Chapter 24 - Chapter 8: First Death

I lost track of time and kept gaming for nearly 17 hours straight after the (Orange Moons & Golden Lakes) guy joined the group chat. In nearly 1 hour I have to leave my place to go outside to get that damn game for myself and the quest. In the next hour, I'll have to leave my home for the first time in forever to take a bus for the five-hour trip for that game/quest.

Let's see how many people joined the group chat in the time I was gone.

*[Ding!]*

[Opening members list.]

1. [Thieving Scumbag Of Gender Equality]

2. [Fairytale Animal]

3. [Gold Blood Cultivator]

4. [Island Devil]

5. [Rabbit Ghoul]

6. [Orange Moons & Golden Lakes]

7. [Magical Ms. KnowItAll]

8. [Sea Devil Child]

9. [Night Sidekick]

10. [Deathly Justice]

OL:[10/10] 

ML:[10/10](locked)

(Deathly Justice) was the last to join huh, dude is rather active asking everyone a bunch of questions. The system clearly shows all the members have been filled. I wonder if more people can join in the future.

(Night Sidekick) seems to be trying to do something with the other members. My mind isn't running at its usual clarity, but he seems odd just like a (Deathly Justice) in how they each talk.

Maybe I'm looking too deeply into their conversations with everyone else in the chat. (Night Sidekick) always asks about random historical facts or weird comic book hero names like the Flash, Green Lantern, or some other DC character. The dude must be a huge DC fan back in his world.

They both just seem off, each of them are very active chatters in the chat. Both answer questions and seem helpful. But, why does my bullshit detector ring like crazy reading the crap they talk about?

I'll try to dig a little deeper into what they are doing later after I get the game and complete my quest. Once that's all said and done I'll take my well-deserved rest finally... Maybe I'll have some time to send the screenshots to my friend, with me beating his favorite game yesterday. Chances are he's still on level 13 at max if he kept on his try-hard mode like always. Now that five-hour trip is the only obstacle in the way of me getting that game.

. . .

[Quest: New Game/New life. Has been completed.]

[Quest rewards: One Rare Gacha Ticket, 20,000 Dimensional Group Chat System Points]

...

[New quest: Attempt to save one person within one hour with all your heart.]

[Quest Reward: One rare ticket, 30,000 DGSP.]

Damn, why is the system so generous with its rewards? (Fairytale Animal) dude complained about some of his quests giving some food with a few hundred points. The dude can't keep a secret for his life man, he exposed everything about himself once he learned how to talk online.

His quests sounded way harder than any of my quests, so why is the system so nice with my rewards? Perhaps I'm just the favorite one between the both of us, maybe the system hates that donkey dude... He even described the rewards for the supreme ticket, but my endless experience of dealing with gacha told me to wait for it to maximize my possible rewards.

I kept walking with the game in hand hoping to get home before he passed out from exhaustion. I knew he couldn't save anyone in an hour, so that quest was doomed to fail at the start. I was just thankful the system didn't give any punishments. If you failed like the systems in those novels I read about with any sort of quest feature. The system just didn't reward your actions if you failed the quest. No system punishments were given as getting no reward was punishment enough.

It would hurt to not get the rewards, but the quest was impossible to start with. I just got off the bus from that five hour trip to the store for myself and that game. It was my first time going out in a while, unlike my usual routine.

Just before he crossed the road I saw a girl about to get hit by what looked to be a truck. I didn't even think of the consequences of possibly dying to save that girl. I'll probably be losing my golden opportunity with the system if I die now. I essentially rejected all future possibilities and golden opportunities that awaited me if I simply chose to walk away to live another day. I could have been selfish like I've always been, but I didn't choose to be selfish today. I chose to sacrifice myself for some random girl from old high school, I didn't even know her.;

. . .

"Sato Kazuma, welcome to the afterlife" A blue haired lady said while I was still trying to process the fact I died.

I found myself in a dark realm that looked like the night sky with a dark solid ground with a light gray fog clinging to the floor barely reaching anyone's shoes. I was sitting in a wooden chair across from what I assumed to be a goddess.

She had light blue hair with a water molecule-shaped hair clip holding her hair up in a ponytail. She had pale white skin with a divine body and a face with light blue eyes. She truly looked her part as a goddess in her blue dress with blue stockings. Her dress had a simple design with gold, and white arranged in a royal-style pattern. She was also wearing white shoulder-less arm sleeves with dark blue edges on both sides with a green bow on her chest. Floating above her shoulders and reaching her knees was a transparent light pink ribbon that looked divine, she had blue slip-on shoes.

I was still the same old me with my brown hair, light green eyes, and a slightly above-average face. An average normal Japanese male body type. I was still wearing my black and dark green tracksuit, with black sweatpants, and black shoes, the same outfit I died in earlier.

'If I'm dead I wonder if she survived the accident' I thought.

"What about the girl, did she make it?"I tried asking to see if she was ok.

"Yes, she's fine." The goddess said aloud in the afterlife realm.

"Good, at least my death counted for something in the very end." I responded while looking down a bit thinking about my life for a bit.

[Quest: Attempt to save one person within one hour with all your heart. Has been completed, issuing all rewards immediately.]