What do I want? I wanna go back to how things were before that creep ran me over.’

“I want to go back.”

“Nope, impossible. Couldn't even if we wanted. We would have to contact someone higher up to reverse time in your universe.”

'Well, fuck, guess I should find out the regular process first. I can't ask for something past their clearance or whatever.

After asking, and receiving several rants that had nothing to do with the question from Hela, Matt finally managed to explain the normal process.

People normally get 3 Tier 1 wishes and are allowed to specify what universe they'd be born into (Naruto, Marvel, Boku no-. Ahem!) These two scammed anyone out of their three wishes and just left the ’world choice wish’. They'd then use those wishes as energy for larger wishes.

Tier 1 wishes were limited to a ninjutsu or combat technique, maybe a decently powerful weapon. Something that they could rely on in their new world, but nothing game-changing.

Tier 2, the stronger wishes, something like the sharingan or every fire ninjutsu. Something that would catapult them past their peers if used properly.

And lastly, there was the final wish tier that they'd tell me about, tier 3. These were stuff like gluttony or a logia devil fruit without the sea weaknesses, or full body regeneration from a single cell. Op crap that some of the strongest people have built themselves off.

A tier 3 wish cost 3 tier 2 wishes, and a tier 2 cost 3 tier 1’s, so a t3 would cost 9 t1’s.

I obviously wanted the Tier 3s, though I had a feeling there had to be a higher tier with stuff like omniscience or something.

“I want all my wishes upgraded to Tier 3 and to be able to specify not only the world location, but everything about it, basically a character creation menu.”

“Denied, we don't even have enough energy saved up for 3 tier 3 wishes.”

‘Welp, there goes my gluttony, regeneration, and Op system.’

“Then what's the best you can do?”

They huddled in the corner of the break room, whispering among themselves for a few minutes. Before coming back with a counteroffer.

“One of each, t1, t2, t3, and you can have your character creation.”

‘I bet they just agreed to lowball the number so ‘they'd still have a little energy left’ or something.’

“2 t3, 2 t2, and 2 t1.”

Another whisper session.

“We can do one t3, a pseudo t3, two t2, and a t1.”

‘This sounds good, but what's the catch?’

“What's a pseudo t3?”

Looking abashed, Hela spoke up this time.

“Well… It's like the skeleton of a t3; it could be the best of the best.”

“But?”

“*Sigh* Sadly, it doesn't have the energy a normal t3 does, so if the wish is TOO powerful, it can’t fuel the ability properly, making it much less than it could have been, maybe even worse than a t1.”

‘This... is actually interesting. What would happen if-’

“Can I use other wishes to fuel the pseudo-t3?”

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“??? you can… but why? Wouldn't it just be better to-”

“Hela, shut up. It's possible to do, if that's what you want, kid. Does that mean we have a deal?”

Thinking about it. This idea is almost as good as a full t3.

“Deal.”

Both lit up in joy hearing my agreement. We still needed to iron some things out, but at least their jobs were safe now.

“Now the little details. How will the wishes be handled?”

“We can fulfill them.”

‘No, I don't want them using my idea. It’d suck for others (and maybe me) if these two suddenly grew a brain.’

“Denied, my wishes will be a secret.”

…

..

..

Hela finally looked like she had an idea. She pulled Matt for another whisper session. Both seemingly agreed, and they pulled wisps of light out of thin air.

Walking back to where I was, Hela explained.

“Normally you wouldn't be able to interact with the energy at all, but if we do this-”

They both held the energy and compressed it between their hands.

“You should be able to make your wishes on your own. You just shatter one and make your wish. The pseudo t3 will need to be broken first, then whatever wishes you want to fuel it, then you make the wish.”

She smiled like she was brilliant for coming up with the idea, but...

“Aren't these dragon balls?”

She froze again.

Matt pulled a coin out of thin air while Hela was ‘occupied’.

“Do the same with this after your wishes are done for your character creation; you can't take your wishes with you.”

‘Character creation token? Haha.’

‘Now there's just that.’

I dropped the sole t1 orb, wishing out loud for the strongest t1 contract ability. Both were shocked, before realization hit Matt, Hela though...

“I thought you were keeping your wishes a secret?”

“Oh, I am.”

Matt sighed.

“You're not leaving until we agree, right?”

“Bingo.”

I'd been thinking of ways to make sure they wouldn't do something to me during or after the reincarnation process. I don't have any clue what needs to be done, so I wouldn't even know if they ‘accidentally’ killed me in the process. The best I could come up with was a contract. There's no guarantee that it will work on the two, but I would feel a little more comfortable with SOMETHING in place for my safety.

I'd thought about the contract terms throughout negotiations. I had the upper hand and knew they’d need me gone sooner rather than later. Hopefully these terms cover everything.

Using my new ability, I 'sent' them the contract. They would both suddenly have the contract terms in their minds; all they had to do was focus on it and agree or disagree. I didn't put anything bad in there, just to make them work in my best interest during the reincarnation process, to not knowingly work against me, and not share anything about me besides a generic process (I don’t know if they gossip about clients, and it'd be weird if they couldn't say anything about just me, so I allowed them to make up an encounter).

I could probably extort them for more stuff, but I'm afraid I may cross a line. I just saw them pull things out of thin air; why not a gun or something? I doubt management would care THAT much about a missing person.

Matt almost immediately agreed; Hela took a bit longer. She seemed almost shocked that she was being forced to agree to something like this, but eventually agreed with a bit of convincing from Matt.

“Great! Now I just need somewhere to do all the wishes and stuff. I'll probably need a while for the character creation.”

“How long?”

“I dunno. At least a few hours, ideally a few days.”

“What?! How could you possibly take days to create a character?”

“Ever played Skyrim?”

“Yes.”

“How long did you take to create a character?”

“…Point taken.”

I was silently led back to Hela’s shoddy office and off to the side and into a door I hadn't noticed my first time here.

“Well, this is it! Hopefully we never meet again!”

Hela smiled and gave a cheery farewell; I'm sure she's given a thousand times. Though this time I imagine the sentiment is a bit different.

Matt gave a nod.

They both quickly left, surely trying to forget about this entire encounter.

And then I was finally alone to think through everything that happened.

“Fuck.”