so unlucky

Another notification popped up in front of me, with a loading symbol.

My eyes widened.

What…? This was unreal.

[ Ability: player information ]

[ Rank: F ]

Are you serious right now!? Rank F!? WASN'T THAT THE LOWEST?

Damn, I knew my luck was bad…

"What a joke!" I mumbled.

And what the hell is "Player information?" That does NOT sound like an ability. I thought it would be like….superpowers or something.

Wait, what did the other people get?

I looked at the people around me. Ah, I couldn't see their system notifications. I forgot about that…I suppose I'll have to ask them.

I closed the system notification by tapping the small "x" in the corner.

Glancing around I spotted a tall lady who was a little bit away from me.

She had short brown hair cut into a bob, and freckles scattered across her face. She was in a simple sun dress with floral patterns.

I walked towards her hesitantly.

"Uhm…excuse me?"

I stopped near her. She looked at me from where she must have been seeing her system notification.

She was taller than me, and I felt slightly nervous.

"Uhm… what's your ability?…sorry if I'm being nosy or something."

I couldn't look her in the eyes. For some reason I found it hard to talk to people I didn't know.

It was really irritating.

"Ah, yes I have."

She smiled at me, and I just looked up at her blankly.

Wasn't she going to tell me anything useful?

"If you don't mind me asking..what is it?"

I needed to know if I was the only one with a weird ability.

"Sure. It's called 'Flame setter'. Oh, and I think it's a rank C? That's what the system said."

Are you fucking kidding!? SHE GOT A (sort of) NORMAL SOUNDING ABILITY!!

Ugh, stupid 'player information,' whatever that was…

The lady was looking at me, confused. It then dawned on me that I'd been staring blankly at her for a solid minute.

"A-ah. Sorry I was just thinking about something…Thanks for telling me."

I tripped over my words in a hurry to explain. Then I proceeded to move away awkwardly.

Dammit I'm so weird.

Wait, does that even matter anymore…? Didn't that floating creature say that most of us were going to die anyway?

"All players should have gotten their ability by now, so hurry up and figure out how to use it. You have about one hour...before we begin."

Ahiram called loudly from above.

Speak of the devil. Wait, HUH? I gritted my teeth. How was I supposed to figure out how to use my useless ability!?

I took a deep breath. Okay. It's fine. I'll just open my profile…

"Open profile."

| Name: Hiro Kami

| Age: 23

| Ability: player information

| rank: F

| group: n/a

| coins: 0

Then I clicked on the ability section, hoping for more details about what my power was.

[ Player information is the ability to see another players notifications, profiles and inventory. To activate, say "player information" in your mind or with your voice. ]

Oh. That's, actually useful. Maybe my luck wasn't so bad..

"Uhh, activate player information."

I spoke quietly.

Well it didn't work.

"Activate Player information!!"

I spoke louder this time, however to no avail. Maybe it needed a spesific target.

"Activate player information on…her."

I looked at the woman I had spoken to earlier.

And to my surprise, the ability activated.

| Name: Maria Tylan

| Age: 30

| Ability: Flame Setter

| rank: C

| group: N/A

| coins: 0

This was ability of mine was pretty useful.

"My ability isn't too good for fighting monsters..though…" I thought out loud as I looked around for another target.

"Activate player information, on her."

I mumured.

It was a young girl, who was just sat on the floor staring at the ground. The girl had dark brown platted hair and pale skin, she wore a school uniform and had a few colourful bracelets on her left wrist.

The player information popped up in front of me.

| Name: Anabelle Martin

| Age: 15

| Ability: Icicle Peierce

| rank: A

| group: N/A

| coins: 0

Rank A?