1 Into the Mech Touch
April Fool's day, 2022 A.D, in a corner of a bar located in the basement of a 6-storey building somewhere on Earth, a pitiful loser is drowning in his sorrow, taking in his 4th Negroni cocktail but just can't get drunk, there were just too many things in his mind. He was just an ordinary guy you can find anywhere, but today is likely the worst day of his life, it maybe the April Fool's day, but everything happened were as real as it is.
A month ago, he was a custom broker working for one of the biggest logistic company in the world, he had a stable job, with a beautiful girlfriend who is a freelance model and beauty streamer, his work in dealing with custom officers, other government agency and customer made him a socialite, or he so confidently believed so. Tired of the slow promotion and to make him as suitable as possible to his increasingly popular girlfriend, he decided to try to make it big and handed in resignation letter and to open his own business, and then everything start going downhill. As a custom broker, he had to deal with a lot of off the record dealing, one such case is this time, a customer want to import some contraband and bribed the custom officers to handle, the custom officers in turn asked the logistic company to temper with custom declaration's form, made it like the customer was importing something else, this happened a lot, such is how the corrupted government officers always work, in exchange, they will give the company more leeway.
This was supposed to be his last case for the company, but a colleagues who had always been competing made some anonymous calls to the Police and the company Compliant Department, and things blown out with some very bad sounding consequences, and then the custom officers and the Company put all the faults on him, make it like he was working with the customer to smuggling in the contrabands. All of his saving was then spent on handling the case to escape a criminal verdict, and today his girlfriend decided to brake up with him after a month of silence ever since the case happened.
'Ding ding' - sounds of notification rang on his phone. Open his phone, he muttered:
"Oh, it's time for new chapters"
Reading web novels is his only hobby now that helped him coarse through this dark time of his life. He open the webnovel app and then open the only novel that he turned the notification setting on "The Mech Touch". As he reading the novel on his phone, while drinking his Negroni, he never known that right under the corner he was having his drink is the bar's back up generator, and there is a storm that is happening so un-expectedly that causing black out in the entire district where the bar is, the old rusty generator is now overheating from supplying power to the whole building the bar is located in.
'BANGGG'
The generator exploded, taking along the pitiful man.
*********************************************************************************************************
"What... what happened? I was drinking and reading novel on my phone and then i felt some tremor and then everything then gone dark"
The man muttering and groggily trying to remember about what happened. He then open his eyes and take in the unfamiliar scenery.
"What the hell... where the hell is this place???"
He franticly looking around and touching his face, his chest, his arm
"Hmm, what is this, why is my arm so small? And why my voice sound so wrong??? It's like a kid voice??? And what is this modern looking smartwatch on my wrist????"
He then touch the smartwatch and boot it up, and then a hologram appear over the smartwatch screen
'BRIGHT CLOUD TECHNOLOGY COMPANY'
'UNIVERSAL COMMUNICATIOR MODEL BCC-19 (KID VERSION)'
'HELLO BRIGHT REPUBLIC CITIZEN'
'NAME: KIRA LARKINSON'
'AGE: 6'
"What the hell???? Bright Republic? A communicator in the shape of smartwatch? 6 years old and more over, a LARKINSON? Why is this seem so familiar?"
"Arrggg, my head is hurting so much"
He scream as torrents of information suddenly rush into his mind, and once again everything gone dark.
*********************************************************************************************************
Sometime later, the pitiful guy wake up and slowly process the new information he got, turn out it's the memories of this 'Kira Larkinson', he was born from Roland Larkinson, an expert candidate pilot of the Mech Corp, unfortunately he died in the last day of the previous Bright-Versian war, killed by a Versian's expert pilot, as this news reached his spouse Clara Ainsworth Larkinson two days later when she was expecting Kira's delivery, she was devastated and soon pass away during labour. Kira since then was cared for by the Larkinson family in the capital planet Rittersburg of the Bright Republic. As an Larkinson orphan, especially as son of an expert candidate pilot and war martyr, Kira is given special care and privileges from both the Larkinson family and the Republic, not like an 6 years old kid can ever know how to make use of them though. While the Larkinson family is famous for their pilots and dedication to the Republic, the Ainsworth got their own merits too, they are famous for their many scientist serving the Republic in both the military as well as public sectors, his mother Clara was actually an Apprentice Mech Designer, disciple to a famous Senior Mech Designer, though as a member of the fame Ainsworth, she was never deployed to the frontline.
"Damn, this kid is really unlucky, he was born from an expert candidate pilot and Apprentice Mech Designer but became orphan before he even open his eyes, and tomorrow will be his first day at Rittersburg Brightlight Primary School, an well established school that only take in the Republic's elitist's descendants and he only taken in due to his special privileges.... Well, it's me now isn't it, so i'm Kira Larkinson now, and i'm really transmigrated into my favorite novel"
"OH DAMN IT, this is not good, became an Larkinson isn't good as all"
'Kira' screamed in his mind as he remember about the events in the novel
"Damn it, being a Larkinson mean i'm doomed to either become that lunatic protagonist's pawn or stuck with the family conservative old geezers, both options are not nice at all, i may like Ves Larkinson as the novel protagonist, but become his underling isn't an option."
"I need to calm down, and think about my situation and what i can remember from the novel and list down all the important events"
"First is the next Bright-Vesia war, so it will happen in about 24 years from now on, and then the Sand War few years after that, and the damn Kodomo War that will doom the Larkinson family, after that will be the Red Ocean rush"
"Damn, so i only have about 25 years to save myself, i need to check out more informations on the Galatic Net"
'Kira' mutter as he opening his com and suddenly something catch on his eyes.
"What is this app icon that look like a book? From Kira's memories.... no, i'm Kira now, i need to accept this fact... from what i remember, i never install any app like this on my com"
As Kira open this strange app, another hologram appear.
'USER DECTECTED'
'READER SYSTEM ACTIVATED'
'USER: KIRA LARKINSON'
'WELCOME TO THE READER SYSTEM APP'
'THIS APP WILL ONLY SHOW UP TO THE USER, USER WILL LOOK LIKE THEY WERE ONLY READING GALACTIC NEWS WHILE OPENING THIS APP'
'THIS APP WILL AUTOMATICALLY INSTALL INTO ANY COMMUNICATOR THE USER USING'
"Oh a system, look like i found my saving grace"
