Standing shouldn’t be this difficult, especially when you have four legs but it is. Well I guess that can be expected when you consider the fact that I was just born. How this is possible is something of an odd story that started when my parents died.
They were never around much but they did provide for me anything I wanted so I was never discontent. But when I turned twelve they suddenly fell to the floor and died, weird right.
I thought so too and so did the police. After endless questioning I was moved to an orphanage where the supervisors were rather bad. Not in the abusive or neglectful way, no this was more of an incompetent bad. Simply speaking they were nice people but their managing skills left something to be desired.
But at the age of fourteen is when I had my biggest life changing experience, well excluding the whole being reborn thing. That year a crazed gunner took several children, including me, hostage to make an escape from some crime. To this day I don’t know what crime he committed but it was either really serious or every cop in town has too much free time on their hands because they were all there.
Well to summarize the event we were taken hostage, I was tied up loosely, after getting out I got my hands on a gun, and finally I killed the gunner. Because I didn’t seem particularly emotionally scarred I was sent to multiple psychiatrist, their evaluation was that I had multiple mental disorders. They might have very well been right considering the fact that I took my parents’ death well enough that it was almost to the point of apathy.
This was a good word to dis tribe my personality apathetic, basically it means I don’t care about anything or react in big ways to situations. Well regardless because of those evaluations I was sent to a newly built “Help facility for the young” in short a loony bin.
And that's what killed me at the age of twenty, well not being there or getting sent there but the drugs they use to help you there. In short I was overdosed and died due to the mistake of a new nurse and me being so gone mentally that I didn’t know any better. and after I died that’s when I met her the high angle.
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Waking up I was lost as to where I could, the only thing around is an empty white void.
“Well this is a new one must have been a new drug… But it’s been awhile since my head’s been this clear. Might as well enjoy it while it lasts.”
Laying down and thinking about my life would be boring so what else can I do here.
“Well you could speak with me and stop thinking that you're still in that awful place.”
Looking to where the voice came from the only thing I can think of saying is that she has good prospects for the future, maybe.
“What do you mean maybe! I'll have you know that this body of mine is divine and mad by the higher gods.”
Pouting the blond haired plain looking fourteen isn year old girl was cute.
“Hmph well whatever I'm not here to explain my greatness today. I'm here because you died but before you died your life was ruined because of a stray angel.”
Me dieing isn’t anything to be surprised about but this seems to be weird considering that my life turned sour mainly due to my apathy.
“Well you’re not wrong there but your parent’s were killed by an angel gone rogue so that’s our fault. We already compensated your parents and thought that that would be the end of it. And then we noticed you, actually you were hit too just not killed and it affected your psyche making you uncaring… Sorry we didn’t fix you before.”
The figure of the deeply bowing girl was nice, hmm I might be a sadistic person but this much isn’t enough to tell. If this isn’t a hallucination brought on by new drugs then that means I'm going to be compensated somehow.
“Right you're a quick study as a high angel and the angel in charge of the rogue angel I have been given the right to compensate you in any way.”
“Please stop answering to my thoughts even if their not private if we can pretend they are. so how does this compensation work?”
“Sure. Let's see you are going to be reborn into another world or your previous one chose whatever but you only get certain choices such as world, gender, 2 abilities, and one special allowance that you get to ask of me. Most people who get this chance chose to go to heaven and be angels. Well in the end it’s your choice.”
Having finished her explanation that could probably be lengthened with more details she took out a tablet of some sort with various decisions that could be made.
My MenuWorld Type-Gender- Special skill (select 2)-- Request for the Beautiful perfect Angel -
Seems I have to fill in the chart for now let's ask about what kind of worlds I can go to, just going to heaven would be boring.
“Miss Beautiful Perfect Angel would you mind telling me what kind of worlds I can go to I want to have some fun in my new life perfect peace isn’t what I want right now.”
“Seeing as you know how to address me I will tell you if you want to have fun there are worlds that work solely on games and challenges, there are worlds where the economy runs on card games and how good you are, you could try a fantasy world with swords and magic but those can get hard, or another choice is where the world itself has a game like system governing it. As for the other columns you can chose whatever you want write in anything you can think of. Actually you can do that for the first one too there are practically an infinite number of worlds so I'll find the one that best matches what you want.”
