Chapter 1 reincarnation and god.
For whatever reason I've always loved video games for as long as I can remember. I played video games since I was little from the console to now full dive and I have loved full dive games the most. I see video games as a chance to finally do what I want; I have complete control. Normally in the real world I can't control most things. However, in the video game worlds I can control most if not everything.
I am Suri Kuma, and I am current 15 years old living in the Saitama prefecture in Japan I love VR games, it has been a new trend in the evolution of gaming that we went from pc games to console games and now VR games. However, with the improvement of technology you can be sent into the VR game. You can feel everything, you can feel the wind, you can feel the pain of the dagger piercing you. Or if you play a shooter game the bullet hitting you obviously you just respond. Now the most popular game is called Chronorealms. It is a fantasy world MMORPG where you can cast magic and have sword play. I got into it because of a few friends currently my character is in the slime forest hacking up slime.
"I find it funny, that it's a common trope for MMMORPG games the slime is always one of the weakest mobs, I've always found slime mob to be fascinating."
Inside the game we see my character hacking up slime in the forest to grind XP which allows players to level up and with experience points he can add them to his attributes so he can become stronger in some fields. There are plenty of fields where you can put your stats into strength, stamina, endurance, magic, healing, cutting, and mob bonus. Strength stamina endurance is all simple to explain why you would want to boost your status in those categories. However magic categories are more tricker to learn. You have typical magic life, fire, water, Earth, lighting, Life, darkness, and summons. There are other categories to put you up into but those are not fighting categories, those are categories like blacksmith tool smith cook and other odd jobs you could find yourself in with the fun of the RPG nature of the game there's a lot of sub classes. Naturally weapons also have categories and magic to them too, you could have a sword with a bleeding effect if it's made by a high-level blacksmith that means the more you cut a mob the more that mob is likely to bleed out.
"Slimes are awesome normally speaking since they're 100% mana they conduct 99% magic to. Thank God they're weak if they were stronger they would be invincible."
"Oh well." I grin while cutting up slime after slime for hours gaining XP. After cutting down a thousand slimes I gets a new title called "slime lord" on my screen it reads a new title.
"Slime lord? What is this? Is this a new title? Hmm let us see…" I click on my own inventory button, and I go to the screen that shows my level, HP, and XP, one of the options is to see the titles of people. I click on the title option and see slime lord.
"Wow slime lord that's pretty bad ass title to have but does it have any benefits for me?" he clicks on the info card of what a slim lord means.
Slime lord means you rule over all slim now and now have complete control over any aspect of slims in the game.
"So, I now have complete control over slime in this game. Well, I will ponder about that tomorrow I have been doing nothing but hacking at mobs today and I have exams to study for. "I click on the menu screen of the VR game and logs out.
"Man, I'm tired it's been all morning since I've logged in and I've got entrance exams I need to study for if I want to get into a good high school." Suri walks over to a mirror and looks at himself. He sees a teen with a tall figure around 6'1 yellow spikey hair he dyed it blonde he has black hair naturally, brown eyes and spikey hair that defy gravity and wave to the left.
"I must get back into shape. I could go to a batting cage and practice baseball in high school but if I want to get a girlfriend again and have a serious relationship. I must clean up myself."
The following day at school.
"Hey Suri, you were playing the game Chronorealms this morning, right?" Suri friend Sosuke asks as they talk to each other while they are walking in the hallway of school to their class. They reach the door where their class is and open class 2-B. It is a typical school room with about thirty students and Suri knows a few but not everyone in class. Sosuke and Suri go to their desk next to each other before class starts and they continue to talk.
Sosuke is a teen with blonde hair 'dye' and always a cocky smirk to him and he is 6'0 and good friends with Suri. They played baseball in school together, but his attitude got him into trouble with the coaches and he got kicked off the team.
"You know it" I say to with a grin.
"I have already gotten to the slime forest, and I have been hacking at those slimes all morning. I think I have killed about a thousand of them and got a cool new title called Slime lord."
"Huh?!" Sosuke looks a little confused.
