[1] — Transmigration
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"..." = Talking
'...' = Thinking
[...] = System
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April, the season of cherry blossom.
Early in the morning, the soft breeze of the wind took some petals into a room through the gap of the slightly opened window.
On the bed is a handsome young man, he was sleeping.
One of the petals landed on his cheek disturbing the young man and waking him up in the process as his eyelids fluttered open.
A pair of dazzling blue eyes were seen as he peered all over the room with a confused look. "Huh? Where is this?" He asked himself while getting up from the bed.
As he looked around the room, his eyes landed on the mirror, especially on the one reflected in the mirror.
A teenager with a well-defined frame and fair skin. He has messy but soft and lustrous silvery-white hair reaching down to his neck. A slightly feminine face and blue eyes.
"Wh-what the hell!? Who is this!?" The young man freaked out but soon he realized that the reflection in the mirror is himself and at the same time something suddenly clicked inside his mind.
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[PoV: 1st Person]
Memories of another person come pouring into my mind. It's like two sets of memories are being overlapped inside my head, and both of them are me.
One of Josh Azores, and the other must be of this young boy's.
The me as Josh Azores is just an ordinary person who had a normal life. He graduated from high school but never went to college because of financial reasons.
Not knowing what to do with his life, he moved from one job after another until finally stayed as a delivery boy of a local pizzeria.
Since then, his life gradually getting better and better. Until one day when he was walking home early from work and a truck hit him as he was crossing the street.
However, I do remember to check on both ways even though the street is kind of quiet when it was broad daylight. So, where did that truck come from?
The other memories are from a 14 years old boy named Izumi Arata. Yeah, a bonafide Japanese. The boy lived a normal life with his single mom who's an illustrator and his little sister.
His mom later married a man with one child a couple of years older than him. After that, his mom left him and his sister with their new sibling and went with her new husband on a honeymoon.
The result was like that of a drama... both of the newlyweds suffered from misfortune on this trip.
The plane they were on was hit by an accident and fell into the sea. Fortunately, the SAR team were able to retrieve their body.
With that happened, he was left with a little sister and new big brother with only this two-story building and a relatively huge sum of money on their bank accounts.
The accident was a pity, Arata never stepped out of the house after the accident, and he never goes to school. Not only that, even her sister shut herself in her room and didn't come out since.
However, Arata was able to get over the accident a few months later and went to school again. Though, his little sister is still shutting herself in her room until now.
That's it for the life of this young boy... or my life now I guess.
And speaking of my little sister, her name is Sagiri. Yeah, that Sagiri from Eromanga-Sensei. And yeah, this is an anime world, just realized it when I see many people with different hair colors outside.
Sagiri is as depicted in the anime, a cute young little girl with porcelain skin, long silver hair, and big blue eyes. But, of course, this is from Arata's memory as I didn't see her for a long time.
In the end, I accepted this new set of memories. I had parents but they both died in an accident, a shut-in little sister and a novelist big brother.
*don! don!
"Wait a bit longer!"
Suddenly, low knocking noises followed by my supposed big brother's voice sounded, pulling me out of my train of thoughts.
"I guess, this is the start of the canon."
I sighed before getting out of my room and went downstairs to the kitchen. There, a teenager a few years older than me was struggling to cook in a hurry.
*don! don! don!
Another knock sounded from a room above, it's from Sagiri's room.
"Okay, Okay, Okay! Understood, I'm almost finished!"
"Let me help you, Nii-san" I offered a hand.
"Nice timing, Arata." He said while breathed a sigh of relief and gave me the pan and eggs to cook.
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A few moments later, we finished cooking for the three of us. While I set the food on the table, Nii-san went upstairs with a plate of serving for Sagiri.
I take a seat and waited for Nii-san to come down as we usually eat together.
I don't know why I am not in the least get uncomfortable with this. I guess the memories of this kid are perfectly connected to me now.
As I thinking about those things while playing with my chopsticks, I suddenly heard a monotonous robotic sound inside my mind.
[Instaling the System... Completed. Projecting the system interface to the host...]
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Welcome user: 974192. I am the System gifted to you by the higher being. Please designate the username as Josh Azores or Arata Izumi.
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'The fuck? Did I somehow get a system? But, who's giving me this system? Is it the truck that hit me?' I thought as more and more questions emerged in my mind.
It's true that the truck suddenly appeared and hit me... So does that mean that the higher being here is the truck-sama?
Screw it, the more I think about it the more confused I will get. And considering that Josh had died, I will just get going with Arata I guess.
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Designation set as Arata Izumi. Thank you for your cooperation. In order to use the system, please follow the following instructions.
Please say or think 'Status'.
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I was about to think 'Status' when Nii-san walked into the kitchen and seat on his chair. I guess I will postpone this matter until I get to my room.
"How is it?" I asked him even though I know what just happened.
"Sigh... Still no progress." He replied, looking downcast.
"There's still time, Nii-san. Don't worry, I'm sure that she will get out of her room soon enough." I assured him as I know what will happen later that makes Sagiri get out of her room.
"Hmm, I hope so..."
After that, we started to eat our breakfast while chatting about his light novel or some other simple things.
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I was now alone in my room, "Status." I said and the same holographic panel appeared in front of me.
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Name: Arata Izumi
Age: 14 [4 October]
Gender: Male
——[Stats]——
Tier: Average Human
Strength: Average
Durability: Average
Speed: Average
Intelligence: Gifted
——[Skills]——
None
[The Status tab is where you can keep track of your progress.
Tier is the overall potency of your very being.
Strength is the amount of physical force you can unleash and how heavy you can lift things. Durability is your ability to withstand a certain amount of force.
Speed is how fast you can move in a given time, it encompasses attack speed, combat speed, reaction speed, travel speed, and flight speed.
Intelligence is how intelligent you are, it encompasses your logic, self-awareness, creativity, reasoning, and/or problem-solving, knowledge, and memory.
Skills will list all important skills, abilities, powers, etc. You can gain Skills simply through training or by buying them in the Shop.
Now, please say or think 'Shop'.]
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"Woah... That's a lot of things. But kind of simple and easy to understand." I exclaimed after reading all of the explanations from the system.
And somehow it makes e me excited just by thinking about raising those stats and getting some Skills.
"Shop," I said and another panel appeared overlapping the previous one. I could pretty much anything I can think of from powers, bloodlines, weapons, items, etc.
And to buy them, I need Shop Points, the currency used within the System. I could get them by killing or defeating creatures, they could be humans, monsters, devils, etc.
And by System explanation, I can be sure that this world not only has humans as the intelligent being in it but also other beings, most likely the supernatural ones.
The System continued to explain all of its functions that I could use at the moment. Inventory, a separated unlimited space that I can use to store everything that was registered as my possession.
And lastly, the Quest. The System will give me a task and require me to complete it within the given time. Completing the Quests will give me different rewards according to their difficulties in completion.
The good thing about this Quest function from the System is that the failed Quests will do me nothing.
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You have finished the instructions from the System. As rewards from the System, you have received the following items,
1} 5,000 SP, and
2} Random Skill Coupon.
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Oh, nice... I got free stuff. "System use the Coupon." I told the System and a rectangular coupon appeared in front of me, floating in the air and crumbled into light particles as a hologram panel emerged from it.
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You have received Ima-