Chapter 1: Why now, Damnit!
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When Kai woke up, everything hurt. His ear felt weird, and when he rubbed one to see if the feeling would dissipate, it came back bloody. 

"Fuck!" He started muttering various profanities unconsciously.

Kai didn't want to die. He was so close to being free, and finally being able to get a pet for himself. He pushed through the pain, planning on grabbing his phone to call the hospital when he looked up for the first time. 

"Where am I?" he wondered aloud.

[The great Forest of Wyn]                (AN: [   ] means system is speaking :p )

To his surprise, someone actually answered! It sounded like a woman in her early thirties, and if he could pick one personality trait about her from her voice alone, it would have been slow. The thing that bothered him the most was that she was nowhere near him, and he couldn't see anyone far away either. It looked like he was the only one around, so what was this voice?

After a while of complete silence, he finally gained the courage to ask what he'd been thinking.

"Lady, I don't know who you are or why I can't see you, but could you at least tell me how to get back to the city?"

She then, without warning, proceeded to drone on for at least ten minutes, spouting nonsense regarding monsters and destiny, all of which he ignored, as he was a reasonably sane person who knew monsters didn't exist. However, by complete chance, he started paying attention at the moment the voice said one of the worst things possible.

 [—it all up, I am the system that you received shortly after reincarnating, and you are the Heavenl—]

"WAIT! Please, miss system, or whatever your name is, could you please repeat that last bit? I think I might have misheard you" Kai said with a sinking feeling.

[Please don't interrupt me, host. As I was saying, you are the Heavenly B—]

"No, no, no, I don't think you understand, lady. I need to get back, I'm so close!" Kai was at the brink of tears at this point, his last hope of salvation being that this was all some elaborate prank.

[If you are just going to keep on interrupting me, then I guess you are fine without my information, host.]  

For a while after that, everything was silent again, and Kai's brain was working overtime trying to remember what had happened before he went to sleep. After a while, bits and pieces started coming together, and he remembered that woman he saved and he remembered whistling as he walked out of the alley. After that, blackness.

"Did I pass out?" He again wondered aloud.

Just as he was contemplating asking that system lady if she would tell him what happened to him it finally hit him. (AN: pun intended)

"Damn it! Why now!?! I was so close! God damn morons who can't drive should be crucified."

After a little while of making himself feel better by roasting bad drivers, he realized with a start that the lady from before must have been telling the truth, because how else would he be breathing right now? He immediately concentrated harder than he had ever concentrated before trying desperately to remember what she had said. It was futile. He just wasn't paying attention before.

"Excuse me miss system, I am ready to listen now if you wouldn't mind. I apologize for my rude interruptions earlier." 

He was so happy to hear a reply that he almost started crying.

[Well thank you for trying host, but I'm not like those other 'sympstems' out there that will always forgive their host when they are treated like they don't exist or interrupted constantly. Therefore, I have decided to lock all of the nonessential information that you were so happy to ignore before behind a paywall. However, I am not heartless. I will give you all of the basic and necessary information regarding your current status and objective, but maybe this will teach you to respect everyone in the future host.]

At this point, Kai had already accepted the fact that he had a system, like in those novels he read for fun when he was bored. Kai fully admitted that he wasn't taking her seriously after that, and she seemed to appreciate it, at least enough to begin her abridged explanation.

[Host, you are the wielder of a unique class. That class is something that you will have to find out on your own, however. Just know that it is quite powerful if used correctly and that nobody else in this world has this class except for you. The reason you were chosen to be reincarnated has to do with the good karma resonating around you moments before you died. It seems that you committed a very good deed not even ten minutes before you perished, causing the ones in charge to look favorably in your direction. regarding your current state, you are currently suffering from some minor injuries here and there, but nothing permanent. In regards to where you are, that is also information you neglected to listen to before, so you will just have to make do knowing that in order to leave this forest, you will need to climb to the top of the mountain directly to your right.]

When he glanced to his right, he did in fact see a medium-sized mountain, if he had to guess, he'd say it was about as tall as an average-sized skyscraper.

[Finally, your mission. Host, you have been selected as the person destined to do something important. You will have me to help you, or at least you would have. Unfortunately, you don't understand the concept of respect, so I will be forcefully putting myself into dormant mode until you have made enough progress in your mission to warrant me helping you again. Keep in mind, dormant mode will still be helpful, but you will only have access to things like stats, current missions, and other smaller things. You will have to learn how to use it and what everything does all on your own, host.]

And with that, she was quiet. 

And suddenly, out of nowhere, a floating screen appeared in front of him. After all of the shocking news he just heard, he was trying to process everything, so it caught him by surprise so badly that he passed cold on the forest floor.

 

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