“You really should stop drinking now,” A middle-aged man sitting next to me muttered.

“D- Don’cha te- tell me whaoot to do!” (Don’t tell me what to do!) I slammed my arms on the counter.

“Look here, I know being rejected hurts, it doesn’t help that this is your 9th time, but it doesn’t mean you can go ahead and drown yourself in alcohol. Also, can you lower your voice, everyone’s staring at you.”

I took a quick look around the bar and saw stares aimed right at me. Even though I’m drunk, some embarrassment still managed to seep in.

“Shaddap! A goood looking guy like you will neva know how a less than average-looking guy like mwee feel! Besides, I bet you have 10 girlfriends waaiting for you at homeee!” I emptied the remaining alcohol from my glass.

With my reddish, teary eyes, I stole a look at him. His well-kept, soft-looking, brushed-up black hair; sharp eyes under his glasses; well-chiseled facial features; his dark blue suit devoid of any crumple, and shining leather shoes. Every part of his body screams perfection. Compared to him, I’m just a dog shit lying on the side of the road.

“Don’t say that, you don’t look that bad yourself. And also no. I don’t have a girlfriend,” He took a piece of paper, money, out of his pocket and left it on the counter.

“Come on, let’s go now.”

“Nwoo! I wanna drink moore!!”

He started pulling me off of my seat. Of course, I tried fighting back. I wanted to drink more. Drink and drown the sadness and loneliness in my heart. My resistance proved to be futile though. Balancing your body when you’re seeing doubles is already hard enough, add the difference of the build of our body and my hope of staying instantly vanishes. He might look thin, but his muscles are incredibly well built. Thinking I was just delaying the inevitable, I obliged and went to his car. With his help of course.

“I’ll wake you up when we arrive at your house, you better sleep for now.”

“I really hate girls... They never think about what I feel...”

“Yeah, me too.” I heard him mumble, as I slowly let the sleepiness conquer my body.

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“Heyyy!!!! Wake up, It’s your turn now!!! Hello??”

I heard a loud voice coming from somewhere. My head still hurts from all the alcohol I drank last night so I tried ignoring it, thinking it was probably just a visitor of my neighbor.

“Hello? Can you please wake up now? We don’t have time for this.”

I tried ignoring it but it just kept getting louder and louder, having enough of it, I stood up and screamed at it.

“AAHHH! SHUT UP!!!! Did no one teach you common courtesy!?!”

“My, my, I can’t believe you dare to speak so disrespectful towards a Goddess,” The voice replied.

Huh? Goddess? What the heck is this guy talking about. I tried looking around and found myself sitting in a white room. I’m not quite sure myself if it should be called a room since it didn’t have any walls nor ceiling. Only white space extending endlessly in all directions.

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“Huh? Where am I? Ah, I get it! Hahaha very funny Takahiro. I don’t really know how you did it, but you can come out now,” I said trying to force a laugh.

“I’m sorry but, this isn’t a joke. Can you take this seriously now? If you don’t I’ll turn you into a barnacle”

Shocked by the sudden change of tone, I decided to stop talking. I wondered where the voice was coming from so I decided to look for it. But before I can, the voice spoke up.

“Look up.”

I tried looking up and found a girl looking down at me, whilst sitting in a cloud resembling a chair. The girl had long, silver-bordering white hair extending to the base of the chair, ample-sized chest, and gracefully slim body.

“So pretty..” I thought out loud.

“Complimenting me now won’t do you any good. They do say first impressions always stick. Now we’ll decide what to do to you.”

As the weirdness of the situation that I’m in grew, a couple questions came to mind. Goddess? What to do to me? What’s happening?! Where even am I!?

“Too many questions. Let’s just say that you’re dead,” The girl said nonchalantly while looking at her nails.

What is this self-proclaimed goddess saying? Dead? What does she mean by dead? If I remember correctly I was drinking with Takahiro at the usual bar. Don’t tell me I died from drinking too much alcohol!? I should’ve listened to him when he trie-

“Self-proclaimed? You dare say I’m self-proclaimed? Just so you know, I can turn you into anything I want without a moment’s notice. Try pissing me off one more time.. You’ll definitely regret it.”

