'Oh no...'
That was my sole thought as my consciousness faded...
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3rd Person P.O.V.
A gorgeous girl lays sleeping on a beautiful open field filled to the brim with flowers, surrounded by a lively thick forest. It is an elegant, yet scary picture. Many of the flowers are covered with dried blood and the smell of death lingers in the air... It is an image which could be remembered for the ages, as the girl begins to wake up.
Back to Reiki's P.O.V.
"Nnnn〜"
'What happened?' I felt a quite sleepy as if I was waking up for the first time. While remaining with my eyes closed I voiced my thoughts.
"Oh yeah〜, that God reincar..."
Something was wrong... This wasn't my voice. This voice was wayyyyy too feminine for my voice. 'I MEAN MY VOICE WAS SOMEWHAT FEMININE BUT NOT LIKE THIS!' But remembering those words...
"Have a safe trip, Miss!"
I immediately jolted from my laying position and opened my eyes only to find something-s which definitely weren't there before...
As I looked downwards, my sight was now, interrupted by two mounds.
"..."
I immediately started crying... 'I always had girlish looks, but I never thought this would actually happen...' I could only curse and yell in my now feminine voice, which only made me far more depressed.
"Uwu "
*Sobs*
"Ahhh, It's like the world truly hates me huh〜"
I simply kept sobbing, I had no intention of checking 'downstairs' for various reasons, but primarily, embarrassment. This was by far, one of the worst things that had happened to me throughout my life. Simply put, if I already got bullied for having girly looks, you can only imagine my own self-disgust for my new gender. With these thoughts piling up, I kept crying, on, and on, and on.
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About 30 minutes went by before I could stop crying. My eyes were even hurting a little due to my prolonged sobbing. After calming down I decided to check my appearance a little, but not anything... private. I seem to have white hair with a hint of blue and an incredibly light skin. I also have a decently sized bust. But, it was making me quite embarassed checking out my new appearance and since there wasn't anything nearby in which I could reflect myself...
"Guess, I'll leave it there then" I said with a flushed face.
I had started checking my surroundings as I decided to leave my appearance be for now. I was in the middle of the open field where I had my fight to the, quite literal, death, with Seiichi. It was a little freaky seeing my own blood tainting the flowers and decorating the grass in the plain, yet I managed to ignore them... for the most part.
Regarding my clothes, I was wearing the exact same clothes I had before dying, albeit, with various blood stains and a hole in the lower-chest area, but I still had my grey shirt, white jacket, white belt and black shorts on. My clothes were now a bit loose. 'I guess girls are smaller'. But once again, as I was thinking that my face started burning up. I checked the pockets of my jacket and I found out I still had my bag of coins and my guild card on me.
"This should come in handy."
Standing up, I almost lost balance for a second, but luckily managed not to fall down.
"I guess my center of balance has shifted?"
I said those words nonchalantly when remembered my own situation. 'I blush too much at my own body.' Analyzing my current field of view I noticed my sight line wasn't the same. Estimating from what I was able to see, I was about 5.4 ft now. I felt quite short, living my entire life with a height of 5.7 ft.
But as I was pondering over smaller things, I remembered that message from before I died:
[Conditions met, Do you pledge your SOUL to Boukyaku?]
"That message..."
What could it possibly have meant?
"Well it probably is irrelevant now since I died"
As I had shrugged off that message I decided to open my status but, what I encountered was surely not what I expected. 'Status'.
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Name: Reiki Ishida
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Race: N/A
Danger Level: A
Class: Oblivion Wielder
Lvl: 1
HP: 100,000/100,000
MP: 0/0
STR: 50,000
DEF: 50,000
SPD: 50,000
MRES: 50,000
Skills: [Oblivion Blessing], [Absolute Oblivion], [Oblivion Presence], [Master Hide Presence], [Master Information Falsification], [Master Appraisal],
Affinities: [Oblivion Flames]
Titles: , [Other worldly Hero], [Oblivion Wielder], [Ultimate Threat], [Ultimate Antihero], [Calamity], [Peerless Beauty],
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"..."
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'Close Status'
"..."
'It's a mistake, right?'
"..."
'Status'
"..."
I was simply staring in awe as the same information was displayed in that floating transparent screen.
"Wha...?"
I couldn't grasp the situation at all. I was at a complete loss for words. I just couldn't take everything at once. But once I started inspecting my new status, it was outrageous... like seriously. However, first things first.
"WHY DO I HAVE A DANGER LEVEL?!?!"
Aren't danger levels only supposed to be held by monsters?!?! Why do I have one, and besides, it's so high! Normal monsters range from D rank to B rank. But monsters of A rank and up require entire parties of high ranking adventurers to subjugate. 'Seriously! I could be considered a target for subjugation right now with this!'
