Darkness...
Darkness is all i see.. an endless horizon of lightless black, i cannot feel anything... my vision ? overwhelmed by the nothingness, my hearing ? only the sound of the soundless void i don't even hear my own thought... i can't feel my body too... do i still have a body ? i don't know the only thing i know is that im drifting slowly into the endless void, how do i know that ? that simple i don't thats the only logical conclusion i made too myself and who im talking to ? i don't know i feel like its been way to long that im here but at the same time i feel like its been only i few hours...
still drifting through the void Zenith start reviewing all his life and making comment to himself trying to keep his sanity stable as possible but while he was doing that he start feeling something dragging him softly
"what is this ?" he said with a noneexistant all loud voice "why do i feel like im being d-" he doesn't has the time to finish his sentence that he got violently dragged with such force that could kill anyone, sadly for him he already died so its much more like unpleasant and painfull
what would feel like an eternity he suddenly feel his being halted in an instant like going from 100km/h to 0 instantly, and then in an instant he suddenly feel like he has been attached to something
"what is this sensation ? is that grass ?..." without a second thought he finally realised that he got his body back and wake up, his eyes got assaulted by a bright light he quickly put his hand over his eyes to cover them trying to adapting to the light
finally adapted he look around and realised that he is in the middle of a forest, he get up but when he was about to stand up his legs gave up and he falls on his knees; he doesn't feel his legs like if someone has sitted on them for multiple hours and need to let the blood travel, he wait a little bit before trying again and this time he succeed
"urgh... my body feel like im being asleep for multiple days on a bed of rock it hurt everywhere... so thats what it feel like to be isekaied ? thats kinda bullshit..." he know that he has died due to the explosion so his only conclusion is isekai and the reason he does not panic is he is relieved that he had escaped his so called "life" and could finally try to start a new one and the second reason is that he was always calm and composed almost cold indifference
"im kinda disappointed i thought i would be received by a goddess yadda yadda but seems like im the clueless isekai one..."
he put his right hand on his hip sighing still looking around, suddenly a blue screen appear infront of him
[transfer of inherited abilities of alternate self begin]
"wha-" not having time to say anything his mind and body got assaulted by an unbearable pain like his body getting torn apart and reconstructed and torn again and again, scream and cry of pain escape his lips and his body paralysed by the pain no one should deserve to experience, after 3 agonizing minute the pain stopped and only his trembling breathing can be heard in the forest
[transfert succeeded]
[due to restriction you only have access to a few ability and item the rest will be unlocked with time]
[you inherited your fixer self "The Black Cube"]
[you inherited Carian Magic]
[you inherited wind magic]
[you inherited the artefact "Prosthetic of the Mercenary"]
[you have access to inventory, basic shop, ability]
[thats all the assistant will assist you throught your new life may you live happily Zenith]
after the last message the blue box disappear leaving the young man lying on the floor dryed tear on his face and a trail of saliva connecting his mouth and the ground, after sometime he straightens up and wipe the saliva and remnant of tear, he get up and look at his body more specifically his right arm who has been replaced by a well designed metal arm
after some time to just looking at what has changed (mostly his right arm and his clothes wich are something similar to gremmy from bleach but black) he start moving in a random direction trying to find people or structures like houses etc
'i hate nature and i hate forest...' he is now walking for hours in the forest unlucky enought to not find anyone or anything
ruffle ruffle
suddenly his gaze shift to a nearby bush
"hmm ?" he doesn't move waiting to see if it was him or if he really heard something
'maybe im trippin' thats not surprising du to the painearlier ' when he was about to just continue something jump out of the bush in his direction
his body react on it own doing a back step to dodge the strike of his unknown assaillant
"WHAT THE-" not having time to process he dodge instinctly another strike, he jump back to put some distance between him and the attacker
[Werewolf Youkai]
he read quickly the notification and shift back to the guy in front of him, he take a stance by pure instinct he never fight before but it feel almost familliar but at the same time foreign
"kekekeke its seems like its my lucky day today, human stay still and i promise i will kill you painlesslykekekeke" he skip a beat when he heard the monster talking
'what ? is that... japanese ? you fucking kiddingme....' unconsciously his posture correct hitself preparing for anything
after a deafening silence the youkai throw himself at me but when he try to pierce zenith with his claw zenith move in answer to the youkai grabbing his arm and doing a violent shoulder throw crashing the youkai back on the ground a groan of pain leave the youkai mouth but before he has the time to move his head meet zenith foot hitting him multiple time (terumi style) before finishing with a powerfull stomp crushing the youkai head making a sickening crunch and splatter blood everywhere around the head emplacement and on zenith shoes and trench coat
zenith take a few step back losing all semblance of stability his expression is pure shock and disbelief
'i-i i killed someone... i fucking killed someone..' the seed of panic start to bloom within his mind when suddenly
[User mental stability recalibration to match his current situation]
slowly his panic die letting cold indifference taking over his expression slowly morph into indifference too and his body loosen a bit
'...' he stay silent conpletly helpless of the current situation he killed someone a living being but now he feel totaly indifferent
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a good hour later he has make his mind and get up from the tree he was sitting against looking at the corps for a few second and then shifting his gaze forward and while leaving the scene he put his hood up while saying with a biting cold indifference
"Thats That and This is This"
author : here the first chapter i hope you all liked it ! see y'all for the next chapter