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Chapter 1 - What are you?

-"Congratulations! You have died!"

After a tragic accident in which Stephen ran over a teenager with his truck, losing control due to his long driving hours, he ended up taking his life in his prison cell after he was judged guilty. The family's cries of anguish still echoed in his head as he hanged himself using his blanket and the window bars.

After his eyes went shut and his heart stopped beating, he suddenly woke up inside of what looked like a normal office, building with a kind looking man sitting in front of him.

His heart was beating wildly but then he started calming down, his heart beating at its normal rate.

The interviewer looked like an average looking Caucasian man in his early thirties, looking much better than the 40 year old Stephen, with his unkempt beard and his baggy eyes brought upon by many sleepless nights.

He was seated at a nicely carved mahogany table with many papers strewn all around its surface, all of them blank.

-"Are you Saint Peter? I thought I was supposed to appear in front of the pearly gates, not an office."

-"Oh no no no Mr Stephen, you will not be going to heaven. You have actually been hired to work at our company! Icy Sky Inc."

-"Pardon?"

Stephen was now thinking that perhaps he was being Punk'd.

'Icy Sky? That sounds a bit like that thing my son was raving about, Ise-'

-"Isekai. We provide our services for many different Universes, Timelines, Multiverse's, Planets, etc. We use our patented S.T.V.R in order to get our clients their much needed products."

-"S.T.V.R ?"

The interviewer then brought out a comically large whiteboard from under his desk and then started writing on it with his finger, making slight squeaky noises as it moved, similar to coloured markers.

-"Spatial Temporal Vehicular Relocation"

-"Wait...Vehicular? Does that mean that you-"

-"Precisely so! The very tragic and very unexpected 'accident' that took the life of one Mr Parker was induced by us. His soul should now be relocated toooo-"

The interviewer was using a very clearly false sad voice when talking about the 'accident' in which Stephen took a young man's life and then he started looking through his papers that were strewn around on his desk.

-"Ah there it is." The Interviewer took out a blank A4 paper sheet and then started reading it. "The magical world of Baldas. He was commissioned by The Goddess Bianca, feisty little girl that one, for the purpose of defending her chosen planet."

-"I suppose that eased my conscience a bit now that I know he will at least live a happy life there."

-"Oh no quite the opposite. He will end up dying from many, many diseases a few weeks after arriving there. She decided to pay for the Transmigration delivery service but decided not to pay the Immunity fee. And since Miss Bianca is the only Goddess on the planet and she has no expertise in human biology she won't be able to treat him."

Stephen did not really know how to react to these news, with his weary knees giving out, making him fall down on a chair that was most definitely not there before he fell.

-"How am I so calm? Why am I here? Why did you make me kill that young man only for him to just die again in that world? Whats going to happen to me?"

-"Oof a lot of questions there Stephen. Tell you what, as a way to show camaraderie as fellow employees, I will be answering as many questions as possible.

Starting off, you are currently under a calming array. In our line of work we tend to get many panicked, suicidal and stressed out new-hires and so management decided to make it so that all sentiments beings inside the array will have a calm and serene mind.

You are here because it seems that someone fatfingered the license plate of your truck and so instead of the driver we have chosen, you ended up being the one doing the-"

The interviewer then started moving his left hand slowly towards his right, making car sounds and then slammed his left hand into his right.

"Usually in such circumstances we would either control the time stream, manipulate space a bit or a few other things but since management already fired the one that made that mistake, you have been brought in as a replacement."

-"May I ask what happened to that employee?'

-"He was sent into a world you may know from your world. Berserker I think? Anywho, not important for right now.

For your last question, you have been hired as a Cognito-based life form for our company. You have been assigned to care for another one of our products, a reincarnator. Your job is to act as a 'guide' of sorts, giving rewards and penalties when necessary."

-"I have several questions."

The interviewer groaned a bit while palming his face and then started quickly talking after looking at his watch.

-"Oh lookie here my break is coming up so I guess we'll be going over this fast. You are becoming a system, you will be assigned to a human infant in the world of Midor, you will 'dispose of' the infant's soul making it a perfect vessel for our product and then you will wait until the product says something along the lines of 'I must have a golden finger!', don't ask, or something about a system. Byeeee"

The interviewer then quickly got out is his office while Stephen passed out in his chair while his entire being slowly changed until he was only a slightly transparent blue panel which then blinked out of existence, leaving the company building of Icy Sky inc. heading towards Midor.

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Stephen woke up only to see what looked like a training video playing in front of his eyes, with the video filling his view whenever he tried to look around.

Oce the video started playing an anthrophormised blue panel walked into view, having cartoonish legs and arms with a smiley face plaster on its body.

-"Hey there! My name's Syssy, Syssy the system!"

Sissy had a childish slightly androgynous voice. Stephen tried to say something but he found himself unable to speak or do anything besides watch the video.

-"You have been chosen for a very important task at our company, and that is being a system! We here at Icy Sky inc. have a lot of systems, some of them being AIs, more robotic, and some with some personality! Guess which one you are going to be.

