Have I gone mad?

There are many types of people. 

Some are struggling to get ends meat and on the other hand some don't know what to do with their endless wealth.

Some are super hard working, where as some don't even want to move their bodies, because of their laziness. 

Some are extremely beautiful, but there are also some who are tired, hearing insults because they are not attractive enough.

Some are even smart like 'Sherlock Holmes' , while some are dumber than chickens. 

All in all there are various kinds of people, and everyone is different from one another.

But, there is one thing that is common in everyone.

Each person has at least one thing that they are confident in or devoted to. 

It could literally be anything such as studying, sports, business, looks, love , family , friends etcetera. 

There shouldn't be a single person without confidence or devotion to something.

Well , there's always an exception. 

And that is Henry Williams. 

Or so he thinks himself to be, that is. 

 Born in a normal middle class family. 

Has normal parents and a normal little sister.

His education,physic and looks are also normal , neither good nor bad , just average.

Doesn't have any particular talent for anything.

It's like his whole existence screams ..... 'Average '

Anyways, this whole 'Average' thing made his entire life feel boring? Depressing? Maybe empty or colorless? 

So eventually he became fed up of living.

And he has finally decided to take his own life and end this misery. 

That's precisely why, right now he was standing on a river side preparing himself to jump in it.

Ah! Not to swim , to drown in it. 

Nobody knows why he chose one of the most painful methods to die , not that anyone cares. 

'Well , this is it for me, I guess? .... I'm sorry mom , dad and 'Duck Face' but I had had enough of this average and normalcy, I can't take it anymore so I'm off... I don't think I've done anything particularly bad, for me to go to hell, so, who knows?... Maybe I'll end up in heaven?.....' 

Saying that in his mind, Henry looked at the river to see his miserable face for the last time.

He saw his sad and dead eyes in the calm water of the river, reflecting clearly.

"How pathetic." 

He muttered

"Indeed"

The reflection replied?

"Huh?"

"Huh?"

Two voices echoed together.

"What the fuuuuaaaagh...!!!"

He was trying to curse but while urgently trying to step back, he tripped and fell on his butt. 

"The hell was that???!!" 

Henry could swear he saw his reflection replying to him. 

"Am I hallucinating?? I don't remember taking drugs!" 

He was scared shitless but still he wanted to confirm what he saw so he peeked at the river again to see his reflection.

And when he did.

"Hello"

His reflection greeted him by waving his hand.

"Ha..haha...hahahahaha"

Henry started laughing because of how absurd the situation was. 

"I've finally gone mad."

Henry says while looking at the sky.

"Nope. Not yet at least" 

And his reflection seems to disagree with his statement.

Clearing his mind, Henry's face became serious for the first time before asking.

"What are you?" 

Hearing that the reflection smiled. 

"Hmmm...let me think...ah yes ... Well , I'm also you but from an alternate reality or world? ...Well , something like that."

Henry could feel that the reflection was toying with him and something was a miss but still he didn't care. 

Because, finally something out of the ordinary was happening with him and he didn't want this to stop.

" If you are me, then is your life as pathetic as mine?"

Henry pretended to mock the reflection which called itself to be him from another world.

"Well not exactly, I think I'm in a much better position than you , to be frank, but I can't tell the details for some personal reasons."

But the reply made him more curious and a little jealous also.

"It must be nice?" 

Anybody could see the envy dancing in Henry's face. 

"Well I can't deny that."

The reflection said shrugging it's shoulders. 

After that there was a silence of a few seconds, but then the reflection added. 

"Wanna trade positions with me?"

That question shocked Henry.

"What?..... ... Is that even possible?" 

Although Henry felt sceptical but still somewhere in his heart he hoped it to be possible.

"Yes , you just have to answer a question of mine by saying yes." 

In a normal situation, Henry would have figured out that something shady was going on, but for some reason he could not figure anything wrong with this whole situation.

"What's the question?"

Henry eagerly asked.

"Do you want a deal of exchange with me?"

The reflection replied with the desired question.

"Yes."

And the moment Henry said yes , his body went numb and his consciousness faded away in an instant.

His body fell on the ground.

"What an idiot, he fell for such a stupid trick....Well , that ungrateful bastard deserves worse."

The reflection said to itself with a smirk on its face before it disappeared mysteriously. 

***

"Aaagghh....."

A severe headache brought Henry back to his senses.

He was clutching his head with both his hands. 

He couldn't even open his eyes because of the headache.

But , he didn't have to endure it for long.

The pain was starting to subside.

After sometime it was totally gone. 

That was when Henry felt something was odd with his surroundings. 

He was lying on something soft , like a ....bed??.

Henry hurriedly opened his eyes. 

What came to his view was a ceiling.

And it was unfamiliar.

So he got up and sat down on the bed. 

He tried to look around. 

He was inside a room. The room held a bed in the left corner, a study table beside it, and a wardrobe with a dressing mirror in the right corner. Across from the bed, there stood a bookshelf.

But one thing that stood out the most was the room, for some reason it felt odd.

How to put it? It felt a little..... gloomy?

Like, if someone who didn't care about something or has lost everything and has no will to live lived here. 

Well , Henry also didn't had the will to live that's why he was trying to suicide but still, as long as he could remember his room was much more livelier than this one.

While Henry was occupied with those thoughts,suddenly a blue screen popped up in front of him with a mechanical bell sound.

~Ting

[You have been chosen as the successor for the 'Conqueror's System' ] 

[As a welcoming present , you have been gifted the ' Starter Pack ' would you like to receive it?] 

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