Chapter 2 - Wishes

The young soul confirmed her first wish, looking seriously at Celine: "I want my brothers to be reincarnated with me".

Celine raised her eyebrows to the maximum, shocked by the young man's desire before her, she quickly read his thoughts and emotions with her powers, which she hadn't done until the moment in her meeting.

What she saw left her even more surprised, the soul had no oscillations in his desire, he really wanted it from the bottom of his being, his will and honesty left her dazzled, giving up all the benefits he could choose to help him on his journey, no doubt, no hesitation, just his sincere desire. She unconsciously started smiling.

Celine pondered for a few more moments before focusing her attention again on the boy in front of her, who kept the stoic face, "can you tell me the reason?''

Certainly not expecting this question, he took some moments to think, traveling through the memories he had with his brothers, imagining the time they spent together, each birthday, each laugh, each difficulty, each moment of sadness, each fight, each feeling, each piece of shared experience, lost in thoughts, time was passing, each second only left him more certain of his desire.

Looking at the goddess with eyes full of love and tenderness, the soul gave her a soft smile, which warmed her heart, "if I'm going on this adventure, I need them, the journey must be shared with our best friends, without them mine has no purpose".

'Not to mention that they would kill me again if they knew that I went to a anime world without them,' the young man shuddered at this thought.

Lost in thought the soul did not perceive that the face of the goddess, presented a deep red in her cheeks, 'why is my heart beating so fast, this love is very pure, it warms to the depths of my being, I feel even a little envy'

Celine recovered quickly, ashamed that the young man saw her in such a state, "I will allow your wish, normally I would not accept, but you convinced me".

M was delighted when Celine finished his sentence, he bowed deeply in the chair, "thank you very much Celine-sama, now as for my other wishes..."

The soul couldn't finish expressing its desires when the goddess interrupted him, his eyes were shining with malice accompanied by a frightening smile, his expression could only be read as predatory, the young man felt a bad feeling, "I will grant the desire, but I can't leave you with your other remaining desires, you would certainly choose very OP powers for you and your brothers, one reincarnated is already too much for one world, but three is too much".

(A/N: OP – over power)

The young man is very sad with his statement, but remained resigned to his first wish, seeing this the goddess smiles and continues, "no need to be sad, I will not send you there without any advantage, to choose this benefit, I propose that we play a game!" the goddess exclaimed animatedly her last sentence.

The young man shuddered, having seen his performance in the game before, "what kind of game?" he asked carefully.

Celine instantly became radiant, the brightness of her smile could illuminate all the earth, the soul could not avoid, blushing strongly with her ethereal beauty, 'if you remove your addiction to games and sadistic tendencies to play with the fate of others, she is truly divine'

The goddess opened again the drawer of her old table, she searched for a while never losing her smile, until she found what she was looking for, pulling a small deck of red cards, the goddess closed the drawer and started to explain the game animatedly.

"see, the game we will play is very simple, it consists of two rounds, the cards stayed with their faces down and you chose between them, the first round will be the selection of anime, manga, film.... whatever, depends on your luck, the second round the cards change, they no longer show the animations as a whole, they will show the characters contained in these stories, the power you will receive will be the one that the character you removed possesses, I will give you two-character change chips, if you do not like the character you removed, you can choose to use these chips to choose another card. For example, if you remove the anime One piece, and the character luffy, you will receive the power of your akuma no mi, but with its disadvantages, not being able to enter the sea, among the others, everything is clear?''

Listening carefully to the goddess's explanation, he began to reflect to himself 'so it all depends on my luck, without cheats and tricks, I really do not like games of chance, almost certainly I will acquire a phobia in the next life, but I'm stuck in this situation is this or nothing, if my luck is good, I can get very strong powers for me and my brothers, but if she is bad ...'

M sighs resignedly, before raising his head, looking into the blue eyes of the goddess, preparing himself he says, "I'm ready".

Animated by his answer Celine jumps enthusiastic into his chair, she lifts the deck at shoulder height, and strangles her thin fingers, as soon as the action is finished, the cards jump out of the deck and spread systematically across the table, as soon as they stop shuffling, the table is filled with hundreds of cards facing down, their respective contents unknown to the goddess and the soul.

The goddess with eyes full of expectations speaks cheerfully "you can start!!!

The young man looks around the table carefully noting all the details he can, the verses of the cards have a blood red color, which contrasts with the old wooden color of the table, realizing that all cards are equally distributed and without differences, the soul sighs again, 'sigh ... I think that's it, God help me'

The goddess looks at the young man in fake indignation, when she hears his prayer in her head, "I can't help you, you're on your own".

M whispers "sorry" the goddess hums animatedly in response, returning to her expectant behavior.

M raises his right hand and carefully approaches the card of her choice, each time closer to her destiny, her heart seems to explode with anxiety, her sound thundering in her ears, the goddess has returned to her bad gambling habits, with her face red and panting, making noises not worthy of her position as goddess of everything, ignoring all this, the young man concentrates on his choice, grabbing the card and closing his destiny.