1 Prologue - Life and Death

My name is Alexander King, 30 years old and the number of years i have been without a girlfriend is equal to my age. HaHa funny right ,let me tell you something more hilarious.That would be the story of my life , i am definitely the unluckiest guy in the world, no probably in the universe there is no one with worse luck than me. I was born to a couple who couldn't even be called a couple. My parents hated each other and the only reason i was born was because they had a shotgun wedding after a one night stand. In simple words they got drunk and fucked up (literally). They hated me cause they thought i was the reason they lost their freedom. Ever since i got conscious of my surroundings the only thing i saw them doing was either fight with each other or get angry at me without any reason whatsoever.

When i was 7 my mother divorced my father and left with her rich boyfriend. Her boyfriend gave my father a lot of money so that my mother doesn't have to take custody of me. Although he didn't want to he still did it for the money but that dumb fucker, he squandered everything in gambling and alcohol. From then on the worst five years of my life began. Because he was threatened by the debt collectors as well as troubled by his multiple jobs he was taking on to clear it , he used me as an outlet to get rid of his stress. He never hit me badly though because he was scared that if by any chance the marks show up he will get arrested by the cops for child abuse , it still hurt like hell. I was also bullied in the school by shitty brats who thought that the world revolves around them. Getting bullied in the day by those self-centered brats and beaten in the night by a shitty old man , like that 5 years had gone by. I even had some suicidal thoughts but because i was more mature than the kids my age & scared of death itself , i didn't do anything stupid.

When i was 12 my father died when he drove his motorbike into a truck while drunk. After his death because my mother refused to take custody of me i was given to my aunt Vanessa who was 2 years older than my father. The first time i saw her i thought that she was a very cold person. Although she was beautiful she was always expressionless and a woman of a few words. Because of what i had experienced until now i thought that she was also like my parents and built a wall between us. We didn't talk to each other too much. We were like strangers living in the same house. I was still getting bullied at school but this time it was because of jealousy. Although i don't like to brag i was quite good looking which made my male classmates jealous and as for the girls they didn't get too close to me since the boys had started getting physical with me. Even the teachers ignored me because one of my bullies was the son of some influential businessman. Having enough of this , for the first time after i started living with Vanessa i requested something from her. I wanted to learn martial arts.

I didn't know if she would agree to it or not but surprisingly , she did and i started taking Muay Thai classes. Since then 5 years had passed and now i was in high school about to graduate. In these 5 years a lot of things had happened , first since i started doing martial arts i found out that i was really talented in it so i researched a lot of different styles on the internet like Boxing,Karate,Judo,

Taekwondo,Capoeira,Chinese Kung-Fu,Krav Maga and various others along with Parkour and combined them into my own MMA Technique. Thanks to the internet i was introduced to the world of Anime & Manga and was having fun for the first time in my life. The important thing would be that i started getting along with Vanessa ever since i found out that she was not like my parents. She was just not good at expressing her emotions & feelings properly. I had just started breaking the wall i created between us little by little. We started getting along well and i became able to read her expressions a little. To improve our relationship we started to take few steps at a time. I would cook the dinner and she was in charge of the breakfast & lunch. We would also have small talks from time to time and despite it being a little awkward she was speaking more and more. Although it was a little late and the process was slow there certainly was some progress. Everything was just fine , but it was then the tragedy struck.

Perhaps it was because i was distracted by the fact that i had started to mend my relationship with Vanessa that i forgot that i have a really shitty luck. I had just graduated from high school a week ago so i planned to show her my appreciation for everything she had done for me by cooking a luxurious dinner for her when i got a call from the hospital saying that she had an accident. As i hurried over to the hospital i found out that she didn't have much time left as the surgery failed. Her last words to me as i was doing my best to hold back my tears were "I'm sorry Alex ,for acting cold to you just because i wasn't good at expressing myself. Do not get depressed over this , it is not your fault. Do not dwell on my death forever and become a great man". I wanted to tell her that it was my fault for thinking that she would be like my parents and that it was my fault for being too stupid , but i felt that the words that i wanted to say were stuck in my throat as she breathed her last. I wasn't even able to apologize as i watched her die. That day i found out that the saying that "We realize someone's worth only after we've lost them forever" was absolutely true as i broke down crying. It was the first time i had cried in years and wasn't able to stop my tears.

