I considered myself a pretty sane person, sane enough to know that this was a sign of me going insane.
Rather then waking up to my comfortable bed in my homey, synonym for small, apartment I woke up in a more... extreme location. Not extreme in the fact that I was in danger, although that might also be the case, but rather the fact that I was in the middle of a forest. I got on my feet from my previous position of laying down and barely had time to reasses my thoughts before something even more bizarre appeared in front of me, a blue screen.
Starter Kit allocated.
The floating block of text soon disappeared after a blink of the eyes and something new replaced it, something more familiar and yet unique. A typical wooden chest with iron lining, practically the first image you get if you look "loot chest". I refuse the urge to open up the potential pandoras box and instead acknowledge my 2 possible situations. Either I would take all of this at face value and obey the implied inscructions of opening the chest or I was going insane and this was just my imagination while I'm neck deep in a coma. Thankfully the choice between which to accept seemed pretty obvious, if this was my imagination then I realistically have nothing to fear and if this was real then I should be fine as well. If this was happening for real then that means I've been transportated to another world, isekai style. The text boxes were a dead giveaway to some kind of supernatural world, I decide to let my eagerness at the situation take over momentarily and lift open the top of the Starter Kit chest thing.
Inside was 2 things, a set of clothes and a small slip of paper. I pick up the set of clothes, they were a matching set of plain white clothes. The pants having two pockets on the front and one on the back, nothing in them. The shirt was a button up kind with short sleeves, no labels on this or the pants after some inspection. A quick breeze reminds me that I was still in the clothes I went to bed in, a loose flash shirt and just a pair of boxers. A quick changing session later I was wearing the pretty comfortable clothing with my old shirt going on top of the white one, to give me at least some color. I pick up the slip of paper, about the size of a lottery ticket. I start to read the word on it but I get interrupted by another blue screen, two to be exact.
Congratulations, you have recieved a Shop Coupon
Shop has been unlocked.
This was a rather untypical situation for even some isekai inserts, usually this was where there special ability was bestowed upon them by x named god/goddess. I suppose this was my equivalent, this Shop seems pretty important if I need a coupon given to you by the System to even get access to it. I have also decided to call this blue text box thing the System, for obvious reasons as it shares many similarities to the usual ones I sometimes read about online.
I clear my throat before speaking, first impressions are important after all.
"Shop!"
Search:_______
Huh, a bit underwhelming if I'm being honest. Wanting to make a good first impression wasn't exactly mutual I suppose. I decide to play along in this psuedo conversation and reach out to type something into the qwerty keyboard that also appeared below, there being the basic alphabet and even numbers 0-9.
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Search:Bread
Name Bread Product Type Item Rank F Description A loaf of typical white bread, good with butter when toasted.
Hmm, to be expected but this does reveal a bit about this System. The thing seems to be a bit frugal on important things like how much something costs and likes to add on stuff like what it would go well with, practically saying to buy more stuff from the Shop. I take this time to look at the writing on the Coupon, nothing happening this time after reading more then a word. All it says is, and I quote, "Redeemable for a A-Rank or lower Product from the Shop". That is all, nothing on the back of it. I give a light sigh at the lack of information from this thing. Maybe this was the currency here? I decide to not waste my only ticket on a simple loaf of bread, my reasons obvious enough.
I pick a direction into the wild and start walking, hoping to find a city or something.
-Timeskip-
Good news, I found a village. I was currently overlooking it on a rock outcropping about half a mile out from it, I was laying down so they didn't see me quite yet.
Bad news, I found a village. Like an actual village, like horses are pulling stuff in the middle of the road kind of village. I half expected a medieval situation but it really is something else looking at it, espically all the people going about there lives. Thankfully my clothes didn't seem to outlandish as there were some pretty weird looking people walking around. One of them had a huge sword on there back, straight up Cloud style. Must be a adventurer of some sort, which means theres enemies. Which usually means they have superpowers in most cases, which means...
"Shop!"
Search:Superpowers
Inquiry to vague
Fair enough I suppose, I'm getting a bit to giddy at the fact that it's only noon and I've discovered possible supernatural abilities are in my grasp. I decide to go with a classic for safe bet.
Search:Fire Powers
Name Pyrokinesis Product Type Ability Rank A Description Ability to manipulate fire, counterproductive to Hydrokinesis.
I refuse to admit that I released nothing but a manly grunt and definitely not a high pitched squeal at being able to control fire. I mean, its pretty cool and all. It's not like pretty much anyone ever who hears about fire powers immediately wishes to have them. I feel the Coupon burning a whole in my back pocket but I resist the urge, other powers might be more valuable for me to survive here. Something like being able to make gold would be insanely more valuable then fire, I would become a living philosopher's stone.
I decide to stop dawdling and get up, wipe the dirt off me and start walking to the town