Second Chance
In a certain office room, a two people, which looks like a boss and an employee, are having a serious conversation.
"Ok, so you're name is Jack Summers. Nationality, Filipino American. A half breed, huh! Well, that's not new. 25 years old, quite young. Your parents, I mean your parent, since all you have is your mother, is an active nurse." The so called boss read aloud the information in the resume of the dead soul.
"Mr. Saint Peter, is something wrong? You don't need to read aloud my personal information. Or maybe I'm going to hell?" With a worried look, Jack already realized his situation, and his fate lies at the palm of this so called saint.
"You don't have to call me mister, just Saint Peter is enough" He shrugged and continued. "History of life, due to having a serious introvert personality, you've been bullied until the end of highschool. By that time, you discover the media called anime and already hooked to it. Atleast you found some good friends by using the topic of you're new found hobby and become a die hard fan in anime.
Cause of death, colon cancer due to excessive eating of meat. Do you have a grudge in vegetables? Your cause of death is lame, to be honest." He asked Jack with curiosity.
*sigh* "Do you think I'm happy that I died by that stupid cancer? Not only it's disappointing, I also let down my mother and my good friends. And since I died early, I don't even know the ending of Berserk manga!" With a sudden burst of emotion, Jack defend himself by the criticism of this saint.
"Calm down, okay. I'm not trying to argue with you." the saint look at the dead soul with pity eyes. "Here's what we gonna do, I'm giving you a second chance."
Jack's ears perk a little when he heard a certain word, 'Second Chance'. "You mean, it's possible to be reincarnated? Bloody hell, the main character treatment, here we go!" He shouted full of excitement.
Saint Peter reach the telephone and click a certain button. "Ms. Secretary, can you give us a tea?" He fixed his position in sitting and look at the reaction of the dead soul.
After a minute, the secretary enters the room with one tea and place it at the front of the dead soul. "Ms. Secretary, you may go now." the saint tells her that her job is done and the secretary goes out in the room eagerly.
"You may drink the Elixir and proceed in reincarnation." He eager the dead soul to drink the Elixir and be done with it. He still have a lot of dead souls to deal with.
"Wait a second, by drinking this I will be born again? What's the catch, Mr. Saint Peter? What's the real effect of this Elixir." Jack doubted the saint due to the saint's eagerness. He may be bullied, but he's not an idiot.
"Hmmm, I'm impressed." His eyes brimming with excitement due to the unexpected response of the dead soul. "Once you drink the Elixir, you will forget all you're experience in the previous life, even your name, and will proceed with reincarnation."
"What if I don't drink this Elixir and still want to be reincarnated?" Now, Jack wants to probe if it's possible to retain the memories of his previous life, since he's given a chance to live again.
"Are you sure about that? You will regret it for the rest of your life, if you choose poorly." He's trying to test this interesting dead soul, because this is the first time that someone ask him about this ridiculous idea.
"Without a doubt, Mr. Saint Peter. I want to keep my memories and be reincarnated at once." Jack declared full of confidence. He's given a chance that almost the main characters experienced, he will not let this chance go to waste.
'Interesting' Saint Peter thought. "Okay, since I'm in a good mood, you don't have to drink the Elixir. You're still a candidate to be reincarnation." He looks at Jack full of expectation. "Just go to the elevator, and you may proceed for reincarnation" After he said that, the secretary enters the room and she escorted the dead soul.
"Main Character Treatment! Here we go!" He hopped beside the secretary while following her to the elevator. He expects to be reincarnated as a baby again. Now he will have a chance to be called a prodigy since he has an IQ of a teenager with the body of a child, kinda like Conan.
Little did he know, that the choice that he made is full of danger and peril. Saint Peter looks again at the resume of the dead soul. "Jack Summers. The moment you refuse to drink the Elixir, you're not allowed to be reincarnated. Haha, have fun in Tartarus. I hope I can satisfy you in your 'reincarnation'." He smirks villainy while imagining the challenges that he faces.