The bastard who was over speeding and caused this hit and run case which took Vanessa's life wasn't caught. The car which was a stolen one was found in a deserted area few miles away from the city with Vanessa's blood on it. The car didn't have any clues whatsoever to find out the identity of that son of a bitch while the cops were incompetent. I shut myself in the house for a few months while i kept having nightmares every single day as i kept seeing Vanessa die again and again in those shitty dreams. I was regretting , i was regretting a lot for being so fucking stupid thinking that she would have been like those shitty parents of mine. I was having suicidal thoughts again, it was then when i remembered her last words. I tried to get over it but wasn't able to forget her as i promised myself that i would become a great man to make her proud.

Because of that incident , since i had shut myself inside my house for far too long i missed my College Entrance Exams. For the next 1 year i took a part-time job while continuing to study and practice my martial arts. Even though Vanessa had left money for me i took a job so as to not get complacent. I also read books about Karma because even though i was an atheist and didn't believe in god , i wanted to accumulate good karma so as to respect her last wish and because i thought that it will negate my shitty luck. I kept doing my part-time job , studies and my martial arts training for a year until the exams came which i obviously aced with ease.

After i started going to the college , everything kept going as usual that is until just half a year before my graduation. I didn't have any friends since the males were envious of my looks and were hostile to me and the females didn't come near me as i was poor. One day i found a guy , who was

in the same year as me and had a very bad reputation harassing a female sophomore. No one even tried to stop him as he was the son of one of the board of directors of the college and no one wanted trouble. I went up to him and tried to stop him but he and his lackeys lashed out , it was the when that bastard called me a 'Son of a bitch'. It was then when something snapped inside me , normally i wouldn't have minded but i had started thinking of Vanessa as my real mother than the woman who gave birth to me and i couldn't stand anyone insulting her. I almost went berserk as i started beating those fuckers up. I thrashed them badly and threw them like the garbage they were.

In the end other students pulled me away but one of them got a lucky hit on my right leg. It was hurting but back then i didn't think that it would be that bad of a situation as i walked back to my house. I just showered after coming back home and went to sleep. The next morning as i woke up my right leg was swollen and was hurting pretty bad , i endured the pain and walked back to the campus as i decided that i would go to the hospital to get myself treated after finishing today's classes. When i reached there i was immediately called to the Dean's office where i was immediately accused by that fucker for unjustly beating him and his lackeys. Without even being given a chance to explain myself they expelled me. I wasn't even able to feel sad as my leg was hurting like hell negating the sadness of this situation. Because of that i went towards the fucker and broke both of his arms badly and punched him in the face as revenge and got out of the dean's office leaving everyone stunned. I then took a taxi and went to the hospital for a check-up where i found out that the situation was very bad and i should have come sooner. The damage wasn't the only thing as an infection had also spread and amputating my leg was the only choice.

I was only 22 when i lost my leg. It was something i could easily move on from as it was nothing compared to what i felt when Vanessa died. After the operation i did my rehabilitation as i got used to the artificial limb. After all that i spent on my operation and prosthetic limb i didn't have much money left. After coming back home i tried to find a job but since i couldn't find a proper one after being expelled i became a freelance programmer after i learned everything i could from the college and was quite skilled at it. My income wasn't much but i was getting by fairly well. I spent a few years like that.

