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I turn and instinctively rushes into the street to get the Dog out of the way in time.  My final thought was that i’ve seen this on an anime.

Here I am.  Standing next to a small table that had cookies and tea with some very nice white wicker chairs around it and this ikemon of a man keeps staring at me!  He’s tall around 6 foot 6 with what looks to be a very fit body, not skinny like I like them but definitely tone.  He’s dressed in an outfit that looks custom tailored from one of the most expensive shops that only millionaires can buy from.  I’m blushing!  What is this?

“Are you ok now?” (?)

I can understand him, but he’s talking in American-English.  i good with English.

“I’m fine.  Thank you.” (Aya)

As I bow to him I see that i’m very ghostly, i’m a ghost.   Oh yeah I died.

“My name is Fujisho Aya, it is a pleasure to make your acquaintance.” I say with flawless English.

What? flawless?  I’ve always had an accent, I wasn’t born in America so why is it so good?

“I know you’re confused and it’s okay, allow me to introduce myself.  My name is Devlin and as you know you have passed on and are now here.” (Devlin)

Those are just stories, it could never happen.  Could it be one of those transported to another world things?   Our family doesn’t believe in reincarnation.   Unlike many here my mother and father are Catholic and myself as well.

“Is this heaven? and are you God or did you take my soul when I died and brought me to a new world to save the Demon Lord?  Maybe you want me to be a villainess to change the outcome of some delusional prince who is supposed to kill me in the end?” (Aya)

That ikeman just stares at me with a questioning head tilt for a moment, how cute!  I’m blushing again!  Wait isn’t that itself another cliche’?  Get a grip self!  The man starts laughing.

“I’ve read a bunch of those manga’s too!  Although they were translations but wow yeah can I say none of the above?  Your soul which is your consciousness regardless of your beliefs are sent into a reincarnation cycle.  Sorry if this offends your religion but that’s how it is.” (Devlin)

He sits down and motions me to sit as well, offering cookies.  Pouring me some tea he continues.

“On the other hand this is a different world then you’re familiar with.   However, the whole reason here is to just reincarnate you here.   You can be remade as you are, change to a different species altogether and even change your race!” (Devlin)

This shocked me.  He doesn’t want to use me for any ulterior motif,  he’s saying I can be reborn here or even stay as who I am now?  I’m a top student I can figure this out.

“Anyway, I do need an assistant here in my world, that would be nice if it was you.  I also have another person here who I have taken in that I need help with, a young boy around 6 years old.  Not quite a toddler but still I do have a lot of work ahead of me and any help would be nice.” (Devlin)

To live with this man, I don’t know if I could do it without eating him alive if you know what I mean.

“Of course you’ve read those stories so you probably figured that you being in another world could give you some cheat like skill.  I can’t do that here though however we do have magic.  I am positive that you could be great with it.” (Devlin)

Well that’s that.  I’m dead and have no idea what’s going to happen to me.  If I reincarnate to some other creature or monster I wouldn’t know what to do.   If I reincarnate as myself he seems to insinuate that I will be able to keep who I am and be myself still.   I want to keep the memories of my family,  I took care of my younger brother and sisters while mom and dad are working.

“Alright, i’ll do it.  I’ll reincarnate as the same and help you with your child.  I can cook and clean well too, I am looking forward to working with you.” (Aya)

I stand up and bow respectully to him.  He reaches his hand into the air and appears to tap something that I can’t see and everything goes dark, I instinctively close my eyes.   When didn’t I realize that I couldn’t feel anything with my sense of touch?  Now though my body felt a tingling sensation and I feel the weight of myself as gravity took over.   I’m whole again, not a ghost.

“Yay!  You’re still you right?” (Devlin)

Did he just say yay?  Okay.  I check myself over and i’m still wearing my uniform and everything is where it’s supposed to be.   Devlin my apparently my new boss and i’m his assistant looks as if he stares off into the distance for a moment.

“Oh! Hey Aya can you see this?” (Devlin)

He is waving to something in front of him.  The table?  No.

“I don’t see what you’re referring to beyond the table and whats on it.” (Aya)

He’s looking into the distance again, whatsup with him?

“Okay Aya, let me show you to your room and introduce to to Anatole, the boy I mentioned.” (Devlin)

“Okay.” (Aya)

He than leads me through some very large double doors.  I didn’t notice it before but this looks like one of those temples in Italy or Greece.   Not a subject I studied.  There are large pillars everywhere on the outside and some inside.   The further he leads me inside I notice a statue of this man.   He makes a good looking statue too!   Beneath the statue is a plaque.  It reads ‘God of Creation and Destruction.

“Devlin sir, this plaque. ” (Aya)

I just realized it.  I’m standing next to a God.   My knees give in and I encounter the floor, just moments later I snap out of it.

“I wasn’t lying.” (Devlin)

Totally embarrassed now.

“Sorry, it just.  I suddenly realized the full scale of it and caught me off guard.” (Aya)

After he helps me stand up, his hands are soft.  They don’t have callouses or even a single blemish.  I’m making myself blush again!  Stop this me!  With him now leading me to another set of double doors next to the statue we enter an amazing hallway and to another set of doors in.   Once we enter I can tell whoever made this place is highly skilled.  Plush carpets and expensive looking wood furnishings.  Crystal chandeliers hanging above and a beautiful staircase.