"Why you are wasting your time with those weaklings, and I have never heard anyone get that title before. I've even look it up in the Chrono wiki of known titles to get in the game and that is not one of them." Sosuke says confused.
"Why have I been wasting my time? I have always loved slime mobs in video games, and I really do like to kill them all I do not know why but they are my favorite mob in gaming."
"Man, sometimes your weird obsession with slime kicks in again and freaks us out when our group plays video games. The only reason I recommended Chrono to you was because of the slime but I did not think you would kill one thousand already." Sosuke says while joking makes fun of my slime obsession.
"I don't have a slime obsession."
Another one of their friends group walks with a teen girl. A girl named Hana who plays VR games casually, not as much as her other friends, but she still does. She is a slim girl about 5'4' and has black hair with brown eyes, shy to mostly anyone who is not a part of her close friend group with Suri and Sosuke.
"As much as you deny it, you do have a slime obsession hahaha," Hana says teasingly to me. It has been a common insult to me for loving to kill slims in any games that has them. So commonly that my close friends sometime call me slime online.
"SEEE EVEN HANA KNOWS YOU HAVE AN OBESSION!" Sosuke shouts out laughingly. Sosuke nearly falls off his chair laughing.
"Yah whatever you guys its not that bad. But Hana did you hear that I got that title in the game slime lord."
"I have been playing Chronorealms longer than you two and I have even never heard of such a lame title as slime lord. It does suit you Suri." Hana says teasingly.
"Whatever you two. I will be the slime lord of the Chronorealms and make slims mobs known to become strongest and ill even be a ruler of that world to." Suri says smirking.
"Hmph You'll have to beat my character first if you want to be king." Hana says. Her character is known online as one of the ten kotai or ten emperors. Who are the ten strongest players in the world, and they are barely eight on the list. She's basically a pro gamer for Chronorealms.
"Damn your right. All right I have a new goal in Chornorealms to become a kotei and beat your character." I say cocky.
"Good look with that. Once you even reach level one hundred come and try to challenge me." Hana says.
"Damn level one hundred? I am barely level 10. That is going to take forever."
As time went by the three of them chatted and it was now the end of class and Suri was walking home, he felt happy for today and he wanted to change things up. So instead of heading straight home he takes a turn and head to a convenience store for some snacks so he can have a longer game session tonight.
After a while of being in the store and having a few bags in his hands he hears a few voices to his right, outside of the store and in an alley.
"Huh? Is a drug deal going on? Not my priority." I think to myself not wanting to get myself involved. I was about to walk off until I heard a voice say.
"Please no stop." A distressed woman says.
"Ugh why did I have to hear that damn it. I say, I remember a story from way back, my mother told me. That one night before I was born, she was walking home from work, and she stopped a biker group. One of them got out of the bikes.
Flashback.
"Honey, I know you can be a bit of a bully." Suri mom is scolding her son for beating up a couple neighborhood kids." Suri mother Mizu Kuma says to an 8-year-old Suri.
"it's not my fault I saw a group of them bullying a girl and I had to intervene." I say trying to defend myself after being bruised up.
Mizu leans forward with a wet towel to clean her son's face off the dirt that was covering him.
"I understand that but beating up a group of 5 other kids is not the answer for stopping bullying." Mizu says to her son. But her what she is really thinking is how proud she is of her son to stop a group of bullies by himself. Obviously, she cannot say that cause that makes him think he did a good job and wants to keep on fighting.
Mizu thinks to herself." Your just like your dad who was a knight and shining armor for me who saved me from a very bad situation." Mizu sighs why does she have to have such rowdy boys around her all the time.
"Trust me Suri. That you will only fight someone if someone or something else you love is in danger." Mizu says. Suri looks up and nods. A few days later you see a young Suri apologizing to the parents of the boys he beat up a couple of days ago.
--flashback end-
"Well…mum this doesn't classify as someone I love but its someone in danger and I can't just stand here and do nothing or else I won't be able to call myself a man after this."
