A new chapter, but it's the wrong fanfic

Sorry if someone thought this was a new chapter of JH, I'll post a new one as soon as I write it. But this is another thing that I've been working on, so your comments would appreciated.

This is the third of the first chapter of my new fanfic. I managed to write only fifteen thousand words in five chapters. I'm not sure if I should have been surprised that a well-thought-out story is much more difficult than just coming up with everything on the go? Probably not.

As you know, if you follow my notes, the events of my new fanfic unfold in the world of "Konosuba" and yes, this time the MC is a girl. I decided to try a lot of new things with this fanfic, like planning a timeline - I've never done this before.

Leave your ideas/suggestions in the paragraphs below:

Love interest. A single one, no harem this time. You can chose anyone – ANYONE – I'll make the decition later [–]

Monsters to kill [–]

Random ideas [–]

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Alexandra Mercer didn't like her name too much. For several reasons, but the biggest reason was that she shared her full name with a character in one particular video game. For a fourteen-year-old with shitty health, this was just a dark joke. Some would say that a long-forgotten game shouldn't affect her life much, but when your name is literally used as the name of the protagonist/villain for a video game about a deadly virus, it's pretty hard to ignore.

Was it ironic that the first game she bought was Prototype? Yes. Did she find it funny when she learned the plot? Very much, but she would never admit it to her family.

The Mercer family consisted only of her parents, her younger brother, and herself. Alex tried her best to fulfill her role as big sister, and she was pretty good at it, even if the younger Mercer always looked at her with concern. Mr. and Mrs. Mercer often looked at her with the same concerned eyes, but she chose to ignore it.

She spent most of her time either at home or – again – in the hospital. She didn't have many friends, just a couple of people she talked to online. She usually spent her days playing video games, watching movies and anime, or reading research on chemistry. From chemistry studies she moved on to physics, and from there she began to study an integral part of any science – weapons produced with its help.

She looked at everything from simple handguns to biological weapons, from grenades to nuclear bombs. And after several readings, she remembered how to create all this, at least in theory.

To be honest, the day when the FBI officers appeared on their doorstep was one of the most interesting in her life. They showed her search history and asked two important questions:

"Is that your search history?" and "Why?"

Alex just shrugged and muttered: "I wanted to know more about the world." Deciding that she can't say that she was pleased to know that there are ways in the world to die much worse than illness.

Alex has often been ill all her life and has gotten used to weak muscles and headaches over time. A common cold could knock her down for a month, sometimes even for several, but she still tried to live her life to the fullest.

Her family knew about her desire and therefore they tried to spend as much time with her as possible. Their longer holidays were held in different countries each time, and the last country where Alex visited before her death was Japan.

But this story is not about the life of Alexandra Mercer, oh no. This story is about what happened after her death.

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Goddess Aqua, the head of the Axis cult looked at her paperwork and barely held back tears. The blue-haired woman with a perfect figure wanted to hit her head on the table, but she knew that it would bring more pain to her than to the wood. This month's quota for reborn souls was incredibly high (two souls more than usual) and she didn't know where she would find enough brave people (idiots) to dare to be reborn in a new world! The last potential Hero (a lazy, perverted NEET without a slightest chance of surviving in a new world without cheats) flatly refused her request for no good reason!

She didn't have much time before the deadline and Aqua was praying… erm… to whoever she could pray to, for two more eligible candidates to die in Japan. And who would have thought, her prayers were answered!

Two files emerged from a Magic Circle and the Goddess whooped in joy as they fell on her dark oak table. She grabbed the first one that came to her hand and, without even reading the contents, called on the first candidate.

While the Magic Circle transferred the Hero's soul to her realm, Aqua began to read the file and barely concealed her cry of happiness. Her new Hero has been sick and helpless all her life, she'll definitely grab the first opportunity to become stronger! Oh, and look at this cause of death! Now all she had to do was finish this girl and call on the second one!

Alexandra Mercer finally appeared in front of her and blinked a couple of times in confusion. She looked exactly like the photo in her file: long curly brown hair, stone gray eyes, and a thin face with slightly tanned skin. But Aqua didn't expect her to be so short… She looked at the file again- yep, exactly one hundred fifty centimeters and fifty kilograms. No wonder she looks like a walking skeleton. She was wearing charcoal black pants with a green tank-top that allowed Aqua to see her thin arms.

The Goddess waited a couple of seconds for her new Hero to recover and cleared her throat to get her attention. She looked around, trying to figure out exactly how she ended up in a royal-looking room with windows leading to a blinding-white nowhere, but in the end her eyes fell on Aqua, so she stashed that thought for later.

"Welcome to the afterlife, Mercer-san." Alexandra frowned, but Aqua ignored it and continued talking. "Unfortunately, you died. However, you got an extremely rare chance. It's even more fascinating than going to heaven or being reborn as a baby!"

There was a beat of silence before Alexandra started talking. "We'll deal with the fact that I'm dead later. You speak Japanese? Why do you speak Japanese? What's the point if the whole planet speaks different languages?"

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