Failed Protagonists: Deus Ex Machina Gone Wrong

"Where-where am I"

Appearing from out of nowhere from his sleep was Naito Jin, a male from the world of Earth whose age is currently 21, though one wouldn't be able to tell that as his disheveled face with a skinny frame and unkept appearance made him look older.

"Wait thi- is this"

The cause for his appearance was in his abhorrent lifestyle filled with pleasuring himself from all he could find online, from vanilla to #4&%, he watched them all. With the only other thing, he does being living off money from his estranged parents who send money at a daily pace, meant to satiate his urges. Never letting a foot or patch of skin in too the sun, as if it would kill him.

"Yes, It's true, it's actually true," Naito says as he cries tears of joy from whatever moisture could be found left in his unhealthy body.

Appearing before this waste of a man is a being blot by light in a completely white world, but somehow one would still be able to see, no sense his majestic figure. As if becoming him, a stair of steps arises from nothing in front of him, leading him ever closer to the figure.

"Thi-is"

Taking it as a sign, the disheveled man took slow steps forward as if to prostrate himself in front of such a figure or is it that his weak and brittle unable to make such movement as his muscles have forgotten how to do such actions. Arriving at the final steps, a beautiful hymn sounded from everywhere. A hymn created by sound indescribable to humans but somehow understandable. Even to the mind of Naito who only knows Japenese, though holding only the understanding equivalent to a grade schoolers understanding of the language, he perfectly understands what commandments have been told to him.

"A wish, it is all I would give you. A weapon, power or skill could you get. A kit needed to survive in this new world you would be in. One where life is much more fragile. A choice to be made. Answered in 10. 9. 8."

"Wait, wait this Give me more time. I need-"

"7. 6"

"I need more time. Shit shit shit"

"5. 4. 3"

"Fine fine, I wish for a system to grow stronger prefer-"

"2."

"Wait fuck, that's my wish"

"1,... ze-- Your wish is not granted. Your wish goes against nature, so another you must pick"

"Fuck, then I want the *red eye powers from certain yellow-haired kids anime*"

"A power that steals from another's nature is unacceptable."

"Fine, Fine... (Shit)"

As perspiration start to cover the man head to toe and drenching his clothes, the man thought through possibilities of things he could get. The voice speaks up once again.

"Choose, CHOOSE"

As the hymns keep getting louder and louder, to the point the sounds appear even in his hand. Naito starts to hold his head, closing his ears in his futile attempts to keep the sounds out. He answers in a hoarse voice, as today felt like the most he had ever talked ever before.

"Nature, give me the powers to control nature."

"... The power is accepted."

"Goo-"

The man disappears right at where he was at, as all signs of his earlier presence were gone. And the world starts to change. As the lights turn dimmer, the room filled with luxuries, and the man to a kid sitting on a bed. With an fluffy Cat at his side.

"So Namkins, you think he'd be able to entertain me"

"... Meow (No)"