Chapter 1: 1 - Hopeless Roulette
Hello. My name is _______ (Concealed because it's not really important)
I'm a NEET. Or was. College Graduate be damned, but the bullying took a toll on me and my social skills dropped to a tremendous new low.
However, recently my sister has been helping me get back on track and it bore fruit in the form of me actually being accepted in a company.
So, as you can imagine I'm pretty giddy and excited to tell my parents that I've got myself a job.
Because of that excitement, I deemed the backstreet a necessary endeavour, a shortcut to say.
Thinking back on it, maybe I should've run when I saw the very suspicious neon light.
[Hopeless Roulette]
Bzzt. Bzzt.
But, my curiosity killed the schrodinger cat called my common sense and I entered the premises. Damn it.
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"Excuse me?"
At my words, a cloaked figure came out.
"Ah, a hopeless NEET, welcome, welcome. Have you come for a new life?"
Great. Pushy cloaked weirdos. Still curious so I'll bite.
"No?"
"Ah, no matter, come, come. Have a chance to change your fate."
He brought me to a well lit room with a giant roulette in the middle, most of the bars are [Too Bad] and there's on painted red with [Congratulations] on it.
Further explanations are not needed.
"I am curious? What's the prize?"
The cloaked figure looked at me up and down and smiled.
"Hope"
"Can I get out now?"
...
"No, no. Sir, please at least one game, it's free just for you."
The cloaked figure which is a woman now that I feel about it.
"I don't need a shady cloaked figure asking me roll a completely shady roulette with a shady prize!"
I yanked my arms but the woman was surprisingly strong.
Or, I was just that weak.
The latter probably, thus I gave up.
"Fine, stop! I'll roll once, once and free! Okay?"
"Much appreciated, come, come. Pull the lever"
A red handled lever.
Suspicious. Suspicious. Suspicious.
Too suspicious!
"Can I use my feet?"
She tilted her head.
"As you wish?"
So, I awkwardly rose my legs pulled the lever down with all my skipped leg day might.
Brng! Dugudugu!
The roulette started spinning, the arrow that dictates the prize was where my eyes stuck on.
Dugudugu!
Ping!
[Too Bad]
It moved back.
Ping!
[Congratulations]
"Oi! That thing just went back!"
"I have no idea what you mean, sir. But, congratulations!"
She pulled a party popper. The ones with annoying confetti.
Boof! Boof!
"The prize is a chance to be reincarnated at a new world! Rejoice Emiy- Sir."
"You were just about to breach the crossover barrier! Also, bullshit! I don't meet the requirements!"
"Surely not. Are you not fired or perhaps rejected at a job again? Did you not come because you were hopeless and cannot end your NEET fate? This is your chance, a chance for a new world!"
...
"But, I just got accepted at my to-be company..."
"Huh. Wait, you aren't hopeless?"
"I'm a college graduate actually..."
...
"Is your name not Amane or something?
"I'm not even japanese..."
...
"Apologies then, you don't mind if we accidentally erase your... origins here do you?"
"Of course I mind! My parents are waiting at home for my news, I got a job, and I have to cuddle my sister because she helped me get past my slump!"
"Ah, so you do not mind! Very well, you see the next few roulettes over here is going to decide where you will land, what you will have, and your karmatic fate."
"Don't ignore me! Get me out! I want back to my home!"
The cloaked figure brought out a hammer.
"Ah. We can't have that. Haha. Apologies, this is... a new sleeping pill"
"My ass! That's a fucki- No! N-nyaaaa-"
Beep.
[Under Maintenance]
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"Ah, it seems you're awake. We've taken the leisure to roll for you the world you are going to reincarnate in, and also your karmatic fate"
My head was throbbing. Really, really painful.
What was I doing again? Right. Job. Accepted. Backstreet...
Sleeping Pill?
...
"Screw you!"
I tried to get out, but chains.
Chains.
Really, chains.
"Why am I chained?! What is this?! An interrogation?! Are you some sort of foreign whatsos and you came to me because-"
"Ah, no, no. You are mistaken, sir. We only sincerely wish you a good, new chance at life."
"My life is fine as it is! I have a loving sweet sister! I have good parents! I have a job now! So, get me outta here before I... well, I only have empty threats but don't underestimate empty threats!"
...
"And, so you have been chosen to be reincarnated in DxD, your karmatic fate is good, therefore your upbringing will be fine. The only thing missing is what you will have, is it the power to control the flames of hell? Or perhaps the legendary swordmanship of Miyamoto Musashi? Countless choices-"
"Stop ignoring meeeeeeeeeeeee!"
"So, do not be afraid and roll the roulette, your prize is your power! Go on chosen one-"
"Ahhhhhhhhhhgggggggggggggggg"
"Prepare yourself and-"
"Oooooooooooooooooooh- ouch, I bit my tongue"
"travel the mew-... new world"
"You bit your tongue?"
"Just roll the fucking roulette, my patience is thinning"
"I refuse."
"Oh? Then let that be your stubbornness' fault if your power is completely unfitting for you. This roulette chooses the most suitable power for the roller, and since I'm exempted yet I am the one to roll, it picks a true random choice."
"So, it was rigged from the start, huh?"
...
Dugudugu! Beep.
"Say, this is not connected to the power given to you but, who do you consider the 3 most smartest man you know?"
I gave her a weird gaze. I mean, that black cloak hid it well, but she's probably an F.
Oh, wait. No, bad me.
"Umm. John Von... the fast calculator guy? Leonardo Da... the guy who drew the lalaking vitruvio? Zhuge... the guy who played the Zither with the empty fortress? Probably? I don't know much smart people..."
"Very well, the roulette has given you those 3 person's talent... enjoy your other world."
She smiled...
And everything was black.
...
Hold on a minute? Da Vinci, Neumann and Zhuge Liang's what?
No, no, no.
Wait, no, no!
That's not good at all!
Do you want to make me go mad! My brain will pop over how smart those 3 are!
Nooooooooooooooooo!
Mama! Papa! Fwuffy Sis! Mr. Teddy!
Help meeeeeeeeeeee~
[The End]
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[The Beginning]
And his name is John----
"My name is Saito Neumann, nice to meet you all"
It was my first day at school ever. Finally. These brains of mine can do something at last.