Prologue
Superhero.
Protagonist.
Story.
No matter, they all have one thing in common.
A boring life would dull the reader's interest, thus they always live their life to the fullest.
Just how many times do I imagine myself as someone who would do great in life?
Since even the first time I got to elementary school when I thought that I would reach at least the first ten class ranking, till after graduated from college and then hired by a giant company such as Coogle, and brag it out to my acquaintances.
Yet, why am I having a hard time getting a job even after reaching 26 years of my life?
If only I got a second life chance, I promise that I will do better than before...At least that's what I had been shouting on my mind whenever I am lamenting about my own pitiful life.
But, even then, I know of at least one thing.
If the so-called second chance actually is already given to me, and the birthday that I would celebrate today is the result of that second chance but with the price of erasing my past memories, then, isn't that mean that I need to change myself from today??
One week
That's the worth of my passion to better myself.
After that, I am unfortunately going back to the sloth life from the trash of society that I am.
Why?
I feel like the other people out there didn't have the same struggle as me.
I am not an idiot.
Multiple real-life examples already scattered about on the internet of how people change their life by forcing a new, productive habit that would make them better.
But, before I realize it, all of my efforts and will already drained without a drop left.
If only I had the power to stop time, I would learn a lot of things.
There is this certain novel where you are trapped in a world where times stopped, and then the protagonist learns a lot of things while there, and once the stopped time came back, he becomes the strongest.
Well, ain't that easy?
One simple luck that would change one life, one simple chance.
If only I got such a thing, I wouldn't become like this.
Celebrating birthday alone, parents disappointed of me, a reunion that I too ashamed to attend, love life that I am too scared to thread...a life where nothing on me that is worth mentioning about.
I know.
Such an excuse is what drags my growth.
Whenever I am feeling down, a novel where the MC become better, or one where they can do anything and everything to their everyday life, an action or slice of life story become my oasis in the shitty life inside the shitty world I am living in.
Ironically, that oasis is exactly the one that soars my expectations to the sky, making the disappointment more glaring and hurt my confidence.
Two weeks.
That's the time it needs to transform my passion into despair.
None even give me my blessing for my birthday, excluding my family.
Well, at least I got my fair share of blessing nonetheless.
But, I know that it actually a ticking time bomb, my birthday that is.
Once the happy mood pass, the question of job, love life, and status became one of the care they shove onto my face.
I appreciate it as much as I hate it.
Do you think that getting a job is easy?
When I had an interview call, they say that they didn't have money for me to go there.
When the money is available, the job ads and calls suddenly disappear.
When both available, the job that comes to me all are weird one.
I just one to work like a normal adult, yet not even a chance is given to me.
If only getting a job becomes easier.
No, if only I am a better person, then the job would come to me instead.
And before that, if only I am given a second chance, then I promise that I will live better than right now.
But, if such a thing really exists, just I said before, what if my life I am living right now actually the result of my self repeating my life?
Should I change myself starting today?
...
That fucking cycle just come back and forth, until I die at the age of 30 because of an accident.
Second life?
Reincarnation?
That sounds incredible if you ask me.
But, for someone like me, an excuse would devour me without restraint and the tragedy might repeat itself.
Living a useless life in a world where you might get killed in the fantasy world, sloth life in the scifi or advanced world where entertainment easily accessed, or a mob life in the slice-of-life world where your real worth judged as is, that's probably what I would do if reincarnation even exists.
Rom-com probably the only thing I can hope for but I am 100% sure the girls would be bored of me once they got to know me better.
I am confident to say that because I understand myself that much.
Truthfully, I am tired.
If a second chance really exists, one thing I want to get is not OP power, a beautiful woman as a partner, good luck where I can get things easily, or as simple as talent from my parents.
Just one thing
An unshakable resolve or will.
I want to change, from the bottom of my heart. A life where I have a goal to pursue, a meaningful journey where I enjoy the process, and the delight after achieving that goal.
90 kg, jobless, ugly, stupid... parent's disappointment.
None of that would come to me if I live such a meaningful life.
"Where is this place??"
That's why when it is seriously given to me out of the blue, I am delighted after a bout of sadness from leaving my family behind.
-Training Program skill is acquired-
Setting the system level to match the user's will...according to the user subconsciousness preference, the setting is changed from manual to automatic
Searching for the user's past history...compiling...creating a solution...*ding! A quest had been generated.
Do something productive for 1 hour straight.
Reward : None
Failure : Death
...At least until I know that the system is more fucked up than I thought.
-Quest has failed-
You are dead
Reviving the user's body...progressing, revive complete.
*Ding
Quest had been reissued.
Do something productive for 1 hour straight.
Reward: none
Failure : Death of burned.