In a dark place with nothing in sight, a being made of light with a humanoid form floats.
"Where am I?"
"What's happening, I was clearly sitting on my couch a moment ago in my house."
The being stops speaking as something catches its attention.
A translucent blue screen with intricate details was present before it, with a word that startled it: 'You have died.'
"I began to panic, me, dead? But I was just sitting on my couch after a long day of work a moment ago. What about my parents, what will I do? They must be devastated. My friends and others... After a moment, I started to calm down and focused my attention on the floating screen.
『You have died.』
『"You have been chosen for a new opportunity in another world; you have the right to choose 3 abilities."』
After reading that, I felt a great happiness and sadness at the same time. Happiness for being in a situation I've seen so many times in the web novels I read, and sadness for leaving my family and friends behind. I deeply hope they are okay. Will I be isekai'd, or will I be transmigrated, or perhaps a possession or reincarnation?
'I looked at the options, and there were varied and creative abilities ranging from rank F to SSS. Above SSS is the rank 'No Rank,' some ridiculous like absolute elemental control or others, the list was long and endless, and since I didn't see any countdown or anything rushing me to choose, I took the time to explore and found conceptual powers which were in the 'No Rank' range.
"Wow, even powers that manipulate the very concepts themselves, and I suppose the 'No Rank' ones are powers without apparent limits, and they even let me choose them since I didn't see anything like a cost or condition to choose them."
I continued searching and found that the conceptual powers were the most powerful I found on the list. After a while, I decided on Conceptual Control of the Infinite, which, if it's like I suppose, is something of brutal proportions, although it didn't give a detailed explanation, I hope it's as I think it will be. Then I chose Replication, which according to the description replicates anything, although we'll see how it is, and finally Inventory/Storage which said I could store anything.
『Confirm your choices?
▪︎ 『Yes/No』
Please note that by choosing an ability of rank A, SS, and No Rank, you can give them traits of the higher ability to the lower ones.』
It was a pleasant surprise to read that, and then I started to experiment, and I was able to give the abilities Inventory changed to Infinite Inventory and Replication changed to Infinite Absolute Replication, both of them going from rank A and SS to No Rank after making the choices I pressed YES.
『Thank you, Host.
Now the transfer process will begin.』
"Just like that? No information about where I'm going? In what form will I be born?"
After thinking that, I started to feel dizzy, which I didn't know how it was possible since seeing my hands, I believed I was in the form of a soul since I was in a spectral form of light. Then I started to receive sounds and see colors.
'Is this a baby's cry? I've just been born, oh, so it's a reincarnation, I heard voices that I presumed were doctors speaking English, another pleasant surprise.'
"It's a boy, very healthy, ma'am."
"NO, I don't want him."
The doctors' faces wrinkled as they did not expect this.
After hearing that, I felt heavy and fell asleep. When I woke up, I was in another place. After hearing the occasional comments of the doctors, I knew they didn't want me, and I think they put me up for adoption, and that's how I ended up in the orphanage. There were matrons who breastfed me for a year and then with baby formulas. Anyway, I didn't have much of a problem since it would be difficult for me to have another family at this very moment.
The caregivers looked at me strangely since I hardly cried. I pretended to whimper for a while, but I got tired, and so 9 years passed. The first thing I did in the early years was to see if everything I did in that darkness was real, and well, my own reincarnation is quite real haha. When I woke up that time, the first thing I did was to see if I had what I chose, so I tried saying 'Status,' 'Menu,' and other things I learned from novels, and a translucent screen came out when I mentally said Status since my vocal cords didn't work yet.
'Status'
『Status
Name: Victor Kerion
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Titles: The Reborn, The Infinite.
Race: Human
Age: 0
Strength: 0.01
Constitution: 0.01
Agility: 0.01
Energy: 0
Unique abilities:
▪︎ Infinite Conceptual Control
▪︎ Infinite Inventory/Storage
▪︎ Infinite Absolute Replication
Non-exclusive abilities:
▪︎ None
Inventory: -
Remaining time: 7300 days/24 hours/60/59.』
That's what I saw when I activated it for the first time. I pressed the attributes, and their descriptions came out: Strength, Constitution, and Agility for an average person were 9 to 10 at that time; I was really weak at that time.
'Now my 3 statistics are at 1 to 2, normal for a child my age, and regarding the remaining time, it doesn't say anything, although I picked it, and my abilities are blocked, I suppose when the time is up, I'll be able to use them? There are 4015 days left, which will be exactly when I turn 20, what will happen at that moment? I don't know.'
'The unsettling thing now is that I have the same appearance as my previous life, even my same previous name was given to me, and the surname Kerion from my previous family as well, anyway, I can't understand many things so let's leave it at that, now I have to deal with this.' I sighed and opened the door to my class, facing school again, I'm currently 9 years old, and the timer marks when I turn 20, which will be exactly in 2025 since I was born in 2005. What I discovered about this planet is that it is exactly like Earth, countries, cities, everything.
