“So, what kind of place is this?”
The black-haired, black-eyed young man stood in a vast, boundless pitch-black space, speaking to the girl in front of him.
He remembered that just a moment ago, he was…
Screech!
Oh, the sharp sound of brakes in his mind made him remember—he had been struck and killed by a car.
How unlucky.
“It’s so dark, this couldn’t be some kind of hell, right? I don’t think I did anything heinous or subhuman in my life.”
The young man scratched his head, a bit confused.
“This isn’t hell.”
Just then, the girl in front of the youth finally opened her eyes and spoke to him with a smile.
The girl was fair-skinned and beautiful, with white hair and a youthful face.
Paired with her pure white dress, she looked exceptionally ethereal.
The reason the young man looked so closely wasn’t because he had taken an interest in her, but simply because compared to her, his own black casual wear looked a bit underwhelming.
Rustle.
A small booklet, resembling a Register of Life and Death, suddenly appeared in the girl’s hand, and she began to softly read out the details of his life.
“Let me see… name is Megumi? Age twenty, likes playing games, no particular strengths, cause of death is… pfft.”
As she read Megumi’s cause of death, she suddenly let out a soft laugh, adding a touch of liveliness to her solemn and beautiful face.
However, in the next second, Megumi didn’t think so anymore.
“Struck and killed by a car while playing on your phone? Hahahaha!”
With her laughing out loud like that, Megumi couldn’t associate her at all with some King Yama or Satan who ruled over the underworld.
What was going on now?
Was she simply here to mock him?
“Ahem, sorry, sorry. I haven’t introduced myself yet.”
Seeming to notice the disdain in Megumi’s eyes, the girl coughed to hide her embarrassment.
She stepped down from her throne, which was filled with luxurious decorations, and placed her left hand over her heart, saying seriously:
“I am the Nameless Goddess, the divine being who grants a way out to lost lambs like you!”
However, while this appearance might have seemed very solemn in her imagination, in Megumi’s eyes, it was a completely different scene.
A fifteen-year-old girl who looked like she was cosplaying was saying embarrassing, chuunibyou lines that he wouldn’t even dare to imagine.
Good grief!
Is this some kind of torture?!
This place is definitely hell!
But although his toes curled as he thought this, Megumi certainly wouldn’t say those words out loud.
“Then… Goddess? Are you going to guide me to be reborn or something?” He recalled her exaggerated self-introduction from earlier.
Since he was already dead, would it be like those tropes in novels where he becomes a baby and lives another life somewhere else?
Wait, if he had bad luck and started in a toilet or a dumpster behind a bar, what then?
Forget it, that would be a problem for the next life’s version of himself.
Anyway, he was already dead.
“Hmph, feel lucky, mortal. Coming to me means you can keep your current memories and body for a full transmigration~”
Seeming to see through Megumi’s thoughts, the Goddess stood with her hands on her hips, speaking proudly.
Her words gave Megumi a shock.
“If I go back like this, won’t it cause… wait, you mean I’m going to some other world?” Megumi reacted instantly.
After all, if he returned to his original world like this, it would definitely cause a commotion.
Moreover, the memory of being hit by the car was still very clear in his mind, so this definitely wasn’t some prank show.
“Hmph, your reaction is quite fast.”
The Goddess nodded, fairly satisfied with Megumi’s reaction.
“Since I’m already dead and a shorty calling herself a Goddess has appeared before me, what’s the next step? Are you going to teleport me directly to another world? What’s your goal? And at least tell me where I’m going, right?”
Megumi was like a walking encyclopedia of questions, firing them off rapidly.
The Goddess wasn’t annoyed by this; instead, the corners of her mouth curled up slightly.
Because she could tell that although Megumi’s tone was calm, the fact that he could ask so many questions at once showed that he was actually very excited.
This made things much easier to handle.
“I took a look at your past experiences. An otaku, huh? So, do you know ‘Wuthering Waves’?” The Goddess leisurely flipped through the booklet recording Megumi’s life.
“Never played it.”
“Eh?!”
The Goddess’s strange cry gave Megumi another headache.
She’s completely just a brat who likes to shout…
“That’s normal. I’m twenty, a college student, not at the age for gacha games anymore. You’re not going to throw me into a world I know absolutely nothing about, are you…”
By the end, Megumi looked at the Goddess with a bit of trepidation.
“Heh heh~”
A bad feeling…
Seeing the Goddess like this, Megumi finally sighed as if resigning himself to fate.
Anyway, being able to transmigrate once with his current memories and body was already a stroke of luck.
“So… Great Nameless Goddess, before my journey begins, do I have any cheat codes?”
Megumi found that as he said these words, he didn’t feel ashamed at all.
As expected, when asking for a favor, things like pride are not important at all.
As for whether there would be a cheat code?
A Goddess had already appeared before him.
If she didn’t prepare a cheat code for him, it would be too much of a letdown.
He had heard that gacha games often featured world-shattering events or post-apocalyptic scenarios, so it was better to have something for self-defense.
“Of course there’s a cheat code, but because I prefer dramatic developments, so…”
With that, the Goddess waved her hand, and a huge spinning wheel appeared beside her.
There were many patterns on it.
Megumi had watched a lot of anime, so he recognized most of them.
“Rasengan, Zanpakuto, Devil Fruit… so many good things?” Megumi was slightly surprised.
“But what you eventually get depends on your own luck~ If your luck is bad and you pull this, I won’t give you any after-sales service~”
Megumi looked in the direction the Goddess was pointing and found it was a red bamboo scroll.
“Da Qian Lu”
This instantly made him break into a cold sweat.
After all, he was just an ordinary person; pulling this self-mutilation artifact was no different from getting a ‘Thank you for playing’ prize.
“How arbitrary…” After complaining, Megumi stepped forward and placed his hand on the pointer of the giant wheel.
Ding-ling-ling~
As Megumi spun the giant wheel, a series of flashy sound effects played.
He took the opportunity during the draw to ask the Goddess one last question:
“By the way, at least tell me why it was me who ended up here.”
Although this Goddess looked pure and cute, Megumi was actually very uncertain.
He didn’t think he was so lucky that he could happen to be the one out of billions who could get a free ticket for an otherworldly tour.
“No special reason.”
Regarding Megumi’s question, the Goddess just boredly toyed with her long hair.
“It’s just that sitting in this pitch-black place every day guiding souls is so boring. So I lead lost lambs like you to other worlds, thinking that after you die again, you can come back and report your interesting otherworldly experiences to me~”
Ding-ling-ling!
Just as the Goddess finished speaking, the pointer of the wheel stopped exactly on Megumi’s cheat code.
Boom!
But before Megumi could even check it, he felt the ground vanish beneath him, followed by a sensation of weightlessness.
“Have a pleasant journey~”
After the Goddess finished speaking with a smile to the panicked Megumi in mid-air below, the space returned to pitch-black silence once more.
Then, with a wave of her hand, all the other ‘cheat code’ icons on the wheel fell off, leaving only the pattern engraved with the shadows of ten creatures.
[Ten Shadows Technique]
Looking at that pattern, she recalled the trace of anticipation and excitement Megumi had revealed earlier and couldn’t help but smile.
“Mortals are really easy to understand.”