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Infinite Stride

A young man dies and is reincarnated into the a World based on Tower of God with a few special powers. A few ideas might be taken from Endless Path: Infinite Cosmos regarding the system of power and settings. This is my first fan-fic, so, it might not be that good, but, I will try to make it enjoyable. Also, if you have time to read this, I would advise reading EPIC, it is one of the bests stories I have read. Also, I don't own the cover.

2User1 · Anime & Comics
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20 Chs

Death

Born to a wealthy family in a developing country, a small boy could be seen inside the living room of a mansion in a small village writing on a piece of paper, "Kaizen Ziel". Following it, he proceeded to give this piece of paper to a pretty looking blonde teenager while saying, "Big sis, did I write my name correctly ?", as she grabs the paper and responds, "Yep, it is all fine" as she smiles and pats him on his head and continues to say, "Well, since you have finished your homework, you can go play for now". This made the small boy jump up and shout "Yay, thank you big sister for helping me".

Kaizen was just about 5 years old, he had silverish-white hair, and a pair of blue eyes. As a kid, he had everything he always wanted given to him, this with the fact that he would usually receive plenty of affection from his older siblings and parents made him quite spoiled even though he didn't have many friends. In addition to that, due to him excelling at school without the need to study much, he was almost never punished. This has led to him being quite open with his desires, and since he would usually obey their orders, his parents would usually give him anything he asked for. This made him into quite a selfish kid.

As he turned eleven years old, the young boy who was usually respectful and obedient, started to demand more and more from his parents, be it games, sweets and whatever else he wanted. This made his parents start to reject many of his demands, this in addition to his new siblings getting whatever they wanted made Kaisen to become more jealous of them. This made him act more rudely in school and home. At the same time, he changed schools, and so, with him being disrespectful to wards others, he was not able to make any friends. Afterwards, he started to threaten his parents to give him what he wanted if they wanted him to continue studying. This didn't work well as his parents just ignored his plea and instead punished him for it and his behavior. And so, feeling both rejection and loneliness for the first time in his life, he started to become worse. That is till he was able to make a friend in his new school a few months later.

After another year passed, Kaisen started to accept that he will only get what he wants if he does well being it in school or in his behavior. He also accepted that there is a limit to how much he will be given. So, he started to focus more on school again and becoming more respectful so that he can at least have part of what he wants. Still, due to his previous rude behavior, together with his social awkwardness with outsiders, led to him having only one friend even after he tried to improve himself.

Two years later, the small boy who grew to become much taller, a small patch of hair clearly seen on his face which no longer looked like that of a baby could be seen taking care of four of his younger siblings, helping them with their homework, as he stops for a moment to open his phone and checks his messages to see that neither his mom nor any of his older siblings will be returning home any time soon. He follows by closing his phone and complaining, "Ah, if I keep looking after them, I will lose my chance at getting that SSR beauty from the event". Then, he looks at his younger siblings, sighs, and continues to help them for the next two hours.

The passage of a few years together with him starting to focus a bit more on others while making a few new friends made him more open and sympathetic to others. Still, as he was about to enter high school, he started to watch anime and read manga, something that he became addicted to. This in addition to classes seeming easier with each year passing to the point where he could get great grades just by focusing on the classes made him much lazier towards his studies and responsibilities. Thus, although this laziness didn't affect him much in high school, it started to affect his grades when he started attending university. Especially since he chose to enter one the best universities in his country as a biology student hoping to later on enter a medical school.

A few years later, a young man with a full beard and a handsome face wearing a blazer could be seen walking down the stairs in one of the most prestigious schools of the country so that he can get his diploma after his name was called. As he reaches the stand in the middle and is handed down a parchment together with a few congratulatory words from the director, he thanks him and walks down till he reaches the place where his family was. There, he could see all his siblings together with his mother smiling and congratulating him, while his father was frowning in the back. After they return home, he gets in a fight with his father who was shouting at him since he did not study enough and was thus rejected by the school of medicine. In the end, the son, tired of living with his siblings for all of his life, shouts that he is going to leave home and go live by himself.