He guides me up the stairs and heads right to the first door on the left.  Opening it he motions me inside.

Time to create people.

Putting the glass table and chairs on a gazebo I made that’s surrounded by the lake along with the tea set and some cookies I created I look at my optic panel and click on the next soul that is to be reincarnated.

They’re someone who died in the 1820’s on Earth, apparently a farmer.  There were no notes beyond that which makes me believe they weren’t attributed to neither good nor negative situations.  Being the 1820’s and slavery was rampant it’s very possible they could either be a slave or slave-holder.

I’m totally against slavery of any kind, although I don’t mind people who need to work off their debts being forced into a labor of some sort but the inability to give them a choice is too harsh in my views.

Clicking on the Init reincarnate button the ghost appears before me, the person is looking around and scans over his body only to realize that he was indeed a ghost that was very opaque.  20 points were deducted from me and I now I have 132 left.  The system guide informed me that the more potent the soul the more it costs to reincarnate here.   The people with less are generally negative but I should check each one individually for now.

“Nie żyję?” (Ghost)

[ Mary can you set it so that it auto translates into the common American-English language that I use? ] (Devlin)

[ Yes, setting is now enabled.  All future communication will be in your known language. ] (System Guide)

“I’m sorry.   Yes, you died and now you are here.  My name is Devlin, it’s nice to meet you.” (Devlin)

“Sir, please.  Forgive me.  This is a bit of a shock.  I was planting a new harvest and the last thing I remember I saw some tough looking men coming from the near by forest.  Oh my wife!  Where is my wife!!!” (Ghost)

The ghost is clearly agitated but since his concern for his wife is very apparent and that he was a farmer its pretty easy to assume he was a decent person.

“It’s ok.  It’s alright to be concerned, but your wife is not here with you.  I don’t know what happened to her but at this moment you are dead and I have to decide what to do with you.” (Devlin)

“Am I going to heaven?  I was a very good Christian, prayed every Sunday at the church with my wife.   We are planning to have children soon. I am sorry again, my name is Anatole.  You are God yes?” (Anatole)

“Yes, you can say that I am.  However I am not a God of the place you were at.  I am the God of this world.   I have decided that I am going to reincarnate you.  Do you have any preferences?” (Devlin)

Anatole clearly didn’t know what Devlin meant by preferences.

“None my Lord.  To be blessed to come back and hopefully see my wife and family again is all I could wish for.” Anatole

I know that’s not going to happen.   He’s a farmer though so i’ve decided to reincarnate him as a male human again and keep his knowledge and know-how but remove his memories and experience as being himself.  The option for species doesn’t exactly say human but humanai.  Close enough right?  I also set his age as 6 years old since there are no other humans around.  He’ll remember his knowledge on how to do things appropriately I hope.

“Anatole, I have decided to reincarnate you again.   You am going to believe that you’re a good person so don’t let me down in your next life, ok?” (Devlin)

As Anatole nods a yes to me I click the apply reincarnation button.

[ Reincarnation successful.  Position of reincarnation will be placed near user. ] (System Guide)

Anatole’s ghost disappears and in his place is a young boy at 6 years old.   Looking up at me.

“Hello Anatole, it’s good to see you.” (Devlin)

“Hello Mister.   I seem to be lost, I can’t remember where I live or who my parents are.” (Anatole)

He’s giving a worried look with a shed of a tear.   What a good kid I was thinking to myself.

“Anatole.  You must of hit your head.   You are an orphan who I took in.  You say you don’t remember that, but that’s ok.  Just take your time.  Now come with me ok?  You’re not wearing your clothes so we need to get you dressed.” (Devlin)

Another System Guide upgrade happened this morning and the benefits would be that I could use the System Guide Mary to actually will my intentions into existence by just asking her to do it.

[ Mary, setup one of the rooms in the mansion for this boy and create some clothes there that this boy will wear.  Something appropriate for my era, jeans, t-shirts, socks, underwear, tennis shoes, jackets and anything else that you can do to accommodate him for now.  Make them a bit lose so he can grow into them as well for at least another 6 months. ] (Devlin)

At that moment I smack my forehead and remember we haven’t designated months yet.

[ Mary also setup months using the time scale that we set.   Make the day I came here as the new year, set the calendar appropriately starting at 1. ] (Devlin)

[ As you wish.  There are 300 days of the year, 10 months, 30 days per months, 6 days per week for 5 weeks in a month.  Today is the 4th of the first month. ] (System Guide)

Leading Anatole to the mansion I pass through the temple where the entrance hall is to go there.   After entering the mansion there a grandiose set of stairs that lead up to the bedrooms above.  Informed by the system guide that Anatoles room is the first one on the left, in the left wing, while mine is the last one on the right.  My room takes up two rooms of space but it’s setup with a beautiful canopy bed and furnishing with the red darkwood grain that the rest of the house has.  Additionally I have my own bathroom while across from Anatole is this wings bathroom.

