1 Chapter 01

Author here. I'm rewriting this fanfic from the start. I started this fanfic for fun and didn't pay much attention to its story. I hope to present a story that will be enjoyable and different from canon. But I hope that my readers will be lenient in complaining about the story being the same as the original. I admit that the story was following the original but in this rewrite, I will only follow important things like the world structure and use it to create a creative story.

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Who was I?

I didn't remember in much detail.

All I remember was the anime and other entertainment I consumed in my last life.

I must have been an otaku.

I did wonder if this world was one of the animes I watched in my last life.

I got my answer in high school.

I haven't introduced myself.

I'm a high school student.

My name is Akio Asahi.

Akio means bright and luminous. The name shares another meaning – 'man', 'husband', and 'hero'.

Asahi means "sunlight" in English. Carrying the intention of light and hope.

There was an average boy in our class whose name was Minoru Kageno.

After a bit of investigation on him.

I was sure that he was the one who would become 'Shadow'.

I had a theory about my reincarnation.

It was not some God nor Devil that reincarnated me in this world.

My reincarnation was purely a coincidence.

Countless worlds revolve around a single point.

My previous world must have been one of these countless worlds.

Every so often, the worlds collide. The impact sends rifts across the worlds, and for a moment, two different worlds become linked. When that happens, each exerts influence on the other.

At the time of my death. This world and my previous world must have linked and my soul crossed over to this world and was reborn as a newborn.

That was a coincidence as my soul could have never crossed or would have been destroyed halfway.

It was my luck that caused me to survive the travel between the two worlds.

Now, there are two roads ahead of me.

I could live my life and be eaten by magical beasts in the future.

Or I could gamble and try to reincarnate once again.

I chose to gamble.

I had died once already.

It was luck that I could be reborn.

I will believe in it once again.

On the night of the death of the high school student, Minoru Kageno. The two worlds will exert influence on each other and souls from this world could reincarnate in the other world.

On a particular night of summer, two students got isekaied by truck-sama.

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It's dark.

I can't see or move.

No, I just have to try hard.

I was floating in space.

There were countless stars around me.

Me and Minoru were heading to one of these stars.

He is unconscious.

I see.

My soul had already been reincarnated once and hence is experienced or strong enough to remain conscious.

These stars are parallel worlds.

Can I see them?

Ah! I can see them.

It is a strange sensation.

It seems I have some powers thanks to my current astral form.

These will vanish when I get reincarnated.

That world is made of ice, one of lava and magical beasts, etc.

There are many fantasy worlds also.

Should I send Minoru in one of them?

He only wanted magic to become an Eminence in Shadow.

That seems like a nice world.

No, what is an Eminence in Shadow without Shadow. 

How much time till I reach the other world?

Ah!

Those are balls of different colors going to different stars.

What are these?

The powerup that a hero or a protagonist receives from a higher existence?

Should I take one of them?

Nobody will know?

What?

One of the balls disappeared before reaching any of the stars.

It means there are chances that some balls will not reach their stars.

I can't let these go to waste.

I caught a rainbow-colored ball that was about to disappear and it fused with my soul.

The rainbow-colored ball was a skill called Gacha.

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I got reincarnated in the otherworld as an orphan in the Baron Kagenou territory.

I will call this world 'The Other World'.

Mr. and Mrs. Kagenou adopted me.

My late father in this world was someone who knew Mr. Kagenou.

After his and my mother's death, the Kagenou family adopted me.

My name in this life is Zavier Kagenou.

Zavier means savior and Kagenou means of the shadows.

My name means Savior of the Shadows.