1 Chapter 1

(A/N: The start of the story will be pretty quick, but once everything is settled I'll slow down)

People said that death would be peaceful, that it would feel like going home. I knew that to be completely untrue, death was extremely painful, well at least mine was. Who would have thought that having a disease that made you waste away and have bouts of massive headaches and uncontrollable spasms would hurt? Truthfully I was thankful that I was dead. By the last few years of my life, I had become a burden to my family that they couldn't afford, so before the disease made me completely immobile I jumped from the roof of the hospital.

I appreciated and loved my family, but I had no particularly strong feelings for anyone else, and my relationship with my family was complicated. I had always felt sort of out of place in my life, not that I minded too much. 'Well, it doesn't really matter at this point' I thought as I looked around at the empty white void I found myself in.

I had read enough manga and seen enough anime to have a good idea of what was going to happen to me, but I decided not to count my chickens before they hatched. It was entirely possible that I would end up reincarnated, but it was also likely that I would have to wait a while for whatever god was out there to notice me and approach. 'or not' I couldn't help but think as a being appeared next to me with a popping sound.

The being was made completely from darkness and looked vaguely humanoid, but it was blurry around the edges. It seemed to look my way for a moment before speaking directly into my mind, startling me slightly.

"I see you already know what's about to go down. You and I are both busy so I'll make this quick. You get five wishes, go!"

I quickly thought up my wishes and voiced them to the being out loud, I didn't want to make a fool of myself by doing it wrong, but I guess it did read my mind earlier so it doesn't matter. I decided to do what was most comfortable, so I cleared my throat and spoke up.

"1) Reborn in Danmachi 3 years before cannon. 2) Reborn in King Zahard's body from TOG at 16, with my name being Augustus Zahard. 3) A Tensura skill system. 4) I want to be transmigrated right as I receive a falna from the God Miach, right before his familia falls apart. 5) I want the unique skill that you think will help me the most," I said, smiling.

(A/N: Image of Zahard)

The being considered for a moment before replying, "I can do all of that, but I am restricting the highest level of skill you can gain to Unique. Ultimate skills would be way too overpowered in Danmachi,"

"I understand, thanks!" I said, giving a polite bow.

"Off you go then,"

With that my body started to fold in on itself and disappear. As it did so I gave the being a wave goodbye. I appreciated the speed and efficiency of our meeting. I could help but feel a surge of excitement, the strongest I had ever felt in my life. This would mark the start of a new journey for me. I had always wished I was born in another world instead of on boring old Earth, and this was my chance to do just that. With that thought in mind, I fully disappeared.

- - - Danmachi World - - -

I awoke to find myself laying on my stomach, a feeling of coolness spreading over my back. The first thing I noticed was that my body was in an extreme amount of pain. A moment later I felt my headache slightly as the memories of my current body flowed into me. The reason the pain wasn't splitting was that I only had about two hours' worth of memories in total. This body had appeared in an alley yesterday and basically speedran getting a falna from Miach.

I don't know who or what was operating this body before I got dropped into it, but I did know one thing about them, they were good. They managed to get to Miach and put the body in a situation where he was forced to help me while also seeing me as somebody brave. They managed to find Miach and followed him to a busy street that just so happened to have a carriage going down the middle of the already crowded road. While nobody was looking they pushed a little girl out in front of the carriage, then leaped forward to heroically take the bullet for the girl.

The thing was that in saving the girl the body had taken life-threatening injuries, so Miach was forced to take it back to his familia's shop to properly heal me. After healing me "I" woke up and thanked him for saving me, but said that I have no memories of anything before the accident. Playing every pity card in the book "I" managed to get him to accept me into his familia so that I can repay him for saving me and hopefully get my memory back in the future.

Of course, there was no memory to get back so I would just be joining his familia for the foreseeable future. I did feel a bit bad manipulating him, but I would be helping him in the long term so I ended up not feeling too bad about my deceit. Plus I wasn't gonna tell him that I was from another world, that is just plain stupid.

I was ripped out of my thoughts by Miach handing me a paper, my status.

"I'm sorry to say that I have no idea at all what your magic and skill are referring to. I can go ask some people I know later, but I'm not too optimistic, sorry. Look on the bright side, you can figure it out eventually, and besides having skill and magic right off the bat is incredible." Miach said, obviously trying to keep me from being too down about having absolutely no idea what my magic and skill do.

"It's no problem, like you said I will figure it out eventually. I'm in no rush," I replied with a smile.

Just then a man burst into the door and shouted "Miach we have a problem,"

- - - Chapter End - - -

Chapters will usually be longer, but I just wanted to get this one out quickly.