Chapter 2: I’ve a feeling I’m not in Kansas anymore
<span style="font-weight:400">‘One Piece.
<span style="font-weight:400">A world of pirates and marines.
<span style="font-weight:400">A world full of adventure and romance.
<span style="font-weight:400">A world full of beautifuldies, that I would love to make love to, after dancing the dance of flirting and seduction if…
<span style="font-weight:400">THAT STUPID GODDESS DIDN’T GAVE ME THE BODY OF A 4 YEARS OLD!
<span style="font-weight:400">Seriously!’
<span style="font-weight:400">Rick sighed at his current situation. He knew that it was not really the goddess’ fault, she’s working with what’s avable. Creating a new body would cost too much karma. Karma that Rick doesn’t have anyway, so the goddess had to improvise by finding and “ borrowing “ a suitable body for him. Generally, from orphan or people that won’t be missed by anyone.
<span style="font-weight:400">‘ I can’t really be mad at her, there is progress, at least this time it’s not a baby. Anyway, I wonder if I’ll have a syst…’
<span style="font-weight:400"><b>[System initialization 1%]</b>
<b>‘</b><span style="font-weight:400">Well that answer my question. Will it be the same one than my previous life?’
<b>[System Initialization 50%]</b>
<span style="font-weight:400">If it is, maybe points that I didn’t use would still be there.
<b>[System Initialization COMPLETE]</b>
<b>[Wee back user #030609 Rick Wald, nice to see you again]</b>
<span style="font-weight:400">‘So it IS the same system, great! Now my points, where are my points?’
<b>[My apologies, user #030609 Rick Wald, all your Karma points from you previous life was transferred when you were into the white void]</b>
<span style="font-weight:400">‘Figures… System, is there a beginner pack or something like that? And please call me Rick’
<b>[User #030609 Rick Wald’s request acknowledged.]</b>
<b>[UserRick, here is the free beginner package avable for you]</b>
<span style="font-weight:400">The beginner pack was not a simple pack with things wisely put in it so anyone could start its adventure well equipped, no it could not be farther from the truth.
<span style="font-weight:400">
<span style="font-weight:400">That package contained 2 types of things:
<ol>
<li style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">Points</li>
<li style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">List of objects.</li>
</ol>
<span style="font-weight:400">The number of points is set to a certain amount. Neither high or low, it allows one to buy basic necessities, like clothes or food or currency.
<span style="font-weight:400">The list of objects is not as easy to use.
<span style="font-weight:400">The buyer has 3 free units, meaning of the list one can take for free 3 things.
<span style="font-weight:400">Only there are 3 tiers of items. Low, Medium and High.
<span style="font-weight:400">Objects in tier low cost 1, Medium 2 and high 3.
<span style="font-weight:400">In other words, it’s a very hard choice to make.
<span style="font-weight:400">The buyer has to think about what''s the bestbination of items possible for what he wants to do.
<span style="font-weight:400">Rick is scrolling the list of the high tier when he realizes something.
<span style="font-weight:400">‘System, there is no saiyan blood ? Kryptonian physiology? Neither chakra, nor cultivation? Is this a Joke?’
<b>[Negative user Rick, those are not disyed in the beginner pack because they are not from this world.]</b>
<span style="font-weight:400">‘I wanted to try being a kryptonian this time, well too bad, next time maybe’
<b>[User Rick, those are not disyed in the beginner pack]</b>
<span style="font-weight:400">‘I know, you just tol… wait, that means.. They are present in the shop’
<b>[Affirmative]</b>
<span style="font-weight:400">‘Please show me’
<b>[Affirmative]</b>
<span style="font-weight:400">The system opened a new window with every object Rick wished to see.
<span style="font-weight:400">‘Holy Moly, that’s more than expensive! It’s more than everything I collected in my previous mission! Howe Saiyan blood’s price is so high,st time it was much cheaper and it was not from that world either’
<b>[User Rick, the saiyan blood was a gift from the goddess hence why so cheap]</b>
<span style="font-weight:400">‘Geez, even though every single one of those is god-like it’s really too expensive… I guess, I’ll have to think hard about what I’m going with, in each new world.
<span style="font-weight:400">Anyway what to do, what to do ?
<span style="font-weight:400">And while Rick was scrolling, swiping and zooming objects in the system store, some people walking by wondered what was wrong with that child with eyes focused on something that wasn’t there and moving its arms like he was reading something.
<span style="font-weight:400">After a few hours, a creepy smile appeared on Rick’s lips.