So I can basically write whatever I want? That’s helpful, well I know what I'm going to do. For world let's go with swords and magic that run on a game like system, that way although leveling up might be hard it won’t be impossible to have fun whenever I want.
For gender I'll continue being male, simply put changing that would be uncomfortable. Special skills will be a bit harder but I guess I'm going with teleportation and telekinesis.
Those seem like the best skills I can have one for everything and the other for escape. Hmm, request, request well since it’s a game like world an information window to help me would be nice sort of like a google that works in that world with that world’s info. Having finished thinking what I wanted I quickly typed it and handed the tablet back to the Angel.
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“This seems fine the request is more original than I expected but it’s not difficult.”
After finishing her approval a white light came from her hands and enveloped me.
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Now back to my current situation. So apparently I should have mentioned that I wanted to be born as a human. I seem to be some kind of deer the ones around me are fairly big and their antlers are really threatening. Not knowing what to do I did what most deer do I stood and waddled towards my mother.
Being able to walk is nice and thankfully I come fully equipped with good instincts. Thinking further I should have some type of help system. Hmm help activate, Google activate, other world Google activate? Nothing seemed to happen, how am I supposed to get the assistance I need? Last try I guess before trying to confirm System Help?
SYSTEM HELPStatusEnable quick help? Y/N
With the menu this should be a lot easier. First I should check my status.
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Name:-Race:Spear Deer Variant Strength:F-M. Attack:FDefense:F-M. Defense:F-Agility :F- Skill GradeSkillLegendaryHumanoid transformation Lv. 9
Broken One's Mind Lv. 1RareMinor teleportation Lv. 1CommonObject movement Lv. 1
Rush Lv.1
Reinforcement Lv. 1Blessing of the High Angel: You have been looked favorably upon by the great High Angel who only serves the gods and have been born a variant. As a Variant you have been given more skills than others of your race and will do much better than your peers.
So apparently I’m a variant because of the other skills I have. I should have asked to be born into a noble household but the help menu works just as well. Next I should activate the quick help that might be able to give me a head start in terms of knowledge pertaining to where I am. Enable Quick help.
Quick help enabled:For use of quick help simply ask a question after stating Quick help. Quick help will only provide general knowledge and will need user to input more information into the quick help for more uses.
Well it seems the help will need me to find books or something to feed it and give it more knowlege but for now general information is fine.
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After a week I've figured out a couple of things from asking the quick help and observing on my own. First a spear deer has a very short childhood it’s only been a week and I can already do so much, like running, and bashing my head at other newborn spear deer.
They don’t seem to care for keeping the brain safe during infancy. Another thing was the status menu. It seems I have no name and that named monster are always stronger than none named ones. For example the deer I believe is or leader is at least one size bigger than the rest of the adult deers.
The F- on all my stats is also something important, instead of levels and allocating stat points into a character this world uses a grading system.
F- seems to be the lowest while it steadily goes to S+. Being a newborn my stats are obviously low when I am fully grown at the age of one, yes it takes one year for a spear deer to be considered an adult, my stats should end up being somewhere in the D+ range.
This isn’t actually that bad because there seems to be a sort of adventurer’s profession in this world and the common ranks are around D rank while an elite is C+ to B rank, anything higher is considered abnormal or just monstrous.
That means that it will only take me one year to go above the common rank. In terms of the specialty of the spear deer it seems to be a fairly straightforward charge. I've read some monster reincarnation novels where the main character starts off as a slime or a goblin maybe even something like a dragon and that’s exciting but I'm not really looking to play this on super difficult mode. It would have been nice to be a dragon though.
So a spear deer is fairly good, and I'm quite thankful to the angel for giving me the humanoid transformation ability, I haven’t tied it yet but I'm assuming with that I can get into a human town and start a new life there after I reach an overall D+ rank.
And my family won’t mind as they seem to kick out all but the strongest and those of the main family. I'm fairly average and seem to be the son of a deer that came from another herd. This is evident by the fact that I have a black coat while the rest have a brown coat with the occasional white.
So after a year I'm most likely going to be kicked out, and that’s when I'll make my way to a human village and become an adventurer.