Alone No More

I thought I had an illusion show up in front of me in person. I at first wanted to assume that just maybe that my entire situation was all a joke. Watching the person look around, and at me with confusion and then understanding however changed my mind. This portal had somehow summoned a person into existence, and I had no idea how or why this "system" as it called itself did so.

Bowing to the ground and thanking me with sincerity for resurrecting him I found myself filled with confusion but I just let him talk and give me some information on my situation.

"Thank you, I'm not sure who you are and why you decided to revive me after my death, but I just need to say thank you for giving me another chance. Tell me what you need done and I'll do it for you. From what I can understand of the deal we signed in the afterlife, you need me to do hero work? So exactly what all does that entail?"

My lips quirked in a smile as thoughts jumped around my head. I knew there was an S-ranked power that could revive normal people from the dead if they weren't gone long. Still this situation from what I was hearing had never been heard of before. Honestly I just wanted to drop the situation and walk away without thinking about any of this. But I knew that was a bad idea. I may not fully understand what was going on but I could tell that I should treat this situation with the same idea of me having awakened. I also didn't want the person I brought back from the dead supposedly to wander around wherever either, and so I brought him to the darkest room in my house.

I thought about my situation as quickly and hard as I could in one go. I knew that having any person to open with the knowledge that was happening right now wouldn't be a good idea. So with that I explained myself as some sort of revival powered super hero to the man. I asked that he not spread the news as I myself was weak. He seemed to understand and take that seriously. Or it could also be the oath he talked about having to take in order to work for me.

Still, now I seemed like this hero who tried to stay hidden from the public, and he seemed to be dying for my attention in the way a puppy would be. I asked him if he could protect me so that I could have a bit better protection around me and surprisingly he agreed without hesitation. With that out of the way I could now focus on trying to figure out what to do with the man. I couldn't just take him out into public without knowing more about him, but something seemed strange with how he viewed the world. He seemed amased by the littlest technological advancements in recent times while having an idea on other things. Almost as if he had grown up in a time hundreds of years before the current year of 3230. Like the man had lived in a time period historians love to refer to as the pre awakening era. Also known as the early 2000's.

So I asked, and I learned and I stratigized, and I came to accept my situation for all that it was. I was no longer a powerless man and from the words I heard from the now named Eric neither was he. I was responsible for the summoning of a man from the year 2027 into my current time and we needed to learn to survive together in this messed up word of ours. Because as soon as the first news of me having a power after testing negative came out -which it would with the portal that had appeared previously- there would be chaos.

Looking at the man I started to doubt if we would survive all that would occur. While the man seemed nice he was extremely weird at times. He also kept mumbling something about the otaku's dream and how a cute girl was bound to eventually show up. The idiot. Still I needed to do something quick and that would be using my other gacha.

Clicking on the item/knowledge section I found myself knowing I would get a sword until I hadn't. Pulling a water bottle called the everlasting water out I found myself drinking my worries to water in this situation of ours. At least we'd have water on the run.