Chapter 1:

Leaving things to chance is stupid.

Putting your faith in something unreliable is stupid.

Trusting people who you don't know is stupid.

Losing all your life savings due to the flip of a coin is stupid.

I wish that was a mantra I had followed before getting myself 800k in debt at a casino.

I had to pay it off somehow, I quit my coding job because my startup was unsuccessful and became a pizza delivery driver. Somehow, I was making more money that way.

Those 4 months of getting deliveries, putting them on a scooter, and driving around town all alone were the dullest of my entire life.

But then that moment hit like a truck.

Actually, it wasn't like a truck. It was. I was making a late-night journey to get a meat lover's pizza to a customer when I was run over by an ambulance. I've watched a few anime and read a few isekais, the more I think about that moment the more I cringe. There's no way that should have happened. There should have been 80000 to 1 odds that I picked up a late-night shift, that my sleep-deprived self did not pay attention to road rules that I'm usually very strict about, and that the truck driver didn't have their headlights on. Then again, I'm not too good with gambling the odds.

Ironically, that ambulance tried to save my life afterward by driving me to the hospital. However, my injuries were beyond repair. The doctors told me I had 30 minutes to live and asked me a question.

"Would you like to be the first to try the Mental Transport System?"

I knew all about this application, after all, I helped develop it back in high school. An old friend of mine decided to help people find a way to live after death, in a new world, a second chance to experience life in a different way.

It was my job to create that world and I did a pretty damn good job at it too.

Too good in fact, my "friend" betrayed me by completely ghosting me and becoming a billionaire in the computer science industry while I was left delivering pizzas.

I grunted yes and it slowly began.

Everything was fading.

I could feel my consciousness being removed from my body.

My thoughts were stripped from my brain.

I was taken away from the world of the living.

After what felt like days of waiting, I opened my eyes.