Nerves started bulging from her temples. Realizing I was walking a thin line, I decided to start picking my words carefully.

She sighed. “I’m getting sick of this. Let’s just get this over with. Since I’m a generous Goddess, even with your act of disrespect earlier, I’ll still answer three of your questions. Then we’ll decide what to do with you after,” She declared while massaging her temples, clearly showing her annoyance.

“M-My Goddess. Can you please clarify the reason I died?”

“You sound like you’re trying to mock me. I’ll let it pass this time since it’s not a good news, for you at least. The car you’re riding got hit by a truck. The driver seat and the front passenger seat were thoroughly crushed.”

“Car? Crashed? Can you please go into more details?”

“What? You can’t remember? I guess you were too drunk at the time so that’s understandable. Your friend was supposed to bring you home, but on the way, a speeding truck hit his car. The Impact was so strong, the front was utterly crushed. No chances of survival with that one. If you were on the back seat you could’ve probably survived.” She said sympathetically while reenacting the event by slamming both her hands with each other.

“Ta- Takahiro.. How about Takahiro?! What happened to him?!”

“He died too of course. No normal human being could survive a crash like that. It was like stepping in a soda can you know. I’d be surprised, amazed rather, if someone manages to survive that. Alright, one question remaining,” She explained then pointed one finger to the air.

Still shocked by the truth, I plopped to the ground. Having lost my parents long ago, I’m not really new to this kind of feeling. Still! Not only am I not used to this kind of pain, Takahiro, my best friend since grade school and someone I consider as my only family, is now gone. I slowly clenched my chest. It hurts. My heart feels like it’s slowly getting ripped apart. I rubbed my eyes even before the tears flowed out. I’ve always been soft when it comes to my family.

“So, what’s going to happen to me now...” Trying to act tough, I asked a question trying to hold my sobs in.

“I’ll give you two choices. One, I’ll send you to the purgatory, clean your corrupt soul, then wait in line to be born as another person. No memories whatsoever. You’ll be starting on a clean slate. Or Two, get reincarnated in another world. You see, as of now, this certain world is a bit messy so... I’ll reincarnate you there and make you clean some stuff up for me. Now, what do you choose?”

Hearing both my options, I decided to pick getting reincarnated. Picking the first option has no merits at all. The second one however is like the first but with the bonus of me having my memories so it should be obvious what I will choose.

“I’ll choose being reincarnated please,” I replied with a trembling voice with tears now flowing through my eyes.

“Why are you still sad? Aren’t you happy that you get to have a second chance? You were rejected 9 times right? And that’s a lucky number too right? Maybe this time you wouldn’t be rejected as much,” She said trying to hold her laughter. Her words just made me cry harder. Being made fun of is already sad, adding a dead best friend on top of that just totally brings it to the next level.

“If you’re down because of your friend, he’s already in that world. So cheer up, will you? I don’t quite like bullying the weak.”

Like a thrown boomerangs. My mood did a whole 180.

“You should’ve said that in the first place you stupid Goddess!” I’ve decided! I’ll build my own harem when I get reincarnated in that world and prove to him that I too can have a girlfriend!

“Ehhh? Stupid huh? How about I do you a little favor?” The atmosphere around the girl started to get heavy. She even started sadistically smiling at me.

“Fa-favor? N-no thanks please?” I said as I slowly look at her in the eye.

“What were your last words again? Oh right “I really hate girls”. Don’t you have a saying in your world like “you are what you hate” or something? How about I turn you into a girl? And as a bonus, I’ll give you this appearance as you seem to really like it much”

“HUH?! What are you saying? It’s you are what you eat! And also NO! No way in hell I’d want to turn into a girl! Just give me a nice handsome face or something! PLEASE!” I shouted immediately trying to convince her not to do me such a favor.

“Oops. I’m so stupid! I can’t believe I did such a beginner’s mistake. Sorry, can’t cancel it now. LOL. Well, good luck in that world! And also, try to entertain me as much as you can. Hahaha!” She loudly laughed as a bright light covers my whole body.

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