Death

"Jay...JAYYYY, wake up. You can't sleep during the work hours, go get some coffee." yelled my team leader.

I wake up grudgingly and go out to get some drink. I mean, how can I not sleep when you give me so much work to do. When was the last time I had a good night sleep? 'Sucks to be me'

I get outside the office and start walking towards the cafe. If you observe my face, you can see the dark circles under my eyes and I looked like I am gonna die soon.

I took the coffee and stand outside for some fresh air. I started thinking about my life while sipping the coffee. I am 24 this year, although I am not sad about my life, I would say it's better than the majority of the living people out there. I have a job and caring parents who supported me financially without backing out but how would they know that this is not the life I wanted.

The life I live looks so plain and boring, it's just like a robot. Every day is like the same day in the loop, getup-office-home-sleep. At least I had anime and manga that encourage me and lift the mood. I use to watch a lot of anime during my engineering period, I am a huge fan of Naruto, Haikyuu, MHA and Pokemon.

Although people complain about how Pokemon sucks after Kalos, I still can't stop watching it. Maybe because I grew up watching it. I also play Pokemon games and I feel people should stop complaining about the design of new Pokemon for each region saying how Kanto was way better.

I think except for that ultra beast designs everything else till Galar region was pretty cool.

Anyways...I need to get back to the office. As I start turning back I suddenly notice something bizarre. I see a truck coming from a fair distance but the problem was that I don't see any driver, 'huff, what lack of sleep does to my eyes'.

There was this guy who was on phone and crossing the road, he was going leisurely at a slow pace. I am sure he is gonna die if that truck hits him, suddenly my instinct kicks up and I run to save him. I push him out and substitute myself, there was only one thought that crossed my brain 'what a dumb move.' I blackout after that.....

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I slowly wake up and find out that I am in a dark room, I am pretty sure that I died so this must be the 'Afterlife'. What was I even thinking, I would have saved that guy just by pulling him back but instead I pushed him? Anyways, there is no point thinking about my dumb move. I started looking around to see if someone would show up like in the novels that I read. Maybe a God or Devil???? By this time they should have shown up and given me some wish for the positive karma of saving a person.

I started roaming around the dark space to find some clues about my situation. Don't know after how long, a light shines ahead of me and an old man with a big white beard shows up. He looked like a sage and I assume he is the God. Instead of panicking, my mind is digesting the present situation pretty well. He looks at me and starts talking,

"Young one, I am sorry that you died. You should have lived 30 more years, the truck I hired made a mistake and took the wrong person life".

"So, what's my situation now? and what do you mean by a hired truck?" I ask him.

" We Gods hire some trucks to kill people who have gone past their allowable negative karma or to kill people who escaped their death. We are prohibited by the Almighty to meddle with humans directly, so we do the killings indirectly."

"Ohhhhhh, so you are telling me that the guy I saved was a criminal?"

"Unfortunately yes, although your intention to save was right, your actions now saved the wrong person. He went on to kill ten innocent people after you died and now I need to compensate TEN MORE PEOPLE".

Seeing that he was yelling out of nowhere I felt like this God has bad mood swings. He stared at me annoyingly and figuring out what I was thinking, he started talking again.

"Of course I would have my mood swings, what you did has messed up the balance and I don't even know how to cover this all up before the Almighty or my competitors notice this."

Hearing the anger and annoyance in his tone, I am pretty sure that he won't explain about his situation on competitors and stuff, now I am sure this won't end well for me.

The mood swing God in front of me took a long breath and calmed down. He stares at me for a long while and when I started to talk again he said

"I know your intentions were right so I won't punish you but what you did make me lose a good amount of divine power. I had to smuggle the ten souls that died in the hands of the criminal you saved out of this plane and now I have to send you out too. I can't send you to the afterlife because you are a soul that has not completed your life expectancy. I also don't feel like giving you any wishes as you are the cause of all this but on the flip side, you did no wrong. I am seriously confused right now."

Ok, I feel like this is going completely wrong from the expected plot. I don't even know what smuggling in his sense even means, maybe he will send me to a devils world. So I started talking(more like genuinely pleading)

"Ahhhhh God, please don't say that. I seriously did not know about the whole issue, how can I even know if the guy I saved was a criminal? I only did it with good intentions, so please forgive the sin I committed and help me."

The old man looked at my genuine pleading and stopped talking, he started to think and after a long minute he started talking again

"Ok..... let's do this, considering what you did was not a conscious mistake, I will forgive you. But don't expect any wishes without payment. In your 24 years of living, you had your fair shares of positive karma. so for every wish you ask, I will consume the karma. Karma consumption leads to unfortunate situations in your next life, so choose wisely. The larger the wish, the more of your karma I consume which can lead to a bad ending."

When I heard what he said, I was like 'seriously!!!!!!!', this is going to be tricky. I should limit myself to 2 or 3 wishes, more than that will make my next life miserable. I think for a full 10 minutes and started talking

"My first wish is to get reincarnated into the Pokemon world."

God hears me out and as if expecting my wish he says blankly

"Granted, but karma consumption will lead you to be an orphan in that world. Trust me, an orphan in the Pokemon world is the last thing you would want, so is that it or anything more?"

'I will be an orphan huh? I think I can manage that', anyway on to the next wish

"I want a System like in the novels that are on earth"

"No, you don't have that much karma but with what you have, I can give you an appraisal. You can appraise things but that's all there is to it."

I hear what God said and think about it, an appraisal is fine I guess. At least I can keep track of my pokemon growth and potential.

"Ok appraisal is good and my next wish is...."

"Hold on, there is no next wish, you have consumed all your positive karma. But as compensation to your death, I will give you 100 luck points. You can only use them once, be careful as it can sometimes save your life. Everything goes your way when you use them for a limited amount of time. So, use them when you are in a desperate situation as it's a one-time thing."

"Ahhhh....thanks, God. Then I guess it's goodbye then."

"Ok kid, you already took a lot of my time. I will send your soul to a body that suits it. Goodbye."

He lifts his hands and mumbles something, a portal opens and I get sucked in...