Everyone Else Has a System

Chapter 2 As If It Were A Dream

[Are you sure?]

[Yes/No]

"..." With a dumbfounded expression, I observed the screen and wondered if all this was for real?

Still, since I genuinely wanted to get it over with this life, I pressed the 'Yes' button.

I waited for a few moments for another message to appear but after a few moments it did not look like another message was going to-

[Is there anything I can do to make you accept the system?]

I blinked at the message for a few moments as I wondered again if all this was for real?

'Did I die already and am dreaming about this stuff? Not really something I would like to do right after my death I guess…however… if I really have a chance to change things…'

"Can you bring back the ones who died and also change the fate of the ones who are suffering and make their life better?" It's a far stretched thing to ask but hey, it's the system we are talking about, surely it must have ways-

[Are you crazy? No way in hell I can do that. Tsk, ask for something else]

"..."

Looking at that cheeky system… I had no words to describe my emotions. Sigh… I guess I should just die…

I look down at the world and see that I have almost reached the land. It should take a few more seconds before I die, I guess.

Although…

If there is a way…

Then…

Maybe…

Just maybe…

"Can you give me a chance… to correct everything I had done wrong?" I expect it to say 'No' again, however.

[I can. However… due to lack of time… My conditions are different. Would you like to know them?]

"Yes" I spoke in a hurried manner so as not to waste time. I didn't know what the condition was. My worthless life is already at its lowest point, so if I have a chance to change things… if I can change things in any form… I won't let it go. No matter what the conditions are.

[Okay. You will have your chance and in return-]

-Splash

I hit the land… or the water at the end a piercing pain hit my whole body at once. If I am not wrong all of my bones, muscles and innards are crushed right now.

It pains like hell… I wonder if this is what it feels to die… I shouldn't be able to feel anything because my nerves are too damaged but for some reason I can.

I shouldn't be able to think properly with all this maddening pain but for some reason I can.

It's a strange phenomenon. I wished things would be already over but even after a few minutes of pain nothing really changed.

However there was something that I noticed during the pain and that was my emotions were slowly degrading.

At first I was scared yet calm but now I just feel emptiness in place of those feelings. The more I realized this the more I wondered if it was the process of dying or am I losing myself to oblivion. I wonder if it is going to continue until eternity. I wouldn't prefer something like this honestly.

And then…

A cooling sensation spread through my body and numbness began to follow through. The pain slowly subsided, replaced by this numbness, however, I felt like the pain was much better than this numbness.

'It's suffocating,' I thought as I tried my best to feel my body but failed to do so. What was going on? My emotions are mostly gone, my senses are also getting erased…

'Is this… all there is to it?' I thought as I wondered about this process however…

My body began feeling the pain all over again.

It was an odd kind of pain… the sensation was different. I don't know how to describe this pain and feeling but it's as if… I was in a different body than my own.

'What is going on?' I thought as all my emotions and senses slowly began to return to normal.

I felt pain in my legs, in my arms and also on my face. I felt like I was going to die any moment now.

If that was not the worst feeling, I felt too weak. It was as if I lacked energy to even properly stand up.

'Just what is… going on here?' At this point even thinking was difficult. I had to keep the pain in check to even think properly.

Soon I regained my sight. My eyes which felt alien to me, I opened them up slowly and carefully.

What came in front of me was a night road with broken lamps and buildings around me. I fell on the ground with my body, especially my legs and hands, badly hurt.

I tried standing up slowly and carefully but as soon as I stood up, I fell down again.

'Huh? What just happened…?!!' I panicked a bit as I looked at my hands carefully.

What came into my vision were, thin pale hands with prominent bones with red burn scars on both the arms.

'Looking at these arms…I might be no more than 15, I suppose? But where am I? Did I transfer into someone else's body!!? But why this body?!!' I grew more restless as I hurriedly tried to search around for something informative to the best of my ability but the sight of everything broken only made me more confused and dreadful.

After a few moments, I began crawling towards the side of the road and placed myself against the broken wall of one of the houses on the street and looked at the road in front of me.

'What am I supposed to do now?' I thought as I tried my best understanding my current situation and the conclusion I reached was,"I am f****d."

Literally I was on my deathbed… just what am I supposed to do here?

-Bamm!!!!

Something landed right in front of me.

A frog as big as a car came right in front of me as it looked in the direction of the road ahead.

Observing that monster, I finally knew what the h*ck was going on around.

Yeah, at this point my memory finally clicked and everything made sense. The road, the monster and me being all wrapped up in pain.

'Yeah, it all makes sense now,' I thought as a wry smile forms on my face as I realise how f*cked up this situation was.

"Looks like… I am back to my past."