1 Inheriting the system!

A slight breeze brought with it the nice smell of spring. Couple groups of people were having fun around me. They were propably celebrating from having just graduated. Well, I really didn't have anyone I wanted to celebrate with, so I was just standing there, alone, as I watched the beatiful sky, mesmerized. Couple minutes passed fast and as I freed myself from the sky I looked forward and saw a person waving at me.

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My life has been completely normal, well not maybe by your standars, and so were my grades, and yes, they are normal by your standars. If I would have to tell you a little description of what kind of person I am, then I would say that I would be a side character, a mob character. I never did anything that would attract the eyes of the people.

Even though I was a orphan as a child, it didn't bother me, nor did it anyone else. Even though I had never been given a name until I was 4 years old, it didn't bother me, nor did it bother anyone else. I never wanted to be in the spotlights.

What bothered me were my emotions. I have two emotions that I am aware of: curiousness, and enviousness. When I knew that I was able to feel those emotions but was completely else emotionally detached I started to get curious of what other people felt. I wanted to know why they cried over somebody's death. Why they were happy when they got good grades.

I observed these people with emotions. The more I observed the more curious I got, and the more curious I got the more envious I got for these people. I wanted to feel emotions. I started to try make people happy, sad and angered.

But it didn't bring my emotions back. I still tried and am trying to this day.

On this peculiar graduation day I was walking towards my place with a person. You could say that he was a 'friend' of sort.

"Damn, you won 10$ from the lottery ticket." I said with an expressionless face. 'Winning a lottery ticket every now and then is normal. Why are you so happy?' I thought as a hint of curiosity flashed in my eyes.

"You! I know that it isn't much, but could you atleast make it seem that you're happy, Itrez?" Said a normal looking guy, my mob friend no.1.

Oh right, my name is Itrez. I don't remember who gave it to me, but I remember that he didn't really care about me. I have a bad memory, especially so when it comes to my past.

As we kept bickering we soon arrived at a crossroad.

"Well, see ya' tomorrow!" Waved mob friend no.1. I waved back unenthusiastically, turned around and headed towards my place. My house was quite the way away from my school so I had to take the train to school everyday. Today was an exception as trains were not moving, forcing me to walk to school and back. Well this was the last time that I have to go to that school, as I just graduated.

Dark clouds started gathering, messaging that a rainstorm was on it's way. I took my phone out and opened Goodnet maps. There I looked up the closest place where I could hide from the rain.

"Damn. it's quite long of a trip to go there, better hurry up." I took a deep breath as to ready myself to the journey. I stretched slightly my stiff body and started running towards the raincover. The cold moist air felt quite weird this time around, but I dismissed it as being weakened by hunger.

Soon enough the raincover came into view. If only I had ran a little more often, I wouldn't have been so exhausted. And on top of that, the weird feeling was becoming stronger, but I dismissed it yet again. The rain had started couple minutes ago and I was now quite drenched.

I sat down on the bench. There were no people on the streets, making me the only one. Everyone must be warming up inside their homes drinking something warm with their families. I felt little envious, but not much.

"*yawn* I hope this rain stops soon…" I said to myself as I was wringing my t-shirt dry.

Then suddenly I my vision turned black! My body felt like it was being pulled somewhere, and hard. This primal feeling of pain was shocking. Suddenly I was starting to awaken a new feeling. The feeling of fear towards this unknown thing that was pulling me in complete darkness.

Soon I felt the pain being washed away like it had never even existed. I opened my eyes to a new place. A completely empty white room. This new unknown made my curiosity peak. I started feeling myself to check if my body was okay. Everything seemed normal. Next I checked every nook and cranny of this room, there was nothing strange here, it was just a white room.

I started thinking what could have happened, but there was no explanation that worked. And no this was not a dream, and yes, that was one explanation, but I discarded it in a second. But suddenly I remembered that I felt a new emotion.

"What was it called again… Oh right! Fear." I spoke to myself while sitting in the middle of the room.

Fear. I had heard of it's descriptions so I could identify it almost instantly.

'The awakening of my new emotion!' I thought to myself. Even though I had not recovered the entire emotion, only a tiny bit, it still made my lips curve upwards.

'This is!?' Many flashes of thoughts quickly ran in my head of what it could be. It was an addictive feeling. And I had been missing it my entire life. My enviousness flared up. That feeling was happiness.

'I want to feel that again! Quickly something!' I thought. I got up to search for something to bring me happiness, but I quickly remembered 'Yeah right, this room is completely empty…'. I still had to try something, it could be stupid, you never know, I might be a person who gets happiness from pain. I started scratching my arm until it was bleeding bright red blood. It hurt like hell. I stopped scratching 'Well at least I am not a person who enjoys being in pain.' I thought. Hey, don't blame me! This is the first time I feel happiness, how should I have known.

I quickly thought back to what had happened and quickly came to the conclusion that I got happiness from awakening my new emotions. It must have brought a huge amount of joy to me when I got back the feeling of fear. Yes, even though it is fear, it is still a new precious emotion. But I am a unique case so I could only feel a tiny fragment of that joy.

'So to get that addictive feeling, I must feel emotions of a larger scale…'

Well I can't do that in this room of nothingness, so better put it aside.

Just like that minutes passed. Then the minutes turned into hours. And then the hours to days.

'I feel like dying…' It must have been a few days since I came to this room. It was all weird as I didn't feel hunger, nor did I feel the need to go to the toilet. The only thing I felt was that weird feeling I had just before teleporting here. That weird power must be keeping me from sh*tting all over the place. Just as I finished my thoughts that weird feeling burst out of my body, not completely, but at least a shard of it.

Before me appeared a alert window.

[You have inherited the system!]

[Alert! Your lifespan has been reduced to 2 weeks so please increase the number of players to increase it!]

[Currently the number of players: 0]

At that moment I felt that my life has just become something else entirely.