In the Erceles Merc Hospital, ward 17, room A, a young man with a plain but refreshing look is lying on the patient bed with his right leg hanging upward while his left hand was all bandaged from his shoulder to his wrist.
He sighed as the room where he is staying at crowded with people.
It is already at night but the hospital allowed the visitor to stay for a while longer than usual. Other patients have visitors while he doesn't even have a family what more a friend to visit him.
Krunggg…
Suddenly, the bed is shaking and the young man knew that it couldn't be a good sign.
FWOOSH!
The bed broke and the man hanging upside down while his broken foot hit the table making him cried out of pain. The people in the room looked at him with fascination, dread, and pity in their eyes.
"Wong Zhao Lim! Stop destroying the hospital's property!" A middle age woman wearing nurse uniform scolded the young man as she helped him sit in the wheelchair.
He still hugging his broken foot while looking at the bed felt wronged.
There's nothing that he does to the bed but it still broke. He was only lying on the bed while listening to the other people chatters and after a while, who would have thought that it will break?
He is the epitome of unluckiness. Even the God of Misfortune will shed tears looking at him.
Wong Zhao Lim lived his nineteen years full of misfortunes.
If he doesn't step on poop the morning he got out of his room it is already a miracle.
It is totally normal for the debt collector or people from the dark organization to beat him up mistaken him as someone they are searching for.
If he doesn't break a rib or bone from being crushed by a car in a month, he will look at the sun to see if it rises from the west. It would be best if when he got crashed into the car he dies but unfortunately for him, his luck is so bad that he never gets what he wished.
If he tried to hang himself, the rope will be torn apart. If he tried to cut his wrist, the knife will jump out of the handle and stab his foot. If he tried to eat poison, someone somehow changed it to coffee as a prank.
Therefore, he slowly 'learns' to accept his life.
He is not ugly or mentally disabled. He has a refreshing looking face but his luck is so bad that no one is willing to be near him. Even ghosts evade him.
The young man dodged his head up to look at the middle-aged woman.
"Nurse Chao, can you bring me to the rooftop? Today is my birthday." He smiled as he spoke in a gentle tone.
The nurse sighed helplessly upon seeing that smile. She pondered a moment before nodding her head. "Hmm… Alright but you mustn't break anything. Okay?"
"En."
The two entered the elevator and the elevator stuck after three floors.
"Hey, it is already midnight! Do not create a problem here!" A doctor that entered the elevator together with them knocked the door. He pushed the emergency button so many times while hitting the elevator door.
The young man in the wheelchair feels guilty but also feels wrong.
He is kind of the person that responsible for this situation to happen but also kind of not the person that should be blamed.
He shook his head and sighed.
There hasn't been a moment that he didn't bring trouble with him. Even when he is sleeping, he has to be cautious.
One hour later, after the mechanic came and repaired the elevator, the young man sat alone at the rooftop with a candle in his hand.
The candle wasn't lit up as he feared that it will cause a trouble.
He held the candle in his hand tightly and looked up at the sky.
Since he is living in the city, no star could be seen but he knew that there are a lot of them up above the sky.
"Whoever that is up there… Please hear me out. I wished that I could change my luck. I'm tired of causing trouble for people, for myself."
He could hear the thunder rumbling farther away from where he is and the loud honks from the traffic down below the building. Aside from those, only silent is accompanying him.
"I know that someone is watching over me and the lives on the earth. Please, change my luck. I don't need to be lucky. I just wanted to stop causing trouble to those around me. You won't let me die so please, change my luck. Please…" He closed his eyes and gripped the candle close to his face while he muttered please softly several times.
Suddenly, lightning hit the hospital's rooftop and knocked the solar panel. It indirectly shut off the whole building's electricity. He could hear that someone is calling out to his name from inside of the building.
He felt dumbfounded as he stared at the knocked solar panel.
He is only wishing… could it be a sign that his wish can never be granted?
He is a soft and kind-hearted person. No matter what his life had become or how others treated him, he always forgives them and blamed himself for everything that happens.
Even the people that beat him up as they mistook him for someone they are searching for, he forgave them without asking anything in return.
No one can bring themselves to hate him even with his fearsome misfortune but they still couldn't bring themselves to stay by his side.
The dark organization admired his tough mentality but they also don't dare to stay near him after they had once been caught by policemen because they are near him.
While other admired his tough mentality, he knew that he is not perfect.
There have been many times when he wanted to curse others. There have been many times he felt like he wanted to take the other people lives because they had a better life than him. There have been too many times that he wished that he never even exist in this world.
There just way too many things that he wished but above all, he wished that someone will grant him just one wish.
He just wanted to be normal…
<
The young man dodged his head upward and saw a floating white ball with two black dots appear to be its eyes.
The young man was stunned but he quickly calmed down. His only specialty is his ability to adapt in any kind of situation for his resilience and tough mind cannot be compared to the others.
"Will you change my luck?"
The white ball blinked its eyes and rolled its whole body up down as if nodding.
< The Universe has blessed you and therefore, I, system 080 was sent down to help you change your luck. Are you certain that you want to change your luck?>>
The young man mouth curved into a bitter smile as he nodded his head lightly. His eyes are staring at the white ball with resoluteness.
"There hasn't been one day that I'm not certain. Please… Change my luck."
< Boom!!
White lightning crashed directly onto the young man body and burned him into ashes.