As Kaizen walks down the street with his bags in his hands while thinking about the fight he previously had with his father, and about where he should stay for the night. At that moment he suddenly hears the sound of a truck's horn and notices that a truck was about to hit him. Fearing for his death, the young man feels as if time has slowed down as he tries his best to jump to the other side knowing that it was a futile attempt. But, at the last moment when he felt like death was inevitable, he feels someone pushing him from behind, and because of it he barely dodges the incoming truck while he hears the sound of the truck hitting a human body. A few seconds afterwards, he manages to get up from the ground and looks at who had saved him. In that instant, his body freezes, as his eyes tear up and his mind is filled with regret, the person who died to save him was his father, the one which he was just arguing against now, the one which he had complained to countless times over selfish matters, the one which had given him almost everything he had, and one of the people which he loved the most in his life. A few seconds pass where his body stays frozen not believing what had just happened. Alas, he had to accept it, that his father who had given him everything, also lost everything because of himself.

A few seconds later, he finally manages to move as he starts trembling and is barely able to grab hold of his phone to call for an ambulance. Then, he follows by alerting his family as he continues to cry for a while till the ambulance comes. Two men wearing white laboratory gowns come out, they place his body on a stretcher and bring him inside the vehicle. They follow by bringing a few tools to check on the body as one of them turns towards Kaizen to ask, "What has happened here?", and Kaizen who barely manages to stop crying, wipes his face with his hands and answers, " I was crossing this street, but, I didn't notice that a truck was coming, and ….", Kaizen stops for a while as he shrivels a bit, takes a deep breath and continues, " and, just as I was about to be hit, my father came from behind and pushed me away". Afterwards, Kaizen stops talking as the lips of the doctor in front of him lowers a bit, but he also stays quiet. After a few other moments, the one checking his father's body turns around and says, "I am sorry, but, I am afraid we can't do anything more, your father is dead". Kaizen's eyes start to tear up again as he just nods and later on follows them to the hospital.

A few days pass, as Kaizen's father was buried and now while discussing about the inheritance, his mother asks him to go to the national bank and ask for a list with all of his father's possessions. Inside the bank, in a room filled with counters and sofas, Kaizen could be seen waiting for his turn to talk with the attendant when four men suddenly appear wearing black masks and black coats with guns in their hands. He freezes for a few moments as he remembers his father's death, but suddenly hears one of them say, "Hands up! Anyone moves and we are shooting you". Then two of them proceed to move closer to the masses while pointing their hands, while, one of them stays near the door to watch the outside and another moves up one of the cashiers where a woman with brown hair and a cute face in a red uniform could be seen with a face that almost seemed like she was bout to cry. He shouts at the woman, "Hand over all of the money in the cashiers or I will kill you" as he points his gun towards her head. The woman starts freezes and starts to cry, meanwhile, the robber annoyed by her behavior screams at her, "If you don't move to get the cash in the next 3 seconds, I am going to shoot you". The woman, fearful for her life stops crying for a moment as she looks to the other attendants near her, which seem not move at all due to their fear. The man seeing her taking a while gets even more annoyed at her and as he seems to be about to shoot her, he suddenly falls as kaizen who was just near them suddenly jumped at him and somehow managed to snatch the robber of his gun.

Surprised due to Kaizen's actions, the other two robbers barely manage to point their gun at Kaizen as he also points it at them. Meanwhile, the other robber who was knocked to the ground manages to get up even angrier than before and gets a knife from under his cloak. Kaizen forced into such a position starts to think on how to overcome this situation just as he hears the sirens of police cars. Relieved that he might be able to escape with his life, Kaizen barely relaxes his hands, this being one the greatest mistakes in his life, as at this same moment the man with knife swipes it at his neck as Kaizen who barely managed to block the strike with the gun get shot by the other two robbers and falls to the ground as the other robber manages to stab him once before he and the others try to run away from the coming police cars.

With the blood flowing out his wounds, Kaizen falls unconscious. The next moment he opens his eyes, he was able to see a bunch of men with white clothing near him as he is overcome by pain and falls unconscious again. This time dying a rather painful death.

This is my first time writing, so, I hope you all like his background. Next chapter will be his reincarnation.

Thank you all for reading.

I have reuploaded the chapter with more information on Kaizen's childhood.

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