of his strength and something he was good at. Whenever he had something to deliver at school of paperwork to do he would always deliver at the last second with an average score just enough to not fail.

Thinking about his life wasn't that trilling and he was trying to change his ways but would always come back to reading novels and wasting time on funny videos on the internet.

But before he got home, there was a robbery happening down the street, where he chose to hide so they wouldn't see him and rob him of his cel nor his money, his mom gave him at the first day of every week to get lunch at school.

But suddenly the patrol who worded in the neighborhood showed up and tried to stop what was happening. Long story short, after the initial scare the robbers had they shot the patrol.

The bullet hit his arm but went on and hit Leonard on his chest. Coughing blood, not knowing what to do, feeling all the strength from his body leaving him his eyes closed. He was dead.

After some time, he could see again, he was in a room where there was 2 chairs and a table.

Not knowing where he was he tried to look for his cellphone to call for help but noted there was nothing on him, fully naked, what surprised him looking for some shirts and pants, at least some underwear but to no avail.

"How are you doing? Just know that you are dead and we are gona talk. I'll let you think about it first."

He heard the voice sound lazily as if it was a casual talk. 'Dead?! There is no way I could be dead, I'm here in this room, I won't be fooled by this' he thought.

"Yeah you are really dead, that bullet got in your heart and you wouldn't be saved unless there was a heart ready there and then."

Scared since he didn't say anything just thought about it, but after remembering about the shoot and losing his strength he calmed down.

He couldn't be in denial and started to think about, it was the kind of novel he most liked, some reincarnation histories started that way so he thought it would be the same then he started to get excited.

"I'm sorry for before, I'm ok now, will I be reincarnated?" He asked with some hope it would be true and he would get to be a hero of some realm.

"Quite quick. Hmm I like, there are always some who will be in denial wasting my time." Said the voice as appeared an old man with a book under his arms.

"So, are you god?" Asked Leonard "Also can I have some clothes?"

With the old man laughing and said, "You could call that, that is what you earthlings call us being who designate souls to their places" Pointing to Leonard, he noticed that his body was with the same uniform he used when he was shot, without the bullet hole.

"So, what now? Will I reincarnate? Will I have superpowers?" He was excited to the max thinking of when he read novels about this topic and dreamed of what would him do if it was real.

"Imaginative, aren't we?" Said the old man. "You didn't do anything worth of notice when alive, why would you have the benefit?"

Those words came down to Leonard as a cold shower but didn't crush his hopes, saying "Then why would you bring me here?"

"Hoho, I like people who can think for themselves. You have been chosen to be part of a little experiment, would you dare try?" Said the old man.

'Who is this man to experiment with me?' He thought "What kind of experiment are we talking about?"

"I'll let you know of the details." Said the man, while opening the book "It's like this, you will get to choose a few things of for your next life. You can think of things like this right?"

When he heard this Leonard was trilled "I can think of several, but what is the catch? What if I choose something like a system or an IA for help?"

"The catch is the kind of world you will reincarnate on. There are countless worlds out there and so much to do, there are worlds with civil wars, there are worlds suffering invasions from other worlds and there are peaceful worlds like the one you came where the people are killing each other." Explained the man.

"Since we are here, it's safe to say that I was chosen, and I can choose what I want to take and it will affect the place where I will have my "restart", right?" Asked Leonard while thinking 'I could choose some kind of overpowered thing that would help me through anything, I've read so many novels about this'.

"That's correct."

"So, what if I choose having a type of system that will get me to be the ultimate power thought the universe?"

Thinking, the old man flipped some pages of the book and said "That could be done, but there are so many scales of power, for example there are planets where they count their powers with the Star system, from one to ten stars, being one the lowest and ten the strongest, there are also planets were they quantify your power from zero to infinity, but no matter what these systems are almost the same. A person of 1 star would be the same as a person of another world with their system."

"So, this would be the same for me, right?" Thought Leonard that this wouldn't matter if it was the way he thought.

"Uhmm, you could say so. I don't want to give you much information either way." Said the old man chuckling.

'This old man is messing with me, does he think this is funny?' Thought Leonard before saying "I really have so much in my mind about this, do I have a time limit to choose?"

"You are already dead, you have all the time you want." mocked the old man.

"Ok, let think for a second. I want to think what to choose..."