I walk over to the alleyway where I heard that plea and sees two grown men and one lady pinned to a wall.
"Well fuck this is a cliche."
"HEY WHAT, DO YOU 2 BASTARDS THINK YALL ARE DOING!" I shout, making my presence known.
"OH, ho lookie here guess we have some company." One of the crooks says gleefully.
"Looks like he's trying to play hero." the other crook says.
"Not really I'm just here to kick your ass". I tossed one of my grocery bags that I was holding in the direction of the criminals to distract the criminals.
"What the hell?" one of them is confused on why I threw that. Then he sees me right in front of him
"Cough." The criminal that was not holding onto the girl coughed because I kicked him in the gut.
"Unfortunately for you guys I've taken fighting classes and kendo classes to." I used the previous attack to stun the criminal momentarily, I then kicked him in the face knocking him away.
"One down." I smirk then I get into my fighting stance for the second criminal.
"Oh, you are not just some brat then. Just so you know I am an ex-military do you really want to continue this fight brat."
"Ex military perfect ill get a chance to really go all out." I say with a smirk.
I run towards the last remaining criminals who pull out a knife and starts swinging it at me. He swings from the top down, and I side steps to the right to dodge it. After I dodge it, I delivers a palm thrust to the ex-military stomach, knocking him back some.
"Oh, you're strong any ordinary person would have been knocked out by the palm thrust." I grin again and get ready for my opponent to stand up.
"Damn, it has been a long time since I have been knocked down. The criminal that got knocked by some trash cans after licking his lips he gets up. He still has the knife, and as he gets up, he points it towards me. Then runs straight for me. I see him coming and dodges the first swing, but I do not see the second swing and takes a slice to my left arm.
"Fuck man that stings." I grunt after getting sliced, but I grab the extended arm of the criminal that was holding onto the dagger and break the criminal arm making him release the knife due to the pain.
After losing one arm the criminal saw the writing on the wall and ran away. He's able to escape because the alleyway had an entry at both ways.
"Of course, they always run after they know they'll lose fuck."
After that fight Suri helps that girl up and calls the police officers. The police officers show up not too long after getting the call and arrest the first perpetrator that assaulted her, but the ex-military guy was not there, so it was bittersweet to know he was still out there somewhere. After telling his story to the police officers the ambulance helped patch up his sliced wound and he was free to walk home from there but not until he got a thank you from that lady.
"Um, t-thank you for saving me back there in the alley way." The shy girl says and gives Suri a hug to thank. But he also got her number as a reward.
I gives the biggest smile I can give.
"I wouldn't be a man if I walked away from that even after hearing your plea for help."
The two talked for a while and exchanged phone numbers so they could stay in touch with each other. However, unknowingly to the two of them this will be the last time they talk to each other.
A few days later as Suri thinks life has been normal Suri walks home from school, the ex-military feels very insulted by what happened, and he puts a hit out on Suri. So as Suri was walking home even with all his experiences of fighting and training nothing could stop him from getting shot and dying. An assassin comes from behind Suri as he is walking home from school and in uniform. The Assassin walks right up to Suri and stabs him in the back and in the heart.
"Why?" I fell to one knee and looks back to see my assassin clad in a hoody. I see my own blood from my chest.
"Shit…shit…shit. i do not want to die." I start panicking and start to see my life flash before my eyes.
"IF only I had a body that could resist this."
"A body that could resist stab wounds check." An unknown voice speaks inside of Suri mind.
"If only I was fast enough."
"A body that could be faster than anything." That unknown voice spoke again.
"Damn it's so hot being stabbed feels like I'm being on fire shit *cough* I'm blacking out." Suri fully falls to the ground and is breathing heavily.
"Sorry mum looks like I will not be coming home… I just hope I have done enough to be judge well in the other life." Suri coughs one more time and finally closes his eyes no longer seeing the world he lived in.
As Suri goes off into a deep forever sleep, he instead wakes up in a plain of existence that does not have an up and down and left and right. It is like he is floating in midair and sees clouds everywhere.
