Kei is what everyone would call a loser. Staying cooped up in his house 24/7. Does not socialize with his neighbors, hence why he's always the topic of the gossipers everytime they see him go out of his house once in a blue moon. His unshaven beard and days worn gray hoodie does not help, yeah he looks horrible. Literally the guy every mother would use as an example for their son to persevere in their studies and get a high paying job.
That was their perception, truth was...
Yeah he's a loser, but it's not always that way. He is actually very smart, acing all of his tests up to college literally only using his stock knowledge, but what brings him down is he's super lazy.
That's why even though, he never lacked in his test results, he could never get high grades because he does the littlest effort he could when it comes to projects or things that require him to move in general.
Luckily or unluckily for Kei, his family was rich and instead of disowning and leaving him out on the streets to fend for himself, they bought him a house, left him a million and said peace out.
It was a really roundabout way of abandoning your child, but Kei didn't care because he doesn't really have any deep connections with his parents or even his two older siblings, he's an introvert through and through.
No matter how lazy he is though, there's one thing that can motivate him to even get off the bed, Cats.
Kei was never allowed to keep them when he was in his parents house, because they do not have the patience to clean or even care for one. So the moment he was abandoned, he ran to the closest Cat Shelter and adopted TEN adorable kittens, which he immediately regretted.
Caring for ten cats has been very stressful especially for Kei who has never done any kind of chores in his life. He even lost 50 pounds in 3 months because he had to learn how to actually care for, train or at least control the rowdy kittens now cats to behave at least in a way it would be easier to care for them.
Even through the hardship, for the first time in forever he did not turn away from physical labor and abandon the cats, because how could he? They're so cute and cuddly and is the only thing to ever give him a proper sleep, the thing he dreamed of having his entire life.
His ten cats all have names, all different breeds, and all neutered, yeah after he experienced a week with them he went straight to the vet because 10 cat's chaos is already ENOUGH.
Anyway, their names and breeds are;
Grey - Siamese Cat
Fluff - Ragdoll
Grumpy - Persian
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Bald - Sphynx Cat
Garf and Fild - Both Orange Shorthairs
Blackie - Black Bombay Cat
Earl - Scottish Fold
Leon - Siberian Cat
Lastly, Shortie - Munchkin Cat
Yeah, the names were not really creative or original of some sort, he was too lazy to really think of any dope names, and just named them after their most prominent features.
Anyway, back to the present. Kei just finished lunch and he could see his cats one by one getting inside the kitchen and meowing towards him to finally feed them.
It just made him feel really accomplished seeing the cats he trained only ask for food on specific times of the day. So he waited for all ten to get inside the kitchen before he distribute the goods.
A minute passed and 9 of his cats are already waiting for him at their bowls and only one is still not inside the kitchen, Shortie.
Having short legs just made her a bit slow, but finally she reached the kitchen and positioned on her own post.
Kei was delighted seeing his little army sitting as if at attention in front of their bowls, it's just so cute and he would never get tired of looking at it.
So like a routine, he poured their cat food on their bowl while they waited for the signal to finally eat. However, the moment Kei poured the last bowl, sat back and was about to give the signal, he felt intense heat just pass through for a second then was gone.
What he didn't know was, the whole of Earth became toasted in just that brief moment of heatwave. Everyone outside was reduced to nothing, forests was no more and rivers evaporated. He and his cats just had a stroke of luck that his house was practically sealed shut and the heat wave did not reach him.
After a bit of investigating, looking at his stove and oven and finding nothing that could have caused any kind of heat release, Kei just shrugged off what happened and gave the signal to eat to the little critters.
"Devour", yeah he's quite addicted to fantasy novels.
**Congratulations Player! You have survived the Initial Culling! And now has access to the System.**
**Remaining Players: 8 Million**
"Umm, what's this?"
Still oblivious to what just occured, Kei became excited by the fantastical floating blue box that he only read about in mangas and novels. So he did what every protagonist first do, call out to the system.
"System!" He shouted, which he immediately regretted and cringed at, it wasn't for naught though because once again the blue floating box appeared, now showing his stats.
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Name: Kei Santos
Job/Class: *Selection To Be Made*
Stats:
Strength: 5
Endurance: 6
Intelligence: 20
General Skills:
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Job Skills:
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The low strength and endurance stats did not at all dampen Kei's enthusiasm about the whole situation, his dream of owning a system came true!
So fiddling with it, he discovered that he got quite a lot to do right now, first is selecting a Job, but when he looked at his choices he was a bit disappointed because there's only 2 and lesser options just isn't good in any system novels he read, ever.
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Options:
Sloth
CatMancer
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Kei tried to look at the details of the two jobs, but was dismayed because he can't, and he has to make a choice between the two without knowing the benefits they would bring him.
After quite a bit of thinking though, the word Sloth just wasn't as enticing as CatMancer. He is already very lazy and doesn't wanna double down on it by picking Sloth and having Cat Powers just interested him more. So that's what he picked.
Power came over him the moment the choice was made, so he closed his eyes to revel in it. He loved the moment ecstasy he just felt that very second, but it ended too soon. And the moment he opened his eyes, his ears was bombarded by 10 different voices and they're all saying one thing.
They're still hungry.