Your job is simple and this video has been tailor made for just you Stephen, so please pay attention!

First things first, you have the ability to gain access to and completely annihilate the soul of the infant that your reincarnated host will reside in, we don't want split personalities to happen now do we?

Hmm? You're wondering if this is immoral? Well too bad! It's a tough world and we manage over 100 trigintillion 'worlds'.

The 'reality' you were chosen to inhabit is pretty standard, Five spacial dimension, three temporal dimensions, so no messy alternate timelines to worry about.

It is a pretty small multiverse but you don't have to worry your little non-existent head over it, your task will be centred on one small planet.

The planet is called Midor and it houses many unique races. And you know what that means?

Racism!

Also swords, magic, a few gods, etc etc. Your host is one Shinomura Ken, a 40 year old obese Otaku with a victim complex.

You will be residing within him for the remainder of his continued corporeal existence, with his True Death leading to the completion of your first task.

Your current job? Simple! Just reside within chosen vessel for your host and destroy their soul, letting your host reincarnated within their infant body, and then simply show yourself to your host when needed.

We recommend awakening once he becomes either a social outcast, a loser or has been left for dead in dungeons, that way they become dependent on you!

In order for your host to become strong enough and fulfill their task, which is to become the chosen Saint of the goddess Bianca and help rebuild her faith, as she unfortunately got her own planet destroyed and had migrated to Midor a few hundred thousand years ago.

You may choose your name and abilities, but we personally recommend something like "Invincible Pervert System" of "Omnipotent Breeder System". That way he has more reasons to listen to what you say.

This is it for now, the next video will be given to you after your host has successfully reincarnated, good luck!"

Syssy then have Stephen a small wave as the video ended and then he awoke inside of a typical medieval house, with a very beautiful and voluptuous woman laying exhausted on a straw bed, with three infants laying next to her, one boy, one girl an-

-'What are you?'

Stephen suddenly heard a strange voice in his mind, which was odd considering he was now a being made out of 'information', and after spinning his rectangular box of a body around trying to see what and who talked to him, he then looked at the infant that was currently staring at him.

It was strange for Stephen because he was pretty sure newly born infant's were essentially blind after being born but he knew that the middle child, laying in-between the brother and sister was staring at him.

IT had pitch black void eyes and very little hair on its head but once IT saw the light blue eyes of the other infant's besides IT, IT's eyes changed colour.

-'What the fuck? A skinwalker? Changeling?'

IT's eyes locked back on Stephen's quivering body and then spoke in his mind again.

-'I am using the language that my mother and the midwife are currently using so you should be able to understand me. I don't have that much knowledge about other beings but considering you just appeared in front of me and nobody is reacting, that either means you are something so ordinary that they aren't surprised at all.

Or you are something unnatural.'

-'How are you about unnatural things like you aren't talking so eloquently right after being born!?'

-'Oh I am not supposed to be able to think like this after being born? Maybe that is why my brother's and sister's minds are so empty.'

-'What?'

Stephen was starting to get scared.

He was actually starting to feel guilty about just killing a newborn but the thing in front of him is most certainly an abomination. It can both see and talk with him even though he should be invisible even by the strongest beings in this multiverse!

-'What is a multiverse? Also what do you mean by killing me? The midwife was thinking that it was possible that could have happened to me since I was born with my umbilical cord around my neck.'

If Stephen could piss himself in this situation, he would.

He was a regular 40 year old bus driver just a few hours ago and now he was standing before...that

-'Woah woah woah kill? Me kill you? No sir, I would and could never, I am just a harmless little box, I will be leaving you be now bye!'

Stephen was now repeating in his head 'Please fall for it please fall for it please fall for it' .

-'Okay I'll call for it. But before you go could you answer a few questions?'

-'Of course sir/madam'

-'What is this thing?'

Out of IT then fell out the soul of Shinomura Ken.

Since Stephen had not used his 'one-time absolute soul annihilation ability'™ issued by Icy Sky inc. yet, the would of Shinomura Ken was put into IT's body along with IT's soul.

-'I felt something try to enter my body and I was curious what it was so I let it in but this one is...very obnoxious. He kept talking about my mother's body in a very dislikeable way.'

Stephen at this point closed his metaphorical eyes and then tilted his head upwards. He did not sign up to be with an Eldritch monstrosity that can control souls.

Shinomura Ken, now having snapped out of his daze after exiting IT's body was looking around, trying to figure out what happened.

-'Hey what gives? I was just chilling in my new body and enjoying the view of that MILF and now I'm back to being a soul?'

-'Mr box what is a Milf?'

Stephen was currently trying to decide between lying to IT, risking getting unspeakable things done to him as punishment in order to save Shinomura or tell the truth.

He decided telling the truth because he didn't want to be called something like 'Omnipotent Breeder System' anyway.

-'Well that's not very nice.'

And then before Stephen could even properly react, Shinomura's soul shattered into billions of shards which then got scattered all across the planet of Midor.

-'Anyways Mr Box can you answer more of my questions?'

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