1 Chapter 0: Prologue

Mason Kern.

That is my name, if you wanted to know it.

That is, if you cared at all.

While I am a man of science and often a person of nihilistic attitude, I am still a hopeful person. I was a manager at my company, living a rather decent life. It wasn't some mega-corporation or a small business either, but rather a medium-sized health-insurance company from the United States. I had very little ambition in life, I guess living in a world of endless greed sort of ruined any point of ambition for me.

I knew I was going to die someday and be forgotten, so why bother working so hard against those who had more to want than me? After all, I was rather content sitting at home after work, reading my little novels. It was the only thing that I still held hope for after all. It was a world of imagination for me, a place to imagine was I would be doing in the place of our beloved idiot of a protagonist. Seriously though, why are most protagonists so badly written? I understand the lack of effort made in development of character or other traits, but why make a character so insufferably stupid that readers give up? It makes no sense to remove intelligence for character development if the reader never reaches the next chapter.

Then, I tried thinking about it more. I realized fairly quickly; these authors were like me, uncaring of the world around them, and just moving along for the money left in the craft of writing. I never cared about my company other than its wellbeing in relation to my salary, so the relation between the two was simple.

Well that rant is over now, sorry for that.

Back to my thoughts, the meaning behind that rant is simple; I was now in that situation. Not that of the writer, no. That of the protagonist. Or at least, for one of those godforsaken tropes of reincarnation. My hopes had come true, but at what cost? I was now in the body of an 8 year old with no memories of the past whatsoever. No system to help me, no amulet or ring of godly powers. Nothing. I was seriously pissed off now, why didn't I at least get this kid's memories godd*mnit!