"*gasps* *gasp* *Cough**Cough*! Where am I? my wound" I looks around my body and I do not feel any blood or stab wound. Suri held on to his chest thinking he had a stab wound.
"I got healed. How that was a deep wound I should be dead?" Suri walks around in the other plain of existence.
"HELLO there!!" A being of pure white says while holding up a flag that says, welcome to the afterlife.'
"So, I am dead damn." I think.
"Bingo Ringo." As the pure white being says that Suri looks at this godlike face but it's unique, it has a face, but you do not see its lips move when it talks. It has a strong figure to itself and the figure is humanlike to look.
"Who the hell are you?" I point a finger towards the being.
"Who me? I am what you would consider God or something like that." The god like being says while making a pose that makes anyone feel unformattable.
"Ha, your egotism is off the charts if you think your god."
"Oh, but I am god look around you who else would be here if its not the world your living in." God says.
"Sighs he got a point there, who else would be here with me?" I slump a little knowing that this being of all beings just might be God of Earth why?
"Ok Shiro if your god what happens to me now?"
"Shiro? Why call me that I do not have a name to be called." The god like being is now confused and tilts his head.
"Well, I am not calling you God I have too much respect for that word for you to be God. So ill call you Shiro which means white."
"Shiro? Huh fine call me Shiro." Shiro says.
"Alright so what happens now do you judge me?" Suri asks.
"Ahahahaha, I get asked that every time. No, I normally would judge you without talking to you I have judged billions of humans so talking to them is pointless."
"Ok so why talk to me?" Suri is now confused.
"You know that thing you play Chronorealms." Shiro asked.
"You mean Chronorealms the video game?" Suri is still confused.
"Yes, I am God of another world that is identical to that world. With some differences." Shiro says excitedly.
"Wait your saying that the video game I played is actually another world!?" I ask shockingly. I did notice how detailed chronorealms online graphic details were.
"Yes, it is, a lot of video games that you play are all parallel worlds compared to Earth. I lied about being a true god." Shiro says laughing. With a hand on the back of his head.
"I knew you were not a god! Ha"
"Now I am god but I'm more like the god of games and joy." Shiro says pumping his fist in the air.
"Hmm ok-ok. But for what do you need me." I'm still confused.
"Oh right. I am going to send you to chronorealms." Shiro says while waving the flag of reincarnation.
"Oh, I'm not going to heavy?" Suri is shocked.
"Nope I'm giving you a 2nd chance and just because I'm a nice guy here is a boost." Shiro lifts his hand, and a light flash then covers Suri. Suri is momentarily ingulfed by the light source.
"What was that?" Suri asks.
"Oh, I gave you a boost in magic and fighting capabilities. Mostly the fact that you will not be broken but you will be hard to kill I really do not want to see you again here for a very, exceedingly long time. Most of the time if you remember you must cast an incantation to cast a spell but now you just think about it. Also, I'll let you keep your personal magic as slime lord." Shiro says.
"Aw i was just starting to like it here." I say crossing my arms.
"Ha well I'm done here have fun in your new life byeeee." Shiro says waving his hand to Suri.
I have so many questions but for now I'll keep them to myself. Suri is then sucked from the plain of existing that Shiro was, and he is only seeing darkness now. If I really do have a chance at a 2nd life ill change my actions, I want to be more involved, why not being the main character someone in the background. I grin as a see a white light and then I hear voices.
"Where am I now?"
"It's a boy!" a mysterious man cladded it white says.
"A hospital? No this is more like A house. Did I get reincarnated?" Suri thinks.
"He's beautiful he has your blue hair to darling." A woman says. Who now has her baby wrapped in her arms.
"Yes, he is." A mysterious man says.
"Well fuck guess I got to cry to act the part." Suri was now confused on how he's now a baby again.
" Whaaa, whaaa, whaaa." A newborn baby starts crying.
"Shhhh now, now you scared him darling." The mother says.
"What should we name him?" The dad asks.
"Hmm I'll let you do that honey."
"Ok then how about we name him..."