Yawn~!
Morning of the following day, John woke up with a satisfied yawn.
[Your Tutorial Quest has been issued!]
[Go out there young man and do some volunteer work!]
Help The Environment!
You’ve seen and witnessed how humanity is slowly destroying the Planet Earth!
Be a dear and start picking up your trash!
Trash Collected: 0/1000
Reward(s): Unlock [Recycle] and $100!
Failure: DEATH!
“Hmm~ I think I’m still dreaming”
In his groggy state, John murmured to himself and went back to sleep with a peaceful smile on his face.
“...”
Swoosh!
There was a few seconds of brief silence when John’s eyes suddenly snapped open as he quickly sat straight up and looked at the transparent rectangular blue screen quietly floating in front of him!
Pikachu face!
“Well, f*ck me! This is really happening, right?” John murmured as he slowly reached out forwards and only saw his hand passing through the screen.
“Hmm…weird~” with his hand on his chin, John just quietly looked at the blue screen with a pondering look on his face.
“This is already my sixth day since my arrival, but this thing is only making its presence now? So what triggered it? Did I do something different yesterday? I just resumed the former owner’s daily routine really so as to avoid any suspicions if my actions suddenly deviated from normal”
“So I went from house to work, then work to house”
“house to work, then work to house”
“house to work, then work to house”
John kept repeating those words like a broken radio before suddenly jumping out of his bed and screamed, “Ahhh! Day off!”
“It’s this damn day off, this is the only major thing that changed since I got here!”
Such a eureka moment made John so happy for a moment before his expression made 180 degree turn to normal when the realization had hit him that thinking about such a supernatural phenomenon is not that important anymore since it's not something his brain can even fathom.
“Why am I even thinking more about this complicated stuff? Since this moment…deserves a celebration! Yesss~!” John started laughing like a madman so early in the morning that his neighbors who heard him just thought he might have gone crazy or he had received some good news early in the morning.
“Woo~ let’s calm down for now”
John slowly calmed himself down a couple of seconds later, but he still couldn't wipe off that happy grin on his face. He finally returned his attention back to the blue screen quietly floating before him and started studying it.
Help The Environment!
You’ve seen and witnessed how humanity is slowly destroying the Planet Earth!
Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon.
Be a dear and start picking up your trash!
Trash Collected: 0/1000
Reward(s): Unlock [Recycle] and $100!
Time Limit: Before the clock hits 12 AM
Failure: DEATH!
“Seen and witnessed” Those particular words quickly caught his attention, and he couldn’t help but let out a snort, “Hmmp! Seems like whoever was behind this mistake probably felt guilty for not being able to send me back and presented me with this big gift to make my life here easier. It’s only right that they gave me this, since the Internet doesn’t exist yet and it limits my options to look for work and it's boring as heck, it’s almost similar to living on the countryside in the 21st century!”
But when he saw the word DEATH on it, it quickly sent a shiver down his spine, so he immediately went and washed up and changed into casual wear before hastily leaving his place with a trash picker and a couple of plastic bags in his hands.
For five hours, he went around their neighborhood picking up trash under the scorching sun before he eventually arrived at their community basketball and picked up the last candy wrapper to finally finish his task.
[Tutorial Quest Completed!]
[You have unlocked the function
“Bloody hell, that was ti~ring”
Showering in his own sweat, John slowly walked over towards a nearby tree and rested under it to avoid the glare from the sun.
He sat down and leaned against the tree and softly mumbled, “Open, [Control Panel]”
Ding!
Then the familiar blue screen once again appeared, but compared to earlier where it was only showing his current task, the one this time was a little different since there are now two more things added on it.
[Personal Status]
[Current Tasks]
[Recycle]
“I wonder how this [Recycle] works?”
It’s already obvious what the word means, but John was curious how it would even work so he immediately pressed it with anticipation.
Ding~!
The moment he did that, another blue screen, but smaller, appeared beside the main one. On it was the image of a trash can, or more accurately a GIF of a trash can that repeatedly opens and closes.
“That’s it? How does this even work?” John said.
“Ahh, it’s probably that!”
John couldn’t explain it, but the scene of the protagonist in the anime [Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill] putting a silver coin inside a holographic box while using his skill suddenly surfaced in his mind.
He looked around his surroundings to see if there were any people around him and was immediately relieved to see that there was no one nearby. So he rummaged through the plastic bag filled with waste he had picked up earlier and grabbed a small plastic bottle, and like it was on fire, he quickly shoved it towards the [Recycle] box as it disappeared through it like a pebble thrown in the water.
[Successfully recycled
[You will receive 50¢ for every 1 KG of recyclable waste. Anything below 1 KG can’t be calculated]
“Isn’t this pretty much telling me to become a trash collector?” John said with a laugh.
He didn’t mind becoming a trash collector since it isn’t hard to collect 1 KG of recyclable waste since there’s pretty much everywhere in the city, especially those in the poorer districts.
[For successfully completing your tutorial quest. The First Main Quest will be issued to you in 7 hours, alongside 2 Additional Quest!]
But the surprise didn’t end there as it was quickly followed by something that made John look forward to it in anticipation!
“Main Quest? It just turned exactly 11 AM. So 6 PM later, I can look forward to a new adventure! Now, I don’t need to worry about my future! To start off, let’s continue collecting more trash for a brighter future!” John downed the entire bottled water he had bought earlier before he hastily stood up and proudly announced his intentions to the world while raising his trash picker towards the skies!
“Mom, look! Is he playing some kind of a superhero? But..I don’t remember reading anything about a trash collecting superhero”
“Shhh! Quickly look away!”
A passing mother and son witnessed John’s actions, and when he heard what the young kid said, the embarrassment immediately came flooding in like a tide that he felt like burying his head on the ground to hide from the embarrassing situation!
“Wait, I-”
John wanted to explain the situation, but the mother quickly walked away while pulling her son who was happily shouting and waving at him while saying the following words, “Good luck, Super Garbageman!”
“But…that’s not even..a proper superhero name~” John said with a bitter smile while also waving back to the kid’s “encouragement”.
Hastily looking left and right, John hurriedly left the place as he didn’t want another embarrassing scenario like earlier to happen.