"Hello, Tom."
"How are you, Victor, want to play hide and seek?"
Upon entering, I greeted a chubby black-haired boy. Anyway, I had to fit in, so I befriended this boy; I'm also the top of the class, why bother being mediocre when everything is so easy, I died at 22 so I won't linger on all this. And so, my day-to-day life begins, I come to school, go to the orphanage, exercise in preparation for whatever happens when the timer ends, and with my abilities blocked, it's the only thing left for me.
And so the years passed until I turned 16.
Sitting on the school lawn, Victor didn't know how to react to the situation that was happening in front of him because one of his classmates, his friend, was confessing to him, and he didn't know how to react. He had had girlfriends before, but they only lasted for moments, so he didn't have much experience luckily I didn't die a virgin.
Elizabeth said with a smile, "So what do you say, I really like you a lot, and you've been with me for a long time, yes, yes, yesss???"
I stared at her in astonishment, looked at Elizabeth Sinclair, looking at her features and proportions, long brown hair, hazel eyes, 160cm tall with good proportions in the right places in the prime of her youth, it all started 7 years ago when she came to the orphanage crying, a 9-year-old girl who lost her parents in a traffic accident and had no one else, I went to keep her company since all the kids avoided her, and from there, she's been attached to me, being my tail, I always treated her like a little sister and didn't expect it to come to this.
"And, um, I, well, I don't know what to say haha I didn't think you had these feelings for me, and I accept them."
Elizabeth blushed and smiled happily to hear that, she gathered all her courage and kissed her lover. Victor was surprised by such an action and reciprocated it.
After that episode, we started dating, everyone in school knew about it, and we continued with our daily lives as lovebirds. I reconsidered my choice well; we're the same age, and I liked her; I just didn't take the step since I have an older mentality, and it seemed improper to me, but as she already said what she feels, I just had to accept it.
I've been doing exercises and watching martial arts tutorials since I didn't have money for courses anyway, it wasn't necessary; I also dragged Elizabeth into this, I didn't want her to be defenseless since whatever is coming in 4 years will be big, and I need to be prepared, we both enjoyed it a lot.
Next day.
Going to look for Elizabeth to go to high school since we're 17 this year and about to graduate; we also received emancipation and have part-time jobs; we're no longer in the orphanage and are renting a small room, next year I'll be able to rent a house.
I haven't had many problems in school except for some bullies from the past since they're hot-headed young people and easy to predict when it comes to conflicts, even Elizabeth can take care of them haha anyway, I plan to get a scholarship thanks to the excellent grades I've gotten since childhood; a scholarship I'll use the money for rent, which I'll use as an excuse for my accommodation; it's close to the university I'll be attending to pretend, the same one Elizabeth will attend thanks to my strict control I always helped her get good grades.
Elizabeth smiling asked, "what will we do today, my love?"
"Whatever you want, exams are coming up, so we shouldn't slack off"
"I know, but it's so boring to study all the time"
"It's just for now; I told you what might happen in 3 years, right? Meanwhile, we need a better place to stay, so we need the scholarships"
"Yeah, yeah, but it's incredible, superpowers, will I have them too? Also, that status screen similar to a video game?"
"Well, I don't know, but whatever happens, I'll protect you when that day comes"
Regarding what she said, well, I talked to her about the abilities quite irresponsibly, but I already decided that I'll make her my wife, so why keep so many secrets, and how she could see my status, well, it's something I found out playing around with it, if I mentally give the order apparently, I can make others see it or hide information, I didn't hide much from her since there wasn't much to hide, without that, she would think I'm crazy haha.
My strength, agility, and constitution statistics are each 10; I assumed that athletes would have at least around 15 in each statistic; I'm also in good shape thanks to all the training I did; constitution has another sub-statistic endurance which comes with 15/15 when I'm tired it goes down, now it's at 15.
Anyway, let's take the exam.
And here we are again in our rented room; everything went well on the exams; let's hope they give us the scholarship.
Weeks later
We received news, and they accepted us for the scholarship
"Yaaay we did it" exclaimed Elizabeth and she threw herself at me, after that, the temperature of the room rose, and we had relations sexuals, well, we had already done it last year, and we do it often, I must say she's too proactive.
"Darling, would you accept to dance with me?" I asked smiling at Elizabeth since we're at the prom; I didn't make many friends; Elizabeth is the same; we only have each other in this world, anyway, I'll miss some faces.
"Of course, handsome" I took her hand and led her to the dance floor; they put on 'I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing' by Aerosmith, a good song; we danced to the rhythm, and we really liked it; she with a red dress and loose hair was a beauty, me in a tuxedo and black hair combed back, my black eyes looked at her.
"Seriously, you're beautiful" "
Oh, silly, I already know that"
"Pfff, of course, my queen"
We continued until the song ended, said goodbye to some acquaintances, and went to our residence.
Tomorrow will be a great day.