We enter Anatoles room and it’s white and blue design is very boyish, a toy box and a single sized bed, dressers and a nice closet.

Laying on the floor still, Toko crawls up to my legs and lays on the Toga’s end falling asleep.   Thinking to myself that a lot has happened today and I should make a list of things to accomplish to live here, my eyes close and I uncomfortably fall asleep.

The sun shining and I wake up, my body doesn’t feel stiff at all from sleeping on the hard marble floors.  I think to myself that it’s weird but remember that i’m in my rejuvenated younger self.  I’m also not as angry with Toko anymore for ruining my previously life.

Moving over to the laptop I notice the new time value on the desktop showing that it’s five-fifteen am.  Which makes sense since night came around six pm last night and there are nine-hundred minutes in night time cycle currently.

Opening up the status screen for the world my eyes grow wider.  Another pop up box appeared that shows ‘Congratulations, you survived the first night! +100 Faith Points.  First believer +100 points.’.   My worries about having points to use today has calmed me down a bit.

Closing that popup box another appeared.  ‘Upgrade System Guide?  Requires 50 points. Yes / No’.   I currently have 205 faith points.  and click on the Yes box.

[ System Guide Upgrade in progress.  2 hours until completion. System Guide will be offline for that duration. ] (System Guide)

I look over and see all the left over food and fruits that were left over from last night.

“Toko we should eat the rest of the meat before it spoils.” (Devlin)

After having a good breakfast Toko scampers out of the temple to do his business while I sit an promise myself to be more careful with my Faith Points today.   Slapping my forehead I also remember that I have to finish setting up the world with the parameter screen.

I’ve decided to move the glass table and wicker chairs to underneath the outside roof area between a set of pillars to the left of the door, since it will take some time until the system guide is back I should do something productive like this.  I’m in good health now so it’s going to be easy enough.

After some time lazily sitting on the wicker chairs, drinking the still warm for some reason tea that seems to be never ending from the tea-pot.   This surprised me at first but since my now boss Morgan created it, it was probably added as a feature.  I wasn’t a tea drinker in my previous life but this still tasted good.  Even the small bowl of sugar cubes never seemed to run out.

[ System Guide upgrade complete.  Information Library Installed.  ] (System Guide)

[ Mary oh that means you can finally answer questions instead of me looking at the wiki right? ] (Devlin)

[ Correct. ] (System Guide)

[ Mary when you were talking about the optic thing, what is it and how much does it cost? ] (Devlin)

[ Optical Reference System.  Modification to retina allows user to display system applications and processes. ] (System Guide)

[ So instead of using the laptop it will show the screen in front of me then.  Okay Mary, setup that Optical modification. ] (Devlin)

I start to scream from the burning pain that is being inflicted on my eyes.  My vision disappears again and the tears are flowing abundantly.  The pain is too much and I fall down onto the marble, passing out.

Several hours later I wake up again and rubbing my eyes.  My eyes are still sore from whatever modification happened.

[ Well that was painful.  Mary how do I bring up the console? ] (Devlin)

[ Set a keyword,  screen will appear after keyword is used. ] (System Guide)

[ Keyword huh? Okay I should use something easy to remember.   I’ve read a lot of stories and most of them use ‘status’.  Mary set keyword to ‘status’. ] (Devlin)

[ Keyword set.  Can be used with internal communication or by voice. ] (System Guide)

“Status.” (Devlin)

In front of me is now the desktop screen that I had before with a bunch of new options icons available, there is no background image and everything is translucent enough for me to see through the screen without being impeded by it.   I see new things like ‘Map’ and such but the other two, ‘Reincarnation Cycle’ and ‘World 323’ icons are still there as well.

[ Lets set those parameter for the world that I forgot about. ] (Devlin)

Moving through the screens I found the world options.   First thing I notice is there are options for magic use.   I’m normally a science based guy but I have been doing some incredible things this last day.     I immediately looked over to the Physics area and there’s an option for ‘Magic can alter physics’.   There’s an option I skimmed over earlier for Science Based Magic.

[ Mary what is this option for science based magic? ] (Devlin)

[ User of magic can communicate with particles that were designed by scientists in the Earth Year 2032.   These molecular atomic-structure-modifying nano-particles anomalies designated MANA by their creators can modify the structure of any atom.   Programmable, modifiable and can be attuned to listen to commands from brain wave patterns.    After the scientists that worked on the project left Earth to colonize the stars MANA could also create living cells.   MANA can be set to either replicate in living cells or expelled from birthing hives. ] (System Guide)

When the system guide mentioned birthing hives I shuddered.

[ How are they utilized to create the magic? ] (Devlin)

[ By gathering the MANA particles with your thoughts and then asking them to create phenomenon with a keyword or phrase.  The stronger visualization you give to those particles the better the effect will be. ] (System Guide)

[ So Arthur C. Clarks line about “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” now makes magic possible.   Incredible. ] (Devlin)

[ Correct. ] (System Guide)

[ Let’s use that system then.   Mary assist me with the rest of the options that would be best in conjunction with that. ] (Devlin)

Nearly the entire day was spent modifying the worlds parameters with the System Guides help.