"Hah〜, I guess the only thing I can possibly face is adversity, isn't it?"
Going over some other elements in my status, I noticed another thing completely uncalled for, my race.
"Aren't I human...?"
Well, according to my status I did not even have a race. 'This is getting quite angering, to be honest. First, I'm stripped of my actual gender, and now I'm being stripped of my existence as a human?!' Glancing over at the 'Class' strand I saw my new class of 'Oblivion Wielder' and was puzzled at once.
"This is weird...?"
I wasn't sure what this meant at all. 'I mean it has to be related to that notification I received before dying for sure, but what does this mean?' (AN: Boukyaku is Oblivion in Japanese)
Seeing my status was only making me feel uncertain, depressed and angered by the second, but this immediately changed once I glanced at my new stats.
"..."
'Strong...' That was my single, and unique thought regarding my now unfathomable stats. 'ALL OF MY STATS ARE OVER 50,000!' Well, all except magical power of course... that's still 0 out of 0. BUT! My other stats were more than 100 times higher than Seiichi's. Without any intent, I started to grin maliciously. It wasn't on purpose, yet it happened. 'Well, what's done is done I guess, hehe〜'.
At that moment I felt something which I had never felt in my life before. 'Desire for Revenge' I couldn't stop grinning while I stared at my stats, but decided to move on to my skills, which were just as surprising. I wasn't quite sure what each one meant, but my doubts were all solved when explanations for the skills appeared before me:
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[Oblivion Blessing]: Enables the user of the skill to bless anything classified as a "weapon" or "Armor/Gear" of any type with [Oblivion Flames] increasing its strength several fold depending on the weapon. No other person will become able to wield the weapon except the original caster of [Oblivion Blessing].
[Absolute Oblivion]: The [Oblivion Flames] sealed within the Owner of Boukyaku are fully released and grants full control over the [Oblivion Flames] attribute unless permission is granted by the caster.
[Oblivion Presence]: Emits a powerful aura that will make any surrounding organism to feel an unimaginable pressure and fear. Weak monsters and animals will die out of the sheer pressure and fear. Passive skill that cannot be turned off and can only be concealed with [Master Hide Presence] a skill directly bestowed by God.
[Master Hide Presence]: A skill bestowed by God that cannot be blocked or canceled. A skill which allows the user to completely hide their presence, aura, and unintentional noise. Not even God would be able to detect the presence of an individual with this skill active. No magic needed for its activation.
[Master Information Falsification]: A skill bestowed by God that cannot be blocked or canceled. The skill allows a complete falsification of status when appraised. Enables the user to hide, forge and change existing values in the status shown to others. No actual changes will happen to the stats of the user. No magic needed for its activation.
[Master Appraisal]: A skill bestowed by God that cannot be blocked or canceled. A skill that reveals significant amounts of information about anything. It will even reveal hidden or modified statuses. No magic needed for its activation.
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"Hmmmm, the skills God gave me, will sure come in handy now!"
But seriously, the 'oblivion' skills were seriously powerful... Well, these skills sure are as strong as my stats. 'The only skill, I'm actually somewhat uncertain about is this [Absolute Oblivion] Skill, but I'm not sure what it even is for...'
"I guess I'll leave it for now"
Going over the next strand holding 'Affinities' I was left with doubts once more. It mentioned I had an affinity for the [Oblivion Flames] attribute. 'But aren't there only 6 attributes?' According to the knowledge the angel gave me when I was first summoned, there only exist 6 attributes: Fire, Water, Lightning, Wind, Holy, and Demonic magic, with the last 2 attributes being the rarest and most powerful.
"This shouldn't exist? Is this even real?"
I could only stand there flabbergasted, staring blankly at my entire status which was filled to the brim with unreal stats, skills, and a non-existent attribute. However, I was snapped back into reality after my gaze landed upon the 'titles' strand of my status... To my dismay, I saw a title which really pierced my 'manly pride'. It was truly saddening. I had now gained the [Peerless Beauty] title...
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'HOLD BACK THE CRYING ME!' I was offended by my status to a significant degree. I felt my pride crumbling down inside me.
"Hah〜, this is too mu-"
'ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!? Why do I have these titles as well?!?!' I thought of, as I stared at the rest of my titles. 'What did I ever do to get the titles [Ultimate Threat], [Ultimate Antihero], [Calamity]!?!?' I was close to crying again...
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'I was quite thankful for my new stats and skills but what did I do to receive such punishment?!' I was getting annoyed at my status so I decided to close it. I was incredibly frustrated. And in my frustration I started stomping the ground as I made my way to the border of the open field when:
*CLANG*
I had stepped on something, metallic? But I was immediately petrified when I saw what I had just stepped on...
"What's this!?"