[Haise Kazumiya PoV:]
The day is up. As always and as often, I woke up and saw the same ceiling.
The apartment room I'm dwelling is not that fancy, well in fact it's affordable to poor people like me.
This apartment is just a two storey building with twelve rooms. Six on the ground floor and six on the first floor.
And this room of mine only has a simple sink, refrigerator, and a closet with a sliding door in (of course) japanese style.
There's no bathroom here... Aaand, no bed here, I only use futon. And since I have my part-time jobs I managed to save enough money and with my investing skills I can relax myself a little on the bathhouse near at my apartment.
...
Now that I noticed it. 'What the heck is this thing?'
I saw a transparent purple window-like system with a written "Greetings, Master" on it in a strange and unworldly characters... Characters that are extremely and ultimately unfamiliar to a normal human like me.
("Normal human like me..." at least that's what I thought.)
Wait... How the heck am I able to comprehend this characters? It felt like I've known this characters for a long time.
Could it be?
I remember the mysterious being inserting some common knowledge about magic in my mind. Unfamiliar images and scriptures. So it also includes this unfamiliar characters, huh?
Let's move on about this.
Okay!
I touched the mysterious window and surprisingly, the window scattered and change its shape.
'What the heck?'
To my surprise, the window move at my will, and even change its shape at my will.
'This is so cool.' It's totally different from the light novels and mangas I'd have read.'
When I attempted to create fire on my hand with a little knowledge I received from the mysterious being, I found out that I don't have any elemental attributes.
'What the fuck?'
It took me a day, and the night was already up. It seems like I lost my track on the time. I even forgot to go to school today.
Part-time jobs? I already quit. Since I have save enough money, with my investing skills paying debts became so easy.
...
Here's what I have discovered, this window-like system, seems to be part of me. It always reacts everytime I think something related to this thing. It even changes its shape.
'Why me?'
I couldn't help, but wonder.
As I can recall, that mysterious being said something like: "I exist for you, only for you."
'Why me?'
I asked again in my thought.
As time passes, I began to collect my thoughts about this matter... and just wow!
Why?
I just discovered my magical ability. I can create barrier.
Sounds hilarious, right. Haha, I don't have any offensive spells. Yes, spells. This system taught me some common sense about magic.
I got pretty high defensive skills. However, I still didn't polish this skill of mine yet.
Wow, so my magical ability is 'Barrier!'
I signed in disappointment...
At first, I was verily disappointed. However...
I explore and explore this magical ability of mine, to my astonishment, I discovered I can reshape the barrier I made. I even created a transparent katana with my barrier skills.
"Ugh!"
I held my head and felt a little dizzy, I probably exhausted myself again or I'm probably out of mana again.
Yes, since I'm also a fast learner, I can also comprehend the things that was quite difficult to solve, thus, despite my slacking in my studies, I can still have a perfect score in any kind of exam.
Well, this was the only thing I'm good at, after all I'm unable to forget everything. A syndrome that grants me a perfect memory.
***
Ten pm in the night, I decided to went out for a walk.
Wondering and wondering something about fate.
For me fate is part of the outcome of your future. Why and how?
Just look at your extended aram and hand. Spread your fingers and you'll notice something.
It was like a branch of a tree, right? haha...
That forearm of yours symbolizes the path you chose to walk onto, the hand symbolizes your decisions, and lastly the fingers symbolizes the outcome.
Just imagine, you were in a baseball game. Is catching a ball of the basketball sport is your fate?
Or how about you were just an audience tend to watch a baseball game, do you think, by any chance you would catch a ball of the basketball sport?
No, right?
That's what I'm thinking right now. And it appears to me that I'm no longer a normal human-being, though without a doubt, I'm still a human... Just a little different from the others.
As I was walking on my path alone, in a place where only lit around by the lamp post, I saw a
A strange man staring at me from afar.
'Who the fuck is that?'
Though it's dark, but observing at his silhouette I can tell this man has a well build arms that can knocked out you in a single slap, and big belly.
His eyes were glowing red, staring at me as if I'm it's prey.
"Fuck..." I said out loud.
If I possessed such magical system, I should have expected this.
I activated my magical system, and of course not all the time that damn window appeared.
And noted, everytime I activated my magical system, my eyes were glowing. I discovered it as I explore my magical ability.
"Buhwaaaaaaaa..."
The man exhale and smoke came out from his mouth due to the coming season.
With a blink of an eye, the man disappear from my sight. I immediately cast a barrier around.
At this moment, I can tell to myself that I'm really frightened right now. But why the fear I felt does not choke me and freeze me.
'Damn! Am I gonna survive this?'
Despite the calmness I felt, I can tell that the man was strong.
~Strike
*Shattered
I coughed blood as I crushed against the wall. My right arm broke and I received a wound on the right side of my stomach.
"Blood! Smells good! Smells good! Bloooood!"
The man licked his hand with my blood on it. "Delicious!" He repeating the word like a broken record, and glared at me as if I was his prey.
Wearily I may be, I glared back at the monster holding my wounds.
With my magical ability I created a brace for my broken arm, and immediately cast a barrier around me.
I sharpened all of my senses, as the man lurks in the shadows around then violently attacked me again.
Adrenaline pushed me with a desperate instinct to survive.
Miraculously, I evaded all of that monster's attack.
'Damn, he's too fast!'
I run and run; evade and evade until... I come up with a plan to make him follow in such pattern.
Since I'm about to out of mana, I calculated the use of my magical ability.
First made him chase me and do the same move.
I created an invisible wall which was expected to be brutality trampled.
Then I let him strike me a little so that he would lick my blood on his hands. With that kind of plan, he'll definitely lost his tracks and just keep attacking me.
"Ugh!"
Damn! That hurt a lot. This wound was not expected to be this deep. If it keeps bleeding like this, I'm certainly going to die.
Since I can move and manipulate my barrier around, I created a transparent spear. Since my barrier was transparent, my spear and all the things I intend create with my magical ability was obviously transparent.
Blood came out from my nose, and I'm beginning to feel a little dizzy.
While that monster was enjoying my blood on his hands, I made my spear spin like a trumpo (a spinning toy).
I took off my shirt, which was drenching in blood from my wounds.
The monster was about to lurk again, but I immediately threw my shirt onto him as a distraction.
"(Sniff~sniff) Blood! smells so good...ugh! Ahh! smells so good!!"
As he catches my shirt and rubbed his face into it like a perverted old "rapist".
Eegh! A disgusting memories suddenly appeared in my mind. I just rememberedy mother with those motherfuckers.
I shake my head and keep going on my plan.
While the monster was busy, I took it as advantage and brutality threw my spinning spear against him without any sign of mercy, but only an intent to kill him.
I knew to myself at that moment I was becoming like a pathetic beast who was desperate to survive.
~Peirce
*Scattered
Successfully, I peirce that monster as I fearlessly ran towards him.
Since the blade of the spear I made has the shape of plumb bob, it greatly aided its momentum to spin, causing it to create a distractive friction against that monster's body.
The man's flesh scattered around. As he was evaporating to dust, he was glaring at me until his very last moment.
His eyes were the only ones that remained in my mind. And what I felt afterwards?
"Bughwa!!"
I vomited as the result of the grasp of fear.
And that was my first battle experience with my magical ability that until now, I'm still trying to explore.
Guess what. With that experience, my magical system notified me. Before I knew it was congratulating me in my dreams.
>Congratulations you had successfully awakened your Dreamworld<
And the notification was in my mind this time.