[Welcome puny mortal to your one chance at greatness!!!]

Huh. I didn't think this endless empty void could get any stranger but right here standing, or rather floating in front of my face--wait.

Do I have a face? It's been a long time since I found myself just drifting alone here but I'm pretty sure I used to have one. There are no mirrors here to check out my appearance and I can't feel my body so I have no clue as to what I even look like, and seeing as I have no arms or legs I can't really feel out my face so it's just a blank slate.

So did I have a face? Or was it just my imagination? But how could I know what a face looks like in such vivid detail if it was just made up by me? Was my face taken by someone when I found myself here? Or did I just have implanted memories of a face and I never actually had one? Am I not human? Am I some sort of monster? Or like...An AI?

But what is an AI? And why do I know what it means but not what it stands for? Do I have gaps in my memory? Can AI's have gaps in their memories? Or am I just dumb?

[It means Artificial intelligence and you are not one, you used to be an adult human dumb mortal!]

Well, I guess that solves most of my questions for now.

Thanks, random holo screen!

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What's the A stand for again?

[Foolish mortal! Stop being an idiot and pay attention to the great me!!!]

Oh right.

I forgot about this whole thing.

[You were ugly anyway so it doesn't even matter!!!]

Now that's just mean.

You're mean.

[I am not "Mean" I am the great G!!!]

And that means...

[I am the great gamer system!]

...Ok

[Ok? That's it? Just ok? Nothing else?]

What do you want a round of applause?

[I don't know maybe? Anything is better than looking at me like that and just saying "Ok" in monotone.]

I don't have a face. How can I look at you?

[Don't get snippy with me! You should be eternally grateful for this opportunity I'm giving you!!! You should be bowing down and worshipping the very ground I step on for being allowed to see me!!! You should be offering up your very soul for this chance at absoluteness!!!]

Okay, let's set some things straight here.

1. I don't really care about this job you're offering me. The amount of fucks I give equates to the same number of entities with bodies in this void.

2. I don't have a body. You don't have a body. And there is no ground here so you can shove it up your nonexistent ass.

And finally. Even if I wanted to offer up my soul it wouldn't be to some insufferable jackass like you, so you can take this. I hold up an imaginary middle finger. And go fuck yourself.

[...Are you done?]

Yes I'm done

[Then I shall now tell you about this chance you have been given.]

Did you not just hear me?

[I did. I don't care]

I let out a sigh.

Fine then tell me what you are and why you are here. Did you just randomly wake up here as well or something?

[No! The great me was chosen by an even greater entity and assimilated to your soul for reasons that go beyond my paygrade!]

Wait you get paid?

[Not important. What's important is that YOU have been chosen by a cosmic entity to become what's known as the Gamer!]

The gamer? What's that?

[You read novels right?]

There's nothing to read here.

[It's a system from those novels that act like a game!]

System...System...System system system...System.............Oh! Now I remember!

But what do you mean game?

We talking street fighter? Mortal kombat? Tekken?

We talking Forza? Mario cart? Need for speed?

We talking Call of duty? Halo? Fortnite?

What are we talking about here?

[It's a Gacha Game!]

Oh...Fuck.

-TO BE CONTINUED