As i was working from home i began spending more time in my hobbies. I reignited my passion for Anime & Manga as i read and watched every good one that i had missed. My favorite ones were Dragon Ball Z , Fairy Tail , Bleach , Naruto and One Piece. I love the rivalry of Goku & Vegeta. I loved how the Dragon Slayers defeated Acnologia and how the reincarnation of Zeref & Mavis get together in epilogue. I loved how Ichigo Defeats Yhwach and lives happily ever after with Orihime. I loved how Naruto lived his life and loved every moment of the Strawhat Crew. I cried my eyes out during the scenes when Itachi's truth gets revealed and when Naruto meets Minato & Kushina. I couldn't stop my tears when i saw Ace die in Luffy's arms since it reminded me of Vanessa. Just like i loved them there were a few things that i didn't like for example Vegeta being a forever 2nd and Krillin becoming something akin to a MOB despite his potential as the strongest human. I hated the fact that Zeref & Mavis didn't even know that August was their son. I hated how Itachi's achievements and his sacrifices were not known to others and how he had been labeled as a traitor despite his sufferings & i hated how Danzo was shown to die like a patriot even though he was just a scumbag. I hated how that bastard Sakazuki became the Fleet Admiral instead of Kuzan , I hated how Bartholomew Kuma became the slave of the Celestial Dragons and the fact that the traitorous scum Teach & Orochi are living happily.

For the next 8 years i kept working my ass off while removing my stress by immersing myself in Anime & Manga. Those 8 years were full of ups and downs. The only major thing that happened was

when i won a lottery on my 25th birthday , it wasn't a small sum either but i still chose to donate most of it to orphanages to the children who aren't blessed. I even started going to an orphanage in my city every week to play with the children and took the children on a picnic or similar activities at the last day of every month. The only thing that gave me any sort of exhilaration anymore was either my Otaku hobbies or the children's happy smiles. Today on the occasion of my 30th birthday i took the children to the city's biggest park for a picnic while making them cosplay as the characters from One Piece. During the picnic one of the children had gone missing. I talked to one of the dorm mothers who came with us about the child when she started panicking. I calmed her down and left the remaining children in her and the Father's care as i went to find the missing child. I finally found the brat who was standing near the exit of the park. He was an 10 year old brat who was cosplaying as Monkey D. Dragon , The Revolutionary. It was cute and funny at the same time and when i wanted to cry out and call him back i saw him trying to cross the road. Although there weren't any vehicles on the road it was still dangerous. I ran after him while screaming at him to come back but his attention was on the billboard which had the poster of the English release of the latest One Piece Movie. It was when i saw a truck coming i ran as fast as i could even breaking past my limits , my leg was extremely painful but i still didn't stop and endured everything as i kept running. I was on adrenaline as i kept running and finally reached to him and pushed the brat away. As i finally saved him all the adrenaline that kept me going stopped , i was finally hit with extreme exhaustion and pain , i also heard the child crying. As i saw him safe i was glad that i saved his life but i didn't have time to think about any of that as the truck had gotten really close to me and i couldn't move away because of my prosthetic leg breaking away due to the pressure i exerted upon it. It seemed as if time itself had slowed down as i kept having visions of my whole life , how i lived and my regrets.

I wondered if this is what they call the Soumatou or The Revolving Lantern Phenomenon from Animes & Mangas , HaHa so something like this really happens huh. I am also going to be hit by the legendary Truck-kun like the LN protagonists of Japan. As i kept thinking of such stupid things the truck hit my body. The impact wasn't much since the driver probably tried to stop the truck but instead of an instant painless death what i got was an excruciating pain all over my body and as my body hit the ground i felt my bones break. Although i was still alive i knew that i would die in a few minutes , i couldn't feel anything as all my bones have probably crushed to pieces. I suddenly heard the crying of children and as i opened my closing eyes a little i saw all the children , their caretakers as well as the child who i saved crying , their faces filled with tears and snot. They were all crying next to me who was lying in his own blood and flesh. I felt very happy that they were crying for me as i tried to say my last words now that my end was near. Over these years i had gotten really attached to these brats , With my mouth filled with blood I tried my best to speak and said in a hoarse voice

"You children shouldn't be sad. My death is not your fault so do not dwell over it. Enjoy your childhood for now an become great people in the future.Make me Proud.". As i said so i couldn't keep my eyelids open anymore , slowly closing them i felt my end come closer while thinking about how i seemed really cool and badass despite all i did was copying Vanessa. Although i don't believe in the afterlife , i wish that it exists and Truck-kun sends me there so i can be reunited with you again.

I hope that i became a great man just like you wanted me to and that you don't sue me for copying your lines Vanessa. Seconds away from death my face completely relaxed forming a peaceful smile as i felt my consciousness fading into nothingness as i welcome eternal sleep.