I opened my eyes and found myself sitting in a rather comfortable chair in the middle of a certain cliché lake, where you can only see the infinite blue of the sky and the lake water melting on the horizon.

--Or am I dead or were the drugs hard?

--For someone who has just died you are very calm.

In front of me and out of nowhere an inhumanly beautiful girl appeared, I say inhumanly since she has pointed ears and red and green heterochromatic eyes, not counting the pure white wings on her back and the ring of light on her head covered by blonde hair. golden.

--Well, I visited "The Mirror of Heaven" once and I'm talking to some kind of... Elf angel? So if I'm not dead, I must be fine but high on drugs~ although I can't remember how I died... I know I was in my office and... did I smell smoke?

I laughed making the Angel smile, damn that's the most beautiful smile I'll ever see.

--A good sense of humor even in these circumstances, is commendable, many others panic or deny, although the most annoying are the religious, they begin to pray and pray, they don't let me do my job... but back to the topic , sorry, you really died.

The angelic girl bowed slightly in condolences before continuing.

--But due to a new policy his soul will be sent to a random world together with some skills or cheats for his benefit.

The girl concluded in a cheerful business tone, presenting me with a roulette wheel and a set of three darts, one blue and two red.

--These are the darts of destiny, the blue one will decide the world to reincarnate and the red ones your skills... the number of red darts is proportional to the accumulated karma in your life, as you died before the age of 40 you can only accumulate karma for two shooting. Although considering the moral and ethical breakdown of your species it's a hit to get two shots, really a good guy.

Said the Angel urging me to take the darts.

--Thank you? So I just have to cast them on target?

--Yeah...

With a wave of his hand the spinner started spinning at an absurd speed, so I could only pray and throw the two red darts at the same time, one thing I learned after watching more than 1000 Onepiece episodes is that... There Is No Useless Skill! Useless users only! Whatever comes out I will treasure it, embrace it and cultivate it to its maximum expression, remember Magikarp is ugly, small, weak and stupid, nobody wants him but after he evolves into a majestic, virile and evil red Gyarados of eighty feet all The world loves it, but I always raised my Magikarp from level 1 to 100. That's love, that's commitment, that's power.

The two darts flew and stuck at two different points on the spinner, which as if all its acceleration and kinetic force were a lie stopped in an instant.

--Let's see~ Oh! We have a winner~!

The girl smiled and clapped her hands as she handed me two dubious looking orbs, one was dark, unbelievably dark and the other was an almost vivid natural vivid green, I read the plates below them, starting with black.

Orb of ability "Son of Shadows": Total control over the shadows from Shikamaru through Geko Moria, almost touching the realm of the Original Ruler Ashborn. More than a law but far from a concept.

After reading the rather concise description of the black orb, I felt the need to have a bigger face in order to give an even wider smile, I really hit the jackpot, I knew who Shikamaru was, I know Geko Moria and god I love a In a way No Homo to the Ruler of Shadows and this ability said it clearly, it was more than a law but less than a concept, which was in Chinese novel terms, a partial divinity, it was not the realm of death like Ashborn, nor a simple manipulation of the shadows like Shikamaru, it was not the allegory to the Soul of Geko Moria either, but it was an all in one, the intermediate point between being more and being less, both everything and nothing. Truly amazing.

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Quickly move on to the vibrant green Orb.

Unlimited Regeneration - Skill Orb: Die? Is it possible? By the way, it still hurts.

Short, simple and to the point, this really made me laugh.

--Puffffff~ hahahahahahaha~ Who writes the descriptions? That guy deserves a beer.

--A beer? I'll take it into account~

The girl replied with another stunning smile.

I took both orbs in my hands and they turned into two lines of light and entered my body, the knowledge and skill employment techniques were directly engraved in my soul as well as my mind, it was like being hit in the head with a bat. head but nothing that he couldn't bear, he had already received several blows of this type before and one more would not be a problem.

--Okay, now please throw the dart and let's see the world where you will reincarnate~

With applause, the wheel sped up again, only this time it tripled its size, graphically denoting the number of possibilities that exist.

--HERE IT GOES!

I threw the dart with all my might while praying in my heart.

--(Make it a good one, OnePiece, Bleach, Naruto, SailorMoon, FaryTail, Pokemon, I'll settle for the Marvel or Dc Universe, hell until the union of the Clamp Universes or some junk Digimon Spinoff... just give me a good world or a decent Rom-com)

*TOP*

The dart hit the target and the latter stopped showing the world where he would be reborn. I lost the faith in God that I had recovered seconds before.

I cried without tears, I cursed without a voice, I really felt infinitely miserable. Of all the worlds, of all the possible universes, of all the animation in the genre of cheap fanservice and hentai itself, it had to be that ero-shonen nonsense.

--I… sorry, you seem to really hate that world.

The beautiful elven angel apologized while patting me on the back, I was prostrate on the ground while my eyes only saw desolation and hopelessness.

--I would prefer a thousand and one times to go to any world of poorly drawn cheap hentai than to that nonsense.

--Sorry there are no seconds, bye.

--Bye bye.

The ground below me disappeared like everything else, sending me into darkness for an instant I thought I saw a silver light approaching me before I felt a sharp pain in my butt, which made me scream in pain, but even though I screamed cursing it The only thing that came out of my mouth was a small scream, I forced my eyes open and what I saw excited me, it was a baby, a small and newborn baby, literally fresh out of the oven, I could see my mother lying on the table with a baby already in the arms, it seems that I will be someone's little brother.

My mother was a young looking woman with fluffy brown hair and light brown eyes, she was full of that kind and graceful mama look, I really felt happy, maybe she was born in the furthest place possible in all the mess of powers of this world run by tits and asses.

Unfortunately reality is a bitch.

--Oh my little Souji, Hyoudou Souji that's your name and this is your big brother Iseei.

I really wanted to cry but still my body felt weak so all I could do was grunt and let the tears well out of my eyes.

What a place further from the conflict, the fucking epicenter of the world is my big brother. In the immortal words of the Unlucky Saint Kamijou “FUCKING” Touma, FU-KUODA!

***

If I had to summarize my childhood as Hyoudou Souji it would be relatively normal, simple and calm, except for my older brother, he is a pervert who already read hot magazines at the age of five hiding under the bridge, or the moments when the natural strangeness of this world made me attempt on my life out of desperation and anger.

Other than that, for my part I played more calmly with our neighbor Irina, I couldn't see how she and her family were actually church-trained demon slayers, exorcists and templars, since they were completely normal in my opinion, although the one who me being able to manipulate the shadows and looking for new ways to attempt suicide was even weirder but forgive me for a bit of hypocrisy here.

Taking Iseei out of the equation and after Irina's departure I spent most of my childhood alone, whether it was daycare, kindergarten, school, I stayed away from everyone, while Iseei was a butterfly social or rather a sociable perverted idiot, I was willingly isolated from the group.

I had better things to do like familiarize myself with the shadows and develop my ability, try to kill myself among other things, so that if the day came that I ran into some street demon, fallen angel, or any other supernatural jerk, I could drag him into a world of horror and immeasurable pain, just for fun.